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THE ROLE OF EMOTIONS IN MUSIC EDUCATION: THEORETICAL INSIGHTS
Get PDFEmotional expression has been the focus of teachers and educational researchers, as it can result in an improvement in cognitive performance. In specific settings, personal and emotional experiences can provide a steppingstone to developmental and learning processes. Emotions significantly influence learner learning and play a crucial role in quality teaching, educational reform, and learner-teacher interaction. The inherent social and communicative nature of music would make group training an excellent tool for increasing the coordination of behaviour, affect, and mental states among children. This paper aims to explore the literature on various aspects of the concept of emotions in the context of music education with the main focus on opportunities for experiencing and expressing emotion in music education, learners\u27 positive emotion experiences in music education, teaching to generate positive emotion outcomes, and the benefits of a greater emphasis on the emotions in music education. The results of theoretical analysis indicate that music education has a particularly positive effect on identifying emotions, emotion regulation, emotion recognition, improved learning, and self-expression
DEVELOPMENT OF PATIENT-CENTRED HEALTH CARE APPROACH IN THE NURSES’ AND DOCTOR ASSISSTANTS’ EDUCATION
Get PDFNowadays the development of health care system focuses on high quality, effective and safe health services which satisfy patients and clients’ needs. Pacient-centred health care approach and strategies are important factors to improve medical care process and results. Nurses and doctor assistants’ education practises should be based on personalised health care approach and principles. The aim of the article is to identify pacient-centred health care components and ways, how to implement them in nurses and doctor’s assisstants education in order to improve knowledge, skills, competences and attitudes for future work in multi-disciplinary team and multi-cultural environment. The study is based on theoretical and methodological analyses of the concepts and education documents. The results: the deeper understanding of the pacient-centred approach and principles, more detailed complex of skills, competences and attitudes appropriate to urgent health care problems and more competent medical worker in the individualized health care system.
DEVELOPMENT OF MANAGERIAL COMPETENCE OF HEADS OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN CRISIS CONDITIONS
Get PDFIn the crisis conditions of challenges and restrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and the martial law in Ukraine, it is important to ensure stability and efficiency in the management of educational institutions. It is possible due to the condition of development of managerial competence of managers. We consider the managerial competence of educational institutions leaders is a personal phenomenon. It combines psychological, theoretical and practical readiness for managerial activities in the specific conditions of the institution\u27s existence. For the development of managerial competence, appropriate conditions are important, as well as an actual profile, the structure of which includes: development orientation; emotional intelligence; cooperation; ability to create a safe environment; organizational capacity. As a result of the actualization of the crisis situation, the public demand for managers-leaders is increasing, hence the need to analyze, develop a theory and use leadership strategies by the heads of general secondary education institutions, since they are the basis of the manifestation of their managerial competence in crisis conditions. Our research was organized during 2018/2021 (n 112.) It showed a contradiction between the need for development and the lack of managerial competence and leadership strategies among managers in the field of education. In order to develop this property, a program of psychological and pedagogical support was developed and implemented. The results of the program\u27s implementation confirmed its effectiveness and made it possible to conclude that the development of managerial competence can effectively take place within the limits of individual trajectories of professional growth of heads of institutions in the field of education.
ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF DISTANCE EDUCATION. LESSONS FROM THE COVID19 PANDEMIC
Get PDFThe COVID19 pandemic has made changes not only in the health care, in our personal lives, but also in the education system especially. The purpose of the research is based on the analysis of the experience of universities of different countries, as well as a survey of teachers of Uzbekistan universities, that held classes during the quarantine, to identify the advantages and disadvantages of Distance Education(DE), as well as give recommendations for making decisions on development DE during the pandemic. To identify the advantages and disadvantages of distance learning during the COVID19 pandemic, an online survey was conducted among 126 university teachers. Respondents were asked to indicate the most important aspects of the advantages and problems of DE that they encountered during this period. Respondents indicated priorities - factors that had the greatest positive and negative impact on the learning process during the COVID19 pandemic. Analysis of this "short-term" period shows that DE has its pros and cons: Advantages: Saving time and money; Reducing the risk of getting sick; Development of DE technologies; Activating teachers to prepare e-courses; Equality of students to get knowledge. Disadvantages: Lack of direct contact with students; Complexity of individual work and in groups; "Presence Effect" of students; Activity of unscrupulous teachers; Complexity of knowledge assessment; Technological inequality among students; Decrease in the activity of scientific research.
