1. STUDENTS INNOVATIVITY IN STUDY PROCESS IN THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Eglė Kidykaitė PHD student Institute of Educational Studies Department of Educational Systems, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Eglė Kidykaitė PHD student Institute of Educational Studies Department of Educational Systems, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

2. Who can try to handle with it? KIDS TEENAGERS STUDENTS SHOOLCHILDREN PERSON INSTITUTION GROUP STATE TEAM OLDERS ADULTS CONTINENT

3. Topic problem How to empower innovativity of a university student to the rational decision-making for sustainable development?

4. Presentation content q STUDENST INNOVATIVITY IN STUDY PROCESS  Why students?  Why innovation?  What could stimulate students inovativeness in study process? qSTUDENTS EMPOWEREMENT  What is students empowerement?  Why students empowerement?  What is benefit?  How to empower students qSUSTAINABLE DEVLOPMENT THROUGH EMPOWERFUL AND INNOVATIVE STUDENTS  What the sustainability is?  How to empower students to be innovative and sensitive to sustainable development problems?

5. Why students? KNOWLEDGE KNOW HOW SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

6. Why students? (2) HUMAN WORLD HUMAN + WORLD = 1= WHOLEHUMAN + WORLD = 2 Moral values Proper education Material values Compromise

7. Learning Process Searching, generating, understand ing Activity Poper understand ing Us, the world Resul t Why students? (3)

8. Why innovation? ATTITUDES, SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE POSSIBILITY OF CONTINOUS IMPROVEMENT INNOVATIVE IDEAS,NEW APPROACHES ACTION STUDENTS INNOVATIVITY IN STUDY PROCESS EMPOWEREMENT MODERN AND CREATIVE PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION AND SOLVING SKILLS Opportunity, recognition Finding

9. Empowerment is the process by which people, communities and institutions, contribute to the control and creation of their lives. Empowerment involves delegation, individual responsibility, self- confidence and decision-making capacity to act effectively. Sometimes it’s talk about empowerment as a freedom and the ability to do the work, to know how that work can be done differently and better. Empowerem ent can be viewed from two perspectives : empowerement as the target to increase the individual's self-confidence by providing him necessary information, resources, knowledge; empowerement as an appropriate environment that encourages the individual to develop their knowledge and competence, creating conditions to autonomy, freedom, and the responsibility development. What empowerement is?

10. What is students empowerement? You have the resources you need to make decisions Tools You get the training/education to do the job you want Skills You’re working on something you care about Meaning You can make decisions about your education Control Your input makes a difference Impact

11. Empowering students to study in university, gives them an opportunity to control their own learning process and the activities of reflection, raising them self-confidence, encourage creativity and innovation. These factors are very important to everyone, who lives in rapidly changing world and has to contribute to sustainable development problems solving. Students empowerement to be all life learners and perceive the importance of responsibility for themselves and sustainable world-taking, encourage them to be "sensitive", innovative, to problems and their solutions. Empowerement as a result, that is neccessary to promote students innovativity in study process, in order to make them capable to understand the changing world problems and finding innovative solutions for them. Why students empowerement?

12. What is benefit? Capacity to act effectively. Control of their and other lifes taking Responsibili- ty Thinking skills development Increased enthusiasm Increased moral and motivation Improwed team work skills Increased creativity Increase productivity Sensitivity to world problems BENEFITS OF STUDENTS EMPOWEREMT

13. How to empower students? These methods could help students develop 21st century skills: Collaborating with peers. Analyzing data about their own learning styles, motivation and school success. Problem solving and making decisions about their success. Communicating with others their needs and wants, weaknesses and strengths. Using critical thinking skills and objective self-analysis to implement strategies for consistent success.

14. What Works Best to Empower? REQUIREGIVE AUTONOMYMANDATEFORCEPRAISEDON‘T SCAREEXCITECREATE PASSIONMOTIVATE

15. Nature Society Wellbeing Economy. What the sustainability is? Sustainability is about the relationship and compromise between people, their purpose and their place.

16. Culture of experimenation support How to empower students to be innovative and sensitive to sustainable development problems? Deep learning Shared decision making Increased respomsibility for their own learning Creativity Impotant task assigning Provide autonomy Active learning Motivation Problem solving learning Give visibility and recognition Build strong relationship Choise opportunity Participation Decision making Focus on students Flexibility Risk taking Build trust Involving

17. In conclusion... Students' educational empowerment is understood as a social learning process that in individual level helps students to control their personal experience of sustainable development, self-apply it for innovative problem solving, and their future creation. Following the tradition of environmental education which was thought as a main instrument for solving environmental problems, education once again seems to serve as a prior vehicle to reach the ambitious goals of sustainability.

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