Syftet med vår studie är att undersöka hur lärare i årskurs ett till tre använder sig av multimediala verktyg för att främja elevernas språkutveckling. Vi vill också få kännedom om varför de använder sig av multimedia samt deras attityder till användandet. Våra frågeställningar är följande:  Vilken syn har läarna påmultimediala verktyg fö språutveckling?  Hur anväder läarna multimediala verktyg fö att fräja elevernas språutveckling? Vi har använt oss av en kvalitativ metod i form av intervjuer i vår studie. Detta metodval gjorde vi för att få en djupare uppfattning om lärarnas användande och attityder till multimediala verktyg. Den sociokulturella teorin ligger till grund för vår uppsats, även literacy är en teori som vi utgår ifrån i vår studie. Vi beskriver också Gardners teori. Resultatet visar att samtliga lärare var positiva till att använda multimediala verktyg i undervisningen. Alla betonade vikten av mer utbildning om de tekniska verktygen. Det framgick att de vanligaste multimediala verktygen som användes var Activeboard och dator. Vi drar slutsatsen att lärarna inte aktivt använder de multimediala verktygen för att främja språkutveckling. / The aim of our study is to examine how teachers in grade one to three use digital tools to promote students' language development. We also want to know why they make use of multimedia and their attitudes to using. Our questions are:  What do teachers think about digital tools for language development?  How do teachers use digital tools to promote language development? We have used a qualitative approach through interviews in our study. This methodological choice we made in order to gain a deeper understanding of teachers' use and attitudes towards digital tools. The sociocultural theory is the basis for our study, while literacy is a theory that we assume in our study. We also describe Gardner’s theory. The results show that all teachers were positive about using digital tools in teaching. All stressed the importance of more education on the technical tools. It appeared that the most common digital tools used was the Active Board and the computer. We conclude that teachers do not actively use digital tools to promote language development.

This work analyses pedagogical and social activities of the primary school teacher in East-West Lithuania.

Žmogaus piešimo tema vaikų piešiniuose buvo ir tebėra aktuali, nes ji leidžia atskleisti daugybę vaiko psichologinių, fiziologinių, socialinių savybių ir jų raidos lygį. Darbo tikslas – atskleisti žmogaus vaizdavimo ypatumus pradinių klasių mokinių piešiniuose. Uždaviniai: 1) Apžvelgti mokslinėje literatūroje nagrinėtą vaikų vizualinės raiškos fenomeną. 2) Aptarti pradinių klasių mokinių vizualinės raiškos aspektus. 3) Ištirti žmogaus vaizdavimo ypatumus pradinių klasių mokinių vizualinėje raiškoje. 4) Susisteminti ir apibendrinti tyrimo išdavas ir pasiūlyti tolimesnio dailinio ugdymo būdus, metodus, kurie skatintų mokinių individualią vizualinę raišką. Tyrimo objektas — žmogaus vaizdavimas pradinių klasių mokinių vizualinėje raiškoje. Tyrimo hipotezė — tikėtina, kad didžioji dalis mokinių atitinka teoriškai nustatytus tam tikram amžiaus tarpsniui būdingus vizualinės raiškos bruožus bei tendencingai pasiskirsto žmogaus vaizdavimo tam tikri požymiai pagal lytį. Tyrimo metodai: 1) Mokslinės literatūros ir internetinių duomenų bazių sistemin�� analizė. 2) Empirinis — pradinių klasių mokinių piešinių analizė — kontent-analizė. 3) Matematinės statistikos metodai: koreliacinė analizė (kontingencijos koeficientas C), χ2 kriterijaus taikymas, procentinė duomenų analizė. Mokslinės literatūros analizė atskleidė, kad vaiko piešiniai – tai ne tik estetinis fenomenas, bet ir jo psichologinės, fiziologinės ir socialinės raidos atspindys. Šių savybių pažinimas ir tinkamas vaizduojamojo... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The theme of human in children’s drawings has always been topical as it reveals a great deal of child’s psychological, physiological, social features and the level of his (her) evolution. The target of the paper is to reveal the peculiarities of human potrayal in the drawings of primary school children. The goals are: 1) To survey the phenomenon of visual expression investigated in nonfiction 2) To discuss the aspects of visual expression of primary school children. 3) To explore the peculiarities of human potrayal in the visual expression of primary school children. 4) To systemize and generalize the findings of investigation and to offer the ways of further partial training and methods inducing the individual visual expression of schoolchildren. The object of investigation is the potrayal of human in the visual expression of primary school children. The hypothesis of the investigation. It seems that the majority of schoolchildren correspond with the features of visual expression characteristic to the theoretically established certain age period and the signs of human potrayal which are divided up according to their sex. The methods of the investigation: 1) The systematic analysis of scietific publications and the Internet database. 2) Empirical — the analysis of the drawings of primary school children — contextual analysis. 3) The methods of mathematical statistics: correlative analysis (contingency rate C), the appliance of the criterion χ2, the interst-bearing... [to full text]

