Investigation of Prospective Teachers’ Use of Mobile Technologies in Teaching Activities

Author(s): Hamza Fatih Sapanca,Omer Sami Kaya,Ata Taşpolat,Murat Tezer / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

The purpose of this research is to examine the pre-service teachers’ use of mobile technologies in teaching activities. In this study, the survey method, one of the research methods, was used. The 199 prospective teachers studying at the Faculty of Education, a private university in Northern Cyprus, were included in the workgroup of the research. The 5-point Likert-type scales were used to measure the frequencies of using mobile technologies in instructional activities, motivation, and attitudes towards mobile technologies, competencies in mobile technology use, and its social effects. It was found that social factors had the lowest effect on the use of mobile technologies. Additionally, no gender-based difference was found in the mobile use frequency, motivation, attitude, competency, and social impact of prospective teachers. Moreover, the frequency, motivation, attitudes, competency, and social impact levels of students from the Department of Computer and Instructional Technologies are significantly higher than those departments from Guidance and Psychological Counselling, Special Education, Music Teaching, Elementary School Mathematics Teacher Education, Department of Pre-School Teaching, Classroom Teaching Department, Social Sciences Teacher Education, Turkish Language Teaching. It was concluded that having problems for mobile learning activities that can be used in the scope of mobile learning significantly influences the frequency of use, motivation, attitude, competency, and social impact of the students. Along with this, it was found that the following factors, given in order of importance, are influential on the frequency of the use of mobile technologies by prospective teachers in instructional activities: motivation, attitude, competency, and social impact.

Comprehensive Analysis of The Activities of Russian Federal Universities

Author(s): Daniel V. Petrosyants,Konstantin V. Simonov,Pavel Seleznev,Stanislav P. Mitrakhovich / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

This article aims to fully investigate the activities of the Federal Universities of Russia in the context of various aspects of development and to find appropriate comprehensive assessment methods that can be applied to modern universities that meet the best global standards. The main methods of research are comparative analysis and the formation of qualimetric models based on synthetically selected evaluation criteria. Structural changes in the activities of Russian federal universities have been analyzed. Authors analyze scientific, educational and social activities and other parameters. Particular attention is paid to the development of the ecosystem of innovations in Russian federal universities, its constituent elements and the peculiarities of their functioning. The study provides an opportunity to combine various aspects in the model of university activities. The article presents a comparative analysis of the development of federal universities and their ranking by integrated assessment. The development of communication channels between the academic community and mass audiences was analyzed, also the publication activity of federal universities was evaluated. The authors propose the main methods and sources of collection, processing and verification of disparate information on the state of innovation ecosystems in Russian federal universities. The proposed methodology, unlike existing approaches, allows a comprehensive assessment of the successful and underdeveloped activities of modern universities in both statistics and dynamics. The conclusion of the work is the need for a comprehensive analysis of federal universities by building a qualification parametric model on a regular basis.

Perception of Media Literacy in the Education Community

Author(s): Jasmina ARSENIJEVIĆ,Milica Andevski / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2022

The aim of the study is to analyze the perception of media literacy of educational community (high school and college students, higher educational population and masters of science) using a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods. The survey was conducted during 2021. Technique of interview was used on a sample of 120 participants about participants’ perceptions of media literacy. Total 107 participants gave complete responses, and the results are evaluated based on established categories according to the level of accuracy of answers. Categories are formed according to content analysis and cross-referenced with socio-demographic characteristics. Having in mind a favourable educational structure of the research sample, the starting thesis is that respondents will have a clear understanding of media literacy. The results indicate that the majority of participants properly perceive media literacy in terms of critical reflection of media content, but not as the ability to produce media content as an essential characteristic of participatory culture, which leaves space for improvement and development of a productive cooperation of media users, as the inevitable trend of modern, media-driven society. The qualitative nature of this study enabled the recognition of diverse and deeper categories of phenomena of media literacy in current scientific knowledge. This qualitative approach of the comprehension of media literacy provided insights that are valuable as theoretical contribution, but are first and foremost a precious asset for the creators of media policy, especially for media education strategies.

