Act On Professional Rehabilitation And Employment Of Persons With Disabilities
Subject of the Policy document
Act On Professional Rehabilitation And Employment Of Persons With Disabilities
Reference data
Adopted/Released by The Croatian Parliament
Year of adoption 2002/2005
Reference number Official Gazette 143/02, 33/05
Available at http:// narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/288162.html
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1. Additional narrative description of the reference to Lifelong Guidance
Article 6
(1) A person with disabilities has a right to professional training and rehabilitation (hereinafter: professional rehabilitation) under general conditions and, if necessary, due to the severity and type of disability in question or success of the rehabilitation process in special schools and institutions for professional rehabilitation, under specially adapted or special programmes.
(2) Professional rehabilitation covers the following measures and activities:
– definition of other working and general abilities,
– professional information, counselling and assessment of professional abilities,
– labour market analysis, employment possibilities and inclusion in the world of labour,
– assessment of possibilities of performance, development and implementation of professional development programmes,
– professional training, additional qualification and programmes for maintenance and development of work and society-related skills and abilities in the employment,
– information and counselling on supplementary technologies in learning and working,
– individual and group programmes for improvement of work and society-related inclusion in the community,
– proposals on use of different technologies and techniques in the learning and working processes with the assessment of possible use,
– pre-professional learning, planning and implementing the chosen technology,
– development of motivation and training of persons with disabilities in use of the chosen technology,
– technical assistance, support, monitoring and assessment of results,
– information and support regarding financial resources.
(3) Duration of professional rehabilitation depends on the other working abilities and complexity of its organization and implementation.
(4) Professional rehabilitation of persons with disabilities is organized and implemented by an organization for professional rehabilitation, secondary school or another legal entity which fulfils conditions prescribed by this Act and other acts.
(5) Practical dimension of training during professional rehabilitation is carried out at employers' premises, or, exceptionally, within an institution for professional rehabilitation or a specialised educational institution.
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Work experience
Term
Work experience
Definition
Knowledge, skills and competences acquired by an individual during their working life.
This term is also used to describe short periods of work-based learning (commonly carried out while the individual is participating in a related education or training programme) or working as a trainee or intern in order to gain experience of a particular occupation or type of work.
Comment
It is important to distinguish the two common meanings of this term.
See ‘Work-based learning’
Source
Career Guidance and Counselling Glossary. Result of Leonardo da Vinci programme project “Overcoming Intercultural and Linguistic Barriers in Continuously Accessible Vocational Guidance and Counselling” (project No LT/03/B/F/LA-171023). Available from Internet: http://glossary.ambernet.lt/main.php?lang=eng#
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ELGPN Glossary, competences, skills, knowledge, working life, vocational education, work, work-based learning
Work practice
Term
Work practice
Definition
The opportunity to participate in work activities in order to gain experience and develop appropriate work skills and attitudes to work.
Comment
See ‘Work experience’.
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Transversal skills
Term
Transversal skills
Definition
The skills individuals have which are relevant to jobs and occupations other than the ones they currently have or have recently had. These skills may also have been acquired through non-work or leisure activities or through participation in education or training.
More generally, these are skills which have been learned in one context or to master a special situation/problem and can be transferred to another context.
Comment
The term ‘transversal skills’ has largely replaced the term ‘transferable skills’.
Source
Cedefop (2008a). European Training Thesaurus. Luxembourg: Publications Office. Available from Internet: http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/EN/Files/3049_en.pdf
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Portfolio
Term
Portfolio
Definition
A portfolio is designed to be a record of the competences (skills, knowledge and abilities) and experiences of an individual. It may list formal qualifications or include examples of work as well as recording training courses, work experience and non-work activities undertaken by the individual.
Comment
The development of portfolios is an increasingly common career education activity in schools and universities.
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Lifelong learning
Term
Lifelong learning
Definition
All learning activity undertaken throughout life, which results in improving knowledge, know-how, skills, competences and/or qualifications for personal, social and/or professional reasons.
Comment
Life-wide learning has been defined as learning, either formal, non-formal or informal, that takes place across the full range of life activities (personal, social or professional) and at any stage.
