Life-long learning for knowledge societies becomes fundamental for educational process. Motivation, expectations and contentment of people take a very important place in today’s learning. The most important objectives of today’s educational process are providing answers to current challenges and essential questions as well as helping to seize new opportunities for society and individuals. The objective of this research is to explore the motivation, motives and problems of life-long learning of residents in Visaginas town. The tasks of the research are following: • to explore residents’point of view towards life-long learning; • define the motives of adults which force them to start studying again; • analyze what conditions residents of Visaginas have; • define issues which impede more active involvement of adults into life-long learning; • provide with recommendations on how to nurture residents’point of view on life-long learning. The analysis was done in November, 2005 and took place in Visaginas National Language Center, in “Draugystes” secondary school (adult classes) as well as in other public institutions. During this research the residents of Visaginas town were asked to answer a question on how they perceive and value life-long learning and what is their point of view towards it. After the answers were figured out it could be concluded that the greatest part of residents think that life-long learning is obligatory (91,5 %). Only 9 % of residents perceive life-long... [to full text]

Tyrimo objektas – mokytojų ir mokinių tarpusavio santykiai. Šio tyrimo tikslas – atskleisti mokytojų ir mokinių tarpusavio santykius ugdymo paradigmų kaitoje. Šiuo tyrimu siekiama išspręsti tokius uždavinius: 1.Aptarti tarpusavio santykių kaitą mokslinėje literatūroje ir švietimą reglamentuojančiuose dokumentuose. 2.Išnagrinėti pedagogų požiūrį į mokytojų ir mokinių tarpusavio santykius. 3.Išsiaiškinti mokinių santykių su mokytojais problemas. 4.Atskleisti mokytojų ir mokinių tarpusavio santykių kaitą. Tyrimo metodai: 1.Teoriniai: filosofinės, socialinės, psichologinės, pedagoginės literatūros analizė, švietimo sistemos dokumentų bei duomenų apie ugdymo proceso kaitą studijavimas pasirinkto tyrimo aspektu. 2.Empiriniai – respondentų nuomonių išsiaiškinimas anketine apklausa. Skaičiuoti procentiniai dažniai, tikrintos neparametrinės hipotezės, siekiant įvertinti skirtumų tarp tiriamųjų grupių požymių statistinį reikšmingumą. Statistinei analizei buvo naudojamas statistinės analizės programinis paketas SPSS 12. Tyrimo imtis. Siekiant ištirti kokie mokytojų ir mokinių tarpusavio santykiai buvo tarpukario Lietuvoje (nuo 1918 iki 1940 metų), Lietuvai esant Tarybų Sąjungos sudėtyje (nuo 1940 iki 1990 metų) ir atstačius Lietuvos nepriklausomybę (nuo 1990 iki 2008 metų) atlikta Dusetų seniūnijos gyventojų anketinė apklausa. Apklausoje dalyvavo 339 respondentai, iš jų 51 Dusetų Kazimiero Būgos gimnazijos mokytojas, 197 gimnazijos VIII-XII klasių mokiniai ir 91... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / In the Master‘s Final Theses problems of teachers‘ and pupils‘ relationship, emerging in the upbringing paradigms shift during different periods of the 20th century in Lithuania, are formulated. Performed scientific researches, seeking to ascertain what influence the changes of the socio-pedagogic environment, society and education make for the teachers‘ and pupils‘ relationship, for the development of values, attitudes, etc. The Object of the Research is teachers‘ and pupils‘ relationship. The Aim of the Research is to reveal the teachers‘ and pupils‘ relationship in the upbringing paradigm shift. The following objectives are pursued to solve by this research: 1. To consider the relationship shift in the scientific references. 2. To analyze the educationalists‘attitude towards the teachers‘ and pupils‘ relationship. 3. To clarify issues of pupils‘ relations with teachers. 4. To reveal the shift of teachers‘ and pupils‘ relationship. Methods of the research are as follows: 1. Theoretical: analysis of philosophical, social psychological, educational references, studying of education system documents and data about the upbringing process shift in the aspect of the chosen research aspect. 2. Empirical: clarification of the respondents’ opinions by the questionnaire survey. The Sample of the Research. 339 respondents participated in the survey, 51 of them were teachers and 197 pupils (of 8-12 forms) of Dusetos Kazimieras Būga Gymnasia, 91 resident of Dusetos Neighbourhood (... [to full text]

