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ENGLISH LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE AT LATVIA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE
Authors: Ozola Inese , Zeidmane Anda 
Published: May 2015

<p>Information culture of a person is the combination of knowledge, skills and habits of work with information and information technologies. Information culture characterizes the level of a person’s development in the information society. On the other hand, the English language, as “the language of science and technology” serves as a mediator in the information search not only for personal purposes, but also for the study and research purposes online. The aim of the present paper is to examine the impact of e-environment on improving students’ English language knowledge at the tertiary level. The paper describes the results of the research carried out among the undergraduate students to determine their opinion regarding studying English at the university and their habits in using e-environment in English. The results of the study could assist in updating the content of ESP courses, including CLIL elements and innovative activities based on Web 2.0 tools in teaching/learning English.</p>
Organization of Pedagogical Practice for Facilitation of Students’ Creative Professional Activity
Authors: Strode Aina 
Published: May 2015

<p>Development of teacher’s creative individuality is a dynamic process of personality transformation and self-development. Aim of the article is to determine the possibilities to facilitate students’ self-dependent professional activities as a condition of creativity. Within the framework of the article, the results of the experts’ judgment method are analyzed using content analysis. Experts’ assessment confirms the correspondence of the model to the consummation of student's individual development and learning objectives. Students' creative professional activity is contributed by facilitation of student-oriented and social-oriented studies activity; provision of the action approach; ensuring the unity of theory and practice between the study courses and pedagogical practice as well as in the content of each one.</p>
PROMOTION OF STUDENT SELF-DIRECTION IN COOPERATIVE LEARNING IN UNIVERSITY
Authors: Strods Gunārs 
Published: May 2015

<p>This article presents results of implementation of principles of direction and liberalization in cooperative learning in teacher training. The purpose of the study was to work out and implement an educational model for promotion of student self-directed learning skills in teacher training in university, and explore the relationships between the cooperative learning process and self-directed learning development. Empirical data were collected through self-directed learning-readiness tests (SDLRS/LPA), student self-assessment questionnaires, and interviews at the beginning and the end of the semester. The data of experiment group were compared with control group data, and 170 students were involved in the study. Results indicate that self directed learning readiness improves through cooperative learning processes for students of all levels, while in traditional process below average and average level students’ readiness improves, and above average level students’ readiness expressions are limited and readiness for self-direction decreases.</p>
Possibilities of Computer-supported Collaborative Learning in Blended-learning
Authors: Ulmane-Ozoliņa Lāsma 
Published: May 2015

<p>Higher education institutions in Latvia offer blended learning where traditional face to face lectures are combined with e-learning options. Research on blended learning in Latvia is very little. Author offers her view on blended learning analysis in Latvia and possibility to introduce computer-supported collaborative learning as tool to involve students in more active learning and learners’ community building. As theoretical background author uses sociocultural theory and participatory metaphor. Article describes several very important issues to put attention on when starting to introduce CSCL and blended learning in Latvia’s higher education institutions.</p>
Students’ Integrative Collaboration in the Early Youth in the Educational Establishments of the Construction Professional Direction
Authors: Van Gejeka Nataļja , Ignatjeva Svetlana 
Published: May 2015

<p>This article presents the third part of a learning environment study in juvenile groups in Latvian a secondary technical school and deals with methodological aspects of learning environment organization in the context of students’ integrative collaboration. This study consists of three parts. The first part of the study reveals the presence of some organizational problems in teaching technical subjects in secondary technical schools related to the creativity of students. The second part of the study defines prevailing types of learning environments in technical schools and learners’ reactive anxiety levels regarding practical lessons. The third part clearly states how to create a learning environment with the goal of ensuring the conditions for student creative abilities development, widely using an integrative collaborative approach in the practical lessons of the technical discipline called Building Constructions at Riga Construction College’s school. Results show this approach failed to show a significant increase in student creativity.</p>
INFLUENCE OF INTERNATIONALIZATION PROCESSES IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE
Authors: Virgailaitė-Mečkauskaitė Eglė , Lubkina Velta 
Published: May 2015

