Research subject is the peculiarities of communication skills training of children with moderate and severe intellectual disabilities at pre-school age. Hypothesis: the communication between children is stimulated when education goals, tasks, methods and activities meet children communication abilities. Research aim is to analyze the peculiarities of communication education of children with moderate and severe intellectual disabilities. Research methods: theoretical analysis of scientific sources, question airing that allows summarizing the educational experience of specific communication training cases. The research data on the persons under research is provided by special educators of pre-school education institutions. Persons under research – children of pre-school age (4 – 8 years) with moderate and severe intellectual disabilities and moderate and severe speech development. Conclusions. Communication abilities of children with moderate and severe intellectual disabilities are of a low level, revealing themselves by active responsive reactions of children into communication initiative, but not with the initiative of children themselves.

After Lithuania has become a member of European Union higher reguirements are raised to it. The main priority of the family and educational institutes is to help a young person to develop the folloving social skills: self – cognition, self-esteem, communicative skills, ability to make a decision, solve a conflict, ability to control the emotions, overcome the stress, critical and creative thinking. The most important about educational institute is to focus the educational process on a child, his most important needs ( self – realization, status need, safety ) satisfaction. The aim of this work is to analyse what is the level of educational institution influence on pupils learning motivation emotional correspondence and social – psychological adjustment. These are the goald of the word: To summarize methodological, psychological, pedagogical adjustment; to state the emotional correlation of the learning motivation; to find out the cognitive activity, motivation attaining, suspense, rage influence on learning motivation process according to the age groups and sex; describe the social- psychological adaptacion and maladjustment peculiarities and factors, to state the vital correlation links. The methods used: guestionnaire, guality and guantity, statistic analysis. The size of the investigation: 167 pupils of the 6- 10 grades and 6 – 10 grades 86 boys. The investigation was performed in Gasciunu and Gatauciu basic school ( Joniskis region). The results of... [to full text]

Education is a particular field of culture and its basis is human being and his culture, therefore the human being can not be educated in isolation without considering needs of particular nation and culture. The documents of Education of Lithuania indicate that the main purpose of education is to guarantee development of human physical, mental and unseen power to be as universal as possible as well as to create conditions for revealing individuality. Seeking for this purpose it is necessary to cognize the human being. Seeking to protect individuality of the leaner, to help in spreading and expression of the features of personality, individual attitude to each human being plays especially important role. Individualization of the process of teaching is important in teaching each separate subject and especially in teaching technologies, because their basis is comprised of independent activity of schoolchild. The aim of our work is to investigate particularities of teaching individualization in technologies’ lessons. For this aim the following task have been posed: 1. To analyse sources of literature involved in individualization of teaching. 2. To analyse ways of teaching individualization, which are being applied by teachers in the lessons of technologies. 3. To analyse the attitude of teachers towards individualization of the process of teaching. 4. To analyse attitude of schoolchildren of 6-10 forms towards individualization o the process of... [to full text]

The problem of research: the competence of healthy lifestyle promotion and general abilities. The aim of research: to evaluate nurses' readiness for the health promotion of patients. Tasks of research: 1. To carry out a review of human health conception and alternation of nurses' activity . 2. To find out the nurses' attitude towards importance of healthy lifestyle promotion and the level of knowledge while analyzing distinct aspects of healthy lifestyle. 3. To find out nurses' competence to promote patients' healthy lifestyle. 4. To evaluate nurses' lifestyle. 5. To foresee measures for successful promotion of healthy lifestyle. Methods of research: they are theoretical, empirical, mathematical statistical . The analysis of literature allows to state that in the Lithuanian Health Program the main attention is given to the coordination and development of health promotion activity in our community, and one of the principal activity spheres becomes the promotion of healthy lifestyle. The competence of an educator (a nurse is in this case) often determines the quality of this work (his/her knowledge, abilities, experience and value attitudes). The analysis of research data showed that 96  of respondents consider the promotion of healthy lifestyle to be necessary. They connect the importance of promoting the healthy lifestyle not only with disease prevention, i.e. help for healthy people, but also with assurance of life quality... [to full text]

The structure of competences of pedagogue in the stage of primary teaching (comparative analysis) The goal of research: to prove the structure of competences of pedagogue in the stage of primary teaching theoretically and empirically. The objectives of repair research: 1. To reveal the conception of competence and discuss them various models of it suggested in scientific literature. 2. To analyse the kinds of professional competences. 3. To compare the models of competences and the educational programs of different countries in respect of professional competences. 4. To reseach teachers competences and their attitude to ward competences. The methods of research: 1. The analysis of scientific literature. 2. The analysis of documents. 3. Questionnaires. 4. Quantitative and qualitative analysis of questionnaires. Having analysed scientific literature the following four models of competences were distinquished: basic, semantic, pedagogic and humanistic. Having analysed scientific literature the following five kinds of competences were singled out: common cultural, general pedagogic, informative, social, communicative. In the period of research it was desired to clear up the teachers opinion of competences and available competences of teachers themselves. The teachers describe the conception of competence as seeking for innovation, its application and teaching ability. According to teachers the pedagogue of the first stage must have the following competences: general... [to full text]

