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The paper deals with the importance of cultural encounters in intercultural education. The author argues that even though the acquisition of theoretical knowledge about other cultures is a significant component of intercultural education, a direct cultural encounter is an essential component in the intercultural learning. Therefore, an educator should create conditions for learners from different cultures to interact with each other and learn from these cultural encounters. To achieve this goal, an educator needs to have a deep and a thorough understanding of the cultural encounter phenomenon. While analyzing the ideas of the philosophers Jean-Luc Nancy and Bernhard Waldenfels, the paper reveals the complexity of cultural encounters. Cultural encounters can be experienced in different ways: on the one hand, a foreigner can be accepted and recognized; on the other hand, he or she can be seen as an intruder (Jean-Luc Nancy’s perspective) or an alien (Bernhard Waldenfels’ perspective). Moreover, cultural encounters can be of a contradictory nature. When someone is seen as an intruder or an alien, he or she can retain his or her cultural identity and authenticity, but then he or she remains a foreigner in the new environment he or she chooses to live in. According to Jean-Luc Nancy, when a foreigner wants to be accepted and recognized, at the same time he or she becomes invisible, and this inevitably leads to the process of assimilation. As it is difficult to avoid these contradictions of cultural encounters, an educator should take into account the complexity of every cultural encounter in the educational process. Moreover, it is important to stress that an educator should understand every cultural encounter – being seen or being accepted – to be valuable in itself
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The application of information and communication technologies (ICT) in different Lithuanian and global education contexts has been analyzed for several decades. Scientific works present insights on how the ICT might be applied not only in the general education context, but also among specific training subjects. Specialized ICT means are being used in teaching music: sound and image technologies, special software for music training, self-studying, and composing. Therefore, besides the ICT, the concept of the music computer technologies is used. The music computer technologies (hereinafter MCT) is a multi-purpose electronic computer equipment with the installed software for music composition, editing, and other music-related activities as well as training. It is the tools used for listening to music, performing, creating it or otherwise used practically which open new possibilities for teachers and students of participation in the creative musical activity. Scientific works exploring the specifics of the MCT application in the music education process indicate that display software and sound reconstruction equipment help to know the global music culture in an imaginative, interesting, and integrated way, the composition software provides all students with the possibility to try themselves in music creation. Although the significance of the MCT application in the music education process is recognized, still organization of music creational activities using the MCT as well as the recognition of musical creativity raise many challenges to educators. The Planning and organization of the educational process, selection of education contents and methods, and the character of the evaluation system depend on the teacher’s ability to recognize a creative pupil, what music creativity manifestation he / she attributes to the pupil. However, there is still a lack of the research that would reveal the peculiarities of the development of senior class pupils’ musical creativity and MCT application in the practice of musical education. Therefore, planning the empirical investigation, the essential issues were raised: how musical creativity of senior class pupils using the MCT is recognized, how teachers of music plan and organize the MCT process of the development of senior class pupils’ musical creativity. DEVELOPMENT OF MUSICAL CREATIVITY OF SENIOR PUPILS USING MUSICAL COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES (MCT): EXPERIENCE OF MUSIC TEACHERS Sandra Rimkutė-Jankuvienė, Rūta Girdzijauskienė Summary Object of the research – senior pupils’ musical creativity and its development by using musical computer technologies (MCT). Purpose of the research – to reveal the peculiarities of senior pupils’ musical creativity and its development by using the MCT on the basis of teachers’ experience. Methods of the research – analysis of scientific literature, interview with teachers of music. Methodology of the research. The interview with 10 teachers of music made during the research should be attributed to the type of half-structured, otherwise called directional, interview. The questions to the teachers of music were divided into two groups. The first group helped to find out how music teachers recognize the creativity of senior class pupils. The teachers were inquired what features they base on to recognize the musical creativity of the pupils using the MCT. The second group questions helped to find out how teachers plan and organize the process of the development of senior pupils’ musical creativity by using the MCT. Summation of the research results. The musical creativity of senior class pupils using the MCT is recognized according to the process and result of music creation. Pupils’ musical creativity expression in the process of music creation is related to the character of their musical and MCT work experience as well as to their involvement into musical creational activity. The musical and MCT work experience facilitates the process of creation, and the musical creation by the pupils who acquire it is typical of an unconventional form of the piece, variety of musical instruments applied, untraditional music style, and individual means of expression. The products of the pupils who acquire less experience are based on models provided by the musical software and samples of music encountered in various social contexts. The following features characterize pupils’ musical creativity expression according to the result of music creation: an idea of the piece and originality of its implementation ways, the completeness and unconventionality of the music form, the variety of music style selection, expediency of musical expression means, and their inter-tune. The informants understand the process of musical creativity development as an individualized, 104 consistent and purposeful process. The teachers refer to the fact what knowledge students are short of (language of music, composing technique, MCT), encourage them to share their knowledge, experience, to discuss issues, and to search for solutions. The pupils who have experience in music analysis and MCT application are provided with the conditions to form their music targets on their own, the freedom to decide what and how they want to create. The teacher becomes a consultant, assistant who renders special musical or creation technique-related knowledge. Evaluating the pupils’ creation process and its results, an idiographic perspective is predominant, when an individual advancement and efforts of a student are being discussed. While evaluating, special attention is paid to group discussions, analysis and evaluation of one’sown music compositions and those of classmates.