Sens życia w świadomości młodzieży polskiej – analiza socjopedagogiczna

Author(s): Janusz Mariański / Language(s): Polish Issue: 56/2021

The attitudes of both the youth and adults towards life as a whole and towards different manifestations and dimensions of human existence, are all important subjects of psychological and sociological research. What it concerns is a subjective image of one’s own life that is formed in consciousness of the studied groups’ representatives stemming from the sum of their life experiences: positive and negative, internal and external, subjective and objective. The article presents the results of sociological research on the meaning of life in the awareness of Polish youth. The following three issues are discussed: the frequency of reflecting upon the meaning of life, the one’s sense of life’s meaning and life satisfaction, as well as the sense of life’s meaningless. In the light of empirical data, the generalised existential awareness of young Poles could be described as quite ambivalent, as if on the fence between life’s meaningfulness and meaninglessness. Only about a half of Polish youth declares that life indeed has a meaning to them and provides them with a sense of satisfaction.

Doświadczanie nudy i możliwości jej zapobiegania u uczniów z chorobą przewlekłą

Author(s): Krystyna Moczia / Language(s): Polish Issue: 56/2021

In her article, Krystyna Moczia addresses the condition of boredomexperienced by students who suffer from chronic diseases. The aim of her researchhas been to identify the symptoms of boredom experienced by childrenand adolescents during long-term hospitalization and to examine the ways tohelp these patients to deal with the unpleasant emotions caused by boredom.Moczia asks the following research questions: How does boredom manifest itselfin chronic patients? What are the ways to prevent boredom? Her approachis empirical and she has used the method of a diagnostic survey assisted by theprojection technique (open-ended questions addressed to patients) and interviews(with teachers at the hospital school). Her objective has been to come upwith a manual containing suggestions for students/patients: “A PhenomenalAntidote to Boredom, or Suggestions for Children Suffering from ChronicDiseases and Boredom”. This manual has been based in a brainstormingsession carried out with students of educational sciences.

Preferencje uczących się wobec czynności nauczyciela wspierających autonomię w opanowywaniu wiedzy i umiejętności

Author(s): Anna Studenska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 56/2021

Assisting students in the process of becoming independent learnersis regarded as one of the goals of education. Achieving this goal has currentlybecome more urgent because of the increasing amount of available information.Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has made common the usage of remoteeducation, which often demands more independent decisions concerning theacquisition of skills and knowledge on the part of the learner than in the classeswhere the teacher is in person available for students. Research shows that peoplediffer in their preferences for situations which demand making independentdecisions from them. Also, there are also a few instruments which allow tomeasure learners’ preferences for the teacher’s activities aimed at increasingthe learning autonomy of class participants. For this reason, the aim of this studyhas been to investigate students’ preferences as regards the fostering of theirlearning autonomy by teachers. Fostering Learner Independence Inventory wasconstructed for the purpose of the research. Data was gathered in 2019 and 2020among 137 and 87 university students respectively. The results have shown thatout of the analyzed teachers’ activities aimed at fostering learners’ autonomythe ones most preferred by the students who participated in the research werelistening to class participants and providing them with the opportunity to expresstheir opinions. The results from the two research groups show a significant increasein the data gathered in 2021 in comparison to the data from 2019 in therespondents’ preferences for the teacher’s messages expressing their understandingof students’ experiences of difficulties in learning and motivating themto study. Practical conclusions from the research results have been drawn.

Edukacja historyczno-kulturalna i regionalna oraz rozrywka w beskidzko-śląskiej powieści Ewy Lach dla dzieci i młodzieży Na latającym dywanie

Author(s): Adrian Uljasz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 56/2021

Ewa Lach’s Na latającym dywanie [On the Flying Carpet] is a novelbased on the theme of time travel. The book has a lasting value due to its entertainmentand educational values. Regional themes and the regional setting.i.e., the Beskid-Silesian and Upper Silesian scenery, play an important role init. Rather than historical knowledge, Ewa Lach popularizes literary and filmconventions: western, the tales from One Thousand and One Nights, the historical-sensational novel, and fantasy (including science fiction). In this way, thebook popularizes reading among its audience and encourages participation inmass culture. The book is still finding interested readers.

