Educatia 21

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Romania

The major objectives of the Educatia 21 Journal is to create and sustain a free open space for reflection and pedagogical research related to contemporary educational issues. This means that the journal does not charge any fees. There are no submission and processing charges.

This international journal publishes original papers, integrative reviews of research literature bearing on education, including conceptualizations, interpretations, and syntheses of literature and scholarly work in a field broadly relevant to education and educational research. All this content is available in the online Educatia 21 Journal that has an Open Access format.

Educatia 21 Journal accepts manuscripts related to the educational sciences field or interdisciplinary approaches on current topics of interest: curriculum, teacher training, educational management, instruction, higher education, secondary education, preschool education, distance education, lifelong learning, school counselling, educational psychology, special-education, inclusive education, new media technologies in education, comparative education etc.

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Frequency: 1 issues / Country: Romania

Human Education Today for Tomorrow’s World publishes topical articles on all aspects of education and social sciences. Education, in all of its forms and aspects, constitutes a dynamic reality of the cultural and social challenges, which prompts teachers, pupils/students, parents, as well as local communities, to reflect and get involved.

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Edukacyjna odpowiedź na horyzont oczekiwań językowych dziecka

Author(s): Anna Wasilewska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 12/2019

The aim of the following article is the reflection on the issue of the linguistic education of children in a younger school age. I propose herein to juxtapose the features of the horizon of linguistic expectations of children before school education, along with proposals of language education at school. First, a description of the cognitive mechanisms which accompany the development of a child’s linguistic skills is presented. I reach for various learning theories here so as to describe the features of the progress of the complex process of learning a language. Subsequently, I perform a general (and out of necessity simplified) reconstruction of the features of various linguistic messages encountered by contemporary children before going to school. Such an image of the horizon of a child’s linguistic expectations is confronted with a proposal of the school linguistic education. Then, the following question is answered: what is education’s response to the horizon of a pupil’s linguistic expectations? Approaching the issue regarding the linguistic education of children in younger grades, taking the linguistic disposition of the pupil into account enables a critical assessment of a school’s offer, which is significant to forming education curricula and strategies.

Elementy tradycyjnej duchowości w rozwoju duchowym realizowanym w szkole powszechnej

Author(s): Aleksandra Kamińska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 27/2018

The inclusion of spirituality in human development is the very important problem because only spiritually developed man can achieve full of his/her abilities. Spiritual development enables an existential view of our lives. This life ceases to be limited to satisfying material needs and enter-tainment, although these elements considered as success and happiness in our culture. Thanks to the development of the spiritual aspect, man perceives his life as meaningful, having a purpose, feels a sense of fulfillment in life. Unfortunately, spirituality is treated in a marginal way in mod-ern education. The multitude of possibilities to define this concept is accountable for this situation. Only when we analyze the various trends of spirituality, we may construct a model of spirituality which will be used in a system of schools. This model should be composed of those elements that would be common for students and enable their development in this area. In connection with these assumptions, the author analyzes the notion of traditional spirituality related to religious tradition and then she wonders which aspects of this approach to spirituality are possible to apply in the conditions of secular, non-religious schools.

Empatia jako ważny czynnik w procesie komunikacji i interakcji międzyosobowej dzieci w wieku przedszkolnym

Author(s): Aleksandra Kruszewska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 27/2018

Empathy means as much as compassion, ability, and the ability to understand the emotional state of another person. It would seem that if it is a feeling, an emotion, it does not depend on us wheth-er we will feel it or not. Nothing more wrong. We can teach and learn empathy throughout our lives. In upbringing, it is mainly about shaping a socially, emotionally sensitive human being for all kinds of changes in the environment. This can be expected to some extent from pre-school chil-dren. The child’s emotional processes depend to a large extent on the functioning of his nervous and hormonal systems – on the general health, and perhaps mainly from contacts with the closest family members, from early social experiences and later from the atmosphere prevailing in thepeer environment. The pre-school period is the time preparing the child to study at school, stay in a wider environment. The level of empathy that he presents in pre-school age will greatly facilitate his communication and interaction at school. The presented research results were aimed at deter-mining the degree of empathy in pre-school children. Analysis of the research material allowed to determine the empathic behavior of preschoolers in terms of age and gender and their maturation to empathy.

