Journal:Tiltai
Volume 66, Issue 1 (2014), pp. 237–248
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The article discloses main types of children’s interaction (“I”, “You”, “We”) and its meanings, emerging in natural environment as well as the type of pedagogical reconstructions, corresponding or not corresponding to these meanings. Using the method of conventionality and correspondence, it is orientated to the idea of respective education, defending the right of the child as a person and individual to remain unique in education. It is demonstrated how the educator can give a sense to this children’s opportunity, constantly communicating with the children’s world, interpreting education on the basis of suggestive egalitarianism ideas and implementing it as a child-adult dialogue.
Journal:Tiltai
Volume 73, Issue 1 (2016), pp. 223–238
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The article seeks to reveal the importance of critical evaluation of authority of social workers. The problem of authority and different meanings attached to the role of a social worker are discussed and the practical and theoretical value of the research study is revealed. The article presents the theoretical explanations of the concept of authority and its ethical implications for social work practice at a children day care center. It also discusses the empirical findings of the qualitative case study conducted at the day care center X. The perceptions of its practitioners, what authority of a social worker means and consists of and how to gain it, are peresented. The article includes a detailed description of the specific context of the case study and indicates the selected research methods. The degree of reliability and validity of research study are also discussed. The empirical data of the case study is analyzed and discussed and conclusions are presented.
Journal:Tiltai
Volume 66, Issue 1 (2014), pp. 221–236
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The article highlights that a modern society focuses on exclusive body care along with appearance of individuals and especially adolescents. Physical exterior of a person seems to be receiving an increasingly growing attention in everyday life situations, as beauty ideals shift in social environments along with requirements to comply with and pursue them. Research, analyzing body dissatisfaction, has received wide attention in a scholarly environment. Body related dissatisfaction has become a highly relevant issue, as it links to eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa and others, however there is a gap in research analyzing the pedagogical side of such issue. It is highly relevant to be aware of and understand body and body weight related problems because difficulties emerged during the early adolescence might persist during adulthood as well. Research aim – to reveal how adolescents perceive their physique and individual parts of their body and compare these self-assessments based on a gender. In 2012, using a research method of an anonymous survey a total of 1347 adolescents from 8th grades were surveyed. The research uses a questionnaire to study physique related self-assessment, designed by the author. Results obtained from the conducted research allow to conclude that research participants feel more dissatisfied with individual phenotype-dependent morphological and functional features of a body, which can be altered through well-chosen physical exercising. It was identified that research participants are more satisfied with individual morphological and functional features of a body, inherited from parents, i.e. genotype-dependent, which cannot be altered through exercising. Findings also reveal that respondents are mostly dissatisfied with shape, largeness and size of individual body parts as well as muscle weakness. Results also allow to conclude that significance attributed to certain elements of physique is gender-dependent.
Pub. online:4 Aug 2022Type:Discussion | ApžvalgaOpen Access
Journal:Tiltai
Volume 67, Issue 2 (2014), pp. 219–226
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Š. m. balandžio 24 d. Klaipėdos universiteto Pedagogikos fakultete Aida Norvilienė apgynė disertaciją ,,Kryptingas tarpkultūrinis studentų ugdymas, kaip tarpkultūrinės kompetencijos tobulinimo veiksnys (mokytojų rengimo universitete atvejis)“ (darbo vadovė – prof. dr. Vaiva Zuzevičiūtė). Disertacija atitinka LMT keliamus reikalavimus. Ją sudaro: įvadas, trys skyriai, diskusija-rekomendacijos, išvados, naudotos literatūros sąrašas, priedai; iš viso darbas apima 187 puslapius. Darbas vientisas, tyrimo problema ištirta.