Tyrimo objektas: kūno kultūros mokytojų didaktinės kompetencijos raiška. Tyrimo tikslas: nustatyti kūno kultūros mokytojo didaktinės kompetencijos raišką mokymo paradigmų kontekste. Darbo uždaviniai: 1. Išanalizuoti mokymo (si) paradigmos kaitos ir didaktinės kompetencijos raiškos tendencijas. 2. Nustatyti Kėdainių miesto mokyklų kūno kultūros mokytojų didaktinės kompetencijos raišką lyties aspektu. 3. Nustatyti Kėdainių miesto mokyklų kūno kultūros mokytojų didaktinės kompetencijos raišką darbo stažo aspektu. Rezultatai ir išvados. Reikalavimai mokytojų didaktinei kompetencijai keičiasi kintant požiūriui į mokymo ir mokymosi prigimtį, santykį bei galimybes, taip pat kintant nacionaliniams švietimo tikslams. Mokytojui nebepakanka atlikti vien tik žinių perteikėjo, vertintojo ir teisėjo vaidmenis. Mokytojo vaidmuo suprantamas kaip pagalbininko, kuris turi rūpintis besimokančiojo žinių kūrimo procesu. Atlikus tyrimą nustatyta, kad Kėdainių kūno kultūros mokytojų didaktinės kompetencijos raiška, vertinant jų mokymo (si) tikslus, mokinių vertinimą, mokinių mokymosi motyvaciją lyties aspektu nesiskiria (p > 0,05), o vertinant pagal atskirus teiginius jų darbo stilių, mokymo (si) metodus ir mokymo (si) turinį, lyties aspektu skiriasi statistiškai reikšmingai (p < 0,05). Kėdainių kūno kultūros mokytojų didaktinės kompetencijos raiška, vertinant jų darbo stilių, mokymo (si) tikslus, mokymo (si) turinį, mokymo (si) metodus, mokinių vertinimą darbo stažo aspektu nesiskiria (p > 0,0... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Object of the study: expression of didactic competence of physical education teachers. Aim of the study: to determine the expression of didactic competence of physical education teachers in the context of teaching paradigms. Objectives: 1. To analyse the trends of changes in teaching (learning) paradigms and of didactic competence expression. 2. To determine the expression of didactic competence of the physical education teachers in the schools of Kėdainiai according to sex. 3. To determine the expression of didactic competence of the physical education teachers in the schools of Kėdainiai according to work experience. Results and conclusions. The requirements to the didactic competence of teachers change as the attitude towards the nature of teaching and learning, relationship and opportunities change, also because the goals of national education change. The teacher in not only the person who shares the knowledge, who evaluates and judges anymore. Now he/she is a person who helps, who is responsible for the process of knowledge creation. The study revealed that the expression of didactic competence of the physical education teachers in the schools of Kėdainiai according to sex in evaluating their aims of teaching and studying, evaluation of students, students‘motivation to learn did not differ (p > 0,05), and in comparing separate statements – style of work, methods of teaching and learning and content – statistically differed significantly according to sex (p < 0,05). The... [to full text]

Fragmented and adversarial are words used routinely to describe firstly the structure of the construction industry, and secondly the inherent culture that continues to exist within it. Both are characteristics that ultimately serve to not only routinely constrain the efficiency, performance and resultant productivity of the New Zealand building sector, but moreover they persist to play a part in increasing related costs whilst diminishing the quality of the built environment surrounding us. The ubiquity of the outsource model goes some way towards mitigating much of the risk and financial encumbrances that large construction companies have historically faced. But consequentially it is directly responsible for an industry now propagated mostly by small, specialist trade subcontracting organisations that for the most part are reliant upon securing work through construction companies. Contiguous to a degree is the propensity of an industry focussed upon procuring construction by means of competitive tendering, an approach whereby successful bids are traditionally weighted towards those incorporating the lowest initial cost. To garner an understanding of the role that contextual significance plays in construction procurement this study was facilitated by utilising a constructivist grounded theoretical approach. Data was generated by the way of fifty interviews with construction industry stakeholders, inclusive of Sub-Contractors, Main Contractors, Consultants, Architects and Clients. Subsequent analysis reveals that in response to power asymmetry and other environmental conditions, organisations have developed numerous proactive, reactive and opportunistic strategies and behaviours that become evident as the procurement process progresses. This study highlights and explains the relationships and factors from which an industry actor’s rationale is drawn. Furthermore, however, it argues that the proponents of construction industry procurement will when necessary, relax their ordinarily pre-conditioned moral constraints and consciously venture into business practices considered by their peers to be somewhat immoral.

