On the ground of conceptual metaphor conception, metaphor is discussed as thinking strategy, which is implemented in language by metaphorical expressions. Metaphorical expressions for which target domain is criminal and crime were gathered from texts which were published in two Lithuanian news portals in the years 2001–2015. It is important to reconstruct the conceptual metaphors not only because they reflect viewpoint of society regarding certain phenomenon, but also because implemented in the texts of media influence on the public opinion, inasmuch as the metaphor is not only some linguistic form and conceptual structure, but also manifestation of communicational function.
Taikant mokslinės ir metodinės literatūros analizės metodą atskleista: švietimas, kaip neįgaliųjų studijavimo kontekstas, ir studijos aukštojoje mokykloje, kaip karjeros prieiga. Teorinė analizė įgalino pateikti švietimą kaip daugiafunkcį veiksnį, nuo kurio priklauso žmogaus ugdymasis, socialinis dalyvavimas, gyvenimo darna. Karjera, taikant teorinę analizę, šiuolaikiniu požiūriu pristatoma kaip pasirinkta veikla, kuri gali būti visuomeniškai ar individualiai reikšminga, išreikšta per socialinį žmogaus dalyvavimą. Taikant literatūros ir dokumentų analizės metodus istoriniu ir geografiniu aspektais ištirta Lietuvos aukštosiose mokyklose studijuojančių neįgaliųjų situacija, atskleidusi, kad daugiausia studijuojančių neįgaliųjų turi judėjimo negalę. Taigi atliktas kiekybinis tyrimas, kuriame dalyvavo judėjimo negalę turintys žmonės – patyrusieji stuburo traumą. Atlikus kiekybinį tyrimą ištirtos neįgaliųjų studijavimo, užsiėmimo ir laisvalaikio leidimo tendencijos. Identifikuoti statistiškai reikšmingi ryšiai tarp sociodemografinių respondentų duomenų ir ugdymosi bei laiko leidimo kaip svarbių socialiniam dalyvavimo ir karjeros sričių.
Straipsnyje aptariamas paradoksas,susijęs su regionų programų vertinimu ir regionų sanglauda Europos Sąjungoje: augantregionų programų vertinimo skaičiui, regionų sanglauda nedidėja. Jei jauįmanoma apskaičiuoti regionų sanglaudos politikos rezultatus ir poveikį, taikodėl neįmanoma paskatinti jos plėtotės ir išmatuoti taip, kad taptų akivaizdu,jog ji didėja? Arba kažkas negero vyksta su regionų sanglaudos politika, arbasu jos matavimais. Kol kas mes krypstame į blogų matavimų diskursą: tai, kąvertiname, ir tai, kaip vertiname, priklauso nuo vertinimo metodologijų. Tai labaipopuliarus požiūris. Jį straipsnyje bandome išplėsti, eksperimentuodami sunaratyvų teorija. Taikydami dispozityviąją analizę penkiuose straipsnioskyriuose iliustruojame prasmių kūrimo procesą, išryškiname keletą bendrųpamirštų prasmių ir reikšmių, kurios susijusios su regionų programų vertinamųjųveiksmų multidiscipliniškumu.
Straipsnyje analizuojamos neuroekonomikos teorinės koncepcijos, pagrindiniai aspektai ir nustatytos esminės sąsajos su neurorinkodara. Kita vertus, pagrindinis dėmesys straipsnyje skiriamas nuostolių baimės efekto analizei neuroekonomikos aspektu. Nors mokslininkai diskutuoja apie nuostolių baimės efektą, jo svarbą neuromokslams, tačiau pastebimas tokio pobūdžio tyrimų trūkumas Lietuvoje. Taigi šis straipsnis skiriamas išsamesnėms nuostolių baimės efekto teorinio pobūdžio interpretacijoms neuroekonomikoje. Siekiama, išanalizavus teorinius aspektus, atlikti nuostolių baimės efekto analizę neuroekonomikos aspektu, taikant mokslinės literatūros sisteminimo, lyginamosios analizės ir atvejo (nuostolio baimės efekto) metodus, bei pateikti pagrindines teorines interpretacijas. Atlikus analizę sistemiškai pateikiamos teorinės nuostolių baimės efekto interpretacijos neuroekonomikoje, identifikuotos smegenų sritys, susijusios su iracionalių ekonominių sprendimų priėmimu ir išsiaiškinta, kad neuroekonomika gali paaiškinti nuostolių baimės efekto pasireiškimą.
