ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Creativity and Creative Activity in High-School Students of General-Education Organizations in the Republic of Kalmykia
Author: Chernikova, Tamara V.
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Creativity,Creative Activities,High School Students,Grade 10,Grade 11,Personality Traits,Family Influence,Ethnicity,Self Actualization,Social Environment,Cultural Background

The article presents the results of an interdisciplinary and integrative study of creativity and creative activity in high-school students. The authors attempted to describe the abovementioned phenomenon considering the influence of a traditional large Kalmyk family, ethnical-cultural identification, self-actualization, role and functions of social environment, including the type of educational institution and extracurricular education. The study employed an innovative psychological diagnostic system that included authors' original developments. The obtained results can be extrapolated not only to the studied region (Republic of Kalmykia) but also to other territories with multiethnical and ethnical-cultural population. The study allows expanding the scientific knowledge about creative skills in the youth, their psychological diagnostics and stimulation of their development.
Development of the Secondary-Level Education in Serbia from 1808 to the 1870s
Author: Rajovic, Goran
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Secondary Education,Educational Development,Foreign Countries,Educational History,Interdisciplinary Approach,Professional Education,Universities,Secondary Schools

The article describes the secondary education system in Serbia from 1808 to the 1870s. It focuses on the secondary education development, and the difficulties that were arising during the organization of the educational process. Scientific and reference literature on the research topic were used as materials. The methodology used a set of scientific methods: multi-factor and integration methods, periodization, typology, comparison, etc., which in unity, ensure the reliability of the results on the studied problem. This is interdisciplinary research, based on the comparativist principle, which allows various informative sources to be revealed. Ultimately, application of these methods made it possible to create a coherent picture of the secondary education in Serbia. In the conclusion the authors note that by the 1870s an extensive network of secondary schools were developed in Serbia. These schools were represented by the Lyceum (the Great School), gymnasiums, semi-gymnasiums, non-classical secondary schools, and an all-girls school. These educational institutions were focused on training professionals for the public service, including teachers. Thanks to the work of the secondary schools in Serbia it became possible to dramatically increase the number of people with secondary and secondary professional education. This ultimately allowed for the opening of the first higher educational institution in the beginning of the 20th century, the University of Belgrade.
Extent of Participation by Faculty Members of Educational Sciences Colleges in the Jordanian Universities in Decision Making and Its Relationship with Job Satisfaction
Author: Al-Zo'bi, Zohair
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Correlation,Job Satisfaction,College Faculty,Participative Decision Making,Foreign Countries,Teacher Attitudes,Gender Differences,Teaching Experience,Questionnaires,Reliability,Validity,Teacher Characteristics,Educational Research

This study aimed at identifying the participation degree of the faculty members of the educational science colleges in the Jordanian universities in decision making and its relationship with the job satisfaction. The study sample consisted of (601) faculty members of the educational science colleges in the Jordanian colleges, who were chosen by the simple random manner. To achieve the study objective, the researchers developed an instrument to measure the participation degree of the faculty members in these colleges in the decision making and its relationship with the job satisfaction. The researchers opted the descriptive method. Following the data analysis, the results showed that the participation degree of the faculty members in the educational science colleges in the Jordanian universities was high. The results further showed statistically significant differences of the estimations of the faculty members about the participation degree in decision making, attributed to the gender and academic degree variables. Furthermore, there were no statistically significant differences ascribed to the years of experience. The results indicated that the level of the job satisfaction of the faculty members, in the educational science colleges in the Jordanian universities, was high. On the other hand, there were no statistically significant differences among the means of the sample participants' responses ascribed to the gender variable. Still, there were statistically significant differences between the means of the sample participants' responses according to the years of experience and academic degree. Finally, the correlation coefficient of the areas of the decision making with the areas of the job satisfaction was statistically significant. The lowest correlation coefficient was 0.420 between the two decision areas concerning the study plans and self-realization. The highest correlation coefficient was 0.562 between the two decision areas concerning the faculty members and belonging to the profession. All these correlations were positive, meaning the increase in the first area is offset with an increase in the second area.
Modern Medical Higher Education Institutions in Russia
Author: Kabanova, Elena E.
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Medical Education,Health Services,Specialists,Clinical Diagnosis,Higher Education,Medical Students,Student Attitudes,Physicians,Educational Quality,Medical Evaluation,Education Work Relationship,Educational Improvement

Now the Russian healthcare system is rapidly changing. In this period training of future doctors is essential. In the modern conditions when highly qualified medical specialists mastering modern high-tech diagnosis and treatment methods are in demand, the improvement of the quality of training future doctors is one of the important goals of medical higher education institutions. However, the problems of medical higher education institutions are related to the organization of the educational process and limit the full achievement of this goal. Analyzing the results of the sociological survey among practitioners and medical students revealed problems related to the professional and social adaptation of young specialists, as well as the medical personnel's unpreparedness to practice after the graduation. Based on the conducted studies, the article has revealed the limitations that impede the development of the socially important profession -- the doctor, analyzed the level of theoretical and practical training of students, and considered the organization and quality of the educational process for medical students. The authors have formulated recommendations that contribute to improving the modern medical higher education in Russia.
Improvement of the Robotics Cross-Cutting Course for Training of Specialists in Professions of the Future
Author: Soboleva, Elena V.
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Robotics,Teaching Methods,Interdisciplinary Approach,Specialists,Generalization,Computer Science Education,Engineering,Educational Improvement,Preschool Education,Elementary Secondary Education,Control Groups,Experimental Groups,Foreign Countries

The research is devoted to the actual problem of upgrading the existing model of robotics training in connection with the urgent need for implementing a strategy for training highly qualified specialists in the most demanded and promising sectors of the future, taking into account the requirements of business, society, and the State. The aim of the study is to theoretically justify and experimentally test the effectiveness of the task approach in teaching robotics to form the required cross-professional competencies of the future. The methodology of the study is based on the analysis of psychological, pedagogical, methodological scientific literature, Rapid Foresight methodology, system analysis, generalization of teaching experience, pedagogical experiment. Results: First, the didactic and interdisciplinary potential of the robotics course is studied. Secondly, specific content for key cross-professional competences in the field of robotics and engineering is proposed. Thirdly, the basic ideas of the methodology for improving the existing system with a focus on the formation of key cross-professional competencies, the core of which is the system of tasks, are formulated. Fourthly, the effectiveness of the changed methodology of the training course to improve the quality of the educational process is confirmed. In conclusion, findings that confirm that the improvement of the course of robotics will provide to obtain a useful skill -- to be able to learn, to be prepared for the professions of the future are drawn.
Influence of Change in Content of Physical and Sport Education as Case Study on Level of Dynamic Function of Spine among Secondary School Female Students
Author: Bendíková, Elena
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Females,Human Body,Adolescents,Secondary School Students,Physical Education,Athletics,Prevention,Health Promotion,Foreign Countries,Human Posture

The aim of a pillar research was to find a change in a content of a physical and sport education through a targeted application of a physical program for three months, with a focus on a dynamic function of female students' spine. The monitored group consisted of the female students of an adolescent age (age 16.32 ± 0.42 years, height = 169.56 ± 6.33 cm, weight = 57.32 ± 8.76 kg) of the town, Banská Bystrica who attended the Secondary Health School. From the point of view of data acquisition methods, standardized tests for a physical education and a medical practice were applied. The results in the dynamic spine function of the female students were recorded in an initial assessment during a supervisory period in the most cases of deviations from the standard, in the noncompliance standard in all tests, which means that weaknesses in the dynamic spine function were recorded among all probands. During a final assessment in the supervisory period were recorded only minimal changes, statistically insignificant (p &gt; 0.05) in all tests, except for right and left lateroflexion (p &lt; 0.05, Z = -2.1181, r = 0.43), while in an experimental period after application of the physical program we recorded significant changes with a high effect of an effect size, indicating that the results were not influenced by statistical data (p &lt; 0.01, Z = -3.0594, r = 0.62) in all five assessed areas of the dynamic spine function. This project was supported by VEGA 1/0242/17, &quot;Physical activity as prevention of functional disorders related to the musculoskeletal system of secondary school students.&quot;
Among the Mathematics Tasks, Math Courses and Math Exams: How&apos;s the Level of Student Anxiety toward Maths in a Private High School in Mexico?
Author: Moreno-García, Elena
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Mathematics Instruction,Mathematics Tests,Mathematics Anxiety,Student Attitudes,Private Schools,High School Students,Secondary School Mathematics,Foreign Countries,Rating Scales

