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TRENDS IN ADULT-EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT IN UKRAINE

Author(s): Nadiia Ivanivna Lutsan / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The author examines trends in the development of adult education. The problem of providing free access to education is analysed, along with changing the practice of adult education throughout life. The author emphasises that adult education is flexible and dynamic, responsive to present social requirements and personal needs of adults, and that positive change prevails in adult education in Ukraine. First, it is an extension of educational goals and directions. Secondly is the diversity of educational services; thirdly, the transformation in flexibility of existing adult-education structures, able to meet today’s requirements. Leading tendencies of Ukrainian adult education are determined to be transformation and expansion of its content field. The concept of adult-education changes, and a new approach to adult education, emerges as an area of employment opportunities and occupational change. The relevance of adult education is driven by additional factors, including the need to adapt the adult population to new socio-economic conditions. Adult education, unlike other structural components of the education system, can be implemented in various forms: formal, non-formal and informal, aimed at individual self-development. Main priorities are identified in adult-education development in Ukraine and in its prospective directions.

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THE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY OF RUSSIA’S SYSTEM OF ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Author(s): Irina Popova / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Adult education needs its own theory of and technology for education, special scientific and methodological materials, as well as specially trained cadres of teachers and consultants. The essence of the andragogical approach to adult education is the possibility of involving the adult student in organising the process of their own learning. To use the labour potential of working people in older age groups, certain social conditions are necessary, which mainly depend on the state of the labour market, namely on the availability of jobs. The presence of established attitudes to retraining and advanced training is an important factor in the development of the system of continuing professional education. The level of formation depends on the state of the education system and motivating incentives. The data of the present study confirm the hypothesis that the pre-retirement age group does not have an attitude toward continuing professional education. The lack of motivation for retraining is one of the main factors complicating reforms to increase the retirement age.

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ANDRAGOGICAL COMPETENCES AMONG UNIVERSITY TEACHERS

Author(s): Miroslav Krystoň,Lenka Rovňanová / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The concept of lifelong learning provides opportunities for adult education in all its core categories and across a broad range of educational environments. Despite the potential of informal learning, recent research has been paying only marginal attention to formal adult education. Universities and their teaching staffs play an important role in this segment. The research project Professional Identity and Quality of University Teachers in the Context of Andragogical Competence analyses the current state, perspectives and development of andragogical competences in academic staffs. In its initial stage, the research aimed to identify 1) how teachers subjectively perceive their own andragogical competences, and 2) how their competences were assessed by their students (N1=425 students; N2=10 teachers). A combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches was used: 1) a three-dimensional self-designed questionnaire, and 2) Q-methodology (N=73 students). The results were analysed and compared to verify empirically the proposed model of a quality university teacher, with primary focus on their andragogical competences.

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CO-TEACHING: ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES

Author(s): Martin Kursch,Jaroslav Veteška / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The study discussed in this chapter is based on implementing a methodological analysis focused on an overview of approaches to the co-teaching method, its contents and forms. A by-product of the study has been gathering information, aspects and insights about co-teaching’s pros and cons, collected from nineteen long-term co-teaching studies as well as from virtual co-teaching. The aim was to summarise determinants of co-teaching success, its advantages and disadvantages, which we encountered during our methodological analysis. Due to the long-term approach in these selected studies of the co-teaching method, it was possible to name beneficial aspects of co-teaching in various educational contexts and to highlight shortcomings in the form and content of its use. The articles analysed were published from 2005 to 2020 in recognised scientific databases including ERIC, Scopus® and Complementary Index. The nineteen studies fit the long-term and co-teaching criteria. Among the main determinants of success based on the articles examined, we include joint preparation, support from school management and technical readiness. The main advantages of co-teaching were better reliability in the transmission of information and problem-solving, intensification of teacher cooperation, their mutual enrichment and education, higher efficiency in teaching, better atmosphere in the classroom, better recording of observations during lessons, higher motivation of pupils or students, innovative environment and enabling the use of a wide range of teaching methods. Added to these is easy recruitment of experts or auxiliary teachers. Among the disadvantages, we include higher preparation requirements, complexity in terms of co-teacher coordination, and higher financial and logistical costs. In the virtual component, shortcomings also include technical equipment and the failure of the human factor. This study is the starting point for further research work within the project Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TL03000133), entitled New Method of Education for the 21st Century: Virtual Co-Teaching, conducted in the period 2020–2023. This project focuses on virtual co-teaching and its effectiveness.

