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]

While integrating to socio cultural environment such person’s features like ability to watch, analyze, interpret and estimate the qualities of motion, language (intonation), sound and view. This trains communication culture in various social situations. The improvement of body movements opens the opportunity to experience the joy which comes from educated, strong, healthy organism, it creates preconditions of person’s self expression and self realization. However in various spheres of life and work it is often being hidden behind the stream of words, not emphasizing the plastic opportunities of person’s body. In the activity of sports body movements can be described by cultural point of view, the not verbal motion of the body is modernized which has some aesthetic value. Improving human’s body movements will get socio cultural quality which could be expressed by the unity of peculiarities using them as the means of self expression in the socio cultural activity. That is why movement culture and their plastic (aesthetic) expression is one of the person’s problems of the cultural upbringing. The object of the investigation is the importance of the aesthetic movement to person’s socio cultural integration. The aim of the investigation is to reveal the importance of the adult’s body movements improving to their socio cultural integration. The hypothesis of the investigation is that improving of the body movements (in the aesthetic point of view) to the adult’s socio cultural... [to full text]

In order to reach national aims besides other things it is necessary to have essential knowledge and acquire appropriate skills. Improvement of those other things also requires knowledge. In modern and dynamic world knowledge and abilities should be improved permanently and quickly. They are essential for creation of more perfect products and effective technologies. They are important for better understanding and orientation of the development of the society, also for fostering of human skills and creative power that are undoubtedly crucial for the security of the country, because it is impossible to reach human spiritual wellbeing without improving the competence. The aim of this final paper is to identify the knowledge of how to learn of the students of Panevezio College as a factor of continuing learning of adults’ education. The goals of the research helped to examine the methods of learning and possibilities for realization of knowledge how to learn. The methods of the research: the analysis of scientific literature, comparison, generalization, and qualitative research, which was performed on the basis of the questionnaire and data analysis. After the research these conclusions were drawn out: continuing learning is like an umbrella, which covers various kinds of learning and teaching and this is a long lasting activity in reaching to gain and improve competencies, knowledge in personal, civic and social perspective. The students are aware of the personal and public... [to full text]

Šiuolaikinėje visuomenėje ryškėja sparti mokymosi paslaugų suaugusiems pasiūla, todėl svarbu nustatyti teritorinės ugdymo erdvės ypatumus, (Bitinas, 2006, p. 51) lemiančius savivaldybėje vykdomą suaugusiųjų švietimo organizavimą. Šio tyrimo problema – suaugusiųjų švietimo organizavimo atskleidimas savivaldybėje. Tyrimo tikslas – įvertinti Panevėžio rajono savivaldybėje organizuojamo suaugusiųjų švietimo būklę. Siekiant realizuoti darbe užsibrėžtą tikslą ir uždavinius, taikyti šie metodai: 1. Mokslinės literatūros ir dokumentų analizė. 2. Struktūrizuotas interviu. 3. Anketin�� apklausa. 4. Duomenų apdorojimas taikant SPSS 12.0 for Windows programinę įrangą. Suaugusiųjų mokymasis yra aktyvus procesas, vykstantis tam tikroje aplinkoje; planuojamas ir reguliuojamas, kurio metu vyksta refleksija, siekiant įgyti naujų žinių, sąmoningai eksperimentuojama su savo aplinka, kurio rezultatas yra naujos žinios ir sukauptų žinių pritaikymas. / The rapidly growing supply of adult learning services evidences in the modern society, therefore it is important to identify the characteristics of the territorial education space (Bitinas, 2006, p. 51), which determine the organization of adult education executed in the municipality. The problem of this research is disclosure of adult education organization in the municipality. The objective of the research is to perform evaluation on the state of adult education organized in Panevėžys District Municipality. In order to realize the objective and tasks set in the work, the following methods were applied: 1. Analysis of scientific literature and documents. 2. Structurized interview. 3. Questionnaire survey. 4. Processing of data while using SPSS 12.0 for Windows software. Learning of adults is an active process, occurring in a certain type of environment, which is planned and regulated and involves reflection; while seeking to acquire new knowledge, the environment is consciously subjected to experiments and the result of this process encompasses new knowledge and application of the acquired knowledge.

