Bakalauro darbe tiriami pagyvenusių žmonių mitybos įpročiai ir įpročių kaita. Tyrimo objektas – pagyvenusių žmonių mitybos įpročiai ir įpročių kaita. Tyrimo tikslas buvo išsiaiškinti pagyvenusių žmonių mitybos įpročius ir įpročių kaitą. Suformuluoti tokie uždaviniai: mokslinės literatūros analizė, išsiaiškinti mitybos įpročių galimų pasikeitimų priežastis ir ištirti mitybos įpročių kaitą iki pensijos ir išėjus į pensiją. Tyrime naudota mokslinės literatūros analizė ir kiekybinis tyrimas. Tyrime dalyvavo 102 Šiaulių ir Mažeikių miestų bei jų apskričių pagyvenę žmonės, kurie buvo pasirinkti remiantis atsitiktinės atrankos metodu. Tyrimas vyko 2014 metais vasario, kovo mėnesiais. Tyrimui naudota pusiau uždaro tipo anketa, kuri buvo sudaryta mokslinės literatūros analizės pagrindu, taip pat remiantis Šiaulių miesto suaugusių žmonių gyvensenos tyrimu (2011), bei suaugusiųjų Lietuvos žmonių gyvensenos tyrimu (2013). Anketos buvo išplatintos mokytojų pensininkų klubo „Šviesa“, Šiaulių širdininkų klubo, klubo „Artis“, choro „Šarma“, choro sajungos „Bočiai“ nariams, taip pat trečiojo amžiaus universiteto nariams, socialinų paslaugų centro lankytojams ir pavieniams pensinio amžiaus asmenims. Tyrimu nustatyta, kad pagyvenusių žmonių mitybos įpročiai daugiausiai keitėsi dėl sveikatos ir finansinės padėties pablogėjimo. Dauguma respondentų nežino kokie yra sveikos mitybos piramidės principai. Taip pat nustatyta, kad renkantis maisto produktus pagyvenusiems žmonėms yra svarbūs šie... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Bachelor of science at work examined older people's eating habits and habits change. The subject matter – the elderly eating habits and habits change. Aim of the study was to find out the elderly people's eating habits and habits change. To formulate the following challenges: analysis of scientific literature, to find out the cause of possible changes in dietary habits and investigate eating habits change to pensions and retirement. The study used in the analysis of the scientific literature and quantitative study. The study involved 102 Šiauliai and Mažeikiai districts of cities and their counties seniors who were selected based on a random selection method. The investigation took place in the months of February, March 2014. The investigation used a closed-ended questionnaire, which was established on the basis of the analysis of the scientific literature, as well as on the basis of a study of adult people’s lifestyles in the city of Šiauliai (2011), and adult study of the Lithuanian people's lifestyles (2013). Questionnaires were distributed to teachers, pensioners Club "The light", from the „širdininkų“ Club, Club "Artis" Choral "Hoarfrost", Choral Union "Bočiai" members as well as members of the University of the third age, the Social Service Center for visitors and individuals of retirement age. The research has found that older people's eating habits have evolved mainly on health and the deterioration of the financial situation. The majority of respondents do not know... [to full text]

