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Master's Program Module &quot;Environmental Issues--Decision Making Experience&quot; as Precondition for Implementation of Education for Sustainable Development for Professional Training of Teachers
Author: Vinokurova, Natalia Fedorovna
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Environmental Influences,Masters Programs,Decision Making,Sustainable Development,Professional Training,Teacher Education,Foreign Countries,Outcomes of Education,Vocational Education Teachers,Problem Solving,Environmental Education,Graduate Students

The article discusses current issues related to the implementation of the UNESCO roadmap implementing Global action programme on education for sustainable development. In the context of increasing the professional level of pedagogical workers is a priority area in the implementation of education for sustainable development. Therefore, we believe that the proposed by the authors master program &quot;Environmental issues: the experience of decision&quot; meets the objectives of the global action programme on education for sustainable development. The article substantiates the relevance of the topic, States the purpose, objectives and structure of the module, corresponding to different dimensions of sustainable development. Presented technology training that provides the development of cognitive competence (development of thinking), axiological (values, capacity for partnership, tolerance, empathy, pluralism) and the activity of nature. This corresponds to the competences, proposed by the UNESCO Commission. It defines and explains the educational outcomes of a module of master's program &quot;Environmental issues: the experience of decision-making&quot;.
International Festival of Student Films as the Innovative Means of Legal Education and Multimedia Training of Future Lawyers
Author: Garmaev, Yury Petrovich
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Global Approach,Law Students,Films,Film Production,Student Developed Materials,Conferences (Gatherings),Legal Education (Professions),Multimedia Instruction,Multimedia Materials,Educational Technology,Learning Processes,Criminology,Crime

The main purpose of the article is to ensure further modernization of the educational activities in law universities based on the use of multimedia technologies as well as development of tools for legal education through implementation of the project of international student film festivals. The methodology is based on the concept and methods of use of multimedia technologies in education, as well as the methods of inter-branch legal studies and comparative law. The most important findings and their meaning: the article analyzes theoretical and methodological, didactic and practical means and results of three international festivals of student films on criminalistics &quot;Golden Trace&quot; held by Novosibirsk Law Institute (branch) of National Research Tomsk State University (Russia) in 2014-2016. The importance of the festival is underlined as a bright example of successful application of the methodology of use of multimedia technologies in education of lawyers. The results of this youth forum are indeed invaluable for solution of problems related to legal education of minors, young people and general public as well. In 2016, the Third Film Festival received even broader representation of leading universities of Russia and other countries, compared to previous years: from Egypt to Mongolia, which has contributed to the increase of massiveness of participation and entertainment of the youth event. The organizers are planning to hold this forum every year (in April) and invite institutions of higher education from around the world. The authors conclude that such international and local film festivals should be initiated and held by universities of other countries, focusing on various legal sciences and academic disciplines. The findings obtained provide a conclusive proof that clear and scientifically grounded organization of the educational process in a higher education institution is a prerequisite for the formation of a professionally orientated psychologist as an individual. The contents of the educational process must be interrelated, complementing each other, which will allow for comprehensive and purposeful development of the process.
Investigating the Relationship between the Perceptions of Taekwondo Athletes towards Coach-Athlete Relationship, Task and Ego Orientation in Sports, and Motivation in Sports
Author: Bezci, Sakir
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Athletics,Athletes,Athletic Coaches,Interpersonal Relationship,Motivation,Surveys,Questionnaires,Structural Equation Models,Statistical Analysis,Factor Analysis,Foreign Countries

