Vaikų globos įstaigose dirbantys socialiniai pedagogai kasdien susiduria su įvairiausiomis vaikų sociaizacijos problemomis. Vis daugiau pedagogų, ugdančių socialinės rizikos vaikus supranta, kad kai kuriose situacijose nebeužtenka studijų, seminarų ar kursų metu įgytų kompetencijų minėtoms problemoms išspręsti. Susidariusios situacijos ir nuolat kylančios naujos problemos reikalauja nuolatinio kompetencijų atnaujinimo, tobulinimo, naujų gebėjimų bei įgūdžių įgijimo. Taigi, daugelis socialinių pedagogų yra susirūpinę savo profesinio tobulėjimo bei kompetencijų ugdymo būtinybe, tačiau ne visada turi realias galimybes šiam siekiui įgyvendinti. / Social educators working in child care institutions encounter a wide variety of socialization problems for children every day. More and more teachers educating children who belong to social risk groups perceive that in some cases the competences acquired at university studies, seminars or courses are not enough to solve the aforementioned problems. The emerging situations and continually rising new problems require constant update and development of competences, as well as acquisition of new abilities and skills. So, many social educators are concerned about the necessity of developing their professional competences, but they do not always have opportunities to reach the objective. The object of the research is opportunities for social educators to develop competences in child care institutions.

Tyrimo objektas: socialinio pedagogo veikla bendradarbiaujant su mokyklos bendruomene. Tyrimo tikslas: nustatyti socialinio pedagogo veiklos galimybes bendradarbiaujant su mokyklos bendruomene. Baigiamojo darbo uždaviniai 1. Atskleisti socialinio pedagogo veiklos galimybes bendradarbiaujant su mokytojais. 2. Nustatyti socialinio pedagogo veiklos galimybes bendradarbiaujant su mokiniais ir tėvais. Išvados. 1. Atskleista mokytojų nuomonė, kad svarbiausiais bendradarbiavimo su socialiniu pedagogu tikslais yra vaiko gerovės ir bendro darbo rezultatų siekimas. Šiuo aspektu sutapo ir miesto ir rajono mokyklų mokytojų nuomonės, nepriklausomai nuo mokyklos tipo (p>0,05). Pagrindiniais trukdžiais sėkmingam socialinių pedagogų ir mokytojų bendradarbiavimui praktiškai vieningai (p>0,05) mokytojai įvardino (svarbos mažėjimo tvarka) nepakankamą specialistų lankstumą, nepakankamą veiklos koordinavimą ir veiklos tęstinumo stoką, o socialinių pedagogų veikloje mokytojai labiausiai pasigenda geresnių darbo su vaikais rezultatų. Tačiau mokytojų, abejingų mokytojų ir socialinio pedagogo bendradarbiavimui, nebuvo, daugumos (73 proc.) mokytojų nuomone socialiniai pedagogai turi kartu su jais planuoti mokinių ugdymo veiklas. 2. Nustatyta, kad bendradarbiavimas su socialiniu pedagogu yra reikalingas daugumai (vidutiniškai 92 proc.) tiek miesto, tiek ir rajono mokyklų mokinių, nepriklausomai nuo jų lyties (p>0,05). Bet bendradarbiauja su socialiniu pedagogu vidutiniškai tik kiek daugiau... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Object: activities of social educator in collaboration with the school community. The aim: to determine opportunities of social educator cooperation with the school community. Tasks: 1. to unravel social educator activities opportunities in cooperation with teachers. 2. to identify social educator activities opportunities in cooperation with students and their parents. Conclusions. 1. Teachers opinion that the most important purposes of co-operation with the social educator is child's well-being working together. In this respect coincided opinions of teachers in city and district schools regardless of the type of school (p>0.05). The main obstacles for successful social educators and teacher almost unanimously (p>0.05), teachers named (in descending order) the lack of professional flexibility, lack of coordination and lack of business continuity, and social educators mostly miss better results working with children. There were no indifferent teachers and social educator’s pedagogues about majority of their cooperation (73%) in teachers opinion social educators have to work together with them and to plan student` educational activities. 2. There were found that co-operation with social educator is required for the majority (approximately 92 %) of city and district schools students, regardless of their gender (p>0.05), but co-operate with social educator just over one-third (37% percent) students. However, among secondary school students such was significantly higher (66 %)... [to full text]

