In recent decades, the focus on intercultural studies has increased alongside the acceleration of globalisation and the resulting ability to move more freely from one country to another. Studies on intercultural learning ...

Critical thinking is one of the most significant skills and abilities, which have direct impact on individual success and society’s welfare. Especially loud is the voice of employers drawing attention to the need for ...

Knowledge management and critical thinking are two broad and important phenomena for contemporary society. Their concepts are both well-discussed in the literature. However, the existing conceptual links between them have ...

The main objective of social services is the restoration of an individual’s ability to take care of him or herself and integration into society by creating dignified living conditions in the case that an individual cannot ...

Contemporary social work is inseparable from specialists’ professionalism. In order to ensure efficient work of social services the personnel work organization and management functions administered their executives is ...

The focus on quality gives a possibility for organizations to achieve better operational results. According to various surveys, in order to reach a long-term operational process, the assurance of the quality of operational ...

The article discusses motivation as a precendition for successful learning and to analyses students’ attitude to factors influencing learning motivation. The following tasks are set: to analyse learning motivation factors ...

The number of home help service recipients has a tendency to increase. As a result, home help service is becoming an increasingly important part of the Lithuanian social security system. The article discusses the main ...

Self-directed learning as a targeted individual’s own controlled cognitive process is oriented to the full development of personality and is very important for the formation of a mature personality. However, there are rare ...

Concepts like mature personality, self-education and group therapy are represented in this article, with reference to scientific literature. The purpose of this paper is to reveal the benefit of group therapy in the ...