Švietimas: politika, vadyba, kokybė /Education Policy, Management and Quality

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Contents, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2018

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Authors: Birutė Šilėnienė, Asta Širiakovienė

The problem of collaboration between teachers and parents is not new. However, every time period brings new aspects. This article examines the attitudes of primary school teachers and parents towards collaboration in primary school. In the current society, cooperation is very significant, covering various spheres of life, as well as educational institutions. The effectiveness of an educational institution's activities depends on the involvement of parents in its activities, and one of the main goals of the school is to encourage parental involvement in the activities of the school community. The population of the research carried out primary school teachers working in Siauliai city and district schools and pupils’ parents. During the study, 52 primary school teachers and 148 primary school pupils’ parents were interviewed. The study combines quantitative and qualitative methods (questionnaire with closed and open questions). An analysis of the research data has highlighted the following: both groups of respondents acknowledge the importance of collaboration, indicate successful cooperation conditions, but evaluation of it is slightly different. Both teachers and parents have made a number of rational proposals for improving co-operation. The proposals presented by them revealed a partial mismatch between the opinions of the two groups of respondents. Teachers emphasized the need for a teacher, parent and reciprocal efforts to reduce workload. According to parents, collaboration could be improved by deliberately choosing various forms of cooperation, mutual efforts, improving the quality of teacher-parent relationships, understanding parenting responsibilities, reducing workload.

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Authors: Anna Klim-Klimaszewska

On 11-13 June 2018 at House of Creative Work "Reymontówka" in Chlewiska near Siedlce, XVI International Scientific Conference was organized by the Institute of Education of University of Natural Sciences and Humanities in Siedlce. This year's conference stayed under „Lifelong learning – the present and the future” motto. The conference was funded from the Minister's of Science and Higher Education, the wherewithal alloted to promulgating education – the number of indenture is 893/P-DUN/2018. The conference co-organizers were: Faculty of Education of the University of Presov (Slovakia), Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology of the University of Bialystok (Poland), International Higher Education Academy of Sciences in Moscow (Russia), Siedlce Scientific Society in Siedlce (Poland), Polish Committee World Organisation for Early Childhood Education and Care OMEP (Organisation Mondiale pour l’Education Préscolaire).

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Contents, Vol. 9, No. 3, 2017

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Authors: Nadia Venskuvienė

The study examines the development of higher-order thinking skills of grade 4 students in the context of social and natural science and real-life. The review of scientific literature has defined what context-based learning is and highlighted the conditions for developing a higher order thinking skills. In the empirical part, according to the criteria selected in the course of the analysis of the scientific literature, the national achievement tasks of the social and natural science for grade 4 were analyzed. It has been determined that the context of the analyzed tasks is related to real-life situations. Tasks are close to the child with their content, and their context is brought closer to the child's living environment. There were no tasks that would involve a more global life context: political issues, international relationship, environmental issues, etc. It has been investigated that most of the students in grade 4 are required to analyze the situation and draw conclusions about it. More rarely applied argumentation skills and answers to complex questions. There were no tasks focused on creating graphs, models or redefining submitted models.

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Authors: Vincentas Lamanauskas

Each country’s education system is individual and unique, regardless of common and universal things. On the other hand, the expectations of the inhabitants in every country basically coincide – everybody wants to acquire a qualitative education. In Lithuania such an aim is declared. It is to be thought, that education aims of Poland are the same. However, whatever good the experience of other countries was, the attempts to blindly follow the other countries’ education experience and learnt lessons, is not purposeful. In Lithuania such attempts constantly happen. Certainly, this does not deny the importance of other countries’ experience, cognition of such experience. Experience and recommendations are very important. We can and have to learn one from each other. So, in this interview we are talking to Anna Klim-Klimaszewska.

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Contents, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2017

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Authors: Skaistė Kovienė

The involvement of parents in the activities of pre-school educational institutions positively affects children's learning achievements, mental health, social relations with others, and helps teachers to solve educational problems more effectively. The purpose of this study is to reveal the possibilities of parental involvement in a pre-school educational institution. The study examines the causes of parental involvement in the educational institution, the reasons for the involvement of parents in the pre-school educational institution, and the ways of parents' assistance to educators in the process of education. Parental communication between forms and parental cooperation has been revealed. Standardised interview was applied for the research (for gathering empiric research data) and content analysis (empiric data analysis). Parents of the children attending pre-school education establishments participated in the research. The obtained results allowed making concrete conclusions about the possibilities of parental involvement in pre-school educational institutions.

