Suchergebnisse

The paper deals with the conception of sustainable development, its aims and tasks, which orient teachers towards the analysis of environmental problems and their links with economic and social progress. Such approach serves as a starting point formulating and conceptualizing the reasons of the rise and spread of these problems. A definite model oriented towards sustainable development is described and educational experience in the analysis of environmental issues in the aspect of sustainable development is presented. The history of environment provides an opportunity to identify when environmental problems arise and how they vary under the influence of socio-cultural, economic and political factors; it is one of the means studying the basics of sustainable development. Teaching to understand and solve problems in the aspect of the history of environment adds significance to a teacher's activities, which include consistent stages of schoolchildren's practical activities and development of their abilities to analyze and solve environmental issues (problem identification, analysis of its formation and development, understanding the urgency of its solution). Studies of the history of environment in the aspect of sustainable development enable teachers to implement the strategic conception of integrated teaching and national sustainable development in practice. The paper presents integration opportunities of various teaching subjects and the studies of various environmental issues (objects, localities). The described methods give an opportunity to develop various competences of schoolchildren and to stimulate changes in their lifestyle.

The paper deals with the conception of sustainable development, its aims and tasks, which orient teachers towards the analysis of environmental problems and their links with economic and social progress. Such approach serves as a starting point formulating and conceptualizing the reasons of the rise and spread of these problems. A definite model oriented towards sustainable development is described and educational experience in the analysis of environmental issues in the aspect of sustainable development is presented. The history of environment provides an opportunity to identify when environmental problems arise and how they vary under the influence of socio-cultural, economic and political factors; it is one of the means studying the basics of sustainable development. Teaching to understand and solve problems in the aspect of the history of environment adds significance to a teacher's activities, which include consistent stages of schoolchildren's practical activities and development of their abilities to analyze and solve environmental issues (problem identification, analysis of its formation and development, understanding the urgency of its solution). Studies of the history of environment in the aspect of sustainable development enable teachers to implement the strategic conception of integrated teaching and national sustainable development in practice. The paper presents integration opportunities of various teaching subjects and the studies of various environmental issues (objects, localities). The described methods give an opportunity to develop various competences of schoolchildren and to stimulate changes in their lifestyle.

Archivists have been educated at the Faculty of Communication for fourteen years. The content of the study programme is being constantly modified, and this helps to improve the education. A permanent analysis of archival study programmes at foreign universities allows us to understand the study programme from multiple perspectives. Graduates of the archival study programme acquire skills in the organization and management of information in different cultural, scientific, business, governmental and media institutions as well as in special information services. They learn how to provide information to communites, create and implement information policy, carry out information and communication research. The goal of the programme is to provide the basic education of archivistics on the university level, knowledge of information and communication needed for professional activity in knowledge management and communicating with the professional environment and society from within archives of different types. The study options are implemented using the experience of lecturers at the Faculty of Communication and other departments, acquired in teaching the subjecs of documentary communication, history, humanitarian culture, foreign languages, etc. Contacts with state archives have been established, the cooperation with institutions in public and business sectors is going on. Agreements regarding the teaching of several courses on the basis of their activities have been reached, and professionals are providing specific teaching modules. There are advanced quality ensurance and environmental scanning systems implemented in the study programme. They should be improved using criteria accepted on the international level.

Archivists have been educated at the Faculty of Communication for fourteen years. The content of the study programme is being constantly modified, and this helps to improve the education. A permanent analysis of archival study programmes at foreign universities allows us to understand the study programme from multiple perspectives. Graduates of the archival study programme acquire skills in the organization and management of information in different cultural, scientific, business, governmental and media institutions as well as in special information services. They learn how to provide information to communites, create and implement information policy, carry out information and communication research. The goal of the programme is to provide the basic education of archivistics on the university level, knowledge of information and communication needed for professional activity in knowledge management and communicating with the professional environment and society from within archives of different types. The study options are implemented using the experience of lecturers at the Faculty of Communication and other departments, acquired in teaching the subjecs of documentary communication, history, humanitarian culture, foreign languages, etc. Contacts with state archives have been established, the cooperation with institutions in public and business sectors is going on. Agreements regarding the teaching of several courses on the basis of their activities have been reached, and professionals are providing specific teaching modules. There are advanced quality ensurance and environmental scanning systems implemented in the study programme. They should be improved using criteria accepted on the international level.

