Darbas „Studentų didaktinės savimonės ugdymas geografijos studijose“ – tai darbas apie pedagoginės savimonės formavimąsi tiek geografijos teorinėse studijose, tiek pedagoginės praktikos metu. Visų pirma pateikiamas išsamus „pedagoginės savimonės“ apibrėžimas, kuris teigia, jog pedagoginė savimonė - teigiamas profesionalaus ugdytojo santykis su savimi kaip žmogumi ir profesijos atstovu, su atliekama veikla, aplinka, su įsisąmoninimu privalomų vaidmenų, adekvačiu jų reikšmės supratimu, veiklos prasmės bei su tuo susijusių asmeninių savybių tobulinimu ir kompetencijų didinimu, su kokybiška veikla ne tik ugdymo institucijoje, bet ir už jos ribų. Kvalifikuotiems pedagogams parengti reikalinga veiksminga sistema, kurios pagrindinė paskirtis – parengti švietimo sistemai pedagogus, įgijusius dabarties iššūkius atsiliepiantį išsilavinimą ir profesinę kvalifikaciją, sudaryti sąlygas jai tobulinti, prireikus – persikvalifikuoti. Praktiniai gebėjimai pedagoginėse studijose – tai studentų teorinių žinių pritaikymas mokyklinėje praktikoje. Optimaliam rezultatui gauti didelę reikšmę turi pedagoginės praktikos organizavimas. Nuo sistemingo ir tikslaus organizavimo priklauso galutis rezultatas. Todėl Sėkmingo studentų didaktinės savimonės tyrimo atlikimą lėmė sistemingas užduočių parinkimas ir efektyvus jų pateikimas pedagoginę praktiką atlikusiems studentams. Gauti rezultatai atspindi Geografijos specialybę studijuojančio ir pedagogo darbui rengiamo studento paveikslą:  pagrindinės... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / This work „The Development students’ didactic self-consciousness in Geography studies” is about forming of educational self consciousness as much in Geographic’s theoretical studies as much during time of educational practice. First of all there is exhaustive explanation of “educational self-consciousness” presented, which says, that educational self-consciousness – is positive relation of professional pedagogue with himself as human and representative of profession, with his current activities, environment, realizing of compulsory roles and correct understanding of theirs meaning, sense of activities and improvement of related personal skills and rising of competence, with quality activity not only in educational institution, but as well of it’s bounds. To prepare qualified pedagogues operational system is required, which aim would be to rise pedagogues for Educational System, that have intelligence, required to handle modern challenges and professional qualification, to make conditions for improvement, and (if needed) to re-qualify. Practical skills in pedagogical studies – that means adaptation of student’s theoretical knowledge in school practice. For achieving optimal results, organization of pedagogical practice is vital. Final result depends on systematic and precise planning. That’s why successful research was decided by systematically choosing of tasks and their effective presentation to students, who fulfilled pedagogical practice. The results shows picture of... [to full text]

This study aims to investigate how a number of students who are at the end of a teachers’ educations program in social studies, geography, religion and history interpret that the national curriculums states that every teacher is responsible for students language development and should be supportive of language backgrounds. In the light of the curriculums the study explores how the teacher education students feel that the education has prepared them for teaching children with Swedish as a second language. The study also examines how the teacher education students think that the teacher education could improve in matters like preparing future teachers to teach social studies, geography, religion and history to second language children. The study is based on interviews with seven university students and shows that they feel a responsibility to develop their future students’ language. It also shows that the teacher education students don’t experience that their education has addressed these challenges. The study also reveals that the participants understand the difficulties with teaching second language students. A lot of their thoughts on the subject are similar to what previous research stresses as central to teaching these students despite that the teacher education students don’t feel prepared. The question of possible improvement in the teacher education shows that the participants in the study believe that there is room for improvement in the teacher education regarding second language students.