Theme of the Master degree – Lithuania teachers‘ unions influence on the education changes process. The theme is relevant, as it seeks to value teachers‘ unions influence on the education changes process. Teachers‘ unions activities in Lithuania have not been researched. In this paper is analysed how education changes process, education policy‘s usefulness depends on social organizations‘ involvement into this process. Namely teachers‘units, unifying teachers, who directly participate in education process, can help education politics to make rational decisions and to prompt teachers to improve, play up public not only in the direct work, but also creating education policy. Problem of the research. Education is related with permanent changes process, therefore Lithuania‘s general training marks, quality characteristics, activity‘s usefulness, teachers‘ improvement and certification are revised. In this plane also centralization/decentralization process, functions‘ distribution among separate education links questions and another group of the questions – teachers‘ work conditions, payments and etc. It is necessary to involve as many participants as possible into education policy‘s creation, to develop social dialogue. Teachers, united into unions, seek to participate into education changes process and to represent their interests. Here arise the problem do teachers‘ unions have opportunity to influence education changes process determining decisions at the national and... [to full text]

This master‘s final paper formulates theoretical and practical features of the real estate management of educational institutions. Comprehensive school networks, buildings, and state of hygiene is analysed. A lot of attention is payed to the analyses of Lieporiai and „Saulėtekis“ high schools, their real estate and property management, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of the state of the school buildings themselves. During the research the opinion of students about the state of the buildings was studied. Acknowledged hypothesis is that the real estate management of the educational institutions and their differences depend on the educational institutions themselves (on their popularity, initiative).

In an attempt to improve the quality of education in basic schools of Lithuania, the Ministry of Education has prepared and is now realizing a Schools Improvement Program. (SIP) The main goal of this program is to improve 5th – 10th forms students’ achievements modernizing general education and making sure the funds for education are used in an effective and rational way. The Schools Improvement Program is being realized with the help of teachers-consultants. Their goal is to ensure the achievements and realization of the educational tasks set in the Schools Improvement Program. However, their activities and role in ensuring the spread of SIP ideas have not been investigated yet. Therefore, it is vital to find out and investigate the way consultants perform their role and functions. The goal of the investigation: to ascertain SIP consultants’ role realization in improving educational activity of basic schools. The tasks of the investigation: 1. To analyze pedagogical, psychological and managerial literature related to educational reform and schools improvement questions. 2. To discuss the peculiarities of consulting in the professional improvement system. 3. To carry out a survey of SIP 2nd round consultants and determine their role in this program. 4. To provide recommendations to school principals and teachers about educational and managerial activity improvement of basic schools, creating better studying conditions at schools, increasing studying possibilities for... [to full text]

The work aims at exposing the importance of constant learning of teachers under conditions of changing education, teachers' needs and how the informal lifelong in-service educational institution, called Educational Centre, meets them. The characteristics of Educational Centre and its readiness to fulfil teachers' lifelong teaching are analyzed. The conceptualism of constant learning is analyzed in this work: the concept of qualification and competence, the importance of general skills, possibility to improve them and to get them while learning constantly. Pedagogical, psychological and social presumptions of lifelong learning are discussed. In the unit on methodology of lifelong learning it is said that constant learning of the teachers is an important condition of changing education, it is cleared up what the aims of adult teaching and psychological parameters of adult education are. The teachers' constant (lifelong) learning is investigated in details. The qualitative analysis of activity of Molėtai Educational Centre and its readiness to meet the needs of teachers' constant learning are presented. At the end of the work the conclusions about teachers' lifelong learning and readiness of the Educational Centre to do it are presented. Key words: constant learning, lifelong learning, informal in-service adult education, teachers' educational centre, qualification, qualification improvement, competence, andragogics, adult teacher.

The permanent and intensive changes taking place nowadays in societal, social, economical, organizational and even private lives shift a great responsibility on a comprehensive school that has to create equal opportunities for every learner to acquire education and abilities to adapt in a constantly changing environment. The implemented educational reforms constituted a significant progress of the educational system of the Republic of Lithuania, however, the increasing number of learners that do not acquire qualitative comprehensive education are not able to compete in society and face social exclusion. The following are thought to be the most urgent educational problems in European Union and Lithuania: qualitative education, education for all, as drop-out of every child from a formal education system is a great loss for a state in terms of demography, morality, economy, culture and etc. With consideration to all the mentioned above, the following research problem has been formulated – what are the possibilities of a basic school in decreasing the drop-out of the school children. The object of the research - the possibilities of a basic school in decreasing the drop-out of the school children. The aim of the research is to analyse the possibilities of a basic school in decreasing the drop-out of the school children. The following objectives assist in revealing the aim of the research: 1) Carry out the theoretical analysis of school children drop-out from school by... [to full text]

