M. Lukšienė’s insights evaluating spread of educational tendencies

The history of pedagogy accumulates descriptions of educational practice, education ideas are analysed, compared and evaluated. The retrospective analysis of the Lithuanian and foreign research on the history of pedagogy results in discovery of various approaches to analysis of education ideas. The article focuses on the experience of Lithuanian researchers in education to divide education ideas into theories, directions, trends, paradigms and conceptions. The role of Dr. Habil. M. Lukšienė performed while establishing and developing the modern system of education and nurturing the democratic community of the country is exceptional. M. Lukšienė links the development of pedagogical thought in Lithuania with the issues of national cultureVytauto Didžiojo universitetasŠvietimo akademij