A concluding thesis by Sandra Remeikaitė, postgraduate of Vilnius Pedagogic University, Social Pedagogy Department named “Social pedagogue’s and form master’s cooperation correcting children’s behavior at school” were discussed unsuitable children’s behavior reasons and sequences. The of this work was to inspect social pedagogue’s and form master’s cooperation correcting children behavior at school. After inspecting peculiarities of class masters and social pedagogues cooperation correcting children’s inadequate behavior at school is clear that it is very important process. Such cooperation is duplex: social pedagogue provide for form masters, teachers desirable help, the same teachers and class masters provide information about training situation for social pedagogue. According o such information there are predicable solution ways to salve social pedagogical problems. The researches show that problem of children’s undisciplined behavior at school is very clear. This problem is very frequent and these children’s in the class are same (1-2) and there are looking for ways to solve these problem, and reasons why such hind of behavior manifest. This research shows that the frequent part of wrong behavior problems are children “runaway” from lessons, contact lateness into lessons, taboos words using, salvo, interference to others during the lessons. At schools usually we contact with children smoking, using of alcohol, ratchet, injury and striking, weaker, younger friends and... [to full text]

By the analyze the training programs of child welfare professionals (Vilnius Pedagogical University), it was remarked that democracy education is integrated into different study modules. Both in Lithuania and United States of America civic and democracy education is integrated by main documents, data, and texts, which is civic and democracy education theory and practice based on projects for active citizenship. One of the most improved project for democracy education could be Project Citizen, which is accredited as alternative democracy education program by Lithuanian Ministry of Education and Science and Education Department of United States of America. According to this program Foundations of Democracy could be both theoretical and practical example for democracy education. It is used in all educational levels in United States of America, and in elementary level in Lithuania. This program is based on active and critical educational methods which stand on four democracy dimensions: Authority, Privacy, Responsibility and Justice. This program is developed in Center for Civic Education in Indiana (USA), as the Project Citizen. The hypothesis of the research - Tyrimo hipotezė – taikant demokratinio ugdymo programą, būsimieji vaiko gerovės profesionalai įgis demokratinio ugdymo teorinės ir praktinės patirties, ir efektyviai taikys dirbdami su ugdymo institucijų bendruomene. The object of the research – programs for democracy education – Foundations of Democracy and Project... [to full text]

Šis darbas skirtas apžvelgti socialinio pedagogo ir socialinio darbuotojo profesijų raidą bendradarbiavimo aspektu, aptarti socialinio pedagogo ir socialinio darbuotojo vaidmenis, veiklos ypatumus, bendradarbiavimo ir komandinio darbo esmę. Nors socialinio ugdymo praktika glaudžiai siejasi su socialiniu darbu, tačiau teoriniu lygmeniu socialinės pedagogikos ir socialinio darbo teorijos objektai priklauso skirtingoms socialinių mokslų kryptims. Tiek socialinio darbuotojo, tiek ir socialinio pedagogo pagrindinis veiklos tikslas – vaiko ir jo aplinkos gerovė. Šiuo darbu tikimasi išanalizuoti, kokios yra socialinio pedagogo ir socialinio darbuotojo bendradarbiavimo galimybės ugdymo įstaigose, kokius vaidmenis atlieka šie specialistai ir kuo jų veikla gali papildyti viena kitą. Darbo objektas - socialinio pedagogo ir socialinio darbuotojo bendradarbiavimas. Darbo tikslas - atskleisti socialinio pedagogo ir socialinio darbuotojo bendradarbiavimo galimybes. Tikslui pasiekti naudotas kiekybinio tipo tyrimas. 2008 metų spalio-lapkričio mėnesiais Kauno miesto vidurinėse mokyklose atlikta anketinė socialinių pedagogų ir socialinių darbuotojų apklausa, kuria siekta išsiaiškinti respondentų nuomonę apie socialinių pedagogų ir socialinių darbuotojų bendradarbiavimo galimybes. Tyrimo rezultatai: socialinis darbuotojas savo veikloje dažniausiai atlieka socialiniam pedagogui būdingesnius vaidmenis – konsultanto, mokytojo, informatoriaus, kt. Pastarieji, remiantis tyrimo rezultatais, nurodė... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / This paper is to review trade evolution of social educator and social worker in communication aspect, to discuss the roles of social educator and social worker, work singularity, communication and team work point. Even social training practice is close related with social work, but in theoretical level social education and social work theory objects belongs to different social study directions. Both social worker and social educator the main work goal is child and his social welfare. By this paper I hope to analyze, what opportunities are to communicate between social educator and social worker in training office, what roles are taken by these specialists and how their activity can complement each other. The object of the study is communication between social educator and social worker. The goal of the study is to show opportunities of communication between social educator and social worker. To reach this goal I did quantitative analysis. In October- November of the year 2008, the survey of the social workers and social educators was done in Kaunas secondary schools, in case to get the respondent‘s opinion about the opportunities of communication between social workers and social educators. The results of the analysis showed that social worker plays the roles more similar to social educators roles, like : advisor‘s, teacher‘s, informator‘s etc. Last-mentioned, on the ground of the stydy‘s results, showed that, on the contrary, do not play teacher‘s role so often, and... [to full text]

