| Abstract [eng] |
The thesis analyzes the sociocultural adaptation of service learning in Lithuanian university. The service learning adaptation of USA origin in Lithuanian university is understood as the adaptability to the sociocultural factors which influence the conceptual modifications of the method, the expression of educational efficiency and the liberalization of the study process. The thesis aims at revealing the factors of the sociocultural adaptation of service learning in Lithuania and identifying the dimensions of educational efficiency and the study process organization analyzing the experience of the method implementation in Šiauliai university. During the adaptation and application of socioculturally distinctive service learning in the different socio-educational environment, the transformations of the method conception and its content take place and new sociocultural meanings are created both in the conceptual (the variety of the explanation of the method conception) and practical (variations of the results and process of the educational efficiency) levels, where many different visions and experiences of process participants (scientists, lecturers, students, social partners) meet. The research has revealed that the educational efficiency of socioculturally adapted method (which aims at educating professional specialists as well as active, civically engaged persons in Lithuanian university) is limited by the roles of study participants and behaviour models which are culturally and historically formed, the domination of traditional teaching paradigm in the pedagogical study system, the innovative forms and experience of the cooperation and partnership between the university and society as well as the lack of traditions of the civil and public participation. |
