Abstract

SOBRADO, Luis M.  and  GARCIA MURIAS, Rebeca. Ethical competencies of guidance counselors. Orientac. soc. [online]. 2014, vol.14, pp.00-00. ISSN 1851-8893.

The general objective of this work is to present the analysis of ethical competencies of the Guidance Counselors through a European Project experience on training based ICT Skills: Tools and Training of these and whose main aim is to achieve an extensive professional development to a large community of lifelong education and guidance professionals as well as to develop a standard profile of the Career Counselor. In this article we exposed the evaluation design and the outcomes of the Seminar of 28 hours of the training curriculum for Guidance professionals focused on ICT, especially in the field of their ethical competencies: honesty, confidentiality, responsibility, respect, etc. The pilot Seminar was performed at the Faculty of Education Sciences of the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) and 20 students of the Master Course of Professional Development of Career Guidance attended to the Seminar. As the general aims there are the following ones: 1. Analyzing a formative experience of e-Counselors. 2. Evaluate the training quality of Ethical principles and processes of Guidance practitioners. 3. Present the design and results of a Seminar about the training curriculum for Guidance Agents focused on ICT competencies are presented, especially in their relations with the ethical character ones. In the research methodology the main tool applied is an evaluative questionnaire with two parts: Personal and Vocational profile and the evaluation of the training action. As relevant conclusions the quality and the global satisfaction were emphasized by the seminar attendees, the convenience to adjusting better the time and activities in connection with the number of participants in the task planning and the suitable ethical attitudes: confidentiality, security, cooperation, honesty, responsibility, social justice, transparency, respect for intellectual property, etc. As proposed improvement would be desirable to the standardized assessment, as much as possible, the comparison of the final evaluation of each seminar with the same initial one to have common reference elements of the various contents of the same

Keywords : Ethic; Competences; Guidance; Counseling; Counselor; Training.

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