This research aims to determine the effect of tasks and egos of taekwondo athletes on the coach-athlete relationship and the effect of coach-athlete relationship on motivation in sports. Thus, &quot;Coach-Athlete Relationship&quot;, &quot;Task and Ego Orientation in Sports&quot; and &quot;Motivation in Sports&quot; scales have been applied to the national team athletes attending the championship. The relational screening model which reveals the relationship between variables has been used in data analysis. Scaling and structural model have been established by SPSS-15 and LISREL programs. Additionally, it is concluded that perceptions about task and ego orientations of athletes explain 43% of perceptions belonging to coach-athlete relationship and 47% of perceptions belonging to motivation in sports. That the perceptions regarding task and ego orientations of athletes and coach-athlete relationship explain 77% of perceptions concerning the motivation in sports and that the athletes' perceptions regarding coach-athlete relationship explain 24% of perceptions concerning the motivation in sports.
Integrating Sustainable Development Concept into Science Education Program Is Not Enough; We Need Competent Science Teachers for Education for Sustainable Development--Turkish Experience
Author: Karaarslan, Güliz
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Outdoor Education,Science Teachers,Sustainable Development,Sustainability,Qualitative Research,Science Education,Interviews,Science Curriculum,Teacher Education,Foreign Countries,Content Analysis,Teacher Education Programs,Pedagogical Content Knowledge,Holistic Approach,Science Programs,Thinking Skills,Teacher Competencies,Preservice Teachers,Environmental Education

In order to educate science teachers for a sustainable future, recent discussions are going on related to collaboration between science education and education for sustainable development (ESD). Still, ESD has been in a development stage and needs to be improved in terms of developing teacher competencies. Therefore, in this study we focused on competencies of science teachers and ESD educators. We explored the required competencies for science teachers to become ESD educators through basic qualitative research as including gap analysis approach incorporating theoretical (literature review) and tangible part (interviews with science education and ESD researchers). Both literature review and interview results revealed that science teachers' competencies do not cover systems thinking skills together with affective aspects. In order to foster systems thinking and affective aspects of competencies for science teachers, we suggest outdoor ESD approach that support thinking in a systemic way, feeling inter-connectedness with the natural world and understanding social, economic and environmental values of the natural system and developing an intention to act for sustainability.
Health Protection Features of Student Youth in Research University
Author: Antonova, Tatyana V.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Physical Health,Mental Health,College Students,College Faculty,Health Promotion,Health Behavior,School Culture,Health Education,Holistic Approach,Surveys,Individual Characteristics

The relevance of the study is conditioned by the adverse dynamics of students' physical and mental health, which creates objective obstacles to the development of research universities. The article aims to find out particular health protection features of student youth in research universities. The leading approach of the study is the systematic approach that considers health as holistic, multidimensional dynamic state, evolving in the process of realization of genetic potential in terms of the specific social and ecological environment, and which leads to the implementation of human biological and social functions. The study involves 750 teachers, 2500 students who participated in the development and implementation of the project &quot;University of health&quot;, with the aim to develop motivation to acquire knowledge, abilities and skills needed to understand the value of health's preserving and strengthening. Main results of the research consist in the characterization of health-forming education as a pedagogical process aimed at the formation of the ability for positive self-development in different life circumstances, stable orientation to a healthy lifestyle; development of mechanisms of health-forming education, including the creation of interagency of medical-psychological-pedagogical program, the formation of students' health culture, organization of medical-psychological-pedagogical monitoring of students' health. The significance of the results obtained lies in the fact that the organization of health-forming education provides for the development of needs in health as a condition for the successful social activity and a full professional activity; the implementation of mechanisms of health-forming education determines the education of the ability to organize life activity on the basis of a healthy lifestyle; mastery of the abilities and skills for enhancing of the adaptive reserves of the organism and strengthening of health; creating of psychological stability in difficult and extreme conditions.
Activation of Learning and Creative Activity of the Vocational Pedagogical University Students
Author: Krayukhina, Olga E.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Creative Activities,College Students,Vocational Education,Creativity,Vocational Education Teachers,Creative Thinking,Learning Activities

