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Andragogo vaidmenų raiška modernioje visuomenėje

Author(s): Kęstutis Trakšelys,Rūta Marija Andriekienė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 3/2016

The article reveals and analyzes the heterogenic roles of andragogues in the nowadays changing adult education reality. Today we can meet the elements of andragogue’s activities in various sectors and social fields: vocational education and training, continuing vocational training, professional and social integration, institutions and organisations providing in-service training for staff, adult education, various administrative structures, associations, leisure clubs, health education, social work, colleges, universities, institutions that are dealing with informally or non-formally acquired learning outcomes validation, providing counselling or information services, etc. Thus, the andragogue’s profession is not legitimized yet and there is no andragogue’s position, we have to discuss the roles that are really performed and their expression in other positions. The article consists of two chapters. The Chapter One analyzes various roles realized by andragogue: andragogue lecturer, organizer, analyst, counsellor, and tutor. There are efforts based on scientific literature analysis and praxeological andragogues’ activities investigations in order to justify the roles performed by andragogue. The Chapter Two is dedicated to the real expression of the andragogue’s performance roles in different positions of adult education actor. It is assumed that this factor makes andragogues’ professionalization more difficult, there is a need to legitimize the profession.

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Концептуальная модель обучения студентов контекстной деятельности в информационном мире

Author(s): Rimma Muhamedovna Kumysheva / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3/2019

Introduction. The author investigates the problem of developing students' contextual activities. The purpose of the research is to trace the dynamics of students’ information use strategies from 2003 to 2018, to correlate them with factors predetermining the direction of the dynamics, and to justify the practicability of the conceptual model of contextual teaching and learning in the information world. Materials and Methods. In the stage of empirical confirmation of the predominance of the reproductive information consumption strategy over its productive usage by students and identifying the determinants of this phenomenon, the author used such research methods as content analysis of student works, survey, and observation. In the stage of theoretical substantiation of the conceptual model of contextual teaching and learning in the information world, the author reviewed Russian and international practices of teaching information literacy and employed the method of modeling. The conceptual model of contextual teaching and learning in the information world is based on systemic, technological, and contextual approaches. Results. Summarizing the reviewed concepts of teaching students to deal with information sources has allowed the author to reveal their genetic components: 1) modelling students’ management of interaction with information world; 2) teaching based on contextual activities; 3) use of the virtual world in the educational process. However, the measures proposed by foreign and Russian authors fail to cover the whole range of factors determining the predominance of reproductive information usage. Content analysis of student works with the main focus on the determinants of the information usage strategy confirmed the need to consider the following aspects: information as a complex system in the context of the information world; and students' information activities as an interaction of two systems in the contexts of time and environment. Hence, the author highlights the need for a conceptual model of contextual teaching and learning in the information world. Conclusions. As a result of the empirical research, the author establishes the positive correlation between the prevalence of the reproductive information consumption strategy in students' works and the growth of Internet accessibility. The effectiveness of creative problem tasks and contextual activities in enhancing the productive strategy of information usage is confirmed. As a result of the theoretical study, the concept of “Information” is clarified. The author defines the term “Information world” and justifies the effectiveness of the conceptual model of contextual teaching and learning in the information world.

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Learner and Functionary Response to Adult Literacy Programs in India: A Case of Uttarakhnad State

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Learner and Functionary Response to Adult Literacy Programs in India: A Case of Uttarakhnad State

Author(s): S.B. JOSHI,N.S. Bohra / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2019

This study measuring the responses of learners and functionaries to the adult literacy programs in India and Uttarakhnad an Indian state is taken as model case. In-depth unstructured interviews and participant-observation is used. Having studied extensively various reports, articles, journals and survey data it is pertinent to suggest an effective model of adult education that is executable, desirable, acceptable, functional, result oriented which can be monitored and tracked frequently. To address these requirements “Technologically Inclusive Adult Education (TIAE)” has been suggested.

