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ASPECTS OF HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT OF HEALTHCARE WORKFORCE IN THE CONTEXT OF LIFELONG LEARNING: A RAPID REVIEW
Get PDFAn individual\u27s knowledge and skills, also known as human capital, shape its professional quality and become a valuable resource for the organization when entering an employment relationship. Investment in human capital, promoting the formal and non-formal lifelong learning of the workforce while implementing targeted capital monitoring, is essential to achieve the strategic goals of the organisation. In addition, in particularly critical areas such as healthcare, human capital management can play a crucial role in ensuring the quality of healthcare and patient safety. The study aims to analyse the research carried out on the aspects of human capital management of the healthcare workforce and its role in the health sector. To achieve the goal, a rapid review was performed by including articles indexed in the databases Scopus and Web of Science in the period 2017-2021, according to search strategy. The study shows - human capital is mostly analysed at the national or regional level as an indicator of a country\u27s level of development (macro-dimension). At the same time, relatively little research has been conducted at the micro-dimension, where management of human capital of the healthcare workforce has been studied at the institutional or sectoral level. Research on human capital management in the healthcare sector at the institutional level only fragmentarily reflects its importance and does not provide a comprehensive picture of effective management methods or systems, as well as benefits or barriers to implementation. There is a significant lack of research on the interaction of human capital management with specific factors in the healthcare sector, such as the quality of health care and the safety of patients and healthcare professionals.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF COOPERATION SKILLS OF SENIOR PRESCHOOLERS IN THE EXPERIMENTATION PROCESS
Get PDFThe authors of the article consider the importance of cooperation skills as some of soft skills of a person. The significance of developing these skills from preschool age on is emphasized. The influence of children\u27s experimentation on their all-round development and readiness of senior preschool children to study at school is considered. The interrelation between group activities in the process of experimentation and the development of senior preschoolers’ cooperation skills is shown. Based on the observation of children\u27s activities in the process of experimentation, the educator’s participation in this process and the survey of senior preschoolers and educators reveal the aspects of the organization of children’s group activities that have to be improved. The peculiarities of the educator\u27s participation at all stages of the experiment done by senior preschool children in groups are analyzed – during the goal setting, discussion of the experimental procedure, summarizing, as well as during the verbal report on the results of the experiment. Emphasis is placed on the fact that it is important to organize experimentation centres at preschool institutions, which will allow children to freely experiment and form a team to carry out search activities. The psychological and pedagogical conditions for the children\u27s experimentation in groups being organized at preschool institutions by educators for the successful formation of senior preschoolers’ cooperation skills are formulated.
LIFELONG LEARNING AS A VALUE
Get PDFDue to changes in the labour market over the last thirty years adult education has developed significantly. Adult education is becoming an integral part of every person’s life and advancement towards certain goals. Many adults attempt to learn independently, by using information technology. During the Covid-19 pandemic, educational processes could only continue in e-environment, using e-platforms (Zoom, Microsoft Team, etc.) or blended learning (a mix of face-to-face lessons and lessons on e-platforms).The study was carried out within the framework of the Master`s Thesis “Transformation of Educational Values in Lifelong Learning”. Aim of the research: to seek the views of the Latvian population on the current educational values in lifelong learning in order to compare them in the period before and after the Covid-19 pandemic.The paper analyses scientific literature and research; analytical reasoning is based on the results of the questionnaire
PREPARING STUDENTS FOR THE USE OF THEATER ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN\u27S DEVELOPMENT SOFT SKILLS: EUROPEAN CONTEXT
Get PDFThe article substantiates the importance of introducing European experience in the training of future teachers in Ukrainian higher education institutions. Features of preparation of future teachers for realization of theatrical activity in work with children are opened, attention is focused on social and educational value of theater for development of the general and special abilities of children. The functions realized by theatrical activity in the process of soft skills development of children of primary school age are singled out. The article emphasizes the various forms and types of theatrical activities and ways of organizing them with children (from creating a theatrical character or a specific image to its interpretation and display on the stage).The purpose of the publication is to present the experience of the higher education institution of Ukraine in preparing future primary school teachers for the use of theater activities for children`s development soft skills taking into account the European context.In the research the results of diagnostics of primary school teachers on the use of theatrical activities in their own pedagogical practice are presented. The results of monitoring the awareness of future primary school teachers with the theoretical and methodological principles of using theatrical activities as a means of developing soft skills in primary school children and their level of readiness to organize theatrical activities with children are demonstrated. The experience of teachers of Ukrainian pedagogical universities in the implementation of European innovative technologies and practices in lectures and practical classes is demonstrated. The article reveals the content of preparing students for the use of European experience in the organization of theatrical activities in the education of children, offers guidelines.
FIRST-YEAR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ EDUCATIONAL/COGNITIVE MOTIVES FOR STUDYING IN RIGA AND SMOLENSK SAMPLES
Get PDFFor a successful pedagogical process, university teachers need to know the learning motivation of students, monitor it, and take into account its peculiarities while developing learning materials and choosing educational strategies. Especially great attention should be paid to the motivation of first-year students, as in the first months of studies freshmen face increasing difficulties sometimes negatively affecting their motivation. The paper presents some results of an international study of students’ motivation and focuses on one group of learning motives of first-year students, namely, on their Educational/cognitive motives. The aim of the study is to analyse and compare the Educational/cognitive motives of the first-year students at the universities of Riga and Smolensk, as well as to study the interrelationship between this kind of learning motives and the psychological atmosphere in the student group. In the survey carried out in December 2019, 129 students from EKA University of Applied Sciences (Riga, Latvia) and Smolensk State University (Russia) participated. The technique of diagnostics of learning motivation by 7 content scales was used for data collection. For studying the psychological atmosphere in the student group, the technique of 10 bipolar scales was chosen. Table method, descriptive statistics, analysis of statistical indicators, method of comparison, correlation analysis were used in the data processing. The data analysis shows that a few months after the start of studying, the learning motivation of the first-year students is at an average level. However, for successful training, it could and should be improved. In the Latvian sample, indicators for both the general learning motivation and Educational/cognitive motivation are slightly higher than in the Russian one. The correlation analysis reveals statistically significant correlations between the psychological atmosphere and motivation of students. The results of the study are useful for further investigation of students’ motivation and search of the ways to increase it.