CONNOR-DAVIDSON RESILIENCE SCALE (CD-RISC-25) ADAPTATION IN LATVIAN SAMPLE
Get PDFThe aim of the research was to adapt the full version of Connor-Davidson Resilience scale (CD-RISC-25) in Latvia to gain qualitative and valid psychological measure of assessing resilience. Studying the scientific literature has shown multidimensional nature of resilience construct as well as broaden the knowledge about resilience as complicated psychological construct which can be affected by different factors rising from one’s individual experience and the environment where he comes from. Sample (N=186) in age range 18 to 69 years old (M=37.65; SD=12.07), 75.8% females. Participants filled demographic data questionnaires and Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (Connor & Davidson, 2003). Scale of 25 items, each rated in 5-point Likert’s scale (0-4), with higher scores reflecting greater resilience. Cronbach’s Alpha for all items varies from .88 to .90 and for scale total α= .89, which proves good internal consistency. Test-retest reliability demonstrated a high level of agreement, with an intraclass correlation coefficient of .93. The Connor-Davidson Resiliency Scale in Latvian sample showed high internal consistency α = .89 and good psychometric properties, same as noted in other studies (Connor & Davidson, 2003). This proves CD-RISC-25 as qualitative and a valid measure for further studies of resilience in Latvian population
PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS FOR EDUCATIONAL MANAGERS: ANALISING THE EXPERIENCE OF COUNTRIES WITH DIFFERENT SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WITH THE VIEW OF ITS POSSIBLE USE IN UKRAINE
Get PDFProfessional standards for educational managers establish the compliance of a person with the professional requirements; therefore, it is important to study them in order to develop the content of university training programs for school principals. The aim of the present research is to examine the experience of standardization of educational managers’ professional activity in the countries of different socio-economic development and various degrees of participation in the global educational integration processes, as well as to highlight the possible use of best practices to develop and implement the most effective university training programs for educational managers. We conducted the study during 2018 – 2020 according to the methodology of the aspect analysis, having distinguished two aspects: functional and behavioural. We analysed the professional standards within the framework of regional clusters taking as a basis the mutual convergence and interaction of their educational systems, namely regions that are the generators of integration processes; regions that respond positively to integration processes but do not initiate them; regions that are inert to the integration of educational processes. Furthermore, we chose a few countries from each cluster, which adopted the standards at the state level or at the level of individual administrative units within a particular country. The results of the analysis made it possible to identify general and special trends, peculiar to certain groups of countries. The results obtained within the framework of the study made it possible for us to develop the construct of the standard that takes into account the particular features of socio-economic development of Ukraine.
INTEGRATION OF NI ELVIS TOOLS INTO THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS FOR ANALYSIS OF ELECTRONICS SCHEMATICS
Get PDFA receiver circuitry is provided that is primarily controlled by the NI ELVIS instrument and the LabVIEW software package. Thus, it is possible not only to control, but also to process the received signals. This article highlights how easy it is to automate receiver control and receive signal processing with NI ELVIS with LabVIEW. The article presents the practice and perspectives of using the new National Instruments LabVIEW software and NI ELVIS II hardware for teaching in the educational laboratory
DETERMINING THE KNOWLEDGE LEVEL OF PUPILS IN THE INFORMATION SYSTEM OF "SMART SCHOOL"
Get PDFAt a time when current information technologies are rapidly developing, the effectiveness of the quality of education in secondary schools, the transparency of the teacher evaluation system and the analysis of several other indicators with the help of artificial intelligence are the urgent issues of the day. In this method of analysis, initially the value is entered by school experts. This value consists of a pupil in a certain category among pupils and his grades. The term category refers to various criteria, such as pupils with different levels of mental activity, pupils who are learning poorly, who are missing a lot of lessons, and the level of learning is high or low within the specified subjects or topics. The "Smart School" information system forms arrays consisting of the number of grades and grades of pupils according to the criteria entered by experts, and has the ability to sort the values that are similar to the entered value. The solution to the problem posed in this article is explained mathematically and practically. Based on the proposed mathematical models, the business process was modeled, a business process software product was developed, and statistical data was obtained
LANGUAGE POLICY AND SCHOOL EDUCATION AS MAIN FACTORS OF UKRAINE STATE CREATION
Get PDFThe authors present their views on the formation of the Language Policy and the role of general secondary school education as important factors in the Ukraine state creation shortly before and in the first years of Ukraine’s independence. The main drivers of changes in the Language Policy of the Soviet government regarding the state of the Ukrainian language in the USSR are identified. These drivers of changes include (1) activities of nationally oriented public organisations, primarily Ukrainian writers, historians, human rights defenders, and the Ukrainian language admirers; (2) public desire to develop nationally oriented education, which forced the authorities to start implementing very specific measures, first of all – in the field of general secondary school education; (3) the gradual formation of a scientific and pedagogical basis for the versatile Ukrainisation and humanisation of education and upbringing of children and youth giving priority to their native language as a language of instruction; (4) the need to introduce measures for external and internal differentiation of general secondary school education;(5) the psychologisation of the educational process. Based on documentary sources, it is argued that general secondary school education played the role of an important factor in the Ukraine state creation which was facilitated by the specific measures developed by the Ministry of Education of Ukraine to implement the Ukrainian idea in school practice in the first years of independence. The novelty of the present research is that authors extrapolate the past educational experience to the current language situation in general secondary school education in Ukraine. Moreover, the authors represent the opinions of contemporary Ukrainian sociolinguists on the state Language Policy in the field of general secondary school education. The research proves that the strategic ideas laid down at the turn of the last decades of the last century regarding the Educational Policy of independent Ukraine in the field of general secondary school education played an important role in improving the position of the Ukrainian language and in shaping Ukrainian self-identity among children and young people which explicitly and implicitly reinforced the key strategic idea – the idea of the Ukrainian State creation.
DESCRIPTION OF PRESIDENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Get PDFThis year the regular presidential election will be held again, and the head of state for the next four years will be chosen by the parliament of Latvia. Although in recent years there has been an active discussion about the need for a publicly elected president in Latvia, the public often thinks that the President of Latvia has a purely representative function, but that is not entirely true. Representing the country is, of course, a crucial and visible aspect of the president\u27s duties, but it is only one of the president\u27s external functions, in addition to which there are several other functions that are important for public administration. The President of Latvia is involved in all three branches of government - executive, legislative and judicial, which means that his competence is broader than it might seem without any analysis of the constitutional structure of Latvia