What is the Decision Making Competence and What Problems Accompany the Choice of a Life Path?
As the main message of this article is to analyse the decision making competence and the educational possibilities of its formation, the exploration of the decision making2 competence will be interpreted with the starting point of educational understanding. V.ydiūnaitė (2002)3 states that characteristics of the “competencies” concept from the standpoints of education are: the elements (knowledge, skills, attitudes, standpoints, values); components (behavioural and mental); complexity of the activities; transferring and evaluation of competencies; dimensions (personality, expertise of the activity). The notion of competence reminds successful activity, effective use of recourses and adequate choices. According to P.J.Hartung and D.L.Blustein (2002), the crucial component of the competence concept is the third element – adequate choice which might be interpreted as a wise choice: especially stressed in the classical F.Parsons model: In the wise choice of a vocation there are three broad
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