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VOCATIONAL TRAINING: RESEARCH AND REALITIES
2005 No.9 Abstracts |
RESEARCH OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Rima Ališauskienė, Lidija Ušeckienė
CONTINUING EDUCATION: TEACHER NEEDS AND MOTIVES
Summary
Teacher continuing education has become inevitable necessity nowadays; however, there exists a lack of interest into motives and needs of teacher continuing education. The purpose of the research is to define continuing education needs and motives of the teachers in the North of Lithuania. The research involved 188 teachers living in the North of Lithuania and revealed that teachers were unsatisfied with their qualification development, particularly teachers with higher education, holding pre-school education teacher and senior pre-school education teacher qualification category and working as pre-school education teachers, speech therapists and teachers of music. It appeared that now the majority of the respondents choose qualification upgrading courses that are directly related to their professional activity; however, under the unrestricted conditions the respondents would prefer choosing foreign language, computer literacy, psychology and other courses. It was determined that the main motives of the researched teachers in the North of Lithuania are their professional and personal development and social security.
Key words:
continuing education, teachers, qualification upgrading motives, qualification needs.
Nijolė Janulaitienė
SELECTION TO THE MILITARY ACADEMY: PROBLEMS AND REALIA
Summary
The supreme goal of the Lithuanian domestic and foreign policy is to strengthen national security. It is guaranteed by the state by reinforcing national security and defence institutions and preparing long-term state security enhancement programmes. Today, after the integration into the NATO defence alliance, Lithuania faces a particularly important goal of national security enhancement: education and training of professional officers. Only a young person who has a vocation for an officer’s profession and perceives the mission of an officer can become a good cadet or officer. Therefore, the development of the programme for efficient officer selection methodology and system is an urgent national issue, launched at the General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania in 2001.
Key words:
national security, democratic development, defence policy, integration to the EU and NATO, officer‘s vocation, officer‘s mission, defence strategy, professional military service, a cadet, military education and training, military defence, citizenship, patriotism, selection criteria.
Rimantas Laužackas, Eugenijus Danilevičius
RESEARCH INTO INITIAL SECONDARY VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING REFORM
Summary
The article provides a systematic analysis of initial secondary vocational education and training reform that proceeded in Lithuania in the period of 1990–2003, investigates its major principles, processes and problems. The VET reform was explored on three levels: on the national, school and class levels, however, due to the article scope restrictions, only the outcomes of the research into national and school level are presented. The research identified the changes in vocational education systems and their causes and presented generalisations. The conclusions of the article and the results of the research into VET reform can be applied as the basis for the assessment of the chosen reform strategy and for substantiation of the new political decisions. On the grounds of the research results, further directions of vocational education reform in Lithuania have been envisaged.
Key words:
vocational education and training reform, vocational education and training reform principles, vocational education and training reform problems, training reform processes.
Rimantas Laužackas, Eglė Stasiūnaitienė
ASSESSMENT OF NON-FORMAL AND INFORMAL LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT USING PORTFOLIO AND INTERVIEW METHODS
Summary
Article analyses the assessment problem of individual learning achievement acquired in different learning environments. The application pecularities of portfolio and interview methods in assessment of non-formal and informal learning achievement are discussed. In the article the results of case study of retailer non-formal and informal learning achievement are presented.
Key words:
competence, assessment of non-formal and informal learning achievements, learning achievement portfolio, interview.
Giedra Linkaitytė, Asta Lapėnienė
PERSPECTIVE OF PEDAGOGICAL QUALIFICATION DEVELOPMENT: MODELLING OF DIDACTICAL PROCESS OBSERVATION
Summary
The article pursues to highlight theoretical assumptions of the didactical process which creates conditions for individual development perspective and searches for the possibilities to model the observation of this process. For this reason, the framework of pedagogical activity act (according to Laužikas), the concept of experiential learning (according to Dewey), and the concept of the zone of proximal development (Vygotskij) were used.
