| Abstract [eng] |
In the analysis of the need for continuing vocational education and training, the problem of professional activity was observed: officials fail to transfer the available professional knowledge and skills by training newly recruited officials on the spot, which superimposed the scientific problem: what are the possibilities of expressing the mentor's activities in the Lithuania police school? What obstacles do mentoring face as a phenomenon and what conditions would guarantee the successful implementation of a formal mentoring program? Object: expression of mentoring at the Lithuania police school. Purpose: to analyze theoretically the activities of the mentor and to empirically reveal the possibilities of expression of mentoring in the Lithuania police school. Tasks set to achieve the purpose of the work: 1. Analyze the theoretical assumptions of the mentor's activity, revealing the concept of the mentor's and mentoring, and forms of mentoring in the context of the Lithuanian Police School. 2. Reveal the peculiarities of the mentor's activity, the characteristics required for the mentor and the functions of the mentor's activity in the Lithuanian Police School. 3. Analyze the respondents' attitude towards the expression of the mentor's activity in the Lithuanian Police School, the realities and perspectives of its activity. Research methods: analysis of scientific literature and legal acts, questionnaire survey, discussion group research, statistical analysis of the obtained data using specialized statistical computer software SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences). The generalized analysis of theoretical and empirical research confirmed the research hypothesis - the implementation of a formal mentoring program in the Lithuanian Police School will be successful if conditions are created for systematic professional development of mentors, positive attitudes of mentors towards mentor training and people capable and willing to become mentors. Conclusions and recommendations of the research work are presented. |
