Lina Kaminskiene

• Doctor of Education
• Professor at Vytautas Magnus University

The focus of this chapter is on the critical analysis and review of the implications of the institutional, procedural and curricular reforms of VET provision for their potential to empower socially vulnerable youth in Lithuania. Particular attention is paid to the shifts of the VET policy and the reform goals between the social integration and deve...

Teacher professional vision as a concept is gaining importance in research on teaching, and recently models for studying teacher professional vision and student self-regulated learning (SRL) have been proposed. There are interview and video intervention studies investigating teacher professional vision for SRL, but no real-life classroom research s...

This paper explores the institutional, organizational, and individual level capacities of VET teachers and schools in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Norway to support vulnerable students to help them to complete their education. Documents and secondary statistical analysis carried out in and across the four countries, revealed pronounced differenc...

The research on integrated learning in primary grades in Lithuania was based on the curriculum spider web concept proposed by Akker (2003, 2010). In discussing successful experience of integrated curriculum design, development and implementation, researchers emphasize the balance between the main components of the curriculum: 1. The rationale or vi...

Our paper explores the use of digital media as reflected in teachers' beliefs and practices in using ICT and digital AI-based toys in daily pedagogical work. The basis for this is the result of a questionnaire that was carried out in Germany, Italy, Denmark, and Lithuania within the framework of the EU project "I am not a robot. Working with AI in...

This study was based on the concept of teacher professional vision, in which professional reasoning plays a crucial role, and investigated how video with gaze overlay and heatmaps from the mobile eye tracker can support teachers’ professional self-reflection and professional vision development in higher education. Four university teachers wore a mo...

Despite the significant research interest in teachers’ innovative activities, the role of work experience and professional development (PD) as predictors of science teachers’ innovative work behaviour has rarely been studied. By using the TIMSS 2015 data of three countries with different levels of student achievements in science (Japan, Lithuania a...

The book explores the potential of learning outside the traditional classroom when students gain real-world experiences in a variety of contexts and public spaces such as built, natural and virtual landscapes, museums, heritage sites, science centres and community venues. The authors of the book promote and put the flexible and ‘plastic’ concept of...

The paper presents an overview of challenges and demands related to teachers’ digital skills and technology integration into educational content and processes. The paper raises a debate how technologies have created new skills gaps in pre-service and in-service teacher training and how that affected traditional forms of teacher education. According...

Eye-tracking application in social sciences including entrepreneurship education has increased significantly in the recent years. This technology has been used to investigate the learning process and how to foster it through instructions delivered, material used and the learning environment created. Traditional research with eye-tracking applicatio...

The article presents a novel phenomenon, namely, the phenomenon of withdrawal in the students of forms 5 to 8 with learning difficulties when learning remotely under the critical conditions of COVID-19 pandemic. The phenomenon was revealed through focus group discussions with the teachers of forms 5 to 8, educational assistance professionals, and s...

This article presents a historical and contemporary account of Lithuania’s national public education assessment system and its transformation since the country’s declaration of independence from the Soviet Union in 1990. We explore how the external examination system has developed in relation to ongoing curriculum reforms over the last 30 years, an...

The study deals with Lithuanian science teachers’ self-confidence in teaching science and its role in teachers’ innovative activities on the basis TIMSS 2015 data set. The latent construct of science teachers’ self-confidence in teaching science was examined using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Seeking to disclose the influence of science teac...

The researchers in this book address the phenomenon of innovative work behavior and aim to reveal the relationships between the science teachers' innovative work behavior and personal, cognitive, and environmental factors.

This study deals with the implementation of cognitively challenging tasks for students in science education following professional development interventions for teachers based on the theory of change. These tasks require non-routine behaviors and encourage students to work beyond instructions and accept a high level of responsibility. This study ex...

Few studies have investigated the relationship between teachers’ leadership and creativity, and thus far, no quantitative or qualitative studies have been undertaken focusing on teacher leadership in the context of teacher creativity and, more specifically, in the context of the phenomenological structure of teacher creativity. Thus, the study pres...

Co-creation of learning has been conceptualised as a learner-centred pedagogical approach with implications for students’ proactivity, metacognitive, and collaborative involvement. Due to the complexity of the concept, it is difficult to distinguish and measure in practice, with studies reporting measures for co-creative practices mostly in the con...

The critical situation in education caused by COVID-19 has significantly reduced the involvement of pupils from vulnerable groups, particularly those with low learning achievements. The aim of this study is to reveal the modeling of the sustainable educational process and the factors that ensure optimal learning achievements of pupils from vulnerab...

