{"title":"THEORETICAL MODELLING OF THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN CONSUMERS AND PROVIDERS OF EDUCATIONAL SERVICES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SCHOOL’S MISSION","authors":"Aušrinė Gumuliauskienė, Jovita Starkutė","doi":"10.21277/SW.V1I8.352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21277/SW.V1I8.352","url":null,"abstract":"The article deals with the problem of the collaboration between consumers and providers of educational services in the implementation of school’s mission. The concept of the consumers and providers of school services has been presented, the mission of the school of today has been defined, the contradictions of its implementation in the postmodern society have been highlighted, the importance of the collaboration between parents as consumers of educational services and pedagogues as providers of educational services in the implementation of school’s mission has been substantiated, the factors conditioning collaboration, the principles determining the involvement and participation of the consumers of educational services, and the essential elements of collaboration have been actualized. A theoretical interpretation of the concept of value creation in interaction has been presented. Referring to the analysis and meta-analysis of the development and structure of the collaboration process at school a theoretical model of the development of collaboration between consumers and providers of educational services at school has been conceptualized","PeriodicalId":41093,"journal":{"name":"Social Welfare Interdisciplinary Approach","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77962733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE TYPOLOGY OF LIFE TRAJECTORIES AMONG PERSONS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT AND MOBILITY DISABILITIES","authors":"S. Khazova, T. Adeeva, I. Tikhonova, N. Shipova","doi":"10.21277/SW.V1I8.354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21277/SW.V1I8.354","url":null,"abstract":"The article analyzes sociological and psychological approaches to the understanding of “life trajectory” phenomenon. “Life trajectory” and “way of life” notions are compared as well as categoric features which describe life trajectories were pointed out the most important of which are: sociocultural determinism, dynamism, eventfulness, continuity, narrativity, typical nature as a the evidence of the similarity between trajectories in a particular group of people within specific time and space frame. The authors has suggested a novel approach which enables to identify objective facts making up one’s life trajectory and their subjective interpretation. The empirical data allowed to recognize two variations of life trajectories that were code-named the “hypersthenic” (highly positive appraisal is prevalent) and the “hyposthenic” (pessimistic appraisal of life events is prevalent) ones. It led to the conclusion about both theoretical and methodological complexity to study disabled persons’ life trajectories","PeriodicalId":41093,"journal":{"name":"Social Welfare Interdisciplinary Approach","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77296305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ADOLESCENTS’ SELF-REPORT ON THE USE AND HELPFULNESS OF STRESS COPING STRATEGIES","authors":"Rita Orska, Tamara Pigozne, S. Usca","doi":"10.21277/SW.V1I8.345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21277/SW.V1I8.345","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the results of the first stage of the Latvia-Lithuania cross-border project “Developing of Social Psychological Support Service System through Implementation of Method of Positive Coping Strategies and Enhancement of Social Inclusion for People in Vulnerable Groups” (POZCOPING), in which, based on the adolescents’ self-report and using the methodology (Adolescent Coping Scale) developed by E. Freidenberg and R. Lewis, stress-causing problems and the use and helpfulness of stress coping strategies of adolescents’ in Latvia were identified and analysed.","PeriodicalId":41093,"journal":{"name":"Social Welfare Interdisciplinary Approach","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76314696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Bjerregaard, S. Mačiulskytė, Elvyra Acienė, Jonas Christensen
{"title":"TOWARDS A MODEL OF SOCIAL INNOVATION: CROSS-BORDER LEARNING PROCESSES IN THE CONTEXT OF AN AGEING SOCIETY","authors":"L. Bjerregaard, S. Mačiulskytė, Elvyra Acienė, Jonas Christensen","doi":"10.21277/SW.V1I8.377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21277/SW.V1I8.377","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to reveal how the collaboration process mobilise resources among countries with different logics of welfare, yet address similar problems of ageing society, i a caring, a learning and a political perspective.The study draws on social science theories and the analysis is based on qualitative empirical data from an interdisciplinary field.The main conclusion is that a multi-dimensional understanding of dementia care by shared knowledge of different welfare logics adds value to experiences of cross-border learning. A social innovation model is presented.","PeriodicalId":41093,"journal":{"name":"Social Welfare Interdisciplinary Approach","volume":"81 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85024582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peculiarities of Social Workers’ and Social Pedagogues’ Psychological Empowerment in the Aspects of Self-Determination Theory and Demographic Variables","authors":"Albina Kepalaitė, Asta Vaitkevičienė, Eglė Drungėlaitė","doi":"10.21277/SW.V1I8.320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21277/SW.V1I8.320","url":null,"abstract":"Social workers’ and social pedagogues’ sense of power is very important for providing social assistance and support to clients and learners. Sense of power depends on meeting the needs of autonomy, competence and relatedness. Failure to meet these needs due to lack of reward, punishments or cultural rituals causes reduces or completely restricts the subjective experience of power, increasing defensiveness and psychopathology. Social workers and social pedagogues provide social assistance and support to their clients and learners based on the empowerment strategy. It is therefore important to investigate whether the very social workers and social pedagogues feel empowered. This study aims to disclose social workers’ and social pedagogues’ psychological empowerment peculiarities with regard to demographic characteristics, gender, profession, qualification category and the occupied share of the post.","PeriodicalId":41093,"journal":{"name":"Social Welfare Interdisciplinary Approach","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73439938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE INFLUENCE OF SPORTS ON PARALYMPIC ATHLETES’ PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT","authors":"O. Kokun, I. Baranauskienė, O. Shamych","doi":"10.21277/sw.v1i8.359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21277/sw.v1i8.359","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most effective ways of integrating people with disabilities into society and ensuring their comprehensive personal development is to engage people with disabilities into Paralympic Games. Such engagement creates the necessary conditions to socialize people with disabilities, to adapt their physical and mental states to existing living conditions, to ease negative manifestations of their psycho-emotional states, to promote their self-realization. The article presents the results of the research determining the impact of sports on Paralympic athletes’ personal development. The comparison of the indicators of psychological well-being and hardiness of Paralympic athletes with normative values, the indicators shown by students without disabilities and students with disabilities has confirmed proven clear positive influence of sports on Paralympic athletes’ personal development. In particular, Paralympic athletes achieve an optimal level of psychological well-being and a significant increase in all psychological hardiness components.","PeriodicalId":41093,"journal":{"name":"Social Welfare Interdisciplinary Approach","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85760573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING OF ELDERLY PEOPLE: THE SOCIAL FACTORS","authors":"O. Kovalenko, L. Spivak","doi":"10.21277/SW.V1I8.323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21277/SW.V1I8.323","url":null,"abstract":"The article discusses the social factors of psychological well-being of elderly people. Psychological well-being is a personal phenomenon. It forms in the process of human activity and in the system of people`s real relationships with surrounding objects. In old age psychological well-being is determined by different factors. The social factor is one of them. It has been found that higher levels of psychological well-being have those elderly people who do not feel themselves lonely, who have enough opportunities to communicate with other people, who take part in a social life, who live with relatives. Specifics of everyday activity in older age are not substantially related to psychological well-being.","PeriodicalId":41093,"journal":{"name":"Social Welfare Interdisciplinary Approach","volume":"64 11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81512721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SOCIAL INNOVATION CONCEPT AND IMPLEMENTATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND IN THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA","authors":"S. Žičkienė, T. Tamošiūnas","doi":"10.21277/SW.V1I8.353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21277/SW.V1I8.353","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the paper is to disclose the importance of social innovation and generalize innovation promotion policy in the European Union, assessing the actual situation in Lithuania. The need for social innovation is inevitable as different social problems touch modern society. Business, governments, non-governmental organizations have distinct roles and encourage social innovation in different ways, but political will and financial possibilities can lead to great changes. The policy of promoting innovation in Lithuania is in line with the provisions of EU documents, however, in the general innovation system context, little attention is paid to social innovation. Following the evaluation of Lithuania’s performance of the research and innovation system, it has been determined that the indicators which were evaluated as weaknesses are primarily related to social problems","PeriodicalId":41093,"journal":{"name":"Social Welfare Interdisciplinary Approach","volume":"250 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75915126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The assessment of studies' effectiveness as a reflection of achieved competencies in educational context at higher university settings using action research","authors":"B. Strukcinskiene, I. Bartusevičienė","doi":"10.21277/SW.V1I8.375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21277/SW.V1I8.375","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the study was to investigate the peculiarities of periodic assessment of student achievements, as a factor influencing effectiveness of studies, from the point of view of acquired competencies. For this study, action research was applied, and group discussion method was used. The study was performed at higher university education settings. The results of the presented research revealed the positive influence of the periodic assessment of the student achievements on the effectiveness of studies.","PeriodicalId":41093,"journal":{"name":"Social Welfare Interdisciplinary Approach","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86448463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study on Relationship Between Family Cohesion and Adaptability, and Quality of Life of Caregivers of Children with ASD","authors":"X. Lei","doi":"10.21277/SW.V1I8.340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21277/SW.V1I8.340","url":null,"abstract":"<p><em>The present study aimed at exploring the status of family cohesion, adaptability and quality of life of caregivers of children with ASD, as well as the relationship between family cohesion </em><em>and </em><em>adaptability, and quality of life. One hundred and sixty-three caregivers of children with ASD from Sichuan province </em><em>in China </em><em>were investigated by the </em><em>Chinese vision of </em><em>Family Adaptability and Cohesion Scale and Beach Center Family Quality of Life Scale</em><em>. The results showed that: (1) The score on family cohesion of caregivers of children with ASD was higher than the national norm, and the score on family adaptability was lower than the national norm; (2) The satisfaction of quality of life </em><em>wa</em><em>s between general level and satisfactory level, and </em><em>the </em><em>score</em><em> on </em><em>satisfaction </em><em>in e</em><em>ach dimension</em><em> </em><em>from high to low was </em><em>Family Interaction, Parenting, Disability-Related Support, Emotional Well-Being and Physical/Material Well-Being</em><em>; (3) Family </em><em>cohesion and quality of life were significantly correlated, and adaptability and quality of life were also significantly correlated; </em><em>(4) Caregivers with higher family cohesion and adaptability showed higher quality of life than the caregivers with lower family cohesion and adaptability; (5) Family cohesion and adaptability had a positive </em><em>impact on</em><em> quality of life.</em><em></em></p>","PeriodicalId":41093,"journal":{"name":"Social Welfare Interdisciplinary Approach","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88515597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}