Vilma Zydziunaite

• Vytautas Magnus University

This leadership practice oriented book brings together empirical qualitative research and teaching / learning approaches. The monograph consists of nine original parts, which present empirical evidence that teachers implement creative and servant leadership, also through leadership they help students express themselves, create opportunities for stu...

Išplėstinės praktikos slaugos (IPS) magistrantūros pro­grama yra aktuali, reaguojant į valstybės mastu keliamą problemą dėl didėjančio slaugytojų poreikio ir jų veiklos kaitos pobūdžio. IPS magistro pakopos studijų programos (MA) įgyvendinimas daugelyje šalies regionų, didinant regioninį prieinamumą studijoms, yra prielaida prisidėti prie regiono s...

Tikslas. Atskleisti ir aprašyti slaugytojų lyderystės vai­dmenis dirbant su onkologinėmis ligomis sergančiais pa­cientais stacionarinėje sveikatos priežiūros institucijoje. Metodologija. Tyrimas vykdytas 2023 m. spalio – lap­kričio mėn. Tyrime dalyvavo 10 onkologijos slaugytojų. Vykdytas kokybinis tyrimo dizainas. Duomenims rinkti įvykdyti pusiau s...

Fear of death occurs when elderly and old patients (EOPs) are faced with life-threatening events or extreme psychological stress. For most, anticipation of death triggers negative emotions such as the fear of losing of oneself, helplessness, and a loss of control. Fear of death is one of the most prevalent psychiatric consequences of chronic health...

Introduction Turnover of teachers is an mportant factor that impedes building and maintaining sustainable positive pedagogical practices to facilitate students’ adjustment. The aim of this study was to elicit a portrait of teachers wanting to leave their profession. Methods The research sample comprised 784 teachers from two European countries, na...

In the dynamic context of higher education, the academic self-realization of a researcher is significant not only for the growth of the dedicated researcher but also for the well-being of the entire academic community. The purpose of this study was to reveal the academic self-realization experience of researchers in higher education and answer the...

Teachers worldwide experience significant stress and burnout, impacting their health and the education systems. Recognizing the importance of social, prosocial, and emotional skills in education adds to this complexity. The European Policy Experimentation Project Teaching to Be (2021-2024) in Austria, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Slo...

The aim of this conceptual research was to provide considerations on understanding the essences of institutional research capacity as a notion and as a process within the higher education context and institutional level. The descriptive integrative review with a fivestage integrative review process of 71 scientific resources was implemented and inc...

This research aimed to reveal the factors that, based on their experiences, teachers consider important in their contribution to a positive school climate and in their relationship with students when it comes to using empathy. Teachers from two European countries—Latvia (n = 83) and Lithuania (n = 69)—participated in the research. Data were collect...

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...

In all levels of professional music education – music school, conservatory/art gymnasium, music academy, shared leadership is a new and little researched concept. Most of what is known in music education are that a teacher is the leader of education, who leads the education – prepares a program, marks fingers above notes, puts together dynamic symb...

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...

Buvimas mokslininku-dėstytoju aukštajame moksle yra ne tik įsipareigojimas, bet kartu pasireiškia per konkrečią asmens veiklą. Universitete veikiantis ir dirbantis mokslinkas-dėstytojas susiduria ne tik su išoriniais faktoriais, kurie apibrėžia jo vaidmenis aukštajame moksle, bet ir su savo asmenybės subtilybėmis. Tyrimo tikslas – apžvelgti mokslin...

The research problem relates to the lack of existing research in terms of understanding the meaning of being an innovative and creative teacher in association with a passion connected to professional duty. Research questions were the following: “What does it mean for a teacher to be innovative and creative? What makes an innovative and creative tea...

Becoming and being a teacher in higher education is a long process of individual transformation. The research aims at highlighting the meaning of time and relations in regard to teachers’ professional self-awareness through their interactions with students in higher education. The research design was qualitative in which the phenomenological method...

Introduction: Leadership is part of the educational process, nevertheless, it has not been fully surveyed. Successful teaching and good results usually depend on an educator, as well as on the way s/he organizes the educational process. There are a lot of various educators who organize the educational process in a different way. As a result of that...

Phenomenological research relies on the position that teaching in higher education should not be considered a duty that just needs to be carried out by the higher education teacher. It is a crucial part of academia, and it is essential that the higher education teacher portrays it as such. The research examined the patterns of the higher education...

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...

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...

“To be a good nurse” is a complex phenomenon. It is the essential goal in nursing training, education and practice, and can be experienced through work practice. However, “to be a good nurse” is taken for granted and is rarely studied, mostly with the focus on personal features and in relation to good nursing and quality of nursing. The aim was to...