A person is a sexual being expressing oneself as a man or a woman. People exercise relationships and possess a certain gender identity. However, as a result of the sin and damaged sexuality, there is an incentive to use oneself and others as instruments whereas it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to build and maintain relationships and to experience sexuality (femininity or masculinity) and one’s gender the way that the Creator has planned for the human nature. Restoration of these sin-damaged abilities of relationships, sexuality and gender identity is possible by turning to God, recognizing His plan for people and believing in His power and willingness to restore within a person what has been ruined. Different practices of Christian faith, psychotherapy or self-help groups serve this purpose. One of the ways to render assistance is programs of “Living Water”. In Lithuania there are two active programs: “Living Water” and “In the Beginning”. In a number of cases these programs have a positive impact on personal relationships, sexuality and gender identity.This article focuses on God’s plan, personal relationships, sexuality and gender identity, which were all corrupted by the sin, discusses possible solutions to restore what has been damaged by the sin, as well as presents the analysis of the outcomes of the research on the influence of the programs of “Living Water” on women’s personal relationships, sexuality and gender identity.
Personality profiling nowadays is a common organisational practice aiming to identify a set of traits of an individual, which distinguish him/her among other people. Based on the assumption that personality factors constitute a fundamental indicator of development potential of a particular person, it is possible to depict his/her functioning style in a job position and hence predict professional suitability in performing a given professional role. The research project was conducted by the means of the 2010 Polish adaptation of the NEO-FFI Personality Inventory. The analysis pointed out the differentiating effect of a professional group under the influence of the results obtained in Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to experience, and Conscientiousness. The major differences between the groups of managers and specialists occurred in Neuroticism, the lesser ones in Extraversion and Conscientiousness and the least in Openness to Experience. However, the analysis did not reveal any interaction effects between professional group and gender. However, it showed a concurrent influence of age and professional group on the level of Extraversion and Conscientiousness.
For twenty years, as soon as the talking about the possibilities brought in by cycles and attractiveness of the cycling related activities had started, the party of skeptics immediately appears arguing that absence of good bicycle paths means absence of bicyclists per se. Or, on the opposite – as long as the cycling mainstream is weak there is no need for paths. Therefore this dilemma goes on for more than 20 years in Lithuania, thus at least one generation in the country has lost its chance to appreciate the joy of full-scale cycling. On the other hand maybe we shouldn’t have to complain thoroughly, as fragmented cycling trails are constantly being fitted. But how the fragmentation and mostly unplanned trail scattering may be associated with regions remains unclear. Even more specific question – can trips on bicycles lead to more integrated regionalization and who are those using cycling paths in the future – the authors try to answer in this article.
Journal:Tiltai
Volume 79, Issue 1 (2018), pp. 77–94
Abstract
Higher education curriculum has been a subject of various disputes in the scholar literature. Official curriculum (such as study programme description, syllabus, study material) and unplanned hidden curriculum that occurs in during the learning process. Official curriculum defines learning goals, tasks, methods and learning outcomes. Meanwhile actual learning process contains not only the official parts of the curriculum, but also knowledge that is created and shared during learning process, especially in collaborative learning environments. That leads to assumption, that collaboration between learners and knowledge sharing is a condition for hidden curriculum to appear. In this article, a problem question is analysed: what elements of collaborative learning enables hidden curriculum in study educational environments? Main goal, using scholar literature analysis, to define the balance between official and hidden curriculum in collaborative learning environments. The article looks into the definitions of official and hidden curriculum and applications in study environments. Certain variations of collaborative learning allow to reach different levels of interaction (and hidden curriculum). The application of collaborative learning in study process has to be well guided and balanced, encouraging students to work in homogenous groups seeking for one well defined purpose.
Journal:Tiltai
Volume 76, Issue 1 (2017), pp. 77–100
Abstract
This article presents findings of the study on the structure of social representation of lecturers’ activities and their dynamics on the basis of the credibility of a source of information. The study is sought to find out what constitutes central and peripheral elements of social representation of lecturers’ activities in view of survey participants (undergraduate programme students of Klaipėda University), whether the said elements change upon reliable and unreliable sources of information, and what determines potential dynamics of elements of the representation. Answers to the above questions will significantly help to understand lecturer-student relationships, to change negative or adverse communication attitudes into positive ones. Insights of this study can be applied in lecturers’ activities so as to better understand today’s students, a role of lecturers, formation of positive attitudes in students towards lecturers’ activities and communication.