Archivists have been educated at the Faculty of Communication for fourteen years. The content of the study programme is being constantly modified, and this helps to improve the education. A permanent analysis of archival study programmes at foreign universities allows us to understand the study programme from multiple perspectives. Graduates of the archival study programme acquire skills in the organization and management of information in different cultural, scientific, business, governmental and media institutions as well as in special information services. They learn how to provide information to communites, create and implement information policy, carry out information and communication research. The goal of the programme is to provide the basic education of archivistics on the university level, knowledge of information and communication needed for professional activity in knowledge management and communicating with the professional environment and society from within archives of different types. The study options are implemented using the experience of lecturers at the Faculty of Communication and other departments, acquired in teaching the subjecs of documentary communication, history, humanitarian culture, foreign languages, etc. Contacts with state archives have been established, the cooperation with institutions in public and business sectors is going on. Agreements regarding the teaching of several courses on the basis of their activities have been reached, and professionals are providing specific teaching modules. There are advanced quality ensurance and environmental scanning systems implemented in the study programme. They should be improved using criteria accepted on the international level.

Archivists have been educated at the Faculty of Communication for fourteen years. The content of the study programme is being constantly modified, and this helps to improve the education. A permanent analysis of archival study programmes at foreign universities allows us to understand the study programme from multiple perspectives. Graduates of the archival study programme acquire skills in the organization and management of information in different cultural, scientific, business, governmental and media institutions as well as in special information services. They learn how to provide information to communites, create and implement information policy, carry out information and communication research. The goal of the programme is to provide the basic education of archivistics on the university level, knowledge of information and communication needed for professional activity in knowledge management and communicating with the professional environment and society from within archives of different types. The study options are implemented using the experience of lecturers at the Faculty of Communication and other departments, acquired in teaching the subjecs of documentary communication, history, humanitarian culture, foreign languages, etc. Contacts with state archives have been established, the cooperation with institutions in public and business sectors is going on. Agreements regarding the teaching of several courses on the basis of their activities have been reached, and professionals are providing specific teaching modules. There are advanced quality ensurance and environmental scanning systems implemented in the study programme. They should be improved using criteria accepted on the international level.

Research on National Security after the Cold War rev olves largely on the so called sectoral concept of security as defined by the Copenhagen Sc hool of security studies. The main sectors of national security – military, economic, political, societal, environmental, and informational – all co ntain material as well as ideational objects to secure. T he aim of this article is to look at the problem of national security from a completely different perspective, i .e., to eveluate the ontological dimension of colle ctive security of a society as opposed to physical. The c oncept of ontological security was made popular among social scientists by sociologist Anthony Gidd ens, yet as a heuristic instrument so far it was mo stly applied at the level of individual. Taking into acc ount the differences between an individual and a collectivity it is still argued in this article tha t ontological security needs often override the mat erial needs of a given actor. In order to evaluate the ontological dimension of c ollective security, a case study of Lithuania is applied in the second section of this article. Thre e components of ontological security are investigat ed – markers of inclusion into Lithuanian society, col lective historical narrative, and external relation s of Lithuania as a state society complex. The empirical facts revealed by this brief inquiry – i.e., virtu al ostracism of "impure" Lithuanians and imigrants in terms of citizenship rights, rutinized conflict wit h Russia emanating partly (but not only) from a black andwhite narrative of history – all point to prov e the main thesis of this artice: any societal body i s prone to risk its physical survival driven by the ontological security imperative to have a stable co llective reality with all the "objective truths" an d "real theats" it entails.

Research on National Security after the Cold War rev olves largely on the so called sectoral concept of security as defined by the Copenhagen Sc hool of security studies. The main sectors of national security – military, economic, political, societal, environmental, and informational – all co ntain material as well as ideational objects to secure. T he aim of this article is to look at the problem of national security from a completely different perspective, i .e., to eveluate the ontological dimension of colle ctive security of a society as opposed to physical. The c oncept of ontological security was made popular among social scientists by sociologist Anthony Gidd ens, yet as a heuristic instrument so far it was mo stly applied at the level of individual. Taking into acc ount the differences between an individual and a collectivity it is still argued in this article tha t ontological security needs often override the mat erial needs of a given actor. In order to evaluate the ontological dimension of c ollective security, a case study of Lithuania is applied in the second section of this article. Thre e components of ontological security are investigat ed – markers of inclusion into Lithuanian society, col lective historical narrative, and external relation s of Lithuania as a state society complex. The empirical facts revealed by this brief inquiry – i.e., virtu al ostracism of "impure" Lithuanians and imigrants in terms of citizenship rights, rutinized conflict wit h Russia emanating partly (but not only) from a black andwhite narrative of history – all point to prov e the main thesis of this artice: any societal body i s prone to risk its physical survival driven by the ontological security imperative to have a stable co llective reality with all the "objective truths" an d "real theats" it entails.