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LARGE-SCALE ONLINE LEARNING SUPPORTED BY INTELLIGENT DEVICES IN THE POST-PANDEMIC ERA
Get PDFWith the support of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and cloud computing, China began learning and teaching online in 2020 to control the spread of the pandemic and implement the "Classes are suspended, but learning continues" policy. Online learning and teaching require modified methods, management, and evaluation compared with traditional instruction. Moreover, teachers\u27 and students\u27 thinking styles and ways of communication have also changed in terms of practice, places of study and tasks. The large-scale online teaching-learning model has ushered in new teaching and learning reform trends in the post-pandemic era. Therefore, this study investigates students\u27 and teachers\u27 readiness for, acceptance of, and satisfaction about comprehensive online teaching and learning and explores the effect online learning has on students. To achieve the research aim, 67 students from one city and one village in China were surveyed.The results revealed that online teaching was met with medium levels of readiness and acceptance and gave little satisfaction. For students, attitudes toward learning, support (or lack thereof) from instructors, effective interactions, motivation to learn, and self-regulation influenced online learning satisfaction. In addition, the students\u27 grade levels and locations.
PECULIARITIES OF SOCIO-EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT FOR WOMEN EXPERIENCING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THE CONTEXT OF A PANDEMIC
Get PDFThe article deals socio-educational support for women experiencing domestic violence in the context of a pandemic. Domestic violence is a fairly common problem, but it is still often overlooked. It is usually analysed from a purely social or criminogenic perspective. There is a lack of a holistic approach to the phenomenon of violence, emphasizing the possibilities of educational empowerment. In the context of the pandemic, the possibilities for both social assistance and educational empowerment have changed. The information disclosed in the article is relevant for institutions and communities that face with the need to organize professional help for domestic violence victims during the Covid-19 pandemic situation. The theoretical parts of article contain the analysis of the publications made on the domestic violence and socio-educational support, educational empowerment process of the review. The empirical part of the research present how Covid-19 pandemic situation affects the provision of socio-educational assistance to women experiencing violence
MOTIVATIONAL COMPONENTS OF ADULT LEARNING WITHIN THE INFORMAL EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS
Get PDFThis study investigated the motivational components of adult learning within informal educational settings using Constructivist grounded theory methodology. The research question - what are the motivational components of adult informal learning viewed in the Equine Assisted Learning practice framework as a learning space, where primarily learning takes place. Three dominant motivational components of adult learning were identified from the study and offered for discussion. Equine-Assisted Learning as an informal learning environment incorporates motivational components that appear intrinsic over extrinsic motivation, performance over achievement, and immediate satisfaction over long-term benefit. These motivational components are detailed further through three surfaced subcategories: interest-driven learning, immediate satisfaction, and desire for the challenge
THE DEVELOPMENT OF COOPERATION SKILLS OF SENIOR PRESCHOOLERS IN THE EXPERIMENTATION PROCESS
Get PDFThe authors of the article consider the importance of cooperation skills as some of soft skills of a person. The significance of developing these skills from preschool age on is emphasized. The influence of children\u27s experimentation on their all-round development and readiness of senior preschool children to study at school is considered. The interrelation between group activities in the process of experimentation and the development of senior preschoolers’ cooperation skills is shown. Based on the observation of children\u27s activities in the process of experimentation, the educator’s participation in this process and the survey of senior preschoolers and educators reveal the aspects of the organization of children’s group activities that have to be improved. The peculiarities of the educator\u27s participation at all stages of the experiment done by senior preschool children in groups are analyzed – during the goal setting, discussion of the experimental procedure, summarizing, as well as during the verbal report on the results of the experiment. Emphasis is placed on the fact that it is important to organize experimentation centres at preschool institutions, which will allow children to freely experiment and form a team to carry out search activities. The psychological and pedagogical conditions for the children\u27s experimentation in groups being organized at preschool institutions by educators for the successful formation of senior preschoolers’ cooperation skills are formulated.
THE NEED TO IMPROVE SOCIAL EMOTIONAL COMPETENCES IN THE TRAINING OF FUTURE TEACHERS: STUDENTS\u27 ATTITUDES
Get PDFToday, scholars raise the need for the development/self-development of social emotional competences in schools and emphasize the importance of its development for successful socialization of children. Scientific articles emphasize the importance of improving teachers\u27 social emotional competences for social emotional education of children. The need to improve social emotional competences is underlined in Lithuanian and European Union documents that point to the importance of high-quality social emotional education and the need to improve teachers\u27 competences. Recently, researches have been focusing mainly on the peculiarities of children\u27s social emotional education, yet the problem of improving social emotional competences of pedagogues is left aside. The article reveals the attitude of students of the Childhood pedagogy study programme towards the existing social emotional competences and substantiates the need for its improvement in the education of future pedagogues. Findings of qualitative research (individual interview with the students) are presented. The results of the study have revealed that students do not always succeed in recognizing and managing the feelings that emerge, especially they lack knowledge and skills to control stressful situations. The analysis of students\u27 perspective highlighted the need for the improvement of social emotional competences in the education of future pedagogues
AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACH TO IDENTITY EDUCATION AMONGST CROSS-CULTURE KIDS IN LITHUANIAN SCHOOLS
Get PDFWhile Lithuanian schools face an influx of repatriated pupils post-Brexit and due to the COVID 19 pandemic, there is still no clear framework to support schools in integrating the increasing Cross Culture Kids (CCKs) and its school community and beyond. This paper examines the application of autoethnography as a pedagogical strategy for school agents to foster identity narrative spaces in classrooms and as a research method for investigating identity formation in educational contexts nurturing cross-cultural competencies in Lithuanian classrooms. This piece is part of the preparation work conducted for the upcoming serial cultural dialogue workshops with CCKs between 15-18, which borrows from the TARMAC ‘multicultural story’ framework (Ward and Keck, 2021). While autoethnography engages individuals in cultural-analysis-style interpretations of self-reflection, this process importantly aids the location of selves in one’s own narratives by exploring the self-other, personal-political, and self-society didactic- for all the stakeholders in the dialogue- such as the workshop facilitators/researchers and the CCKs and its non-CCK counterparts. This leads to the implications of philosophical and practical education approaches exploring identity and intercultural communication in alternative and non-traditional forms (Wall, 2006). Overall, this paper contributes to the formation of cross-culture transitional care awareness and strategies implemented in Lithuanian schools.