A transitional period from primary to secondary school is not always smooth an successful for many students. For psychologically weaker students, the transition to the fifth form can cause a negative attitude to school and learning as well as influence not only their progress but their psyche and physical development in general. It is concidered that the fifth form is one of the critical points of learning disorders. Unwilling to learn students find themselves on the street more often than any other students. According to the survey of educational politicians and educators, the main reason of non-attendance of school is students’ unwillingness to learn, fatigue or the decline of their interest in subjects. Students are usually dissatisfied with school activities, because it is difficult to study, there is an overload, constant fatigue or they are just not interested in subjects. The target of the post-graduate paper is social educator’s activity in a secondary school. The problem analysed is reluctance to learn at secondary school. The hypothesis of the work is that there is a possibility to develop positive emotions and change students’ attitude to learning through the implementation of successful students’ adaptation into school society. The objective of the survey is to analyse a social educator’s role and activity functions for overcoming the fifth formers’ unwillingness to learn. The objective has been realized while analysing social educator’s role and activity... [to full text]

Various sources state that juvenile prevention should be carried out in the possible early stages. Therefore, a position of a social teacher has been introduced in the secondary education schools. It is the youngest profession the aim of which is to notice, evaluate and solve such typical problems of children and adolescents’ as poor attendance, unwillingness to learn, misbehavior, communication problems and others. While adolescent, people face many problems associated with difficulties in communicating with adults or peers. Inauspicious circumstances impel teenagers to commit crimes. The object of the thesis is the work of a social teacher at school in the field of juvenile delinquency. The aim of the thesis is to reveal characteristic points in the work of a social teacher while preventing juvenile delinquency. The following objectives were raised to achieve the aim of the thesis: · reveal characteristic points of the social teacher’s work in secondary schools; · highlight the cases of juvenile delinquency in the context of pedagogical system of secondary education; · carry out a research and summarize its results in terms of social teachers’ work while preventing juvenile delinquency in Utena secondary schools; · provide a social teacher with recommendations in the field of preventing juvenile delinquency. Methods of research are the analysis of manuals and reference books, review of acts of law, questionnaire to students as well as the method of interview. In the... [to full text]

In the epoch of the modern global changes, a new form of society is being formed. The individual knowledge of a person is becoming a still more important basis of the quality of economic and social life. The reform of education in Lithuania is taking place for more than a decade, and within this period many essential changes occurred. Lithuania is oriented towards the aims of the European Union, it seeks to become the competitive member of the European Union, is open to various novelties and aims to strengthen its education system, so that it would educate the full-fledged members of modern society. The present-day changes also conditioned the emergence of social problems, which had a strong effect on the whole social life, including school life. The necessity came forth to take all necessary measures for the improvement of social situation. Social pedagogues, whose position has been introduced in the educational establishments from 2001, may help to solve these problems. One of the priority trends in the development of modern society is the rapid implementation of communication technologies in all the fields of activities. In implementing information and communication technologies at school it is also necessary to integrate in this process the functions performed by a social pedagogue. The objective of this work is to study the opportunities of a social pedagogue, to use information and communication technologies in his activities. A social pedagogue, when performing the... [to full text]

