2018 FEN BİLİMLERİ DERSİ ÖĞRETİM PROGRAMINA YÖNELİK ÖĞRETMEN GÖRÜŞLERİ

Author(s): Esra Saraç,Mehmet Selim Yıldırım / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 2/2019

In this study, it was aimed to reveal the opinions of the class teacher sand the branch teachers who gave the course of science for the renewed science curriculum in 2018. In this study was used phenomenological is one of the qualitative research designs. The criterion sampling method, one of the purposeful sampling methods, was used in the study group of this research. The study group consists of 4th grade teachers who attend science classes in primary school and science teachers in secondary schools. Focus group interview method was used to collect research data. Interview form was created for use in focus group interview. The data obtained in there search were analyzed by content analysis method. As a result of the study, it was seen that teachers’ opinions about the renewed science curriculum were generally positive. However, it was seen that teachers experienced some problems in achieving the objectives of the program in practice. One of the most important results of the study is the difficulties in applications related to science, engineering and entrepreneurship, which is one of the most important innovations of the current program.

4-6 Yaş Kur’ân Kursu Öğreticilerine Göre Mahremiyet Eğitimi ve Önemi

Author(s): Ramazan Diler / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 41/2020

The Qur’an course is one of the major non-formal education institutions in our country. The primary goals of this institution is to teach the Qur’an and basic religious knowledge to its participants. This institution has expanded its working area in time in accordance with its mission. As a pilot application, Qur’an courses started to accept students in order to provide religious education to preschool children as of the 2013-2014 academic year. The current Qur’an course teachers undertook the education of children in this period. The courses that accept students in this way are known as Quran courses for ages 4-6. Based on the needs of the children, it is known that different activities take place in the context of values education in the Qur’an courses of ages 4-6. Recently, it has been observed that privacy training is also included in the courses for reasons such as frequent child abuse. However, the privacy education applied in the Quran courses is not directly expressed in the curriculum of the Qur’an course of 4-6 years of age. It can be said that privacy education is a religious, moral and culturally healthy sexual identity development education. Nevertheless, privacy education takes care and protection of the child’s own privacy; it is a comprehensive education that includes respecting someone else’s private spaces. The aim of this education is to raise children as a healthy individual from an early age. These practices and informations, which aim to make children gain positive qualities and to be sensitive to some negativities, should be considered important.It is worth exploring what the contribution of privacy education is to the child’s upbringing as a healthy individual. Examining the opinions of the instructors about privacy education is considered important for the curriculum development studies. Therefore, the science of religious education should investigate the competencies of the Qur’an course instructors in privacy education. This discipline should investigate teachers’ thoughts about privacy; accordingly, they need to analyze and evaluate what kind of privacy education they have developed. In addition, the opinions of the Qur’an course instructors aged 4-6 about the importance of privacy education should be revealed and analyzed. Scientific investigation of these dimensions is thought to make important contributions to curriculum developers and parents, especially those carrying out educational activities in the Qur’an courses. In this study, it was aimed to investigate the knowledge and attitudes of the Qur’an course instructors of 4-6 years of age as an example of a situation in the preschool period about privacy education. Understanding the thoughts of the teachers who carry out studies in an important area and guide learning about privacy education makes the study important. To the other teachers and employees who work in the preschool, especially the instructors of the Qur’an courses of 4-6 years of age of working with this experiment; it is thought that it will provide important contributions to parents, academicians working on privacy education, curriculum developers. Qualitative research model was preferred in this study. The case study design, one of the qualitative research designs, was chosen for the study. Case study is defined as “an empirical research method that works within a real life framework of a current phenomenon and examines the situations in many ways, systematically and in depth”. The sample in the study was determined by the typical case sampling method, which is one of the purposeful sampling methods. Typical case sampling means “selecting individuals who are likely to behave like others”. Interview was deemed appropriate as a data collection tool in this study. Interview is one of the most common data collection methods used in research in social sciences. Consequently, inter-viewing is a very effective method of obtaining information about individuals’ experiences, attitudes, opinions, complaints, feelings and beliefs. In the 2019-2020 academic year, 10 Qur’an Course instructors were interviewed in the center of Tokat province. Data obtained through study tools were analyzed with content analysis method. Content analysis is defined as “a systematic, repeatable technique in which some words of a text are summarized with smaller content categories with coding based on certain rules”. Some of the results obtained from the study are as follows; According to the Qur’an course instructors of 4-6 years of age, the concept of privacy has a wide content that can be associated with almost all of the personality, morality, adaptation, religion, society, education, family, school and behaviors in these institutions. There is no common understanding among the Quran course instructors regarding the definition of privacy education. Qur’an course instructors of 4-6 years of age think that there is a relationship between sexual education and privacy education, but privacy education is more comprehensive and more appropriate to meet needs. Instructors thought that privacy education should be directly related to morality and adaptability. In some opinions, it was suggested that training in morality or adaptability might be sufficient for the child’s sense of privacy. The tutorials mostly associated privacy education in some way with moral education. This shows that privacy education is understood as a comprehensive moral education. According to the teachers, privacy education is an education that children should definitely take. It was seen that the teachers were in full agreement on this subject. According to the instructors, this education can make a significant contribution to the child, such as knowing and respecting himself and others. Depending on this study, the following suggestions are included; New, different field studies with the theme of privacy education can be carried out for instructors and teachers working in all other institutions, especially preschool education institutions. This study demonstrated the need for privacy education in preservice training programs. Therefore, it can be suggested that teachers and instructors working in all levels and institutions of early childhood education should be provided with a planned and scheduled privacy training and included in this education.

