"Pedagogija slušanja" vs. "pedagogija slušanja odgojitelja": etnografsko istraživanje o autonomiji djeteta u vrtićima u Crnoj Gori

Author(s): Jovana Marojević,Katarina Todorović,Saša Milić / Language(s): Montenegrine Issue: 4/2020

The paper discusses the phenomenon of child autonomy from the perspective of educators' personal epistemologies and power relations in the adult-child interaction in the practices of institutional education in Montenegro. The construct of child autonomy is approached from the standpoint of critical-constructivist theory and the self-determination theory, as a socio-cultural product shaped by ethnopedagogies and personal epistemologies of educators. The main goal of the ethnographic study conducted in three preschool educational institutions in Montenegro was to explore the epistemological theories of educators through the analysis of institutional educational practices, given that "the ways of thinking about childhood fuse with institutionalized practices" (Prout & James, 2005, p. 22). We conclude about the existence of an objectivist epistemological theory of educators and the dominance of normative power relations in educator-child interactions, and discuss a special type of epistemological "over-power". The comparability with the results of similar research in the region is stated, and it points to a possible explanatory connection between collectivist culture and the controlling motivational style and authoritarianism in education.

(Nie)kompetentni dorośli oraz (nie)kompetentne dzieci we wspólnej przestrzeni społecznej

Author(s): Katarzyna Wajszczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 12/2018

In the text the author indicates different possibilities of recognizing the institution of school together with the consequence of adopting a chosen perspective for development of the community. The analysis of student’s, teacher’s and parent’s questions about being together at school is an attempt to indicate the lack of social competences that are evident in school and family life. Author points the barriers of shaping competences resulting from functioning within the institution. At the same time emphasizing the necessity of community development in this area.

2013 OKUL ÖNCESİ EĞİTİM PROGRAMININ 21. YÜZYIL BECERİLERİ AÇISINDAN İNCELENMESİ

Author(s): Berrin Koçin,Mehmet Nur Tuğluk / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 49/2020

The aim of this study is to examine the achievements that are included in the MEB 2013 Pre-School Education Program in terms of 21st century skills and to determine the level of reference skills. Content analysis method, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the research. As a result of the research, it has been observed that the gains in the preschool program are mostly related to skills such as critical thinking, creativity, problem solving, communication, responsibility and awareness of different cultural characteristics. When the development areas are analyzed, it is seen that the gains related to these skills are mostly included in the field of social emotional development, followed by the language development field and the cognitive development field respectively. In addition, while these skills are very rare in the field of self-care skills, it has been determined that there are no encountered in the field of motor development. Technology and media literacy gains, which have become very important today and highlighted in 21st century skills, have not been observed. Some suggestions were made in line with the results obtained.

30 години катедра „Предучилищна педагогика”

Author(s): Radka Gaydova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2014

4-6 Yaş Arasındaki Çocukların Ebeveynlerinin İstismara Yönelik Farkındalığı

Author(s): Elif Ünal Bozcan,Bengü Berkmen,Nihan Koran,Eşmen Tatlıcalı / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 97-1/2019

The aim of this research is to investigate the awareness of the families about abuse. The families in the target of the research are the families who have children between 4-6 years old. This research was carried out as cross-sectional study. Personal Information Form developed by researchers and Parent Awareness Scale" developed by Pekdoğan (2017) were used as data collection tool. The population of the study was formed by the parents of children between the ages of 4 and 6 who received pre-school education in the Nicosia region. The sample consisted of 321 parents who were randomly sampled and voluntarily participated in the study. The data of the study were analyzed by SPSS 21.0 program. The relationship between the averages of parental abuse awareness scale and the socio-demographic characteristics of the study group were analyzed by t Test and one way ANOVA. For the reliability of the scale Cronbach Alpha was calculated as .65. As a result of the study, it was determined that the awareness level of abuse is medium level. When the scale items were analyzed, it was determined that the parents did not have enough knowledge about sexual abuse. The analyze results of the scales points that the families have medium level of awareness about child abuse. Also the results of the study indicates that the awareness about abuse is not connected with socio demographic issues. According to the results of the study family trainings about child abuse can be recommended.

