Title Bendradarbiavimo tinklo tarp universiteto ir socialinių partnerių kūrimas Šiaurės Lietuvos regione: sociokultūrinės kooperuotų studijų adaptacijos atvejis /
Translation of Title Building collaboration network between university and social partners in the Northern Lithuania region: a case of sociocultural adaptation of cooperate studies.
Authors Vandzinskaitė, Deivida
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Is Part of Acta humanitarica universitatis Saulensis: Regionas: laikas, erdvė, žmonės.. Šiauliai : VšĮ Šiaulių universiteto leidykla. 2012, t. 14, p. 385-399.. ISSN 1822-7309
Keywords [eng] university ; social partners ; collaborative networks ; service-learning ; cooperative studies ; social capital ; sociocultural adaptation
Abstract [eng] The article deals with theoretical and practical possibilities for collaboration between universities and social partners. Service-learning is presented as one of the possible university-society collaboration strategies, which might help to meet new educational, societal and economic demands. The experience service-learning sociocultural adaptation at higher education institutions in Northern Lithuania is presented and analysed aiming to identify sociocultural factors and conditions under which service-learning was transformed into locally accepted form of this method, i.e. cooperative studies. The analysis showed that service-learning adaptation in Lithuanian socio-educational system is very much dependent on specific and unique, historical, social and cultural contexts. The distinct historical and sociocultural differences between US and Lithuania were the major drivers, which fostered the constitution of a new term of cooperative studies. Service-learning which is based on pragmatic, utilitarian and communitarian ideals in US aims at fostering the development of the democratic, multicultural and civil society. On the contrary, the Lithuanian perception of service is related to religious connotations or to soviet legacy. Therefore the term service was replaced by the more suitable term of cooperation, which emphasizes utilitarian collaboration and responds to the national need to strengthen the civic mission of universities and to the global ideas of knowledge-driven economy and society. Due to the new term, the method content has changed. Cooperative Studies are described as a creative scientific construct of service-learning and cooperative learning. Cooperative studies emphasize not only the collaboration with local communities, but also the integration with other social partners, i.e. non-governmental organizations, business enterprises, public sector institutions.
Published Šiauliai : VšĮ Šiaulių universiteto leidykla
Type Journal article
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2012