4th International Scientific Conference SEC - IASR 2019

4th International Scientific Conference SEC - IASR 2019

Author(s): Simona Marin,Petronel Moisescu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2020

4th International Scientific Conference "Sports, Education, Culture - Interdisciplinary Approaches in Scientific Research", SEC-IASR 2019, Galati, Romania, 7th – 8th June, 2019

A Continuum of Approaches to School Inspections: Cases from Europe

Author(s): Rossitsa Simeonova,Yonka Parvanova,Martin Brown,Gerry McNamara,Sarah Gardezi,Joe O’Hara,Laura Del Castillo Blanco,Zacharoula Kechri,Eleni Beniata / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2020

School inspection systems have undergone a transformation in response to the changing social and economic scenarios across Europe. However, two major approaches can easily be identified that also define the two ends of the continuum of the approaches to school inspection. On one end is a high stake sanctions oriented inspection while on the other end is the low stakes advisory inspection. The elements that contribute to the rigour of school inspection include governance arrangements, statutory powers of the inspectorate including powers of sanction, the forms and frequency of inspection visits, the level of emphasis on school self-evaluation and action planning for improvement; and availability of support services for the schools. The current paper presents four cases from Europe: Bulgaria, Ireland, Greece and Spain (Extremadura) describing how school inspection is organised in these countries as defined in the governing legislation and to which end of the continuum their inspection system is tilted in the light of that case’s performance on the above indicators. Towards the end, this paper makes a comparison of the cases and suggests why the relationship of trust and respect between inspectors and the inspected is stronger in some cases and how developing inspection systems can benefit from analysing the established systems.

A New Proof of the Feuerbach Theorem

Author(s): Sava Grozdev,Hiroshi Okumura / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2020

By using the Paskalev-Tchobanov distance formula, we give a new proof of the famous Feuerbach theorem.

A Place with No Time: Re-Conceptualising Child–Adult Relations during ‘Homeschooling’ in the 2020 Pandemic

Author(s): Sarah Crinall,Edith Crinall Rowbottom,Xanthia Patricia Mariana Blom / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2020

We have heard the warming planet’s calls for sustaining rhythms through many events. COVID-19 is one such song. We have returned home with our families to our places in a mandated ‘lockdown’. Competitive economics are troubled, and trouble our world with unsustaining patterns. An urgent, convergent conversation about how ‘we’ (writers entwining) might touch on sustenance more begins between our two families. The children amongst us want to thread into these convolutions too.

A projektoktatás bevezetése a matematikatanításba

Author(s): Jelena Knežević,Bojan Lazić,Sanja Maričić,Aleksandar Petojević / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2019

Modern primary education permanently requires innovations that contribute to the modernization, rationalization and efficiency of the teaching process. The application of project work in the teaching of mathematics develops creative thinking and functional knowledge. In this paper, the term and the essential characteristics of the project teaching of mathematics are explained. Examples of project ideas and ways of implementing project work into mathematical contents as well as the existing plan and program are given. A sketch of a mathematical project in classroom is presented. It was pointed out that it is of the utmost importance that the project work be introduced in upper elementary teaching of mathematics and that its key ideas are applied by each teacher.

