| Abstract [eng] |
Globalisation processes make influence on the rapid shifts of economic, social, cultural and informational development. Constant change of society raises new requirements for Lithuanian educational system and for one of its composite part – educators, as educators are the most important “resources”, which help to achieve good results in the educational system. While the need to gain knowledge is growing, new requirements are made for the activities of educators in pre-school education; therefore, it becomes diverse. Seeking that the educators would assure qualified education process, it is important to encourage constant professional motivation of the educators. The quality of educators' work depends upon their own motivation, and the latter – upon how they are motivated in their work. Only motivated educators are able to work productively. The object of the research – professional motivation of pre-school educators. This analytical work has been made seeking to investigate professional motivation of pre-school educators. For this research the hypothesis was made: it is likely that professional motivation of pre-school educators is mostly related to such motivation factors as payment for work and raising qualification. Questionnaire survey has been performed in 2009, in Šiauliai city day-nurseries and kindergartens. 147 pre-school educators and 25 tutors working in pre-school institutions have participated in this survey. This final work consists two sections: the first section provides with the analysis of scientific literature on the investigated topic, discusses the concept and importance of motivation and professional motivation, determination and analysis of working motivation, factors making influence on professional motivation; while the second section of this work provides with the results of the research, their analysis, formulated conclusions and recommendations. Performed statistical research data analysis allowed to check and prove the hypothesis raised for this research, and affected the formulation of research conclusions as well as recommendations. |
