Parents’ interaction with pedagogues as equal partners is an important and unquestionable factor in a successful process of education. The practice shows that a problem of contact with parents arises. Therefore searching for new co-operation forms, seeking to ground the importance of parents’ pedagogical competences for continuity of preschool age children education and to ascertain the competences education possibilities, a research was made, in which parents’ opinions about pedagogical competences have been analysed, negative factors have been examined and parents opinion about the impact of pedagogical competences on children education continuity, parents and pedagogues co-operation was revealed. 282 respondents took part in the research: i.e. 60 parents of Šiauliai aesthetical education Study “Ko-dėl-čia”, 150 parents from the kindergarten “Kulverstukas”, 72 parents from Kužiai Kindergarten “Vyturėlis”. The following research methods were used in the thesis: scientific literature analysis, questionnaire, interview. Statistical analysis was made. Seeking to ensure the validity of the data received and legitimacy of the conclusions, the following data processing methods were used: relative frequency and percent frequency, correlation analysis (analysing data using Kruskal- Wallis test). The hypothesis of the research has proved out: it was established that the parents lack pedagogical knowledge. The results of the research show that education for parents is necessary... [to full text]

In this masters' work was defined the concept of competence; generalized theories about general and pedagogical competences, their constructive principles, methods, characteristics, levels;discussed new pedagogical competences in European Union, innovative context; revealed opportunities and means of pedagogical competences'development in school considering grown-up learning peculiarities.There is motivated that teachers constantly improve various pedagogical competences in their work place.

Mokymosi visą gyvenimą samprata šiuolaikiniame jos raidos etape numato sisteminę dermę tarp skirtingų besimokantį individą supančių aplinkų: visuomenės, rinkos, valstybės. Siekiant sukurti mokymosi visą gyvenimą perspektyvą nacionaliniame kontekste, būtina nustatyti nuolatinio švietimo prioritetus (visuomenės, rinkos, valstybės atžvilgiu) ir strategijoje užtikrinti jų sisteminę dermę. Darbe analizuojama teorinė pedagogų kompetencijos ir kvalifikacijos kėlimo medžiaga: pateikiama kvalifikacinių kategorijų samprata, naujųjų mokytojų vaidmenų palyginimas su senaisiais, nagrinėjamos kompetencijos bei jų reikšmė mokytojų kvalifikacijos kėlimui. Pateikiama teisės aktų, reglamentuojančių mokytojų kvalifikacijos kėlimą bei su juo susijusių procesų apžvalga, institucinė struktūra, atsakinga už kvalifikacijos kėlimą bei jų indėlis į kvalifikacijos kėlimo procesą. Atkreipiamas dėmesys į naująjį 2007 metais rugpjūčio 3 dieną priimtą Europos Bendrijų Komisijos komunikatą Tarybai ir Europos Parlamentui „Dėl mokytojų rengimo kokybės gerinimo“. Praktiniu tyrimu nustatyta, kad pedagogai kvalifikacijos kėlimą traktuoja kaip labai svarbų ir rimtą savo profesijos sudėtinę dalį; mokytojai daugiausia informacijos apie kvalifikacijos kėlimą sulaukia iš mokyklos administracijos arba kolegų; ryški tendenciją į mokytojų gaunamą kvalifikaciją seminarų, metodinio darbo ir paskaitų formas; didesnė dalis mokytojų nurodė, kad savišvieta jie užsiima kartais, tas pats pasakytina ir apie darbą komandoje... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The lifelong learning concept in the modern stage of its development provides a systematic conformity between the individual learners and the surrounding: society, market, state. In order to establish a lifelong learning perspective of the national context, it is necessary to set priorities for continuing education (public market, public relation), and the strategy to ensure their systematic conformity. Paper analyzes theoretical aspects of teachers’ education: content of qualifying category is given, comparing of new and old teachers certification system is discusses, competency and its meaning for teacher’s education is also presented. Legislative of teachers’ education is presented as well as institutional structure and its implication on the educational process. New Communication from the commission to the council and the European parliament „Improving the quality of teacher education” brought on 2007-08-03 is pointed out. Practical research pointed out that education is being handled as being very important part of profession by teachers; main information about education is released from school administration or colleagues; bigger part of teachers pointed out that self-education is not being used very often; teachers feels lack of possibilities to raise their qualification in foreign countries; among all of the respondents negative approach onto refresher courses preponderated. In order to change public attitudes from learning for life to lifelong learning is necessary... [to full text]