SUMMARY The uniqueness of folklore is in the provided possibility of self – express for everyone. Folklore is not only singing, but also playing musical instruments, dancing, and acting. This way children can be involved into dynamic activities. It cannot be achieved only by singing, though, as there can be some children in a class whose ear for music and voice are weaker developed. The demand for a student to express himself or herself can be met referring to those musical abilities, which are stronger expressed. However, pupils prefer entertaining music, where rhythm dominates; while historically valuable musical compositions remain incomprehensible, therefore they do not become a part of one’s individuality. Students of senior forms become uninterested both in folk music and in the subject of music itself. The study analyses the tendencies of Lithuanian folk music in education of students of the 9th -12th forms. The aim of this research work is to base the importance of folk music in musical education as a relevant prerequisite for intensive interface between national culture and a person. Certain objectives have been set up in order to implement the aim: to define the conception and significance of folk music in musical education; to analyze the peculiarities of the stages of adolescence and juvenescence; to work out an individual syllabus for after-school activities; to set an approach so that students’ attitude towards folk music could be determined; to study the... [to full text]

Asta Dambrauskienė. Theme of the Master of Science work: Organisational Reflection on a Child‘s Training: A First-Years Teacher‘s and a Student Teachers Abilities: preschool education Pedagogical University master degree studies/ The research adviser of the work is-doc. Vitolda-Sofija, Glebuvienė. The Pedagogical University of Vilnius, The Departmen of Childhood Studies.-Vilnius, 2006.-136 p. SUMMARY In the minds of teachers reflection coud become the core helping critically to analyse, to realize and give sense for the proceses of thinking, its forms and presumptions as well as for the spiritual world structure and its features. The aim of this master work is to reveal the specific features of the child‘s organisational reflection for a first- year teacher ant student teacher. In order to realize the aim here such research tasks are given: revealing a first –year teacher‘s and a student teacher‘s reflection on a child‘s knowledge competence as well as the reflection on training organisational competence of a first-year teacher and a student teacher. The work gives a theoretical analysis of the concept of reflection and also reveals the complication of reflection, helping to perceive its necessity to organize training. Having analysed reflection in action, reflection on action and reflection for action one can perceive a child‘s all organisational training. Having in mind that reflection as well as competence is knowledge and abilities to use it, this work analyses a... [to full text]

Lithuanian comprehensive schools have got original textbooks of Music. They represent a complex of different musical activities joined into units. Containing a wide range of teaching material on offer they provide a variety of choices that can be served in a menu determined by the teacher's taste. Purposeful and accurate selection is the necessary condition for effective teaching. The aim of the Graduation Dissertation of Master‘s Degree is to explore how much material of textbooks of Music on average can be taught and learnt throughout the school year having one lesson a week. Finding out how to make the picking of textbook’s material approachable to accomplish curriculum of Music is another goal of the investigation. For survey I have chosen the textbook of Music V-VII grades (last published 2004) by E.Balcytis. The educational experiment has been done in V.Macernis secondary school of Seda, district of Mazeikiai, also most teachers of Music and students of V-VII grades have been tested. The results show that working in a consistent, thoughtful way combined with a standart condition can give clearly indicated ‘desirable outcomes’ , namely, the fulfilment of the most important curriculum items. However, the teacher has to select carefully a musical compositions suitable to each theme and grade. It is the first dissertation in which such a research has been made.

Conflicts are the main category of manage. Every day we’re solving problems and sometimes just trying to avoid them. The main thing, that all of us perceive conflict like a negative phenomenon. There are some cases when conflict can get some good wind for the organization, like object’s and organization politic changing. To solve the conflict we use some of our known solution strategies. But sometimes they just can get the things worthier that they are. Teachers clash with conflict the same as members of other occupation. But they need to be respectable in school where they working. Everyday they contact with other teachers, pupils and children’s parents. In all that contacts they are expecting judges, jealousy, and competition. The purpose of our work was - to find the main reasons why the conflicts arise between colleagues, between teachers and principal and with pupils. Also analyze conflicts solution strategies and how pedagogue can aim their knowledge’s about problems solution of course if they had them. Did they take part in conflicts solution teaching programs and it was very important to us to know if that study was productive. The main hypothesis was formed on the background of performed research, that essential conflicts solution is limited by conflicts solution strategies ignoranc.

According to such methodical regulations as the theory of socialization, A.H. Maslow`s theory of hierarchy of needs, the European dimension of the education, from the systemic point of view the person and from and from the multi-disciplined point of view to the deviantical behavior, I looked through the P.D.Į.Š.S. of Lithuania nowadays. I used the analysis of main methods-scientific literature, documents (local and international acts of law, which regulate Educational System of Penitentiary Institutions of Lithuania) also the comparative analysis and the completed questionnaires of the convicts. Wanting to reach the basic goal of this work-to form and prove the modern E.S.P.I..- I put up some aims: 1. To analyze the educational system of P.I. of Lithuania nowadays, the documents which regulate it and compare this system with the models of E.S.P.I. of the chosen countries (Sweden, Danmark, Canada, Russia and Estonia), the realization and the experience of the social-educational decisions and directions that are formed by EU. 2. To search the needs for education of people who are convicted. 3. To show and prove the model of E.S.P.I. in Lithuania and offer the ways and possibilities how to make it true, also show the recommendations for sowing the realization and social-educational problems of improvement in these institutions at the beginning of the work I had some hypotheses; 1. The solution of social-educational problems of convicts, matches the... [to full text]

