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USING DISTANCE COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION TOOLS FOR GENERAL SOCIAL SERVICES
Get PDFThis paper discusses the use of communication and collaboration tools in the delivery of social services, based on the results of a qualitative study. The research question is what kind of remote communication and collaboration tools are used by social workers in the provision of social services. The paper focuses on the use of telecommunication and collaboration tools by social workers in their service delivery and activities. The study involved 22 social workers employed in social institutions in different parts of Lithuania providing complex services to families.The study found that social workers use mobile devices and that the most convenient and acceptable means of remote communication and collaboration are learning environments, audio and video data storage (YouTube), conferencing and chat software (MS Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, Skype, Facebook Messenger, Viber, WhatsApp, Board Connect, Telegram), social networks (Facebook, Messenger), technical means (smart phone, computer, Internet connection).
POSSIBILITIES OF A COLLEGIAL SUPPORT GROUP FOR IMPROVING THE PROFESSIONAL CONPETENCES OF TEACHERS DURING REMOTE WORK
Get PDFIn educational institutions, collegial support groups as the form of pedagogical work have long been known and have been incorporated into the system of the organization of methodological work. These are mainly administratively formed long-term activity groups. This study focuses on the less studied so far freely formed short-term activity groups in an educational establishment. The analysis of the activities of the above-mentioned groups as a whole highlight their capabilities in remote working conditions. The study is based on literature analysis and pooling and analysis of structured interview data. The structured interview was designed to find out whether and how teachers come together in groups during remote work, to solve problems that have arisen during the work and what results this work has given. The study concluded that the remote activities of the collegial support group are successful, provided that the educational institution already has a sufficiently long tradition of organizing these groups.
DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN CHILDREN WITH INSUFFICIENT LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN A PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Get PDFCommunicative competence in a pre-school education institution allows children to get to know each other and gives them the opportunity to learn about things and events that are happening around them. Communicative competence includes the linguistic, discourse, pragmatic, strategic and socio-cultural elements of language. Educators need to be able to find appropriate methods to develop communicative competence. The aim of the paper is to study theoretically how to promote the development of communicative competence in children with insufficient language development in a pre-school.Research method: analysis of scientific literature.The paper concludes that research is needed on the impact of the use of drama as a method on the development of communicative competence in pre-school children with insufficient language development
THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF THE ROLE OF THE SHADOW ECONOMY
Get PDFThe shadow economy is definitely a significant problem throughout the world. Research studies on the shadow economy still lack a single approach to the term shadow economy. Several definitions of the shadow economy are used to assess the role of the shadow economy.The present research aims to examine the theoretical role of the shadow economy and the definitions thereof given in various economic theories.Analysing the definitions of the shadow economy, researchers identify ambiguous interpretations of the term given in various theories. The term shadow economy has a considerable number of synonyms used for researching the shadow economy. Some definitions focus on hidden outcomes, whereas others focus on hidden employment. A definition of the shadow economy is of great importance in assessing the size of the shadow economy.The research employed the following methods: monographic, descriptive, as well as analysis, synthesis and document analysis
DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF SELF-CARE STATEGY SURVEY IN THE LATVIAN ADULT SAMPLE
Get PDFRestrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic are not only known to affect communication but also to threaten people’s physical and mental health. Self-care is an important method for reducing these threats. The aim of this study was to develop a multidimensional Self-Care Questionnaire, focusing primarily on psychological care providers. The questionnaire was developed in three stages: 1. After analysis of the literature and published interviews with professionals, 172 self-cares strategies were identified and grouped into 11 main topics; 2. items were generated and a content validity of each item was evaluated by 8 experts; 3. 76 items were included in the questionnaire, which was complede by 779 participants. Participants evaluated importance and attainability of subjective self-care activities using four-point Likert scale. The main score for each activity was computed by multiplying the indicator of the first part by the indicator of the second part. Based on the series of sequental Explanatory actor Analysis, the best performing 63 items were selected and a 14-scale structure of the questionnaire were obtained. All items had acceptable psychometric properties and all scales were internaly consistent, with exception of one scale “Amusement” which did not have acceptable internal consistency. The obtained 14-factor structure were confirmed by results of the Confirmatory Factor analysis showing good to acceptable model fit. The developed questionnaire can be a useful tool for exploring and evaluating self-care strategies and can be used for both research and psychological assessment purposses, as well as for self-assessment and self-monitoring purposes.