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The importance of purport in human's life is raised in the article. According to the philosophical and psychological Iiterature, purport is defined as a basis human life. Herewith, there is a problem of purport' discovery in a contemporary society defined, in which a lot of people experience the feeling of inanity or loses their identity and human dignity. The Beginning of these negative phenomena are associated with nowadays individual's alienation from spiritual values, which help to orientate in the world and find what is meaningful in it. There is an attempt to define the spiritual values, which form purport of Iife basis made. According to systematic and hierarchical codes, the priority is given to the moral values as the core of the good, which has a close connection with the truth, the beauty and sanctity. There is also the attitude of elder pupil's towards the search of purport and their connection with spiritual values revealed in this article.
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Educational policy makers in post-modern Europe have taken to creating strategies of life-long education that overestimates one type of spiritual values (consisting of truth, goodness, beauty) and lead to the pragmatic needs satisfaction. The system of education in Lithuania goes hand in hand with modern European tendencies and aims at defining the desirable values and skills alongside the key competences acquired in the processes of education. The greatest attention is given to learning and moral values that involve the individual's relationships with the micro and macroenvironment ( dignity, responsiveness, honesty, tolerance, national sensitivity, civic educational component). The present study has established that adolescents are able to internalize most successfully those spiritual values that are related to their interpersonal relationships (persona] dignity, sensitivity, honesty). However, other important values that also make up part of the educational content of school curriculum (national sensitivity, civic education component, wisdom, creativity) seem to be much more problematic in the processes of values internalization in adolescents; though these values in particular are exclusively important for the processes of adolescents' spiritual becoming, and these values have a complimentary character.
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The concept of sustainable development represents a new issue in the Lithuanian school system. A pilot project "School Agenda 21" was carried out in 2000- 2003 to encourage teachers in developing and implementing models of education for sustainable development at the school in connection with national education strategies. Activities included: integration of sustainable development/ real life issues into school curriculum, the development of key competences for future professional and social activities, actions to promote changes of lifestyle towards mare sustainable one as well as participation in solving community problems. The project "School Agenda 21" was based on action research methodology emphasizing experiential learning, self-evaluation and participation in planning of project activities. The main conclusions of the project "School Agenda 21" are presented in the article.
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The aim of this investigation is to analyze the interconnections of coping of school stress styles and self esteem. Comparison of coping styles of adolescents with high, average and low self-esteem is made in the article. Results show that adolescents with higher self esteem more often use problem solving way and adaptive avoidance way of coping with school stress in comparison with adolescents with lower self-esteem.
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The research extends the knowledge on relationships between the teachers' beliefs and performance for a sample of in-service primary teachers and engaged learning as a context relevant for the primary school setting. The aim was to discover the relationships between the teachers' beliefs expressed as a rating of significance for indicators of engaged learning (EL) and performance-related self-perceptions regarding these indicators. The survey was constructed and administered for 30 primary teachers of Latvia. The content , of survey is based on variables of EL developed by Jones, Valdez, Nowakowski, and Rasmussen: vision of learning, tasks, assessment, instructional model, learning context, grouping, teacher roles, student roles. Medium strength positive relationships were found between the beliefs and performance related self-perceptions of teachers. The findings suggest that beliefs regarding variable student role and assessment were more strongly linked to performance than other variables; the weakest links were found for variable tasks.
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The article deals with the survey of understanding of a concept of common fraction among 14-year-old Lithuanian students. T he model of concept understanding verification is introduced and used to analyze the survey data. Data from Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is used for analysis. The analysis of data, using the proposed model of verification of understanding of concepts, identifies that less then 50 percent of 14-year old Lithuanian students perceive the concept of common fraction in a right way. The causes of the problem are analyzed in the article. Possible extensions of application area of the verification model are discussed.