Besiplečiant kompiuterinės įrangos galimybėms auga ir kvalifikuotų darbuotojų paklausa bei reikalavimai darbuotojams visame pasaulyje. Retas darbuotojas šiuo metu gali dirbti be kompiuterio ar kompiuterinės technikos taikymo savo darbe. Atsiranda naujos programos taikytinos konkrečiose darbo srityse, lengvinančios darbą bei gerinančios jo kokybę. Norint išlikti konkurencingu darbo rinkoje tenka prisitaikyti prie jos reikalavimų, pastoviai tobulinti turimas žinias bei gebėjimus ir įgyti naujų. Rašant šį darbą buvo apžvelgta suaugusiųjų kompiuterinio raštingumo situacija Lietuvoje ir pasaulyje. Aiškintasi politinis požiūris į kompiuterinių gebėjimų ugdymą, finansavimo šaltinius. Atliktas anketinis tyrimas, kuriame apklausta daugiau nei 500 Vilniaus pedagoginio universiteto darbuotojų. Atliekant tyrimą aiškintasi, kompiuterinių gebėjimų lygmuo priklausomai nuo amžiaus ir pareigų. Aiškintasi ar nuo amžiaus priklauso pageidaujamo mokymosi būdo pasirinkimas, taip pat kiek amžius turi 5takos norui tobulėti informacinių technologijų srityje. Tyrime siekta atsekti priklausomybę norimų mokytis dalykų nuo respondentų pareigų. Į visus šios klausimus atsakymus padėjo surasti atliktas apklausos rezultatų tyrimas. / Nowadays the demand for qualified workers as well as the requirements for workers is increasing all around the world due to the development of opportunities of the new computer technologies. Just a few members of our society can work without computer or any computer device. The new software that can be used in a particular working sphere appears. This new software makes the work easier and quality of work much better. In order to survive in the competitive labour market, each organization should adjust itself to the requirements of the market, constantly deepen acquired knowledge and abilities and learn new ones. Computer literacy in Lithuania and in the world was reviewed in this thesis. The theme was being analyzed taking into account political and financial sources. The research by the means of questionnaire was performed. More than 500 Vilnius Pedagogical University workers took part in it. The aim of this questionnaire was to make a connection between age and position of the reporters and their computer literacy abilities. The question of the choice of particular learning method in accordance with the age was risen up as well as the influence of the age on desires to improve knowledge in the sphere of modern technologies. The connection between the desirable aspects of study and the holding position is showed in this research. All the answers to these questions were found during the research.

Recent demographic changes in Europe (ageing, migration and others) demonstrate the importance of senior adult education – an urgent issue at both national and the European Union policy levels. Extended retirement age in the Member States of the EU is a big challenge in the process of employment of elderly people. Lifelong language learning (LLL) is equally important for both active, working-age citizens and for senior citizens of retirement age. The problem of the research is grounded in the challenges that many European societies currently face: the retirement age being extended, employees need to adapt to the changed working conditions and satisfy urgent demands of the market. One of the basic needs is to acquire or maintain multilingual skills, without which their status in the competitive market would become complicated. Thus, the main aim of this research is to examine current issues of adult education in Europe and Lithuania, focusing on senior citizens’ foreign language acquisition. Considering the main aim of this paper, the following research question has been raised: What is the situation (reasons, obstacles, motivational factors and others) of lifelong language learning in Lithuania (the case of senior citizens)? The following research methods were suggested by the above-mentioned research question: content analysis (the examination of the legislation, regulating senior adult education in the EU; the study of scholarly sources concerning the characteristics of... [to full text] / Demografiniai pokyčiai Europoje (visuomenės senėjimas, migracija ir kt.) pabrėžia pagyvenusių asmenų švietimo svarbą. Tai – aktuali problema tiek nacionaliniu, tiek Europos Sąjungos politikos lygmeniu. Pratęstas pensinis amžius ES valstybėse narėse tampa dideliu iššūkiu pagyvenusių asmenų užimtumo procese, todėl kalbų mokymasis visą gyvenimą yra svarbus tiek aktyviems, darbingo amžiaus gyventojams, tiek pensinio amžiaus žmonėms. Europos visuomenių patiriami iššūkiai: prailgintas pensinis amžius, darbuotojų adaptacija prie pasikeitusių darbo sąlygų ir šiandieninės rinkos poreikių patenkinimas, pagrindžia šio tyrimo problemą. Daugiakalbystės įgūdžių įgyjimas ir išlaikymas yra vienas iš pagrindinių poreikių ar reikalavimų, be kurio Europos gyventojų padėtis konkurencinėje darbo rinkoje tampa vis sudėtingesnė. Taigi, šio darbo tiklas – išanalizuoti suaugusiųjų švietimo problemas Europoje ir Lietuvoje, įtraukiant pagyvenusių asmenų užsienio kalbų mokymąsi. Kokia yra užsienio kalbų mokymosi visą gyvenimą situacija (priežastys, kliūtys, motyvaciniai ir kiti veiksniai) Lietuvoje (pagyvenusių asmenų atveju) – tyrimo klausimas, suformuluotas atsižvelgiant į pagrindinį šio darbo tikslą. Darbo tikslas nulėmė darbe taikytus tyrimo metodus, t.y. turinio analizę (teisinės bazės, reguliuojančios pagyvenusių asmenų švietimą Europos Sąjungos šalyse, analizę; mokslinių šaltinių, nagrinėjančių pagyvenusių besimokančiųjų savybes, apžvalgą; įstatymų, kitų dokumentų ir institucijų, reguliuojančių... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]