<p>Since integration and globalization processes are accelerating in the world, the demand to internationalize education and studies increases as well as parameters of the activities of higher education institutions change. International competitive ability of European higher education area, international mobility and high level of university graduates’ employment as well as successful integration into international labour market are the main aims of Bologna process. Bologna declaration, various documents of conventions (European convention of higher education institutions, Salamanca) and communiqué documents (of Prague; Berlin; Bergen) related to the declaration devoted to the creation of common European Higher Education Area raise the necessity of higher education policy emphasizing internationalization, the conception of lifelong learning. The documents mentioned above emphasize the development of European dimensions and content internationalization in study programmes, training of a flexible, mobile, constantly improving and public active specialist who will integrate into the competitive labour market, mobility of the academic community and international cooperation. The development of intercultural competence becomes a more topical subject of the research taking globalization processes into consideration. That is why it is important to understand the influence of internationalization processes in the institution on the development of Master’s degree (MA) students’ intercultural competence through their experience gained in the study process. The aim of the research presented in this article is to discuss the influence of internationalization processes in the institution on the development of MA students’ intercultural competence. A scientific problem question raised in the research is how MA students telling their life story reveal the experience gained in the process of higher education internationalization which influenced the development of their intercultural competence.</p>
TOWARDS USABILITY INTEGRATION INTO E-LEARNING DESIGN
Authors: Jirgensons Merija 
Published: May 2015

<span>While e-learning use has sharply increased, the drop-out rate is high. This paper addresses some of the aspects that cause users to reject e-learning and not finish. It focuses on the concept of “usability”, especially pedagogical usability that is currently central to usability design. While the term is nebulous, it is identified by attributes such as learnability, efficiency and (subjective) satisfaction. Attributes can be measured and designers add new ones as the need arises. Satisfaction has become the focus of pedagogical usability experts who claim the term includes motivational and emotive factors and may be measured by psychometric testing. Currently, efforts are underway to integrate pedagogical usability into e-learning design and create attractive, flexible features that are easy to handle and available on demand. Efforts are also underway to design mobile learning that incorporates usability principles. Usability improvements have been incremental because the e-learning process is not clear to designers, but it is expected that awareness and innovations will correct this problem in the future.</span>
CONTEMPORARY THEORIES OF ADULT LEARNING
Authors: Babajeva Ludmila 
Published: May 2015

<p>Due to the adult learning theory transition from cognitive to comprehensive aspects, this article analyses contemporary theoretical notions about adult’s learning. In order to characterise the modern view on adult, the most recent insights into the education of whole adult person (P. Jarvis), three dimensions of learning (K.Illeris) and the critical theory contribution (S.D. Brookfield) will be discussed. All of mentioned, globally-renowned theorists are of the same opinion and contribute to the general adult learning theory – P. Jarvis pictures the learning process from a viewpoint of a human as holistic organism, K.Illeris develops his theory in relation to the pedagogical conditions of learning, whereas Brookfield discusses an adult in the context of social, political and democratic concept.</p>
THEORETICAL CONCEPT OF LEARNING PROCESS IN FOLK HIGH SCHOOL
Authors: Babajeva Ludmila 
Published: May 2015

<p>Folk high schools during last 160 years have been known for being unique nonformal education institutions with their own philosophical conception established by Danish philosopher N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783-1872). Founded as national consciousness and Danish culture supportive institutions, folk high schools in short time became centres of democracy. The main ideas of these conception – „living word”, „enlightenment”, „enliving”, „school for life”, „personal development” – have made these institutions as providers of personal enlightenment, development and self-realization, where students enlived their transformations through dimensions of body, feelings and mind.</p>
PECULIARITIES OF COMMUNICATION IN THE EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY OF THE MUSEUM
Authors: Burceva Rita 
Published: May 2015

<p>One of the basic functions of a museum as a cultural institution is education of the society, satisfaction of persons’ aesthetical and cognitive needs. The aim of the article is to find out what aspects of the communication process are related to maintaining the interest of the museum visitors and provision of the availability of information in its educational activity. The research has emphasized the standpoints of museum communication in relation to cooperation partners and users of museum services. The elements of communication described in the research are considered in the context of museum environment. The second part of the article is devoted to the analysis of the results of the empirical research showing the most appropriate ways of getting information for visitors and their satisfaction with the received educational and recreational services in the museum.</p>
ANALYSIS OF SELECTED AREAS OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY OF SENIOR CITIZENS
Authors: Gil Alina , Nowacka Urszula 
Published: May 2015

<p>The aging of the society caused increased interest in problems of the elderly. This article presents the place of seniors in the educational space, defines the selected forms of their educational activity. Education counteracts social exclusion and sense of loneliness, provides access to the amenities of the modern world, allows the seniors to satisfy their need for self-accomplishment. Seniors thus face challenges they have never confronted before, while the age of transformation forces them to engage in continuous education, which becomes not only a duty, but also an obligation. Developing the expected forms of education of the elderly is one of the most vital tasks in the years to come.</p>
Ethical Competence and Possibilities of Dialogic Education
Authors: Kincāns Vladimirs 
Published: May 2015

