THE SPECIFICS OF CAREER GUIDANCE WORK OF A UNIVERSITY DIRECTED AT JUNIOR SCHOOL CHILDREN

Abstract

. Career guidance is one of the most important strategic tasks for the development of the younger generation and should begin with primary school age. Early career guidance or professionalization is aimed at identifying personal traits, and interests of a younger student, which in the future will let them make an informed professional choice. The task of career guidance for students of primary school is to reveal the world of the profession for school children. The objective of this article is to single out the organization peculiarities of the career guidance work with younger students inside a university’s building. A lesson-excursion with the involvement of practicing scientists in the agricultural sector is the most preferred forms of career guidance work for primary school students. The age and psychological characteristics of younger schoolchildren are taken into account through the use of visual aids as the main didactic principle applied in primary school. It is of key importance during a career guidance lesson-excursion. The use of a foreign language makes it possible to emphasize the universality and globality of professions in the agrarian sector.