The purpose of the study is to determine a latent structure of variables that explain the level of anxiety towards mathematics of high school students based on the interaction that the student has with the tasks, courses and math exams. For this purpose, the RMARS mathematical anxiety scale was used, which has a Likert-type scaling. The instrument was applied to a sample of 183 enrolled students from a private institution of upper secondary education located in Veracruz, Mexico and to obtain results, a factorial analysis was applied. The most significant finding is the obtained tetradimensional model, which contrasts with other models such as those of Alexander and Martray (1989) and recently with the penta-dimensional model of (Author 1 2017). This result suggests that the original design of the three-factor scale of Richardson and Suinn (1972), modified by Alexander and Martray (1989), does not apply to students in Latin contexts, such as the case of Mexico.
Apprenticeship in Secondary Vocational Schools during the Economic Modernization in Late Imperial Russia. Part 1
Author: Magsumov, Timur A.
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Apprenticeships,Secondary School Students,Vocational Education,Foreign Countries,Educational History,Administrative Organization,Teaching Methods,Educational Change,Social Change,Active Learning,Compensation (Remuneration),Professional Development,Specialists,Economic Development,School Districts,Internship Programs

In his study of the formation of apprenticeship system and analyzing its content, methods and forms in the Russian secondary vocational school described in the materials of the Kazan school district of the late XIX-early XX century, the author relies on the theory of Western modernization and positive bureaucracy, attracting regulatory and educational documentation, scientifically and publicly pedagogical journalism as well as ego documents. Practical methods of knowledge application were planned in the pre-revolutionary schools in the logical-pedagogical relationship, but their implementation left much to be desired. In the organization of production practice, this was due to the lack of permanent bases and practical managers from the educational institutions, a certain attitude towards the trainee at enterprises as auxiliary personnel engaged in versatile non-system work, as it was openly declared by the advanced pedagogical press and even by the administrative and training personnel in schools. The article also reveals positive aspects in the organization of practical training, which are still relevant today. These include the introduction of active learning methods, improved reporting documentation, payment for the students, preparing them for the future profession and management. The rapid development of practical training was due to the need of a qualified young specialist who was prepared for independent production activity in the new conditions of accelerated modernization of the country's economy.
Communicative Competence Formation of Teachers in the Sphere of Foreign Language Education in the System of the Advanced Training
Author: Ilyina, Irina V.
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Second Language Learning,Communicative Competence (Languages),Second Language Instruction,Faculty Development,Problem Solving,Interpersonal Communication,Models,Teaching Methods,Transfer of Training,Teacher Education,Knowledge Base for Teaching

The article gives the description of the notion &quot;formation of teachers' foreign language communicative competence in the system of the advanced training&quot;. This competence is formed in the close connection with professionally oriented subjects in the process of the educational, scientific and practical activities in the field of foreign language education. Communicative competence is an integrative personal characteristic, which reflects peculiarities of teachers' professional activity aimed at solving professional problems and promoting successful realization of communication with colleagues, foreign partners by using professional knowledge. The research represents a new model of communicative competence formation in the process of the professional development of teachers in the system of the advanced training which presupposes the involvement of teachers in polycultural interaction in the process of solving professional tasks. These professional tasks are aimed at the improvement of educational, scientific and professional aspects of training.
Formation of Social Tolerance among Future Teachers
Author: Nagovitsyn, Roman S.
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Prosocial Behavior,Teacher Education Programs,Preservice Teachers,Teaching Methods,Holistic Approach,Cultural Differences,Social Differences,Student Behavior,Conflict,Ethics,Moral Values,Self Control,Control Groups,Experimental Groups,Outcomes of Education,Foreign Countries

The formation of tolerance among young people has recently become an important aspect in the research of scientists of the psychological and pedagogical direction. This is due to a number of aggressive manifestations that are unacceptable for modern society in students of schools and universities. In this regard, the purpose of the article is to develop a scheme for the formation of tolerance to asocial phenomena and experimentally prove its effectiveness in the process of professional pedagogical education. The research was conducted by 72 students -- future teachers with the use of the author's scheme for the formation of social tolerance in the holistic educational process at the university. The peculiarity of the author's development was the use of interactive teaching methods and methods of the theory of solving inventive problems. For statistical evidence of the effectiveness of the implementation of the author's research, the Wilcoxon T-test was used. The practical implementation of the experiment showed the effectiveness of the author's development in forming students' tolerance for differences in society, culture, behavior that does not go beyond legal norms, and intolerance for violation of moral norms of behavior in society.
Hydraulic Analogy Method for Phenomenological Description of the Learning Processes of Technical University Students
Author: Perig, Alexander V.
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teaching Methods,Engineering Technology,Learning Processes,Engineering Education,Concept Formation,Interdisciplinary Approach,Logical Thinking,Memory,Hydraulics,College Students,Foreign Countries