Marta Wrońska: Funkcjonowanie seniorów w przestrzeni medialnej. Między ideą a praktyką. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, Rzeszów 2021, 252 s., ISBN 978-83-7996-950-0

Author(s): Ewa Syrek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 56/2021

Koherentna dydaktyka dwuwymiarowa – personalistyczna i zmediatyzowana – pedagogiczną szansą i nadzieją teraźniejszości i przyszłości

Author(s): Janusz Miąso / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2022

Introduction: Didactics is a pedagogical subdiscipline as well as the constant search for a more constructive and effective teaching process - learning in order to better and more effectively guide each other - teacher - student and at the same time student - teacher. The current popandemic situation and, at the same time, a powerful expansion of new media, including educational media, mobilize for the necessary research, how to constructively use the media in didactics to make it a constructive coexistence. We can see that the new media played a very positive role during the pandemic, because if they did not exist, teaching would probably only become self-education or a lack of education, but at the same time we felt even more the priceless value of real contacts and real education.Research Aim: For truly effective 21st century didactics, invaluable interpersonal contact is necessary, this is the most important for motivation, for the desire to learn effectively together, but this process will also be supported by the media, because mediatization is currently one of the strongest processes and the search for constructive coherence of personalism and mediatization this is the main research problem and research goal.Evidence-based Facts: Research in this area is carried out by many eminent researchers (Carr, Pinker, Spitzer, Dijk, Fukuyama, Gergen, Melosik, Baron-Polańczyk, Morbitzer), but they require constant guidance and intensification, because the times are extremely expansive and dynamic.Summary: To sum up, it should be stated that there is a need for continuous and even more expansive didactic modeling so that this personalistic-mediatized coherence would be as fruitful as possible for man and society, and here a great research and didactic effort is needed.

Квалитет аналогија које студенти спонтано генеришу у педагошкој ситуацији

Author(s): Zlatko M. Pavlović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 3/2022

Analogies are one of the tools that can increase the quality of a teacher’s work. In order to use analogies in teaching in an efficient way, it is necessary to train teachers for their application. Since such training is generally lacking, teachers use analogies spontaneously and in accordance with their intuitive notions of when and how they can and should be applied. In this paper, we consider some problems of spontaneous use of analogy. The paper presents the results of two surveys on student samples (150 and 305 respondents, respectively). In the first survey sample, there were students who were trained for the teaching profession, and in the second survey sample, some were trained for the teaching profession, and some were not. Their tendency to spontaneously apply analogies in a pedagogical situation (a situation in which they are asked to explain the meaning of certain terms to a child) was measured, as well as the quality of the analogies they applied. Quality was assessed by whether or not they indicated similarities and differences between analogs in the applied analogies. We started from the assumption that analogies without explaining similarities and differences will dominate over analogies in which such an explanation is present and that pointing out similarities and pointing out differences between analogs will be approximately equally represented. The assumption that analogies without explaining similarities and differences will dominate is confirmed. The results suggest that a significant number of respondents show intuitive sensitivity to the conditions of effective application of analogies, but this sensitivity is much more related to the awareness of the need to explain similarities than to explain differences. Also, the results suggest that professional training for the teaching profession, to some extent, contributes to improving the competence of future teachers for the effective application of analogies. In our research, we got results that show that students who have prepared for the teaching profession and who have progressed further in that preparation (more years of study) use analogies in a more efficient way. Students who prepared for the teaching profession pointed out the differences between analogs significantly more often, and older students pointed out similarities explicitly more often.

Mediacja tekstowa w rozwijaniu językowych kompetencji akademickich studentów z ukrainy (na przykładzie abstraktu)

Author(s): Samanta Busiło / Language(s): Polish Issue: 10/2022

This article discusses strategies of developing text mediation competences in the fi eld of PolishLanguage for Academic Purposes taking into account the needs of students from Ukraine andthe phenomenon of language interference. The author proposes a list of language proficiency indicators as part of the processing of texts based on the indicators of the Council of Europepublished in the CEFR-Companion Volume on the example of an abstract. Based on thephenomenon of language interference, she defines the area of positive and negative transfer,comparing genre features and lexical structures from the CALP (Cognitive Academic LanguageProficiency) in Polish and Ukrainian, to finally present teaching strategies helpful in developingmediation skills related to writing and editing the abstract.

Social Pedagogy Training in Poland and Hungary

Author(s): Grzegorz Godawa,Erzsébet Rákó / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

In the present study we compare the formation and development of Polish and Hungarian social pedagogy. The main aspects of the comparison are the principal stages in the history of social pedagogy, the development of training, and the current situation in Hungary and Poland.The history of social pedagogy can be divided into three stages, following key events in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, as these historical events had an impact on the appearance and development of social pedagogy. The first stage is the early period, in the era before 1945, the second is the period after 1945, when the number of orphaned children increased significantly after the second World War and communism determined the socio-economic development of both Poland and Hungary. The third period started after 1989 when, after the collapse of communism, the development of both countries was placed on new socio-economic foundations, and new social problems appeared in the subsystems of society, which were partly addressed by social pedagogical solutions. In what follows, we give a brief overview of the 20th century history of Polish and Hungarian social pedagogy, the initial period of its formation.