Erken Çocukluk Döneminde Öğretmen Sorularının Uygulama Bazlı Kullanımlarının Bağlamsal Olarak İncelenmesi

Author(s): Kübra Demir,Yılmaz Soysal / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 1/2020

The purpose of the current study was to explore the questions staged by an early childhood teacher during in-class teaching processes by a contextual and implementation-based manner. The participants of the study were an early childhood educator and 16 children (60-72 months). In-class implementations were video-recorded and analysed through systematic observation approach as a branch of sociocultural discourse analysis. Through a data-based and theoryladen coding catalogue (Teacher Questions Coding Catalogue), teacher-led questions were labelled in seconds and/or minutes intervals. The discursive functions of the teacher-led questions were gathered around seven categories and 28 sub-categories: communicating questions, monitoring (framing) questions, legitimating questions, challenging questions, evidencing questions, observe-compare-predict questions, and inferencing (deducing) questions. In addition, it was observed that the typologies and proportions of the enacted questions were moderately or substantially affected by the differences between the students' everyday social languages that were brought to the classroom environment by the learners and the social language of the school science that the teacher tried to take the pupils. It was also concluded thematically-oriented specifications of the contents under negotiation during the in-class implementations seemed to change the types and proportions of the teacher-led questions. Various educational recommendations were offered for the professional development of preschool teachers, especially in the context of teacher noticing.

Ethical Dilemmas in Education

Author(s): Andreea Filip,Sinziana Elena Mititelu / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2015

Ethics, one of the main branches of philosophy, deals with researching moral issues, dealing, for example, with the issue of good and evil, situational behavior and even with what we are supposed to do in certain instances, because, as Aristotle claimed, ethics can be seen as the sum of traditions and human behaviors and how it regards the way in which we act and react according to the principles rooted deep down into ourselves. Also, ethics must be correlated with the usefulness and the morality of an action, as well as with the issue of good and evil. Starting from these, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the directions ethics take in the educational system, in the context in which the issue of ethics is raised more and more often in some schools. That being said, we will also recount a few case studies starting from personal and professional experience.

Evaluation during the Romanian Language and Literature Class in Middle School Application – “Contest” Evaluation Lesson

Author(s): Andreea Diaconu / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2015

Evaluation during the Romanian Language and Literature Class in Middle SchoolApplication – “Contest” Evaluation LessonDIACONU Andreea“Ștefan cel Mare” University of SuceavaE-mail: cretu.andreea87@yahoo.comReceived 13.02.2015; Accepted 20.02. 2015AbstractIn this paper, I have tried to approach teaching assessment methods and its specific procedures, as an important part of the educational process, for two reasons that have concerned me since the beginning of my teaching career. The first reason is the desire to explore, understand, and put into practice the evaluation process in middle school as fair as possible, the second reason being the desire to help students exceed their fears regarding evaluation, so that they perceive this stage as a crowning of their work and endeavor.On these lines, the research methods have constituted the first part of the paper, and in the second part, as case study I have used the “school contest” method during an evaluation and probation of knowledge lesson.The purpose of this paper is to generally review all the characteristics of this stage, because evaluation is a complicated process of the educational system and quite a controversial one. Hence, in the second chapter, I have firstly focused on highlighting some of the essential theoretical aspects of evaluation and, secondly, I have tried to approach the importance of teaching-learning-evaluation triad during the Romanian language and literature lessons. Last but not least, the third chapter encompasses a general overview of the specific methods of evaluation for middle school during the Romanian language and literature classes and the presentation of the evaluation and probation of knowledge, all of which being necessary in order to observe the means through which evaluation can be applied to this discipline.Towards the end of this paper, as an example, I have chosen to present the consecution of an evaluation and probation of knowledge lesson as a schoolcontest for the eighth grade. By choosing this particular method, I have intended to change the students’ understanding of the least pleasant stage of the teaching process, evaluation.