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РАЗЛИКА У ФЕРТИЛИТЕТУ ИЗМЕЂУ ЖЕНА СА И БЕЗ ТЕРЦИЈАРНОГ ОБРАЗОВАЊА У СРБИЈИ

Author(s): Natalija Mirić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 170/2019

This paper points to the relative importance of childlessness (childlessness effect), postponement of motherhood to later ages (age composition effect), and fertility rates conditional upon age at entry into motherhood (rates effect) in explaining overall difference in the level of fertility between women with and without tertiary education. The author estimates these indicators for three age cohorts, 45–49, 50–54, and 55–59, and thus show whether and how the relative contribution of these three effects has changed over time. The decomposition method based on the data from the Census of Population, Households and Dwellings (2011) is used in this paper. The results indicate that the difference in fertility between women with and without tertiary education is 0.35, on average for the analyzed age cohorts. Decomposition method shows that childlessness effect and age composition effect have significantly contributed with over 80% to this difference. This finding suggests that postponing of childbearing among women with tertiary education has a continuous, dominant importance in the deterministic basis of the educational differentiation of fertility. On the other side, a weaker rates effect (20–23%) is evident in all age cohorts. Reason for this is an absence of fertility recuperation among women with tertiary education (in contrary to some European countries), thus reflecting the same (not so favorable) socio-economic and institutional context of life in which all women realize reproduction.

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A New Logic of Marriage?

Author(s): Iulian Apostu / Language(s): English Issue: 3-4/2019

The analysis of social discourses on the necessity of contemporary marriage, as a form of legal coexistence, most often reproduces the same sets of answers - stereotype about the uselessness of the "paper", about the difficulties of legal separation or about the imposition of rights and obligations, defined in the Civil Code. Thus, the orientation of the discourses seems to target the fear of failure rather than solidarity or internal fusion within the family micro-group. Against this background, the discussions about a legal alternative to marriage - the consensual union - seem to build the premise of a new conjugal relationship, cleared of any set of rules, predefined to be compulsory for the two partners.The idea of "purity" of the marital relationship is discovered in the scientific literature starting with Giddens (1992), where it is described as cohabiting. In his vision, Giddens believes that a pure relationship exists only as long as the mutual feelings between the two partners are present, the unhappiness of one becoming the sure premise of separation (Giddens, 1992). This is because, in the case of marriage, the sum of social and legal contexts requires the couple to make a series of compromises that often maintain the state of marriage artificially. Moreover, the latent failures of marital relationships require tolerance, acceptance and compromise rather than separation, and, as an additional source of pressure, the dissolution procedure seems cumbersome and with little social acceptance.Thus, in light of the two great dilemmas regarding the reduced impact of marriage in terms of marital vitality, but also from the perspective of the fluctuations of value with which the marriage is described, the socio-legal reconstruction of the marital law can become an alternative transit between the classical marriage and the European laws on consensual union.The study aims to analyze the social discourse on the views of manifesting autonomy in conjugal environments from the perspective of the existing marital legislation and the new legal resources described in the public discourse

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Implementation of World Experience of Using the Mind Map Method in the System of Higher Military Education of Ukraine: Comparative Analysis

Author(s): Klavdiia Tushko,Vadym Dyiak,Nataliia Levchuk,Andrii Kurashkevych / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

The article is devoted to the analysis of the status of higher Ukrainian military education, in particular, the problem of training future specialists of the Border Guard Service, which seeks to develop in the context of the European one, but faces a number of difficulties and problems. The essence and features of the mind maps method have been presented. The use of the mind maps method by the world community and, for the purpose of comparative analysis, by the Ukrainian educational system, on the example of a higher educational institution of the Border Guard Agency of Ukraine, has been analysed. The fragments of the mind maps usage in the educational process of the Border Guard Academy during the teaching of various subjects (politological, economics) have been presented. The results of the conducted surveys, conversations, observations on the presented problem have been processed on the basis of mathematical statistical tools. The state of introduction of the method of mind maps in the system of higher military education of Ukraine has been analysed. Such a study has been carried out on the basis of a comparative method between study groups of cadets of the Border Guard Academy, in different specialties and during the teaching of both humanities and special military educational subjects. The article summarizes the conclusions of the conducted research, the essence of which is the need to change and transform the Ukrainian educational system from a conservative to a liberal and democratic one, in parallel with other social entities in Ukrainian society.