A physical process analogy of the learning process was studied using a hydraulic method. Detailed educational guidance describing applied pedagogical concepts for technical instructors of the civil, mechanical, chemical and materials engineering disciplines was formulated. A unified engineering-friendly formulation of learning processes using a direct analogy of civil, mechanical, chemical and materials engineering physical processes was developed. Generalized expressions were proposed for an approximate description of learning processes in the educational curriculum in the form of hydraulic processes in civil, mechanical, chemical and materials engineering practice. It was shown that it is possible to intensify students' attention to the studied technical material through a step-by-step building of a proposed analogy between hydraulic and learning processes, which is based on the similarity between corresponding mathematical models for both processes. Hard-working students have the prime educational problem of managing the growing overload and holding in their memory a cumbersome quantity of studied material in technical, social and human sciences. The author-proposed educational approach provides a better simultaneous understanding of both hydraulics and didactics by acquiring new inter-disciplinary practical knowledge, which helps learners plan an optimal scientific-based mode for effective study and self-study of educational material. This educational research helps students to remember that it is impossible to learn the studied material at the required level of understanding with a single onetime acquaintance without multiple reviews and repetitions.
Playing to Death
Author: McAllister, Ken S.
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Death,Play,Correlation,Computer Games,Fear,Coping,Psychological Patterns

The authors discuss the relationship of death and play as illuminated by computer games. Although these games, they argue, do illustrate the value of being--and staying--alive, they are not so much about life per se as they are about providing gamers with a playground at the edge of mortality. Using a range of visual, auditory, and rule-based distractions, computer games both push thoughts of death away from consciousness and cultivate a perception that death--real death--is predictable, controllable, reasonable, and ultimately benign. Thus, computer games provide opportunities for death play that is both mundane and remarkable, humbling and empowering. The authors label this fundamental characteristic of game play &quot;thanatoludism.&quot;
Liberating Human Expression: Work and Play or Work versus Play
Author: Wright, J. Talmadge
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Play,Role Playing,Computer Games,Social Theories,Models,Labor,Phenomenology,Political Attitudes,Social Systems,Economic Factors,Computer Mediated Communication,Interpersonal Relationship

Critiquing and expanding Huizinga's theory of play in &quot;Homo Ludens,&quot; the author argues for play as a means to access what is real and introduces a new model of play he calls the containment play expression (CPE) to challenge traditional notions about the opposition between play and work. This model, he contends, bridges this gap between phenomenological and Marxian perspectives that view both play and work as accomplishments within a capitalist economic and political context. He then applies his new unitary model of play to computer games and discusses how players negotiate their relationships online in massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORSocialPGs).
Desire and Doubt: The Potentials and the Potential Problems of Pursuing Play
Author: Payne, Christine
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Freedom,Play,Work Environment,Psychological Patterns,Correlation,Social Theories,Political Attitudes,Social Systems,Labor,Working Hours,Authors

The author takes up Karl Marx's and Herbert Marcuse's investigations into the possibilities for expanding freedom and play. She begins with an analysis of the essential questions about labor that need attention before considering theoretical and practical attempts to render necessary work superfluous in the interests of free play. She considers the limits of Marx's original formulation of such a possibility as well as the problems with Marcuse's attempts to fuse the spheres of work and play together. Inverting Marcuse's reading of Sigmund Freud through Marx, she speculates on the irrational character of desire and its relationship to work and play.
The Emotional Work of Family Negotiations in Digital Play Space: Searching for Identity, Cooperation, and Enduring Conflict
Author: Wright, J. Talmadge
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Family Relationship,Role Playing,Computer Games,Criticism,Fantasy,Alienation,Participant Observation,Time Management,Computer Simulation,Computer Mediated Communication

Computer game play has been criticized for disrupting family life by some who claim digital fantasy play alienates individuals from everyday interactions, even as others hold that such play increases sociability among players and their families. The authors argue that the truth about game play is more complex. They draw on research using participant observations and interviews with players about a well-known massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) &quot;World of Warcraft&quot; and examine the struggle within families about time spent playing, family responsibilities, enhanced family dynamics, and the distances created by game playing.