RESEARCH OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Marija Barkauskaitė
INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL EVENTS UPON PERSONS'S SOCIALIZATION

Summary
The article discusses problems of upbringing, particularly, the impact of social events upon personal development. Analysis of scientific works and practical pedagogical activity revealed scientific hypothesis that belonging of people to formal societies (family class, school), active participation in after school events have positive effect on socialization process. Long term (27 years) scientific research observing social-pedagogical change of teenager relations confirmed the hypothesis and revealed the main social factors which influence person's socialization.

Key-words
Social factors, socialisation, personality, educational institution, community change.

Franz Bernard
KOOPERATIVES LERNEN IM BERUFSSCHULUNTERRICHT
Zur Entwicklung eines pragmatischen Konzepts

Zusammenfasung
Im Rahmen der wissenschaftlichen Begleitung des Modellversuches "Kooperatives Lernen im Berufsschulunterricht" (vgl. Bauer / Bernard 1997) war es u.a. erforderlich, Konzepte für die Gestaltung kooperativer Unterrichtsprozesse auf der Basis neuer Erkenntnisse der Berufspädagogik, der Kognitionswissenschaften und anderer Wissenschaftsdisziplinen in enger Verbindung mit den Erfahrungen der Lehrenden an der Modellversuchsschule zu entwickeln.
Ergebnisse dieser Entwicklungsarbeit sollen nach den sogenannten "W-Fragen" zusammengefaßt werden:

Schlüsselwörter:

Kooperatives Lernen, Berufspädagogic, Berufsschulunterricht

Daiva Bukantaitė
LITHUANIAN LABOUR EXCHANGE AS NETWORK ORGANISATION: MAIN FEATURES

Summary
Network organisations are analysed on the basis of scientific literature analysis, distinguishing their features, types, functions, advantages, and comparing with other organisations. The Lithuanian Labour Exchange as a network organisation is presented in the second part of the article,.

Key words
Network organisation, features of a network organisation, labour exchange.

Odeta Gurskienė
INITIAL VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING POLICY IN LITHUANIA AND THE EU

Summary
This article analyses general EU policy, its development, strategic goals and perspectives in the field of education and vocational training. The purpose of this article is to overview the main assumptions for general educational policy in the European Union and main tasks for the Lithuanian policy in the field of Vocational education and training.

Key words
Policy of vocational education and training, strategic landmarks, regulations of vocational education and training, the EU vocational education and training programmes.

Klaus Halfpap, Bernd Ott
ARBEITSLERNEN IM GANZHEITLICHEN TECHNIKUNTERRICHT

Zusammenfassung
Arbeiten und Lernen sind nicht nur zentrale Kategorien hochentwickelter Industriegesellschaften, sondern sie bilden in Form des "Arbeits-Lernens" auch eine wichtige technikdidaktische Zielformel.
Die Zielfunktion des Arbeitslernens ist die Förderung einer umfassenden (ganzheitlichen) Handlungsfähigkeit des Individuums, bezogen auf Fach-, Methoden-, Sozial- und Individualkompetenz.
Die Autoren referieren aus vorwiegend berufspädagogisch geprägter Perspektive die Intentionen und Ziele des Arbeitslernens. Gleichzeitig soll damit eine Diskussion über die Aspekte und Ziele einer ganzheitlichen Techniklehre und Technikdidaktik initiiert werden.

Key-words
Industriegesellschaften, das Arbeitslernen, Handlungsfähigkeit, Kompetenzen

Violeta Ivanauskienė, Laura Varžinskienė
SOCIAL WORK KNOWLEDGE AS A COMPONENT OF SOCIAL WORKER COMPETENCE

Summary
Knowledge is one of the most important parts of social worker competence. This profession requires knowledge in various social sciences including social work knowledge; consequently, social work knowledge becomes multipartite and complex. Due to this reason not only people unrelated to social work but social workers themselves find it hard to identify social work knowledge. The article discusses the assessment of social work knowledge by social workers who do not have social work education and general social worker knowledge.

Key concepts
Competence, knowledge, social work values.