PEDAGOGICAL IMPROVISATION IN FORMING PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF THE FUTURE TEACHERS-PHILOLOGISTS
Get PDFThe article analyzes the concept of pedagogical improvisation, clarifies its content, functions and types, determinates its role in developing professional competence of students-philologists. During the research we used the following methods: observation, analysis, interviews, mathematical statistics. The aspects of preparation of future teachers-philologists for pedagogical improvisation are highlighted, and their preparedness criteria are defined. The methodological tools of research into the level of students\u27 ability to pedagogical improvisation are selected. The relevance of the topic is confirmed by the results of the survey of the students-philologists who are diagnosed with the level of ability to pedagogical improvisation both in the conditions of the traditional form of education and in the distance learning mode. 205 students of the specialties 035 «Philology» and 014 «Secondary Education» (Ukrainian language and literature) of Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University took part in the experiment. By means of experimental activities, the features of the influence of the pedagogical improvisation on the formation of professional competence of future teachers-philologists have been identified. It was found that the level of ability to pedagogical improvisation of students-philologists in the conditions of traditional education is higher than in the conditions of excessive stay in the virtual educational space. A step-by-step algorithm of using improvisation for development of the future teachers-philologists’ professional competence in the context of blended learning is developed.
AN ASSESSMENT OF TRANSPORT LOGISTICS STUDENTS’ PERSONAL FINANCE AND THEIR PERSONAL FINANCE MANAGEMENT SKILLS
Get PDFKnowledge about personal finance, economics’ expression understanding, ability to manage own money are important nowadays. The main aim of this research is to compare the Transport Logistics students’ personal finance management skills during the Covid-19 pandemic. The respondents were 197 Transport Logistics students of Vilnius College of Technologies and Design. They filled out an electronic demographic data form online and evaluated their personal financial management skills. Results of the research showed students earnings are to 440 EUR per month. Their amount per month was more than 440 EUR, the main groups of expenses, revealed skills of saving, view into the personal control of finance and sufficient rating of knowledge
SELF-ASSESSMENT OF LATVIAN SUPERVISORS’ DIGITAL COMPETENCE
Get PDFThe importance of digital competence (Dc) is significantly increasing as global digital transformation continue rapidly to develop and digital solutions are extensively integrating into all areas. As a result, Dc is included as one of eight core competences for lifelong learning. The present study aimed to find out the self-assessment of the importance (an assessment of how significant and necessary a certain value is) and attainability (an assessment of how attainable a certain value is) of Latvian supervisors’ Dc. Digital competence self-assessment questionary is theoretically based on a major European Union research project, DigComp 2.1 and identifies the key components of Dc in 5 areas, namely, information and data literacy, communication and collaboration, digital content creation, safety and problem solving. 56 respondents participated in the online survey during October 2021. The importance and attainability indicators of Dc statements were evaluated on a 5-point Likert scale. The study indicated rather high importance of Dc (3 of 51 statements were evaluated as very important, 43 as rather important and 5 as moderately important). The indicators of the attainability of Dc varied from rather unattainable to rather attainable (26 of 51 statements were evaluated as rather attainable, 21 as average attainable and 4 as rather unattainable). Wilcoxon signed-rank test indicated statistically significant differences in 34 out of 51 statements of Dc that was evaluated higher in importance than attainability. The study results show high level of supervisors’ awareness of the digital competence importance. The obtained attainability results allowed to highlight the need for the further digital competence improvement for the supervisors, especially at such digital competence areas as safety and problem solving.
MANAGERS\u27 SELF-DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF CAREER GROWTH
Get PDFCareer growth or career planning is a process that a person can go through to improve their professional status. It is the process of making decisions for long term learning, to align personal needs of physical or psychological fulfilment with career advancement opportunities. In the study, the relevance of self-development of career and professional growth of managers was determined by the need to organize events to support career growth. In order for the process of professional development of managers to be of high quality, a methodology is being developed based on the characteristic and relevant knowledge of adult education. Central to this process is proper planning, timing and flow between learning new information, practice and evaluating the improvement process. A manager\u27s career vision is the most important part of a leadership development plan. This will set the general tone for the professional development strategies that the manager must implement. He needs to rethink what he really wants to achieve in his professional life. Internal motivators for managers’ self-growth play an important role in this re-evaluation process.
SCHOOLTEACHERS-PARENTS INTERACTIONS AMID DISTANCE AND BLENDED LEARNING: TWO-YEAR EXPERIENCE OF OVERCOMING NEGATIVE INFLUENCES OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Get PDFThe paper aims to show the shifts within the paradigm of schoolteachers-parents interactions amid distance and blended learning. The authors examine two-year experience of overcoming negative influence of the Covid-19 pandemic onto the system of general secondary school education. Two web-based questionnaires (for schoolteachers and for parents) were developed using Google Forms. The main objective is to get information from schoolteachers, on the one hand, and from parents, on the other hand, as for challenges they faced amid blended learning caused by the influence of the Covid-19 pandemic on the system of general secondary school education. The research methodology targeted at summarising theoretical issues on the topic and collecting empirical data comprises both the theoretical method of analysis and synthesis and the empirical method of web-based surveys. The research sample includes 2269 respondents (619 general secondary schoolteachers and 1650 parents) from different regions of Ukraine. As a general conclusion the researchers identified and substantiated the system of psychological and didactic tasks that are to be solved for harmonising further schoolteachers-parents interactions amid distance and blended learning caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Moreover, the researchers do believe that the existing theoretical and methodological foundations of organising and providing the educational process at the stage of general secondary education are to be radically reviewed.