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Mokytojo ir mokinio vaidmenų kaita edukacinės paradigmos virsmo sąlygomis
Teacher's and Student's Roles Shift in Conditions of Change of Educational Paradigm

Author(s): Renaldas Čiužas
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Vytauto Didžiojo Universitetas
Keywords: teacher's didactic competence; paradigm; teacher's role; student's role;

Summary/Abstract: This artide grounded on teachers didactic competence holds the opinion that a teacher can act essentially in different ways by emphasizing one out of three educational paradigms: influence pedagogy, interaction pedagogy and learning (contortionism position). While carrying out the research 916 teachers and 931 students from different regions of Lithuania were questioned. Referring to the obtained results, the following can be stated: 1. Today teacher's role is linked with responsibility, new requirement to didactic competence and professionalism. Teacher should reflect teachers needs, extract key information, teach students how to learn, how to find information, how to organize their learning. 2. When teachers define their role, they follow interaction pedagogy. They are creating such learning situations where students are able discuss, change their experience. When students define teacher's role, they follow influence pedagogy. Students define teacher as instructor. 3. When teachers define students role, they follow influence pedagogy: students are learning only for better marks, are very passive in teaching-learning process, don't like creative tasks. When students define their role they follow learning pedagogy. They are initiative, responsible; they have their goals for learning. 4. Teacher's and student's roles are evolving. The enter of teaching-learning process is student. By defining their role student and teachers are following influence pedagogy or learning pedagogy.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 87
  • Page Range: 64-70
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Lithuanian