Nowadays more emphasis is made on providing learning possibilities. Every person is an equal member of society irrespective of where he/she lives or what he/she is doing. At present the re-socialisation and probation work done by the penitentiary institutions is exceptionally important. The study of this comparatively new sphere confirms that the issue of teaching/learning of women serving sentence has been hardly analysed. The study is urgent in the sense that the people have to be stimulated to seek knowledge, conditions for learning have to be created and supported irrespective where such people live at given time. It is necessary to induce women serving sentence to make best use of the learning possibilities so that they could successfully use such knowledge when they are released. The reason I chose this theme was that it had not been considered especially as far as women in penitentiary institutions were concerned. It was interesting for me to study the need of the sentenced women for learning and take a closer look at the possibilities provided at the penitentiary institution.

The issues on adults‘ motivation discussed in scientific discource are not prolific. They and related problems have been studied by Viliūnas (1990), Boshier (1971), Hatter (1990), Entwistle (1998), Taylor (1982). However, there is a lack of research of adults‘ motivation for learning foreign languages in an informal educational organization. This is the foundation of the research of the master‘s thesis which enables to formulate the problem of the research, emphasizing the search for peculiarities of adults‘ motivation for learning foreign languages, highlighting prevailing motifs, their relations to some demographical sharacteristics of adults when teaching and learning is performed in an informal educational organization. Object of the research – Adults‘ motivation for learning foreign languages. Aim of the research – to analyse the peculiarities of adults‘ motivation for learning foreign languages in an informal educationa organization. Tasks of the research: 1. To carry out a theoretical analysis of learning motivation in order to find out the understanding of learning motivation, types of motivation. 2. To analyse the features of an adult‘s foreign languages learning motivation, pointing out possible learning barriers related with age, education, social status, etc., and highlighting some aspects of adults‘motivation for learning foreign languages (dominant learning motifs, tendencies, difficulties). 3. To study an informal educational organization as one of adults‘... [to full text]

Gyvename tokiu laikotarpiu, kai vis sunkiau darosi suspėti žengti koja kojon su besiplėtojančiu mokslu, technika, ekonomika. Pertvarkant švietimo įstatymą vis daugiau dėmesio skiriama suaugusiųjų kvalifikacijos įgijimui bei jos tobulinimui. Dabar visi švietimo įstaigų darbuotojai tik ir kalba apie mokyklų tobulinimą ir jų kaitą. O kaip to pasiekti, jei ten dirbs nekompetentingi, nekvalifikuoti, nesitobulinantys pedagogai. Poreikį nuolat mokytis jau reikia pradėti ugdyti pradinėje bendrojo lavinimo mokykloje, o pagrindinis „...švietimo kaitos ir mokyklos tobulinimo veiksnys yra mokytojai“ (Hargeaves, 1999, p. 9). Kadangi mokytojų darbo mastas ir kokybė yra tiesiogiai susiję su profesiniu ir asmeniniu tobulėjimu, šiuo metu vis labiau švietimo reformos tobulinimo plane pirmenybė teikiama darbui su mokytojais. Juk nuolat besitobulinantis mokytojas turi didžiausią poveikį mokiniams. Tyrimo objektas – pedagogų tobulinimosi motyvacija nuolatinio mokymosi kontekste. Tyrimo tikslas – išnagrinėti Mažeikių rajono pedagogų tobulinimosi poreikius ir motyvaciją nuolatinio mokymosi kontekste. Tyrimo u����daviniai – atlikti suaugusiųjų švietimą reglamentuojančių dokumentų analizę; atskleisti suaugusiųjų mokymosi teorinius motyvus; anketinės apklausos būdu išsiaiškinti pedagogų tobulinimosi motyvus, poreikius, galimybes. Tyrimo metodai – mokslinės ir metodinės literatūros analizė; anketinė apklausa; statistinė anketos duomenų analizė. Tyrime dalyvavo 260 Mažeikių rajono pedagogų. Atlikus... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / We live in the period when it is getting more and more difficult to be in step with developing science, technique and economy. Reforming the law of education more attention is paid to the attainment and development of adults’ qualification. Now all employees of educational institutions speak about development of schools and their changes. How to achieve the aim if incompetent, unqualified pedagogues, who do not want to improve their knowledge, work there. The demand of continuous learning should be developed in primary school and the “…teachers are the main factor of education changes and schools development” (Hargeaves, 1999, p. 9). Whereas the proportion and quality of teachers’ work are closely related to professional and personal development, the priority in development plan in education reform is preferred to the teachers’ work now. The subject of the research is pedagogues’ developmental motivation in continuous learning context. The aim of the research is to analyze teachers’ developmental demands and motivation in continuous learning context in Mazeikiai district. The objectives of the work are the following: to make the analysis of adult education regulating documents; to reveal the theoretical motives of adults learning; to find out pedagogues’ developmental motives, demands and opportunities using the method of questionnaire survey. The methods of the research are: analysis of theoretical literature sources; questionnaire; statistical analysis of... [to full text]