Personalised learning embraces the elements of mutual ownership by learners and teachers, flexible content, tools and learning environments, targeted support, and data-driven reflection and decision making. The current study utilises a mix of instrumental case study (Stake, 1995) and deductive thematic analysis (Braun, Clarke & Terry, 2015; Terry e...

Today, the traditional role of teachers is challenged, and teaching practice requires less time for face-to-face instruction, a unique position that does not impose responsibilities on one person (teacher or student) and creates a common teaching and learning space in which new knowledge is co-created and socially developed. This change requires te...

Despite the abundance of decades of research into teacher leadership, uncertainty remains due to confusion around the notions of teacher leadership and the unity or at least the authenticity of definitions, and there is a need for a deeper understanding of this leadership process as the teacher works with students in the classroom. The existing def...

The paper discusses how the school microclimate could be improved within the school community, based on the results of a research carried out in 15 regional schools in Lithuania. The analysis is specifically focused on how the school community could be strengthened by improving the relationship between teachers and schools’ administration. Followin...

This article presents the findings of a comparative research conducted during the lockdown among public school heads in Lithuania and Slovenia in spring 2020. The study highlights how the school heads organized remote education, what challenges they faced, what examples of good practice they developed, and how these could be used to deal with simil...

This book illuminates the educational potential of nuclear tourism and learning about nuclear power in informal and non-formal learning settings. The authors present a case of elaboration of the educational virtual nuclear route in the Ignalina Power Plant Region, Lithuania. Nuclear tourism takes its shape at the junction of several types of touris...

Changes in the education from a teacher-centered to a student-centered approach requires changes in schools and in teacher education. One of possible ways is personalized learning (PL). It is a new concept in many countries around the world. PL is closely related to individualized, differentiated learning, inclusive education principles (Abbot, 201...

The COVID19 pandemic has caused massive disruption in education practices worldwide and Lithuania was no exception. This article investigates how this period of uncertainties has been perceived by Lithuanian schools during school lockdown. The study aimed to explore the challenges that Lithuanian schools faced and how distance education practices h...

In the 21st century, teachers’ learning is viewed through the lens of sustainable development as a holistic, transformative and collaborative learning process. Acknowledging that teacher professional development is a prerequisite for educational quality, it becomes necessary to look for professional development factors that could be relevant to sus...

The article presents the findings of research conducted during the lockdown among school principals in Lithuania. The research aimed to analyse how school principals organised distance education , the challenges they faced, examples of good practice they developed, and how these practices could be used to deal with similar situations in the future....

Meta-learning, a contemporary learning paradigm, will be analysed in this article. This study aims to analyse and conceptualize the definition of metalearning, to provide evidence for the application of metalearning to learning, and to single out and name the features that allow the development of metalearning in the context of selfdirected learnin...

In research on teacher leadership, teacher workload, teaching time allocation, and teacher self-esteem in teaching and at school are neither studied as challenges or influencing factors nor are they seen as related to leadership at all. In educational research the mentioned factors are mostly studied in relation to teaching effectiveness or quality...

A key challenge for teacher education globally is to ‘equip all teachers for effective learning in the 21st century’ (OECD 2011). In Higher Education, as well as schooling, the ground is shifting, ‘quietly but steadily’, away from a teacher-centred to a learner centred approach, through which educators increasingly ‘adapt their teaching in accordan...

This paper presents the results of the concept analysis of co-creation of learning and discusses how this concept is applied in the educational context. The concept co-creation of learning is a border concept, which is increasingly used in diverse areas, however, there is a lack of a current theory regarding the subject in the existing educational...

The purpose of the current paper is to explore the concepts of "teacher leadership" and "teacher-leader". The current article highlights and compares the usage of the two concepts, explores the new perspectives for determination of teacher leadership within school environment. It draws from literature on teacher leadership and on-the-job leadership...

The paper discusses two main approaches to personalised learning through humanistic and functionalist approaches and tries to identify the shared areas. The paper argues that these areas are related to the development of a flexible curriculum and are focused on learner's needs and potentials, learner's ownership of the learning process, recognition...

The notion of ‘teacher leader in a classroom’ recently has been shifted. In the past, teacher leadership in a classroom was limited to didactics and expertise. Teachers have long served as ‘executors’, ‘executants’, not ‘leaders’ who are capable to manage the change and co-creation of knowledge within the interaction with students in a classroom. T...

