| Abstract [eng] |
The aim of the thesis is to see and reveal advantageous frames and possibilities for students’ (youth) cognition, training, self – expression, citizenship competences, answering their communication needs, formation of their value attitudes and socialization in the Radviliškis district. The goals of the thesis are to learn the conception and purpose of informal training, discuss formal and informal education systems and evaluate the trends of informal training in Lithuania; 1. to present the peculiarities of the organization of informal training; 2. to survey students’ opinion for the forms of informal training in the district and how it coincides with their needs; 3. to survey teachers’ opinion for the administrative possibilities of informal training in the Radviliškis district; 4. to prepare the references of informal training for improvement of the systems in the Radviliškis district. Hypothesis: the assumption that extra curriculum activities do not coincide with students’ needs and meaning to improve its organization, necessary for the optimization means of informal training activities. The main reason for secondary school teachers to participate in informal training activities is extra financial incomes, although this reason is distinguished as a drawback, organizing informal training activities by the teachers. The students understand informal training activities as extra arts, sports and different subjects’ activities which are not related with the school work. Under the students’ attitude the topical principle is being implemented by organizing informal training activities, so it is believed that students have a possibility to choose a topical activity in which they could develop their different possessed competences. The students relate the necessity of informal training activities with the possibility of their future activities, which require competences and skills that are gained and developed participating in informal training activities. Both the teachers and students think that informal training activities should not be related with leisure activities, so it is purposeful to claim that informal training activities are related with the developing new knowledge, skills and competences. |