Magistro darbo tema – Kaimo pilietinė bendruomenė ir jos sąsajos su švietimo sistema (Kaišiadorių rajono atvejis). Tema aktuali, kadangi būtina stiprinti kaimo bendruomenės ryšius su švietimo sistema, nes kaimo bendruomenei kokybiškai veikti reikia žinių ir įgūdžių, gebėjimų įtakoti savo narių ugdymo procesus. Darbas teoriškai ir praktiškai reikšmingas, nes šalies kaimo bendruomenių sąsajos su švietimo sistema dar mažai tyrinėtos, apibendrinančių tyrimų nėra atlikta. Tyrimo objektas – kaimo pilietinė bendruomenė ir jos sąsajos su švietimo sistema. Tyrimo problema – kaimo pilietinės bendruomenės aktyvesnis įtraukimas į švietimo sistemą. Tyrimo hipotezė: 1) kaimo pilietinės bendruomenės įtrauktumas į švietimo sistemą sąlygoja kaimo bendruomenės potencialą: jos narių kompetenciją, gebėjimą geriau patenkinti kaimo gyventojų poreikius, kaimo bendruomenės konkurencingumą; 2) kaimo pilietinė bendruomenė silpnai arba tik formaliai susijusi su švietimo sistema. Tyrimo tikslas – atskleisti kaimo pilietinės bendruomenės sąsajų su švietimo sistema rezervus bei trikdžius. Tikslas realizuojamas šiais uždaviniais: a) išanalizuoti kaimo pilietinės bendruomenės sampratą bei bendruomeninio judėjimo raidą Lietuvoje; b) aptarti kaimo pilietinės bendruomenės sąsajų su švietimo sistema rezervus; c) išnagrinėti kaimo pilietinės bendruomenės sąsajų su švietimo sistema trikdžius; d) ištirti kaimo pilietinės bendruomenės švietimo veiklos galimybes; e) interviu pagalba išsiaiškinti Kaišiadorių... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The theme of this master’s paper - The rural civic community and it’s connections with the education system (the case of Kaišiadorys district). The subject is very important, because it is essential to the case of Kaišiadorys district strengthen the connections of rural communities with the education system, as at the present time rural communities need special knowledges and skills if they want to work successfully and to influence competences of their members. The paper is theoretically and practically significant because connections of rural civic communities with the education system almost aren’t still studied. The object of this study is the rural civic community and it’s connections with the education system. The problem of the study – more active involvement of the rural civic community in the education system. The hypothesis of this study: 1) involvement of the rural civic community in the education system determines potential of the community (competences of it’s members, possibility to fulfil the needs of community’s members, competitive ability); 2) the rural civic community is connected with the education system weakly or nominally. The purpose of this study is to reveal reserves and encumbrances of rural civic community’s connection with the education system. The purpose is reached by these goals: a) to analyze the conception of the rural civic community and development of the movement of the communities in Lithuania; b) to discuss the reserves of rural... [to full text]

Magistro darbe yra išanalizuoti ir susisteminti įvairūs moklinės literatūros šaltiniai apie Švietimo pagalbos šeimoms auginančioms vaikus iki 7 metų. Darbe išanalizuotos ikimokyklinės įstaigos galimybes organizuojant tėvų švietimą, remiantis tėvų nuomone. Taip pat surinkta informacija apie tėvų švietimo formas Šiaulių ikimokyklinėse įstaigose. Apžvelgta ,,Šiaulių krašto“ laikraščių tematika, tėvų auginančių vaikus iki 7 metų švietimo klausimais (2008-2009). Pasitvirtino darbo hipotezė, kad tėvai skiria permažai dėmesio švietimui ir bendradarbiavimui su grupėje dirbančiu pedagogu. Taip pat išaiškėjo, kad pedagogai naudoja įprastas švietimo formas ikimokyklinėse ir priešmokyklinėse ugdymo grupėse. / The Master paper analyses and systematises different scientific literature on educational assistance for families having children under 7years old. The paper explores arranging of the pre-school possibilities according to the parents opinion. Information on parents education forms in the pre-school institution is being collected. Moreover, topics on educational issues on parents having children under 7 years old relieved by Šiauliai Kraštas newsletter (2008-2009). Hypothesis is being approved that parents pay too little attention to education and co-operation with pre-school teachers. It explores also that pedagogues use ordinary educational forms in the pre-school groups aged from 1 to 6 and from 6 to 7.

