Employment in Lithuania

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Project STRATFORD
New Strategies For Promoting Foreign Language
Learning in Disadvantaged Areas
Module Traditional Jobs Presentation 21st
October, 2008 Kula, Turkey
Created by Violeta, Maryte, Rima from
Pakruojis Education Centre, Lithuania
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Traditional Jobs in the Past
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• Outstanding and unique were traditional
  crafts in Lithuania.
• Simple materials - wood, straw, rock, cloth, clay
  and paper  were the raw materials of the
  craftsmen, and natural objects - the sun, moon,
  stars, and flowers were the topics of their
  adornments.

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Crafts flourished in Lithuania in the
XIX th century carpenters built houses, made
furniture and weaving wheels coopers, clog
makers, shoemakers, tailors, weavers,
wheelwrights, blacksmiths, and tanners also had
things to do.
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Pottery and Ceramics
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One of the oldest crafts in Lithuania is
pottery. Lithuanian ceramics is distinguished by
jugs, whistles, kitchen utensils bowls, plates.
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The most valuable is black ceramics,
produced in Dzukija and Zemaitija regions.
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We made clay pots in Siauliai Ausra Museum. It
was one of the activities of the
module.Potters?-Jurate and Nijole.
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Potters? -Genovaite, Maryte and Violeta
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Wood carving
Our country is known for its wood carving
crafts. Crafts were followed by artistic pieces
for the soul, monuments of small architecture. 
Folk sculptors created thousands of
sculptures of monumental forms, with simple
expressions, moderate and showing big emotional
stress. These sculptures (often severe) were
placed onto crosses and into chapels.
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• In 19 th century Lithuania was dotted with wooden
  roadside shrines built on the ground or in trees
  as well as pillared shrines, roofed pillars and
  crosses decorated with polychromic figures of the
  Saints being the unique works.

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Cross craft is a part of historical and
cultural heritage of Lithuanians. Crosses
were built along roads, in villages, at
crossroads, at approaches to towns and town
squares, homesteads, even in forests and in
cemeteries.
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All the carving works represent an ancient
tradition, which, in 2002, has been recognized by
UNESCO as a masterpiece of Humanity's Oral and
Intangible Heritage.
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Weaving
Most women knew how to spin and weave
from girlhood.
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They made white linen towels, tablecloths,
bedspreads, pillow covers, and cloths for
clothes.
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Our national costume
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Since ancient times, sash making was one of
the most practiced folk weaving craft in
Lithuania. Traditional sashes were woven of
brightly dyed linen, cotton and wool threads.

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Sashes are classified into three groups according
to crafting technique. They are plaited, twined
or woven.

• Plaited sashes were worked from wool threads by
  hand without any tools. Twined sashes are woven
  on wooden square cards.
• Ancient symbols, most often the sun, heavenly
  bodies and vegetation were depicted in sash
  patterns.

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We are twisting with small stones and gaining
some experience of making twines in Siauliai
Ausra Museum.
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Our learners with their handmade twines and clay
bowls?
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Basket weaving
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Basket weavers make wickers from osiers.
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Lithuanians really love wickers a moment from
Kaziukas Fair?
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Kaziukas Fair
Kaziukas Fair is an annual Lithuanian folk
crafts fair dating back to the beginning of the
17th century, held in Vilnius, capital of
Lithuania. As the fair is traditionally held
on the Sunday nearest to St. Casimirs Day, March
4 (the day St. Casimir died), it is popularly
referred to as Kaziukio muge, literally Little
Casimirs Fair. The main idea of the event
is the change of seasons the time to banish out
the winter and welcome the first signs of spring.
The celebration today is more like a festival of
folk art, crafts, music and dance, and attracts
tens of thousands of people, as well as many
craftsmen from all over the country.
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• Traditional palms (called verbos) made of
  colourful dried flowers and herbs, are taken to
  church on Palm Sunday, and are the fairs
  trademark.

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Typical Jobs Nowadays
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Employment in Lithuania in
2007
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Employed population by kind of economic activity
1-agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing
(10,4)? 2-mining and quarrying (0,4
)? 3-manufacturing (17,5 )? 4-electicity, gas
and water supply (1,7 )? 5-construction (11,1
)? 6-wholesale and retail trade repair of motor
vehicles, motorcycles and personal and household
goods (17,1 )? 7-hotels and restaurants (2,2
)? 8-transport, storage and communication (7,3
)? 9-financial intermediation (1,4 )? 10-real
estate, renting and business activities (4,9
)? 11-public administration and defence
compulsory social security (5,4 )? 12-education
(9,4 )? 13-health and social work (6,6
)? 14-other community, social and personal
service activities (4,4 )? 15-activities of
households (0,2 ).
You can see highlighted columns in red in the
diagram. Our learners work in these sectors.
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• We would like to add that the number of
  population employed in the service sector has
  been increasing, while in agriculture-decreasing,
  because some years ago there were 17,9 percent of
  people who worked in agriculture sector, now
  there are only 10,4 per cent.

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What are production jobs in Pakruojis district
municipality?
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Pedagogical workers in 2007

• Pedagogical workers 519, 460 of them women
• Pre-primary school teachers 10
• primary school teachers 87
• Subject teachers - 254
• Heads of educational institutions 19
• Deputy heads of educational institutions 27
• Kindergarteners-88

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Our learners and their jobs

• Rima pedagogical worker, director of our
  education centre
• Maryte- a housewife
• Violeta an officer in a social insurance
  institution
• Jolanta an officer in a social insurance
  institution, chiefwoman of the finance department
• Reda a nurse
• Valdas IT specialist
• Rasa chemistry teacher, deputy head
• Jurate a kindergartener
• Nijole - kindergartener, director of a
  kindergarten
• Rita a kindergartener, deputy head
• Dalia a primary school teacher

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Now we would like to invite you to watch the
video material about our learners in their
workplaces.
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When you work you are a flute through whose
heart the whispering of the hours turns to
music. And when you work with love you bind
yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to
God. Work is love made visible.
(Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet On Work )?