| Abstract [eng] |
The Master's thesis analyses the expression and improvement of the quality of youth non-formal education in developing general and professional competences. Non-formal education is an integral and continuing part of education. It aims to form the personality through the development of competencies. Non-formal education exists in parallel with formal education, which is aimed at promoting the innate strengths of children and young people of all ages, revealing various skills, inclinations, promoting creativity, cultural values, health efforts, and crime prevention in educational institutions (Miliūnienė, Vaitkevičius, Bakanovienė, Mockevičienė, 2009). The emphasis on the quality of non-formal education in vocational education schools is not separated and evaluated in the same way as non-formal education in general education schools, without emphasizing better possibilities for the development of professional competences. The aim of the research is to investigate the quality expression of youth non-formal education by developing competences in vocational education institutions. The following tasks were raised to achieve the purpose: 1. To highlight the characteristics of youth non-formal education of youth. 2. To evaluate the variety of competences acquired during vocational training. 3. To reveal the expression of quality of non-formal education of youth in vocational education institutions and the documents regulating their activities. 4. To determine the possibilities for improvement of youth non-formal education through the development of general and professional competences in vocational education The hypothesis is raised – how vocational education institutions do not utilize the opportunity to organize high-quality non-formal education by developing various young person's competences. Qualitative analysis methods were selected for the achievement of the purpose: qualitative analysis of the content of documents, analysis of the content of survey data of non-formal education organizers, vocational training institutions managers and students of vocational schools, categorized into categories and subcategories. |
