The Relevance of the Research. In the general programmes/curricula and the Standards of Education of the School of General Education of Lithuania (2003) it is stated that “preschool, primary and basic child education is considered as one of the most important priorities of contemporary education policy, as the basis for lifelong learning”. Contemporary preschool education regulations are an aspiration to help a child to acquire competencies necessary for everyday life and successful education/self-education at school, the basis of which is the sum total of already possessed value attitudes, gained abilities and skills, and experience. It is not enough to call child’s competencies an aspiration – it is important to attempt to “measure” them, and it is what has been emphasized in the present work. The importance of one of the competencies – the cognitive competency – is emphasized in Preschool Education Standards (2003). The straightest way to the development of child’s cognitive competency is the formation of natural environment in a preschool institution. Cognitive psychology considers permanent investigation of environment as one of the most important factors of the development of child personality. In contemporary reformed nursery school the investigation activity, its importance, significance, functionality, relations between natural environment and the cognitive competency is little or almost not investigated area. The Object. The importance of natural environment for the... [to full text]

In the centre of today’s education there is the individuality of a pupil, the completeness of the education of a personality and the formation of the value-system. It is essential to look for the ways of the individual realization of these new requirements. The application and efficiency of artistical methods as the elements of individualization on purpose to plant aesthetical feelings and the delight in nature in the lessons of natural sciences are researched. The object of the research is the elements of the individualization of the aesthetical relation of the pupils with the natural environment. The aim of the research is to determine the elements of the individualization of the aesthetical relation of the pupils of the 5th and the 6th forms with the natural environment in the lessons of “The nature and the human”. The goals of the research: to reason theoretically the assumptions of the formation of the aesthetical relation with the natural environment in the educational aspect. To reveal the peculiarities of the aesthetical relation of the pupils with the natural environment. To characterize the elements of the individualization of the aesthetical relation of the pupils with the natural environment. The hypothesis of the research. The aesthetical relation of the pupils with the natural environment is being brought up-to-date if it is allowed in the educational process to observe individually and to experience aesthetically the natural environment. The methodology of the... [to full text]

Baigiamajame magistro darbe „Ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikų aplinkos pažinimo technologijos lauko aikštelėje“ nagrinejamos vaikų aplinkos pažinimo technologijos, lauko žaidimų erdvės ir vaikų veikla lauke. Tyrimo objektas: Aplinkos pažinimo technologijos. Tyrimo subjektas: 4- 5 metų amžiaus vaikai. Tyrimo tikslas: išsiaiškinti 4-5 metų vaikų aplinkos pažinimo technologijas ikimokyklinės ugdymo įstaigos lauko aikštelėje. Tyrimo uždaviniai: 1. Išanalizuoti mokslinės pedagoginės, psichologinės literatūros šaltinius, siekiant išsiaiškinti gamtinės aplinkos svarbą vaikų pažinimo procese. 2. Išsiaiškinti vaikų pažintinę veiklą ikimokyklinės ugdymo įstaigos lauko aikštelėje. 3. Išsiaiškinti kokios aplinkos pažinimo technologijos taikomos ikimokyklinės ugdymo įstaigos lauko aikštelėje. 4. Išsiaiškinti pedagogų nuomonę apie aplinkos pažinimo technologijas ir jų taikymą ikimokyklinės ugdymo įstaigos lauko aikštelėje. 5. Atlikti statistinę duomenų analizę, pateikiant tyrimo rezultatus, bei juos apibendrinant ir interpretuojant, patikrinti keliamos hipotezės teisingumą. Tyrimo hipotezė: ikimokyklinių ugdymo įstaigų lauko aikštelėse taikomos technologijos skatina vaiko pažintinę veiklą bei turtina jos procesą. Darbas pristato tris tyrimus: Tikslinio pokalbio metu buvo siekiama išsiaiškinti kokią pažinimo veiklą dažniausiai vaikai renkasi ikimokyklinės ugdymo įstaigos lauko aikštelėje. Siekiant išsiaiškinti 4-5 metų amžiaus vaikų pažintinę veiklą ikimokyklinės... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / In the Final Master‘s Thesis „ Environmental Cognition Technologies for Preschool Age Children on the Outdoor Site of a Preschool Education Institution“ , the environmental cognition technologies, the areas for outdoor games and the outdoor activities of chilkdren are discussed upon. The subjects of the research are children in the age of 4-5 years. The goal of the research: to clear up the environmental cognition technologies for 4-5 year children on the outdoor site of a preschool education institution. The tasks of the research include: 1. To analyze scentific literature in pedagogy and psychology for elucidation of the importance of the natural environment in the cognitive process of children. 2. To clear up the cognitive activities of children on the outdoor site of a preschool education institution. 3. To clear up the environmental cognition technologies applicable on the outdoor site of a preschool education institution. 4. To clear up the opinion of pedagogues on the environmental cognition technologies and their application on the outdoor site of a preschool education institution. 5. To carry out statistical data analysis upon provision of the results of the research and their generalization and interpretation; to check the correctness of the hypothesis. The hypothesis of the research: the technologies applied on the outdoor site of a preschool education institution stimulate cognitive activities of the children and enrich its process. The Thesis presents three... [to full text]