Increasing Efficiency in Vocational Counselling Services: Problems and Solutions

Author(s): Eilina Dailidienė,Lijana Navickienė / Language(s): English Issue: 11/2006

The article analyses the objectives posed by the knowledge society to vocational counselling, reviews the importance of the development of vocational counselling services, discussed in the strategic documents prepared by the European Commission and Lithuania. The problems of vocational counselling are presented underlying the relevance of vocational counsellor professional education, seeking to ensure the effectiveness of counselling services. The measures devoted to the solution of vocational counsellor training problems are introduced

Die Geschichte der Siebenbürger Sachsen in den rumänischen Schulbüchern

Author(s): Walter König / Language(s): German Issue: 2/1980

Development of european consciousness in Erasmus students

Author(s): Sevda Mutlu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2011

This research is the content analysis of 502 Erasmus students’ experiences published in the website www.20erasmus.eu. One of the main purposes of the Erasmus Student Exchange Program is to maintain a cross-cultural dialogue through student activity, to remove prejudices and thus to strengthen interaction and join EU citizens under such concepts as “European Consciousness” and “Being European”. The purpose of this study is to determine how successful the Erasmus Student Exchange Program is through the shared Erasmus experiences of the participating students. In conclusion, in this research, it is observed that the students talked highly positively about the Erasmus experience. The students described this process as enjoyable and productive. It could be argued that the Erasmus experience contributed to students’ “individual development” rather than “academic development”. It could also be maintained that one of the key purposes of the Erasmus exchange program is to remove prejudices by maintaining student mobility and cross-cultural dialogue and to unite societies under the European Consciousness and European People understanding via strengthening interactions between EU member citizens. Data collected in this research present evidence that the Erasmus programme has reached this aim

“…Superman and the princess lived happily ever after”. On the programme of universal development of socially maladjusted youth

Author(s): Wioletta Kajak / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2011

Among a whole range of offers of re-education available at the international market certain gaps exist, leading to the limitation of the effectiveness of the return of maladjusted persons to society. The present article includes a suggestion of individual re-education programme of youth as well as life skills development allowing for effective functioning according to correct social roles. Perhaps, due to its comprehensive character, the present suggestion will serve to complement the formerly neglected areas of interaction

The University of the Third Age as an institution counteracting marginalization of older people

Author(s): Aleksandra Marcinkiewicz-Wilk / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2011

The article presents the role of the University of the Third Age in counteracting the effects of marginalization of the elderly. The history of the University of the Third Age is presented and also different models of this institution are characterized. The paper presents new trends in research conducted by participants of the U3A and shown their relation to marginalization

Constructions of “otherness” and the role of education: The case of Ethiopia

Author(s): Sisay Mengstie / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2011

This article attempts to discuss the concept of constructing “otherness”, the techniques to be used and the role of educational systems. Ethiopia as a multilingual and multicultural country is the basis of discussion for this concept. Hence, the writer pays due attention to answer the question: How far the Ethiopian educational policy is designed to reflect diversified group interests fairly, if not equally? Therefore, major theoretical assumptions on construction of “otherness” and some practical experiences of the Ethiopian educational systems are thoroughly examined in this paper

INTERACTION LITERARY TEXT – PRESCHOOLER IN TEACHING SITUATIONS OF ORAL COMMUNICATION

Author(s): Costea Octavia / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2012

To define the context and teaching interaction process of literary text-child in oral communication for preschooler, we consider necessary to identify the conceptual and operational elements of the teaching situation. This implies, from the outset, selecting literary work for preschooler, knowing the needs and aspirations, defining teaching situation, in general, and oral communication situation, in particular. All these criteria must be congruent, then, are important contextualization and operationalization of literary text by the teacher methods and approaches.

THE PROGRESS OF MEDIA TECHNOLOGY IN JAPAN, COLD WAR TO 2011

Author(s): Shawen R. White / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2012

The adoption of new technology in Japan, despite its international reputation as a high tech nation and culture has not been a smooth progression, nor has Japan always led the world. There have been leaps forward and times of stagnation. In fact I mean to show how Japan has fallen back and needs to reinvigorate its approach to technology, particularly in regards to education and tablet PCs, an area in which Japan has fallen far behind. In both corporate and government policy, Japan is capable of leaps forward but can get bogged down in a slow and steady incremental approach at times. I will propose a path forward for education media here, a field that is still stuck in paper publishing while most of the world moves into digital. A much more open model based on open principles. (Note; Due to the fast changing nature of this issue, this article includes updated information since the summer 2011 conference in Romania.)