SANTRAUKA Vyresniųjų klasių mokinių požiūrio į grožį ypatumai ir veiksniai Grožis yra nesuinteresuotas gėrėjimasis objektais, kuris kyla iš harmonijos ir tobulumo išgyvenimo. Kaip estetinė vertybė, jis įsikūnija meno, gamtos, žmogaus gyvenimo šaltiniuose. Požiūris — tai sąlygiškai pastovi nuomonių, interesų, pažiūrų išraiška, atspindinti asmens individualią patirtį; pažintinis – emocinis asmenybės santykis su tikrovės objektais ir pačiu savimi, kurį sąlygoja individuali pažintinė – emocinė patirtis. Tyrimo objektas —vyresniųjų klasių mokinių požiūris į grožį ir jį sąlygojantys veiksniai. Tikslas: atskleisti vyresniųjų klasių mokinių teigiamo požiūrio į grožį ypatumus ir jam įtakos turinčius sociopedagoginius veiksnius. Tyrimo hipotezė — teigiamam požiūriui į grožį vyresniame mokykliniame amžiuje turi įtakos: • mokinių įsitraukimas į aktyvią estetinę veiklą; • teigiamų emocijų išgyvenimas estetinėje veikloje; • mokinių saviraiškos poreikio patenkinimas estetinėje veikloje; • humaniški mokinių santykiai su pedagogais ir veiklos dalyviais. Tyrime dalyvavo 206 Vilniaus miesto 10-12 klasių mokiniai. Tyrimas atskleidė, kad vyresniųjų klasių mokiniai suvokia grožio svarbą žmogaus gyvenime ir pripažįsta, kad būtina pažinti grožį, nes jis suteikia emocinį pasitenkinimą, tačiau jie susiduria su sunkumais suvokdami ir vertindami grožį, pažymėdami, kad grožio pažinimas reikalauja didelių pastangų. Tyrimas patvirtino hipotezę, kad požiūriui į grožį turi įtakos humaniški mokinių santykiai... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / SUMMARY FACTORS AND SPECIFICS OF THE POSITIVE ATTITUDE TOWARDS BEAUTY IN SENIOR PUPILS Beauty is one of human values, that why positive attitude toward beauty is very important aesthetic education task. Beauty is a quality or the combination of qualities that give pleasure to the senses or to the mind. Beautiful is all that perfectly reflects the nature and the essence of the things, events and relationships. View is a personal opinion or attitude; it is one’s way of understanding and interpreting a subject, events or even oneself. It is formed during individual and social experiences. The objects of the research — the attitude toward beauty among the senior pupils and promotion. The purpose of the research — to reveal the specifics of the attitude toward beauty among the senior pupils, factors, which have influence for it and some guidelines that stimulate positive attitude toward beauty. The tasks of the research: 1. to determinate concept of beauty; 2. define main sources of beauty; 3. to reveal the specifics of the attitude toward beauty among the senior pupils; 4. to show up pupils’ positive aesthetic emotions; 5. to compare attitude towards beauty in regard to gender and type of school; 6. to exclude factors of developing the attitude toward on beauty The hypothesis of the research — the attitude toward beauty in the senior pupils is determined by: • how actively pupils are participating in the aesthetic activities • how many positive emotions they experience during the... [to full text]

As increasing numbers of baby boomers enter retirement age, Georgia senior centers will be inundated with more computer-savvy seniors than ever before. Web-based nutrition education is a pragmatic option to complement the traditional classroom nutrition education sometimes hindered by the centers’ limited monetary and personnel resources. This exploratory observational study sought to pilot test a companion to classroom nutrition education, a prototype Dietary Approaches to Stopping Hypertension (DASH) diet website, for future implementation in Georgia senior centers. Classroom DASH diet lessons were designed and pilot tested on a convenience sample of community dwelling older adults in 6 metropolitan area centers (n=109). Next, the same lessons were incorporated into a senior-friendly DASH diet website specially designed to meet the needs of older adults and pilot tested on a second convenience sample in one center (n=5). Descriptive and analytical statistics were used to compare baseline and post-website blood pressures, body weights, and DASH-related nutrition knowledge. There was a significant difference in the scores for systolic blood pressure at baseline (M=145.60, SD=8.385) and post-website (M=136.40, SD=9.607) conditions; t(4)=3.74, p =.020. Diastolic blood pressure and weight showed no significant change. A survey of DASH-related knowledge, behaviors, and beliefs showed movement towards desired responses on 44% of survey questions after the intervention. An opinion survey collected seniors’ perspectives on their website experience. 100% of participants reported satisfaction with the website and willingness to continue using it. Refinements to the alpha-prototype website are recommended before further testing with a larger pilot study group. Although expanded research is necessary, results from this limited pilot test suggest that web-based nutrition education is a promising method to reinforce classroom lessons teaching dietary and lifestyle management of hypertension in Georgia senior centers. Multi-component nutrition education holds potential to address diversity in cultures, learning preferences, and functional limitations of Georgia seniors.

