Ilona Valantinaitė
Biographic Data
| ID | 4081205 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ilona Valantinaitė |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ilona |
| FAMILY NAME | Valantinaitė |
| SIGNATURE | VALANTINAITĖ I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vilnius Gediminas Technical University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2616-6925 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Debutant Teachers’ Perceptions of the Benefits of the Discussion Method in University Studies
Aim. This study investigates how first-year Ph.D. students who lack prior teaching experience perceive the role of virtual discussions in developing their teaching-related competencies, including pedagogical and communicative skills. Methods. Data collected from debutant Ph.D. students at three universities in 2021, 2022, and 2023 was analysed using a phenomenographic approach. The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework (Garrison et al., 2000) guid…
The Space and Role of Discussion in University Studies in the Context of Socrates’ Philosophy of Education
This article analyses the role of discussion in university studies in the context of Socrates’ philosophy of education. The article begins with a discussion of the relevance and continuity of Socrates’ ideas on philosophical education in the contemporary educational space and highlights the importance of Socratic discussion in university studies. It is argued that discussion contributes to the development of one of the most essential skills of th…
Is there happiness in money? An attitudinal study of native Lithuanian speakers
The paper considers the different notions of happiness known since antiquity, such as the Greek concepts of harmonia, eudaimonia, makarioi, and hēdonē, and explores the factors of happiness. The aim of this research is to form a more complete understanding of Lithuanian speakers and their attitude(s) towards happiness. The research surveyed 210 Lithuanian speakers aged 15 to 35 who were residing in Lithuania, France, Sweden and the United Kingdom…
I–Thou Communication in Distant Education from the Perspective of Martin Buber’s Philosophy
The internet space has become one of the essential tools for ensuring continuity of higher education studies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Established distance learning is based on virtual communication, which, by replacing the experience of interpersonal communication, raises many discussions about the possibilities of ensuring efficiency and improvement of distance education. The article deals with Martin Buber’s dialogue education attitudes, w…
Culturally Conditioned Visual Communication in Creative Expression
The human body and its consciousness interacts with a number of external and internal factors, including, among others, the surrounding environment, experienced emotions, those things seen, things that are possessed and touched, and affection that is experienced, all of which accumulates over time as personal experience. In the aforementioned process memory plays the most significant role and predetermines the extent to which an individual rememb…
The Idea of Mass Culture in the Technologized Context of Lifelong Learning from the Philosophical Perspective of Ortega y Gasset
The article discusses consequences of increasing accessibility of education employing virtual learning environments. The main focus is laid on two consequences, i.e. on flourishing of mass-man and elimination of individual attitude. Seeking to ensure accessibility of education to everybody, equal conditions are introduced: technologization of the learning process through virtual learning environments leads to assurance of the level of convenient …
The Relationship Between Communication and Education Through the Creative Personality of the Teacher
The article focuses on the relationships of communication and educational processes, creativity aspects in the context of higher education. A creative personality of the teacher determines how smooth and efficient these relationships are. The results of the quantitative research (sample – 124 teachers) conducted at Lithuanian higher education institutions and coprehensively presented in the article reveal the attitude of Lithuanian higher educati…
Communication of Creativeness in Business Media
Creativity has been traditionally associated and even identified with artistry. However, it is being perceived as an impetus for the development of leadership and technologies innovation, and is characteristic of activities that for long have not been recognized creative. The current article presents results of the quantitative content analysis of the Business News (in Lithuanian Verslo žinios) daily business newspaper of Lithuania. The instances…
Shift of Creativity Concepts
The article analyses the development of creativity concepts. Notions of creativity transformed historically from uncontrolled divine inspiration and non-reflected artistic inspiration to the targeted work resulting in commercially successful creative products. The analysis begins with Plato’s discussion that a poet should be overtaken by divine inspiration, that human beings do not create by themselves, they are dictated to by the Muses. Renaissa…
Is there happiness in money? An attitudinal study of native Lithuanian speakers
