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The aim of this study is to analyze the opinions of columnists, universities and unions about Law Proposal for the Amendment of the Law on Primary Education and Some Laws, publicly known as 4+4+4. The research is in the form of qualitative research and data are collected through the method of document review. The universe of the research constitutes the relevant corner writings, educational unions and university views. A large number of codes were extracted from the comments on the related law changes and these codes were collected and interpreted in the categories determined by the researcher. As a result, it is understood that the relevant changes have taken place without the necessary preparation, consensus and sharing, and will lead to widespread problems in the future.
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Currently, institutions of general education are creating preconditions for every learner to acquire knowledge on healthy lifestyle, as well as to develop correspondent skills and habits. The aim of the present article is to define the knowledge, skills and habits of healthy lifestyle of 5-8th form learners by applying the Information-Motivation-Behavioural Skills model. The research aim is concretised by the following objectives: to define the Information-Motivation- Behavioural Skills model and to identify the knowledge on healthy lifestyle of 5-8th formers, as well as to reveal the subjective evaluation of health-promoting skills and habits. Pursuing to answer the aforesaid tasks, analysis of scientific literature and empirical research, which included anonymous questionnaires for 5-8th formers of comprehensive schools (N=817: 48.7% of girls and 51.3% of boys), have been conducted. The data were processed applying the computer programme SPSS Statistics 16.0 for ‘Windows’. The following methods of mathematical-statistical analysis were applied for the analysis of the collected data: descriptive (percentage frequencies) and analytical (Pearson Chi-Square test) statistics. The Information-Motivation-Behavioural Skills (IMB) model validates the combinability of information (as the initial and essential factor of the competence of health protection and promotion), personal and social motivation (as a second important factor), and skills and habits (as a third factor) in developing health protection and promotion competence at the junior stage of adolescence. The empirical research reveals that the knowledge of more than one half of learners about health and healthy lifestyle may be defined as insufficient; whereas more than a half of research participants, i.e. 5-8th form learners, do not demonstrate firm skills of healthy lifestyle: they do not attach sufficient attention to their daily diet, physical activity, have harmful habits, whereas the knowledge on personal hygiene does not always comply with correspondent behaviour. Therefore, despite the fact that the development of learners’ competence of health protection and promotion complies with the Information-Motivation-Behavioural Skills model and creates preconditions for learners to develop positive changes in their behaviour in terms of healthy lifestyle, it is assumed that different learners need to determine only sufficient and some superficial knowledge on the issues of healthy lifestyle and condition insufficient development of health-promoting habits. It would be expedient for researchers to define the motivation of learners to acquire knowledge on healthy lifestyle and develop skills and behaviour changes in terms of the links between the acquired competences of health education and promotion.
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In this study, 435 Turkish 8th grade High School Entrance Examination (LGS), Level Determination Examination (SBS), Middle Schools Selection and Placement Examination (OKS), and Transition From Elementary to Middle School (TEOG) mathematics examination questions of the years 1998-2015 are classified and compared in terms of TIMSS-2015 cognitive domains. Document analysis is used in order to collect and evaluate the data. Findings reveal that, of the items between years 1998-2015, 29% are in knowing, 58% in applying and 13% in reasoning cognitive domain. The results are discussed in the light of Turkey’s performances in the past years’ TIMSS technical reports. Due to the dramatic changes in cognitive domains of the questions year by year, it is concluded that there was no framework that is followed by the high stakes test developers concerning 8th graders in Turkey, but there must be.
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This study aims to study the process by which students pass to construct the Pythagorean theorem in adidactic situations in the light of didactic situations theory. The theory of didactic situation, proposed by Brousseau (1998), was experimented to be introduced and analyzed within an adidactic learning environment. Qualitative research methods were used in the research that was conceived as a case study. In this context, classroom observation made and lessons were recorded by video. The study was conducted in the Söğütlü district of Sakarya in the fall semester of the 2015-2016 school year with 27 students who are final year college students. A descriptive analysis method was used to analyze the data. As a result of this study, it is shown that students can construct the Pythagorean relationship by passing through the stages of adidactic situations.
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The aim of this study is to evaluate the course book of Citizenship and Democracy Education in terms of Social Studies teachers’ views. Among quantitative research methods, scanning technique is used in this study. The study is conducted on 75 Social Studies teachers working in Hatay and Niğde in 2013-2014 academic year. A survey which is developed by Güven (2010) about the course book of 8th grade Citizenship and Democracy Education is applied for Social Studies teachers and SPSS 16.0 statistic program is used for analyzing the data. According to data, it is obtained that 8th grade course book of Citizenship and Democracy Education is sufficient enough in many aspects. However, it is inferred from the data that educational attainments fail to develop scientific thinking method and they also fail to lead students to research and to observe, concepts are not suitable for students’levels, preparatory work is unable for students to think enough, information fails to structure in mind and finally assessment and evaluation questions are insufficient for determining information, ability, attitude and values.
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This text presents the opportunities given by the “Nikolay Haitov” Vocational School for education and integration to students from different ethnic groups and with different educational needs. The text shares school’s experience in education and training of pupils from minorities and those with special educational needs.
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This article proposes to explain the human cognition in a concise manner for those who are not pundits in the field. Our mind is a very complex mechanism, capable of processing acquired information rapidly and on multiple levels. A good understanding of the details of these processes has been the subject matter of many disciplines. Despite the fact that remarkable results have been obtained by inter-disciplinary studies, cognition is only partially understood. However, the cognitive mechanisms are essentially the same in any domain of knowledge be it mathematics, music, linguistics and so on.
