Personal and Professional Development Plan

● What is a “calling or vocation?”
● How does one come to an understanding or awareness of their “calling or vocation?”
● In what ways does the profession of social work relate to your sense of “calling or vocation.”
● Where are you in your understanding of “calling or vocation”? Discuss the process of arriving at this developmental stage using developmental theories taught in the SW program (e.g. Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development, Marcia’s theory of identity formation, and/or Fowler’s theory of faith development).
● A “call or vocation,” as well as a professional identity, evolves across the life course. How do you imagine or hope your personal and professional identity will evolve? Include a discussion of personal and professional life-goals.
● In what ways will you intentionally plan or cultivate your “call or vocation,” i.e., what steps will you take or plans will you make to more fully develop your personal and professional sense of self?
● What are essential values, principles and/or commitments that you have and expect will continue to shape and guide your personal and professional formation? How will you continue to engage in career-long learning?

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A calling or vocation is a strong feeling of being called to pursue a particular career, often one that involves helping others. It is usually associated with an intense passion for the work and a sense of purposefulness in dedicating one’s life to it.

One can come to an understanding or awareness of their “calling or vocation” through self-reflection, speaking with mentors and other experienced professionals, researching different professions, or praying and meditating. It may take time to determine what type of work resonates most deeply with you and aligns best with your values.

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Following the trend of most democratic regimes around the globe, Brazil transitioned from an authoritarian governing system to a democratic system after rectifying the Brazilian Constitution of 1988. Currently, Brazil is considered to be a democratic republic with a bicameral legislative system of an upper house chamber and a lower house chamber, whose seats are filled based on federalist electoral rules. While these rules were created with the purpose of representative equality, the results have stirred controversy over Brazil’s electoral efficiency and effectiveness. Since Brazil’s democracy is fairly young, it is difficult to discern what the long-term effects of the electoral system will be. Some political scientists pose the question of what consequences an open-list proportional system would impose on the United States if they adopted a parallel election system. Yet, this hypothetical question means questioning one form of democracy over another, despite the fact that the term “democracy” has yet to obtain a firm definition, leads scholars to tip-toe around the subject. While one must walk on eggshells, it is a question worth asking and can provide interesting insights into future democratic possibilities.

As previously stated, Brazilian legislature is comprised of an upper chamber, the Senate, or Senado, and a lower Chamber of Deputies, or Câmara dos Deputados. Formally, the Senate contains 81 seats, where three senators are chosen from each of the 27 federal states to ensure equal representation. In the Chamber of Deputies, 513 seats are chosen based on the open-list proportional representation, or open-list PR, the electoral system instituted within Brazilian politics. As stated by J. Tyler Dickovick and Jonathan Eastwood in Comparative Politics, “this system allows each voter to select a specific candidate and then attempts to achieve proportionality by aggregating the votes across parties,” (Dickovick/Eastwood, 209). In Brazil and European nations, open-list PR features the opportunity for political parties to gain house support from the var

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