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

Ireta Čekse
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University of Latvia
Latvia

Ireta Čekse is a senior researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Educational Research in the Faculty of Education, Psychology and Art at the University of Latvia. Since 2007, she has worked for the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS), and she has led the ICCS in Latvia since 2014.Her expertise spans citizenship education, citizenship, comparative studies, education science and education management. At present, she is leading the project “The impact of the level of civic education on values and security: a comparison of the situation in the Baltic Sea region democratic countries”, the transnational project “DiCE.Lang – Digital Citizenship Education and Foreign Language Learning” in Latvia, and the ICCS 2022 study on the “Development and implementation of a quality education monitoring system” project. She has been conducting her postdoctoral studies at the University of Latvia since 2017.Her postdoctoral research is about the influence of the level of civic education on values and safety, looking deeply at the Latvian context and comparing it with other states in the Baltic Sea region. Ireta is the author and co-author of more than 10 publications about processes in all dimensions of education. She has been involved in more than 10 projects about citizenship education, education policy and education science. She gives lectures to Master’s degree students about citizenship education, communication in pedagogy and sociology in education. She has also been involved in editing journals on education issues.

Reinis Alksnis
University of Latvia
Latvia

Reinis Alksnis is a research assistant in the Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Optometry at the University of Latvia (LU), where he received his Master’s degree in natural sciences in mathematics in 2020. Currently, he is a PhD student of mathematics at the same faculty. His main scientific interests are related to probability theory and nonparametric statistics. His doctoral thesis is devoted to Bartlett corrections and two sample empirical likelihoods for weakly dependent data and strongly mixing processes.Besides his studies at LU, he teaches mathematical statistics and works in a statistical research and data analysis laboratory where he takes part in various projects as a mathematician and data analyst. Reinis also works as a guest lecturer at the Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, where he teaches higher mathematics to engineering students of bachelor’s degree level.