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The article provides the results of the research into social skills of the visually impaired youth. Greatest attention is given to the disclosure of the young people's approach towards the development of social skills at school. Also those social skills are emphasized which are least developed by students when they graduate from the secondary school. In order to disclose the level of social skills acquired at school by the visually impaired young people, key attention has been concentrated on the skills in the area of self-evaluation, communication, co-operation, resolving of problems and conflicts, stress-overcoming, emotion management, understanding of other people's emotions. Said skills have a strong impact on the person's capacity to create and maintain positive mutual relationships, to be on friendly terms with other people, to develop relations of partnership and they are helpful in order to have a better orientation in different situations and environments. Results obtained in the course of the research do not define the approach of all visually impaired young people to the acquisition of social skills at school, however, they allow to state certain tendencies which demonstrate the urgency of this problem. The data of the research demonstrated that although more half of the respondents had positively evaluated acquisition of skills while at school in the area of communication, co-operation, problem-solution, overcoming of stress, however, about half of the questioned indicated that they found it difficult to establish contacts with others, to find friends, to ask for assistance.
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lm Artikel wird das Problem des Gelingens von sozialpadagogischer Tatigkeit in den Organisationen der sozialen Hilfe behandelt. Zur Begrlindung werden die Ergebnisse der qualitativen Experteninterviewsforschung praesentiert. Als Folge der Analyse von Expertenwissen wurden insgesamt 7 Faktoren rekonstruiert, die einen bedeutsamen Einfluss auf Erfolg der sozialpadagogischen Tatigkeit zu haben scheinen: l) Antropologisches Menschenbild des Sozialpadagogen, bzw. der Organisation; 2) Zielformulierung der Sozialarbeitsorganisation; 3) Art der Erziehungsarbeit mit Klienten in der Organisation; 4) Art der professionellen Beziehung zwischen Sozialpiidagogen und dem Klient; 5) Innen Atmosphare der Sozialarbeitsorganisation; 6) Zusammenarbeit der Organisation mit anderen Organisationen Zugunsten der Klienten; 7) Gesellschaftliche Bewertung des Berufs Sozialpadagogik.
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The growing impact of globalisation is felt in different spheres of life. Internationalisation is one of the terms used to describe this impact, it is a phenomenon closely related to globalisation processes. Higher education sector seems to be most effected by both, because following the Bologna Declaration there should be a coherent and cohesive European Higher Education Area created by the year 2010. That is why it is important to explore the relationship between globalisation and internationalisation and analyze the international dimension of the higher education. Globalisation and internationalisation are seen as different but dynamically linked concepts: the first one is seen as catalist, while the second one as the response. Internationalisation of higher education is one of the ways the country responds to the impact of globalisation. There are different approaches to internationalisation at institutional level as well as factors influencing its implementation.
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The development of modem quality assessment systems in the higher education institutions in Lithuania is perceived as one of the cardinal imperatives. Solid base for quality assessment and management system should be provided by the sciences of management and education management. First of all, key concepts (quality, quality management) are specified more precisely in the article, having in mind particularities of educational organizations. Colleges are quiet new institutions of non university higher education in Lithuania. Achievements in the colleges' quality systems development and management are analyzed highlighting main questions: what persons had been developing quality system in colleges, what standards had been used, what system of quality management had been chosen, what are further perspectives of study quality system's development. Opinions of all interested parts, participating in the quality system's development (students, administration, teachers, employers) were analyzed.
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The paper presents some ways of fostering student's reflective thinking in learning English for specific purposes. It also describes the key aspects of reflective thinking in connection with metacognitive awareness and presents the most widely used techniques in self-assessment and self-management skills, such as evaluation sheets, learning diaries and portfolios which are wide-ranging in ESP learning - teaching context. The article focuses on self-assessment in portfolio use and students' need to self-evaluate their learning process and emphasizes the increased awareness of learning and teaching styles. Reflective thinking as central to students' self-evaluation is described as the use of those cognitive skills or strategies that increase the probability of a desirable outcome. Critical thinking is a shift from teaching students' facts and what the teacher knows to teaching students how to think for themselves.
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The article analyses the point of view of J. Laužikas on the new pedagogy of West Europe and USA in the beginning of XX ct. The author underlines that J. Laužikas knew well the experience of foreign school, was studied deeply the new pedagogical trends of beginning of XX ct, theirs theory and practice. The article notes that J. Laužikas approved of the most of principles of the new school: activity, self-dependence, integration, initiative, individual approach, research, and others.The connections between pedagogical ideas of Laužikas and new pedagogy are disclosed.
