Jak pomóc dziecku stać się przedszkolakiem. Proces adaptacji do środowiska przedszkolnego

Author(s): Dominika Duraj / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The beginning of kindergarten education is a breakthrough moment in the life of every three-year old child. This is the time of many changes. Every change in the life of a three-year old child brings interesting, cheerful experiences, but sometimes they are painful, hard, or even traumatic. Children who begin kindergarten education represent a different level of adaptation skills. In order to give a toddler “soft landing” in kindergarten, it is important to prepare him/her properly. Therefore, to be ahead of needs of children and parents, adaptation classes have been implemented in kindergartens as a standard action. The aim of these classes is mainly to prevent negative experiences, which are connected with the beginning of education. It depends on us – parents and teachers – if we facilitate the child’s entrance into the new environment, which kindergarten is, in a mild way, in the feeling of security and respect for other people.

За нова педагогическа парадигма

Author(s): Nikoleta Mihaleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

The article explores the relation between education and learning as a means of its implementation and the new type of socio-historical inheritance at the end of the twentieth century, related to changes in the nature of scientific knowledge itself. In the emerging new pedagogical paradigm, the main task is the transition from a center of knowledge to culture-friendly learning, the intellectualization of the learning process, but also its euro-denomination, is becoming more and more intense. It raises the issue of changes in values and new cultural realities in the process of communication, which builds a new type of the whole personality whose mentality unites culture and education. Innovative approaches to humanistic pedagogy and practice are aimed at developing the principles of developing learning, collaboration and creativity.

Od kształtu koła do wizerunku człowieka – obrazowanie figuratywne dziecka w perspektywie poszukiwań archetypowo-mitycznych symboli kultury

Author(s): Marta Uberman / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Twórczość jako predyktor mądrości dziecka w starszym wieku przedszkolnym

Author(s): Elżbieta Płóciennik / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Najmłodsi uczniowie filozofują – w horyzoncie dziecięcej dyskusji o prawdzie, wolności i pięknie

Author(s): Anna Buła / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The Pre-School Children’s Ability to Express their Emotions as a Predictor of Mother-Child Conflict

Author(s): Ceyhun Ersan / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2019

In this study, pre-school children (36 – 72 months) examined whether their ability to express their positive and negative feelings has a predictive effect on their level of conflict with their mothers. For this purpose, data were collected from the mothers of 594 children, who were educated in the kindergartens in Denizli province centre during the fall semester of 2017 – 2018. “Child Emotion Expressiveness Scale – Mother Form” was used to determine children’s ability levels of expressing their emotions and “Child-Parent Relationship Scale” was used to determine children’s levels of conflicts with their mothers. In the analysis of the data, the stepwise linear multiple regression analysis was used to learn power of the children’s ability to express their feelings of happiness, sadness, anger and fear in the prediction of their conflict levels with their mothers. Prior to the analysis, the suitability of the data set for regression analysis was examined in terms of the normality test, autocorrelation and multiple correlation problems, and the necessary assumptions were met. The findings of the study reveal that the children’s expressing their feelings of anger, sadness and happiness are significant predictors of motherchild conflict. In this context, the expression of anger feeling is a positive predictor of mother-child conflict, while expressing feelings of sadness and happiness are negative predictors of mother-child conflict. Finally, it has been seen that expressing fear has no predictive effect on the mother-child conflict.

On the Processes of Adaptation of Bulgarian Names in Tsaribrod, Serbia

Author(s): Ivana Davitkov / Language(s): English Issue: 6/2019

This study is motivated by the legal possibility of spelling the names of Bulgarian national minority members in the Republic of Serbia in accordance with the Bulgarian spelling standard. The paper presents the historical and administrative aspects of the spelling of personal and, in particular, family names of Bulgarians in Tsaribrod, Serbia.

