Meaningful work, fulfilling lives : career guidance has a role to play

Questo articolo analizza l'educazione al lavoro nelle scuole e come questa può contribuire alla prosperità e al benessere degli studenti. L’articolo fornisce una panoramica internazionale dei recenti sviluppi sul “career learning” e sul “career development”, rilevandone la crescente importanza per una maggiore competitività delle economie basate sulla conoscenza. A seguito delle grandi trasformazioni sociali e tecnologiche, il “lavoro significativo" mantiene la sua importanza come fonte di realizzazione e benessere. Tuttavia, nelle economie neoliberiste, gran parte del lavoro è sempre più causa di angoscia, difficoltà, sfruttamento e persino abuso. Per tali ragioni, nell’articolo si sostiene l’importanza di un'autentica “career education” che aiuti gli studenti a comprendere la natura del “lavoro significativo”, ad aspirare ad esso ed a decodificare le cause che ne vanificano l'accesso. Si afferma, inoltre, che un'autentica educazione al lavoro dovrebbe fornire gli strumenti intellettuali, incoraggiare a immaginare modi socialmente più giusti e soddisfacenti di coesistenza ed a raggiungere una certa misura di controllo individuale e collettivo sulle forze che plasmano le vite.This paper focuses on work education in schools and explores how it can contribute to the flourishing and wellbeing of students in a democracy. It first provides an overview of the recent developments in ‘career learning’ worldwide, noting the increasing importance that it has been given as a contributor to enhanced competitivity in knowledge-based economies. Despite major societal and technological transformations. In the neoliberal economies, however, much of the work is increasingly the cause of distress, hardship, exploitation and even abuse. For this, an authentic career education helps students understand the nature of meaningful work, to aspire to it, and to decode the causes that frustrate access to it. It is argued that, an authentic work education should provide the intellectual tools and encourage to imagine more socially just and fulfilling ways of living together, and to gain a measure of individual and collective control over the forces that shape lives.peer-reviewe

Malignant Lymphatic and Hematopoietic Neoplasms Mortality in Serbia, 1991–2010: A Joinpoint Regression Analysis

BACKGROUND: Limited data on mortality from malignant lymphatic and hematopoietic neoplasms have been published for Serbia. METHODS: The study covered population of Serbia during the 1991-2010 period. Mortality trends were assessed using the joinpoint regression analysis. RESULTS: Trend for overall death rates from malignant lymphoid and haematopoietic neoplasms significantly decreased: by -2.16% per year from 1991 through 1998, and then significantly increased by +2.20% per year for the 1998-2010 period. The growth during the entire period was on average +0.8% per year (95% CI 0.3 to 1.3). Mortality was higher among males than among females in all age groups. According to the comparability test, mortality trends from malignant lymphoid and haematopoietic neoplasms in men and women were parallel (final selected model failed to reject parallelism, P = 0.232). Among younger Serbian population (0-44 years old) in both sexes: trends significantly declined in males for the entire period, while in females 15-44 years of age mortality rates significantly declined only from 2003 onwards. Mortality trend significantly increased in elderly in both genders (by +1.7% in males and +1.5% in females in the 60-69 age group, and +3.8% in males and +3.6% in females in the 70+ age group). According to the comparability test, mortality trend for Hodgkin's lymphoma differed significantly from mortality trends for all other types of malignant lymphoid and haematopoietic neoplasms (P<0.05). CONCLUSION: Unfavourable mortality trend in Serbia requires targeted intervention for risk factors control, early diagnosis and modern therapy