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SPECIFICS OF ARTS THERAPISTS’ SELF-CARE STRATEGIES
Get PDFCovid-19 pandemic poses significant increase in hazards to professionals’ health and well-being in the helping professions. Thus, their ability to provide compassionate and effective care to the population is at risk. Self-care is one of available resources that can strengthen mental health and promote psychological resilience in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. The study aimed to explore arts therapists’ self-care strategies and their specifics compared with those of other psychological help providers and functional specialists. Based on Self-Care Strategies Questionnaire, a survey was conducted between March 2021 and January 2022. Following two instructions, respondents assessed 63 self-care activities by their importance and attainability. All items were rated on a 4-point Likert scale. The sample of 289 respondents comprised 73 arts therapists, 159 other psychological help providers and 57 other functional specialists. Although the assessment of arts therapists’ self-care strategies revealed a high degree of heterogeneity, in all of strategies importance was scored significantly higher compared with attainability. Six out of 14 self-care strategies and one separate activity revealed statistically significant differences between arts therapists’ and other functional specialists’ self-care strategies. There was no significant difference indicated between arts therapists’ and psychological help providers’ self-care strategies
SELF-ASSESSMENT OF OPERATING THEATRE NURSE COMPETENCE IN PERIOPERATIVE CARE
Get PDFAssessment of competence level of operating theatre nurses (OTN) has a significant role in ensuring patient safety, continuity of perioperative care, and positive care environment, allowing to identify shortcomings and address them. The competence level describes quantitatively the competence in perioperative care — a set of skills, attitudes, and knowledge required for effective and safe perioperative care. A simple method to assess the competence level is a self-assessment scale; however, this method has not been used in Latvia to establish the OTN competence levelThe goal of this work is to determine the perceived level of competence in the perioperative care of OTN in a multi-profile hospital in Latvia. For this purpose, a modified perioperative competence self-assessment scale was used, based on Gillespie’s (2012) Perceived Perioperative Competence Scale-Revised (PPCS-R). The results show that OTN have a high perceived level of competence. However, the leadership subscale (which includes coordination and management) displayed lower levels of perceived competence, which shows the insufficiency of training. The results also show that certified OTN, those with more work experience, and OTN with a Bachelor’s degree have a higher perceived competence level. The scale adapted to Latvian exhibits equally good internal consistency as other versions of PPCS-R
CAREER GUIDANCE FOR WOMAN AFTER PARENTAL LEAVE
Get PDFOften, the return of woman to work after parental leave gives many reflections and emotional experiences on how to reconcile the balance between work and private life. Becomes important still woman, after long absences, is able to compete qualitatively on the labor market.The mother\u27s competencies, professional knowledge, qualifications and compliance with job responsibilities and requirements are important in order to be able to adapt to new social roles.Fundamentally, whether and to what extent, woman needs career support.The mission of a career counselor in a conversation with a mother after parental leave is to guide her to possible strategies for action. It is important to raise a woman\u27s awareness of her desires, skills, strengths, opportunities for her success in her career development. The study, on career support for mothers after parental leave, involved 190 mothers who answered 40 questionnaire questions. The study was conducted with the aim of clarifying how existing career support can help mothers to return to the labor market after parental leave. The results of the study show that most mothers need career support after parental leave. Career support would be more demanding if information on career support services was available in one place for this target group. The most frequently mentioned troublesome conditions for career development are work and private life disbalance, lack of time, unavailability of childcare services, finance
VALUE EDUCATION IN HIDDEN CURRICULUM IN PRESCHOOL
Get PDFThe aim of paper \u27Value education in hidden curriculum in preschool\u27 is to reveal the hidden curriculum in value education in a preschool. The paper is formed by analyzing the Latvian and foreign authors theory and research about values, value education and the hidden curriculum. Recognizing the impact of the hidden curriculum on the student’s value education is important, because hidden curriculum have positive and negative impact of student personality. The paper concludes that research is needed on the impact of the use of hidden curriculum in value education in preschool to minimize negative teacher impact of children value system
MOST INTEGRATED VIRTUAL IMAGES OF THE BONES IN THE TEACHING OF HUMAN ANATOMY: ARE THERE ANY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ONLINE AND ON-SITE TUTOR?
Get PDFCovid-19 situation has seriously disrupted regular traditional methods and tools for Human Anatomy teaching. In order to replace limited access to the real human bones, anatomy educators increased integration and use of virtual images in comparison with the past study processes. The present study was conducted to review 15 Human Anatomy tutors’ responses regarding the most used virtual images of the bones for online teaching from March 2020 to the end of October 2021 vs usual on-site teaching at the Department of Morphology. The interview was designed and feedback was taken from the tutors. The majority of the tutors added to their online practical classes a lot of virtual images from anatomical applications and different available resources, related directly to the isolated bones of the skull. For several tutors the searching, preparation and use of virtual images for online teaching was a novelty with advantages and disadvantages. Some tutors have used the possibilities presented by the pandemic to innovate their teaching of skull bones. Virtual images of the bones are an adequate resource for the early stages of undergraduate teaching, but the learning experience may be further enhanced by providing options for the studies with the use of real specimens.
PRE-SCHOOL TEACHERS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS IMPACT OF ICT ON STUDENTS
Get PDFThe application of ICT in today’s context of constant change and sustainable development of mankind is a necessity, expressed in the importance, timeliness and meaning of its integrity in the educational process for children. The latter acquire the knowledge needed for the use of ICT more deeply than adults and can easily apply it to various activities. Computer literacy is one of key aspects of societal development, ensuring the need for ICT skills for the present and future. In the face of the Covid-19 pandemic and the challenges of distance learning and teaching, the researches into the interaction of children with ICT, and especially the importance of computer games for the development and education of children, is becoming of paramount importance.The study aims to reveal the attitudes of pre-school teachers towards impact of ICT and computer games on students. The results of the research, based on the assumption, represent the attitudes of teachers on the application of ICT tools in pre-school education. A qualitative approach was applied to the study – focus groups with 48 pre-school teachers. The results of the research reveal that the ICT and computer games has significant impact on preschool children in the self-learning process, by changing their knowledge, skills, behaviour and attitudes.
