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AUTHOR
Aivars Pigoznis
PEDAGOGICAL LEADERSHIP ASPECTS OF LATVIAN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS’ LEADERS
Leadership of vocational education institutions’ leaders is one of the leading resources in order to provide access, quality, competitiveness and sustainability of vocational education. The goal of the research is to analyse leadership of vocational education institutions’ leaders on the basis of the Charismatic, Emotional, Anticipatory, Professional, Participatory, Cultural, Formative and Administrative Dimensions (Gento & González, 2012) identified due to the analysis of scientific literature and normative documents in the context of the vocational education reform. The outcomes of the quantitative research testify that students assess the vocational education institution leaders’ lea…
Improvement of Media Competence within Cooperative Learning Process in a Vocational Education Institution
<p><em>Basing on the theoretical formulations concerning the functions and competence of media, as well as cooperative learning the authors developed a model aimed at improvement of media competence of the vocational education institutions’ students. The elaborated model offers teachers in various vocational educational institutions to generate and develop ideas for media competence perfection, ensuring an opportunity in an interdisciplinary project to use the multiform functions of media competence (information, technologies, computer, network, critical and visual) and cooperative learning to ensure efficient learning process. The aim of the article is to analyze the results ob…
SOCIO-PEDAGOGICAL SUPPORT TO YOUTH PARTICIPATION IN INTEGRATION PROCESS
The purpose of the article is on the basis of theoretical formulations to analyze participation and integration as pedagogical category and socio-pedagogical means, facilitating the participation of youth in integration process in two aspects – in educational system and labour market, linkages between participation and understanding the integration as terminal (related to life goals), instrumental (means of reaching life goals) and opportune (related to opportunities) value as well as implicants of efficient participation.