| Summary: | Private out-of-school centre is a new institution of education. It has occurred as an alternative to the out-of-school centers financed by the state. Such a phenomena is to be related with the extra money that can be paid by the parents for the upbringing of their offspring.
The purpose of the research. To reveal the course of the activity of a private out-of-school centre as a new institution of education.
The tasks of the research: to survey the psychological and educational literature on the topic; to reveal the state of a private out-of-school centre; to establish the essential features of the activities of a private out-of-school centre; to foresee the perspectives for the private out-of-school centre.
There were such methods applied in the research: analysis of the nonfiction literature and generalization, documentary analysis, questionnaire, interview, conversation, observation and mathematics statistical methods SPSS ( Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) 10.0 for Windows.
The manager of Riešės out-of-school centre, the teachers, parents and children were participating in the research.
There are the main results and findings:
• The surveys made by the foreign and Lithuanian scientists have confirmed the existence of the problem. It has got to be underlined that the surveys of the foreign scientists could be applied to this research only with the assumption that the cultural and sociological peculiarities of the country are respected.
• The activity of a... [to full text]
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