Mokytojo kompetencijų svarba mokinių tautinio tapatumo formavimuisi
The Importance of Teacher Competencies to the Formation of Students National Identity

Summary/Abstract: Over the past few years the education community in Lithuania often discusses the issues concerning the education and formation of national identity of younger generation. Interest in this topic is based on facts that emigration of younger generation in Lithuania is not decreasing, that school-age children and youth feel lack of ethnic self-consciousness and national identity. Assumption that teachers play the important role in the formation of national identity for children and young people isn’t excluded. Personal identity as self sensation begins to form in early childhood. In this process the important role performs first of all parents, then other family members and later the school. National identity are formed continuously. The societies openness to other cultures, increase of individuals and nations international relations, lifestyle influenced by globalization, wish to learn about other cultures raise new requirements for education process in schools where national identity has important role in the teaching paradigm. It is expected that schools provide not only knowledge and skills necessary for life in knowledge society, but also develop students‘ tolerance for other cultures and help them become aware of the meaning of his national cultural. As observed by L. Duoblienė (2009), educational theorists during discussions how to change the educational process under the new circumstances proposes first of all to strengthen students media literacy as well as intercultural education that teach younger generation to resist the influence of ideologies and unconscious misrepresentations, change youth provisions. The teacher’s role in this process becomes significant. The purpose of this article is to reveal the importance of teacher competence to the formation of students national identity. The object of this article – teacher competence.The scientific literature analysis was used in this article. The article consists of two parts: the first part analyses the complexity of the concept of teacher competence, and the second part analyses the teacher competence Framework and it’s importance to the formation of students national identity...

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