The article presents a model of didactical process observation and a tool (DPSP), developed on the basis of the aforementioned theoretical dispositions. It also presents the findings of the pilot study with the help of DPSP. At the end of the article, the conclusions are formulated about the construction of the didactical process and perspectives of its observation modelling.
Key words:
didactical process, teaching act, learning act, zone of proximal development (ZPD), observation.
Irina Malachova
МУЗЫКАЛЬНЫЙ ТЕАТР: СУЩНОСТЬ, СПЕЦИФИКА, ФУНКЦИИ
Аннотация В статье анализируется эдукационная функция театра, процесс непосредственного участия детей и подростков в театральном творчестве. Подводятся итоги эксперимента при постановке детской оперы в Минске с участием почти 400 школьников из 5–10-ых классов. Ключевые слова: Эдукация, музыкальный театр, творчество.
Jonas Ruškus, Liongina Juozaitienė, Sandra Tiškutė
SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP IN THE PROCESS OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING: ANALYSIS OF REFLECTION
Summary
The article presents a scientific research into the assessment of vocational education and training system, performed by the participants of Šiauliai region vocational education system and discusses the psychosocial position of cooperation between potential social partners, evaluating the in-depth structure of their partnership.
Key words:
vocational education, social partnership.
Gerald A. Straka
RITUALE ZUR ZERTIFIZIERUNG FORMELL, NON- UND INFORMELL ERWORBENER KOMPETENZEN
Zusammenfassung
Mit der Ausrichtung der Europäischen Bildungspolitik auf das lebensbegleitende Lernen ab 2000 hat in der bundesdeutschen Berufsbildung die Forderung nach anderen Methoden der Zertifizierung von formell, non- und informell erworbener Kompetenzen Auftrieb erhalten. Ob die damit verbundenen Qualitätsanforderungen mit der bundesdeutschen Praxis, ohne systematische und empirische Überprüfung „alte“ durch „neue“ Zertifizierungsformen zu ersetzen, eingehalten werden, ist Gegenstand dieser Abhandlung. Dazu wird ein Modell für das Assess-ment von Kompetenzen vorgestellt. In seinem Licht werden bundesdeutsche Assessments in der Berufsbildung, wie „Referenz- und Praxisprojekte“ der 2002 in Kraft getretenen IT-Weiterbildung, das Konzept „Ausbildung im Dialog“ (AiD) sowie der seit 1996 praktizierte Abschlussprüfungsteil „Beratungsgespräch“ analysiert und mit Umfrageergebnissen zur Wertschätzung beruflicher Kompetenznachweise durch Betriebe in Beziehung gesetzt. Die daraus folgende Frage „Was ist zu tun?“ wird mit Szenarien einer künftigen empirischen beruflichen Zertifizierungsforschung beantwortet.
Schlüsselwörter:
Kompetenzen, Zertifizierung, Assessment, Berufsbildung.
Natalija Šedžiuvienė, Danutė Valentienė
CHANGE IN COLLEGE TEACHER COMPETENCIES IN THE CONTEXT OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION REFORM
Summary
Formation of knowledge-based society depends on the change in the teaching and learning paradigms, on the coherence between the necessity and opportunity of lifelong learning. College teacher in this society becomes not only an organiser of teaching and learning in various forms, but also a participant of lifelong learning and provider of educational services.
The quality of teacher professional activity is assessed according to specific outcome of academic activity. The competition for a position of an assistant professor (docent), lecturer and assistant, organised in the Lithuanian colleges in 2004, raised demands for appropriate professional competencies.
The article investigates the change in college teacher professional competencies and analyses the academic activity outcomes displayed by Šiauliai College teachers who participated in the competition for the aforementioned positions.
Key words:
functional and content competencies, functional competence, pedagogical skills, framework of pedagogical activity.