Magistro darbe nagrinėjamas pradinių klasių mokinių dorinis ugdymas, šios ugdymo srities vadybinės dimensijos, lemiančios dorinio ugdymo kokybę pradinėje mokykloje. / The main topic of this master thesis is moral education in primary school and the management dimensions of this kind of education indicating quality of moral education in primary school.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vad elever och lärare anser om att använda mobiltelefonen som hjälpmedel i skolan. Fungerar den bra som hjälpmedel eller väger nackdelar som konflikter med elever angående användningen och risken för kränkningar över till dess nackdel? Undersökningen genomfördes med enkäter samt uppföljande intervjuer med lärare och elever. Då liknande undersökningar tidigare har utförts bland äldre elever valde jag att göra undersökningen bland lärare och elever i mellanstadiet. Undersökningen visar att både elever och lärare är positiva till att mobiltelefonen används i skolan då den är lättillgänglig och snabb att använda. Nackdelar som kommit fram i undersökningen är att en del elever kan känna sig otrygga då de är oroliga för att filmas eller fotograferas mot sin vilja varpå detta material kan distribueras på internet. Några upplever också mobiltelefoner som störande på lektioner. Trots detta visar dock min undersökning att fördelarna överväger nackdelarna då man genom att tillåta mobiltelefoner i skolsammanhang också öppnar möjligheter att sätta upp regler för användandet av de samma. Större möjligheter att arbeta med förebyggande av mobbning och kränkningar är en annan konsekvens av att tillåta mobiltelefon i skolan. / The intention with this study is to analyse students ' and teachers ' opinions about the use of cellphones as a tool in the school. Do they work as a tools or do the conflicts regarding use and the risk of harassment means too big disadvantages? The study was carried out with surveys and additional interviews with teachers and students. Since similar studies have already been done on elder students, I chose to do this study on teachers and students in primary school. The study shows that both students and teachers are positive regarding the use of cellphones in school, since it is an accessible and quick-to-use tool. But there are disadvantages, such as some students fearing that they will be filmed or photographed against their will, and that this material may be distributed on the Internet. Some students also find the use of cellphones disturbing during lessons. Despite this, my study shows that the advantages outweighs the disadvantages, since when allowing cellphones in the school, you also open up for the possibility of setting rules for their use. Greater possibilities to prevent bullying and harassments is another consequence of allowing cellphones in the school.

This study aimed to determine what the effect of a sport development and nutrition intervention programme would be on the following components of psychological development of previously disadvantaged, primary school-aged rugby players: self-esteem; cognitive development, attention and concentration and social support. The participants were primary school boys between the ages of 9 and 14 years from disadvantaged communities. They were recruited on the basis of availability from six primary schools in the Potchefstroom area of the North West Province involved in a rugby development programme. The research design was a randomised, single-blinded, controlled intervention study. The children were randomly assigned to either an experimental or a control group. The experimental group of children received an exercise intervention and a nutritional supplement twice a week for a period of three months. The control group received no sport or nutritional interventions during this period. The research methodology included pre-testing, intra-testing and post-testing. With the pre-testing a comparison could be drawn between the experimental and control group regarding the above-mentioned psychological components. During the intra testing each of the 2 groups was evaluated separately regarding these components to identify any changes that could have taken place within the group from baseline to end. With the post-testing the 2 groups were compared with each other regarding these components to determine whether the nutrition and exercise interventions resulted in any markable changes to especially the experimental group. The results showed an statistically significant improvement in self-concept within the experimental group (p = 0.028) whereas no difference in self-concept within the control group was obtained. The effect of the intervention programme was not as clearly observable in any of the other psychological components. A longer duration of such an intervention programme could possibly contribute to better test results. The socioeconomic circumstances of the participants played an important role in the final outcome of the study in that it influenced the social support the participants received and it also had an effect on the test behaviour of the participants. / Thesis (M.A. (Clinical Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2006.

The purpose of this study is to examine how two different primary schools with the same school management district work with daily physical activity. We have chosen to conduct our investigation based on interviews. Through the interviews, we can highlight the teacher´s and principal´s interpretations of the concept regarding physical activity and find out the school´s arguments and working methods for pupil´s physical activity. These two schools work with physical activity in two different ways and the study describes the teacher´s and principal's choice of approach. Since our training is directed towards the younger ages, school years 1-3, we chose to interview teachers who work in these classes. It is also at a young age that teachers can influence pupil´s to adopt a healthy life style. Our results show that the individual teacher's own attitude can be reflected in the lesson planning. The teacher´s we interviewed felt that the breaks and activities encouraged students to be physically active. Trends we saw in the collection of our empirical data are that teacher´s want to be able to plan more physical activity but that they feel the pressure for all pupil´s to achieve the learning outcomes. Our results show that there might be a concern among teacher´s about the concept of physical activity and what it means.

