scholarly journals Eye-Tracking in Educational Practice: Investigating Visual Perception Underlying Teaching and Learning in the Classroom

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Halszka Jarodzka ◽  
Irene Skuballa ◽  
Hans Gruber
Keyword(s):  
Visual Perception ◽  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Practice

scholarly journals The Dimension of the Body in Higher Education: Matrix of Meanings in Students’ Diaries

Human Arenas ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramiro Tau ◽  
Laure Kloetzer ◽  
Simon Henein
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
General Process ◽  
Emotional Dimension ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
The Mind

AbstractIn this paper, we attempt to show some consequences of bringing the body back into higher education, through the use of performing arts in the curricular context of scientific programs. We start by arguing that dominant traditions in higher education reproduced the mind-body dualism that shaped the social matrix of meanings on knowledge transmission. We highlight the limits of the modern disembodied and decontextualized reason and suggest that, considering the students’ and teachers’ bodies as non-relevant aspects, or even obstacles, leads to the invisibilization of fundamental aspects involved in teaching and learning processes. We thus conducted a study, from a socio-cultural perspective, in which we analyse the emerging matrix of meanings given to the body and bodily engagement by students, through a systematic qualitative analysis of 47 personal diaries. We structured the results and the discussion around five interpretative axes: (1) the production of diaries enables historicization, while the richness of bodily experience expands the boundaries of diaries into non-textual modalities; (2) curricular context modulates the emergent meanings of the body; (3) physical and symbolic spaces guide the matrix of bodily meanings; (4) the bodily dimension of the courses facilitates the emergence of an emotional dimension to get in touch with others and to register one's own emotional experiences; and (5) the body functions as a condition for biographical continuity. These axes are discussed under the light of the general process of consciousness-raising and resignification of the situated body in the educational practice.

Moral Education and Technology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Farber ◽  
Dini Metro-Roland
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Central Component ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Practice Teaching ◽  
Instrumental Values ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Education And Technology

Moral education and technology seem to represent two fundamentally different kinds of concern and domains of inquiry. But these domains are fused in educational practice. Teaching as a fundamental human endeavor and form of activity has been a central component of human cultural evolution and regeneration from the earliest human social groupings. As a distinctive form of activity, teaching braids together ethical and instrumental norms and values. The modern, global institution of schooling has added layers of institutional support, constraint, and governance on the teaching it structures as well as increased scrutiny of the ethical and instrumental values in play; schooling is in effect a kind of moral technology for advancing certain norms and values in an efficient way. At present, technological developments with modern society make possible new forms of teaching and learning that likewise warrant scrutiny as they impact the ethical and instrumental ends of teaching and instructional practices today.

scholarly journals Implementacija i provedba inkluzivnog odgoja i obrazovanja u sustavu redovnih škola

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1.) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matilda Karamatić Brčić
Keyword(s):  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Inclusive School ◽  
Educational Need ◽  
The Right ◽  
Educational Inclusion

Implementation and educational inclusion in school is a relevant topic for pedagogical and social context because it implies the acceptance and appreciation of differences among children as incentives, rather than obstacles in the process of teaching and learning. On the UNESCO World Conference concerning Special Educational Needs held in 1994, Statement and Framework for Action were adopted, which promote the right of every child to be involved in the educational system, and in regular schools, regardless of their physical, intellectual, emotional, social, linguistic or other conditions. The term special educational need in this context does not exclusively refer to children with disabilities. The concept of inclusive education with the meaning of inclusion of all children in compulsory education extends and deepens the educational model of integration of children with disabilities in regular education. The introduction and implementation of inclusion in schools becomes the requirement of contemporary educational policies of Europe and the world, whereby the changing of schools in order to achieve educational inclusion is conditional on changing the entire educational practice (Mittler, 2006). This paper will show some of the assumptions that are crucial for the implementation of inclusion in schools with special emphasis on the role of activities of teachers as key participants in the process of inclusive school.

scholarly journals Enabling learning through technology: some institutional imperatives

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey McCartan ◽  
Barbara Watson ◽  
Janet Lewins ◽  
Margaret Hodgson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Staff Development ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Higher Education Funding ◽  
Institutional Practice ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Technology Programme

The imminent completion of many Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (TLTP) projects means that a considerable number of courseware deliverables will soon be available to Higher-Education (HE) institutions. The Higher Education Funding Council's intention in funding the Programme (HEFCE Circulars, 8/92, 13/93) was to ensure their integration into academic curricula by providing institutions with an opportunity to review their 'teaching and learning culture' with regard to the embedding of learning technology within their institutional practice. Two recent workshops, conducted with a representative sample of newly appointed academic staff in connection with the evaluation of materials to be included in a staff development pack whose purpose is to encourage the use of IT in teaching and learning (TLTP Project 7), strongly suggested that the availability of courseware alone was insufficient to ensure its integration into educational practice. The establishment of enabling mechanisms at the institutional level, as well as within departments, was crucial to ensure the effective use of learning technology.DOI:10.1080/0968776950030115

scholarly journals Visual Patterns in Reading Tasks: An Eye-Tracking Analysis of Meares-Irlen Syndrome Simulation Effects