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LANGUAGE-TEACHER EDUCATORS’ PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE ACADEMIC SPACE

Author(s): Agnieszka Szplit / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Great focus on experience and the role of previous experiences in a teacher’s informal-learning process can be seen in contemporary pedagogical literature. The way teachers define their role and create their teaching style depends largely on real-life events and the people with whom they have had contact. This chapter presents the results of qualitative research with the aim of exploring the university as a learning space for educators of teachers. The research was conducted in the form of interviews among fourteen Polish academic teachers educating foreign-language teachers, and reveals three spaces within university life: space for actions, for cultural practice and for relations with others.

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The effects of social coexistence as exemplified by a region in Hungary

Author(s): Imre Lipcsei / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The study aims to present a historical perspective on national minorities in Hungaryby tracking quantitative and qualitative changes. Moreover, it directs the reader’s attention toparticular regional values by using the example of Békés County and putting them in the contextof state and church tendencies that involve the entire country. The author’s intention is to showthe role of various churches in running different types of school as well as the minorities’ fightfor preserving their identity. The implemented methods include statistical surveys and analyzingcentral documents and the county’s educational files regarding the national groups.

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The school as a place of regional education in a global world

Author(s): Viera Kurincova,Anna Klimentova,Tatiana Slezáková / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The paper deals with regional education taught at schools in Slovakia. The theoreticalpart provides an analysis of the relation between multicultural education in the global world andregional education with its individual dimensions and possibilities provided in this field by theschool environment. The authors also present selected results of the empirical research they haveconducted, claiming that in recent years the issue of regional education has duly been in focusand, accordingly, teachers are willing to creatively transfer the recommendations of curriculardocuments into their everyday practice. In this way, they cooperate with pupils’ parents in themain, as well as with local organizations.

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Attitudes towards tradition and their consequences — analyses in the scope of theory of upbringing and education, and the history of pedagogical and praxeological philosophy

Author(s): Alicja Żywczok,Beata Ecler-Nocoń / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

In this text, the authors describe and analyze basic principles underlying the approachto tradition. The authors also propose a differentiation within the number of models of perceivingand describing tradition with the objective of reaching an optimal definition, from ethical, social,as well as pedagogical perspectives. The background for the discussion on this topic shall be thenarration of a local Silesian woman. A look at the subject’s biography shows how the power ofupbringing exerts a great influence through such narratives, thus making them the most significantfactors in the discovery and creation of one’s own identity.

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Further education of upper secondary school teachers in the Czech Republic in the context of forming regional traditions

Author(s): Jaroslav Veteška,Markéta Václavková,Kateřina Ducháčová / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This study deals with further education of upper secondary school teachers in the CzechRepublic. The text analyzes the current state and possibilities for the development of teachingprofession including legislation and motivation tools affecting further education of teachers. Theemphasis is put on the analysis of changes in the elementary and secondary education curriculumstressing the importance of regional traditions development and shaping of the teachers’ attitudes.

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The teacher facing difficulties in cultivating regional traditions

Author(s): Beata Pituła,Wiesława A. Sacher / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The article is a research report on difficulties in implementing selected assumptionsof regional education in pre-school and primary school. The results compelled the authors toreflect on the quality of professional teachers’ performance of tasks (and problems that hinder orprevent the process) related to cultivating regional traditions of the local communities in whichthey work. The conclusions of the said reflections constitute the main topic of the present study.

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Regional education in the pre-primary education as an essential means in children’s development

Author(s): Tatiana Slezáková,Viera Kurincova,Anna Klimentova / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The paper gives prominence to the increasing need of growing interest in the issue ofregional education among scholars, as a holistic process which integrates individuals’ positiveattitudes towards the spiritual and material culture of their region. Moreover, it familiarizes thenatural, economic, social, political, cultural and historical landmarks. The authors of the articleinvestigate possible ways of the implementation of regional education into the pre-school educationprogram as a means of the formation of children’s sociocultural identity as well as the basicsof their intercultural competences.