4-6 Yaş Grubu Kur’an Kursu Öğreticilerinin Eğitim-Öğretim Yeterlikleri Üzerine Bir Araştırma

Author(s): Mehmet KORKMAZ / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 53/2020

Non-religious educational activities are carried out officially by the Presidency of Religious Affairs in Turkey. One of the non-religious educational institutions that the Presidency of Religious Affairs presents is the Qur’an Courses. The topic of this research titled “Qur’an Courses for Age Group 4-6” was applied to the preschool children for the aim of giving them religious and values education in accordance with their intellectual levels, contents and methods since 2013-2014 academic years. This article deals with instructional proficiencies of those instructors who work at those courses. This research was done through descriptive survey model. The research was conducted in 2017/2018 academic year. 430 instructors participated in the research. Some important results taken from the research as follows: An important part of the instructors did not find themselves as sufficient in the proficiencies of education and instruction at the courses. It was understood from these statements that they had some insufficiencies in the process of preschool education and did not have enough knowledge and abilities sufficiently about children in these ages.

4-6 Yaş Kur’an Kurslarında Görev Yapan Öğreticilerin Bu Kurslardaki Eğitim Süreçleriyle İlgili Görüşleri (Çorlu Örneği)

Author(s): Muzaffer Üzümcü,Nuran Çınar / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 2/2021

Childhood is an important period in terms of religious development as in other areas of development. In this period children may inherit basic religious knowledge and values to a certain extent from their family. However it is clear that they need an education under the guidance of an expert. Religious education is not given as a separate lesson to children under the age of 10 in formal education in Turkey. Thus this makes it necessary to meet this need through mass religious education. Until 2012, children not graduated from primary school were even prohibited from attending summer Quran courses. Eventually the groundlessness of this ban was realized and Qur'an Courses for the ages of 4-6 have been opened in 2013, providing an opportunity for children to receive religious education. These courses attract great attention of families who want to rise their children according to the religion they belong to. For these courses-which have not yet completed the institutionalization process- to become meaningful and to continue their existence, a qualified education is necessary. Determining and evaluating the thoughts of the instructors- who are one of the most important factors determining the quality of educational activities-about the education given in these courses, will contribute to increasing the efficiency of the courses. In this qualitative study, the views of the instructors who works in the Çorlu district of Tekirdağ, were obtained through focus group interviews using semi-structured interview forms. The data obtained were evaluated using descriptive and content analysis methods.

4-6 Yaş Kur’an Kursu Etkinlik Kitaplarının Hikâye İçeriği ve Resimleme Özellikleri Açısından İncelenmesi

Author(s): Zehra Gelici / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 45/2022

The Presidency of Religious Affairs initiated a new service area in the 2013-2014 Academic Year. The Presidency, which previously provided educational activities for young and middle-aged groups and primary school children during summer courses, started official preschool religious education for the 4-6 year old age group in Quran Courses for the first time in 2013-2014. Although the experience has been acquired in this field with each passing year, some problems are still noticeable at various points. The present study examines the contents and aesthetic aspects of the stories included in Quran Courses activity books for 4-6-year-old children. The purpose of the study is to underline that stories and especially the illustrations and visuals in stories, have very important roles in learning for children who are illiterate in the preschool period, and the study aims to contribute to the organization and enrichment of the activities and textbooks by drawing attention to this field. In this study, which has a qualitative design, the existing activity books are examined. The study also has a screening model, which aims to explain the present situation in the way it is. The stories and illustrations in the activity books were examined in this study via descriptive analysis based on the criteria that should exist in children’s literature books. In this respect, we tried to summarize and interpret the data obtained in the study according to the pre-determined criteria.

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.

48-60 AYLIK ÇOCUKLARIN EĞİTİMİNDE UYGULANAN MÜZİK ETKİNLİKLERİNE YÖNELİK ÖĞRETMEN GÖRÜŞLERİ

Author(s): Rana Aydingöz Çayli,Damla Bulut / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 51/2021

Aim of this study is investigating teacher opinions on applied musical activities in education of 48-60 months old children. According to this objective; musical activities which are applied by the teachers who teach to the relevant age group are evaluated in terms of desired attainments in stated age group. This study is a descriptive field research. Relevant data gathered by literature scanning and interview form which developed by the researchers. Study group of this research comprise 17 pre-school teachers who work in Sinop city center, Gerze and Ayancık. According to our findings pre-school teachers benefit; attainments in cognitive development field by singing and Orff technique, attainments in speech development by dramatization activities, attainments in psychomotor development field by rhythm activities and attainments in self care skills by singing activities.

5–7 METŲ VAIKŲ DORINIŲ VERTYBIŲ RAIŠKA EMOCINIU ASPEKTU

Author(s): Placida Jasiūnaitė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 2 (46)/2016

In the light of ever spreading secularism and neoliberalism in the modern global world traditional values (including personal moral values) are undergoing rapid transformation thus the paper addresses the issue of the development of moral values at pre-school age. Assuming that childhood marks the start of the moral and social-emotional development of an individual, the paper seeks to stress early internalisation of fundamental moral values of children aged 5-7. Since children at this age mostly demonstrate internalisation of moral values at behavioural and emotional level, the paper sought to examine the expression of moral values of children aged 5-7 in terms of emotional experiences. Drawing on empirical data collected from parents and pre-school education teachers the author revealed the emotional experiences characteristic of this age group children, and their link with moral values. Some differences in emotional experiences that depend on the child’s gender, place of residence and type of a pre-school institution were also highlighted and compared with some findings of foreign authors.

6 – 12 Yaş Grubu TÜBİTAK Çocuk Kitaplarının Değerler Eğitimi Yönünden İncelenmesi

Author(s): Salim Pilav,Mustafa Orhan / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 03/2020

The purpose of this study is to analyse the books published by TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) for the 6-12 age groups in terms of values education and to put forward these books’ contribution to values education. In this study, 11 narrative books belonging to the 8 - 12 age groups are examined, which are randomly selected among 215 TÜBİTAK children's books for the 6 - 12 age groups. This analysis shows that in the books the value of love is referred the most (156 times) while the value of justice is alluded the least (22 times). In this study, descriptive research method and scanning model are used because it is aimed to reveal an existing situation. 215 books in the 6-12 age groups published by TÜBİTAK constitute the population of this research. In this population, randomly selected 11 narrative books belonging to the 8 - 12 age groups are chosen samples. The research is limited to 11 books. Findings obtained are given within the framework of related titles.

60-72 Aylık Çocukların Bilişsel, Sosyal- Duygusal ve Özbakım Yeterliklerinin Çeşitli Değişkenler Açısından İncelenmesi: Kuzey Kıbrıs Örneği

Author(s): Sarem Özdemir / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 97-1/2019

Preschool education is a critical period in terms of improving cognitive, social-emotional, language and self-care skills of a human’s life. The main purpose in this study is to investigate differences of competencies of children’s cognitive, social-emotional and self-care skills in terms of mothers’ employment status. Cross sectional survey method and descriptive analysis were used in this study. Target population was all mothers who have a child at age 6 and accessible population was mothers who live in Nicosia. Random sampling was used to assign the questionnaire. The items in the rubric were formed with related to the objectives mentioned in the preschool education curriculum. Participant mothers were asked to specify the degree of competency on cognitive, social-emotional and self-care learning skills. Data obtained in this study were collected in the February and March 2016. Questionnaire also included personal information about participants that are; employment situation, age, number of children, level of education and job of the mother. According to the results, children of mothers at home had higher scores on social-emotional and self-care skills. In addition, it was found that children with higher education level had higher social emotional development scores and self-care skills. It was also concluded that the older mothers’children had a better level of self-care skills.

8-12 YAŞ GRUBU ÇOCUKLARA ÇEVRE BİLİNCİ KAZANDIRILMASINDA OYUN TASARIMININ ROLÜ

Author(s): Merve Saylik,Levent Mercin / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 2/2020

Game is one of the important methods that support the development of children for centuries and can contribute to their learning easily. Early ages are the periods when children are most open to learning. Researches show that games play a big role in child development. This indicates that the game method can be used as an educational tool in education. From this point of view, it is understood that the game method and relevant tools can also be used to raise environmental awareness as it can be used in all fields. The game design increases the interest and motivation in raising awareness and provides the memorability of what is learned. This study examines the contribution of game design to raising environmental awareness. Accordingly, an example of computer-aided game was developed to raise environmental awareness in individuals in their early childhood period based on the data obtained. The data and form of game design were produced by the researchers. Based on the data obtained in the process of study, solution recommendations were developed for the researchers who will conduct a similar study in a way that they can follow when designing a game and adapt the game to older age groups.

A 175 éves vajdasági magyar óvodapedagógia a nemzeti identitás és az anyanyelvhasználat kérdésének tükrében

Author(s): Judit Raffai,Éva Vukov Raffai,Éva Mikuska / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2018

There were sevaral academic papers that address the education system in Vojvodina (Pálinkás 1984, Tóth 1994, Gábrityné – Mirnics 1997), however, there were few written about the history of the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) that examines the rights of ethnic minorities living in this region. In recent decades, however, academic attention turned to the region’s rich ECEC history, both from Serbia (Gavrilović 2001, Kopas-Vukašinović 2004, Mačković – Runje – Srdić – Vass 2004; Stojanovic – Kovacevic – Bogovac 2018) and from Hungary (Pukánszky – Németh 1997, Molnár – Pálfi – Szerepi – Vargáné 2015). Our aim was not to produce a comprehensive historical overview of the nurseries (bölcsőde) and kindergartens (óvoda) of the Hungarian national minority in Serbia, but to mark and celebrate 175 years since the first Hungarian nursery opened in Subotica. We will cover the influence of early educational and cultural traditions and values giving specific attention to the usage of the native language that is fundamental to cultural identity.