<p>This article is dedicated to the possibilities of shaping ethical competence through dialogic education. The problem of shaping a future specialist’s ethical competence in many respects depends on the quality of teaching ethics as a training discipline as well as on the teaching methods. Dialogic education is the most promising form of moral values introduction and ethical competence development.</p><p> </p>
Creating and Implementation Elective Courses at Higher Education Institution - Experience Analysis
Authors: Hahele Rudite 
Published: May 2015

Rīga StradiņšUniversity (RSU) Internal Rules of Studies No 1 stipulate that alongside thecompulsory study courses, students must choose a number of elective courses inall six years of their studies. A considerable part of medical studentsare planning to work as general practitioners. Current trends in the societyand health care allow to conclude that more and more patients wish to usenatural remedies therefore family doctors must possess good knowledge in thisfield. The staff of the Department ofBiology and Microbiology offers an innovative study course „Medicinal Plantsand Their Use”. The course must correspond to the highest quality standards inorder to be chosen by the students. Thearticle summarizes the experience in developing the course, as well as analysesits implementation, evaluation and perfection.
Bilingual Academic Competition on Region Studies as an Effective Agent of Giving a Boost to Gifted School Children
Authors: Ryzhova Tatiana Semyonovna , Kuznetsova Natalia Yurevna 
Published: May 2015

<p><em>This article's focus is universities helping young learners make a motivated choice of their personal learning path. The necessity to support students' motivation from their early years to adulthood is emphasized. The article also introduces a notion of “bilingual academic competition”, which is regarded as one of the most efficient ways to achieve the goal, providing for the development of students’ creative skills, professional potential, and helping to recognize the learners identified as the gifted.<strong> </strong></em></p><p> </p><p> </p>
Aesthetic Theories as a Background of the Artistic Tolerance
Authors: Sobol Natalia 
Published: May 2015

<p><em>Artistic or creative activities appear in people’ everyday lives to any extent. They are especially important for personalities whose professional employment is in touch with art, for example teachers of music. Art is “the international language” of intercultural and historical communication between people and objects which lived before, live nowadays and will live in the future. Tolerance as a social phenomenon is present in each kind of interrelationship, consequently in art too. Therefore we attempt to justify the presence of tolerance in the artistic fields (music in particular). We call it an artistic tolerance and point out that it is relevant to any active creative processes. We are supported by the main ideas of aesthetic theories from the Antic till 18th century to find the relevance of artistic tolerance.<strong> </strong></em></p><p> </p>
Art Pedagogics in Computer Graphics
Authors: Nebesayeva Zhanar , Koneva Svetlana , Tanirbergenov Medeubek 
Published: May 2015

<p><em>This article discusses the use of information technology, namely computer graphics. The possibility of using artpedagogicheskoy activities in computer graphics. From the perspective of the conceptual field students. Influence of processes unfolding in the information, spiritual levels, exacerbate the problem of improving the education system in accordance with the challenges of the time. In the context of the transformation of Kazakh school informatization of education is increasing scientific and practical need to find efficient models, innovative forms and methods of construction of educational pro¬tsessa. Providing favorable conditions for personal self-determination and human professio¬nalnogo. As well as substantial characteristics of the concepts of "artpedagogika" in the context of the problems solved by the visual arts. The place and importance of art in education of the younger generation.</em></p><p> </p>
The Use of E-learning Information Educational Environment in University under the Realization of Educational Programmes
Authors: Medvedeva Irina , Martynyuk Oksana , Pankova Svetlana , Solovyova Irina 
Published: May 2015

<p><em>The structure of information educational environment for the support of the students’ mastering the competence-oriented higher educational programmes is considered in the article. The</em> <em>experience of its using is submitted.</em></p><p> </p>
Theoretical Aspects of the Building Professional Competences of the Hospitality Industry Specialists
Authors: Silicka Inese , Ļubkina Velta 
Published: May 2015

<p><em>The theoretical aspects of the concept of the professional competences of future hospitality industry specialists are examined and analysed in the paper.</em> <em>The study is carried out within the framework of development of the doctoral thesis “Interrelation of the professional competence theories and the practice in the hospitality industry”.</em> <em>The</em> <em>components and constituent elements of the professional competences of the hospitality industry specialists are defined in the research; the concepts “professional independence” and “professional mobility” are defined.</em></p><p> </p>
Independent Reading of Adapted Science Texts in Teaching Russian as Foreign Language: Student Motivation
Authors: Abramova Marina 
Published: May 2015