Vida Škudienė
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES AND TEACHING METHODS IN MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION EDUCATION
Summary
The increased interest in the quality of university teaching has been caused in particular by the changes in the social context of the university system in the past decade. Universities has been focusing greater attention on teaching from a number of quarters and for a number of reasons, among them increasing student enrolments and different abilities classes. The educational objectives of different higher education programmes and the combination teaching methods used by them, vary between institutions and disciplines. When designing and implementing courses in higher education, institutions usually make decisions regarding the match between educational objectives to be set and the teaching methods to adopt. In this study the decisions are based on implicit assumptions about relationship between teaching methods and educational objectives for the management and business administration education. The assumptions were tested with a survey of faculty and students involved in undergraduate courses in Management and Business Administration at the ISM University of Management & Economics. First the faculty and students were asked to rank order a set of educational objectives in terms of importance. Then the faculty were asked how effective they thought different teaching methods would be in meeting these objectives, and asked students how effective they thought a range of teaching methods had been. The teaching methods considered included lectures, presentations, quantitative assignments, and case studies. The educational objectives included preparing for the future career, understanding concepts, developing problem solving skills, preparing for examinations, developing communication skills, and gathering information. The results indicated some discrepancies between faculty assumptions and student perceptions of the relationship between educational objectives and different teaching methods. Two related implications of the findings are discussed: 1) choice of teaching method should be limited more closely to educational objectives and 2) active learning through case studies and tutorials is more likely to meet objectives than the traditional lecture method.
Key words:
management and business administration education, teaching methods, educational objectives, active learning.
Vilhelmina Vaičiūnienė
INFORMATION LITERACY COMPETENCY IN THE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Summary
The article presents the issue of information literacy in today’s life. Being a key concept in information society it is closely related to driving technological changes and explosion of information. Rapidly developing information technologies provide a variety of information formats and resources that impact our social and business life. This article examines Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education developed in US. The system of the standards serves as an instrument for assessing students’ abilities to work with information sources and apply them efficiently. Incorporation of information literacy into the university curriculum, subject programmes is a complex and consistent activity. Information literacy should be viewed as one type of the basic skills that needs to be permanently fostered and developed.
Information literacy being a set of abilities necessary to deal with information forms a basis for distance learning and lifelong learning – two greatest challenges for modern higher schools.
Key words:
information literacy, information literacy standards, skills, distance learning, teaching curriculum.
Nijolė Petronėlė Večkienė, Snieguolė Povilaikaitė
THE CONCEPT OF SOCIAL WORK AND ITS CHANGE
Summary
Globalization, European integration, and the processes of reestablishment of independence determine the changes in Lithuania and originate preconditions for a new profession – social work. On the other hand, the education of social workers, the results of practical training and primary certification motivate to discussion about the necessity of further development of the concept of social work and the competence of social workers. The present article analyses the issue of social work as a new social profession concept and discusses the application of social construction theory to this research.
Key words:
social work, social worker, practice of social work, social professions, social risk, exclusion, empowerment, intervention, and construction of social reality.
Cornelia Wagner, Jürgen van Buer
STRUKTUR UND QUALITÄT DER VERBUNDAUSBILDUNG – CHANCEN UND RISIKEN AM BEISPIEL BERLIN
Zusammenfassung
Angesichts einer lang andauernden Lehrstellenkrise haben sich in Deutschland unterschiedliche alternative Formen beruflicher Erstausbildung etabliert. Die Verbundausbildung ist ein solches Modell, dass vergleichsweise eng am klassischen Dualen System deutscher Berufsausbildung angesiedelt ist. Auf der Basis einer umfangreichen Berliner Studie werden zentrale Qualitätsaspekte diskutiert und vor zukünftigen Entwicklungen gespiegelt.
Schlüsselwörter:
Empirische Berufsbildungsforschung, Qualitätssicherung in der beruflichen Bildung, Struktur des deutschen Berufsbildungssystems.
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Ignas Dzemyda
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