Pedagogija kreativnosti u kontekstu odgoja i obrazovanja nadarenih učenika

Author(s): Amina Smajović / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1/2023

In the 21st century, creativity is recognized as the main driver of economic growth. Considering that creative potentials can be realized and improved in the teaching environment through learning and teaching, it is the school's duty to create the conditions for this. Creativity is key in the education of all students, especially gifted ones. The responsibility for designing pedagogical activities for cultivating creativity belongs to the teacher. A teacher's readiness for creative teaching, noticing, monitoring and evaluating creative endeavors depends on his knowledge, understanding, abilities, skills and values, that is, his commitment to empowering children and young people with skills that will help them become successful and responsible people. The aim of the research was to examine teachers' views on encouraging creativity in the teaching process. 50 classroom teachers from elementary schools in Sarajevo Canton took part in the research. The results showed that teachers have positive attitudes about all the dimensions in question: explicit teaching about/for creativity/s, providing opportunities for choice, discovery and research, encouraging intrinsic motivation in students, creating a learning environment that promotes creativity and using imagination and fantasy during learning.

PEDAGOŠKE KOMPETENCIJE UČITELJA OSNOVNOGA OBRAZOVANJA

Author(s): Sanja Živanović,Ranka Perućica,Jurka Lepičnik Vodopivec / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 28/2022

Važne odrednice kvalitete obrazovne ustanove jesu učitelji i kvaliteta njihovih radnih zadataka. Zahtjevi koji se postavljaju pred učitelje u 21.stoljeću postaju sve raznovrsniji i zahtijevaju širok raspon vještina u različitim područjima rada. Ciljevi su ovoga rada pregledom i analizomdostupne literature pružiti uvid u aktualna znanja o kompetencijama učitelja/nastavnika, ukazati na njihovu važnost, objediniti i prikazatirezultate istraživanja čiji su se autori bavili kompetencijama nastavnika te pokušati dati teorijsku i kritičku analizu, s posebnim naglaskom napedagoške kompetencije. Pregledom literature koja se bavi problematikom učiteljskih kompetencija pokušali smo ukazati na njihovu važnost,razviti teorijske temelje i analizirati dosadašnja istraživanja kako bismo odgovorili na različita istraživačka pitanja. Proučavanje problematikepedagoških kompetencija pokazuje da su one u fokusu interesiranja pedagoga, a analiza ukazuje na posebnost u svakome pojedinom istraživanjute može koristiti i u budućim operacionalizacijama pedagoške kompetencije. Kompetentnost učitelja/nastavnika promatramo kao preduvjetodrživa razvoja o kojemu ovisi perspektiva odgojno-obrazovne prakse u futurološkome smislu, a rad daje skroman doprinos popularizaciji ove problematike.

Wokół pojęcia agnotologii we współczesnej myśli pedagogicznej

Author(s): Jarosław Marzec / Language(s): Polish Issue: 11/2022

In presented text I would like to overview interpretative efforts concerned with the conception of agnotology within pedagogical thoughts, especially in the context of fail the idea of emancipation in the stream of critical pedagogy. I recall the works of Tomasz Szkudlarek, Gert Biesta and Jacques Rancière to show the productive and positively valuated meanings of the concept of agnotology and also document its „work” in the pedagogical discourse. As we will see we have to deal with peculiar pedagogy of ignorance. The most valuable are the efforts of Rancière in this field, who is the most recognizable figure in the battle with the myths of emancipation expressed in the theory of critical pedagogy and sociology of knowledge. The category of agnotology and the pedagogy of ignorance seems to be the sign of unknown meanings in the pedagogical thinking, which give the contribution of that category in the attempt to transcend the myths of emancipation.

Online Course Viewings and Their Effects on Performances in Covid-19 Distance Education Period

Author(s): Demir Erdem,Aykut Hamit Turan / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

Despite numerous studies examining student preferences in terms of live and recorded lecture viewings, the effects of lesson viewings on online platforms have been limitedly studied. In this study, the rates of attending live lectures and viewing lecture recordings in the Covid-19 era were examined, and attendance and viewings effects on final scores in these courses were evaluated. For this purpose, data from online education systems of live and record viewings for Turkish Literature, mathematics, and biostatistics classes in the spring semester of 2021-2022, belonging to 13 Turkish universities and 2082 students, were utilized. We found that (1) Thirteen percent of the students did not view any live or recorded courses, and approximately one-third did not enter the final exam; (2) The students in state universities have significantly higher record viewing rates than those in private universities with medium effect size, (3) Females present significantly higher live viewings and record viewing rates than males with small effect sizes; (4) Biostatistics has moderate-high correlations between viewing rates and final scores. On the other hand, there are no or weak relationships between the viewing rates and final scores for Turkish literature and mathematics, in which study materials can be widely accessed from many sources different from biostatistics.

