Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research (EPASR - E-Journal)
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Changing Society, Changing Humanity%253A Freirian Goals of Education
No full textIn this paper, the author demonstrates how education is presented by Freire as the key both for changing society and leading people toward true humanity. The authors interest is not to further develop the method that Freire elaborated in the sixties and seventies, but, rather, to show the degree to which his theory is coherent with his vision of what it means to become truly human through social change. Specifically, this article explores whether or not education is the key element to build true humanity through social change. The author first explains how dialogue is a necessary starting point to understand the connection between education and change in the two aforementioned levels. The author presents how Freire considers the way myths in unequal societies play a damaging role due to their crystallization of unfair social structures. Consciousness and conscientization are the key tools to overcome these myths. This awareness at the same time is the essential component of an education for liberation. Finally, the author presents some obstacles to this new kind of liberation
The Validity of Educational Disadvantage Policy Indicators
Get PDFMany countries have implemented policies to prevent or combat educational disadvantage associated with socioeconomic factors in the students home environment. Under such policies, educational institutions generally receive extra support from the central or local government. The support is normally based on indicators available in the home environment of the children, mostly family-structural characteristics. In the Netherlands, the core of educational disadvantage policy is the so-called weighted student funding scheme, which awards schools with disadvantaged students additional financial resources. When this scheme was developed in 1984, three indicators of disadvantage were selected, namely%253A parental education, occupation, and ethnicity. Analyses conducted at the time established a predictive validity estimate of 0.50, amounting to 25 percent of explained variance. Nowadays, some thirty years later, the funding scheme is based on only one indicator, namely parental education. Analyses performed on data collected in 2014 show a validity estimate of 0.20, thus accounting for no more than four percent of variance. This dramatic decrease of the indicators predictive validity shows that the empirical basis of the Dutch weighted student funding scheme has become highly problematic. It is suggested that instead of employing family characteristics as educational disadvantage indicators, the actual performance of students based on test achievement and teacher observations may offer a more valid alternative
Identifying Psychometric Properties of the Social-Emotional Learning Skills Scale
Get PDFThis study aims to develop a comprehensive scale of social-emotional learning. After constructing a wide range of item pool and expertise evaluation, validity and reliability studies were carried out through using the data-set of 439 primary school students at 3rd and 4th grade levels. Explarotary and confirmatory factor analysis results revealed a valid and reliable 27-item, seven-factor model including the following factors%253A Relationship among Friends, Perception of Friendship, Persistence, Success, Self-Management, Impulse Control and Self-Confidence. Cronbach Alpha coefficient is calculated as .856 for the whole scale
Solution Proposals of Prospective Teachers On the Problems of Pre-School Education
Get PDFIn this research, the proposals of prospective teachers in pre-school training about the problems of pre-school education which are defined by the literature analysis have been put forward. 700 solution proposals are gathered from 140 prospective teachers who are included in the research by providing 5 solution proposals each. When analyzing the gathered proposals, 140 prospective teachers concluded on highly important 5 solution proposals out of 40 solution proposals which they have already specified. These are in order lsquo%253Barranging the pre-school buildings and classrooms conditions according to the characteristics of childrens development, lsquo%253Breducing the classroom size, lsquo%253Bexplaining the importance of pre-school education to the parents and improving the cooperation and communication with them, lsquo%253Benlarging the classroom space, lsquo%253Bmainstreaming inclusive education. These prospective teachers concluded on the least important 5 solution proposals as follow%253A lsquo%253Belecting the pre-school prospective teachers by an interview, lsquo%253Bemployement of doctors and nurses in the pre-school education institutions, lsquo%253BEmphasis more on skills like music and painting in the pre-school education process of prospective teachers, lsquo%253Bprovision of experiential and informational support by the retired pre-school teachers, lsquo%253Bshortening the pre-school lesson hours
PHRASE-MEANING RELATIONSHIP ACCORDING TO SITUATIONAL AND INCIDENTAL TEXTS
Get PDFThe purpose of the current study is to conduct a comparative analysis of the situational story of Sait Faik Abasıyanık entitled as Alemdağda Var Bir Yılan and the incidental story of Refik Halid Karay entitled as Boz Eşek in terms of syntax on the basis of their deep structures. The current study employed case study, one of the qualitative research methods. Within the context of the study, the situational story of Sait Faik Abasıyanık called Alemdağda Var Bir Yılan was analyzed in comparison with the incidental story of Refik Halid Karay called Boz Eşek in terms of syntax on the basis of their deep structures. Therefore, document analysis technique was considered to be suitable for data collection. The sentences in the texts used in the current study were analyzed in terms of syntax and the meaningful units in these sentences were found and named according to their meanings. These meaningful units were named by using the names of the terms explained in grammar books. The results were qualitatively and quantitatively compared on the basis of the term and the meaning