CONSIGNMENT HISTORIC IN PEDAGOGY

Author(s): Victor I. Ţvircun / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2012

This paper proposes a synthetic analysis of the pedagogic phenomenon of historicity, updated and resized, an appeal that can contribute to the solution of a number of problems in pedagogy, particularly those concerning the novelty and opportunity of change and transformation. It proposes a prospective and a retrospective of the past-present-future relationship, as well as formulates one of the most current pedagogical theses.

SUBJECTIVITY AND SPACE IN HARUKI MURAKAMI'S FICTIONAL WORLD

Author(s): Adelina Vasile / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2012

This essay explores the relationship between psyche and outer world in some of Haruki Murakami's major novels. The settings in which Murakami's characters appear abound in sterile, bleak and/or murky spaces (vacant plots of land, a Mongolian desert, a walled town called the End of the World, the sewers and the tunnels of the Tokyo underground, forests, dry wells that force characters to confront their inner demons). These spaces characterized by emptiness and darkness are not mere landscapes. Examples suggest that the scenes described are almost external manifestations of the emotional lives of his characters, more or less direct projections of the interior states of the characters; there is a fundamental nexus between interiority and exteriority (landscape). These landscapes are places of retreat where characters (who often feel like empty shells and are haunted by a sense of loss) enclose themselves inwardly and try to make sense of the senseless. Even if they are empty, they are spaces in which something creative can occur - such as the capacity to encounter undiscovered aspects of the self. These projected versions of states of mind are dangerous, but full of potentialities, being favorable for revelations, epiphanies, experiences of the numinous. The majority of these landscapes function symbolically as realms of the subconscious, where the ultimate source of the self is rooted. It can be said that the subconscious is the natural habitat of Murakami's characters.

SOME APPROACHES TO HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION - IN RELATION TO THE JAPANESE CHARACTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION -

Author(s): IKUTA Shuji / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2012

The aim of this paper is to propose appropriate perspectives to human rights education (HRE) by showing approaches for analyzing the characteristics of Japanese HRE and by considering where HRE is situated in relation to relevant educational fields. HRE has a close relationship with peace education, development education, intercultural education and the international education program of UNESCO. The methodology of HRE has been discussed in the fields of knowledge and skills “associated with understanding and supporting human rights”. Since the middle of 1990s for Japan and also for some members of the UN, HRE has been developing as a newly established terminology. The Japanese HRE, greatly influenced by Dowa Education (education for the integration of Japanese minorities), has been weak in the legal area of human rights. As a result, it has a strong orientation to equality as a relational concept and from a “sociological” perspective, in which human rights problems are grasped as mentality problems.

MODERN WAYS OF APPROACHING MATHEMATICS IN SCHOOLS

Author(s): CHITEŞ Costel / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2012

This paper is intended to be a theoretical study that aims to to emphasize the positive aspects of the impressive and rapid knowledge that children and adolescents can access by clicking scientific sites which are loaded with proficient and highly quality validated information. Seeing things from another perspective, the information exposed here can be considered a study directly regarding the build up of the student's ability to use maieutic technology in a selfinduce manner and the discovering, step by step, the next concept or application related. In this article we started from the halving rule and its applicability and validity in any field, and we have reached the irrational numbers, φ and the pure knowledge of Pythagoras, the π number, pentagons and pentagrams, the golden rectangle, the order of Fibonacci. It is only a step from here to the artistic domain, towards which the teenager is invited to acces on his own , through enjoyable and direct communication with the internet world.

THE CONTEXT FOR DEVELOPING INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE

Author(s): Alexandru Florentina / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2012

For the appropriateness and the effectiveness of the interpersonal communication generally and of the intercultural communication especially language proficiency alone is inadequate, because such a process requires knowledge of the ways language and culture interact and of how this interaction operates across cultures. As well individuals as communities will need in this multicultural context on the one hand to relativize their cultural background and to develop very different mentalities and attitudes in order to adapt to the new communication situations, to understand and to cooperate with people from any continent, ethnic origin or culture, and on the other hand to redefine the process of foreign language teaching and learning. From this point of view the key component of the communicative act becomes the intercultural communicative competence. This contribution based on the data from an empirical investigation focuses on the factors which contribute to the determination of the context that facilitates the development and the training of the intercultural communicative competence in the educational process.