Here is lack of clarity in documentation regarding music performers’ training in Lithuania and internationally. Here is lack of information and research-based knowledge regarding strategies, methods, philosophies, competencies and etc., regarding music performers’ training. So why it seems for society as “for granted” and that is based on personal...

Informal learning is understood as a complex emotional, cognitive and experiential process of learning during which the personal change of learner takes place. The article presents the findings of the qualitative study on the personal change of foster parents carried out in Lithuania, which reveals the subjective experience of informal learning of...

The subjective theory Dancing of elementary particles, presented and discussed in this chapter, manifested different domains of professional identity virtual construction.

The article answers the research question „What kind of multi-component content emerges when the person is creating a constructive relationship with the self and others when s/he chooses a healthy lifestyle?“ through qualitative empirical study. Findings led to the conclusion that results of the creation of a personal relationship by choosing a hea...

In higher education, scientists live and breathe their work every single day, providing the conditions for potential conflict between professional and family life. This phenomenological inquiry explores the question: “How do female university academics experience being between the family and work responsibilities in their daily activities?” Twelve...

The article represents the theoretical or conceptual description of the phenomenon of charisma, which is related to social work as professional activity and is focused in social worker, who is the leader in his / her professional activity. So why it is accentuated that personal charisma of a social worker is a constellation of complex social and em...

The article is based on descriptive theoretical research and focused on two notions such as ‘leadership values’ and ‘values based leadership’. These two concepts are not compared, but every of them is described separately by highlighting general characteristics and showing their broad complexity. Both notions are not related to ethics and / or mora...

The descriptive conceptual analysis-based article aims to substantiate the construct of person’s self-education for healthy life. So why the research question in the following: How is conceptualised the person’s selfdevelopment for a healthy lifestyle in the Self-Determination Theory on the basis of the natural psychological needs of the person, mo...

The paper discusses the considerations on qualitative indicators regarding the quality of the teaching and learning in joint degree studies. Method used for data collection was focus group discussions with students of joint degree programs implemented by seven European universities. Findings revealed that general dimensions on the quality of intern...

Aim: To reveal and describe nursing students’ work experience based perceptions of “being a good nurse”. Design: This study was implemented using a descriptive qualitative design. Methods: Data were collected in the format of unstructured individual narrative-based written reflections, analyzed by applying inductive manifest qualitative content ana...

This qualitative study explored the self-regulated learning (SRL) of teachers and their students in virtual social spaces. The processes of SRL were analyzed from 24 semi-structured individual interviews with professors, instructors and their students from five Lithuanian universities. A core category stroking the net whale showed the process of SR...

Grounded Theory (hereinafter – GT) is considered one of the most widely used research methodologies in social sciences. Due to different versions of GT, the development of instruments for research still poses particular questions. The article addresses the following research question: what are the process, parameters and outcomes (results) of devel...

Scientists as intellectual leaders are seen through their expertise and the scope of knowledge. The research issue in this pilot study was related to scientists‘ working in higher education schools and focused on intellectual leadership, which consists of different roles. The participants of the pilot study were researchers with acquired PhD. Data...

Aim: The aim of this study in Lithuania was to discover how the meaning of caring is perceived by nursing and social work students. Background: Nursing and social work are caring professions, which provide care in different ways. It is still unclear what features constitute the meaning of caring for nursing and social work students as future car...

The intellectual leadership of educators or teachers represents a topic of a great interest for educational research and practice. Variety of variables or factors have been examined to find the most complete explanations for teachers’, professors’ and educators’ roles, for example, institutional, financial, gender, organizational, spiritual, and in...

Today we find a variety of national and international scientific resources that describe different versions of Grounded theory (GT). It is referred to GT authors (Glaser, Strauss & Corbin, Charmaz) and other researchers who apply different versions of GT and write about its fundamental strengths: systematic procedures, emancipatory decisions, self-...

The definition of “informal learning” is ambiguous and thus distinguished by the diverse interpretations. The article aims to reveal identical learning dimensions (process, activity, context, interactions and outcomes), which set up different concepts of “informal learning”. The research question refers to the content of dimensions for distinct con...

Tyrimo kontekstas: dalyvavimas nevyriausybinių organizacijų (NVO) sveikos gyvensenos ugdyme sukuria palankias sąlygas asmens saviugdai. Sveika gyvensena kaip saviugdos kryptis išpildo holistinio tobulėjimo sąlygas, nes savo turinyje talpina fizinį, psichinį, socialinį, dvasinį ugdymąsi, siejamą su atitinkamais asmens sveikatos lygmenimis. Tyrimo ob...