Effectiveness of Learning Strategies Taught To Teacher Candidates
Get PDFThe research was carried out with 41 people educated in Ege University, Faculty of Education, Social Studies Teacher Training Department during the fall semester of 2015 - 2016 academic year. Quasi-experimental design was used in the study. Within the scope of the research, prospective teachers were taught learning strategies lasting for ten weeks. The effectiveness of the training was determined through interview forms, Learning Strategies Training Assessment Questionnaire prepared by the researchers, and also by Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (Buuml%253Byuuml%253Bkouml%253Bztuuml%253Brk, Akguuml%253Bn, Demirel and Ouml%253Bzkahveci, 2004). As a result of the research, a significant increase is observed in the level of use of rehearsal, metacognitive, elaboration, regulation, peer learning strategies of teacher candidates. There have been seen no differences in the dimensions of time management, critical thinking, help seeking as well as effort management
The Technology Leadership Competencies of Elementary and Secondary School Directors
Get PDFThe aim of this study was to investigate the elementary and secondary school directors technology leadership competencies in relation to some demographic features such as age, length of service and the state of whether taking in-service technology training. The universe of the current study employing descriptive survey model was comprised of 129 school directors working at 76 elementary and secondary schools in Menteşe district of the city of Muğla in 2013- 2014 academic year. The sampling of the study consisted of 74 randomly selected school directors. As the data collection instrument, The Scale of Educational Directors Technology Leadership Competencies developed by Banoğlu (2012) was used. This scale has five dimensions that are visionary leadership, digital age learning culture, perfectionism in professional practice, digital citizenship and systematic development. Within the context of the current study, the correlations between the directors technology leadership competencies and gender, age, length of service and the state of whether taking in-service technology training were analyzed through t-test and One Way ANOVA. The findings of the analyses revealed that the dimension viewed to be the most important by the directors is systematic development. Moreover, a significant correlation was found between age and perfectionism in professional practice and between the state of whether taking in-service technology training and technology leadership, visionary leadership and digital citizenship
School on Cloud%253A Transforming Education
No full textNowadays for an appropriate way to deal with teaching and learning there is an axiomatic need to accept an integrated-holistic approach both in terms of the way we regard education and of how we practice it. This leads to a two-prong position%253A First, that education constitutes a dialectic entity and second that approaches to education presently in use are now absolute. That is, education has recently undergone a paradigm shift from a Student Centred Learning approach, which in its own way have replaced the traditional Teacher Centred Instructing approach, towards an integrating holistic approach, bringing education into the new Net Centred Knowing paradigm which is based on cloud computing and represents the goal and objectives of the School on the Cloud project presented in this paper
Integrated Teaching%253A Boon or a Bane%253F!
No full textThe objective of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of integrated teaching program using student feedback. A questionnaire to evaluate the effectiveness of the existing teaching program was prepared and distributed among 185 second year medical undergraduate students who underwent integrated teaching in their first year. Their responses were recorded, evaluated and analysed statistically. Additionally the performance of the students was also assessed by recording their year-wise results in the university examinations. This was further compared with the results of the students who were not exposed to integrated teaching in the past years and the findings were tabulated. Integrated teaching was found to be an innovative method in strengthening the teaching-learning process and received wide acceptance from the student population
A Gateway to Integration%253A a Study of American Families and their International Visitors
No full textResearch shows that helping international students build support networks by forming new friendships is crucial to counteracting the feelings of isolation, loneliness, and frustration that may arise from studying abroad. Studies have shown that friendships between international students and host nationals benefit the local community rather than just the university by promoting intercultural communication and understanding. Most of these studies, however, have only focused on the friendships between international and domestic students and not between international students and local American or friendship families. This study aims to make a contribution to the existing scholarship on intercultural friendship by looking at the expectations and obstacles that structure relationships between friendship families and international students at a research-one public land grant institution. By pinpointing these factors, we hope to take the first steps in developing a set of best practices for ensuring successful intercultural interactions between international students and their friendship families