A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF COHESIVE SPEECH RESEARCH OF PRESCHOOLERS FROM 1970 TO 2020

Author(s): Ly Thi Bac La,Nga Thi Thu Nguyen,Anh Thi Thuy Truong,Thu-Giang Tran,The-Thang Nguyen / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2021

Cohesive speech has commonly become regarded as one of the essential aspects of language development, especially for pre-schoolers. This study aimed to shed light on the cohesive speech of pre-schoolers (CSP) knowledge base. Three hundred ninety-five publications close related cohesive speech research of 5-6-year-old children were collected from the Scopus database. By using the bibliometric approach, the results showed the growth rate of publications over time from 1970 to 2020. In this period, the top five countries, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil and France, have published over 60% of total documents. Besides, four main interests of authors in this field were discovered: “language development”, “speech pathology outcomes”, “speech therapy”, “language intervention”. Among these themes, “speech pathology outcomes” was the most relevant one. Another finding, in recent years, scholars focused on aspects of autism spectrum disorder of pre-schoolers. More importantly, the achievements of this discipline have considerably made positive contributions to various fields both in terms of theory and practice, especially in language and linguistics, speech and hearing, psychology, and medicine. Overall, these studies highlight the need for many other studies, particularly relevant to pre-schooling when new generations should be better prepared to be happy in school by their future cognitive developments.

A COLLABORATIVE EXCHANGE TO IMPROVE EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION OUTCOMES

Author(s): Yumiko Takagi,Paul Batten,Karen Rattenborg / Language(s): English Issue: 6A/2020

International collaborative research has great value in helping each of the participant’s view their respective situations from novel and various perspectives. When people involved in the same work tackle problems from different perspectives, new awareness arises, and innovative solutions are created. Kagawa University and Colorado State University have conducted excellent research exchanges in the field of early childhood education based on their international exchange agreements. As the trend in Japan towards nuclear families continues in tandem with Japan’s aging society and low childbirth rate, a number of parents and guardians are becoming increasingly isolated and unsure of how to raise their children. The process of introducing a new childcare support system based on Japan’s national policies and the problems Japanese regional prefectural governments face in early childhood education were clarified through exchanges between Kagawa University and Colorado State University. By sharing information and giving an overview concerning efforts and successful cases in Japan and the U.S., mutual clues were found for problem analysis and problem solving.This research analyzed the factors for constructive interaction and provided clues for the problems highlighted by the results. It enabled several researchers in Kagawa who have experience in this field, overseas as well as locally, and those at the prefectural level involved as leaders in professional guidance in this field of childcare, to understand the current situation and trends for childcare in the U.S. This has the potential to lead to improvements in the quality of childcare and the training of teachers in Japan. It also put forward a direction and recommendations for development in international collaborative research.

A costructivist approach in environmental education for preschool children

Author(s): Geanina-Mariana Jurca / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2010

Preschoolers must learn to understand nature, to appreciate its beauty, to discover the components and features, to approach and protect it. The Kindergarten doesn’t follow only the child’s school preparation, but also its life preparation. Therefore, tracking of training is not limited to the learning type, but also in personality building developing behaviors, skills.

A Fairy Tale in the Context of Early Care

Author(s): Zuzana Chanasová,Rosangela Libertini / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

The aim of the article is to present three collectors of folk tales of the 19th and 20th centuries, who not only collected, edited, but also wrote fairy tales themselves. The first one is the most important Slovak fairy tale collector of the 19th century, Pavel Dobšinský. The second one, also of the 19th century, is an Italian collector predominantly of Sicilian fairy tales, Luigi Capuana. The last one is the Slovak writer Anton Habovštiak, active in the 20th century. The research scope is narrowed down to one fairy tale from each author, the selection of the fairy tales resulting from the presence of an educational problem in the family environment. The short analysis of the fairy tales is followed by a specific recommendation for practice.

A háttér-televíziózás hatása kisiskolás gyermekek feladat-megoldási teljesítményére

Author(s): Ágnes Sántha,Melánia-Madonna Nagy / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 30/2016

Our research deals with the impact of background television upon the learning performance of children aged 6 to 10. Learning performance was measured with an experiment where the treatment group solved school problems with the television on in the background, whereas the control group worked in a quiet place suitable for learning. According to our results, multitasking negatively influences intellectual performance, and this effect intensifies with age and with the complexity of problems to be solved.