EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF TEACHER FOR INTRODUCTION AND APPLICATION OF INNOVATIVE MODELS IN EDUCATIONAL WORK TO IMPROVE TEACHING

Author(s): Biljana Novković Cvetković,Dragana Stanojević / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

The needs and interests of teachers for the implementation of innovative models in teaching are the key factor that determines raising quality of teaching at the school. In this context, it should be borne in mind that the educational needs of teachers are closely linked to the necessity of lifelong learning, because nowadays the teachers work skills are not enough that they adopted during schooling twenty years ago or more. The paper analyzes the educational needs of teachers in exploring and implementing innovative work models of teaching. The greatest interest of teachers is for introduction and implementing individualized teaching.

Higher Education Internationalization in the Context of Ongoing EconomicPolitical Transitions: Insights from Former Soviet and Eastern Bloc Nations

Author(s): Kata Orosz,Laura W. Perna / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

In this introductory essay to the special issue, we discuss the importance of regional and national contexts for understanding internationalization of higher education and provide contextual information about the cluster of former Soviet and Eastern bloc nations. Drawing from findings from the three studies included in the special issue, we also identify themes that may characterize the internationalization of higher education in former Soviet and Eastern bloc nations. We conclude the essay by discussing the value of comparative research on internationalization of higher education and identifying directions for future research.

The Bologna Process in Central and Eastern Europe

Author(s): Adrienn Fekete,Eszter Varga / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2014

Tamás Kozma, Magdolna Rébay, Andrea Óhidy & Éva Szolár (Eds.): The Bologna Process in Central and Eastern Europe. Studies in International Comparative Educational Science. Wiesbaden: Springer. 2014. pp. 377.

СОЦІОКУЛЬТУРНІ ПЕРЕДУМОВИ ЗАРОДЖЕННЯ ТА ҐЕНЕЗИ ЄВРОПЕЙСЬКИХ УНІВЕРСИТЕТІВ: КОНТЕКСТ АКАДЕМІЧНОЇ МОБІЛЬНОСТІ

Author(s): Denys Svyrydenko / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2014

The university phenomenon has a great role at the modern culture. Also it is a center of aggregation of human civilization intellectual achievements. University tradition has passed through the series of social radical transformation periods. At the result university organizational basis was changed form time to time, but it stayed to be a carrier of intellectual tradition as well as idea of University. At ХХІ century new orientations of universities development are to be searched due to powerful philosophic reflection on this problematic. Critic of modern organizational condition of universities can be described as follows: most of modern universities are not pure scientific community but strong bureaucratic organizations.Scientists hope to substantiate concepts of higher education sphere development theoretically taking into ac-count global scale of processes. These processes implement ideas of creation of multinational areas of higher education together with ideas of academic mobility etc. The analysis of literature has shown that problem of academic mobility processes actualization at the context of creation of global higher education areas is resonated with the universities his-tory and it can open new ways of heuristic scientific search of efficient instruments at the sphere of education politics focused on supporting of mobility of education sphere.So it is actually to perform an analysis of processes of origination and development of universities fundaments at European cultural tradition together with search of productive connections between the processes of universities evolution and academic mobility ideas. The university education system reformation is impossible without amplification of philosophical knowledge at the whole paradigm of university education.We put an accent at fact of proto-forms of European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and European Research Area (ERA) existence at universities history since they were established. Researcher Yu.Sergeeva also stays on position that academic mobility has a big history even before universities establishing: it appeared before the first universities and became a basic principle of development of higher education since XII century.Students of first universities could start education at the nearest university and continue it at another one at own country of abroad. This situation is promoted by the fact that Latin was a uniform language for education at European universities. Also the plan of study and scientific grades were almost unified. We stand on positions that we have reasons to postulate that analogue between this Middle Ages tradition and politics of diploma mutual recognition take place.Researcher O.Dolzhenko proposes a thesis that every new stage of European culture development (Middle Ages, Renaissance etc.) was started with period when universities accented one’s attention on social-cultural knowledge. The scientist postulates that preconditions for exact sciences were originated at these periods. This point of view is evidence that universities have a role of intellectual centers of European culture and science.At our research we performed an analysis of connections between the processes of European society transformations (since Middle Ages till present days) and genesis of fundament of University ideas. Also the influence of this genesis on implementation of academic mobility ideas was discovered at the different periods of universities history. We substantiate an idea universities genetically joined with ideas of academic freedom, search of true, autonomy of mentality and scientific creativeness. At present Ukraine together with European community builds the areas of higher education and researches by means of activation of academic exchanges. From one side, this approach is normatively fixed at Bologna process documentation. From another side, it is a new birth of important education tradition which takes place and get active at variant degrees during the whole history of university education. We developed an idea that academic mobility as one of important fundaments of universities as social institutions.At our research we analyzed and developed ideas of following scientists: A.Gotlib, O.Dolzhenko, O.Isaeva, S.Klepko, M.Mykhalchenko, V.Kremen, L.Murashova, Ya.Pelikan, A.Rzhevska, Yu.Sergeeva, S.Smirnov, V.Sadovnichiy, V.Friyhoff, V.Shmidt-Wiggeman.