Source
Based on Cedefop (2004). Cedefop; Tissot, P. (2004). Terminology of vocational training policy – A multilingual glossary for an enlarged Europe. Luxembourg: Publications Office, 2004. Available from Internet: http://libserver.cedefop.eu.int/vetelib/eu/
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ELGPN Glossary, informal learning, lifelong, non-formal learning, skills, competences
Learning outcomes of guidance
Term
Learning outcomes of guidance
Definition
The set of knowledge, skills and/or competences an individual has acquired and/or is able to demonstrate after completion of a guidance activity or through participation in the guidance process.
Comment
The proposed definition is related specifically to a guidance context and has been adapted from the more general definition of learning outcomes.
Career guidance has been shown to lead to improved learning outcomes, such as greater access to, and participation in, learning and training, improved retention rates in education and training, greater education and training attainment and higher level skills, improved motivation and hence attainment in education and training (Careers Scotland 2007).
See separate definitions of ‘Economic and social outcomes’ and ‘Guidance outcomes’.
Source
Based on Cedefop (2008b). Terminology of European education and training policy: a selection of 100 key terms. Luxembourg: Publications Office. Available from Internet: http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/europass/home/hornav/Glossary.csp
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Key competences
Term
Key competences
Definition
The sum of skills (basic skills and new basic skills) needed to live in contemporary society. In its recommendation on key competences for lifelong learning, the European Commission sets out the eight key competences: communication in the mother tongue; communication in foreign languages; competence in maths and basic competences in science and technology; digital competence; learning to learn; social and civic competences; sense of initiative and entrepreneurship; and cultural awareness and expression.
Comment
Note that the term is also used to describe the competences required for a particular job or those competences which are seen as most critical for job performance.
Source
Cedefop (2008a). European Training Thesaurus. Luxembourg: Publications Office. Available from Internet: http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/EN/Files/3049_en.pdf
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Coaching
Term
Coaching
Definition
A process designed to focus on skill development and behaviour change to deliver improved performance. Coaching is usually delivered one-to-one.
Comment
Some careers professionals have labelled the work they do as ‘career coaching’ or as ‘career/life coaching’.
Much coaching aims to improve the performance and leadership skills of managers, and coaches are often brought into an organisation from outside. However, some employers are starting to emphasise the coaching role of managers in relation to the employees that work for them, contrasting this to other roles that managers have as leaders, managers and mentors.
Coaching is both performance-focused (which means that it is concerned with helping individuals perform tasks to the best of their abilities) and also person-centred (which means that it is the individuals being coached who are seen as having the important insights) (Somers, 2012).
Other definitions include:
• Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximise their own performance; helping them to learn rather than teaching them (Gallwey, 1974).
• A collaborative solution-focused, results-orientated and systematic process in which the coach facilitates the enhancement of work performance, life experience, self-directed learning and personal growth of the coachee (Greene & Grant, 2003).
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Career management skills
Term
Career management skills
Definition
A range of competences which provide structured ways for individuals (and groups) to gather, analyse, synthesise and organise self, educational and occupational information, as well as the skills to make and implement decisions and transitions.
Comment
Career management skills are the life, learning, training and employment skills which people need to develop and manage their careers effectively.
Source
European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (2010). Lifelong Guidance Policies: Work in Progress. A report on the work of the European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network 2008–10.
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Career management
Term
Career management
Definition
An ongoing process of preparing, implementing, and monitoring career plans.
Comment
Sometimes career management is carried out by the individual on their own; but in some situations career management involves others, such as an individual’s employer, working together with the individual.
Source
Storey, W.D. (1976). Career Dimensions I, II, III, and IV. Croton on Hudson, New York: General Electric Company. Cited in Hall, D.T. & Associates (1986). Career Development in Organizations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
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Career education
Term
Career education
Definition
Programmes and activities of learning to help people to develop the skills necessary to manage their career and life pathway. These include accessing and making effective use of career information and guidance.
Comment
Other definitions include:
• The systematic cooperation of educational institutions, parents and society in assisting young people and adults to acquire knowledge and skills that will enable them to make rational vocational decisions (Career Guidance and Counselling Glossary).
• The development of knowledge, skills and attitudes through a planned programme of learning experiences in education and training settings which will assist students to make informed decisions about their study and/or work options and enable effective participation in working life (Australian Ministerial Council for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs, 1998).
Source
Institute of Career Guidance: Careers Education Committee. Available from Internet: http://www.icg-uk.org/careerseducationcommittee.html
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