ROLE OF REZEKNE RETIREMENT DAY CENTRE IN IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF SENIORS
Get PDFLife expectancy is increasing worldwide, and the proportion of seniors, which poses challenges to ensure that all individuals, regardless of their age, enjoy equal opportunities in both the private sector and the labour market, regardless of their state of health, without adversely affecting quality of life components.The purpose of the scientific article is to find out how the quality of life of Seniors is affected and how it is influenced by the functioning of the Senior Day Center, to improve the quality of services and collateral of the Senior Day Centre in Rezekne
WORKING MEMORY IN THE PROCESS OF TEACHING SONGS
Get PDFThe control processes and mnemonic strategies used in working memory are important both in the general learning process and in the music learning process. In the acquisition of music, the working memory determines the formation of auditory notions, which is an essential dimension in the development of musicality. Its qualitative indicators are (1) accuracy - accurate perception and reproduction of memorized music material; (2) persistence - duration of remembrance. Therefore, it is pedagogically important to improve it at the primary school age, because working memory forms the basis for creating more complex conceptual content constructions both in music and in other fields. The aim of the research is to promote the development of working memory in the process of teaching songs. In order to achieve the goal of the research, a song teaching strategy for the development of working memory has been developed, a pedagogical observation of the music learning process for a duration of three years at the primary school level has been performed, and the obtained data have been analysed using descriptive statistics. The sample of the study consists of 200 primary school students. The data obtained in the article allow us to conclude that the purposefulness and regularity with which the chosen exercises are used, the quality of music perception and attention, and musical thinking all contribute to the development of musical memory in primary school music education. The relationship between song acquisition and working memory described in this publication expands the understanding of music educators and helps them improve their professional skills.
AN ASSESSMENT OF TRANSPORT LOGISTICS STUDENTS’ PERSONAL FINANCE AND THEIR PERSONAL FINANCE MANAGEMENT SKILLS
Get PDFKnowledge about personal finance, economics’ expression understanding, ability to manage own money are important nowadays. The main aim of this research is to compare the Transport Logistics students’ personal finance management skills during the Covid-19 pandemic. The respondents were 197 Transport Logistics students of Vilnius College of Technologies and Design. They filled out an electronic demographic data form online and evaluated their personal financial management skills. Results of the research showed students earnings are to 440 EUR per month. Their amount per month was more than 440 EUR, the main groups of expenses, revealed skills of saving, view into the personal control of finance and sufficient rating of knowledge
DEVELOPMENT AND INITIAL VALIDATION OF THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL SOCIAL CAPITAL SCALE (MSCS)
Get PDFSocial capital has been studied as one of the most important external resources that contribute to overcoming difficulties of individuals, the ability to adapt and show solidarity in times of crisis, preventive behavior. However, no specific assessment tool has been developed and validated for the measurement of social capital in Latvian. The present study aimed to develop and perform an initial validation of the Multidimensional Social Capital Scale (MSCS) in a Latvian adult sample. The developed theoretical concept based on rapid review covers such types of social capital as bonding, bridging and linking, and there are two dimensions in each of these types: cognitive and structural. Data were collected from a representative sample of Latvian inhabitants (N=1003), within a framework of the National research program “Life with COVID-19” in September 2020. As a result, a four-component structure was obtained. MSCS covers only the cognitive dimension of all three types. One type of bonding (Shared values and perceived social support for family members and close friends), one type of bridging (Perceived social support for friends and acquaintances), and two types of linking (Institutional trust and Attitude towards laws and norms). The items are internally consistent on all scales (Cronbach’s alpha ranged from .80 to .90). Discrimination indices generally meet the scientific requirements falling within the range (.20 – .80). Based on Exploratory (EFA) and Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) a four-factor structure of MSCS was confirmed (k = 16) in two samples. CFA results demonstrated that the MSCS was a valid and reliable multidimensional scale, which was invariant across both samples. The present findings indicate the validity and reliability of the MSCS for the Latvian population.