The paper considers the different notions of happiness known since antiquity, such as the Greek concepts of harmonia, eudaimonia, makarioi, and hēdonē, and explores the factors of happiness. The aim of this research is to form a more complete understanding of Lithuanian speakers and their attitude(s) towards happiness. The research surveyed 210 Lithuanian speakers aged 15 to 35 who were residing in Lithuania, France, Sweden and the United Kingdom…
Communication of Creativeness in Business Media
Creativity has been traditionally associated and even identified with artistry. However, it is being perceived as an impetus for the development of leadership and technologies innovation, and is characteristic of activities that for long have not been recognized creative. The current article presents results of the quantitative content analysis of the Business News (in Lithuanian Verslo žinios) daily business newspaper of Lithuania. The instances…
Shift of Creativity Concepts
The article analyses the development of creativity concepts. Notions of creativity transformed historically from uncontrolled divine inspiration and non-reflected artistic inspiration to the targeted work resulting in commercially successful creative products. The analysis begins with Plato’s discussion that a poet should be overtaken by divine inspiration, that human beings do not create by themselves, they are dictated to by the Muses. Renaissa…
The Relationship Between Communication and Education Through the Creative Personality of the Teacher
The article focuses on the relationships of communication and educational processes, creativity aspects in the context of higher education. A creative personality of the teacher determines how smooth and efficient these relationships are. The results of the quantitative research (sample – 124 teachers) conducted at Lithuanian higher education institutions and coprehensively presented in the article reveal the attitude of Lithuanian higher educati…
Culturally Conditioned Visual Communication in Creative Expression
The human body and its consciousness interacts with a number of external and internal factors, including, among others, the surrounding environment, experienced emotions, those things seen, things that are possessed and touched, and affection that is experienced, all of which accumulates over time as personal experience. In the aforementioned process memory plays the most significant role and predetermines the extent to which an individual rememb…
The Idea of Mass Culture in the Technologized Context of Lifelong Learning from the Philosophical Perspective of Ortega y Gasset
The article discusses consequences of increasing accessibility of education employing virtual learning environments. The main focus is laid on two consequences, i.e. on flourishing of mass-man and elimination of individual attitude. Seeking to ensure accessibility of education to everybody, equal conditions are introduced: technologization of the learning process through virtual learning environments leads to assurance of the level of convenient …
I–Thou Communication in Distant Education from the Perspective of Martin Buber’s Philosophy
The internet space has become one of the essential tools for ensuring continuity of higher education studies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Established distance learning is based on virtual communication, which, by replacing the experience of interpersonal communication, raises many discussions about the possibilities of ensuring efficiency and improvement of distance education. The article deals with Martin Buber’s dialogue education attitudes, w…
The Space and Role of Discussion in University Studies in the Context of Socrates’ Philosophy of Education
This article analyses the role of discussion in university studies in the context of Socrates’ philosophy of education. The article begins with a discussion of the relevance and continuity of Socrates’ ideas on philosophical education in the contemporary educational space and highlights the importance of Socratic discussion in university studies. It is argued that discussion contributes to the development of one of the most essential skills of th…
Is there happiness in money? An attitudinal study of native Lithuanian speakers
The paper considers the different notions of happiness known since antiquity, such as the Greek concepts of harmonia, eudaimonia, makarioi, and hēdonē, and explores the factors of happiness. The aim of this research is to form a more complete understanding of Lithuanian speakers and their attitude(s) towards happiness. The research surveyed 210 Lithuanian speakers aged 15 to 35 who were residing in Lithuania, France, Sweden and the United Kingdom…
Debutant Teachers’ Perceptions of the Benefits of the Discussion Method in University Studies
Aim. This study investigates how first-year Ph.D. students who lack prior teaching experience perceive the role of virtual discussions in developing their teaching-related competencies, including pedagogical and communicative skills. Methods. Data collected from debutant Ph.D. students at three universities in 2021, 2022, and 2023 was analysed using a phenomenographic approach. The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework (Garrison et al., 2000) guid…
Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Creativity (3 works) · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (3 works)