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Developing Environmental Culture in Future Teachers during Professional Training

Author(s): Vitalii Volodymyrovych Honcharuk,Valentyna Anatoliivna Honcharuk,Olena Mykhailivna Zadorozhna,Volodymyr Trokhymovych Sulym,Olha Vasylivna Patiyevych,Liudmyla Oleksandrivna Chystiakova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

The paper focuses on the issue of developing an environmental culture in future teachers in higher education institutions. The analysis of relevant findings shows that the issue of developing an environmental culture in future science teachers during professional training is an insufficiently examined segment of pedagogy. This research has attempted to specify and clarify such fundamental concepts as environmental education, environmental culture and development of environmental culture in the context of professional training of future science teachers. The environmental culture of future teachers is seen as an integral personal quality developed during professional training in higher education institutions and based on environmental knowledge and skills, environmental awareness, thinking and behavior which are projected into their professional activities. The process of developing an environmental culture in future science teachers is interpreted as a purposeful educational process, built with regard to general pedagogical patterns and didactic principles, substantiated pedagogical actions and measures (conditions), whose effective implementation leads to qualitative changes in the components of an environmental culture of future science teachers which they need to achieve environmental educational productivity in professional activities. The paper defines the components, criteria, indicators and levels of an environmental culture in future science teachers during professional training. Due to the analysis of scientific literature and practical experience, the paper defines and justifies pedagogical conditions which may contribute to developing an environmental culture in future science teachers. Besides, it presents the author’s model for developing an environmental culture in future science teachers during professional training. This model consists of four interrelated blocks: the target block, the theory and methodology block, the pedagogical organization and the results block. Also, the paper reveals the organization and the course of experimental work. Finally, it concludes about the effectiveness of the proposed pedagogical conditions for developing an environmental culture in future science teachers and shows the levels of its development.

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The Academic Performance Model for Emerging-Adults Students

Author(s): Dan Vasiliu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

The purpose of the research was the highlighting of the emerging-adults student's academic performances, regardless of the age. There are researches which offer solutions regarding the way in which academic performance can be increased, thus preventing the unfavourable consequences of failure. The model gives indications regarding when is supportive intervention which can sustain academic performance, necessary. The research took place in the 2017-2018 time period, on 299 students from different specializations of the Hyperion University of Bucharest. The results determined the existence of an academic performance out of which: between 19 and 26 years old, the level is very low, around 27 years old it grows significantly and holds an acceptable level between 28 and 30 years old. The model remains regardless of the specialization/faculty and it is independent of the participant's gender. The model can be explained taking into account the characteristics of the development stage - emerging adult and on account of the theories that define elements which contribute to obtaining the performances and processes that determine its level.

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Despite - on Individual Learning Experiences in the Retrospective Accounts of Adults

Author(s): Zofia Szarota / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2019

The purpose of the paper was to expand theoretical andragogy resources by identifying the characteristicsof the lifelong educational behavior of adults aged 50 years or more. Attempts were made to:1) identify the subjective perspective on educational experiences in the aspect of activity stimulants andreducers,2) gather knowledge about what determines the choices regarding the place and form of learning in adulthood, the success and difficulties experienced by the participants,3) establish shared characteristics of education management experiences and educational competences inthe unique individual conditions of personal memories.The goal of the multiple case study was to explore educational careers from the subjective perspective of theparticipants (analytic generalization). Considering contextual knowledge, four types of educational careerswere identified and described: Autonomous Autodidactic (autotelic, intellectual and utilitarian motivations),Ambitious (social and utilitarian motivation), Diploma Collector (utilitarian and social motivation) and Anchored Conqueror (social, promotion-oriented, utilitarian motivations). The following learning styles wereidentified: sequential (the closest to the traditional one), non-linear, patchwork-like (mosaic-like) and insular,as styles of new learning – from everything and from everyone, learning in daily life.