A Research on Schools as Learning Organizations: A Theoretical Approach

Author(s): Gabriela Alina Paraschiva,Anca Draghici,Constanţa-Valentina Mihăilă / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2019

Due to the growing pressures on the educational area to provide young people with the knowledge and skills needed to live and work in a constantly changing society and the technologies and trades that today do not exist, the model of learning organization has been extended to schools, as an attempt to re-conceptualize them from organizations that are traditionally linked to the learning and knowledge process to organizations that are capable of responding with efficiency to uncertain and dynamic environments. The purpose of this paper is to identify the state of affairs in the Romanian educational system (pre-university level) in order to provide a starting point for the implementation of the ‘school as a learning organization’ concept and model. The approach is theoretical, using desk research of regulations and data regarding the public expenditure in education, per capita funding, number of pupils enrolled, PISA results and correlations between the action-oriented dimensions (including their key characteristics/elements) of the model proposed by Kools & Stoll (2017) and the performance indicators (including descriptors) that are used at the Romanian national level. Results show that, between 2009 and 2018, school organizations were under increasing pressure and the implementation of this concept and model at system level could be an opportunity to focus on students from the organizational side, having the determined correlations as a foundation.

A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE APPROACHES ENHANCING THE MATHEMATICS ACHIEVEMENT

Author(s): Songül Tümkaya,Hakan Ulum / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2020

Aim. The aim of this study is to analyse the conducted studies in order to reveal the effect of the strategies, methods and techniques used in elementary school mathematics courses, to apply critical strategies based on impartiality, and to critically evaluate and synthesize them. Methods. In this systematic review study, Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) Statement was used in order to prepare the systematic review protocol. The studies were based on students’ achievement resulting from student-centred strategy, methods and techniques. Results. The results of the study show that the number of participants of the primary studies centred on the range of 31- 60 to 90 and above. Moreover, the total number of studies conducted in different countries constitutes a significant proportion of the studies included. In most of the studies (f=87), significant differences were found in favour of the experimental group. Conclusion. Within the framework of the inclusion criteria of the research, it can be concluded that student-centred strategy methods and techniques statistically change the students' mathematics achievement. Among these methods and techniques, Realistic Mathematics Education, Computer Assisted Teaching Method, and Collaborative Learning Method were prominent.

Adalékok a romániai magyar felsőoktatási stratégiához: demográfiai, oktatáspolitikai, nemzetpolitikai kihívások

Author(s): Márton Tonk / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2019

The purpose of this study is to analyse the current problems and challenges of Hungarian language education policy in Romania. A part of the challenges connected to Transylvanian Hungarian higher education are identical to those characteristics that the Romanian, or more generally the entire European system of university education reflects. Therefore, we briefly present some of the consequences and challenges of the so-called “Bologna Process” regarding higher education. Simultaneously, the special features of Transylvanian Hungarian higher education receives the attention of the larger part of our study. It focuses on the Hungarian language university education system, connected to kin-state policy, demographics and minority rights. What does the Transylvanian Hungarian minority and the higher education institutional system offer? The analyses can obviously not ignore the “topos” of the independent, Hungarian language state university and its dilemmas and challenges are also briefly presented in the study.

Aesop for Schoolchildren (1804)

Author(s): Matija Antun Relković / Language(s): English,Croatian / Issue: 01/2017

Matija Antun Relković (1732–1798) was a Croatian writer in the period of Enlightenment. This issue of Dusty Covers presents all the woodcuts and vignettes from Relković’s book which are reprinted in their respective textual contexts. The book Esopove fabule za slavonsku u skullu hodechju dicu sastavljene [Aesop’s Fables, Composed for Slavonic School-going Children] was published in Osijek, six years after Relković’s death. It covers 144 octavo pages which contain one hundred fables, the cover illustration, 22 woodcuts, and ten vignettes.

Alert – kryzys – przewrót. Głos w sprawie edukacji literackiej

Author(s): Marta Rusek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2019

This article is devoted to the presentation of phenomena that currently determine the role of required reading at school. It consists of three parts. The first describes the process of the decline in readership among students and the problem of growing criticism of works of literature that were previously considered as indisputably belonging to the canon. The second part concerns the reading crisis and the factors behind it – alongside the change in cultural practices special emphasis is placed here on the issue of the rapid growth of linguistic and social strangeness of older texts, their accelerated “aging.” In turn, part three proposes solutions that could turn literary education into reading as an existentially important experience.