Darbe atlikta teorinė galių santykių kaip socialinės pedagogikos objekto pedagoginio psichologinio vertinimo kontekste analizė Iškelta hipotezė, kad psichopedagoginio vertinimo procese vyraujantys galių santykiai yra nelygiaverčiai, kur priimant sprendimus dominuoja specialistų pozicija, o tėvai lieka tik jų vykdytojai. Tyrime, kurio tikslas- atskleisti ugdymo dalyvių (PPT, mokyklų specialistų, tėvų,) galių santykių ypatumus, psichopedagoginiame vertinimo procese bei socialinio pedagogo vaidmenį galių santykių valdyme, duomenys buvo renkami naudojantis pusiau struktūruotu kokybiniu interviu ir struktūruota kiekybine apklausa (anketa). Kokybiniai duomenys buvo apdoroti taikant aprašomosios analizės metodą, o kiekybiniai – naudojant neparametrinį Kruskal-Wallis testą bei aprašomąją statistiką (procentus) . Tyrime dalyvavo PPT specialistai, vidurinių, pagrindinių bei pradinių mokyklų specialistai, pedagogai ir tėvai iš visos Lietuvos. Empirinėje dalyje nagrinėjami galių santykiai psichopedagoginiame vertinimo procese Svarbiausios empirinio tyrimo išvados: 1. Galių santykiai visuomet egzistuoja tarpasmeniniuose santykiuose ir žalingi tampa, kai yra nelygiaverčiai. Tokia situacija išryškėja psichopedagoginiame vaiko vertinime, kur vyrauja specialisto-kliento santykių tipas. 2. Labiausiai galių santykiai atsiskleidžia kategorijose: vertinimas kaip situacijos ir dalyvių poreikių analizė; vertinimas kaip vaiko savybių analizė; PPT teikiamos pagalbos... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The paper deals with the theoretical analysis of the power relations as an object of the social pedagogic in the context of psychopedagogical assessment. Hypothesis: power relations in the process of psychopedagogical assessment are unequal where the position of specialist is described as prevailing and parents remain passive hand of decision realization. The purpose of the paper is to reveal peculiarities of power relations in process of psychopedagogical assessment from positions of education participants (parents, school specialists and psychological pedagogical service (PPS) specialists) and also to define the role of social pedagogue as a power relation’s manager in this process. Data was collected by using semi structured qualitative interview and structured quantitative inquiry (questionnaire). Qualitative data were worked up by structured content analysis and described by using narrative research method. Quantitative data were worked up by using non-parameter Kruskal-Wallis test and descriptive statistics (percents). The participants of research were specialists from pedagogical psychological service (N= 171), specialists and pedagogues from mainstream schools (N=429) and parents from all Lithuania whose children were clients of PPS and went through psychopedagogical assessment (N=109). There were school specialists (N=40) and parents (N=40) who took part qualitative interview. The most important empirical conclusions that were drawn are: q Power relations... [to full text]

Darbe atskleistas dviejų Vilniaus miesto gimnazijų gimnazistų požiūris į gimnazijų socialinius pedagogus, jų darbą gimnazijose. Pateiktos rekomendacijos socialinio pedagogo darbo tobulinimui. / A concluding thesis by Kazimieras Grinkevičius postgraduate of Vilnius Pedagogical University, Institute of Social Communication, Department of Social Pedagogy, named “The attitude of gymnasist's to gymnasium social pedagogue and his duties at school”, supervisor dr. Romas Prakapas, is written after a thorough analysis of pedagogical and psychological literature, legal documents. The aim of his papers is to evaluate attitude of gymnasist's to social pedagogue and his duties at school. It was assumed, that part of gymnasist's don't know who is a social pedagogue and what his daily duties at school, how he could help them. Analysis of literature and inquiry of gymnasist's were made. Investigative's were selected from two gymnasium city of Vilnius. 409 students take part in the survey. Statistical data has been analyzed with Statistical package for Social Sciences (SPSS 14.0 for Windows).Quantitative analysis were made. Two statistical procedures to analyzed statistical data – computation of percentile frequency of the answers, mean of estimations – were made. The results have reveled, that part of gymnasist's didn't know who is a social pedagogue and what his daily do at school.