Author of the work: Geda Maciulevičienė Theme of the work: Research of nannies work and desirable personality characteristics Place of work preparation: Lithuanian university of agriculture, Department of professional pedagogy and psychology, Academy, 2006 Volume of the work: 68 pages There are: 7 Tables, 11 Picture, 9 appendixes in the work The number of used sources of literature: 29 The object of investigation: Nannies job and desirable personality characteristics During the research there were used these methods: • Study and analysis of literature • Analysis of documents facts • Conversation • Questionnaire These results were received after the research: Mother looking for a nanny, wants that nanny would be mild, simplicity, sympathy, loving, this knows place and value in strange family. Woman, which want to work in nanny agency, are thoroughly selected analyzing familial opinion of nanny. Nanny abroad is employee which take care of baby in privately and has this responsibility: babies or little child feed, wash, dressing; their game and cognitive care; planning creative games; repast and sleeping time; constantly communicate with parents, that to know applicable tutorial and care methods of parents requirement; to stand sentinel over the child from possible danger; swimming pool, kitchen small tools and utensils; gas, toxicity material and spiral or moving staircase.

Pre-primary education is one of the most important factors of early child‘s socialization. Advanced family‘ s attitudes towards pre-primary education determine parents decision either let their child attend a preprimary group or not. Appealing to the empirical research it may be stated that iteraction between parents and an educational institution is not satisfying: parents get little information, collaboration is formal between family and an educational institution. Those parents, who did not give the possibility to their children to participate in pre primary education, realize pre primary education as a social service that is guaranteed by the state. They do not realize the most important function of pre-primary education to get ready a child for a school. Positive changes were made by doing variuos reforms, researches and problem solving reached possitive changes. It is noticed that parents‘ positive attitude towards pre primary education is changing depending on a child‘s participation in it: parents of pre- primary and primary students assess pre-primary education more positive than those parents whose children do not attend a pre- primary group. Consequently, organization of pre- primary education is rather fluent, its content satisfy parents partialy. Parents think that an educational institution is a social partner. However, there are problems in changing negative parent‘s attitude towards pre- primary education. It is important to solve this problem and find the... [to full text]

In der Magisterarbeit werden die meinung von Mitarbeitern der Tageszenter der Jugend Spezieller Erziehung über die zur Zeit in Litauen existierende spezielle ununterbrochene Erziehung Der Jugend, spezielle Hilfe in den Zentern, Modell des Organisationsbenehmens von Zentern und Pläne für Vorbereitung einer Strategie untersucht. Es wird versucht zu klären, ob für Sozialarbeiter und Pädegogen die Bedingungen für die Arbeit mit den Behinderten – mit dem Jugend verstörten Intellekts – geschafft sind und was mehr Aufmerksamkeit verlangt. Es wurde auch gehofft, die Meinung der Mitarbeiter dieser Anstalten und unabhängiger Experten über weitere Perspektive behinderter Jugend zu erfahren und sie mit den Meinung von Mitarbeitern der Zenter zu vergleichen. Ziel dieser Untersuchung ist, Strategiepläne für die Vorbereitung des Modells für Organisa- tionsbenehmen von Panevezys Tageszentrum der Jugend zu modellieren und sie bei allen sich in Litauen befindenden Anstalten dieser Art als ein Angebot vorzulegen. Die durchgeführte Analyse wissenschaftlicher Literatur, Formulierung von Untersuchungs – objekt, Gegenstand und Ziel erlaubten, solche Hypothese zu erheben: im Grunde genommen kann man ein logisches Schema für die Vorbereitung der Strategie eines die Mission von Tageszentern der Jugend entsprechenden Modells von Organisationsbenehmen modellieren. Es wurde die Analyse wissenschaftlicher Literatur, der Modellen von Organisationsbeneh-men, seiner Etappen und der behinderten Menschen... [to full text]

Within this work the competence of leaders of pre-skool institucions, pedagogical conflicts, the solutions to these conflicts as well as influence of controlling coflicts for successful management, pedagogues attitude towards leaders abilities to manage the conficts are analysed.

The study was made using the technique of standardised written interview and narrative method; it revealed the perspective of social participation in the community of comprehensive school by the disabled. Teachers of Siauliai town and district comprehensive schools, teaching Ethics and the Lithuanian language to primary and basic forms took part in the questioning. The study helped to disclose how the contents of education is conveyed to pupils, if social participation of the disabled is induced in the community of a school, and what is the teachers’ opinion about making “a school for everybody”. Teachers’ opinion, attitude and persuasion was analysed in respect of the disabled.