SOCIETY. INTEGRATION. EDUCATION. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference

Ramunė Bagdonaitė-Stelmokienė
Vytautas Magnus University, Kolping University of Applied Sciences
Lithuania

RAMUNĖ BAGDONAITĖ-STELMOKIENĖ is a lecturer in the Social Welfare Centre at Kolping University of Applied Sciences (Kaunas, Lithuania). In 2009, she earned the Master’s Degree of Social Work at Vytautas Magnus University. Now she is a PhD student of Education at Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania). Ramunė takes interest in the social care of the individuals affected by negative social environment, social-risk families, children, issues of social ethics. She focuses her study on the phenomenon of caring and informal learning. Ramunė is a member of the International Foster Care Research Network (member from 2009); European Research Institute for Social Work (ERIS) (member from 2013); Lithuanian Board of Social Work (member from 2015). She published more than 10 articles on peer reviewed journals, and has made more than 18 national and international research presentations, related to the field of social work, caring, and informal learning. Her e-mail: r.bagdonaite@gmail.com

Vilma Žydžiūnaitė
Vytautas Magnus University.
Lithuania