Thesis (Ph.D. (Computer Science))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2008.

Thesis (Ph.D. (Computer Science))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2008.

In this thesis, implementations of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems are studied with a broader view. Pre-implementation preparations and post-implementation developments play key roles in the success of the ERP utilization of the companies. To find out how the success can be achieved, various concepts in ERP implementation are analyzed. Using analogies with the basic software development models, common application methodologies are studied. The study is completed with the analysis of an interesting and challenging ERP implementation experience, focusing on the important decision points.

This thesis describes the architecture, implementation issues and evaluation of Mentor - an educational support system designed to mentor students in their university studies. Students can ask (by typing) natural language questions and Mentor will use several educational paradigms to present information from its Knowledge Base or from data-mined online Web sites to respond. Typically the questions focus on the student’s assignments or in their preparation for their examinations. Mentor is also pro-active in that it prompts the student with questions such as "Have you started your assignment yet?". If the student responds and enters into a dialogue with Mentor, then, based upon the student’s questions and answers, it guides them through a Directed Learning Path planned by the lecturer, specific to that assessment. The objectives of the research were to determine if such a system could be designed, developed and applied in a large-scale, real-world environment and to determine if the resulting system was beneficial to students using it. The study was significant in that it provided an analysis of the design and implementation of the system as well as a detailed evaluation of its use. This research integrated the Computer Science disciplines of network communication, natural language parsing, user interface design and software agents, together with pedagogies from the Computer Aided Instruction and Intelligent Tutoring System fields of Education. Collectively, these disciplines provide the foundation for the two main thesis research areas of Dialogue Management and Tutorial Dialogue Systems. The development and analysis of the Mentor System required the design and implementation of an easy to use text based interface as well as a hyper- and multi-media graphical user interface, a client-server system, and a dialogue management system based on an extensible kernel. The multi-user Java-based client-server system used Perl-5 Regular Expression pattern matching for Natural Language Parsing along with a state-based Dialogue Manager and a Knowledge Base marked up using the XML-based Virtual Human Markup Language. The kernel was also used in other Dialogue Management applications such as with computer generated Talking Heads. The system also enabled a user to easily program their own knowledge into the Knowledge Base as well as to program new information retrieval or management tasks so that the system could grow with the user. The overall framework to integrate and manage the above components into a usable system employed suitable educational pedagogies that helped in the student’s learning process. The thesis outlines the learning paradigms used in, and summarises the evaluation of, three course-based Case Studies of university students’ perception of the system to see how effective and useful it was, and whether students benefited from using it. This thesis will demonstrate that Mentor met its objectives and was very successful in helping students with their university studies. As one participant indicated: ‘I couldn’t have done without it.’

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:23:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-03-16Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:50:31Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 belli_rb_me_mar.pdf: 570629 bytes, checksum: 87f550976f30a1b355a3791ab579687d (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Uma das opiniões mais respeitadas no debate sobre a crise paradigmática é a de Boaventura de Sousa Santos. O sociólogo português afirma que a crise paradigmática teria sua origem no modelo de racionalidade da modernidade e que seria profunda e irreversível, não se limitando a ciência e estendendo-se por todo o conjunto de instituições da modernidade. O objetivo central desta pesquisa é avaliar a concepção de Santos sobre a crise paradigmática sociológica enquanto ideologia, isto é, enquanto ação orientada para a resolução de conflitos sociais. Isto exige uma análise que, além do aspecto gnosiológico, trate de maneira articulada os parâmetros socioeconômicos e dos principais movimentos políticos e científicos envolvidos no momento histórico de sua produção e reprodução, apurando, assim, o seu grau de compreensão da realidade. Neste sentido, caracterizando preliminarmente a teoria de Santos, é possível avaliar alguns pontos importantes. O primeiro deles é o destacado idealismo contido em suas formulações, entendendo por isso a importância que o autor atribui a certas formulações sobre o real em detrimento da própria realidade que ele pretende demonstrar. Santos propunha, desde o início, uma avaliação crítica da realidade, especialmente sobre os desdobramentos da ciência no período entre as décadas de 1960 e 1970, tentando constituir uma linha de estudos que tratasse desse campo específico sem deixar de considerar os aspectos e fatores exteriores à sua constituição... / One of the most respected opinions on the paradigmatic crisis debate is the one of Boaventura de Sousa Santos. The Portuguese sociologist affirms which the paradigmatic crisis would have your origin in the model of modern rationality and that it would be deep and irreversible, if not limiting the science and extending for the whole group of institutions of the modernity. The central objective of this research is evaluate the conception of Santos on the paradigmatic crisis while ideology, that is, while action guided for the resolution of social conflicts. This demands analyses which, besides the gnosiologic aspect, treat in an articulate way the socioeconomic parameters and the main political and scientific movements involved in the historical moment of your production and reproduction, thickening, like this, your degree of understanding of the reality. In this sense, characterizing preliminarily Santos theory, it is possible to evaluate some important points. The first of them is the outstanding idealism contained in their formulations, understanding for that the importance which the author attributes to certain formulations on the real to the detriment of the own reality that he intends to demonstrate. Santos proposed, since the beginning, a critical evaluation of the reality, especially on the unfolding of the science in the period among the decades of 1960 and 1970, trying to constitute a line of studies to treat of that specific field without leaving of considering the aspects and external factors in your intern constitution... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

