Lietuvoje nuolat vykstantys socioekonominiai, kultūriniai, politiniai ir kitokie pokyčiai, tapę įprastu ir nuolatiniu reiškiniu, turi įtakos ir ugdymo sistemos kaitai. Pokyčiai tampa gyvenimo norma ir darosi vis spartesni. Ugdymo institucijai lemta veikti esant nuolatinei kaitai. Itin sparčioje kaitoje yra nepakankamas skirtingų visuomenės grupių lūkesčių tyrimas. Jų identifikavimas sudaro prielaidas mažinti atotrūkį tarp visuomenėje vykstančių procesų ir vaiką supančios aplinkos. Dėl nuolatinės kaitos ugdymo institucijai būtina strategija, kuri sudaro galimybę optimizuoti organizacijos elgseną, tobulinti vaiko socializacijos procesą, kuriuos įtakoja visuomenės grupių lūkesčiai ir jų realizavimo būdų bei galimybių paieška. Tyrimo tikslas. Identifikuoti įvairių visuomenės grupių lūkesčius ikimokyklinei įstaigai tobulinant vaiko socializacijos procesą. Tyrimo uždaviniai. 1. Išanalizuoti mokslinę literatūrą, dokumentus apie pagrindinių socializacijos institucijų svarbą vaiko socializacijai. 2. Išsiaiškinti skirtingų visuomenės grupių lūkesčius ikimokyklinei įstaigai vaiko socializacijos aspektu. 3. Nustatyti ryškiausius skirtingų visuomenės grupių lūkesčių skirtumus. 4. Nustatyti visuomenės grupių lūkesčių įtaką ikimokyklinės įstaigos strategijos kaitai. Tyrime dalyvavo 390 skirtingo amžiaus bei išsilavinimo, priklausančių skirtingoms socialinėms grupėms asmenų. Tiriamieji turėjo atsakyti į 20 (neskaitant klausimų apie lytį, amžių, išsilavinimą... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The socio-economical, cultural, political and other changes that are constantly going on in Lithuania became a usual and constant phenomenon and have an influence on the changing of development system. The changes are becoming the standard of life and they are going speedy. An education institution is conditioned by permanent alternation. In the very big interchange is an insufficient survey of different society groups’ expectations. Their identification makes preconditions to narrow the gap among the processes in the society and environment of child. Because of the permanent alternation an educational institution needs the strategy that gives the possibility to optimize the behavior of organization, to improve the process of child socialization and they are influenced by the intentions of society groups and the ways of their realization as well as the search of possibilities. The purpose of survey. To identify the intentions of different society groups in preschool institution improving the process of child socialization. The goals of survey. 1. To analyze the scientific literature, documents about the importance of essential institutions of socialization for the socialization of child. 2. To clear up the expectations of different society groups from preschool institution in the aspect of child socialization. 3. To determine the strongest differences of intentions of various society groups. 4. To identify the influence of intentions of society groups on the... [to full text]

The study of civil society participation in peace negotiations has become increasingly popular. Although research has stressed the importance of coordination among civil society groups, no study has so far been conducted that studies the impact coordination among civil society groups can have on the quality of a peace agreement. This thesis aims to fill this gap by asking How does the extent of coordination among civil society groups during peace negotiations impact the quality of a peace agreement? Springing from the premise that civil society groups are aware of underlying conflict causes, this thesis argues that a high extent of civil society groups’ coordination leads to a highquality peace agreement and that this is particularly so when a civil society actor is facilitating the coordination. By applying the method of structured focused comparison, these hypotheses are tested on Guatemala, El Salvador, and Liberia. The empirical findings do not show support for the hypotheses. A variety of factors were discovered during the analysis that could have hampered the impact of civil society groups’ coordination or could hold alternative explanatory power and thus stress the need for further research.

With the changing political, economic, cultural and environmental landscape of global societies, journalistic writings on social development issues and concerns have become more relevant in recent times. Through civic advocacy journalism (CAJ), the agenda and programs of social development movements, civil society groups, international development organizations and non-government organizations are promoted and advanced. It is essential to understand the forms and representations of CAJ in practice, concepts and theories in the light of its relevance to media practice and to society at large. However, there is very little literature on the scope and extent of CAJ knowledge and practice. A researcher needs to look into actual practice and connect this with available literature to establish the application of CAJ. For this study, a qualitative content analysis method was used to assess CAJ practice in online print media reports at the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit.