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Classical Concepts of Social Solidarity as the Basis of Theoretical Studies on the Institutions of Modern Civil Society
Author: Naletova, Irina Vladimirovna
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Social Environment,Group Unity,Citizenship,Sociology,Heuristics,Social Theories,Social Class

Current importance of this investigation has been stipulated by the modern trends in the development of civil society. Differentiated processes of its development, increased significance of certain institutions of the civil society often require not just empirical description of the principal trends of the functions of civil society, but also need theoretical justifications for the methodology of its investigation. With this regard the given article is focused on identifying the position and role of social solidarity within classical sociology that would make it possible to use this heuristic potential in modern practices as well. The principal method of the study is represented by the analysis of classical sociological theories. In the course of the investigation the authors were guided by such methodological landmarks as the general principles of socio-cultural, activity-based, socio-structural and systemic approaches, by the principle of the unity of theoretical constructions and by real social practice. The study considers the concepts of social solidarity developed by the representatives of classical sociology. The suggested approach makes it possible to obtain more comprehensive and profound understanding of the structure and essence of modern civil society. The result of the investigation is represented by the justification of the thesis that modern civil society encompasses social solidarity as an inseparable component which cannot be investigated otherwise than being duly supported by classical sociological theories.
Developmental and Implementation Challenges of E-Learning Management Systems in Higher Education
Author: Davidovitch, Nitza
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Electronic Learning,Higher Education,Program Development,Program Implementation,Technology Uses in Education,Integrated Learning Systems,Mobility,Distance Education,Program Administration,Foreign Countries,Geographic Location

The competition that exists today in the labour market has significantly raised the value of knowledge, skills and experience of staff. This particular importance for the modern professional acquire fluency in its modern information technology and the ability to continuously improve the skills. The actual trend is also for university teachers. Getting new knowledge and skills practically useful and applicable in daily teaching activities, in the era of information society significantly expands opportunities for self-realization and contributions to career growth. However, in implementing the model of continuous training of teachers for careers there are some significant obstacles. One of them, given the intense schedule of the educational process in terms of academic mobility is the lack of time. Another the geographical factor. With the location of the university in another city, its visit is inconvenient and expensive. Experience of universities of many countries shows that an effective tool to overcome these obstacles is distance learning, which allows to get all necessary knowledge at any time and in any place. The identity of urgency takes in terms of academic mobility when students and teachers work in another country. The paper proposes a methodological approach that takes into account these features. The paper deals with the structuring of project management programs of academic mobility. The features of these projects show their impact on the progress and results of the implementation. It is shown that traditional approaches to solving the problems of academic mobility management applications to integrate the process of setting objectives and planning projects. But due to the complexity of academic mobility programs to solve these problems effectively without decomposing it into components can be managed quite difficult. Therefore, the main idea of this paper is that an increasing the efficiency of the university on the basis of a possible application of rational structuring of academic mobility programs. The features of these projects shows their impact on the progress and results of their implementation and the ways of construction of project management distance learning systems. The paper presents the analyse of the structure of scientific and methodological basis of project management systems. In this structure are identified two parts: creation tool to identify knowledge users and how they change, and the creation of information tools effect on these people. The model determines the effect of academic mobility project management tools through knowledge of business administration at the progress of the educational projects.
Students' and Teacher's Experiences of the Validity and Reliability of Assessment in a Bioscience Course
Author: Räisänen, Milla
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Undergraduate Students,Student Evaluation,Science Education,Biological Sciences,Validity,Reliability,Interviews,Outcomes of Education,Grades (Scholastic),Evaluation Criteria,Lecture Method,Case Studies,Bachelors Degrees,Hypothesis Testing,Student Experience,Teaching Experience,Educational Quality

This case study explores the assessment of students' learning outcomes in a second-year lecture course in biosciences. The aim is to deeply explore the teacher's and the students' experiences of the validity and reliability of assessment and to compare those perspectives. The data were collected through stimulated recall interviews. The results showed that grades did not always reflect the learning outcomes and that the intended level of understanding was not always measured. In addition, the teacher and the students thought that the assessment criteria were unclear, which in turn led to the unreliability of the assessment. These problems with the validity and reliability of assessment led to perceptions that the assessment was unfair. The results imply that grades should be critically evaluated as indicators of the quality of learning outcomes. In addition, practical implications are discussed.
Internet Access and Youth of Yakutia Awareness on the Health-Promotion Factor
Author: Barakhsanova, Elizabeth Afanasyevna
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Internet,Access to Information,Access to Computers,Youth,Health Promotion,Technology Uses in Education,Handheld Devices,Interviews,Knowledge Level,Geographic Regions,Secondary School Students

Thematic justification is determined by the fact that in the conditions of the steady growth of mobile technology the youth accurately does not represent health promotion value when using the Internet at home, at school and other entertainment leisure recreation. With respect thereto this paper is aimed at monitoring general awareness of seniors and students on the importance of the health-promotion factor when they use the Internet in everyday life. The sample interview conducted for the period from 2010 to 2015 is provided in this paper. Schools beyond the river area and of Yakutsk, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), were included in the quota sampling. The main focus of study is aimed to clear a true picture of the awareness of Yakutian youth aged from 16 to 20 about the global Internet and its availability level. The second part of the study captures value judgments of seniors and their leading attitudes with respect to the computer and the Internet impact on health. &quot;Strong&quot;, &quot;average&quot; and &quot;weak&quot; schools as for provision with the computer technology and the Internet were selected. All problems that were designated above are directed to implement preventive activities in educational institutions when using modern educational technology with connection to the Internet network. The paper data have practical value in analyzing modern technologies impact on personal formation of youth in the conditions of information society.
Result-Oriented Management: The Experience of Kazakhstani Universities
Author: Askarkyzy, Samal
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Colleges,College Administration,Womens Education,Governance,Management Systems,Educational Finance,Labor Force Development,Strategic Planning,Competence,Comparative Analysis,Human Resources

The present article outlines the main principles and peculiarities of the result-oriented university management on the basis of the Development strategy of the Kazakh State Women's Pedagogical University for 2013-2020. The relevance of the investigated issue is conditioned by the fact that in the context of a highly competitive market of research and educational services, universities search for new management instruments that help to achieve a competitive strategic management of the modern university. The research is carried out on the basis of records of the structural departments of the university in the relevant areas and objectives set out in the strategy. The main method of the study is the method of a comparative analysis and synthesis. Drawing upon the results received, a SWOT analysis of the financial and economic sustainability of the university is presented. It is proved that the realization of the task to improve the quality level of educational services will increase the competitiveness of the university in the domestic and international markets of research and educational services. This requires the implementation of result-oriented education--the development of a system of professional competence with regard to the labor market requirements, views of students, graduates, teachers and researchers. For this, it is assumed that there will be a full transition to a modular principle of constructing the structure of educational programs, which will enhance the mobility and variability of educational programs. The results and recommendations can be applied in the educational, scientific and economic system development strategies of Kazakhstan and are of significant interest to Kazakh scientific and educational thought.
Warming the Emotional Climate of the Classroom: Can Teachers' Social-Emotional Skills Change?
Author: Harvey, Shane T.
Date: 2016-11-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Emotional Response,Classroom Environment,Intervention,Social Development,Emotional Development,Correlation,Student Attitudes,Teacher Behavior,Teacher Student Relationship,Foreign Countries,Elementary Schools,Middle Schools,Video Technology,Observation,Questionnaires,Workshops,Faculty Development,Statistical Analysis

Emotional skills underpin what teachers do. However, relatively few studies have investigated whether these skills can be formally learnt by teachers and the benefits enhancing teachers' social-emotional skills may have on students. The current research aimed to develop an intervention to improve teachers' social-emotional skills in the classroom and to assess changes in teachers' emotional teaching practices and their emotional awareness in the classroom, as well as changes in students' social-emotional behavior in relation to changes their teachers may have made. Twenty-seven teachers of Year 3-8 (8-13 year old) students participated in an emotional skills intervention, which took place over three months. The findings yielded mixed results. In line with predictions, decreases in teachers' undesirable relating and setting limits were found. However, no relationships between teacher changes and students' pro-social behavior and emotion were found. However, students of teachers who improved compared to those who did not on observed emotional practices, reported significant differences in their teachers' leadership, helpfulness/friendliness, understanding, student responsibility/freedom, student admonishing and strictness.
Measuring E-Learning Effectiveness at Indonesian Private University
Author: Pradana, Mahir
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Private Colleges,Masters Programs,Graduate Students,Electronic Learning,Distance Education,Educational Technology,Technological Literacy,Self Efficacy,Interpersonal Communication,Questionnaires,Likert Scales,Statistical Analysis,Multiple Regression Analysis