The purpose of the current paper is to explore the concepts of “teacher leadership” and “teacher-leader”. The current article highlights and compares the usage of the two concepts, explores the new perspectives for determination of teacher leadership within school environment. It draws from literature on teacher leadership and on-the-job leadership...

Over the last decade, STEAM has been treated as a model of interdisciplinary integral education that facilitates solving social, ecological and economic problems related to technological development in different countries. STEAM education is most efficient when it is organised in early childhood education, thus increasing children’s motivation to s...

The article discusses curriculum management changes while trying to respond to the challenge of learning personalisation in the field of lower-secondary education in Lithuania. The paper investigates what transformations learning personalisation might bring into educational practices and how they change regular curriculum management practices start...

The paper focuses on the co-creation of learning as a contemporary approach to engage learners. Today researchers discuss different engaging practices based on the learner-centred strategies, trying to respond to variety of personal learning needs, requirements and interests. By having a central role in the process, learners can decide how to organ...

Knowledge management in health is merely focused on the formal healing protocols, and patient data management despite of the broad knowledge base available outside of the formal medical domains, and an important need to integrate it into the health management systems. However, there is very little known on how to integrate this diversity of knowled...

The article discusses the problem of overeducation which is described as a situation when individuals gain education higher than required in the labour market and, thus, fall into the so-called opportunity trap (Brown et al., 2011). Individuals’ investment into their education does not meet the expectations: they must expand their career opportunit...

Straipsnyje apžvelgiama švietimo ir veikslo sistemų sąveikos raida, siekiant efektyvesnio profesinio rengimo organizavimo. Diskutuojama socialinių partnerių funkcijų ir atsakomybės išplėtimo galimybės klausimu, atliekant neformaliuoju ir savaiminiu mokymusi įgytos kompetencijos vertinimą ir pripažinimą.

The article discusses a responsible and a responsive strategic organizational approach for a smooth integration of technology enhanced learning (TEL). A response to external and internal contingencies and an involvement of different stakeholders into the development and implementation of the so-called eLearning strategies is one of the approaches w...

The aim of the research is to design the framework of technology enhanced learning integration into organisations. The aim of the research is divided into the following objectives: 1. To create a framework of responsible and responsive technology enhanced learning integration into organisations. 2. To implement the framework of technology enhanced...

Monografijos tyrimo objektu pasirinktas TGM integravimas organizacijoje. Tačiau VII skyriuje išryškės sudėtingesnis šio tyrimo objekto kontekstas, nes TGM integravimas pristatomas skirtingo tipo organizacijose, kaip antai, švietimo, verslo ir bendruomeninėse. Esame suformulavę metodologiškai taisyklingą integralaus pristatomo tyrimo tikslą: atsklei...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the main barriers and enablers for integrating technology enhanced learning (TEL) into a business organization based on a responsive paradigm. The study is based on a current literature review on challenges and learners’ needs for TEL and the preconditions for TEL curriculum integration into business organiza...

The article discusses the practice of internships in Lithuanian higher education in the context of changes and challenges to educational reforms, particularly in the enhancement of relations with the labour market and related stakeholders. Higher education institutions are grappling with the changing conception, and duration, of the internship. Int...

El. paštas: m.tereseviciene@smf.vdu.lt El. paštas: l.kaminskiene@pvt.vdu.lt El. paštas: v.zydziunaite@kic.vdu.lt El. paštas: g.gedviliene@smf.vdu.lt Straipsnyje bandoma aptarti savimokos ir savarankiško mokymosi sąsają aukštojo mokslo kontekste. Aptariant šių dviejų konceptų skirtybes ir ryšį, išryškinami pagrindiniai juos apibūdinantys elementai (...

Social partnership in technical and vocational education and training (TVET)—that is to say co-operation and the interrelationship of functions and responsibilities among the State, employers and employees—has been set as one of the priorities of educational reform and is an important principle for the effective development of the vocational educat...

This article examines social partnership in accrediting qualifications in Lithuania. It defines the factors influencing social partnership and surveys future development perspectives, referring to the creation and implementation of the national qualifications system in Lithuania. Social partnership in qualifications accreditation is regarded as a c...

The article presents a review of the experience of European countries in the area of identification, assessment and recognition of non-formal and informal learning. Also, the findings of a pilot research, performed in Lithuanian enterprises and vocational schools, are presented. The findings indicate the main tendencies in non-formal and informal l...