Free time of problem children is a topical problem of our society. Children and youth occupation has always caused many social problems: unoccupied pupils commit more offences, crime, come into the scope of law enforcement institutions more frequently. The subject of the master’s work is to examine the free time activities of Vilnius municipality “Šviesos“ secondary school problem pupils. The following problems are being solved: 1. To analyze social, pedagogical and psychological literature invoking it for the problem under analysis. 2. To discuss the occupation question of problem children in Lithuania while analyzing children’s rights and the legal documents that regulate social security. 3. To display socialization agents that influence the free time of problem children. 4. To examine the attitude of problem children to free time activities. 5. To examine the forms and duration of free time of problem children. 6. To display the school’s part organizing the free time of problem children. To actualize the problems of the master’s work the following empirical methods were used: a discussion with problem children, their parents, class teachers, observation, data collection, case analysis, the analysis of the essays written by problem children as well as by children excluded from this group, standardized interviews with pupils, their parents, class teachers and headmaster. The research results have demonstrated that the free time of problem children has been granted greater... [to full text]

In modern society major factor, which decisives one or another effect is media and its spreading information. Media which effectively spreads actual, new and objective information, helps to the society to be guided better in reality and to solve existences rised problems in time. One of the major media functions is to inform society. The policy of informing society is one of wardshiped fields of the LR Ministry of Culture. In strategical activities plan of Ministry of Culture for 2005-2007 years is accentuated that: “in this time is very important to ensure conditions for protection of heritage, development of proffesional art, development of informative society. Media gives oportunity to the culture to reach all members of the society, that is very urgent for the regions. “Television helps to the distant population at least illusive visit interesting exhibitions, concerts, highest prestige theatres, meet popular masters of art and culture.” (Tidikienė, 1998:51). TV – the part of culture, means and factor. In other words. TV is formed by culture, but at the same time TV spreads and formes culture. TV can present information to the most wide auditorium. In the end of 2003 by the order or Minisry of culture the research of cultural needs of lithuanian people was carried aut, that confirmed, that TV is not only the sourse of information, but at the same time and the means of spreading. TV can induce people to be interested in culture... [to full text]

The main task of this work was to make the research of the connection of teenagers’ anxiety, progressiveness and problematic behavior. During the research there was analyzed the connection of schoolchildren’ anxiety, progressiveness and problematic behavior. Children were from two Vilnius Russian- speaking schools, from sixth till tenth classes. Also there were compared the exertion of anxiety, progressiveness, behavior between girls and boys from different classes. In the work there were used anxiety scale, behavior scale, yearly marks average. The research data were processed by SPSS computer program. In the research there participated 216 children, who were from Vilnius elementary and Vilnius high schools, from sixth till tenth classes. Schoolchildren were examined by questionnaire at schools, during the classes. The results of this research show, that general school anxiety is very low. During the research it was found the connection of progressiveness with problematic behavior, it was proved, that for those classes, which are characteristic for particular behavior reactions, have lower progressiveness. Also it was proved, that the progressiveness of boys is lower than girls, and general school anxiety is higher than girls. The statically reliable connection between all tree-analyzed factors is not proved because of researches’ particularity.

Art therapy as a way of social assistance, support for social risk group children is poor studied sphere in Lithuania, also in all over the world. It‘s extremely necessary for children, who are suffering form violence of parents and the surrounding, for those, who often run from their home regarding inappropriate lifestyle and reprobation of friends, relatives, they become aggressive, delinquent and commit the crimes; and also for children who experienced emotional and psychological violence. These are the children from social risk group, for who is very important to be needful, to find some friends, develop imagination and to experience positive emotions. This can be reached by using the method of art therapy. Art therapy is a quite new scope in Lithuania, so the purpose of this master thesis is to examine work particularity of Lithuanian art therapists, also to examine the impact of art therapy on social risk group children, attending art therapy classes, how this therapy effects their development and socialization. The purpose also is to explore what kind of difficulties art therapists face and what are the ways of solutions of these problems. In these master theses quantitive research is used. 40 professionals working with children in foster homes, day centers, children and youth house, municipal social support centers and schools were examined and answered questionnaires. The object of research is to examine the peculiarity of work of art therapists and the attitude... [to full text]

Integration process of people with disabilities has become very important problem. The integration of hearing impaired students into high education has become very common. Nevertheless this process has never been evaluated. The aim of this work is to study the literature that displays all the processes of integration especially regarding people with hearing loss. The survey has been made regarding the integration of people with hearing loss. During it three target groups have been questioned: hearing impaired students, professors and sign language interpreters. This survey evaluated the integration process and detected next problems: • the quality of sing language interpreting is low; • there are not enough dividable materials for these students; • hearing students and professors are not ready to communicate with these students; • not enough visual means are used in teaching process. The liquidation of these problems might increase the integration process of hearing impaired students into high education.