The relevance of the problem under study is based on the society's demand for training students-- future professional training teachers ready to solve in a creative manner a wide range of professional and pedagogical tasks, as well as to develop professionally-oriented creative work in the process of training; it is also caused by the insufficient extent of the prior research within the vocational training theory of scientific and methodological mechanisms required for implementing this process. The purpose of the article is to develop a conceptual structural model of professionally-oriented learning and creative activity of the vocational pedagogical university students. Leading method for studying this problem is modelling which allows to consider this problem as the process of goal-oriented and deliberate acquiring by future professionals the creative approaches to implementation of professional activity. The article presents a structural model of learning and creative activity of vocational pedagogical university students, justifies the necessity to single out in the structure of the students' learning and creative activity three interconnected components (creative, professional-pedagogical and personal-acmeological), proves the productivity of activating the learning and creative activity of the vocational pedagogical university students by organizing it as quasi-professional process of searching and solving professional tasks which are subjectively and objectively new, on the basis of using synectics including association methods of activating creative thinking integrated into the its structure. The article can be useful for teachers within the vocational and pedagogical education system, as well as for professionals who develop creative abilities of students based on the heuristic creativity methods.
Intuition in Business: Empirical Base
Author: Fomin, Eugeniy P.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Intuition,Business,Entrepreneurship,Investment,Decision Making,Definitions,Efficiency,Risk,Multivariate Analysis,Statistical Analysis

In this article, the authors propose economic projection of the views of Daniel Kahneman on intuition. The authors believe intuition to act as an operative category in entrepreneurship. The results of given statistical experiment prove viability of the phenomenon of intuition when making investment decisions. Two independent mechanisms for investment decisions are being defined--the &quot;rational&quot; and the &quot;intuitive&quot; ones. The research leads to conclusion that entrepreneurs' intuitive decisions possess a relatively high level of efficiency.
Issues of Financial Assurance of Economy Greening in the Regions
Author: Shekhova, Natalia V.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Geographic Regions,Comparative Analysis,Taxes,Environment,Policy Formation,Budgets,Financial Support,Natural Resources,Water,Ecology

The relevance of the analyzed issue is caused by the need to internalize environmental externalities in the modern world. The purpose of the article is to examine the issue of financial support of the green economy using the example of the regions included in the Volga Federal District (VFD). The leading methods to the study of this issue is a comparative analysis of environmental taxes and charges in Russia and countries of the European Union (EU) and the analysis of environmental problems in the regions of the Volga Federal District, which allow identifying the shortcomings of the existing environmental payment system and proposing measures to modernize the system of financial support of the green economy. The key shortcomings of the existing environmental payment system: low rates of environmental payments; the inappropriate use of funds received from environmental payments; concentration of 97% of revenues from environmental payments in the federal budget. The contents of the article may be helpful for public authorities of general and special competence to develop the principal directions of environmental policy and plan activities aimed at improving the green economy.
Creativity Development: The Role of Foreign Language Learning
Author: Sadykova, Aida G.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Second Language Learning,Science Education,Creative Development,Foreign Countries,Creative Activities,Second Language Instruction,Creativity,Higher Education,Creative Thinking,College Faculty,Summative Evaluation,Experimental Groups,Control Groups,Formative Evaluation,Secondary School Teachers,Vocational Schools,Questionnaires

The relevance of the present research stems from the need to consider the ways of preventing conflicts between the objective necessity of development of students' creative activity in the learning process, and insufficient development of pedagogical conditions for its effective implementation in theoretical and methodological terms. The article is aimed at summarizing the study of creativity development by means of the foreign language. A set of methods was used in the paper: theoretical (analysis of the philosophical and methodological literature on the issue; projecting), empirical (questionnaires, interviews, testing, an experiment), methods of mathematical statistics. Experimental work covered in total 58 students and included three stages: summative, formative and controlling. The results of the experiment show that the system of exercises developed for boosting the student's creativity proved out effective, and the selected indicators characterizing the creative activity of students reflect considerable growth. The authors also proved that the goal of foreign language teaching in higher education is both practical knowledge of the target language, and the development of the student personality. The practical significance of this research involves developing the complex of effective means, forms and methods of teaching and learning activities of students in the process of learning a foreign language in the framework of the theory of development training, and the use of the materials received in the course of study by teachers in the higher and secondary vocational schools.
Investigation of the Effects of Brain Teasers on Attention Spans of Pre-School Children
Author: Altun, Meryem
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Preschool Children,Control Groups,Experimental Groups,Pretests Posttests,Foreign Countries,Puzzles,Games,Attention Span,Teaching Methods,National Curriculum,Preschool Curriculum