Alexandru Lupeanu-Melin și „Astra” transilvană

Author(s): Claudia Magda Barabas-Laszlo / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 33/2018

Alexandru Lupeanu Melin a avut o contribuție importantă la creșterea autorității Astrei, una dintre cele mai importante asociații culturale din România. A avut funcții importante în Astra, fiind declarat membru pe toată durata vieții și făcând parte din Comitetul Central. A condus timp de șapte ani o secție locală a Astrei aflată la Blaj. A întreprins mai multe acțiuni prin care urmărea creșterea nivelului cultural al românilor transilvăneni, fiind considerat pe bună dreptate unul dintre cei mai importanți mentori culturali ai strămoșilor români. Alexandru Lupeanu Melin a contribuit la alfabetizarea și culturalizarea maselor, în special a tinerilor, prin diferite acțiuni. În acest sens, el propune o serie de proceduri prin care se putea realiza trezirea literaturii populare în mediul rural, știind că în Transilvania, populația românească trăia în condiții de ignoranță totală datorită politicii instituite de regimul austro- ungar. O altă preocupare constantă a lui Lupeanu în Astra a fost aceea de a cultiva limba română, el însuși fiind un scriitor foarte talentat. Numele lui este strâns legat de publicarea a peste treizeci de volume de proză românească. Lupeanu a fost, de asemenea, principalul organizator al marilor festivități jubiliare ale Astrei la sărbătorirea a 75 de ani de la înființare. Festivalul a avut loc la Blaj, între 9 și 12 septembrie 1936. Aceste festivități au fost considerate de conducerea centrală a Astrei ca un triumf total al românilor și cel mai important eveniment organizat vreodată la Blaj. De asemenea, datorită lui Lupeanu se înființează două școli superioare în mediul rural, una pentru tineri, deschisă la 25 aprilie 1934, iar alta pentru fete, deschisă pe data de 14 mai 1936. Scopul acestor școli a fost acela de a fi principalii catalizatori culturali ai regiunii Târnava Mică și ai populației țărănești.

ANALYSIS OF THE MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS AFFECTING UNIVERSITY CHOICE OF ETHNIC HUNGARIAN SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS FROM SLOVAKIA

Author(s): Ákos Valent / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2019

Research problem: Choosing a university is a key step in each individual’s life because it can have a significant impact on the opportunities presented to him in life for decades to come. The students’ choices are of equal significance to the higher education institutions too because the university’s development but even its very survival could depend on the number and the talents of the students choosing the given institution. In our study, we aim to find out which factors have the strongest influence on the university choice of ethnic Hungarian secondary school students from Slovakia. Methods and the study sample: Based on the studied international literature, we compiled a written questionnaire to assess the role of the individual motivational factors in university choice. In order to be able to generalize our conclusions, we needed to learn the opinions of as many students as possible. For this reason, we contacted every secondary school in Slovakia with classes where the language of instruction is Hungarian. We were allowed to carry out our survey in a total of 22 institutions (31.42 percent). We included final-year students attending classes with Hungarian as the language of instruction who planned to go to university. In the end, we managed to collect 393 usable responses, which corresponds to 23.06 percent of the entire population. To determine the significance of the individual motivational factors, we used 10 point Likert scales to analyze a total of 12 factors. Based on the available international literature, we used simple descriptive statistics to evaluate the results. Results: We were successful in determining which motivational factors influence the university choice of ethnic Hungarian secondary school students from Slovakia to the highest degree. These are the chances of graduating, the perceived certainty of being admitted, the reputation of the university and the level of external recognition of the cultural life inside the institution. These are the factors higher education institutions need to focus on if they wish to reach out to secondary school students.

Anne-Baba İlgisinin Çocukların Okul Başarısı Üzerindeki Etkisi

Author(s): Turhan Şengönül / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 04/2019

The aim of this article is to examine the related research literature conducted on the relationship between parental involvement in education and children’s academic achievement. Researchers have suggested that parental involvement influences the academic performance of students at kindergarten, primary school, secondary school as well as high school. Parental involvement is defined in terms of various factors such as discipline or the process of socializing and parenting children in the household, parental aspirations and expectations for children’s education and academic achievement, communication, discussions about school, and participation in school activities. Parents discuss school activities with children, monitor, check and help with their homework, communicate with teachers, attend school functions and parent-teacher conferences in order to ensure better academic performance of their children. They expect and aspire for their children to have higher rates of educational attainment and higher academic achievement. These educational expectations and aspirations of parents are positively associated with academic achievement of children.

Arab Teachers’ Attitudes towards the Issue of Violence at Schools in Israel

Author(s): Yousef Methkal Abd Algani,Jamal Eshan,Nassreen Ishan-Younis,Amer Haj / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

The present study examines the teachers’ attitudes and feelings concerning the issue of violence in Arab schools in Israel, the teachers’ reactions towards that issue and ways of expressing them. The choice to focus on teachers’ attitudes and feelings towards violent behavior patterns, which is of paramount importance, must be taken into account when accessing the issue of school violence and ways of dealing with that. The researchers adopted the qualitative approach. The findings of the interviews are divided into five main categories: lack of learning, alienation and low emotional appreciation, lack of strategies and methods of intervention of the educational staff, which receive inappropriate relating at school, as well as personal and family factors, which lead toward violence. The importance of the study stems from the increase in the violence rate in the Arab sector in Israel.

