Around the Bloc: Hungarian Teachers Strike Against Centralization
Protest is first full-day strike since Prime Minister Viktor Orban took power in 2010.
More...We kindly inform you that, as long as the subject affiliation of our 300.000+ articles is in progress, you might get unsufficient or no results on your third level or second level search. In this case, please broaden your search criteria.
Protest is first full-day strike since Prime Minister Viktor Orban took power in 2010.
More...
Experiencing Education: Challenges and triumphs in the post-Communist world is a compilationof articles from Transitions Online (TOL), with an introduction by Piroska Hugyecz, an Information Officerof OSI Education Support Program. The present collection is a detailed analysis of education system over thepast six years in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia, with a focus on social issues, integration efforts andminorities.
More...
In the times of profound economic and cultural shifts, the concept of the learning organization is still one of the most promising. Its latest applications are within the framework of learning networks. Based on three case studies of collaborative networks in the pre-school and elementary education, the paper provides insight of how actually learning takes place. One of the largest educational centers in Bulgaria, Media and its collaboration with the suggestopedic community has been presented. The second case study describes the network of Waldorf teachers and their collaboration with parents resulting in the setting up of a kindergarten and a school. The homeschooling network and the parent cooperatives are presented in the last case. It is concluded that participation of the teachers in learning collaborative networks increases the chances of innovation in the existing system. The presented collaborations have led to innovations, which make the teaching process learner-centered. Further research is needed to estimate the thickness of the existing innovative collaborative networks in order to predict their influence on the educational system.
More...
: The publication presents the philosophy of integrated specialty "Preschool and Primary School Education" created 25 years ago in Burgas Free University. The logic in the philosophy of specialty determines the transition from classical (traditional) paradigm of learning to new knowledge and ideas that are actually prepared the overall development of preschool pedagogy, marked parameters of primary school pedagogy and innovation in teaching practice, supporting these scientific fields.
More...
The article deals with the characteristics of music education of early age children , music education programmes as well as pedagogue's and parents' roles in music education of early age children. Also, the influence of early music education on children's behaviour is described , changes in children's abilities underwent during music classes, the influence of sensing musical rhythm and focusing of attention on early age children's behaviour are presented.Research results on parents' attitudes towards music education of early age children, its impact on infants' behaviour and further developement are introduced.
More...
Socratic method seems very interesting and attractive conception of the inquiry to knowledge. Teacher applying this method promote independence and self-reliance in the classroom, while his role is reduced to facilitate the learning process only. Besides, Socrates’s method is based on definitely an analytical approach to knowledge. In article I suggest that Socratic method, because of these characteristics, can be identified with constructivist approach to learning. At the same time I advance the thesis that mentioned method, as a historical and philosophical category, should not be confused with constructivism.
More...
In 1965-1975, the USSR changed the approach to planning, design and production of toys. The analysis of articles in the journal "Preschool education" points to the emergence of new aesthetic, didactic, educational requirements for the toy. The range of the toys, manufactured by the domestic industry, increases in 2.5 times. However, the toy of the GDR remained the dream of a Soviet child of 1970's. Blogs and reviews from the collectors and the visitors of exhibitions (improvised and museum) have back memories of the toy from the GDR, who had “the effect of magic”: technically sophisticated, driven, demountable, or comely, pleasant, aesthetic.
More...
The article analyzes constructions of parenthood and childcare in childcare advice—disseminated through books, TV broadcasts, and websites—by popular Ukrainian pediatrician Evgenii Komarovskii. The article consists of three parts. The first part deals with the public, social, and pedagogical discourses of parental (ir)responsibility and (in)competence in Ukraine, as well as conceptions of parental competence in Doctor Komarovskii’s advice as the alternative to this discourse. The second part aims to evaluate the peculiarities of constructions of maternal and paternal roles and childcare in his advice. The author explores Evgenii Komarovskii’s role in the discursive actualization of parenting and childcare as important sociopolitical issues in the third part. The article draws on work in the sociology of parenting, exploring the role of expert knowledge in its construction.
More...
The concept of the “sociological expedition” implies various forms of collaborative empirical research, for which ethnographic fieldwork serves as the fundamental model. While this form of training students (“education through research”) is still relatively rare in Russia, in recent years its visibility has grown and its organizers have become more experienced. We were interested in finding out how, in each particular case, the idea of organizing such training retreats for students developed. What are the peculiarities and practical difficulties involved in conducting this kind of research and training? Finally, what role in the educational process should such research expeditions play? Participants in the discussion below note the importance of collaborative field research to students’ professional socialization and reflect about their own experiences of such trips, expressing regret that academic institutions still do not sufficiently support the practice.
More...
The concept of the “sociological expedition” implies various forms of collaborative empirical research, for which ethnographic fieldwork serves as the fundamental model. While this form of training students (“education through research”) is still relatively rare in Russia, in recent years its visibility has grown and its organizers have become more experienced. We were interested in finding out how, in each particular case, the idea of organizing such training retreats for students developed. What are the peculiarities and practical difficulties involved in conducting this kind of research and training? Finally, what role in the educational process should such research expeditions play? Participants in the discussion below note the importance of collaborative field research to students’ professional socialization and reflect about their own experiences of such trips, expressing regret that academic institutions still do not sufficiently support the practice.
More...
