During the adolescence period changes in behaviour of an individual are noticeable: lessons are being skipped, authority of parents and teachers is not being acknowledged; there appears the need to be among teenagers, to use alcoholic drinks, to smoke, which leads to aggressive behaviour with other teenagers and that is why increase in crime and even occasional suicides are observed. The scientific literature usually analyzes the learning motives and kinds of motivation, however changes in the learning motivation and their causes as well as the behaviour in the period of adolescence are analyzed very little. The aim of this research is to analyze how junior teenagersۥ behaviour decides their learning motivation. The objects of the research are the following: 1) to adduce the reasoning of behaviour; 2) to evaluate the psychological peculiarities of adolescence period as well as the values and the influence of environmental factors on their formation; 3) to discuss the efficiency the motives and kinds of motivation; 4) to cary out the questioning among senior teenagers and to define how factors conditioning their behaviour, such as communication, school, relations with family and the culture of behaviour decide their learning motivation. The research has been carried out in Kaunas “Azuolas” catholic secondary school using questionnaire method where 186 10th-12th formers have been questioned. After analyzing the research data the following conclusions are drawn: 1) The most... [to full text]

The possibilities of developing visual expression of teenagers by analysing the works of modern art are being discussed in the work. Taking into account sufficiently great experience of schoolchildren and the display of their abstract thinking in senior forms the ability of aesthetic apprehension and estimation are being more fostered, the art expression remains fundamental though. In the theoretical part while pedagogical psychological art development and the literature of art study is being analysed, it becomes clear that teenagers’ visual expression differs from the one of young children’s. It is disclosed the teenagers’ specularity of imagination and evaluation of their creative activity as well as psychological and pedagogical peculiarities of evaluation of teenagers the ways of analysis of the work of art and the importance for the visual expression of the students. The formation of the personality is typical for the transition period for teenagers. The personality’s contact with the world is strict enough and uneven. A teenager begins critically estimate his or her drawings. Just then crisis overtakes his or her creative activity. Coping with the visual means of expression with the help of the samples of modern art helps painless get over this period, as the teenager is not forced to depict something concretely. It helps him or her to understand the possibility to speak in lines, patches, colours and in composition. The second part of the work presents the results... [to full text]