The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Higher Education Students’ Perceptions of Educational Applications and Platforms

Author(s): Katarina Rojko,Erman Nuša / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

The contemporary development of education is marked by the rapid expansion of online educational applications and platforms. Consequently, it is becoming clear that teachers must consider them and in light of their changing role, know what they can offer in their field to be able to recommend them to students to get additional knowledge or even to integrate them into their teaching. As students in the field of computer science and informatics are particularly accustomed to considering online knowledge resources, we decided to investigate their perception of educational applications and platforms. Based on the analysis of the results of their testing of educational platforms and applications, we found that for them the most important is content, followed by personal preferences, reason, user experience, price, etc., and only in the last place is a certificate. The most frequent word in their research reports proved to be knowledge, which we included under the code reason, followed by research, content, time, free, variety, and quality. It also turned out that students’ experience of testing educational applications and platforms is predominantly positive and has even improved over the course of the last three years, which we attribute to the effects of the Covid-19 coronavirus epidemic. The comparison of pre-pandemic and post-pandemic data also revealed that positive sentiment came to the front, while students now prioritize user experience, reason, and quality over the content and personal preferences compared to the pre-pandemic period, while they are still aware of the need for exploration.

Learning Through Games and Its Impact on the Development of Student’s Knowledge During the Pandemic Period

Author(s): Besa Havziu ISMAILI,Aneta Barakovska,Lulzim Memedi,Teuta Ramadni Rasimi / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

Learning through play in the teaching process is a technique that has received a lot of attention since play itself increases the focus of students, and develops memory, creativity, and creative skills in students. However, the COVID-19 pandemic period was a very challenging period for every character included in the educational system, where many techniques used with physical presence were evaporated, or transformed in another form, as played through gamification. The objective of our research was to analyze the level and form of implementation of games as a teaching technique during COVID-19 in primary schools, among teachers N=120, students N=80 from I do 5th grade, and parents N=100 in Kosovo and North Macedonia. Results showed that there is a strong correlation of the implementation of games as a technique by parents and teachers in the implementation of the pandemic and the students learning and mental health, respectively their learning success has risen and their mental health was improved.

Competences of Physical Education Teachers in Education Supported by Digital Technology

Author(s): Jelena Maksimović,Natalija Lazić / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

The application of digital technology in teaching physical education provides a basis for its improvement in the direction of promoting physical activity and student development. As one of the most important subjects of the teaching process, teachers have a fundamental role in achieving the goals and tasks of physical education. Physical education teachers are required to develop competences based on which they would implement digital technology in physical education classes in compliance with the imperatives of modern digital education. Therefore, this research is focused on the competences of physical education teachers in education supported by digital technology. The aim of this research is to determine the competences of physical education teachers necessary to fulfil their role in education supported by digital technology. The method used in this theoretical research is the method of theoretical analysis. The technique of content analysis was used. The research instrument consists of the relevant literature on this topic. The theoretical analysis points to a need to expand and improve the digital competences of physical education teachers, which can be achieved by joint action of formal and informal education systems in developing programs that would provide a basis for the professional development and empowerment of physical education teachers to use digital technology with more certainty and purpose in teaching physical education.

Ethical Aspects of Science and Technological Innovations

Author(s): Dejan Dašić,Gruja Kostadinović,Milan Stanković / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

The progress of civilization depends on both science and ethics, on two different ideas. Unlike ethics, which deals with moral principles and ideals that guide human behavior, science is based on logical argumentation, empirical data, and methodical testing. However, as science develops, it often raises ethical questions that must be addressed. As a result, science and ethics are intertwined and both are essential for the moral and long-term advancement of science. This research examines the results of two interconnected processes: the quick development of science and technology and its moral ramifications, or the harm it does to people’s lives all around the world. The writers highlight the need for a qualitative shift in attitudes toward nature and society as a whole in order to address environmental challenges and remove the threat of a global ecological disaster by analyzing the substance and impact of these processes.