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Citizenship education is a relevant issue of education and international policy in many countries, including Lithuania, especially due to the current tense geopolitical situation. In 2022-2023, after updating general education curricula, citizenship education competence is included in all subjects of general education. According to the updated Fundamentals of Citizenship programme for grades 9-10, students can develop citizenship competences by participating in nonformal education and engaging in other activities related to citizenship education. To achieve the aim of the research presented in the article - to analyze the social-educational factors of children's citizenship education in basic school - an empirical study was carried out, for which the Diagnostic Questionnaire for the Situation of Citizenship Education by Valuckienė et al. (2017) was used. The study made it possible to distinguish the socialeducational factors important for citizenship education: the child's trust in the school staff, the child's relationship with community events, adults' respect for the child's opinion, the child's interest in news and the child's participation in school self-government. The results of the empirical study confirmed the hypotheses: 1) respect for the child's opinion is moderately positively related to the child's involvement in the life of the school community, participation in school self-government and 2) adults' respect for the child's opinion is weakly positively related to the child's trust in the school staff. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the views of several associate professors on professor Leonas Jovai0161a in Lithuania. Associate professor Dr. Rolandas Paulauskas views the professor as a scientist because of his profound thinking, curiosity and scientific optimism. Associate professor Dr. Au0161rine Gumuliauskien0117 views the professor as the teacher with the capital letter because of his personality that are distinct and varicoloured. Associate professor Dr. Henrikas Volodka views the professor as the head of the department because of his style of management that is clear, concrete and precise.