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Vigaszág vagy királyi út

Author(s): István Polónyi / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 4/2019

The study deals with adult education in higher education, which has undergone significant change since the end of the 20th century: the former compensatory, complementary role was replaced by the continuing education and retraining role. For the first time, the study provides an overview of the student population of the last 25 years of Hungarian higher education and the recent enrollment trends, examining the age structure of enrolled students, the proportion of part-time students and those with a previous degree. The analysis also covers postgraduate specialisation programmes, which, in terms of size, represents about half and one-third the number of part-time tertiary education students, but roughly the same as the number of graduate students (including master’s degree students). The postgraduate specialisation programmes is undoubtedly one of the ‘royal paths’, especially for educators and law graduates, as well as for some economics graduates, especially business graduates. The study concludes by analyzing whether and to what extent adult learning is worth it based on its internal rate of return. Overall, the study concludes that as a result of the conservative government’s reigning policy on higher education since 2010, not only the path to replacement but also the royal path has been narrowed in adult education. However, adult learning is a rewarding investment for both the individual and society, which would justify the priority treatment of adult education in education policy.

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The Predictive Power of the Organizational Commitments of Assigned Teachers in Different Branches on Their Organizational Dissent

Author(s): Baris Karaoglu,Mehmet Behzat Turan,Alpaslan Gozler / Language(s): English Issue: 1 Sup1/2020

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the organizational commitments of assigned teachers in different branches on their organizational dissent. The study universe consists of 234 randomly selected persons. In the study, Organizational Commitment Scale, Organizational Dissent Scale and "Personal Information Form" were used to collect the data. Correlation analysis (r) was performed to determine the relationship between the scores from the scales and the Regression Analysis (β) was performed to determine whether the scores were could predict each other. A significant positive correlation was detected between the moral commitment sub-dimension of organizational commitment and the articulated dissent sub-dimension of organizational dissent, and a significant negative correlation was detected between the alienative commitment sub-dimension of organizational commitment and the external dissent sub-dimension of organizational dissent. When the prediction of organizational dissent by organizational commitment was examined, it was determined that the moral commitment and alienative commitment sub-dimensions predicted organizational dissent levels and that the organizational dissent levels of the teachers decreased as the organizational commitment levels increased. In conclusion, the present study was conducted to determine how organizational commitment perceptions of teachers impact organizational dissent. In the present study, it was concluded that moral and alienative commitment had a significant and direct impact on the dimension of dissent and that calculative commitment did not have any impact on dissent.

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Empirical Analysis of the Level of Formation of Professional Reliability of a Teacher of Physical Culture

Author(s): Yevgen Pavlyuk,Oleksandr Soltyk,Oksana Pavlyuk,Tetyana Chopyk,Oleksandr Antoniuk,Oleg Bazylchuk / Language(s): English Issue: 1 Sup1/2020

The article deals with the issue of professional reliability as one of modern approaches aimed at improvement of quality of professional training of teachers of physical education. The aim of research is to define and characterize the conditions of professional reliability of a teacher of physical education. Teachers of physical education from comprehensive schools took part in the experiment. Along with pedagogical observation, analysis of videos of lessons, analysis of teacher documentation (lesson plans), timing, pulsometrics, and methods of mathematical statistics have been used in the research. The results revealed empirical data that characterize indices of professional reliability, namely faultlessness, efficiency, and self-devotion of a teacher of physical education. In its turn, efficiency is determined by general and motor density of the lessons; faultlessness is determined by deviation from the lesson plan and by lesson content; self-devotion consists of verbal and functional components. Levels of indices that define formation of professional reliability of a teacher of physical culture have been revealed. Empirical analysis of the indices of professional reliability of a teacher of physical culture allowed revealing a number of features, consideration of which in professional training will enable quality improvement of training of teachers of physical culture.