Study object: • Internal audit and changes related with it in primary school. Aim: • To determine the influence of internal audit on alternation processes in primary school. Study tasks: • To analyze pedagogical and psychological literature of monitoring direction. • To clarify the attitude of pedagogues, parents and pupils to internal audit as the main alternation stimulating factor. • To explore internal audit influence on alternation. • To discuss about internal audit as knowledge and perfection condition of ourselves. Study methods: • The research of scientific literature. • Analyze of the documents. • Method of quantitative research. • Statistical treatment of data. The research of activity efficiency in the comprehensive schools was analyzed of very outstanding Lithuanian scientists and other investigators practices. I would like to mention B. Bitinas, P. Jucevičienė, V. Stulpinas, Ž. Jackūnas, V. Targamadzė, R. Želvys, M. Barkauskaitė, A. Bagdonas and others. The first research in branch of internal audit was done by Center of Pedagogues Education (CPE), the internal audit experiments were done in the preschools, in the primary schools and in the comprehensive schools. In nowadays very important to establish the internal audit, because just then schools by themselves could plumb to their done specific activities, would be interested to education politic and standards of quality. In 2002-2003 the internal audit were done in every comprehensive school, but there... [to full text]

Šiame darbe tiriama bendrojo lavinimo mokyklų tinklo pertvarkos problemų struktūra, analizuojamos problemų priežastys, galimi sprendimo būdai. Darbo tikslas - atskleisti Vilniaus miesto savivaldybės bendrojo lavinimo mokyklų pertvarkos problemas, jų skirstymą ir pertvarką įgyvendinti trukdančius veiksnius. Darbą sudaro įvadas, teorinė ir empirinė dalys, pateikiamos išvados ir rekomendacijos bei literatūros sąrašas ir priedai. Pirmame teorinio darbo skyriuje apžvelgiama bendrojo lavinimo mokyklų reformos eiga, Lietuvai atgavus nepriklausomybę. Aptariami reformos politiniai, socialiniai, ekonominiai motyvai. Išskirti reformos etapai, pateikiami šiems etapams būdingi bruožai. Antrame teorinio darbo skyriuje nagrinėjami Lietuvos bendrojo lavinimo mokyklų tinklo pertvarkos trukdžiai bei problemos, įvardintos mokslininkų, švietimo specialistų, nepriklausomų tyrėjų. Taip pat pabrėžiama įvairių švietimo bendruomenių įtaka reformai, bendrais bruožais pateikiamas bendrojo lavinimo mokyklų bendruomenių (tėvų, mokinių, mokytojų, švietimo specialistų ir kt.) atstovų reformos vertinimas. Analizuojama Vilniaus miesto bendrojo lavinimo mokyklų tinklo pertvarkos kilmė bei eiga. Trečiame skyriuje analizuojami gauto kiekybinio ir kokybinio tyrimų rezultatai. Tyrimų duomenys nagrinėjami Vilniaus miesto bendrojo lavinimo mokyklų tinklo pertvarkos kontekste. Skyriuje pateikiama problemų struktūra pagal problemų socialinę, ekonominę ir politinę sritis ir pagal problemos aktualumą konkrečiam... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The structure problems of structural problems of reorganization of general education schools in Vilnius city are researched, the possible reasons and ways of solution are presented in the work. The aim is to open and divide the problems of schools’ network reorganization and the factors interfering its implementation. The work is divided into introduction, theoretical and empirical units, conclusions and recommendations. The development of educational reform after regaining the independence, its stages and political, social and economical grounds are presented and thoroughly described in the first unit. The run and impediments of general education reform in Lithuania analyzed by scientists, educators, and independent authors presented in the second unit as well as influence of educational communities and the reform evaluation made by their representatives. In the third unit the results of quantitative and qualitative research in the context of reorganization of school network described. The author successfully presents the structural analyses of social, economical and political fields taking into account the importance of the problem for each member of the community. Qualitative research lays in the background of analyses, linking with reasons and possible ways of making decisions. Some mostly important problems of reorganization of schools network in Vilnius and other cities as well as recommendations for decision makers, educators, representatives of schools administration... [to full text]

Magistro darbe išanalizuotos valstybinio švietimo strateginių nuostatų įgyvendinimo pradiniame ugdyme problemos. Analizuojama teoriniai valstybinio švietimo strategijų, pradinio ugdymo sampratos, bei valstybinio švietimo plėtotės aspektai. Išsamiai išanalizuojami Lietuvos autorių teoriniai ir praktiniai švietimo strategijos įgyvendinimo būklės tyrimai. Analizuotas Šiaulių apskrities pradinio ugdymo pedagogų požiūris į švietimo strategijos įgyvendinimą. Patvirtinama autoriaus suformuluota mokslinio tyrimo hipotezė, kad, įgyvendinant valstybinio švietimo strategines nuostatas pradiniame ugdyme, įgyvendinami ne visi strateginiai uždaviniai. / This Master work analyzes the problems of national education strategy implement in the primary school. We represent conceptions of national education strategies and primary school; also there you can find aspects of national education development. Researches are given for realizing the state of Lithuanian authors’ theoretical and practical education strategies. Analyze was done in order to find out the realization of pedagogue attitude about the education strategy of Šiauliai district primary school. The hypothesis of scientific research was proved by author that realization of national education strategy implement in the primary school is not completed by all strategical tasks.