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The article is a synthesis of two research projects (ones done in 2009 and 2010) that focus on further education for Hungarian language high school graduate students from Romania. The applied research method can be seen as a unique tool for Romania as the researchers (by using questionnaires) have gathered data from the schools and other relevant sources directly (e.g. using Facebook). The aim of these research projects was to identify the main school tracks and further learning paths that might be followed by minority students. The article therefore answers questions like: What can minority students do after their finishing high school in their mother tongue? Do they continue their studies in their mother tongue or in the official (Romanian) language? The article’s readers can also gain close insight into the territorial distribution of minority student participation within the Romanian higher education system.
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Following the theme of a conference held in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2016, this article explores the notion of “enabling students to live a beautiful life” as a possible end of education. A distinction is made between short-term, contextual aims in education and overarching, encompassing end(s) of education. Following Dewey, educational aims are considered to be manifold and to change over time within a socio-cultural context, whereas a proper end of education, if such a thing exists, could be seen as “the best possible realization of humanity as humanity.” Drawing further on the work of R. S. Peters, who contests the existence of any final end of education other than education itself, it can be seen that proposing such an end can be a challenging undertaking. Nevertheless, this article argues for a possible humanistic end of education, building on Schmid’s philosophical concept of the art of living in conjunction with the German notion of Bildung and Aristotle’s concept of phronesis, consolidating Peter’s and Dewey’s positions. An argument is made that a, if not the end of education would be to support every person as much as reasonably possible to develop their own art of living and live a good and beautiful life. Resulting implications for schooling, curricula and education systems are explored to show how education understood in such way transcends theory into practice.
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This is the second of two articles that argue a case for a ‘big picture’ re-orientation of Australian Catholic school K-12 religion curricula. The first article considered that there has been such a great change in the landscape of contemporary spirituality that the traditional framework of religious meanings within which Catholic school religion curricula are written is out of synch with the meanings that inform contemporary spiritualities. A proposed responsive change in orientation suggests that more prominence needs to be given to the critical interpretation and evaluation of cultural meanings, while not neglecting the more traditional aim of giving young Catholics meaningful access to their religious heritage. The apparently different estimates of spirituality for children and adolescents also need to be taken into account. If many of the pupils in Catholic schools will never become actively involved in parishes when they grow up, then religious education needs to offer more than familiarising them with Catholic theology and religious practice; it also needs to equip them with skills to address the spiritual and moral issues they will encounter in life. Attention is given to what this entails in both content and pedagogy, at primary and secondary levels.
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In Bakhtin’s (1986) conception of carnivalesque the body, its contents and, by extrapolation, food, play a central role in a communication genre that acts as a form of resistance. As Cresswell and Teucher (2011) explain, the body is ‘an embodied expression of community’ (p. 107) and conveys participatory meaning without the need for mediation. In early childhood education contexts that are typically oriented towards ‘free play,’ mealtimes represent a special opportunity to understand the complex social struggles that take place through acts of the body which are typically located in the ‘underground’ of the educational setting (White, 2014). The ‘feast of fools’ marks out the significance of such events as a form of resistance and collusion between peers which utilise the teachers presence as an opportunity to resist authority and create dialogic tensions accordingly. In such cases the peer group thrives as an unmediated presence in the ‘bonds of brotherhood’ beyond the official, ‘educative’ realm in temporarily suspended moments of joy.
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The organization of educational objectives plays an important role in curriculum development process, since it enables the sequencing of educational experiences. The main goal of this paper is to propose a framework for the formal representation of educational objectives, which enables the evaluation of organization of educational objectives. The model is based on domain ontology, Bloom’s taxonomy and objectives organization in the competence-based knowledge space. The model is verified on the case study that evaluates the students‘ achievements in Chemistry field Solutions by conducting an informal knowledge test on the group of 199 14-year-old students of primary schools in the Republic of Serbia. The results obtained from the case study clearly indicate the necessity for including assessment of students‘ achievements in the organization of educational objectives. The proposed model enables evaluation of organization of educational objectives which could be further used for an iterative refinement of the organization of educational objectives.
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In this study we shall examine two aspects of vocational training problems. Firstly, a map analysis is presented in relation to the secondary education system in various areas of the country, where we present the distribution of students among secondary program types (vocational school, secondary vocational school and secondary general school) at a sub-regional level; secondly, with the help of interviews, we explore structural problems of that maintainers are experiencing And are endeavouring to deal with, including ones pertaining to catchment areas and changes in structures of training. Vocational training institutions interpret the training structure in different ways - and we classify such on the basis of used strategies. In addition, we shall look at some specific problems had by vocational school teachers and students.
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The author reports the situation of Latin teaching at secondary schools between 1995 and 2008. The statistics of this period show some decline in all fields of the instruction: the number of the Latin teachers and students learning Latin and sitting for the final exam on this subject is decreasing. There are fewer entrants to the national competitions as well. The essay describes the human cultural subjects and the schoolbooks, and it represents the candidates to the universities may score points according to their Latin studies and final exams only at the faculty of arts. The conclusion of the essay: the part of the Latin is diminishing at secondary schools in Hungary, and a wide professional collaboration is needed to stop this tendency.
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The institutionalization of Hungarian secondary school teacher training was characterized by the so-called ’dual system’. In parallel with the formation of modern European Nations there was also the development of a profession or ’craft’ – for secondary school and elementary school teachers – which created two different types of pedagogical knowledge. The professionalization of teaching professions and a dual system of teacher training showed similar traits. This process occurred under the influence of national traditions but additionally took on board Central European tendencies. The professional ‘socialization’ of teachers for different types of school was also differentiated on the basis of the same sort of rationale. The institutionalization of various types of school was characterized by there being a separation of management and organization of state schools, an elite system and mass education. This talk, one concentrating on the type of elite schools (secondary school) and teachers, will analyze what established secondary school teachers’ training was like – and it will also look at a new type of teachers’ profession; I will be focusing on this complex process and analyzing the events of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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