PECULIARITIES OF SOCIO-EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT FOR WOMEN EXPERIENCING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THE CONTEXT OF A PANDEMIC
Get PDFThe article deals socio-educational support for women experiencing domestic violence in the context of a pandemic. Domestic violence is a fairly common problem, but it is still often overlooked. It is usually analysed from a purely social or criminogenic perspective. There is a lack of a holistic approach to the phenomenon of violence, emphasizing the possibilities of educational empowerment. In the context of the pandemic, the possibilities for both social assistance and educational empowerment have changed. The information disclosed in the article is relevant for institutions and communities that face with the need to organize professional help for domestic violence victims during the Covid-19 pandemic situation. The theoretical parts of article contain the analysis of the publications made on the domestic violence and socio-educational support, educational empowerment process of the review. The empirical part of the research present how Covid-19 pandemic situation affects the provision of socio-educational assistance to women experiencing violence
ICT SCAFFOLDING FOR SCHOOL EDUCATION IN COVID-19 LOCKDOWN
Get PDFThe COVID-19 situation, where the educational process had to be as flexible as possible, revealed that the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) has become a challenge for Lithuanian schools. In early 2021, we conducted focus group discussions in four Lithuanian schools to investigate how educational technology can enable an inclusive educational process. The analysis of the key determinants of pedagogical success and schools’ decisions on the unified use of ICT to include all students in learning, the scaffolding of the educational process using ICT revealed the two main factors. These factors ensuring the scaffolding process are: (1) how teachers remove the learning barriers and support students by use of educational technologies; (2) what helps teachers to transfer responsibility to students and enables their participation in the educational process. When we examined the potential of ICT to engage students, we found several differences between schools, namely: technology provision, the teachers’ ICT skills, the experience of the school community itself, the readiness of the school, teachers, and students to teach and to learn by distance or blended learning applying new ICT-based educational scenarios. The study results showed that the gains made during the COVID-19 lockdown in Lithuania in combining teaching solutions with the use of technology can become the ‘new normal’ and can help schools address the issue of inclusion for all students.
MOTIVATIONAL COMPONENTS OF ADULT LEARNING WITHIN THE INFORMAL EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS
Get PDFThis study investigated the motivational components of adult learning within informal educational settings using Constructivist grounded theory methodology. The research question - what are the motivational components of adult informal learning viewed in the Equine Assisted Learning practice framework as a learning space, where primarily learning takes place. Three dominant motivational components of adult learning were identified from the study and offered for discussion. Equine-Assisted Learning as an informal learning environment incorporates motivational components that appear intrinsic over extrinsic motivation, performance over achievement, and immediate satisfaction over long-term benefit. These motivational components are detailed further through three surfaced subcategories: interest-driven learning, immediate satisfaction, and desire for the challenge
EXECUTIVE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM \u27MOTHERSHIP\u27 IN HEA AND PUBLIC NGO RESEARCH SYNERGY
Get PDFAs academics, we cannot influence our students\u27 social and economic early conditions easily. Family roots and social-economic parents\u27 position of upcoming students to HEA institution is given. Education purposes are not just a degree. Pathway to those achievements in HEA is crooked and theoretical content transferred by lectures\u27 good faith in systematic preparation leads to curricula fulfilment only. The HEA level is dealing with various challenges daily. Those hidden challenges may be invisible insurances of bright future for students in the non-ideal institutional world, balancing on the curricular theoretical framework without functional connectivity. A starting position of our PhD students is poorly supported, especially in the EU context policy for humanities in an early carrier trajectories of research skills development. The endeavour to transfer an excellent practical outputs, developed by students in institutional conditions, research and practice go hand in hand. This analytical study introduces mixed methodological design Interpreting the results of content analysis of interviews conducted with students in PhD programmes and proposes strategies for the best practice transfer to a legal NGO entity. Firstly, monitoring questionnaire analysis helps to create essential structure of the interviews with PhD students\u27 according to their needs. Outputs of this analysis reinforced the transfer of non-governmental professional support for early carrier academics already since 2018. Moreover, it identifies factors of early academics\u27 identity belonging under institutional support curricula. Secondly, National policy content analysis points in 2022 to fundamental improvements in early carrier academics institutional policy, based on practice connection in scientific research HUB. Although, presented outputs are new outcomes of pilot cooperation with NGOs\u27 association Máma studuje z.s., they already represent an applied output for further scientific students\u27 development and suggest how to enrich entrepreneurship with research and teaching excellence to make an impact on other societies out of academia
THE ROLE AND IMPORTANCE OF DETERMINISTIC COMPUTER SIMULATIONS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNICAL CREATIVITY
Get PDFThe deterministic computer simulations (abbr. DSK) are a group of simulation software most often used in the process of technical education. Innovative education based on the introduction of this group of software into the online and offline learning process creates a new work environment conducive to creativity and creativity in humans. This article presents theoretical discussions as well as the place and role of DSK among modern teaching aids