The main purpose of this thesis is to identify the status of the students aged 9 to10 within the classroom environment, who are ascribed to the demonstrative character accentuation. The first part of this work is dedicated to the analysis of A.Ličko (1983), K.Leonhard (1989), V.Justickis (1993), V.Kaziukėnaitė (1995), I.Petrauskienė (1999) articles, that deal with the features of demonstrative accentuations, the motives of behavior and the possibilities of diagnosis. The second part of the thesis is dedicated to the theoretical aspects of characteristics of group and the importance of the child’s relationships in it. Also indicated are the relationships of the demonstrative children with both the official group ( class ) and the informal one ( chosen friends ). In the third part of this work a research of the primary school students in Kaunas is presented. The hypothesis that the children of demonstrative behavior, experience social difficulties was confirmed. Trying to gain the attention of others they become boring and not interesting to their peers therefore their status in the class is very low. It is recommended for teachers to cooperate with parents and help them to understand the features of the child with demonstrative character and attempt to correct them.

The individual like a personality grows and ripens only in a society. The whole social environment has an influence on a person‘s socialization. Socialization takes place rapidly, especially in the primary school age. The primary school age is a propitious time to develop sociality, because primary school students are interested in the activities rather than in the results of these activities. In practical activities the child acquires not only individual experience but social experience too. The after-school education is important for development of children‘s competences, civic development, social problems solving and development of children‘s skills and talents. The aim of my diploma thesis was to disclose the importance of after-school education for primary school students’ positive socialization. During the research theoretical (study of pedagogical, psychological, methodical literature, analysis of the laws and documents), empirical (pedagogues’ and parents’ testing, children’s written works), statistical (amending statistic data) methods were used. The research findings disclosed the positive standpoint of primary school community to after-school education and it was recognized as necessary for primary school students. An exclusive role in the process of education, while developing an all-round educated personality and developing a person’s qualities, social, communicative skills is occupied by after-school education. During the research it was determined that... [to full text]

Šiuo metu Lietuvos švietimo turinys yra atnaujinamas, kad padėtų asmenims ir visuomenei atsakyti į dabarties iššūkius, padėtų pasinaudoti dabarties atveriamomis galimybėmis. Vienas svarbiausių Bendrosios pradinio ugdymo programos rengėjų uždavinių - pritaikyti Lietuvos poreikiams ir integruoti į pradinio ugdymo turinį aštuonias esmines kompetencijas, rekomenduotas Europos parlamento ir Tarybos visoms Europos Sąjungos šalių švietimo sistemoms kaip ypač svarbią mokymosi visą gyvenimą turinio dalį. Kadangi mokėjimo mokytis kompetencija yra pati svarbiausia ir pagrindinė, duodanti pradžią visų kitų kompetencijų plėtotei, todėl šiame darbe ir bus analizuojama mokėjimo mokytis kompetencijos ugdymo prielaidos naujoje Pradinio ugdymo bendrojoje programoje (projektas,2007).Mokėjimas mokytis Pradinio ugdymo bendrojoje programoje (projektas, 2007) išskirtas kaip viena iš veiklos sričių, vadinasi tai yra tikrai labai svarbus komponentas. Tyrimo problema: Pasikeitus Pradinio ugdymo bendrajai programai ir atsiradus į kompetencijų plėtojimą orientuotam ugdymui neaišku, kaip ugdyti pačią pagrindinę - mokėjimo mokytis kompetenciją pradinėse klasėse. Tyrimo objektas- mokėjimo mokytis kompetencijos raiška.Šio tiriamojo darbo tikslas- atlikus Pradinio ugdymo bendrosios programos analizę atskleisti mokėjimo mokytis kompetencijos ugdymo prielaidas.Tikslui pasiekti keliami tokie uždaviniai:apibrėžti į kompetencijų plėtotę orientuoto ugdymo ypatumus; išskirti mokėjimo mokytis kompetencijos... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Nowadays the content of education in Lithuania is being renewed in order to help people and the society to take up the modern challenge and use the opportunities of the present. One of the most important aims of the creators of the General syllabus of primary education is to adapt to the Lithuanian needs and to integrate into the content of primary education the eight basic competences recommended by the European Parliament and Council to all the educational systems of the European Union as the most essential part of life-long learning content. Since the competence of ability to learn is most important and essential for the initial development of all the rest of the competences, in this research study, premise of nurturing the competence of ability to learn in the General syllabus (draft of 2007) of primary education will be analyzed. The problem of the research: After the general syllabus of primary education was changed and the education was oriented towards nurturing the competences, it has been unclear how to nurture the most important competence of ability to learn in primary classes. The subject of the research is the expression of the competence of ability to learn.The aim of the research is to reveal the premise of nurturing the competence of ability to learn after having analyzed the General syllabus of primary education.In order to achieve the aim, the following tasks were set:to define the peculiarities of nurturing the competences oriented education;to distinguish... [to full text]