Telkom University was founded in 2013, as a result of merging four existing higher education institutions in Indonesia. One of their study programs is Master of Management (MM) program, which also facilitates full-time workers to participate in the program. Since their physical presences are sometimes unfulfilled, an e-learning program was implemented for the first time in 2014. This research was conducted to acknowledge the phenomena that Master of Management is the most favorite study program at Telkom University. The census data collection was conducted to each participant of Master of Management (MM) program, afterwards the problem-solving method used multiple linear regression. The independent variables are application-specific computer self-efficacy, Perceived usefulness, Interaction, and Social presence, while the dependent variable is e-learning effectiveness. The result showed that each independent variable effects on the dependent variable significantly. Independent variables simultaneously have significant influence on the dependent variable. Using percentage analysis technique, participants in distance learning programs at Telkom University argued that the l of implementation of the elements of distance learning 76%-88% are in the good-very good category. The elements of distance learning effect significantly influence the e-learning effectiveness at Telkom University.
The Food Code in the Yakut Culture: Semantics and Functions
Author: Gabysheva, Luiza Lvovna
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Cultural Influences,Food,Semiotics,Motivation,Figurative Language,Folk Culture,Language Usage,Semantics

The relevance of researching the issue of a specific cultural meaning for a word in a folklore text is based on its being insufficiently studied and due to the importance for solving the problem of the folklore language semantic features. Yakut nominations for dairy products, which are the key words in the language of the Sakha people's folklore, have not been an object of a special study yet. In this regard, this study aims to analyze the symbolic meanings and the semiotic functions of the Yakut food nominations and motivation for their metaphorization in the context of the mythopoetic worldview. The lexical analysis of a word is accompanied in this work with cultural and semiotic excursions into the field of material culture, ritual practices, customs, and so on; in other words, a linguistic sign is regarded in the context of other, non-linguistic, signs. The language semantics, in turn, allows interpreting and presenting seemingly disparate information and bizarre culture components in a single dynamic system. The advantage of the suggested approach is that the analysis of the vocabulary in the background of all the native speakers' cultural presupposition actualizes the cultural meaning of a word and its referent, potential semes and various connotations, providing a more accurate interpretation of both the word and the text as a whole.
Students' Environmental Competence Formation as a Pedagogical Problem
Author: Ponomarenko, Yelena V.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Conservation (Environment),Higher Education,Foreign Countries,Competence,Consciousness Raising,College Students,Environmental Education,Models,Observation,Questionnaires,Interviews,Statistical Analysis

Environmentally conscious and preparation of competent professionals' in higher education system in Kazakhstan is a priority. The need for more effective environmental competence formation for students actualizes the problem of development and scientific substantiation of the theoretical model of students' environmental competence, methods of their formation, and diagnostics. To achieve this goal, we used a range of methods that are relevant to the problem--analysis, modeling, experiment and synthesis. The developed model of environmental competence is the main competence of future specialists of any profile and reflects the dialectical relationship of the characteristics and functions of environmental competence. It is shown that an environmentally competent individual is willing and able to act competently in situations that threaten life, safety or nature. Structural analysis of environmental competence model revealed the peculiarities of its formation, as well as to develop knowledge about it. The results allowed developing assessment and diagnosis system of students' environmental competence formation. System's application in the course of the experiment showed that 77% of the participants have the environmental competence formed at a low level, which confirmed the need in the author's methodology implementation. This article describes the stages of the author's methodology and provides methodological recommendations for students' environmental competence formation. It is concluded that students' environmental competence formation must direct the pedagogical efforts not so much on the individual components formation of environmental competence as on functional and structural relationships' formation and development between them.
Enhancement of Students' Independent Learning through Their Critical Thinking Skills Development
Author: Kopzhassarova, Umit
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Independent Study,Critical Thinking,Thinking Skills,Skill Development,Teamwork,Cooperative Learning,Reflection,Student Centered Learning