Arguments for a School Digital Mediation Guide for Romanian Counselor Teachers

Author(s): Anca Anda Rodideal / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

Today, when the ubiquity of new interactive technology is undeniable and children and teenagers are between the highest internet consumers, gaining advantages but also being exposed to lots of risks, the educational institutions should open their gates and integrate it within their daily practices and curriculum. But, even the unprecedented pandemic situation forces its limits, requiring globally the online education to replace the traditional ones, the issues are far more complex, taking into consideration the risks children are facing online and the lack of support they are receiving. This paper focus is on the Romanian educational system, aiming to argue for fostering changes and to offer a sociological reasoned perspective on what can be done to give children and parents valuable information about minimizing the internet risks and highlighting its benefits. Recent researches results regarding children's digital behavior and parental digital mediation strategies emphasize the need for teachers' involvement to digitally mediate the relationship between children – technology – family and school. The radiography of the Romanian educational system's actual situation points to the digitalization gaps, but also the opportunities, the school counselor teachers being a key resource in this issue. Considering also the valuable insights offered by the good practice examples from different European countries, this paper shows the research results of piloting a guide developed for the school counselor teachers to equip them with the relevant information needed to face the emergent digital issues affecting children, teenagers, and entire family well-being.

Arkivyskupo Mečislovo Reinio pedagoginių idėjų sklaida Lietuvoje veikiančiose katalikiškose mokyklose

Author(s): Nerijus Pipiras / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 4/2019

Archbishop Mečislovas Reinys is one of the most prominent personalities. He paid much attention to personality development. According to him, multidisciplinary education is very important, where a person’s personality can unfold. The Archbishop was admired by Don Bosco’s ideas to make the school a community. This is important nowadays when the school’s threshold goes beyond personality with a variety of life experiences. Consequently, it must appear as one of the most important factors in education, to be a moral and valuable core, which is not differ from life. Therefore, it is right to call today‘s Catholic school a cross of experience and ideas. The ideas of Archbishop Mečislovas Reinys about education and upbringing have not lost their persistence. They find a proper response to the activities and mission of the current Catholic schools.

Aromatic and Medicinal Plants and their Use of the Massmouda Region Northern Morocco

Author(s): Miloudi Hilali / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2020

An ethno botanical study of medicinal and aromatic plants was conducted in the Massmouda district of the northern city of Ouezzane in Morocco.It was done in order to establish the catalog of aromatic and medicinal plants and to gather all the information concerning the therapeutic uses practiced by the local population in the studied area and finally we sensitize the local population to use medicinal aromatic plants in traditional medicine by a more effective scientific method and preserve nature. After representation of the region, the survey was carried out according to a probabilistic (random) sampling method during the months of January, February and March 2019, among the inhabitants of five douars distributed in the region of Massmouda. Samples of 20 people are trained for each of the douars (10 women and 10 men for each doaur). The questionnaire concerning subjects such as sex, age, educational level, family situation, profession as well as the mode of use, therapeutic and traditional local applications of aromatic and medicinal plants in the Massmouda region. The results obtained made it possible to inventory 21 exploited species, divided into 14 families. Cataloged plants are used for several purposes, with therapeutic use being the most common (90% of total uses). A very important part of the recipes is recommended for the treatment of certain disorders of the digestive system, the nervous system and the cutaneous system. The leaves and the seed are the most used organ. The most frequently used methods of preparation for most remedies are decoction (38%), infusion (25.5%) and finally powder (25%). The ethno botanical research carried out in the region of Massmouda regarding traditional use of medicinal plants still persists in the said region it is necessary to do other similar works, in the same area of study, will help us to discover other unknown species, to evaluate the risks associated with the use of certain toxic plants and to adopt a new management approach for safeguarding and preserving natural resources.

Arteterapia dla dzieci i młodzieży. Scenariusze zajęć

Author(s): Wiesław Karolak / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2019

“Art Therapy for Children and Adolescents. Class Scenarios” can provide valuable help for teachers, educators, methodologists, art therapists as well as for students of various pedagogical specialties, artistic education and art therapy. This publication can be used as a guidebook by everyone who conducts different groups of classes and is looking for simple and attractive methods of work that induce the joy of creating in the participants and increase the effectiveness of creative activities. The book consists of two parts. The first has a theoretical and introductory character – it serves to expand and systematize one’s knowledge about art therapy. The second part contains scenarios of classes with photographic documentation, included in three thematic blocks: Senses, Four Seasons and Interactions. The participants of the workshops can be preschool and school children as well as high-school students.