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COMPETENCES FOR THE FUTURE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF AGILE CERTIFICATIONS

Author(s): Alessandra Montenegro / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

Worldwide project management organizations are constantly looking for the right set of skills for professionals in an agile world, training people to acquire them and offering different kinds of certifications. A person who wants to be certified in agile practice has a difficult choice when looking for a right certificate. This paper aims to provide a comparative analysis of the most eminent agile certifications in the global market in order to help people finding the most appropriate certification for them.

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APPLYING THE EUROPEAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY THROUGH UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AT 7TH DEVELOPMENT REGION

Author(s): Serjiu-Gheorghe OBREJA,Gavrilă Calefariu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

The present paper emphasizes the role that research and innovation plays as part of the efforts that the Romanian society is making in order to achieve the goals of Sustainable Development. At the same time, based on an argument analysis, it is desired to point out some of the causes of the poor cooperation between universities and the business environment at regional level, by suggesting solutions that would bring about major changes at the three levels: social, environmental and economic. The final conclusions reiterate the need of putting into practice the new breakthroughs in science and technology with the help of structures and cooperation network as catalytic factors in economic development and smart specialization at regional and national level.

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Prospects for the Development of Inclusive Education using Scientific and Mentoring Methods under the Conditions of Post-Pandemic Society

Author(s): Myroslav Kryshtanovych,Svitlana Kryshtanovych,Oleh Stechkevych,Oksana Ivanytska,Ivanna Huzii / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

The main goal of the article is to identify prospects for the development of inclusive education using mentoring methods in Post-Pandemic society. Inclusive education involves finding a child with special needs in a mass general educational preschool or school institution, mastering knowledge, skills and abilities in the same time frame as a healthy child. The idea of inclusion is based on the fact that the life of children with disabilities should be closest to the conditions and lifestyle of the society in which they are. The study of the inclusion development in Lviv region was conducted in general educational institutions (GEIs), participants of which were respondents with experience in providing educational and rehabilitation services to people with disabilities. The research is based on the principles of an expert reach and his competence in a particular problem. It is shown, that in each educational institution there are people with different nosologies, 11% among them are without a status of a disabled person and 89% of children have the status of a disabled person. That is why, in order to ensure the rights of people with disabilities, it is necessary to create a universal design in educational institutions, to increase the qualification of the educational institutions personnel for provision of high-quality services for people with disabilities, as well as provision of psychological and physiological rehabilitation for this category of people in Post-Pandemic society.

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Practices of Informal Education as a Resource for Self-Realization of Self-Referential Identities in a Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Period

Author(s): Larysa Marchuk,Olena Yatsyna / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

The article presents the authors' view of informal education, which, being free from mandatory regulations and standardizations, implemented on the principles of voluntariness and initiative, in this context, is the place most likely to respond to societal demands in a pandemic.On the basis of the scientific literature analysis the essential features of informal education (attribution to human life, natural and necessary character, self-organization, continuity) have been revealed. It is noted that in the practice of informal education, discursive self-referential identity acts as a system that distinguishes and describes itself in practice, and in this self-description reveals their meaning.The informal education is seen as a form of social practice that plays a key role in self-development of the individual, in preserving individuality and internal independence from one's culture; as an element of a coherent continuous education system with an intrinsically complex structure.The conclusion is made about the resourcefulness of information education as a practice that triggers educational motivation, the growth of human potential. In the context of a pandemic and post-pandemic, informal education practices act as a means of mobile satisfaction of educational needs, allowing for the modernization of the education system to self-referential identity.

