PSYCHOLOGY OF TRAINING AND ORIENTATION A - L
Academic Year 2025/2026 - Teacher: SILVIA MARIA RITA PLATANIAExpected Learning Outcomes
Course Structure
Classroom teaching
Classroom exercises
Required Prerequisites
Attendance of Lessons
Detailed Course Content
The program will be structured by analyzing and exploring the following areas:
1) learning and training in organizations, particularly analyzing the acquisition and development of professional skills;
2) the training process, needs analysis, organizational learning and training;
3) 21st-century orientation: career construction, life design, career adaptability, sustainability, and social inclusion;
4) personnel selection.
Contribution of education to the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development:
GOAL 4: QUALITY EDUCATION
Target 4.4: By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults with the skills needed, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent work, and entrepreneurship.
Target 4.7: By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development through, among other things, education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, the promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship, and the valorization of cultural diversity and culture's contribution to sustainable development.
Method: Lecture, case studies, practical exercises.
GOAL 5: GENDER EQUALITY
Target 5.1: End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere.
Method: Lecture, discussion of good practices, in-depth materials.
GOAL 8: DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
Target 8.3: Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, the creation of decent work, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and foster the formalization and growth of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services.
Target 8.8: Protect labor rights and promote a safe and secure working environment for all workers, including migrant workers, especially migrant women, and those in precarious employment.
Method: Lecture, discussion of best practices, in-depth materials.
GOAL 10: REDUCE INEQUALITIES
Target 10.2: By 2030, enhance and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, regardless of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion, economic or other status.
Target 10.3 Ensure equal opportunities for all and reduce inequalities of outcome, including through the elimination of discriminatory laws, policies, and practices, and the promotion of appropriate laws, policies, and actions.
Method: Lecture, discussion of good practices, in-depth materials.
GOAL 16: PEACE, JUSTICE, AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS
Target 16.6: Develop effective, accountable, and transparent institutions at all levels
Target 16.7: Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory, and representative decision-making at all levels
Method: Lecture, discussion of good practices, in-depth materials.
Textbook Information
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
- The meaning of training
- The training group
- Intervention methods
- Orientation today
- Active methods
- The critical incident technique
- Personnel selection