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Author(s):
Editorial Board.
Page No : 51-52
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COVER
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Cover page, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2020, SPVK/EPMQ
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Author(s):
Editorial Board.
Page No : 53-53
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CONTENTS
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Contents, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2020, SPVK/EPMQ
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Author(s):
Rita Makarskaitė-Petkevičienė.
Page No : 54-57
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IKIMOKYKLINIO IR PRIEŠMOKYKLINIO UGDYMO POKYČIAI: IR NERIMAS, IR DŽIAUGSMAS [PRESCHOOL AND PRE-PRIMARY EDUCATION CHANGES: BOTH JOY AND WORRY]
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Journal’s introductory article deals with preschool and pre-primary education actualities. At the end of November, the President of Lithuania signed Education law amendments. From the year 2023, the conditions for the social risk families bringing up preschool age children (5-6 years) should get better, because municipalities are obliged to ensure pre-primary education for all children. There were a lot of discussions up to that. Municipality and parents’ forum and other organisation representatives expressed worries. Municipalities state lacking kindergartens, preschool and pre-primary education teachers, educational environments are not arranged for such age children, etc. Parent representatives fear if their children are not seated in a school desk as first formers, and learn from textbooks, and so on. This problem is essentially solved; 800 are planned to be requalified, among them preschool and pre-primary education teachers. The project “Innovations in the kindergarten” closing next year should significantly contribute to education content creation, and so on.
Changes in preschool and pre-primary education are grounded on neuroscience research and recommendations as well.
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Author(s):
Akvilė Dominyka Cicėnaitė-Milaševičiūtė, Agnė Juškevičienė.
Page No : 58-76
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PRADINIŲ KLASIŲ MOKINIŲ KALBINIŲ GEBĖJIMŲ UGDYMAS(IS) TAIKANT NEURODIDAKTIKOS PRINCIPUS LIETUVIŲ KALBOS PAMOKOSE [DEVELOPMENT OF PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENT LANGUAGE SKILLS: APPLICATION OF PRINCIPLES OF NEURODIDACTICS IN LITHUANIAN LANGUAGE CLASSES]
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Neurodidactics, which is grounded on integration of neurosciences into the educational process, and its contribution to education have been more and more extensively analysed lately. The scholarly literature distinguishes four principles of neurodidactics: linking of new information with the already possessed one; revision; positive emotions; information assimilation employing several senses is important for development of school learners’ linguistic abilities. Taking into account significantly lower learning outcomes of Lithuanian as the state language, which were observed among national minority learners, and responding to the unified primary education curriculum of Lithuanian language for schools with Lithuanian as the language of instruction and for national minority schools, which entered into force in 2016, attempts are made to search for well-targeted and neuroscience-based ways of language education. Therefore, the goal of the research is to theoretically substantiate and empirically investigate the development of primary learners’ linguistic abilities applying neurodidactic principles. The phenomenographic research strategy was used to attain the research goal employing the semi-structured interview with Lithuanian teachers from national minority schools. The empirical data was analysed applying the content analysis.
The obtained results allow stating that during the lessons only two senses (i.e., sight and hearing) are mainly considered aiming at development of linguistic abilities. While revising the material learnt in the classroom, all the linguistic abilities are developed but revising this material at home the focus is laid only on one of the abilities. It was also revealed that speaking the state language evoked negative emotions to national minority learners.
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Author(s):
Dalia Dambrauskienė, Reda Ponelienė .
Page No : 77-91
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IKIMOKYKLINIO UGDYMO ĮSTAIGŲ VADOVŲ DARBO LAIKO PLANAVIMAS: PROBLEMOS IR GALIMYBĖS [WORKING TIME PLANNING OF HEADS OF PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS: PROBLEMS AND OPPORTUNITIES]
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Activity areas of the head of the educational institution include school administration and management, purposeful use of human and material resources to ensure the quality of education. The school context influences the heads’ working day and their time distribution; therefore, it is relevant to conduct research to evaluate the contextual factors determining the opportunities and limitations of heads’ working time planning. The aim of the research is to investigate the distribution of working time of pre-school institutions’ heads for performance of different functions and to reveal the opportunities and limitations of working time planning.
The study was conducted in 2018-2019. During the first stage of the study, one head of the pre-school institution from each of three European countries (Lithuania, France, Italy) was surveyed. The results of the survey have shown certain similarities in heads’ activities due to the specificity of the head’s work, starting with the formation of strategic aims, parents’ and social partners’ involvement in the institution’s activities and finishing with the assessment of the quality of the institution’s activity. Given that heads of different countries work in quite different contexts and under different working conditions, it is not appropriate to draw summarising conclusions, but the obtained data can be used in developing the methodology of analogous research.
During the second stage, the topics of planning the working time of the heads of pre-school educational institutions were analysed. The heads of Siauliai pre-school educational institutions, involved in the study, have revealed that they spend most of their time working with the documents of the institution, solving personnel and financial issues. In other words, the activity prevailing in the work of the heads of Lithuanian pre-school institutions is administrative-bureaucratic processes, while the heads themselves are inclined to use part of that time for supervision and improvement of the educational process and for their own professional development. Although one of the head’s functions is proper and timely planning of activities, and thus, of their own working time, in practice obstacles to time planning, related to management of human and material resources and multi-tasking, when several activities differing in content and scope are performed simultaneously, are encountered.
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Author(s):
Samson Onyeluka Chukwuedo, Charles Chukwuedo Nathaniel.
Page No : 92-103
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TEACHER EDUCATION POLICY, ETHICS, AND QUALITY OF GRADUATES: TRIAD ENTITIES FOR REMODELING GENERAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING
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The rating of an education system largely depends on the policy, ethical practices, and quality of the graduates. Thus, this research explores lecturers’ perception of the teacher education policy, ethics, and quality of its graduates. The research also theorized that policy, ethics, and quality are triad entities of an ideal educational institution. Hence, the relations between policy, ethics, and quality of graduate teachers were ascertained. The mixed-method design (qualitative and quantitative approaches) was employed. Participants were 606 lecturers of colleges of education and universities in Nigeria. For data collection, questionnaire and focus group discussions were employed. The questionnaire was validated by three experts, while its reliability (α = .889) was determined using Cronbach’s alpha method. Quantitative data were analysed with mean, standard deviation, and bivariate correlation. To analyse the qualitative data, thematic analysis was employed. Results revealed that teacher education policy and ethical practices in Nigeria were unsatisfactory, as perceived by the lecturers. More so, the quality of graduate teachers from Nigerian tertiary institutions declines. Hence, the need for attention on policy, ethics, and quality in teacher education programmes.
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Author(s):
Editorial Board.
Page No : 105-106
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