Search results for "Skill"

Shortages, skills and older workers in information technology labour market of Latvia

2021

This article examines the labour market situation in the sector of information technology in Latvia, paying attention to the insufficiency of labour force due to the skills gap and employability of older workers. The article is based on application of multidisciplinary research methods including employment and skills analysis theories, policy analysis approach and qualitative in-depth open-ended stakeholders interview method. To begin with, it analyses labour market skills gap versus potential of professional mobility and offers an overview of skill classification. Secondly, it focuses on the economic indicators of the information technology industry sector in Latvia and offers reflections …

Umiejętności i wiedza politechniczna uczniów w młodszym wieku szkolnym

2013

Projektowanie i realizacja edukacji technicznej w klasach I-III

2020

Dynamiczny rozwój nauki i techniki będący synonimem dzisiejszej cywilizacji stawia przed współczesnym systemem szkolnictwa wyzwania dotyczące działań preparacyjnych mających na celu ugruntowanie wiedzy i kultury politechnicznej ucznia. Rozwój techniki umożliwił człowiekowi zmienianie swego otoczenia oraz warunków życia. Obok nauki i sztuki, coraz wyraźniej wpływa ona na całokształt życia i stanowi bardziej znaczący wskaźnik kultury technicznej współczesnego człowieka i społeczeństwa.

Commentary: Long-term Practice with Domain-Specific Task Constraints Influences Perceptual Skills.

2018

The Development of Teachers' and Their Students' Social and Emotional Learning During the “Learning to Be Project”-Training Course in Five European C…

2021

This study was funded by a project Learning to Be: Development of Practices and Methodologies for Assessing Social, Emotional and Health Skills within Education Systems (#4120034) in the framework of Erasmus+ KA3 program (582955-EPP-1-2016-2-LT-EPPKA3-PI-POLICY). We are also grateful for funding by the Academy of Finland (#308352) and Finnish Strategic Research Council (#327242).

OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES OF SOCIAL MEDIA USE IN MUNICIPALITIES IN LATVIA

2022

The research was supported by the NATIONAL RESEARCH PROGRAMME “LATVIAN HERITAGE AND FUTURE CHALLENGES FOR THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE STATE” project “CHALLENGES FOR THE LATVIAN STATE AND SOCIETY AND THE SOLUTIONS IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT" (INTERFRAME-LV, Project No.VPP-IZM-2018/1-0005).

Mobile Apps and Social Media

2017

1The increasing penetration of smartphones among global population, especially among youth and children, has define a mobile and interactive media use without any precedent. A global connected world is the context in where our offspring are developing self-competences in media literacy because they manage technological devices at very early ages. This context is the state of affairs of this article in which we present two different steps: firstly, a theoretical study, showing the impact of mobile devices, focusing on smartphones and mobile applications where the question arisen is: What are children and young doing while online? Media literacy is also described in order to apply its dimensi…

Determinants of social skills of students from 7 to 12 years

2015

International audience; Differences of achievement in school, traditionally studied by researchers in Education, can be analyzed in terms of skills and especially social skills. This scientific field is under construction but social skills are becoming a compulsory notion for actors of the school system and for Educational Sciences.Through a multidisciplinary approach, this article proposes to study the determinants of social skills using social and educational indicators widely borrowed into the explanation of the differences of achievement models, with associated self-image, neuroticism and relationship with school measures. Indeed, these three dimensions are involved in the socialization…

Sociālo prasmju pilnveide 10. klases skolēniem latviešu valodas un literatūras stundās attālinātajās mācībās

2021

Sociālo prasmju pilnveides integrēšana mācību procesā īpaši aktualizējusies līdz ar pilnveidotā vidējās izglītības standarta stāšanos spēkā 2019. gadā un attālinātajām mācībām. Maģistra darbā tika veikts darbības pētījums ar mērķi izzināt sociālo prasmju pilnveides īstenošanu latviešu valodas un literatūras stundās 10. klasēs attālinātā mācību procesa laikā nolūkā pilnveidot latviešu valodas un literatūras skolotāju kompetenci. Lai sasniegtu mērķi, tika analizēta teorētiskā literatūra par sociālo prasmju pilnveidi un attālinātajām mācībām. Pētījuma ietvaros tika veikta Latvijas 10. klašu skolēnu anketēšana un 10. klašu latviešu valodas un literatūras skolotāju intervēšana. Tika risinātas te…

REDUCING SOCIAL STRATIFICATION VIA DIGITAL SKILLS IMPROVEMENT: THE CASE OF SOCIAL ENTERPRISES IN LATVIA

2021

Latvian social enterprises and social entrepreneurship are becoming important since the adoption of the Social Enterprise Law in 2017 (effective as of 01.04.2018). The number of social enterprises with the legal status and the number of financial grants awarded to social enterprises has been steadily increasing, reaching 161 and 110 of them have received support over 7 million EUR as of 28.02.2021, data of the Register of Social Enterprises. Covid-19 crisis is continuing to have a negative effect on the sector since Latvian social enterprises were not provided any complementary support despite the double-bottom lines they are achieving. Inability to provide structured support mechanisms in …