Unveiling The Cultural Identity Of Prospective English Teachers At A Public University In Brazil

Author(s): João Fábio Sanches Silva,Lucia Maria de Assunção Barbosa / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

When dealing with cultural studies and foreign language teacher education, those involved in the process of learning and teaching are somehow bound to concepts and attitudes which may lead them to changes or (re)adaptations of some of their values, beliefs and behaviors. Among these possible changes, identity is called into question. In this sense, identity seems to be concealed by many veils which are gradually withdrawn by the moment the subject gets involved with contexts which may question her own agency and the investments made to be part of such new context, as those which can be observed in constant flux of changes in prospective English teachers in Brazil. Based on such assumption, this text aims to discuss in what ways the construction and expression of cultural identity of prospective English teachers from a public university in Brazil occurs. Most specifically, it searches for unveiling to what extent such cultural identity may lead them to reflect about their role as future language teachers as part of their education. Data suggest that cultural identity is a notion which may help future language teachers to become conscious of their multifaceted identity, which can emerge and be unveiled.

RACORDAREA ÎNVĂŢĂMÂNTULUI SUPERIOR ROMÂNESC LA PROCESUL BOLOGNA

Author(s): Agata-Mihaela Popescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 25/2016

The Bologna process has started on entire space of the EU, an ample modernization of higher education, on new principles of preparing concrete, comprehensive and pragmatic approach to future graduates on the labor market demands and workforce mobility. This process has required substantial reforms nationally, and also renunciation, sometimes not beneficial, at the systems and methods of training, sometimes very useful and very effective. Unfortunately, the action and the national response to the installation of this process was characterized either by excessive bureaucracy, either through ignorance of the effects. Therefore, the complex effects - some of them even harmful ways to implement - are being felt now. Therefore, we felt it necessary to bring back this issue extremely important from a strategic perspective for Romanian higher education quality.

Learn and Work in the 21st Century. A Review of Employability Models for HE Graduates: Different Levels of Analysis

Author(s): Lavinia Butum,Luminița Nicolescu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

Academic literature recognizes that knowledge is universal and higher education, as the main provider of knowledge and competences, is all the more not constrained by borders. In this regard, meeting the demand for competences is also challenging especially for the graduates of the 21st century who are confronted with the rapid changes of fourth industrial era economies. We propose a systematic literature review on increasing the employability of HE graduates by selecting relevant studies that analyze the employers, graduates and educators’ perceptions of the employability skills for graduates. Also our investigation includes an analysis of existing graduates’ employability models and proposes a comprehensive extension of these models considering the factors that have implication in increasing the employability. Thus, starting from reviewing the literature on employability on three levels of investigation: HE institutions, policy makers and employers and considering the selected employability models that propose a better design for curricula, our study will continue with creating an integrated employability model that takes into account all the factors identified on employability literature on each level (or main actors that have influence on employability and determine new requirements): HE institutions, policy makers and employers. This approach aims to identify on one hand the necessary skills and competences for increasing HE graduates’ employability in order to reduce the gap between demand and supply of competences on labor market and on the other hand to identify and understand the factors of impact on employability of HE graduates in order to find solutions for achieving employability skills by curricula.

Fuzje uczelni publicznych i niepublicznych w Polsce – analiza porównawcza

Author(s): Maria Aluchna,Igor Postuła / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 4 (77)/2018

Consolidations in the higher education sector have been increasingly implemented in many countriesin the past two decades, most often taking the form of integration or federal fusions carried out bothbetween public and private universities. In the Polish higher education sector, operating in the conditionsof deepening demographic decline, there is a growing pressure on consolidation processes. The aim ofthe article is a comparative analysis of objectives, but also methods for conducting university mergers,taking into account the diversity between a group of public and private universities. The conclusionspoint to similarities and differences between the mergers of public and non-public universities in Poland.

Cuilture as an Antecedent to Orgаnizаtional Performancе: A Case of Private Universities in Kenya

Author(s): Bonn Odera Jonyo,Caren Ouma,Zachary Mosoti / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

With the recent declaration of Sustainable Development Goals to 2030 at the United Nations, all nations are focused on ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life-long learning opportunities for all. In this respect, a well-structured and holistic curriculum is an important first entry point in guiding learning processes embedded in a strong culture. The purpose of the study was to examine how sustaining culturе аffеct orgаnizаtional pеrformancе in private univеrsitiеs in Kеnyа. This was a correlational study which adopted a positivist philosophy. The study population comprised of all the 17 private universities in Kenya accredited by Commission of University Education. Thе unit of аnаlysis wаs thе board of directors, vicе chаncеllors, hеаds of dеpаrtmеnts (finаncе, sports, humаn rеsourcе, rеsеаrch, quаlity аssurаncе) аnd аcаdеmic dеаns (businеss school) which wаs 136. А cеnsus tеchniquе wаs usеd in the study with frequency distributions, percentages аnd mеаns for dеscriptivе stаtisticаl аnаlysis whilе corrеlаtions аnd rеgrеssion аnаlyses wеrе usеd for infеrеntiаl statistics. Thе study found thаt, orgаnizаtionаl culturе еxplаinеd а significаnt proportion of vаriаncе in orgаnizаtionаl pеrformаncе, R2 = .461. Orgаnizаtionаl culturе significаntly prеdictеd orgаnizаtionаl pеrformаncе, β = .679, t(120) = 10.090, p = .000. This finding impliеd rеjеction of thе null hypothеsis sincе thе p vаluе wаs lеss thаn <.05 sеt by thе study

The Self-Management of Learning (I)

Author(s): Elena Tiron / Language(s): English Issue: 1-2/2019

The purpose of the article is to define the self-management of learning in the multimedia knowledge society and to draw its profile, using clearly specified criteria, for the students in technical faculties also enrolled in the program for pedagogical training.The self-management of learning is similar, but not identical to the notion of self-directed learning (Siebert, 2001), self-regulated learning (Zimmerrman, 1989; Negovan, 2009), learning self-determination (Frăsineanu, 2010), self-education (Barna, 1995), self-training (Dordea, 2006), independent learning (Neacşu, 2000).The self-management concept is defined and described by the actions of anticipation, planning, design, organisation, management, assessment and self-counselling of learning. We develop and present a pyramidal model of self-managerial competences for learning, from the bottom to the top in the following manner: cognitive competencies, metacognitive competencies, motivational competencies, management competencies. This model consists of three synthetic dimensions of self-managerial competencies: learning self-knowledge, self-motivation for learning, learning self-assessment.

CONSTRUCION CREATED BY EXPERIENCES, CRITICAL REFLECTION ON THEM- CONSTRUCTIVIST APROOACH TO LEARNING

Author(s): Laura Agolli,Rriollza Agolli / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2019

The effort to reform the high education system in Albania is oriented toward education with independent learning habits, so that the student easily integrates into society. Learning occurs when the student is actively seen as a critical thinker and he is constantly entrusted with the assumption of responsibility. The stage of intellectual development is achieved if it is equipped with the necessary powers. Competencies are gained through engaging in active activities by combining the knowledge, skills and abilities of the individual.This paper tries to expand the view that the organization and development of the teaching process in the auditorium associated with the subject practice ensures the active involvement of the student in this process, and is considered as the philosophy that today orientates contemporary education. Research is important because it argues the impact of the practice-based learning, which is considered as a key conceptual basis for creating revelatory learning environments.

THE INFLUENCE OF ETHICS AND ISO STANDARDS ON THE EDUCATION PROCESS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Author(s): Nikola Vukčević,Dragiša Vukotić / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2019

A review of education is provided through a prism of ethical principles and norms and through set ISO standards related to European mobility in the field of education. The historical dimension of the concept of ethics and ethical norms, which relies on the opinions of ancient philosophers Socrates and Plato, is primarily addressed, and the role of certain ethics in Modernism by Jeremy Bentham was also taken into consideration. Further attention is paid to the etymological roots of the concept of education.. For the third component of this research, ISO standards were adopted in the context of channeling experiences of practical use of the ethics of educators. A matrix, which deals with the synergy of the three concepts (education, ethics and ISO standards) has been set up, with the aim that with certain modifications, other than in Montenegrin, it functions in other regional or global scientific milieus

Multicultural Competence of University Students in Ukraine: Reality and Perspectives

Author(s): Olha Poliakova,Tetiana Ridel,Tetiana Kyrychenko / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2019

All the surveys have been done on the basis of the current global and domestic social situation analysis, as well as on available scientific work on the diagnosis and prevention of inter-ethnic conflicts among students. The contradictions between migration processes intensification and the reluctance of Ukrainian society as for the effective social integration of migrants and expats are characterized in the article. The contradictions between the avant-garde social role of students as a generator of new social standards and a significant number of inter-ethnic conflicts crimes of violence among students are also presented in the article.The monitoring of the problem of inter-ethnic conflicts among students as a community that must be perceived to uphold the progressive social values has been done. The problem contemporary students’ value perception of inter-ethnic harmony and their evaluation of the social surrounding in the inter-ethnic context; the level of multicultural competence of students of higher educational institutions as a factor in the prevention of inter-ethnic conflicts in the investigated environment are investigated in this article from the standpoint of the competence paradigm of socio-cultural activity. Based on the research data presented in the article, the thesis that the problem of inter-ethnic conflicts in the student environment is urgent, although it falls below the national average (40% and 44%, respectively) is confirmed. The defining thesis of author's research is the interpretation of multicultural competence as a component of social competence – a comprehensive personal quality based on tolerance, manifested in the ability to carry out effective dialogic interaction with representatives of the different culture or other ethnic background, and consists of value-motivational, cognitive and activity-behavioral blocks. The study was carried out in accordance with a set of characterized criteria and indicators of students’ multicultural competence formation in the context of inter-ethnic conflicts prevention. The results of the research revealed the leading reasons for the insufficient multicultural competence formation among respondents. They are: lack of inter - ethnic interaction practice; respondents' vague perceptions of the essence and social functions of multicultural competence; lack of a holistic state approach to the prevention of inter-ethnic conflicts; insufficient development of forms and experience on inter-ethnic conflicts prevention. The outlook for optimizing the problem of insufficient level of multicultural competence of university students in Ukraine are formulated at three levels: legislative, research and methodological.

The Self-Management of Learning (II)

Author(s): Elena Tiron / Language(s): English Issue: 3-4/2019

We describe the self-management of learning in underachievers and high-achievers (Negovan, 2009) to identify the criteria for a good self-management of learning: 1. efficient time management; 2. establishing their own specific and immediate goals; 3. more frequent monitorization 4. higher satisfaction standards; 5. long-standing persistence of goals; 6. intrinsic motivation; 7. performance control; 8. environment structuring and selection; 9. seeking help. The presence of these criteria in their entirety (9) in the students' responses confirms a good self-management of learning in the students of the research sample, and their total absence or the partial presence of a number of criteria identifies managerial difficulties in students, for one of the three sub-components of management. This is also the research hypothesis. To test this hypothesis, we developed a questionnaire consisting of 30 questions divided in three sub-components: learning self-knowledge, self-motivation for learning, learning self-assessment. Based on the results, we developed a profile of the self-management of learning in the students in the sample selected. We found that all nine criteria are met by the students, but with two observations to each component. These observations and their interpretation can be found in the conclusions of this article.

Úton a kreatív transzformációs vezetés felé a felsőoktatásban: kihívások és lehetőségek

Author(s): Melanie Kay Smith,Árpád Papp-Váry,Vilmos Vass / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2019

The aim of this paper is to define what creative transformational leadership means in the context of higher education exploring some of the challenges and opportunities of being an educational leader in institutions which are internationalising and competing in a global market. The paper analyses the meaning of creative transformational leadership in the context of higher education. The paper analysing what constitutes creative transformational leadership from the perspective of higher education leaders and how they perceive these approaches using in-depth e-interviews. A sample of international academics was recruited from the authors’ professional online networks and an online link to a list of ten interview questions was emailed to participants. The findings reveal that the contextual dimension of leadership in higher education plays an important role, especially the rapidly changing social and technological environment, which affects both staff performance and student needs.

