Towards the learning society : educational issues Palmira Jucevičienė, Gediminas Merkys, Gerd-Bodo Reinert (eds.)

Includes bibliographical references. Chiefly English; 3 articles in German. Liberal education as a facilitator of the democratic development --The exchange of cultural values as the context of teacher's activity --Examination of the role of socialization in liberal education --Examination of some educational requirements for liberal education --Implications of teaching and schooling of a liberal democratic cenception of education --Erfahrung, beobachtung, bewertung - Selbstbestimmtes Lernen durch teilnehmerorientiere Seminararbeit --Challenges for the universities at the beginning of the learning century --Challenges for a changing university in the globalized world --The values of the university in a liberal democratic society: critical exploration --Changes in the role of the university library in the context of transformation in educational paradigm --Business communication competence and the landmarks for its development in university studies --Critical pedagogy and language learning/teaching in the context of university change --Zur Einflussnahme deutsch-litauischer Handelsbeziehungen auf die litauische Sprachpolitik --Testing motivational mechanism: the expression of its peculiarities at university studies. Educatinal change on a way to a learning society: management/market --Educational innovations as a means of educational changes: problematic aspects of conceptualizing, locating and assessing educational innovations --Critical exploration of a proper role of market forces in adult education --Verbal communication aspects in the process of educating in philology in the context of new educational mentality --Vocational education in post-industrial age: in defense of a broad conception of vocational education? --Vocational education, market and values: analysis of some key issues --Transition from the elite to mass higher education: problems and perspectives --New approaches in education for social and cultural development --Ethics of social order for education as a controversy in a pluralistic democratic society --An integrative approach to the theory and practice of social work --Controversies related to the development of national identity in the curriculum of Lithuanian Common School in the context of European dimension --Changes in Lithuanian system of children care and a new perception of foster care --Students' computer literacy and social environment in the context of the society with limited resources --Lernen in der Informationsgesellschaft - ein leben lang --Professionalisation of Lithuanian socio-educational work in the context of modernisation of the Lithuanian education system