The friendly environment for children and youth: the context of non formal education in Vilnius

Straipsnyje analizuojama neformaliojo švietimo įtaka, kuriant palankią ugdymo(si) aplinką vaikui ir jaunuoliui pozityviosios socializacijos kontekste. Autorės apibendrina pedagogų požiūrius į neformaliojo švietimo įtaką vaiko socializacijai, atskleidžia vaikų ir tėvų motyvus, lemiančius neformaliojo ugdymo institucijų lankomumą. Tyrimo duomenų analizės pagrindu formuluojamos išvados apie neformaliojo ugdymo veiklų reikšmingumą vaikų socializacijaiToday, in the world which is getting more perfect, computerized, integrated, there is an increasing variety of problems and dangers for young and yet unformed personality’s socialization in to the real-value life, society. Also, the changes in the education system shows that there is a lack of state attention to the children and youth socialization and the organization for their occupation, leisure activities. The research objective is to analyse the educational functions of the children’s informal education institutions through the socialization aspect.The goals of the research: the scientific literature-based revelation of the influence of the informal education on a child in the positive socialization context, summarize teachers’ views on the informal education to a child’s socialization process, to reveal the parents’ and children’s reasons that determinant to attend informal education activities.To achieve the objectives, were used the following research methods: the analysis of scientific literature and the documents, the empirical study. The analysis of the scientific literature have shown that for the child’s socialization is particularly important the leisure activity because it makes conditions for the development of the creative powers, initiative, to compile moral experience, to develop skills and competencies. The children choose the informal educational activities and attends circles because they think it is interesting and useful activities that appropriates to their interests.The parents are concerned that their child (children) would attend educational circles in informal education institutions, because this activity helps to improve children’s creativity, they can reach self-realization and to unfold their potential, and learn how to communicate and collaborate, to develop their competence needed for the future lifeVytauto Didžiojo universitetasŠvietimo akademij