<p><em>Many studies in the field of second and foreign language learning have focused on student motivation and the factors affecting it. Likewise, positive motivation is essential for individual learning and a key factor in successful individual reading in a foreign (second) language. Most teachers believe that science texts are more challenging for L2 learners; consequently, the issue of facilitating L2 learners’ motivation is highly significant in reading instruction. The objective of the currant research is to find out if the factors creating and maintaining foreign learners’ reading motivation are used in Russian language textbooks, in particular, in the structure of reading exercises. The paper includes a review</em> <em>of literature on motivation factors in individual reading and </em><em>foreign language learning and provides an analysis of reading exercises of 25 Russian language textbooks in the context of reading motivation. </em></p><p> </p>
Identification of Career Management Skills Related Problems in the Study Process of Podologists
Authors: Saulīte Mārīte , Andersone Rudīte 
Published: May 2015

<p>Despite the competencies acquired in study process, results of learning, diploma and provided guidance measures podologs as same as other young specialists often lack skills to create successful proffesional career in their field.</p> <p>At this moment in Latvia, specific proffesion, including podologs, career management skill set is not defined. For students of podology learning of mentioned skills is indirectly integrated in educational process, which is reflected by the study program aims, methods and expected results.The aim of the article is to analyse career management skills identification problems in study process of podologs and in this regard, by empirical research results on podologs career management skills in the study process.</p><p> </p>
Latent Structure of Reflective Learning at the Higher Educational Institution: Mixed Methods Research Results
Authors: Bubnys Remigijus 
Published: May 2015

<p><em>The article presents results of the research, conducted using mixed methods research strategy: the reflective learning model as a prerequisite for curriculum development and improvement in university studies. The qualitative study was implemented using unstructured reflections, written by 65 prospective special educators studying at the university. The phenomenological hermeneutical method of data analysis enabled to disclose students’ experiences as preconditions for reflective learning, continuing studies at the university, and reveal impact on changes in personal conceptions, based on reflection of experienced situations. The quantitative study, which was attended by 389 students, aimed to disclose general trends of students’ reflective learning in theoretical and practical studies. Primary and secondary factor analyses enabled to disclose the latent structure of the investigated phenomenon – reflective learning. The constructed reflective learning model, based on prospective special educators’ example, can be described by 7 key dimensions, which can be treated as main trends, seeking improvement of the curriculum, implementing reflective learning at the higher education institution, and development of students’ reflection competency during studies.</em></p><p> </p>
Key Approaches to Professional Training of Social Teachers – Experts in Prevention of Teenage Deviant Behavior
Authors: Sorochinskaya Elena , Chaltseva Irina 
Published: May 2015

<p><em>The article is devoted to the problem of professional training of social teachers in the context of modern society. The authors prove the urgent need to change the content of training programs for social teachers, make alterations into methodological support and mechanisms of academic process organization. The authors share experience of social work aimed at prevention and correction of deviant behavior of children and teenagers of some regions of Russia. The paper covers the main approaches to organization of professional training of social teachers. The authors offer conceptual model of social-teachers preparation that enables to counter the challenges that Russian educational system has to face nowadays. </em></p><p> </p>
Applied E-Studies and Traditional Studies to Rise the Motivation of 1-St Year University Students
Authors: Ratniece Dace , Cakula Sarma 
Published: May 2015

<p class="IATED-Affiliation">On-line education is quickly becoming a prominent and important piece of the education. There are four types of On-line education: online, web facilitated, blended/hybrid, traditional. Because online type of education is very popular way of communication among universities students and between student and teacher, it would be perfect kind to motivate students, especially in the 1st year, who, apart from reduced study fees, require extra motivation and moral support from educators. The goal of the paper is to research optimal proportion between traditional teaching and using digital technologies influencing on student motivation.</p><p> </p>
Teacher - Pedagogical Creativity and Developer Promoter
Authors: Riashchenko Viktorija , Živitere Marga Brigita 
Published: May 2015

<em>Creative trends in the formation of professional and pedagogical culture of the teacher, including the creation, development and use of pedagogical innovations is a means of updating educational policy with regard to the training of highly qualified personnel . It is Therefore the development of pedagogical creativity is an important condition for successful education. Pedagogical creativity directly affects the development of the student. Furthermore, professional motivation is an important factor for the competitiveness of the institution. Higher vocational training is a fundamental component of an integrated system of continuing professional education in today's highly competitive job market. The process of developing professional motivation in modern conditions is not possible without the use of pedagogical creativity.</em>