Simona Kontrimiene

• PhD
• Associate Professor at Vilnius University

The flipped classroom (FC) method has been extensively adopted in STEM disciplines at the university level and garnered favorable results in synchronous learning, while less focus has been directed to its effectiveness in language teaching and learning at school. This experimental study aimed to explore how the flipped classroom approach affected E...

Knygoje, apžvelgiant bendrojo lavinimo mokyklos kaitą, siekiama projektuoti ateitį, o ne diagnozuoti praeities ir dabarties pokyčius. Norima užčiuopti jau potencialiai ar kol kas tik virtualiai švietimo lauke išskirtinas ateities įžvalgas – sąmoningas ir pasąmoningas, keliant klausimus: kur link pasuks Lietuvos bendrojo ugdymo mokykla, kiek ji seks...

The paper features the most probable visions of development of the general education school obtained from the research project Futuristic Scenarios of the Lithuanian General Education School. The study used the Delphi method to develop futuristic scenarios and extrapolate the most probable trajectories of school development. Sixty-one experts in ed...

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...

Spirituality is a basic human drive with diverse forms of expression that make for unique thinking and as such, it is the ultimate end of human development. Constituents of spirituality may best be delineated by the humanistic perspective as it readily meets the demands of the not-so-religious today. The proposed Humanistic Spirituality Inventory i...

Lietuvos mokyklos ateities scenarijai: „kas iš to?“ Santrauka. Straipsnyje pristatomi mokslo projekto rezultatai, kuriais remiantis sukurti keturi futuristiniai Lietuvos mokyklos scenarijai ir bandoma atsakyti į klausimą, kas iš to? Straipsnio idėja brandinta kartu su vykstančiais projekto įžvalgų pristatymais viešojoje akademinėje erdvėje, kurioj...

This study (N = 449) explores relationships among humanistic spirituality, which in our Humanistic Spirituality Model encompasses the components of self-actualisation, transcendence and ultimate meaning in life, and parental as well as adult attachment styles as lifelong factors in the origin of spirituality. The results indicate that for female pa...

The current study utilises the Delphi method (Beiderbeck et al., 2021; Markmann et al., 2020) to develop futuristic scenarios of the Lithuanian general education school. 61 experts in education completed an online survey developed by partners of the project Futuristic Scenarios of the Lithuanian General Education School (funded by the Research Coun...

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...

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...

The proposed Humanistic Spirituality Inventory is based on the Humanistic Spirituality Model (Kontrimienė, 2018), which captures spirituality’s content domain. The inventory contains three scales corresponding to the three model components: (1) Self-actualization, which implies a mature perception of reality, spontaneity, creativity, peak experienc...

Dvasingumas yra esminė žmogaus vara su daugybe ypatingą mąstymą lemiančių išraiškos formų, leidžiančių pasiekti aukštą sąmoningumo ir informacijos integravimo lygmenį. Straipsnyje pristato-mas Humanistinio dvasingumo modelis ir jo pagrindu sukurtas dvasingumo matas – Humanistinio dvasingumo aprašas. Skiriami trys modelio komponentai: savęs aktualiz...

Spirituality is a basic human drive with diverse forms of expression that make for unique thinking and as such, it is the ultimate end of human development. Constituents of spirituality may best be delineated by the humanistic perspective as it readily meets the demands of the not-so-religious today. The proposed Humanistic Spirituality Inventory i...

[straipsnis ir santrauka lietuvių kalba; santrauka anglų kalba] Straipsnyje atskleidžiama dvasingumo svarba akademiniame diskurse, kuriame raginama siekti mokslo ir dvasingumo sintezės atsisakant klaidingo epistemologinio žemėlapio ir ugdant išskirtines intelektines savybes, bendrai vadinamas dvasiniu intelektu (SQ). Pristatomos dvasingumo samprat...

Dvasingumas yra esminė žmogaus vara su daugybe ypatingą mąstymą lemiančių išraiškos formų, leidžiančių pasiekti aukštą sąmoningumo ir informacijos integravimo lygmenį, todėl jis turi būti ugdomas bet kuriame besimokančiųjų raidos etape. Mūsų sukurtas teorinis-empirinis Humanistinio dvasingumo modelis apima svarbiausius dvasingumo komponentus, model...

Spirituality is a basic human drive with diverse forms of expression that make for unique thinking and as such, it should permeate every educational endeavour. The Humanistic Spirituality Model developed within the framework of his thesis captures the essential dimensions of humanistic spirituality through three components: self-actualisation, tran...

Studentų adaptyvaus ir neadaptyvaus perfekcionizmo ir patirto auklėjimo stilių ryšys Simona Kontrimienė Lektorė socialinių mokslų (edukologijos) doktorantė Vilniaus universiteto Filosofijos fakulteto Edukologijos katedra Universiteto g. 9/1, LT-01513 Vilnius Tel. 85 266 76 25 El. paštas: simona.kontrimiene@uki.vu.lt Straipsnyje tiriama, kaip stude...