Egidija Laumenskaitė, Nijolė Petkevičiūtė
PERSONAL MOTIVATION AS THE BASIS FOR PROFESSIONAL CAREER

Summary
The article presents the career primarily relevant to a person's wishes and abilities and, accordingly, becoming personal. It means that not an organization, but a person himself is more responsible for his career. The development of career depends on the external and the internal factors. The latter are directly coherent to the values and have a long-term run in the rapidly changing environment. Motivation is discussed as an internal power in the development of personal career. This internal power rises from personal values and commitment to these values.

Key words:
Professional career, personal career, motives, motivation, values, needs.

Giedra Linkaitytė, Audronė valiuškevičiūtė, Ramūnas Kuncaitis, Lineta Žilinskaitė
THE DIMENSIONS OF OPEN LEARNING AND THE POSSIBILITIES FOR ITS IDENTIFICATION
IN THE TEACHING-LEARNING PROCESS

Summary
The authors have isolated the problem of the coordination of the teaching and learning process in the transition of a learning culture from traditional teaching towards open learning. In this article the theoretical model of teaching-learning paradigms is presented and the dimensions of open learning are isolated: the role of a teacher, the role of a student and the types of learning tasks and exercises.
The practical case of the identification of dimensions has been presented and the results are discussed in this paper. The authors suggest that identification of three dimensions, namely the role of a teacher, the role of a student and the types of learning tasks and exercises, create the possibility to reflect on the teaching-learning process.

Key words
Teaching and learning paradigm, traditional teaching, open learning, dimension of open learning.

Kęstutis Pukelis, Daiva Garnienė
LITHUANIAN CAREER COUNSELLING SYSTEM

Summary
The article presents an overview of career counselling in Lithuania and analyses further opportunities of creating an efficient and coherent national system. It also discusses legal basis, which creates preconditions for the development of career counselling services. Functions of the leading institutions are defined together with the methods used to create career counselling planning and coordination system. An attempt is made to provide a more comprehensive overview of the range of career counselling services.
The work highlights the necessity of training career counsellors who could be able to perform this job in a professional way. It also grounds the importance of qualitative career counselling services, career education in general secondary schools and preparing young people to live under the changing labour market conditions.

Key words
Career counselling, vocational counselling, career design, career education.

Laima Sajienė, Liuda Kirikova
PARAMETERS OF GENERAL PRACTICE PHYSICIAN PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Summary
Rapid development of the society and change in the human and societal health care needs impact the change in the concept of general practice physician institution. The present situation in Lithuania creates conditions for general practice physicians not only to treat people but also to create assumptions for people to learn to take proper care of their health themselves, train their skills to preserve it and to achieve the level of wellness that exists in the most advanced countries of the world. The purpose of this study is to assess the activity of general practice physicians and identify the necessary competences in primary health care system in Lithuania. Scientific literature analysis, document analysis and a survey are the methods used in this research.

Key words
General practice physician, primary health care, qualification functions, competences.

Eglė Stasiūnaitienė, Aušra Fokienė
PROBLEMATIC ASPECTS OF NON-FORMAL AND INFORMAL LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGIES

Summary
Assessment and recognition of non-formal and informal learning is one of the most important priorities of education policy in Europe, including Lithuania.
The article analyses the topic of assessment of non-formal and informal learning achievements, discusses the conceptual barriers and theoretical guidelines of the assessment process as well as presents the validity and reliability criteria of evaluation methodologies.

Key words
Non-formal and informal learning, process of learning achievement assessment, assessment quality criteria.

REALITIES OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Bernd-Joachim Ertelt, William E. Schulz
INFORMATION STRUCTURE METHODOLOGY (ISM) IN CAREER COUNSELLING

RESULTS OF THE LEONARDO DA VINCI PROGRAMME PROJECT
"MEETING THE NEEDS OF EMPLOYMENT: EUROPEAN CURRICULUM GUIDELINES FOR LIFELONG
LEARNING VOCATIONAL COUNSELLOR IN LINE WITH THE CHALLENGES OF EU ENLARGEMENT"
Professional Standard of Career Counsellor

MODULAR PROGRAMME FOR PROFESSIONAL SELF-DEVELOPMENT OF CAREER COUNSELLOR