Content, methodology and results of the study on the formation of readiness to future border guard officers to apply risk analysis methods

Author(s): Оlena Pshenychna,Oleksandr Didenko,Mariya Oliynyk / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2019

The article reveals the content, methods and results of the study of the formation of readiness to future border guard officers to apply risk analysis methods. The essence of readiness for application of methods of risk analysis in operational and service activity, criteria and indicators are defined, levels and state of the formation are characterized. For effective formation of readiness of future frontier officers to apply risk analysis methods, pedagogical conditions have been substantiated and tested experimentally. Based on the research results, methodological recommendations have been developed for cadets, scientific and pedagogical staff

THE NEED FOR LEADER CREATION AMONGST ROMANIAN SCHOOL PRINCIPALS – EDUCATIONAL POLICY ANALYSIS

Author(s): Adina-Petronela Vechiu / Language(s): English Issue: 13/2020

Many theories of leadership and organisational climate gave been formulated over the years. This paper focuses both on transformational and transactional management and on supportive organisational climates. The theory of transformational educational management was developed as a response to the need for reform in educational systems in the 1970s and 1980s. The central convincing argument for educational staff was the assumption that a transformational leader motivates both teachers and students through increasing their consciousness regarding operational objectives and inspiring them to forego personal interest in favour of the organisational ‘greater good’ (Marks and Printy , 2003, p. 375). This strand of theory attributes certain leadership factors to the transformational leader like idealising influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation and individualising consideration amongst others.The transformational leader came about as a response to the need for schools to be led successfully through innovative reforms. This type of leader underlines and accentuates ideas of change, innovation and the influence teachers have in these processes. On the other hand, transactional leadership is based on promoting a negotiation model which helps reaching a certain motivation level. This level is usually expressed through an accepted amount. Conversely, transformational leadership refers to certain assumed responsibilities and moral principles. Both leadership models aim to improve school environments, ultimately targeting progress through building leadership capacities amongst all those involved in facilitating school activities (apud Nedelcu, 2013).

Ethical Dilemmas in Education

Author(s): Andreea Filip,Sinziana Elena Mititelu / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2015

Ethics, one of the main branches of philosophy, deals with researching moral issues, dealing, for example, with the issue of good and evil, situational behavior and even with what we are supposed to do in certain instances, because, as Aristotle claimed, ethics can be seen as the sum of traditions and human behaviors and how it regards the way in which we act and react according to the principles rooted deep down into ourselves. Also, ethics must be correlated with the usefulness and the morality of an action, as well as with the issue of good and evil. Starting from these, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the directions ethics take in the educational system, in the context in which the issue of ethics is raised more and more often in some schools. That being said, we will also recount a few case studies starting from personal and professional experience.

School organization and management

Author(s): Roxana-Eugenia FLOCEA,Alina-Sorina Bîrgăoanu / Language(s): English Issue: 10/2018

The subject approached in this paper refers to the main parts of educational management. Education is a social phenomenon that has emerged with human society and has undergone a number of essential changes during the development of society. Thus, from the empirical action of preparing the young generation for social life to the scientifically based action of the modern age, education has gone a long way, becoming an authentic science with its own statute and laws.

Implementing Quality Management Systems in Preschool Education

Author(s): Violeta Mihaela Angelescu (Demirci) / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The democratic nature of a society is kept and continued by each individual. A person should be taught to express his opinion so that he may involve himself in decision making and always being civicly awake. Through structure, objectives and content, education must always meet the standards of national and international evolving realities. The meaning and efficiency of the educational act are given by the availabilityes of adapting to education and self-regulation towards the increasing number of defiant acts in the society.This paper aims to highlight essential contributions in terms of management development in preschool institutions, the facts that leads to increasing quality of the entire educational process. Approaching this topic and bending with particular interest in the field of formal education in Romania, we dive into the essence of educational management so that we can offer important constructive suggestions for optimizing analysis activities and implicitly increasing performance in terms of specific management of the network of kindergartens. Preschool education is the cornerstone of the formation of human personality, as well as the first gateway to knowledge. To ensure high quality in education, a complex process is needed, very well organized and structured, which must be integrated into the institutional culture of the organization.Talking about quality management while focusing on quality in education represents in fact an analysis and careful research on management actions aimed directly at increasing the satisfaction of the needs of the beneficiaries of the educational system.

