THE CONFERENCE AS A LEARNING METHOD AND ITS APPLICATION IN PRIMARY EDUCATION

While analysing theoretical presumptions of educational methods, it has been noticed that personality's development is validated by the conference as a method. This method stimulates support of active relationships among the participants of education process involving personal experiences. Conference as an education method involves learning process of multidimensional environment that includes various types of digital media such as text, image, sound, video that are integrated into one presentation. Conference as education method highlights the division between pupil-centred vs. teacher-centred conceptions. A pupil as a central figure creates conditions for pupils to communicate with each other without teacher's positioning in the education process. Pupils and teachers of Šilutė Martynas Jankus primary school organise events dedicated to the Earth Day. One of the events is conference. Conference activities, presentations, community's involvement into the educational process stimulate social communication; the education process becomes important not only to its participants, but also to the whole community increasing the engagement to solve nature problems.