Ugdymo(si) problemos, pagrįstos moksliniais tyrimais
Problems of (Self-)education Substantiated by Scientific Research

Summary/Abstract: The scientific community members tend to acknowledge that scientific achievements in educational sciences are much slower compared to other areas. However, it is encouraging thatin 2014 responding to the challenges relevant to the system of education, the young researchersof Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences searched for and substantiated solutions to a number of problems employing their original scientific research.In the Committee of Joint Doctoral Studies (Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences,Kaunas University of Technology, Šiauliai University and Lithuanian Sports University) Kęstutis Trakšelys defended his doctoral thesis on the theme: “Education accessibility within the context of the transformation of Lithuanian society (1990–2010)”. The Committee of the Defence Council consisted of the representatives-researchers from the Joint Doctoral Committee and Prof.Dr. Habil. Alicja Šerlong, Director of the Institute of Pedagogy of Wroclaw University (Poland).All the members of the Doctoral Defence Council unanimously emphasised that the emerging processes of transformations in the global world impose specific tasks on the system of education and oblige the school to organise the process of (self-)education in such a way, which satisfies needs of learners, modern society and the epoch. Therefore, the author of the thesis analysed an urgent research problem identifying links between social transformations and changes in the system of education from the perspective of accessibility, while solving the problem of accessibility of education in the context of social transformations during the period, which was particularly challenging to the system of education in Lithuania (1990–2010).All the members of the Dissertation Defence Council and opponents considered the doctoral thesis “The development of creative writing skills of primary school pupils using interactive whiteboard” by Agnė Saylik as one of the first works in Lithuania, which focuses on development of primary learners’ creative writing skills employing information and communication technologies.The members of the Committee highly evaluated the creativity of the author, i.e., her ability to create original ideas, make insights, manage the collected information, to employ a variety of methods, to cope with a big sample of respondents, to process the data in a reliable way, etc.

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