TOLERANT ATTITUDES TOWARDS PERSONS WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AS A COMPONENT OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING FOR TEACHERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
Get PDFOne of the priorities of the modern educational process is the formation and creation of an inclusive space, which includes all components of universal design and, in particular, issues of staff preparedness. Thus, the basic training of specialists in this sphere includes not only the competence of teachers and professionals of helping professions in inclusion, but also the development of established personal attitudes and judgments in accordance with the values of the modern world. Of particular importance is the development of tolerance in future teachers in all aspects of its manifestation - both in the process of learning in higher educational institutions, during the internship, and in the process of professional activity itself, in particular during communication and interaction with persons with special educational needs. The importance of this aspect in a teacher\u27s professional profile prompted us to study this quality and determine the level of tolerant attitude of future specialists to children with special educational needs. To solve this problem, we used a number of methods that allowed us to comprehensively study the personal qualities of students in academic groups where students with special educational needs or who received experience in communicating with children with special educational needs during internship in specialized educational institutions or social welfare institutions. Thus, to analyze the qualitative aspects of tolerance (ethnic, social, personal), we used the express questionnaire “Tolerance Index” (Soldatova, Kravtsova, Khukhlaev, Shaigerova, 2002); In order to study the value and semantic component of students\u27 tolerant attitudes we used the “Tolerance Diagnostics. Incomplete sentences” (Kuhareva, 2013); in research of the emotional-volitional component - the method “The Balanced Emotional Empathy Scale. BEES” (Mehrabian, Epstein, 2000); for the analysis of the communicative component – the test of communicative tolerance (Boyko, 2009).Besides, the listed methods and test were supplemented with the inclusive education questionnaire and the author\u27s art-therapy techniques on the perception of persons with special educational needs and understanding of the importance of tolerant communication within professional activities. This approach in the research has allowed us to review essentially the basic educational components for the formation of professional and inclusive competences on the basis of tolerant attitude, to form and briefly outline in this scientific review our own methodological proposal for the introduction of training and other innovative forms of building interaction in academic groups.
DEVELOPMENT OF YOUTH\u27S CREATIVE ABILITIES SCHOOLCHILDREN BY BYOD TECHNOLOGY
No full textModernization of the modern primary education system of Ukraine is aimed at developing creative abilities of primary school students. Development of the creative abilities is one of the components of soft skills of an individual, they affect the successful establishment in society. A creative person is able to generate new ideas, think original, make non-standard decisions, confidently achieve their goals. Creativity is an integrative multicomponent quality that covers various areas of students’ activity. Due to the digitalization of the educational process, information and communication technologies are being rapidly implemented in primary school. Accordingly, the authors of the article analyzed the features of the use of innovative technology BYOD ("bring your own device") for the development of creative abilities of students, identified its positive aspects, outlined ways to use it by teachers. The purpose of the article is to reveal the educational potential of BYOD technology for the development of creative abilities of junior schoolchildren. An experimental study was conducted, the respondents of which were students of primary school in Vinnytsia region and determined the leading level of development of their creative abilities. The results of lessons observation in primary school on the use of innovative technologies for the formation of creative abilities of primary school students are analyzed. The results of the survey of primary school teachers on the use of innovative BYOD technology in the educational process are presented. It is proved that the use of smartphones in primary school lessons promotes the development of creative abilities of primary school children and their imagination, and change of the educational vector of primary school from reproductive learning to creative understanding of information and competent growth (formation of digital competence and organization of students’ independent research).
USING DISTANCE COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION TOOLS FOR GENERAL SOCIAL SERVICES
Get PDFThis paper discusses the use of communication and collaboration tools in the delivery of social services, based on the results of a qualitative study. The research question is what kind of remote communication and collaboration tools are used by social workers in the provision of social services. The paper focuses on the use of telecommunication and collaboration tools by social workers in their service delivery and activities. The study involved 22 social workers employed in social institutions in different parts of Lithuania providing complex services to families.The study found that social workers use mobile devices and that the most convenient and acceptable means of remote communication and collaboration are learning environments, audio and video data storage (YouTube), conferencing and chat software (MS Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, Skype, Facebook Messenger, Viber, WhatsApp, Board Connect, Telegram), social networks (Facebook, Messenger), technical means (smart phone, computer, Internet connection).
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF CROSSFIT TOOLS IN THE PROCESS OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION OF HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS
Get PDFThere is justified in the article the importance of the need to improve physical education process for high school students with CrossFit tools.There have occurred positive changes in high school students’ dynamics in the EG in functional indicators and physical preparation in the experiment condition.The optimization of physical education process for high school pupils with CrossFit tools. There were observed the indicators of physical condition of organism, physical preparation and experimentally checked the effectiveness of the program with CrossFit tools implemented into physical education process. There were 63 pupils as participants in the research (boys, 16 years old). Analysis of literature sources, phyiological methods of research, pedagogical researches (control norms passing); pedagogical experiment; mathematical statistics methods. There is presented and scientifically justified program of CrossFit tools implementation into physical education lessons for high scool pupils. The content of progam includes combination of power and aerobic exercises, stretching, and exercises to restore breath and to relax muscles. The elaborated program is implemented into studying program and there was proved its effectiveness. The results of research have shown its positive impact on fucntional indicators and physical preparation of hish school pupils, that is proved by mathematical statistics methods.