This research is done with focus on a children' s home child, who is deviated by factors out of his control, but who is helped to unfurl to adulthood, so that he can have the same future vision as other children. where he has to compete to a position in a fast developing labour market. The aim of this study, by way of literature study, and supported by emperical research is to determine what the study attitude of a children' s home child is. This study attitude is analysed according to factors which give direction to it, especially the influence of personality on study attitudes. Background knowledge is gained about personality and the etiology/origin of personality characteristics, with the meaning that educators in their guidance of children to optimum personality development also bearing the study attitudes in mind. An attitude inventory is developed and implemented in order to obtain more information about the study attitudes of children' s home children in the senior primary school phase. Children from one children' s home were involved in this study after the attitude inventory' s reliability and validity was tested at another children' s home. The information obtained is statistically revised by the statistics consultation services ofthe PU for CHO. The results ofthe investigation was thereafter analysed to give positive recommendation to the practise and to do further research. Throughout this study reference to he means he/she, his means hislhers and him meaning him/her. / Thesis (MEd)--PU for CHE, 1998

In South African classrooms a strong emphasis is placed on assessing learners by means of portfolios. Through the utilisation of portfolios it is envisaged that learner growth and development should be enhanced in order for learners to become expert learners who are strategic, self-regulated and self-reflecting. This study aimed to determine how effective the implementation of portfolio assessment presently is, and if necessary, to develop a model that could improve the implementation of portfolio assessment in the Senior Phase, Grade 9 in particular. By means of explanatory mixed method research through the completion of questionnaires by 369 learners and 88 educators, and focus group interviews conducted with 36 of the 88 educators from the Sedibeng West District, disconcerting results were revealed. It appeared that educators are not equipped with adequate knowledge and skills to implement portfolio assessment in order to enhance learner growth and development. Based on the disturbing findings, a model was designed to highlight the processes and components involved in the successful implementation of portfolio assessment. As no evidence of any other model to improve the implementation of portfolio assessment at school level could be located, the contribution of this study lies in the development of a tool that could be utilized by the Department of Education to train educators to become effective implementers of portfolio assessment. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Education))--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2009.

Performance management at all levels of employees within the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality (EMM) is a key challenge, currently only applicable to senior managers. The employer was proactive in introducing the Ekurhuleni Excellence Awards to the gap that is created by the legislation, but the effort seems not to be working as employees do not understand the criteria that are used for nominations. The empirical study entailed 54 respondents who completed the questionnaire, in five different departments which are Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology, Legal and Administration. In this study, the Performance Management System (PMS) of the EMM was analysed, and the biggest challenge being faced by the EMM is the inability of the EMM to address staff retention (at 57%) and succession when employees leave the EMM (at 62%). The two challenges identified by the study are most crucial for the success of the PMS. The PMS of municipalities is legislated by different Acts, and in order to address service delivery challenges, the Acts need to be reviewed to include all levels of employees. National and Provincial Government have implemented the PMS so that municipalities, as another sphere of Government, will improve service delivery as well as employee motivation. The EMM senior managers, together with the Human Resources department, should craft a strategy or action for the future in order to successfully cascade the PMS to other levels of employees. The EMM Performance Management Policy that is currently operational is in line with the Municipal Regulation no. R805, so the Policy complies fully with the legislation. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2010.

In South African classrooms a strong emphasis is placed on assessing learners by means of portfolios. Through the utilisation of portfolios it is envisaged that learner growth and development should be enhanced in order for learners to become expert learners who are strategic, self-regulated and self-reflecting. This study aimed to determine how effective the implementation of portfolio assessment presently is, and if necessary, to develop a model that could improve the implementation of portfolio assessment in the Senior Phase, Grade 9 in particular. By means of explanatory mixed method research through the completion of questionnaires by 369 learners and 88 educators, and focus group interviews conducted with 36 of the 88 educators from the Sedibeng West District, disconcerting results were revealed. It appeared that educators are not equipped with adequate knowledge and skills to implement portfolio assessment in order to enhance learner growth and development. Based on the disturbing findings, a model was designed to highlight the processes and components involved in the successful implementation of portfolio assessment. As no evidence of any other model to improve the implementation of portfolio assessment at school level could be located, the contribution of this study lies in the development of a tool that could be utilized by the Department of Education to train educators to become effective implementers of portfolio assessment. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Education))--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2009.