P.P. NEGULESCU – THE PHILOSOFER TEACHER, “STYLE AND MEASURE GIVER”

Author(s): Gabriela Pohoaţă / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2012

We start from the premise that the philosopher P.P. Negulescu did not create a philosophical system, even if he wrote „Destinul omenirii” („The Human Destiny”) and „Geneza formelor culturii” („The Genesis of the culture forms”). The article proposes to illustrate, on the basis of genuine texts, the personality of the „creator of style” philosophy professor. P.P. Negulescu was an encyclopaedic mind that made an interdisciplinary research in consonance with the contemporary trends in science and philosophy.

MODERN APPROACHES TO MEMORY

Author(s): Monica Licu / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2012

This work refers to short-term memory, as researched by Baddeley, as well as to long-term memory. For each of them, there are references to their educational utility, as well as useful analogies and comparisons in decoding and expanding various mnesic systems, and suggestions for ways in which teachers can increase their students’ abilities.

Problematic Aspects of Non-formal and Informal Learning Achievement Assessment Methodologies

Author(s): Aušra Fokienė,Eglė Stasiūnaitienė / Language(s): English Issue: 08/2004

Assessment and recognition of non-formal and informal learning is one of the most important priorities of education policy in Europe, including Lithuania. The article analyses the topic of assessment of non-formal and informal learning achievements, discusses the conceptual barriers and theoretical guidelines of the assessment process as well as presents the validity and reliability criteria of evaluation methodologies.

Parameters of General Practice Physician Professional Activity

Author(s): Liudmila Kirikova,Laima Sajienė / Language(s): English Issue: 08/2004

Rapid development of the society and change in the human and societal health care needs impact the change in the concept of general practice physician institution. The present situation in Lithuania creates conditions for general practice physicians not only to treat people but also to create assumptions for people to learn to take proper care of their health themselves, train their skills to preserve it and to achieve the level of wellness that exists in the most advanced countries of the world. The purpose of this study is to assess the activity of general practice physicians and identify the necessary competences in primary health care system in Lithuania. Scientific literature analysis, document analysis and a survey are the methods used in this research.

Personal Motivation as the Basis for Professional Career

Author(s): Nijolė Petkevičiūtė,Egidija Laumenskaitė / Language(s): English Issue: 08/2004

The article presents the career primarily relevant to a person’s wishes and abilities and, accordingly, becoming personal. It means that not an organization, but a person himself is more responsible for his career. The development of career depends on the external and the internal factors. The latter are directly coherent to the values and have a long-term run in the rapidly changing environment. Motivation is discussed as an internal power in the development of personal career. This internal power rises from personal values and commitment to these values.

Lithuanian Labour Exchange as Network Organization: Main Features

Author(s): Daiva Bukantaitė / Language(s): English Issue: 08/2004

Network organisations are analysed on the basis of scientific literature analysis, distinguishing their features, types, functions, advantages, and comparing with other organisations. The Lithuanian Labour Exchange as a network organisation is presented in the second part of the article,.

Kooperatives Lernen im Berufsschulunterricht zur Entwicklung eines Pragmatishen Konzepts

Author(s): Franz Bernard / Language(s): German Issue: 08/2004

Im Rahmen der wissenschaftlichen Begleitung des Modellversuches „Kooperatives Lernen im Berufsschulunterricht“ (vgl. Bauer / Bernard 1997) war es u.a. erforderlich, Konzepte für die Gestaltung kooperativer Unterrichtsprozesse auf der Basis neuer Erkenntnisse der Berufspädagogik, der Kognitionswissenschaften und anderer Wissenschaftsdisziplinen in enger Verbindung mit den Erfahrungen der Lehrenden an der Modellversuchsschule zu entwickeln. Ergebnisse dieser Entwicklungsarbeit sollen nach den sogenannten „W-Fragen“ zusammengefaßt werden: • Was ist kooperatives Lernen? • Warum soll, • wie und • wann kann im Berufsschulunterricht das kooperative Lernen realisiert werden? Unter pragmatischem Aspekt werden wesentliche Erkenntnisse nur in Form von Thesen formuliert. Auf eine ausführliche Darlegung von Implikationszusammenhängen wird verzichtet.