Career Counseling in Early Childhood Education

Abstract

The aim of this article is to outline how career guidance classes in early childhood education can be valuable for lifelong development. Career counselling is still strongly associated with helping adults, the unemployed, to retrain. It is treated as an expert service primarily related to the labour market. Career counselling should be disenchanted. Undoubtedly, it is a professional service, but it is equally firmly inscribed in the educational process. According to the core curriculum, one of the tasks of the school is to prepare students to choose their further education and profession. The school runs vocational guidance classes, which fit in with lifelong learning. Due to the approaching transition from primary to secondary school, much attention is paid to counselling classes for seventh and eighth graders. However, developing interests and getting to know oneself starts much earlier, so it is worth weaving elements of vocational knowledge into the process.