The analysis of literature on liberalisation of the services reveals that public goods, public institutions, privatisation and liberalisation have become the main subject of studies and different debates of the economists, politicians, as well as theoreticians and practicians of public administration during the last century. In the course of the period, there have been changes both in theoretical ideas and practical solutions while providing public services. During the last thirty years, theory of the public goods has involved topics of the analysis on the liberalisation and privatisation processes. Most of the studies related to the liberalisation of the services have been concentrated to financial aspects (expenses and income), while social benefits of the liberalisation, such as public interest, equality, versatility and accessibility of services, transparency, social cohesion and justice, have been left in the background.
Straipsnyje ištirta Vakarų Lietuvos regiono studentų verslumo ugdymo situacija. Nagrinėjama, kaip aukštojo mokslo institucijų lygyje ugdyti studentų verslumą, skatinant kurti nuosavą verslą. Straipsnyje apibendrinta mokslinė literatūra verslumo ugdymo tematika; išskirti kritiniai studentų verslumą lemiantys veiksniai; atliktas studentų verslumo ugdymo Vakarų Lietuvos regione situacijos tyrimas; pateikiama siūlymų, kaip tobulinti verslumo ugdymo procesą Vakarų Lietuvos aukštosiose mokyklose.
The article sheds light on the importance of Candlemas candle as a subject apotropei. The emphasis is laid on the magical actions related to the protection of an individual and the specific protection of the common living space (home, farmstead). The suggested conclusions concern apotropei functions of Candlemas candles and transformation of the symbolic forms of protection in the second half of the XX – early XXI cent. The main provisions of the article are illustrated with the materials collected in the course of ethnographical expeditions.
Jam tetrūko mėnesio iki 65-ojo gimtadienio. Jį išplėšė iš mūsų rudeniškas sausis, toks nesveikai drungnas, sumaišęs gyvybės ir mirties ciklus, savo neatšaukiamu kirčiu užbaigęs stoišką kovą su liga. Gruodžio pabaigoje siųsdamas kalėdinį atviruką su tikėjimo, vilties ir meilės žodžiais vis dar tikėjausi stebuklo. Stebuklas neįvyko. Pasakyti gražiausius, tikriausius žodžius mes apmaudžiai vėluojame. Ypač geliamai tai suvoki, kai į tylos pasaulį išeina artimiausi, mylimiausi – tie, kurie tokių žodžių labiausiai nusipelnė, kurie dosnia ranka juos sėmė ir sėjo būdami gyvi. Dabar, jau po laiko dėliojant atsisveikinimo žodžius, jauti savo pastangų bergždumą, nes tikrieji žodžiai tarsi pasitraukė anapus, o likę šiapus atrodo netikri. Dabar norėtum švarios tylos – norėtum toje tyloje susigrąžinti jo veidą, balsą, juoką, vėl įsukantį į buvimo sūkurį ir uždegantį gyvenimui.
Journal:Tiltai
Volume 66, Issue 1 (2014), pp. 193–202
Abstract
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.
The research presented in this article discusses the specificity of health discourse, which has not been described yet in Lithuanian linguistics: it is strived to substantiate the title of the discourse under analysis and present one of the possible ways of analysis. The approach to language that is close to cognitive linguistics is taken into consideration, thus it is strived to describe the fragment of health discourse with reference to the theory of metaphorical model. On the basis of the examples drawn from daily newspaper “Komjaunimo tiesa” of 1980–1989 years and daily newspaper “Lietuvos rytas” of 1990–2001 years it is compared how during more than 20 years, metaphorical WAR model has been realized in Lithuanian public discourse.
There are three prefaces in Christian Gottlieb Mielcke’s (1733–1807) dictionary Littauisch-deutsches und Deutsch-littauisches Wörter-Buch (1800). The first is written by the compiler himself; the second by Daniel Jenisch (1762–1804), a Berlin theologian and linguist; and the third by Christoph Friedrich Heilsberg (1726/7–1807), a counsellor in the Königsberg Chamber of War and Domains and inspector of East Prussian schools. The ‘Friend’s Note’ (Nachschrift eines
Freundes) of the philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) is placed after all of them. It is a friendly, quite short, one-and-a-half-page commentary on the Lithuanians and their language, written in free form, and cannot be called a true preface.
The article analyses the circumstances of the appearance of Kant’s ‘Friend’s Note’ in the dictionary, and discusses the ideas expressed in it.
This paper presents development of school buildings influenced by certain principles of educational paradigm and new educational ideas. The research is interdisciplinary, as it questions how physical education environment complies with the concept of education. Importance of study, which involves analysis of the educational nature and the architectural space is evident not only in Lithuania but also in the whole world at the moment of change of the educational nature, when the existing buildings are renewed according to the changed needs, and new educational architectural objects are built rarely. This article covers a review of period until the year 1940 of Lithuanian schools architecture and educational provisions in a wider context, necessary for further studies to find out whether the changing educational tasks and teaching methods have changed the school buildings.
Journal:Tiltai
Volume 67, Issue 2 (2014), pp. 191–204
Abstract
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.
Journal:Tiltai
Volume 73, Issue 1 (2016), pp. 191–206
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The article analyzes the quality of education services efficiency, effectiveness and accessibility aspects. The theoretical part of the article discusses the concept of education and their range of services. A detailed presentation of educational and social services. Describes the attitude of the respondents to provide educational services. Research period 2007–2014. Empirical research carried out in Lithuania: Klaipėda, Telšiai, Tauragė, Šiauliai and Kaunas. Empirical research participated 520 respondents (IX–XII / II–IV G students).