Edukacinių ir potencialių mokymosi aplinkų įtaka gimnazistams jiems formuojantis pilietiškumo sampratą (Lietuvos x, y ir z mokyklų atvejai) ; Influence of the educational and potential learning environments on high school students' in the process of formation of citizenship meaning

Abstract

Generally, the concept of the citizen defines the relationship of an individual with the state. The general concept of citizenship defines the desired behavior of an individual and the group of individuals and their (self) perception in the relationship of a citizen and the state. The categories of nationality and citizenship have become the anchor and guarantee for the democratic society and state. However, the conceptions of citizen and citizenship are not inborn but are directly related to the educational process being organized (Callan, 2004). Thus, aiming to achieve the presence of these concepts in the modern societies as the collective knowledge, it is necessary both to organize the focused educational process and analyze the circumstances and aspects causing more successful process of the formation of the citizenship concepts by formal, non-formal and informal educational environments. The problem of this thesis is to find out, what environments, educational or potential, have the influence on the development of citizenship concept in high-school students. The object of the thesis is the educational and potential learning environments and their influence on first year high-school students during the formation of citizenship concept. The aim is to reveal what peculiarities of educational and potential learning environment make impact to the high-school students during their citizenship concept development. Tasks: 1) to provide theoretical rational of the parameters of educational and potential learning environments that make impact on the high-school students during their development of citizenship concepts; 2) to develop theoretical basis of the research methodology of educational and potential learning environments that make impact on the high-school students during their development of citizenship concepts; 3) to provide empirical evidence of the educational and potential learning environments that have influence on the high-school students during the development of citizenship concept. Research methods: there are employed research literature, document analysis, case study, case cross-sectional analysis, questionnaire survey methods and the triangulation. Results. Having made the research literature analysis, there have been defined parameters of the formal and non-formal education of educational environments and the potential environments of the informal learning. Thereof empirical research has been performed that made it clear that high-school students relate the learning process with educational environments that are created in the formal or partially non-formal education context. The informal learning process in potential environments is not perceived by the high-school students as equivalent learning process when comparing it with the activities that are organized in the formal and non-formal education context. In their opinion, the educational learning environments of the formal education have the greatest impact on the development of the citizenship concept. Despite that the research revealed the fact that potential informal learning environments also make significant influence on the development of the citizenship concept in the high-school students. However, this process is hardly recognized, identified and assessed by the learning individuals.