The concept of the “sociological expedition” implies various forms of collaborative empirical research, for which ethnographic fieldwork serves as the fundamental model. While this form of training students (“education through research”) is still relatively rare in Russia, in recent years its visibility has grown and its organizers have become more experienced. We were interested in finding out how, in each particular case, the idea of organizing such training retreats for students developed. What are the peculiarities and practical difficulties involved in conducting this kind of research and training? Finally, what role in the educational process should such research expeditions play? Participants in the discussion below note the importance of collaborative field research to students’ professional socialization and reflect about their own experiences of such trips, expressing regret that academic institutions still do not sufficiently support the practice.
More...
The concept of the “sociological expedition” implies various forms of collaborative empirical research, for which ethnographic fieldwork serves as the fundamental model. While this form of training students (“education through research”) is still relatively rare in Russia, in recent years its visibility has grown and its organizers have become more experienced. We were interested in finding out how, in each particular case, the idea of organizing such training retreats for students developed. What are the peculiarities and practical difficulties involved in conducting this kind of research and training? Finally, what role in the educational process should such research expeditions play? Participants in the discussion below note the importance of collaborative field research to students’ professional socialization and reflect about their own experiences of such trips, expressing regret that academic institutions still do not sufficiently support the practice.
More...
Review of: Vladimir Ryzhkovskyi - Michael Kennedy. Globalizing Knowledge: Intellectuals, Universities, and Publics in Transformation. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015. 424 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-9343-8.
More...
This article presents an analysis of gouverneurs, as part of a professional group of preschool teachers. The localization of this job within the private sector and informal employment stimulates the problems of social stratification of the population and purchasing power in the evaluation of structural characteristics of professional groups and perspectives of its development and professionalization.
More...
Cultures vary according to the level of political potency they attribute to their young readers. Some ascribe to their children the ability to experience political solidarity and are eager to offer them literature accordingly. Other cultures try to exempt children from taking any public interest and shield them within the home and family, distant from what is regarded as the aggressive public arena. In rare cultural and social conditions shifts from one attitude to another regarding children’s political potency can be quite extreme. This article points to a dramatic change in the nature of politicization of Hebrew children’s picture books, which took place in the decade following the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. This period saw a rapid transition from the former overt politicization of children’s literature to a striking and active avoidance of political content. During the first decade of Israeli statehood children’s picture books decisively disencumbered the children of their former active political tasks, thus implementing a new politics of a civic society in a sovereign state.
More...
In Portugal, the suffering and struggle of the East Timorese people for independence started a social movement of solidarity with strong repercussions in the arts, namely music and literature. Children’s Literature depicted the theme of this period of oppression in East Timor, as well as the recognition of its independence and its right to freedom, in a picture book selected for the White Ravens List in 2003 called East Timor – Island of the Rising Sun (2001), by João Pedro Mésseder and André Letria. This unusual picture book, characterized by a very simple and sparse, almost poetic, text combined with large-format pictures, depicts this chapter of the contemporary history of East Timor in very specific way, resembling fairy tales or legends. The text and images are combined in order to promote symbolic readings, suggesting a magical/mystical environment that impresses readers. More than a decade later, recent struggles and stories from East Timor are still present in Portuguese pic- turebooks such as Lya/Lia (2014), by Margarida Botelho. The social change, path to democracy and educational development, as well as daily life and children’s pastimes are now the center of a narrative that establishes the similarities and differences between modern-day Portugal and East Timor. Our aim is to analyze both the political and ideological perspectives present in these picture books aimed at very young readers, offering a broad vision of different realities and contexts, even when they deal with war, death and suffering, as was the case of the East Timorese fight for independence.
More...
The paper presents a special educational perception of some inter/multidisciplinary aspectsand attributes of the typology of family dysfunction and the characteristics of multi-problem families (based on the results of the own research of one of the authors). The authors of this paper wish to emphasise the importance of the life skills of family members, which are relevant intra-family resources,and the activities of external agencies that support the family in overcoming the crisis it is/have beenin. They also present the authors’ model of social activity, which creates a constructive way for the development of the so-called multi-problem family. It is based on the assumption that the support of multiproblemfamilies should be focused on providing them with holistic and adequate (according to their profile and specific needs) compensatory assistance, such as stabilising and developmental assistance inthe field of social (dis)advantage, and many other forms of support and assistance, such as prevention, resocialisation, rehabilitation, or counselling and family therapy. The intervention in destigmatising support, considering creative and interactive methods of individual and group work, including many other aspects of the process of (not only school) education and socialisation of the human being.
More...
This paper examines the reasons why children with Down syndrome struggle to developself-care skills. The importance of cultivating self-care habits in this population is highlighted, along with an exploration of the methods used to promote these habits. The crucial role of education in the development of self-care habits is emphasised and the main approaches in this area are outlined. Inaddition, the „Lekotek Special Training Programme“, which has been implemented in many countries,is examined, including an analysis of its objectives. The paper also includes the outlined work plan for the promotion of self-care training in children, which is in line with the principles of this programme. Finally, the paper concludes with the final outcome and possible recommendations.
More...
The article presents a proposal for the development of the creative and artistic potential of a child in early school age. Potential is treated by the author as discovering the possibilities and abilities that, thanks to the conditions and atmosphere in the education process, a child develops and shapes. This is related to the issue of creativity and self-realization through creative activities, with discovering and exceeding one’s abilities in the course of the creative educational process. The education of a child should go towards the development of his creativity, understood as shaping a person who is integrated in the cognitive, emotional and operational spheres. A free person, independent in making decisions, valued, without a sense of guilt. The result is the development of the child’s natural abilities and skills, and thus its potential mental strength in current activities. Based on research, including her own, the author presents a proposal for the development of a child’s creative potential in the field of art based on the education of his visual perception.
More...