*3.7. The Seventh Dimension*

The lack of assistance—"nobody helped"—reflects absence of assistance and the lack of personal motivation, thereby forming the conception of one lacking adequate support and having difficulties in pursuing a future professional role and acquiring new experience for future professional activities.

Some of the students failed to understand their professional roles and the possibilities, which are available to them in their professional activities due to the absence of teachers' social-pedagogical competencies: "... I almost did not see my specialty work ...", "... there were no direct explanations in schools. It seemed as if you were not there at all ...", "... it seems that I am not noticed ..." Students were left unnoticed in practice places or individual teachers' behavior towards them was hostile and ignoring. Individual teachers did not motivate students to take interest in their profession by encouraging them to change their choices and making inadequate assessments of their profession: "... their advice was as follows: hard work, you will not find a job upon graduation. During the lessons, I was not allowed to do anything ...". Often, students lacked educational-counselling assistance about peculiarities and behavior possibilities of children with various disabilities. Absence of such assistance resulted in some students' personal loss of interest to deepen their knowledge and named practice as having a good time: "... I treat these three weeks as vacation, because I did not receive help in understanding the subtleties of this practice ...". The lack of feedback after practice does not create possibilities for students to relate practical knowledge gained while working with children to theoretical knowledge, which they will acquire at the university. This is very important, seeking understanding of the effective and in-depth learning process.
