Iššūkiai Lietuvos mokytojams ir mokykloms modernios liberalios švietimo koncepcijos požiūriu
Challenges to Lithuanian Teachers and Schools in the Context of Modern Liberal Concept of Education

Summary/Abstract: Today the optimistic European geopolitical vision of the development of mankind requires close cooperation and integration of the countries. New attitude towards personal and sociocultural aims of Lithuanian education determines the need for revision of the content of education, search for the possibility to change teaching activities, taking into consideration contemporary European and global tendencies of the educational change. The problem of Lithuanian educational modernization which has emerged in the context of European dimensions in education stimulates schools to participate in international educational projects, look for essential common points, new qualities, and create in the first place such European dimensions which directly influence educational content, comprise changeable teacher's activities and all life of school. European dimensions of education is not an indiscrete concept since, on the one hand, European dimensions of education represent the strategy of the development of the education of the European Union, contributing to the understanding of Europe, public spirit, and offering assistance in developing the common labor market. On the other hand, European dimensions of education are a dynamic reality based on democracy and respect for an individual, emphasizing the quality of education, and directly influencing the educational content and the whole school life. Third, European dimensions are the development of knowledge, skills, and relationships that would enable a young person to effectively live and work feeling a competent member of the European community. On the basis of the writings of scientists (Halasz, 1996; Fernandes, 1996; Birzea, 1996; Pereyra, 1994; Sander 1993, etc.), it can be stated that there are no clear margins in the concept of the European dimensions of education, since on the object level of the European dimensions of education, there emerged the object of the implementation of European dimensions of education, distinguished by various scientists and ranging from the stimulus of change to a factor to a value. On the realization level, the implementation of European dimensions of education is realized through educational policy directed towards concrete processes in the legal basis of schools, in the educational content, and in the practical activity of a pedagogue and a schoolchild. On the level of the realization segments, the implementation of European dimensions of education is directed towards the pedagogue's and the schoolchild's standpoints, attitudes, and even values, when developing wider understanding of Europe and European public spirit...

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