Studies of informal learning at universities have indicated that social online network Facebook is used for learning purposes. Understanding of self-regulated academic learning processes in which students and their instructors are involved is very important for successful application and use of online social networks in university teaching and lear...

Professional responsibility of social worker and social pedagogue is related to social, psychological, moral, educational, material and / or financial and other aspects. Then which aspects within the professional responsibility are worth to both specialists? The object of the research is the professional responsibility of social worker and social p...

Analysis of the scientific literature has shown that the mission of a scientist is inherent to an individual and is oriented towards institution and activity or performance being implemented in higher education. Every higher education school defines its mission and vision, thus the aim of a scientist is to act according to the provided institutiona...

When trying to integrate technology-enhanced learning (TEL) into employees’ competence development, it is necessary for an organization to have an appropriate support system. The research aim was to identify the form of organizational support that is most relevant for employee engagement in TEL. Findings of a questionnaire survey showed that employ...

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...

In the article here will be discussed the concept of intellectual leadership and the role of academic personell as intelectual leaders. The core issue in this concept analysis is the fact that many researchers choose intellectuals as the subject for their researches, and many choose leadership, but only few tried to meaningfully relate these two te...

The search for self-identity is a key determinant of postmodern society while correlating with the independent learning being conceptualized by the higher education students; it refers their intensions to express the ‘self’ and be identified. Most researchers have studied independent, self-directed, self-regulated and self-managed learning by payin...

p> The article presents the results of qualitative research carried out with 53 social work students in Lithuania. The research focused on the personal change in social work students taking place during the professional practice in which students establish relationships with different participants in the practice. . The use of unstructured reflecti...

Ongoing low participation of women in global leadership calls for more research in this field. In this article, we set out to include gendered expectations toward leader behavior as part of cross-cultural leadership theory. Building on an existing body of research, we focus on propositions about the effects of gendered expectations on the leader, f...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to characterize issues related to head nurses’ decision making when managing ethical dilemmas. Design/methodology/approach – The study is qualitative descriptive, in which researchers stay close to the data. The data were collected in the format of unstructured written reflections. Inductive conventional late...

The article presents the results of qualitative research carried out in Lithuania. The research focused on the development of mutual attachment between social work students and clients during the professional practice by revealing subjective student experiences. Study participants comprised 53 final-year social work students from one university of...

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...

Abstract Background: Understanding the reasons and consequences of leadership styles in ethical dilemmas is fundamental to exploring nurse managers' abilities to influence outcomes for patients and nursing personnel. To explain the associations between different leadership styles, reasons for their application and its consequences when nurse manage...

Abstract Background: Understanding the reasons and consequences of leadership styles in ethical dilemmas is fundamental to exploring nurse managers' abilities to influence outcomes for patients and nursing personnel. Purpose: To explain the associations between different leadership styles, reasons for their application and its consequences when nur...

Vocational training at Colleges is grounded with the integration of the theory and practice. Training of students from the general practie nursing study programmes is directed not only by the documentation of the Ministry of Education and Science of the republic of Lithuania, but by the guidelines and directives of the European Union, where is indi...

Nurses work in health care system and in their activities aspect of values becomes crucial. The nurse becomes a leader in interdisciplinary team and has the unique possibility and the moral duty to serve as an advocate of the patients and their families in important moments of their lives.The focus of the research is the values in regulation docume...

Profesorė, vyriausia mokslo darbuotoja, socialinių mokslų daktarė (HP) Vytauto Didžiojo universiteto Profesinio rengimo ir studijų centras ir Edukologijos katedra K. Donelaičio g. 52, 304 k. LT-44001 Kaunas El. paštas: v.zydziunaite@smf.vdu.lt Jaunesnioji mokslo darbuotoja ir asistentė, socialinių mokslų daktarė Kauno technologijos universiteto Ug...

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 (...

The objective was to describe the research methods and research focuses on ethical dilemmas concerning decision-making within health care leadership. The search was conducted on Medline and PubMed databases (1998-2008). The systematic review included 21 selected articles. The ethical dilemmas concerning decision-making within health care leadership...

Qualitative research in Lithuania, as all over world, is as though being reborn: it is conducted increasingly more often, the methodology of qualitative research is increasingly more developed, researchers become more knowledgeable in conducting research. This study book consisting of two parts is the first attempt to process information about qual...

1 Kauno technologijos universitetas K. Donelaičio g. 73, LT-44029, Kaunas 2 Šiaulių universitetas Architektų g. 1, LT-78366, Šiauliai 3 Lietuvos žemės ūkio universitetas Studentų g. 11, LT-53361, Akademija, Kauno r. The paper deals with the data obtained in the re-search which lasted for a period of 5 years and was car-ried out by a joint team of r...