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Authors: Dalia Augienė, Vincentas Lamanauskas

Lithuanian economic success mostly depends not on how much of the youth graduate studies in higher education, but on that, if each of them in their activity and working world finds a place corresponding mostly to their demands and abilities. Therefore, effectively provided professional orientation, information, consultation and career projection and planning services become important both for education system and for labour market and their interaction. Namely, these services help to better use human resources, because favourable conditions are formed for people ability and interest compatibility with current learning and occupation possibilities. Professional consultation and orientation, career planning services have to be the most important element of learning and occupation policy at national, regional and local levels, also a constitutive part of labour market policy. Second stage (master’s degree) study programme in social sciences Career Education carried out in Siauliai university prepares career specialists, able to understand career process in a modern way and provide professional orientation, information, consultation and planning services. During the studies it is sought to form conditions for the person to acquire university master’s degree in social sciences (education) based on direction related scientific research, assuring educational culture continuation, conforming to the newest technology level, corresponding to lifelong learning and harmonious development attitudes.

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Authors: Ingrida Mereckaitė

This research deals with the influence of speed reading to primary school pupils' leadership. This topic is relevant for schools constantly ongoing changes that are associated with modern society, therefore teaching Lithuanian language is a very difficult job that requires patience and good didactic knowledge. Child’s education in today’s busy, complex and constantly changing world is also controversial, because qualities such as initiative, ability to work with others, openness, communication skills, flexibility and adaptability become especially important. In this case, leadership is the basic skill that you need to develop instead of suppressing at the early age. The present era requires necessary provisions. This particular period requires modernization of training institutions as well as the shift to a more integrated work and effort to provide a more personalized teaching and learning strategies. One of these indicators is speed reading techniques and instruments. The term “speed reading” is not very frequent, but this is the main learning strategy. Reading should be understood as an ongoing and constantly developing ability. Speed Reading improves cognitive powers, sharpens critical thinking skills and enhances problem-solving skills. The paper reveals a close primary school students' leadership and speed reading interface. Subject – the influence of speed reading seeking to encourage students‘ leadership. Main research questions: 1. How speed reading methodologies can promote student’s leadership? 2. What kind of influence for educating the reading skills of the classroom kids has the general level of reading achievement? Summarizing the analysis of the research data, it can be argued that the ability to read children with a leadership character is advanced because they are also cultivated in the family even before they go to school. All subjects have an early reading comprehension in the family. A behavioural change has been reported in a vibrant expression of leadership: high motivation, autonomy, operational planning, help each other. Speed reading techniques: hypertext, text linking colors Aurasma program is innovative, motivating children to operate independently and helps maintain a higher concentration of time, the less distracting. It is also noted that speed reading instruments, which are systematically adjusted according to the reader's age and reading target may be treated as curriculum differentiation, higher thinking skills training. It is also noted that the tools for rapid reading, which are systematically matched according to the reader's age and the purpose of reading, can help to differentiate the content of education, to develop students' advanced thinking abilities. The methodology of speed reading helps to develop children's leadership, which is manifested in: cooperation, democracy, responsibility, planning of activities, and responsible learning. Foreign researchers' perceptions coincide with the study's conclusion that quick reading motivates students, helps them plan activities, and develop creativity in the search for information.

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Authors: Liberato Cardellini

While my interview with Professor Coppola does not reveal any ‘right formula’ for transforming students in class, it may cause you to disrupt and question assumptions and beliefs that you have about education. Agree or disagree, I am absolutely sure it does not matter to the Professor, because it will hopefully inspire Journal readers to think again about having the greatest impact in their privileged role of educating, and not just informing, their students.

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Authors: Skaistė Kovienė

The aim of pre-school education – taking into account child’s innate powers, his/her individual experiences, referring to the regularities of development to help a child to develop the fundamentals of independence, healthy lifestyle, positive communication with adults and children, creativity, knowledge about the environment and the country, knowing how to learn. The purpose of pre-primary education – to help a child prepare to successfully learn according to the curriculum of primary education. Both pre-school and pre-school teacher's goal – to help the family to educate pre-school and pre-school age child. In Lithuania pre-school and pre-primary education teachers are trained both at universities and at colleges. In the society it is often discussed whether for a teacher who works with pre-schoolers – little citizens of the country – it is enough to have higher non-university (college) education of higher university education is obligatory. In the present essay the concepts of pre-school and pre-primary education have been used because a teacher having obtained the qualification of a pre-school educator still has no possibility to work with pre-primary age children until he/she obtains these complementary competences. Analysis of scientific literature and documents allowed making the conclusions about the particularity of children of pre-school and pre-primary age, the importance of the role of pre-school and pre-primary education teachers in developing children’s personalities, the differences of these teachers’ training at universities and colleges and teachers university educational necessity.

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Authors: Vincentas Lamanauskas

This year on the 20th -23rd of October the third international scientific conference Pedagogy, Education and Instruction took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The conference was organised by Mostar university. To say more precisely, the main conference organiser was Department of Pedagogy of Faculty of Science and Education. It is worth noticing, that Bosnia and Herzegovina is a Balkan region state, which consists of two historical regions – Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mostar in this case is basically considered the capital of Herzegovina, situated in a picturesque mountainous place near the river Neretva.