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The role of folk riddles in children’s development

Author(s): Krisztián Katona,Attila B. Kis / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Nowadays the practice of saying riddles has gone beyond its prime family environmentand thus became adapted in educational institutions. The present article gives an overviewon studies on this short form of word play conducted by Hungarian scholars and suggests howand what purpose they serve when implemented in children’s development at the preschool andelementary levels

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The role of multimedia in cultivating Polish culture and tradition in early school education

Author(s): Anna Brosch / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Multimedia is the multi dimensions of media, which can be an amalgamation oftext, sound effects, light, animated figures, still images, videos and interactive content forms.Multimedia plays a very important role in assisting students in learning processes. The presentcontribution aims to identify the role of different types multimedia devices and their positiveinfluence in the early education. Multimedia is present in children’s everyday life, thus its managementis considered as a necessity by the specialists. The relation of multimedia with educationis very complex — from speaking about teaching with multimedia to multimedia education. Thisarticle analyzes the openness of primary school for use of multimedia in the learning process,especially in cultivating regional culture and tradition. The study was conducted in the January2015 among 12 teachers at first level of education.

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Regional education as a significant area of preschool educational activities

Author(s): Hewilia Hetmańczyk-Bajer / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The article aims at presenting the role of regional education in teaching and upbringingof children at preschool age. The author not only points to significance of the transfer ofvalues of the material and non-material culture to the youngest members of society, but she alsoputs emphasis on the need to prepare the future teachers to derive knowledge and values fromwisdom, mentality, customs, and traditions of the region that they live in.

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Cultivating regional traditions in preschool and early school education

Author(s): Agata Cabała,Violetta Rodek / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The article attempts to determine the degree of cultivating regional traditions ineducation implemented by kindergarten teachers and primary school teachers (grades 1—3)with reference to some of the conditions associated with education and work experience of therespondents. The scaling method has been applied in the study. The Scale Sheet devised for thepurpose of personal research contained 16 questions and addressed 81 preschool and early schooleducation teachers. The respondents answered the questions by means of applying adjectives froma five-degree adjectival scale, where the value of one indicated the lowest degree, whereas thevalue of five — the highest one. The research findings have revealed that the interviewed teacherscultivate regional traditions in their own professional work to high and moderate degrees.Certain differences in the results have been observed, due to the variables such as education andwork experience.

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Regional education in kindergarten and the first grade of primary education

Author(s): Júlia Ivanovičová,Anna Klimentova / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The paper deals with regional education as a means of forming habits and skills toaquire the regional and cultural values, as well as to evoke the emotional involvement of studentsupon disseminating regional knowledge. The authors present the results of the project KEGA“Educational process with developmental-innovative aspect focusing on a new model of regionaleducation in relation to globalization.” The project was realized by a research team from theDepartment of Education, Faculty of Education, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra,headed by Associate Professor Julia Ivanovicova, PhD in cooperation with kindergartens andprimary schools in the Cedron region — Nitra district, who provided the information concerningthe cultural heritage of the region. Activities were also carried out in the municipal cultural centerand, apart from pupils, there were the parents and grandparents involved in order to increase theemotional involvement into the project. The authors present the results of implemented activitiesand point out at the significance of regional education for emotional development of preschooland primary school children.

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Cultivation of regional traditions by members of child folklore song and dance ensembles

Author(s): Mirosław Kisiel / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The paper presents information that encompasses thoughts within the topic of cultivation of regional traditions by members of child folklore song and dance ensembles.

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Teachers’ participation in cultivating and forming regional traditions (on the basis of the arts workshop conducted by Anna Donder)

Author(s): Natalia Stankowska / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The article is a kind of reportage and gives an account of the activities of the teacherimplemented within the scope of art workshops designed to familiarize students with the nativetraditions of their region. The author focuses on the possibilities offered to teachers in terms ofinitiating and organizing students’ activities in order to cultivate regional traditions.

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Cultivation of festivals, holidays, and cultural traditions by preschool teachers from the Siedlce commune

Author(s): Anna Klim-Klimaszewska,Ewa Jagiełło / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Cultivating cultural traditions in the era of globalization is of particular importance tothe cultural heritage of the community. It seems also of the essence to educate children withinthe scope of their cultural identity and prepare them to understand and protect their culturalheritage. Cultural education fits well among teaching tasks of the preschool. This article presentsa study investigating the knowledge of the preschool teachers from the Siedlce community. Theauthors analyze cultural traditions of the Southern Podlasie region and their use in working withyoung children.

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Education in Szarvas

Author(s): Zoltán Roszik / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The purpose of this paper is to present the development of education in the regionof Szarvas, Hungary. The article, therefore, attempts to outline the structure of the educationalsystem and its evolution over the centuries from the historical perspective. It also focuses on theimportance of providing young people with an opportunity to gain knowledge and to appreciateit as in the past it was a luxurious and rare “commodity.”

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