Journal:Tiltai
Volume 73, Issue 1 (2016), pp. 207–222
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This article presents findings and discussions generated on the basis of the Danish-Swedish development project CareSam. The article will on the one hand focus on how work in groups consisting of representatives from different levels in the elderly care sector at one time served as learning spaces and cultural encounters in which established notions of older people and elderly care were challenged and discussed. Inspired by action research these challenges were brought forth through discussions of and through insight in practical experiences. On the other hand it will focus on the tendencies to narrow the diversity of perceptions of elderly people and their care, which were also seen in the project and led to stories in which the meaningfulness of care work were honored. Departing from the interviews presented in the CareSam film and parts of the empirical material produced in connection to the work in the project-groups this paper will ask whether it is possible to represent care work for elderly people with all the ambiguities it holds: How can we as researchers represent both meaningfulness and straining dimensions of care work? Can we avoid either supporting Florence Nightingale-ideals or cementing negative cultural perceptions of help-needing elderly and the people who support them in everyday life? In answering these questions and thereby reflecting on our own work process we apply a caring, a learning and a political perspective. Hereby the article wishes to formulate a methodological point: The CareSam cross sector collaboration produced important experience near knowledge, but also lead to present somewhat one-sided understandings of elderly care. Applying theoretical perspectives to analyze the empirical material and the working process, nuances the understanding and makes it possible to maintain immediately conflicting dimensions in this kind of work.
Journal:Tiltai
Volume 67, Issue 2 (2014), pp. 205–218
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This paper analyses the spatial distribution of graffiti in Klaipėda city. The main focus is concentrated on causes and spatial distribution of graffiti, similarities and differences between graffiti drawings in Klaipėda city. The analysis of graffiti drawings spatial distribution in Klaipėda city is based on few area researches. In this work all graffiti drawings are grouped into 5 graffiti style groups and are studied their spatial distribution. Different styles of graffiti drawings reveal not only drawers artistic skills, but also their motives and goals. In the end of the work, based on examples of foreign countries, suggestions about the possibilities of the usage of graffiti drawings in Klaipėda city are presented.
Journal:Tiltai
Volume 86, Issue 1 (2021), pp. 204–207
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2020 metai visam pasauliui įsimins kaip įtempta kova su negalia – žmoniją apėmusia neviltimi, siekiant įveikti pandemiją sukėlusį virusą. Iš pradžių tai buvo tikra negalia nepajėgiant įveikti baisios pasaulį užklupusios negandos. Ji buvo kolektyvinė, supranacionalinė, nors paveikė konkrečius žmones. Netrukus šalys suprato, kad bus neįmanoma įveikti pandemijos stengiantis tai daryti pavieniui, tad imta vienytis. Rodos, bendromis pastangomis ji jau įveikiama sutelkus dėmesį į išteklius, kompetenciją.
Kaip tik 2020 metais pasirodė habil. dr. Vytauto Gudonio, Vilniaus universiteto Šiaulių akademijos profesoriaus, monografija „Negalia visuomenėje ir vaizduojamajame mene“, kur nagrinėjama aklumo negalia: kaip į ją reaguoja visuomenė ir kaip apie ją „kalbama“ vaizduojamajame mene.
Journal:Tiltai
Volume 66, Issue 1 (2014), pp. 203–220
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The aim of the research is to investigate and then compare the globalization capacity of modern university lecturers in Ukraine and Lithuania on different stages of their professional development. The strategy which has been chosen for the aim realization is based on a psycho-diagnostic method and comparative approach toward results’ analysis and interpretation. The sample included 302 Ukrainian and 60 Lithuanian lecturers (N = 362). The paper represents a new psycho-diagnostic instrument – a standardized questionnaire GLOBIDMAR – for measuring globalization capacity of academicians from different European countries. Research results allow to compare globalization capacity of university instructors from Ukraine and Lithuania and to discover factors that influence the development of these measures under the conditions of rapid socio-economic, socio-cultural and professional changes. The level of globalization capacity appeared higher one in Lithuanian pedagogues in comparison with Ukrainian ones that affirms a higher level of their readiness to development of their own professional identity in the context of globalization processes in scientific-education area. Lithuanian university lecturers have stably high level of globalization capacity during the whole process of their professional development.
Journal:Tiltai
Volume 66, Issue 1 (2014), pp. 193–202
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The article deals with the problems of the qualimetry of giftedness caused by the lack of a conventional definition of the term giftedness and its quantitative criteria. The method of calculation of child giftedness’ level and the quantitative measure of its expression is offered. On the basis of the proposed technique, the difference between comprehensive and special giftedness is demonstrated. Proposals for realization of some trends of research in giftedness are provided with the aim of their comparison with the studies of various authors.
Journal:Tiltai
Volume 67, Issue 2 (2014), pp. 191–204
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This article analyse fundamental blog media features and overviews the blog use possibilities. The research is being conducted using theoretical induction, deduction and analogy research methods. Focuses in the short social media history, identified areas of research, analyse blog’s content characteristics, blog media definitions and classifications are compared.