The article focuses on the problem of developing students' critical thinking skills, which help them become independent learners. Analysis of research works of educators and scholars enable the authors to reveal qualities, necessary for students to enhance their critical thinking skills and become independent learners. Different points of view on the problem are given. The authors pay attention to the big role of command, team work. They consider project technology as one of its varieties, directed to improvement of learners creative and cognitive potential. The authors conclude that proper organization of independent work contributes much to development of students' critical thinking, reflective skills.
Letter &quot;To the Yakut Intelligentsia&quot; by A. E. Kulakovsky: Setting and Features of the Problem of Survival of Indigenous Peoples of the North in the Early 20th Century
Author: Sivtseva-Maksimova, Praskovia Vasilevna
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,World History,Indigenous Populations,Social Influences,Economic Factors,Cultural Influences,Documentation,Content Analysis,Political Issues

The relevance of the study is determined by the increasing interest in the new interpretations of social issues of living in the early 20th century, and from this perspective, in the scientific heritage of A. E. Kulakovsky (1877-1926) as an original thinker, who worried about the fate of the indigenous people inhabiting a large territory of the North-Eastern part of Russia. In this regard, the present work has a special significance, having three handwritten versions, but being banned in the Soviet era as a product of the bourgeois-nationalist idea. It was first published in the early 1990s. In this regard, the purposes of this study are to show the author's firm rejection of the revolutionary path in the plight of the Yakut people; to give logical conclusions about the role of intellectuals and well-off section of the society in the improvement of the level of cultural and economic life. The research was done within the framework of the methodology of textual analysis of the letter to the author's contemporaries. The article reveals new aspects in the study of the letter &quot;To the Yakut Intelligentsia&quot; in the context of the ideas presented in the major publications of declarations of Russian intelligentsia.
A Study of the Organizational Culture at a Higher Education Institution [Case Study: Plekhanov Russian University of Economics (PRUE)]
Author: Vasyakin, Bogdan S.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Organizational Culture,Higher Education,Case Studies,Universities,College Students,Student Participation,Student Surveys,Data Analysis,Power Structure,Models,College Administration

The article offers an analysis of the organizational culture at a higher education institution as in the case of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, conducted in order to study the students' involvement in this culture and to draw conclusions as to what organizational culture principles are internalized by the students. The study used survey methodology and the OCAI (Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument) tool. The article's content is based on the methods of analyzing, synthesizing and aggregating the data acquired during the empirical study. The article concludes that, in the students' opinion, a hierarchy culture prevails at the university and that the students potentially expect some changes in the style of that organizational culture; it should be pointed out that this piece of diagnostics sets the direction for further development in terms of which the progress of the university's organizational culture will have to be consistently adjusted and stimulated.
Development Principles of the Pedagogical System Aimed at Bachelor Training Based on Modern Information Technology
Author: Kurymbayev, Sayat G.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Bachelors Degrees,Undergraduate Study,Technology Uses in Education,Educational Technology,Student Attitudes,Undergraduate Students,Computer Mediated Communication,Technological Literacy,Training,Foreign Countries

Modern education is aimed at training competent specialists, which requires modernizing the training process by implementing innovative technologies, especially information technologies. Information technologies allow quickly accessing necessary data, which speeds up the training process. This paper deals with issues related to training bachelors of transport for using information technology. The study offers the system of bachelor training for using information technology. The authors analyzed and substantiated the information-related disciplines, identified their setbacks and the necessity of using IT tools in the academic process of the university. The results show that using information technologies improves the level of education significantly. Students were found to be more interested in learning. Information technologies allow holding online conferences, which gives students the opportunity to share experience, discuss relevant issues, and seek ways to solve them. The results of the experiment showed that the group that trained according to the suggested methodical complex based on information technologies improved its level of professional competence by 25%.