EVDEKİ ÖĞRENME KAYNAKLARI VE OKUL ÖNCESİ EĞİTİM ALMANIN TIMSS 2015 MATEMATİK VE FEN BİLİMLERİ PERFORMANSI ÜZERİNDEKİ ETKİSİ

Author(s): Sümeyra Soysal / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 2/2019

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of home resources for learning, students who attended preschool education and early literacy and numeracy activities before beginning primary school on mathematics and science performance. The sample of the study consists of N=6456 4th year students who participated in TIMSS 2015. The effect of independent variables on mathematics and science performance was analyzed by ANOVA. According to the results, as home resources for learning increase, math and science performance increases both Turkey and TIMSS 2015 samples. However, the amount of home resources for learning in Turkey are quite insufficient compared to TIMSS 2015 average. The mathematics and science performance of students who attend pre-school is higher than those of student who had not attended pre-school. There is positive linear relationship between early childhood education attendance rates and math as well as science performance in TIMSS 2015, but there is no such relationship in Turkey. Both in Tukey and TIMSS 2015 samples, there is positive and linear relationship between frequency of early literacy and numeracy activities before beginning primary school and math performance as well as science.

Examining The Plays That Preschool Children Prefer and The Characteristics Shaping Them Using Draw and Tell Technique

Author(s): Bato DONDUKOV / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2020

In this study, the play preferences of 80 five-year-old children, 40 girls and 40 boys, from four schools in Turkey and the characteristics that shape their preferred plays were examined. The research was designed by descriptive method, which is one of the qualitative research patterns, and the data were collected using draw-and-tell technique. Crayons and drawing papers were distributed to the children participating in the study and they were asked to draw a play they wanted to play. During the drawing, the children were interviewed by asking questions. Thematic analysis method was used in the study; open coding was performed to group the drawings and interview records of the children under the themes and sub-themes. As a result of thematic analysis, five main themes were created regarding the plays preferred by children and how and where they prefer to play them. The results showed that all children preferred open-ended plays, they mostly prefer modern plays (50%) (type of play), playing with friends (44%) (social connection), dynamic plays (69%) (physical function), indoors plays (54%) (playground) and to use ready-made toys (42%) (toys used).

FACULTY CHOICE: ASPECTS THAT INFLUENCE YOUNG PEOPLE

Author(s): Elena Sestac / Language(s): English / Issue: 13/2020

Every year, thousands of young people are forced to choose a faculty, which is expected to develop professionally, intellectually and personally. Unfortunately, this election is not given the necessary importance, because it is perceived as a simple decision, without complications and without taking into account the repercussions that may exist in the future. The misinformation, the creation of the imaginary and the confusion they may face when choosing a career are examples of the problems that young people face.The present study aims to identify whether family, economic and aptitude aspects have occurred, so that the young student has chosen his career and to what extent it has influenced. Developed by qualitative methodology, this research aims to provide information on career choice. The research was carried out in a student dormitory questioning different students from various faculties.The results showed that the family aspect had a great influence on the participants, being placed on the first place of the studied aspects, and from an economic point of view, an influence was also observed in the choice of career, the aptitude did not have a great relevance in the results obtained.

From touch to click – online presence and internet usage between the ages of 4 and 7

Author(s): Noémi Janek / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

In the 21st century the Internet and digital devices became essential in our everyday life. Due to this even children at younger age get in touch with cyberspace, which results we cannot ignore their online presence. In spite of this, there is still a little focus on pre-school aged children in reasearches done thus far. In 2010s we can see growing interest about the topic and investigations of children’s Internet use between the ages of 0-8. They have already ponited out the spread of smartphones and tablets increased this age group’s presence on the Internet and that’s why they also should be a target group in such researches. In my research I wanted to get a better view of the pre-school aged children’s online presence, usage and their knowledge about the Internet. For this I did accidental sampling and chose 120 children and their parents from pre-schools all around in Budapest. I used both qualitative (drawing, interview) and quantitative (questionnaire) methods in the interest of deeper understanding.