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The purpose of the article is to study the experience of developing and implementing an information resource to improve the adaptation of first-year students to study in higher education. The methodology is to apply general scientific methods of analysis, generalization, systematization, and comparison, which allowed to develop of a hierarchical structure of the process of adaptation of first-year students in the educational and social environment of higher education to design and fill information resources for student interaction with departments university (for example, Lviv Polytechnic National University). The scientific novelty is the expansion of theoretical knowledge and practical skills to create an information resource that will help students find the necessary and useful information to facilitate its adaptation. Conclusions. Creating an interactive information space for the adaptation of first-year students provides an opportunity to ensure the successful adaptation of students to new challenges in their lives. The management of higher education institutions is interested in the fastest possible educational, scientific, creative, sports, and social adaptation of students. The proposed hierarchical structure will determine the main directions of adaptation of students depending on the peculiarities of the organization of student life in higher education. Each direction of adaptation contains its own sub-goals, which detail the activities in this direction. Achieving the mentioned sub-goals is ensured by appropriate means and recommendations. The offered information resource will allow to carry out information support of the student in the course of its adaptation. This resource will greatly simplify the search for the necessary information for educational, scientific, creative, and social activities of the student, help in organizing independent work, and provide feedback to the first-year student with the structural units of higher education.
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The purpose of the article is to study aspects of the specialty «Information, Library and Archival Affairs» and the importance of its promotion abroad, in particular in the German-speaking environment through the creation of a page on Wikipedia. The methodology of the research to achieve the goal of the article and perform the tasks were used such methods as theoretical analysis and generalization of data from scientific and methodological literature, the method of collecting social information, methods of mathematical statistics. Comparative, typological, retrospective methods were used for full-fledged research and disclosure of the topic. The scientific novelty lies in the expansion of knowledge and popularization of the specialty «Information, library and archival affairs». An information model of the communication process in the Wikipedia system is proposed; the advantages of using information and communication technologies and marketing actions in the popularization of services on the Internet are proved. It is emphasized that the process of creating an article requires some effort and knowledge, but with the help of constant edits and additions of users, the information will remain relevant. Conclusions. Creating an article in German will provide an opportunity to establish international cooperation in the educational environment and promote the specialty «Information, Library and Archival Affairs», which is taught at the Department of Social Communications and Information Activities of the National University «Lviv Polytechnic» in German-speaking countries. The article recommends correcting already written and adding new articles to promote and qualitatively fill Wikipedia, increasing the number of its readers both among the Ukrainian population and abroad. Displaying the communication process using simulations in visual mode shows all the processes and interactions that will take place or are already taking place in the system after the user of the free electronic encyclopedia «Wikipedia» edits one of the articles or wants to make a new one.
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Teaching English in general has not only become necessary but it has also made many teachers around the world strive to find the easiest solution to this issue. The paper in question deals with the same issue but with focus on teaching and learning idioms. It tries to give a new insight into the way students understand and learn idioms more easily. It takes into consideration two main concepts: learning by and teaching idioms to the university level students putting more emphasis on the latter. Some students might even wonder why to use idioms when people could have said words/phrases or sentences others would understand more easily without having to think much about their meaning. The answer to this lies in that native speaker use idioms very often so it is almost impossible for non-native speakers to avoid using idioms when communicating with native speakers of English. This is one of the crucial points the study in question also puts emphasis on. Apart from this, ever since the war ended in Kosovo, many organizations or educational institutions such as: OSCE, UNMIK, American School of Kosovo, British Council, American University of Kosovo have made it possible that people of Kosovo get in touch with native speakers who spoke English in a more natural way by also using idioms.
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Championing the cause of virtue literacy in theological education has often been an exercise in frustration. Though instruction in virtue might seem to have fit most comfortably in theological education, attitudes toward the subject of character in seminaries often have included a significant portion of confusion or conflicting perspectives. Thus, those schools that have intentionally educated for the character have been inclined to approach the process nonspecific or subjective. In spite of a growing body of literature in character development in education, there was still a need for the clarification of what education for virtue and character actually was, and how it was necessary, so that it could be implemented in a more straightforward manner. This paper sought to clarify the current state of character education and the most helpful initiative theorized to implement it. The book Character and Virtue in Theological Education by Marvin Oxenham was used as a primary supporting reference for this investigation.
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