Magistro darbe “Bendradarbiavimas kaip šeimos ir mokyklos edukacinių poveikių integracijos pagrindas“ iškelta problemą – kaip stiprinti šeimos ir mokyklos bendradarbiavimą siekiant ugdymo tikslų. Tyrimo problema lėmė tyrimo tikslą: nustatyti tėvų ir mokytojų bendradarbiavimo reikšmę siekiant ugdymo tikslų. Tyrimo uždaviniai: 1. Teoriškai pagrįsti šeimos ir mokyklos bendradarbiavimo esmę. 2. Nustatyti sėkmingo bendradarbiavimo prielaidas. 3. Atskleisti šeimos ir mokyklos bendradarbiavimo reikšmę mokinių ugdymo rezultatams. 4. Išsiaiškinti tėvų ir mokytojų požiūrį į bendradarbiavimo galimybes. 5. Remiantis tyrimo duomenimis parengti rekomendacijas. Tyrimo metodai: įvairių šaltinių kritinė ir sisteminė analizė; kiekybinis tyrimas (anketinė apklausa). Kiekybinio tyrimo duomenys apdoroti programiniu paketu SPSS 12, skaičiuojant respondentų atsakymų į klausimus pasiskirstymus procentiniais dažniais. Sudarytos anketos pedagogams ir mokinių tėvams. Pirmąją klausimų grupę sudaro klausimai, leidžiantys atskleisti požiūrį į pedagogų ir tėvų bendradarbiavimo mokykloje sąlygas bei organizavimą; antroji klausimų grupė atskleidžia pedagogų ir tėvų bendradarbiavimo santykius; trečioji grupė nustato mokytojų ir tėvų bendradarbiavimo tikslus ir reikšmingumą; ketvirtoji – parodo pagrindines pedagogų ir tėvų bendradarbiavimo formas ir veiklos sritys; penktoji klausimų grupė numato mokytojų ir tėvų bendradarbiavimo tobulinimo galimybes. Tyrimas buvo atliktas 2008 metais vasario... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The master’s thesis titled “Cooperation as a basis for integration of the family and school educational effects” investigates an issue how to strengthen the cooperation between the family and the school seeking the attainment of educational goals. The issue of study determined its goal: to reveal the significance of cooperation between the parents and the teachers seeking educational gaols. The goals of investigation: 1. To ground theoretically the essence of cooperation between the family and the school. 2. To identify the premises for successful cooperation. 3. To reveal the significance of cooperation between the family and the school for the educational results of pupils. 4. To ascertain the attitude of the parents and teachers towards the possibilities of cooperation. 5. To prepare recommendations based on the investigation data. Research methods: critical and systemic analysis of different sources; quantitative investigation (questionnaire survey). The data of the quantitative investigation was processed using the SPSS12 software package by calculating the distribution of respondents’ answers to questions by percentage frequencies. Questionnaires were drawn up for the pedagogues and the pupils’ parents. The first group of questions consisted of the questions enabling to disclose an attitude towards the conditions of cooperation between the pedagogues and the parents and the organization thereof; the second group of questions discloses the cooperation relationships... [to full text]

This study deals with students' notions of the function in society of their future professions. The overall aim is to study what notions are actually represented by the students and to describe the content of these notions. Another aim is to study how the students' notions change during their period of training. Slightly more than 100 students, distributed equally among the higher education programmes of economics, medicine, psychology and engineering, were interviewed when entering these programmes and after a period of approximately three years. The result of the analysis of notions was that five qualitatively different categories of notions could be discerned among students of economics, psychology and engineering, whereas three could be found among students of medicine. The categories run on a dimension from the profession being regarded as manifestations of and subordinate to an economic-political system, to the profession being regarded as manifestations of and subordinate to individual differences. The various categories of notions have been given names intended to, somewhat incisively, summarize their content. The students of economics and engineering changed during their period of training so that a larger number of them conceptualized the profession as a manifestation of individual differences. The students of psychology changed in the opposite direction and the students of medicine remained in the middle position. An analysis of the students' reflections on notions and the conceptualization per se, has also been carried out. This analysis is an attempt at problemizing the relation between notions and actions. It showed that, at the end of their training period, the students of psychology and, to a certain extent, the students of engineering more often than students of economics and medicine, considered the possibilities of acting in accordance to their notions of the ideal function of the professions. Attempts are also made at relating certain changes of the students' notions to specific characteristics of the educational programmes. The importance of students' initial notions for how they change is, however, also analysed and emphasized. The answer to the question of students' change of notions during their period of training can, in other words, be found in the dynamics and in the opposition between students' initial notions and the notions of the professions conveyed by the education. In relation to the goal of higher education to encourage critical thinking in students, the results of this study indicate that the educational programmes, rather than conveying one specific critical notion, should convey an awareness of the fact that there are different notions of the function of the profession. The students would then be stimulated, on the basis of their own initial notions of the profession, to make critical examinations of, to decide on, and to make their own choices of alternative notions. / digitalisering@umu

The purpose of this study is to examine stabilization and change in students' notions of division of labour, wage differentiation and reproduction of labour force. A description is given of the development and application of a qualitative method for the analysis of interviews within the framework of a theory-generating evaluation of long-term effects of higher education. A central concept is notion, the theoretical and methodological development of which up to a strict description of the content is presented in different categories. A model is presented of the structural features of notions. A theoretical revaluation of ideological reproduction is outlined and reconnected with the initial theoretical frame of reference. The empirical data consist of transcribed interviews with students of economics, medicine, psychology and engineering. The interviews were made on two occasions: when the students entered their educational programmes and after a period of about three years. The initial number of students involved were 25-27 from each educational programme. The results of the empirical analyses show initial différencies in students' ideological shaping, both within and between educational programmes. For a majority of students notions remain stable over time. Occurring changes lack general characteristics. For students of medicine and engineering changes in notions of differentiation of wages are unidirectional and fairly common while students of psychology change their notions in another direction but not to the same extent. Changes in notions of division of labour are more common among students of economics and psychology than in other groups but the direction of change is not the same in the two groups. Changes in students' notions can be said to depend on initial notions, educational programme, and societal aspect subject to the analysis. The study ends with some reflections on qualitative methods and theory generating evaluation. / digitalisering@umu