Üzleti szimulációs játékok a hazai gazdasági képzésben

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

Problem solving and simulation of decision situations are of little importance in Hungarian business education. Business simulation games can provide a solution to this. Results showed that 45% of the institutions having a serious ratio of business education in their curricula and/or playing an important role in the business education of Hungary provide courses built on business simulations. Budapest Business School provides the opportunity for students to participate in courses built on business simulation in 50% of its degree programs. The same ratio is 40% for Budapest Corvinus University, 37.5% for University of Pécs and 27.3% for Pannon University degree programs.

Projektalapú nyelvoktatás egyetemi hallgatók körében

Author(s): Judit Török,András Kétyi,Szilvia Hukné Kiss,Viktória Koltányiné Vadász,Zsuzsanna Ugrai,Ferenc Kósik / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2019

The German Language Section at the BBS FIMB introduced the project based language learning in September 2017. Parallel a mixed research was conducted for three semesters among university students learning German as a first (n = 65, 1. sample) or as a second foreign language (n = 59, 2. sample). The main focuses of our research were on the change in students’ problem-solving and motivation and teachers’ cooperation. According to our results in pre- and post-measurement, we measured a significant difference in problem-solving only at the 1. sample (p < 0.001). In the case of the motivation, we did not find a significant difference at the 1. sample. However, the value of the intrinsic motivation of the 2. sample was significantly lower (p < 0.005). Regarding the teacher’s cooperation, the working group has become a team during the three semesters.

Évfordulók és szakaszhatárok a felsőoktatásban. Beszámoló a 2019-es Bologna Process Beyond 2020 konferenciáról

Author(s): Ildikó Hrubos / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2019

Student’s Learning Obstacles on Mathematical Understanding of a Function: A Case Study in Indonesia Higher Education

Author(s): Ukhti Raudhatul Jannah,Toto Nusantara,Sudirman Sudirman,Sisworo Sisworo,Faisal Estu Yulianto,Mohammad Amiruddin / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2019

This study aims to investigate conceptual understanding based on the cognitive process and to describe the learning obstacles faced by students to digest the notion of definition of a function. For this purpose, a case study is conducted by involving three undergraduate students of mathematics education program as the subjects. One is a second semester student (M1), and the other two are a sixth semester student (M2) and eighth semester student (M3), respectively. The data are collected using observation, tests, and interviews. We found that M1's process level of cognitive is in remembering. M1 experienced didactical, cognitive, and epistemological obstacles; M2's process level of cognition is in remembering and understanding, which reveals cognitive and epistemological obstacles; M3's process level of cognition is in remembering, which shows cognitive and epistemological obstacles. The results are definitely important to improve the process of teaching and learning at universities.This result is used as an evaluation material for students to be at the Analysis stage in terms of Bloom's taxonomy level. Thus, it will serve as a material for the lecturers to deliver the concept of function emphasizing on formal definition and representation.

Zadovoljstvo studijem i samoprocjena kompetentnosti studenata nekih pomagačkih profesija

Author(s): Neven Ricijaš,Aleksandra Huić,Vanja Branica / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 2/2006

This paper presents results of a preliminary investigation conducted on three university groups. Students’ satisfaction with their education, their professional interests and the self-evaluation of their competence for future psychosocial work were examined. The goal of this research was to compare students of three helping professions (social pedagogy, psychology and social work), with regard to perceived competency for the future psychosocial work and obtain insight in the degree of satisfaction with the general and specific knowledge and skills for psychosocial work obtained during study and compulsory student practice.A total of 227 final year students participated in the study (two generations), out of which 88 psychology students, 80 social work students and 59 social pedagogy students were involved. Data on students’ satisfaction with general and specific knowledge and skills gained through their education, student practice, volunteer work and specific professional interests were gathered. A preliminary version of the Perceived competency for future psychosocial work scale was also administered. Participants assessed how sure they are that they can professionally/successfully perform certain activities in the domain of psychosocial work (common to all three investigated professions). Also, the Perceived incompetence scale (Bezinovic, 1988) was administered. Results show that students are mainly satisfied with the general and specific knowledge and skills gained through their education, although there are some differences between the university groups. Out of all the students that participated in the study, 47% is or were included in some form of volunteer work, and they believe that this experience has enabled them to gain new job-skills. Factor analysis of the Perceived competency for future psychosocial work scale revealed four factors: (1) direct work in practice; (2) group work/ prevention programs, (3) empathy and establishing a relationship with a client and (4) application of theoretical knowledge in practice. Differences between three university groups considering students’ satisfaction with the knowledge and skills gained, their volunteer work and their perception of competency for their future work within the psychosocial domain are discussed.