The Borås Model, a model on how the library and the university departments can collaborate to facilitate development of information literacy (IL) among students, is the outcome of a project run by the Library and Learning Resources and the School…

This paper presents the results from the second phase of a case study exploring home-school relationships in Cyprus based on parents’ perspectives. Interviews with parents indicated that they understood that home-school co-operation might benefit children’s attainments, emphasising the family’s role…

Presented paper aims to reveal new aspects of propensity to emigrate. Overview of prevailing emigration theories is being followed by insight into current emigration tendencies in the European Union. Authors point out, that, despite economic driving forces are rather significant,…

To assess, analyse and control complex processes and phenomena, the knowledge of their inherent structure is needed. The structures describing it are hierarchical because there is a subordinating relationship between their elements and groups of elements. The formation of the…

The article examines the development possibilities of personal financial investments and the importance to induce those investments in Lithuania. The links between personal finance, financial assets and personal financial investments are analyzed. The development of Lithuanian stock market is reviewed…

The article analyses various approaches and the main management theories: their advantages, shortcomings, real possibilities of use by managers of companies and entrepreneurs, seeking to ensure competitiveness in the global markets, realising the objectives and obtaining optimal economical and social…

A pesquisa Educação, sexualidade e gênero na educação infantil: uma articulação possível e necessária surgiu após estudos e participações em cursos de extensão pela UFMS, percebendo a necessidade de um novo enfoque desta temática com as crianças nesta faixa etária,…

Este texto tem como objetivo apresentar algumas ponderações sobre as quais possamos refletir acerca da avaliação escolar, especificamente na disciplina de Educação Física, por meio de um aporte teórico condizente para sua fundamentação. As discussões sobre a avaliação escolar na…

Information society represents a profound changing in the organization of the society and economy – a new paradigm – but, most of all it is a global phenomenon with potential for transforming social, economical and technical environment and activities performed…

The research and writing processes are often hidden mysteries to our students. A key point in the online tutorial Search and Write (Søk and Skriv) has been to supply our students with tools to handle these processes. Learning cases embedded…