Games and Competitions to Transform an English for Specific Purposes Class into Ctudent-Centered

Author(s): Oksana Chugai / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2020

The article addresses the problem of using games and competitions to transform traditional teacher-centered English for Specific Purposes (ESP) class into student-centered. The basic features of games are distinguished: following rules, getting immediate feedback and achieving a goal. Gamification is defined as a process of using games in education aimed at bringing democracy into educational environment and achieving better learning results by motivating students. The characteristics of teacher-centered and student-centered models are discussed in the article. Detailed descriptions of games and competitions are provided, the guidelines of introducing gamification in an ESP class are outlined. The author comes to the conclusion that gamification of education, aiming at achieving better learning results and employability of graduates, is effective if properly applied.

General scientific and philosophical approaches to the analysis of training teaching staff of preschool education

Author(s): Mariya Oliynyk / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2015

This article analyzes the general scientific and philosophical approaches to the training of teaching staff of preschool education. The essence of the concept of "methodological approach" has been revealed, as did the main approaches to training future educators. Author determined and allocated philosophical, interdisciplinary, systemic, synergistic, functional, personal, activity, axiological, and competency approaches.

Genu Recurvatum – Physical Deficiency Recovery By Kinetotherapy

Author(s): Dumitrita Iurniuc,Andreea – Iuliana AIOANE / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2015

In this paper I will present the role of kinetotherapy in diminishing the physical deficiency of the lower limbs - genu recurvatum, the importance of practicing exercises on a regular basis, the importance of the subject's collaboration in the recovery process and the effect of the results of therapy.By the fact that the deficiency is not painful, as long as it does not change, and there are no complications, is required to be corrected especially for appearance.The best results come from preschoolers, followed by adolescents and then adults, with the recovery program having a greater number of repetitions of positions and exercises over a longer period of time because keeping results under control is more cumbersome , precisely because the processes of growth and development of the organism have come to an end.I want to show that to minimize and even reduce total deficiency genu recurvatum no need to resort to sophisticated equipment, costly and difficultInternational Journal of Educational Theory and Practice (IJETP)Volume 2/ Issue 3/ 201564to access, but enough simple exercises executed correctly with appropriate dosage. Besides those listed above, a big plus in early recovery is striving involvement and interesting topics.

Gwara a tożsamość kulturowa przedszkolaków – na przykładzie placówek przedszkolnych z terenu województwa warmińsko-mazurskiego

Author(s): Kinga Lisowska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 12/2019

In the article, I discussed the problem of shaping cultural identity through the educational activities of a local kindergarten from the area of Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. I presented the forms of use of the warlord and Mazurian bustes in preschool work. The content of the work is the result of the analysis of the statutes, the concept of work and the annual work plans of preschool from Warmia and Mazury for the years 2012–2017. In the studies, I used a qualitative strategy, a method of collecting data in the form of a searchable secondary source. I have analysed materials from 100 local government offices, which have accrued during their activities in the years 2012–2017. The sources come primarily from the Olsztyn district and partly from Mrągów and Giżycki. The educational activities carried out by the warlord and Mazurian bustly lead to the shaping of cultural identity among preschoolers through territorial, historical and cultural roots.

Homo narrans – wymiar dziecięcego istnienia

Author(s): Justyna Wojciechowska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2 (56)/2020

The objective of the article is discussing the issue of narrative. The author considers the essence of narrative in children’s cultural, educational and developmental perspective. She defined the meaning of narrative imaging. The source material was the analysis of literature. The author emphasized its importance, its recent development and the essence of the pedagogical discourse on education. The considerations were placed within the context of culture and education which are strictly connected with each other. The author underlined the meaning of language in human life and in the pedagogical discourse as something that shapes the personality and attitudes of the young generation. It was emphasized that, in the entire process of education, the task of pedagogical discourse is fostering the level of students’ linguistic competence, which influences a person’s future functioning in the world. In the further part of the text the author discussed the structure of narrative that was separated and named by Ida Kurcz. Also, she indicated the role of teachers and parents who should, with full awareness and responsibility, care about the narrative dimension of childhood existence. It was determined that narrative is necessary in the life of homo narrans, not only in people’s childhood, but also in their adulthood. It is all the more important taking into account the current dominance of the culture of image and the increasing inflow of information.