Evaluation of Learning in the Period of Early Education

Author(s): Ileana Constanta Darla (Ionescu) / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

At all levels of education, learning assessment is generally considered to be an essential part of teachers' work. For early childhood educators, ie those who work with children from birth to age six, there are special considerations that stem from the characteristics of those trained and the nature of early learning. This paper reviews research on the formative assessment of early learning and development. In this way, important theoretical constructs related to early learning are explored and research on key aspects of early childhood learning is synthesized. We discuss the methods that are most useful for painting a richer picture of early learning and development. Some of the challenges inherent in formative assessment in early childhood are also highlighted and discussed.

Family and Kindergarten - the Partnership for Education

Author(s): Elena Repciuc (Jucan) / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This paper presents both theoretical and practical aspects of the significance of this kindergarten-family partnership with the mission to inform both teachers and parents about the importance of collaboration and to offer some suggestions by which we can make the communication between these two parts. The main objective underlying this paper is to study in detail the partnership between kindergarten and family and to analyze the reasons why this partnership is not fully realized in order to facilitate better communication between these two parties. The paper is structured in 3 chapters as follows: In the first chapter, called "The family environment and its educational value", the paper deals with topics such as: family - a polysematic concept, family functions and educational styles in the family. In these second chapter, called "Kindergarten-family relationship, active and efficient partners in early education", the paper focuses on: the concept of educational partnership, collaboration between family and kindergarten - guarantee of school success, the opportunity of the educational partnership family-kindergarten, implementation of the family-kindergarten partnership and the importance of the kindergarten-family partnership in the formation and development of the personality of the preschool child. In the third chapter, which is the case study, “Comparison between the urban and rural areas, regarding the kindergarten-family partnership problem”, the paper focuses on the level of involvement of parents and teachers in the issue of their involvement in the education of children. I will also analyze the difference between rural and urban areas regarding the problem of partnership and the involvement of parents and educators. The family must always be involved in the education of the child at home and at school. The partnership between family and kindergarten represents a strong collaborative relationship, with the help of which we work in a team to establish the best methods of collaboration and education for the child. The kindergarten helps the child to develop psychically, physically and intellectually, leaving him with a bag of information that will help him in the future. Many may ask this question "What role does the family play in this process?". Well, the family gives the child the seven years at home, which are extremely important. Without the seven years at home, the educator cannot function as well as he or she would like. Without the help and involvement of the family in the relationship with the kindergarten, this process we call Partnership, would not exist. Also, in performing the processing and interpretation of the data from this research, the statistical method was used. After centralizing all the answers, I found the following facts: Parents are selective when it comes to their involvement in different activities within the kindergarten. The parents together with the teachers appreciate the importance of the partnership. In both urban and rural areas, we can say that there is openness and transparency when it comes to this partnership and between parents and teachers do not find communication problems.

Гръцко-български сдружения за приятелство в България след 1989 г. и ефектите на пандемията от COVID-19

Author(s): Daniel Fokas / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2021

The article offers a survey of the activities of the associations for friendship between Bulgarians and Greeks in Bulgaria in the last decades. These associations are viewed as a contemporary form of mutual cultural communication between the two peoples and the meaning of the two communities as a “bridge” between Bulgaria and Greece is highlighted. The study focuses on the present condition of these processes and on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on them. It examines concrete examples of changes in the activities of the associations in Sofia, which are indicative for the life of the communities with Greek self-identification in Bulgaria in the pandemic situation.

В НОВИТЕ БРОЕВЕ НА СПИСАНИЯТА НА ,,АЗ-БУКИ“ ЧЕТЕТЕ

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2022

IMPROVING WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT THROUGH EVOLUTION IN KENYA: THE CASE OF NAIROBI AND KAKAMEGA COUNTIES

Author(s): Sylvester Ngome Chisika,Chunho Yeom / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

This study aimed to investigate the progress of women's empowerment through employment opportunities in Nairobi and Kakamega Counties in Kenya between 2013 and 2017. Despite the increasing policies that aim to mainstream social equity and equality, there is still a significant gap between policy commitments and practices. The study evaluated whether the implementation of devolved governance in the two counties has improved women's empowerment. The study's framework included an in-depth review of policy documents, official records, and reports from official websites to understand women's economic empowerment status in Nairobi and Kakamega. The study analyzed qualitative and quantitative data from County Integrated Development Plans and other secondary sources. Specifically, it examined compliance with the 30% gender rule, requiring women to hold at least 30% of all elective and appointive positions. The study found that Nairobi commands the largest share of formal sector wage employment in Kenya, and women's access to employment opportunities remains slightly lower than men in both counties. Despite implementing the 30% gender rule, the study revealed the need for more comprehensive policies that promote gender equality and women's economic empowerment in both Nairobi and Kakamega.

KOMPETENCIJE BUDUĆIH ODGAJATELJA IZ PODRUČJA PRIJELAZA I PRILAGODBE: ANALIZA STUDIJSKIH PROGRAMA I IMPLIKACIJE ZA PROMJENE

Author(s): Sanja Tatalović-Vorkapić,Vesna Katić / Language(s): Croatian Publication Year: 0

The transitional periods and adaptations that follow them in the early and preschool age represent a great challenge for the child in view of its overall psychological development andwell-being. According to contemporary theoretical models of understanding of transitionand adaptation, the child and its intrapersonal characteristics are at the center of the changesthat occur and represent one of the significant determinant so fits over all psychologicalfunctioning with long-term effects. Aspects that are not in the focus, but to a significantextent determine the quality of transition and adaptation, are different interpersonal factors: primary care givers, family dynamics, educators as significant others, work organization inkindergarten, local community, culture and social values in which the child lives and theirmutual interactions. Educators as significant others have an important role, both in relation to the quality of transition and adaptation of the child and in cooperation with the parents, so itis important during the initial education of the educators to ensure the acquisition of thenecessary competences in this challengin glife period of the child. In this regard, the aim ofthis study was to carry out a qualitative analysis of existing study programs in Croatia inorder to gain an objective understanding of the possibilities to acquire the necessarycompetences for working with children and parents during the transition period andadaptation in the kindergarten. As it was also assumed, the conducted analysis, that includeduniversity study program so fanearly and pre-school education of the publicly availableHigher Education Information System in the Republic of Croatia, showed that there are no explicitand directly related courses to ensure the acquisition of competences for working withchildren and parents during transition and adaptation. Given that, there are a very smallnumber of courses that handle this topic minimally. Therefore, the questionarises regardingthe adequacy of the required competences during transition and adaptation to work withchildren and parents. The paper discusses the possibilities of changing the existing universitycurriculum in the field of teaching and the proposals for the introduction of lifelong learningprograms, which would enable students to acquire the necessary competences.

AZ ÉRTŐ OLVASÁS FEJLŐDÉSÉNEK MEGALAPOZÁSA AZ ÓVODAI ANYANYELVI NEVELÉS SORÁN

Author(s): Edit Sztanáné Babics / Language(s): Hungarian Publication Year: 0

A basic aim of education-teaching in schools is development competences, including the development of comprehensive reading skills. Kindergartens, in parallel with family environments, may contribute a lot to the successful future development of first grade pupils. In the process of kindergarten education, we choose such activities, which also create basis for teaching reading, e.g. language analysing skills while singing chants. In my presentation, I wish to speak about skill development.

INTERNATIONAL AND MACEDONIAN LEGAL TREATMENT OF THE EDUCATIONAL RIGHTS OF REFUGEES

Author(s): Hristina Runcheva-Tasev,Milena Apostolovska-Stepanoska,Leposava Ognjanoska / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

This article aims to provide an overview of the legal framework protecting the right to education of refugees in North Macedonia. The right to education is one of the fundamental human rights guaranteed by many international legal instruments. International treaties are particularly strong on the universality of the right to education. In the first part of the paper, the authors examined various international legal instruments regarding the educational rights of refugees and immigrants. In the second part, the emphasis was placed on the Macedonian legal framework and public policies by examining the incorporation of the norms of international law into the domestic legal order by comparison. As part of the so-called Balkan route, North Macedonia has witnessed mixed migration flows from the Middle East through the Balkans on their way to Central and Western Europe in 2015-2016. Although it has been a transit country for most of the time, there are some asylum seekers whose educational rights were disregarded due to the existing gap between the legislation and implementation. The authors’ conclusion emphasizes the challenges that have to be tackled by different stakeholders in order to facilitate access to education for refugees entirely.