O gerenciamento de redes é realizado seguindo diversos modelos, baseados em diferentes paradigmas. Os paradigmas tradicionais de gerenciamento compreendem o paradigma centralizado e o paradigma hierárquico fracamente distribuído. Tais paradigmas, contudo, apresentam limitações para o gerenciamento de diversas redes atuais, em virtude de fatores como o aumento em tamanho, em complexidade e em heterogeneidade destas redes. Em adição a estes fatores, existem atualmente contextos de rede que, por apresentarem certas peculiaridades, não podem ser gerenciados de modo apropriado por tais modelos. Estas limitações e requisitos diferenciados encontrados nas redes atuais trazem a necessidade do emprego de modelos de gerenciamento inovadores, baseados nos paradigmas fortemente distribuídos. Neste contexto, uma tecnologia que se mostra promissora para o desenvolvimento de um modelo de gerenciamento com tais características é a tecnologia peer-to-peer (P2P). Esta Tese versa sobre estes tópicos. Discute, como primeiro objetivo, as limitações dos modelos tradicionais para o gerenciamento de contextos modernos de rede, isto é, contextos de redes atuais que possuem particularidades distintas e, com isto, demandam requisitos de gerenciamento específicos, não identificados nas redes tradicionais. Define e investiga, então, como segundo objetivo, um modelo de gerenciamento fortemente distribuído baseado na tecnologia P2P. Este modelo visualiza a rede P2P como uma infra-estrutura que provê suporte para que as operações de gerenciamento sejam desempenhadas com forte distribuição. Por fim, como terceiro objetivo, analisa como as soluções de gerenciamento para redes atuais baseadas neste modelo podem ser classificadas segundo os paradigmas de gerenciamento das principais taxonomias propostas na literatura. Tal análise proporciona a identificação das limitações destas taxonomias para a classificação das soluções de gerenciamento requeridas para os contextos de redes atuais e deu origem à definição de uma taxonomia para soluções de gerenciamento que destaca as características e os requisitos demandados dos modelos de gerenciamento modernos. / Network management is carried out following several models, based on different paradigms. Traditional management paradigms consist of centralized and weakly distributed hierarchical ones. However, such paradigms present limitations to be applied to the management of several today networks. This occurs because of some issues such as the grown in size, complexity and heterogeneity of such networks. Additionally, nowadays, there are network contexts that can not be appropriately managed by such models because of some context peculiarities. Those today’s networks drawbacks and requirements demand the employment of innovative models, based on strongly distributed paradigms. A technology that seems promising in addressing such needs is peer-to-peer (P2P). This Thesis discusses about those topics. As its first objective, the Thesis discusses traditional models drawbacks to the management of modern network contexts, this is, current network contexts that have some different peculiarities and, because of them, demand specific management requirements not existent in traditional networks. As its second objective, the Thesis defines and investigates a strongly distributed management model based on P2P technology. Such model looks at P2P network as an infrastructure that can be used as support to management operations be accomplished in a strongly distributed way. Finally, as its third objective, the Thesis analyses how the management solutions based on such model can be classified according the management paradigms of the main literature taxonomies. Such analysis provides the identification of taxonomies limitations to the classification of management solutions required by today’s network contexts. It has originated the definition of a management solution taxonomy that emphasizes the features and requirements demanded of modern management models.