Ikimokyklinio ugdymo įstaigos dinaminės ugdymo(si) aplinkos ir vaikų fizinio aktyvumo sinergija

Author(s): Neringa Strazdienė,Aistė Burkė / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 43/2019

Movement is crucial at a pre-school age: it enables a child to gain experience, develop normally, grow up healthy, shape their own movement and health habits that in most cases continue throughout their lives. In recent years the tendencies of deterioration in health in pre-school children have been observed, and they are associated with insufficient physical activity (hereinafter PA). The synergy between an educational environment of a pre-school educational institution and PA of children sets up conditions for a co-effect of both factors on a child’s personality, maturity and health which is greater and more prominent than the effect of these factors acting separately. The aim of the research is to highlight aspects of the synergy between a dynamic educational environment of a pre-school educational institution and the PA of children and to disclose the main features of the dynamic educational environment. The article based on the analysis of scientific literature and documents defines the concept of a dynamic educational environment, which is treated as a space where synergistic interaction between architectural and educational dimensions promotes the activities of children and their PA enhancing the health of children and having a consistent effect on a personal maturity. The architectural dimension consists of the following elements: the function and the concept of an object (interior, exterior, landscape), architectural artistic-material expression, planned and spatial solutions, visual and functional relations, contextuality, construction solutions, etc. The educational dimension consists of the following elements: the objective of education, its content, educational methods, forms, means, relationship between a teacher and a learner, psychological atmosphere, etc. The educational process can be easily constructed in a dynamic educational environment to achieve the integrity of activities in different areas of educational achievements: protection and enhancement of health, social, cognitive, communication, artistic, etc.

Implicaţiile abilităţilor psihomotorii asupra limbajului la copiii cu dizabilităţi intelectuale integraţi în învăţământul de masă

Author(s): Maria Cosmina Cucerzan / Language(s): English,Romanian / Issue: 2/2019

Difficulties in articulation of sounds are common in speech and language therapy field. Their therapeutic approaches must be individualized The psycho-individual and age-specific features, as well as the characteristics of the type and degree of a certain disabilities, make speech therapy a unique, original, specific process.Through the present research we wanted to highlight the uniqueness of the speech therapy sessions, as we follow the classic approach, we can give a specific note to the activities carried out by innovative methods, techniques and means of teaching applied to a distinct category of pupils, those with intellectual disabilities.The research methodology include the purpose, objectives, research hypotheses, the research approach and the description of the group of participants, emphasizing the description and the usefulness of the " Paşi prin lumea sunetelor " application both as an assessment and as an intervention too The accurate identification of psycho- motricity difficulties with consequences on the language at children with intellectual disabilities integrated in compulsory general education is an important aspect which the entire process of integration depends on. It is a complex process which requires the usage of a whole set of probes which include the level of early – learning of the language and which can contribute at the creation of a whole complex portrait, with links to the psycho – motricity and communication abilities of the child, but also to the establishing of the objectives in what concerns the correction and the development of these abilities. In the first part of the article theoretical topics regarding psychomotricity, language, intellectual disability and the integration into compulsory general education of children with intellectual disability are studied , and in the second part the scientific research is presented after going through three stages: the discovery stage in which we put into practice methods with the purpose of of knowing the individual level of psycho motricity and the level of language development (four students presenting psycho motricity and language difficulties were selected ) the experimental stage which was concerned with the development of case – studies and individual action ( the process of the action was structured as a complex therapy of action, but also as some therapy – learning activities, each instrument being put into practice on every part of language regarding the development of child ‘ s abilities in the next areas: psycho motricity, language and communication, knowledge, socialization ) ; final which consisted of going again through the evaluation tasks which were applied in the discovery stage in order to underline the involvement of psycho motricity on the language and so, checking the research hypothesis.

Introduction

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