Spartėjant socialinei kaitai, tobulėjant mokslui ir sparčiai vystantis naujoms technologijoms, greitai kinta žmogaus atliekamas darbas, jis reikalauja vis daugiau žinių ir kompetencijos. Gausėja žmonių, kuriems nepriklausomai nuo amžiaus, socialinės-teisinės padėties bei kitų veiksnių atsiranda nauji edukaciniai poreikiai save ugdyti ir tobulinti, mokytis visą gyvenimą. Nuteistųjų profesinis mokymas ir socialinės reintegracijos problema Lietuvos visuomenei tampa viena aktualiausių, nes svarbiausi Lietuvos bei kitų pasaulio šalių priimti dokumentai užtikrina asmenų socialinės atskirties mažinimą, integravimą į visuomenę bei kvalifikacijos žinių suteikimą, lengvesnį įsidarbinimą, konkurencingumo darbo rinkoje galimybę ir t.t. Darbas teoriškai ir praktiškai reikšmingas, nes nuteistųjų švietimo prieinamumo, socialinio teisingumo ir profesinio mokymo klausimai minėtoje įkalinimo įstaigoje netyrinėti. Magistro darbo tema – „Nuteistųjų profesinis švietimas kaip resocializacijos priemonė“ Tyrimo problema – Nuteistųjų asmenų profesinis švietimas Tyrimo objektas – Suaugusiųjų nuteistųjų asmenų profesinio švietimo poreikių tenkinimo galimybės Tyrimo tikslas – Išsiaiškinti, kaip tenkinami suaugusiųjų nuteistųjų asmenų profesinio švietimo poreikiai Lietuvos Respublikos Vilniaus 2-uose pataisos namuose. Tikslas realizuojamas šiais uždaviniais: 5. Išanalizuoti pedagoginę, psichologinę, socialinę, andragoginę ir kt. literatūrą, mokslinius šaltinius ir dokumentus apie: -... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The subject of master‘s work - „Profesional education of prisoners as a resocialization way“. The subject is relevant, because of quick social alternation, improving science and fast growing of new technologies, the work accomplished by person is changing quickly and it requires more and more knoweledge and competence. The number of people, wo have new educational needs to develop, improve and study themselves all the life independent of age and other factors is growing up. The social reintegration problem of the convicts is becoming one of the most relevant to Lithuania‘s community, because accepted in Lithuania and other countries of the world documents call the major for reduction social border of people, speak about integration into a society and training of a trade, about faster and easy employment, competitiveness on a labour market and other aspects. The work is meaningful notionally and practically, because the questions of prisoners education, social right and succession are not studied in the Vilnius Prisons-2. The Object of Survey - Satisfaction of needs for education at adult prisoners The Problem of Survey – Profesional education of adult‘s prisoners. The Purpose of Survey - To find out, how needs for education at adult prisoners are satisfied in Vilnius Prison-2. The Purpose is realized by these Goals: 1. To analyse the literature on pedagogies, psychologies, social, adult’s learn, the scientific literature and documents on training adults in a context of a... [to full text]