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Towards Enhancing Happiness at Work with the Lenses of Positive Organizational Behavior: the Roles of Psychological Capital, Social Capital and Organizational Trust

Author(s): Seçil Taştan,Burcu Aydin Küçük,Serin Işiaçik / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

In this study, based on the approach of humanization of the postmodern organizations and depending on the conceptual background, it was suggested that psychological capital and social capital could be the significant antecedents of employee happiness at workplace. Further, it was proposed that organizational trust has a moderating role on the impact of psychological capital on happiness at workplace. Thereby, a cross-sectional research study has been performed in Turkey with the participation of 222 employees from a variety of sectors including sales, marketing, health, banking, finance and education. According to the findings, it was reported that the psychological capital construct (β= ,778; t=18,370, p<,05) and social capital (β= ,746; t=16,621, p<,05) had significant positive impacts on employees’ happiness at workplace. These findings supported the proposed hypothesis 1 and hypothesis 2. In addition, it was demonstrated that organizational trust has significant positive impact on happiness at workplace (β=,544, t=9,590, p<,05). However, the results indicated that organizational trust has no significant moderating role (p>0,05), thus hypothesis 3 was not confirmed. Further research direction and the need for research on organizational trust’s moderating role are discussed. The conceptual and practical implications of the study are provided along with the concluding remarks and discussions.

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Game-thinking in Personnel Recruitment and Selection: Advantages and Disadvantages

Author(s): Dan Florin Stănescu,Cătălin Ioniță,Ana-Maria Ioniță / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

Game-thinking, more specific gamification, serious games and play, has beginning to get more attention and to be appear in a variety of non-game contexts, including organizational settings. In a recent survey of HR practitioners, 75% of the participants indicated that they would consider using gamification as part of their future screening and selection strategy (Povah, Riley, & Routledge, 2017). In this respect, current paper aim to investigate and to present the advantages and disadvantages of using gamification in two of the most important areas of organizational life, namely personnel recruitment and selection.Defined as the organizational activities that influence the number and types of applicants who apply for a position and affect whether a job offer is accepted (Breaugh, 1992), recruitment can benefit from gamification through the process of finding the best fit between potential applicants and the recruiting organization and to enhance the recruitment process itself (Gangadharbatla & Davis, 2016). In the selection area, usually, organizations provide to applicants a series of psychological assessments in order to later predict job performance and to support shortlisting and eventually, hiring decisions. In this area, game-based assessment represents a well-established methodology used to increase the fairness perception of the selection process, reduce anxiety, and to better assess knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics of job candidates.The future of game-thinking, especially of GBA is further discussed, with a clear accent on both its limitations and true potential.

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Aktuálne témy občianskeho vzdelávania dospelých

Author(s): Dominika Temiaková / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2020

Civic education as one of the types of adult education plays an irreplaceable role in society. It develops civic self-awareness and freedom, resilience to manipulation and frustration in society, as well as preventing extremism. If it is to be effective and efficient, it, by its nature and nature, requires that it be carried out indefinitely, as an integral part of further education, and at the same time it must be identified and accessible to all groups of the population without delay. The paper deals with selected characteristic features of adult civic education, its content and brief outline of institutional provision of civic education in the Czech Republic and Germany.

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Teachers’ Understanding of Evidence of Students’ Social Emotional Learning and Self-Reported Gains of Monitored Implementation of SEL Toolkit

Author(s): Baiba Martinsone,Marco Ferreira,Sanela Talić / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

Aim. The aim of this study was to highlight and analyse teachers’ responses to the evidence of their students’ social emotional growth and teachers’ own gains from the monitored implementation of social emotional learning in their classes. Methods. The research group was composed of 312 teachers from Latvia and Slovenia, who were involved in the implementation of indirect social emotional learning through classroom instruction and formative assessment. A thematic analysis of the teachers’ written responses was performed. Results. A thematic analysis of the teachers’ responses indicated that initially they had mentioned mostly (expressed) general statements and only some small part of their responses included observable and measurable indicators of students’ social emotional skills improvement. Therefore, four months after the beginning of the intervention, teachers reported rather on their personal and professional gains from the participation in this intervention than provided general statements. Conclusions. The teachers’ improved self-reflection is a premise for them to consider evidence of students’ social emotional skills development thus facilitating purposeful social emotional learning in schools.

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