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of brain teasers on attention spans of preschool children of age six. The study was conducted using an experimental design with a control group and pre-test/post-test. The sample of the study is children of age six selected via random appointment among ones who were enrolled in the Merkez Kindergarten in the province of Sivas, district of Sarkisla in the school year 2014-2015. The sample consists of a total of 213 participants including 113 in the experiment group and 100 in the control group. &quot;Frankfurter Tests für Fünjahlige-Konzentration&quot; was used as the measurement tool. The experiment group was given the brain teaser curriculum 3 days a week, one hour a day for 10 weeks, while the control group was given only the National Education Ministry Pre-School curriculum. The obtained data were organized and analyzed using the SPSS 22 (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) package software. Dependent samples t-test was used in order to analyze the differences between the experiment and control groups, while percentages, frequencies and means were used for demographics. As a result of the study, it was seen that there was a significant difference in favor of the experiment group between the attention spans of children who received the brain teasers curriculum and children who received the National Education Ministry Pre-School curriculum. This result shows that brain teasers are effective in improving the attention span.
Influence of the International Academic and Labor Mobility on the Activity of Open Innovations
Author: Madina, Tulegenova
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Occupational Mobility,Foreign Countries,Human Capital,Human Resources,Developed Nations,Technological Advancement,Educational Innovation,Influence of Technology

This article presents the analysis of the new tendencies: openness of technologies, growth of the migration flows of the youth that are seeking for the quality education, and highly qualified professionals, who offer their unique abilities to large companies and research centers of the developed countries. The subjects of the world market competing for the innovations are interested in the development of this phenomena. The goal of the article is to provide scientific analysis of the reasons and premises of the increase in the activity of migration flows of human resources, the influence of this process on the innovation superiority of the countries initiating open innovations.
Effects of a Teacher Professional Development Program on Science Teachers' Views about Using Computers in Teaching and Learning
Author: Çetin, Nagihan Imer
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Science Teachers,Science Education,Professional Development,Teacher Attitudes,Computer Uses in Education,Computer Attitudes,Foreign Countries,Teacher Education Programs,Program Implementation,Active Learning,Inquiry,Computer Simulation,Mixed Methods Research,Semi Structured Interviews,Information Technology,Inservice Teacher Education,Technology Integration,Pedagogical Content Knowledge,Technological Literacy,Educational Technology,Middle School Teachers

The purpose of this study was to examine science teachers' level of using computers in teaching and the impact of a teacher professional development program (TPDP) on their views regarding utilizing computers in science education. Forty-three in-service science teachers from different regions of Turkey attended a 5 day TPDP. The TPDP was structured in modules designed using inquiry-based interactive computer simulations (IBICS). The participants created modules on different science subjects during the TPDP. Their progression was evaluated by micro-teaching sessions. Mixed methods research was used. The data were gathered by a survey and semi-structured interviews. Findings indicate that most of the science teachers initially lacked the necessary skills and knowledge for using computers in teaching. However, after the TPDP majority of them developed positive views on using computers in teaching and learning. Also, for teachers the TPDP provided ways and methods of successful integration of ICT in teaching.
Current Problems of Improving the Environmental Certification and Output Compliance Verification in the Context of Environmental Management in Kazakhstan
Author: Zhambaev, Yerzhan S.
Date: 2016-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Statistical Analysis,Environmental Standards,Compliance (Legal),Audits (Verification),Food

The article discusses the issues of improving the activity of subjects of environmental management in accordance with international environmental standards and national environmental legislation. The article deals with the problem of ensuring the implementation of international environmental standards, the introduction of eco-management, and the practice of eco-labeling and corporate waste management. Existing problems in the area of corporate environmental management are reviewed and recommendations on improving the institutions are put forward. A special attention is paid to the involvement of community and community-based organizations in the environmental management affairs. In order to achieve this goal, abstract-logical, economic and statistical methods are used in the article, the experience of the scientists on the problems of the economy and the environment, their relations and interactions is summarized. The main problem that stands on the way of achieving an effective environmental management is the desire of company's management teams to improve their financial performance by neglecting environmental issues. In order to improve the environmental standards, it is necessary to stimulate population masses to study environment problems.