Performance management at all levels of employees within the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality (EMM) is a key challenge, currently only applicable to senior managers. The employer was proactive in introducing the Ekurhuleni Excellence Awards to the gap that is created by the legislation, but the effort seems not to be working as employees do not understand the criteria that are used for nominations. The empirical study entailed 54 respondents who completed the questionnaire, in five different departments which are Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology, Legal and Administration. In this study, the Performance Management System (PMS) of the EMM was analysed, and the biggest challenge being faced by the EMM is the inability of the EMM to address staff retention (at 57%) and succession when employees leave the EMM (at 62%). The two challenges identified by the study are most crucial for the success of the PMS. The PMS of municipalities is legislated by different Acts, and in order to address service delivery challenges, the Acts need to be reviewed to include all levels of employees. National and Provincial Government have implemented the PMS so that municipalities, as another sphere of Government, will improve service delivery as well as employee motivation. The EMM senior managers, together with the Human Resources department, should craft a strategy or action for the future in order to successfully cascade the PMS to other levels of employees. The EMM Performance Management Policy that is currently operational is in line with the Municipal Regulation no. R805, so the Policy complies fully with the legislation. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2010.

While there is an abundance of empirically based information on the broad subject of executive leadership and executive leader development, opportunity for further research is driven by complexity of the executive’s world and the related need to function at high levels of learning agility. In fact, learning agility has been identified by Korn/ Ferry (Korn/Ferry, 2011) as the single most important predictor of executive success. This study seeks to explore non-traditional forms of executive leader development based on an integrated theoretical lens, including learning and executive development theories as they relate to learning agility. Executive Coaching is of primary interest as an executive development theory, with a diagnostic element designed to provide insight about development issues, particularly those around leadership pipeline cross points. The Competing Values Framework, as applied here for individual executive growth and development constructs, offers an additional theoretical lens as well as a structure for practical application. Using an engaged scholarship approach through Action Research, this is explored with a focus on executive development options that go beyond traditional leadership training models, and with research, insights analyzed through the CVF assessment and structured interviews. Among the findings are insights which confirm the learning agility construct claims that it is a key predictor to executive success as executives traverse career transitions. More specifically, the insights which proceed from this study also support the reasons that self-discovery learning interventions impact learning agility for senior executives. They include: The Participants in this study demonstrated Learning Agility Development as defined for this research, providing evidence that Learning Agility can be developed Executive Coaching and Related Self-Discovery Constructs contribute more to Learning Agility Executive Development when the executive coach offers a fluid approach which includes significant engagement and mutual dialog as well as inquiry. Learning Agility Development is related to one’s ability to manage Competing Values, especially Competing Values that are unique to the individual. Individual Awareness, its connection to reflexivity, and the movement of tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge is a key finding related to senior executive learning agility development. A Systems Approach to Learning Agility Executive Development which includes a systemic framework, a defined process/structure, and individual customization is indicated for senior level executives. The study offers extensions to existing theories as well as a practical theory-and-findings-based executive development methodology.

Canada’s population is aging rapidly, such that by 2031 it is estimated that one quarter of Canada’s population will be aged 65 or older (Statistics Canada December 15, 2006). It is argued that urban environments are often not adequately designed for older people and can impair their ability to live independently into their elder years (Harris 2004). Proper planning can help people age successfully in their community. This research practicum assesses three town centres within the City of Surrey to determine whether they are agefriendly based on the perceptions of residents over the age of 65. Results from the research found that areas in need of improvement included public transit, the walking environment, clustering various land uses, parks amenities, and home assistance, among other things. The practicum concludes with recommendations of areas for further study.