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Demokratinio ugdymo tendencijų raidos JAV ir Lietuvoje lyginamoji analizė / Democracy education development in the USA and Lithuania; comparative analysis

People nowadays are often forced to accept the challenges of the modern society. That is the reason why a great attention has been paid to civic education in many countries of the world including Lithuania. As education system is considered to be one of the key instruments constructing civic society, schools nowadays aim to develop students’ responsibility, social activity and independence; form their value system, emphasize the importance of democratic relationships between teachers and students. The problem of democratic citizenship education is relevant in Lithuanian school and society for understanding democracy itself, determining practical activity of young people.
Since 1988 democratic citizenship has been declared to be one of the most important aims of the reformed Lithuanian school. at the beginning of the reform civic education integration program into curriculum was created, however it was agreed that the aspects of democracy education have to embrace the whole school life. Having spent long years in Soviet occupation and having long experience of Soviet education Lithuanian school has inevitably faced certain difficulties creating its own democracy-based education. USA, the country in possession of long civic education experience has been chosen as a model country. During 15 years of independence in cooperation with American civic education experts Lithuanian teachers have made visible changes in Lithuanian education system.
This work aims to analyze and... [to full text]

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20060629_102209-94856
Date29 June 2006
CreatorsJazukevičiūtė, Simona
ContributorsKvieskienė, Giedrė, Gaigalienė, Marytė, Glebuvienė, Vitolda Sofija, Guoba, Andrius, Dautaras, Jonas, Barkauskaitė, Marija, Žilionis, Juozas, Vilnius Pedagogical University
PublisherLithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Vilnius Pedagogical University
Source SetsLithuanian ETD submission system
LanguageLithuanian
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeMaster thesis
Formatapplication/pdf
Sourcehttp://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20060629_102209-94856
RightsUnrestricted

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