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Vitor Macedo Romera ◽  
Rafael Nobre Orsi ◽  
Rodrigo Filev Maia ◽  
Carlos Eduardo Thomaz
Keyword(s):  
Visual Perception ◽  
Eye Tracking ◽  
High Accuracy ◽  
Cognitive System ◽  
Visual Patterns ◽  
Irlen Syndrome ◽  
Visual Stress ◽  
Reading Patterns

This work investigates reading patterns based on effects of the Meares-Irlen Syndrome (SMI), a visual-perception deficit that affects indirectly our cognitive system. The most common symptoms related to SMI in reading tasks are visual stress, sensation of moving letters and distortions in the text. These effects have been computationally simulated here and using eye-tracking information of a number of participants we have been able to linearly classify each effects with high accuracy.

scholarly journals O impacto da economia de educação global nos processos de ensino e de aprendizagem: uma análise das políticas públicas e perspectivas das práticas educacionais / The Impact of Global Education Economy in the Teaching and Learning: an Analysis of Public Policies and Perspectives of Educational Practices

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Verônica Gesser ◽  
Valéria Silva Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Global Education ◽  
Multinational Enterprises ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
State Reduction ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACTThis paper aims to characterize current public policies and educational practice perspectives, which principles are based on the logic of global education economy, aiming to reflect on possible impacts on processes of teaching and learning within the local educational contexts. This model reflects the neoliberal political influence and economic logic, which features a context governed by the laws of the market and the democratic Social Welfare State mischaracterization; that is, state reduction and “market and quasi-market” enhancement. Example of this is what is happening in Brazil with the expansion of educational services and outsourced products. This idea has been applied by Basic Education responsibility decentralization for the municipalities. Thus, the budget for the services, products and continuing education is being transferred to specialized national and multinational enterprises, often under the label of nonprofits entities (new philanthropies, associated companies, that is, the third sector). Therefore, the Brazilian education has been suffering state denationalization impact, which is causing profound changes in how educational public policies are being practiced within each Brazilian municipality. Consequently, Brazilian education is being conceived as commodity.RESUMOEste trabalho tem como objetivo caracterizar as atuais políticas públicas e perspectivas de práticas educacionais, cujos princípios fundamentam-se na lógica da economia de educação global, visando refletir sobre possíveis impactos nos processos de ensino e de aprendizagem no âmbito dos contextos educacionais locais. Esse modelo reflete a influência da lógica política e econômica neoliberal, o qual caracteriza um contexto governado pelas leis de mercado e pela descaracterização do Estado de Bem-estar Social democrático; ou seja, a redução do Estado e a valorização do “mercado e quase-mercado”. Exemplo disso é o que está acontecendo no Brasil com a expansão dos serviços e dos produtos educacionais terceirizados. Essa idéia vem sendo aplicada pela descentralização da responsabilidade da Educação Básica para os municípios brasileiros. Dessa forma, o orçamento para os serviços, os produtos e a formação continuada está sendo transferido para empresas nacionais e multinacionais especializadas, muitas vezes sob o rótulo de entidades sem fins lucrativos (novas filantropias; empresas associadas; ou seja, a terceira via). Assim sendo, a educação brasileira vem sofrendo o impacto da desnacionalização do Estado, o que está provocando profundas mudanças em como as políticas públicas educacionais vêm sendo praticadas no âmbito de cada município brasileiro. Consequentemente, a educação brasileira está sendo concebida como um comodity.

scholarly journals Social constructivism in the field of education and learning

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-194
Author(s):  
Jovana Milutinovic
Keyword(s):  
Social Constructivism ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
School Context ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Educational Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
Constructivist Perspective ◽  
Context Of Learning

Social constructivism is, first and foremost, the theory of knowledge focused on the role of social processes in knowledge creation. Its proponents are interested in interactions among people which are observed as the ways through which shared versions of knowledge are constructed. Starting from the widely acknowledged need for learning with deep understanding and increased interest in the social context of learning, the paper theoretically analyses social constructivism and its influence on educational practice. The goal is to critically re-examine the social constructivist perspective as a theory of teaching and learning and point out to its educational values based on certain conclusions mentioned in the literature. The paper also explores and highlights the basic starting points of social constructivism as well as its different interpretations. In addition, the paper studies relevant issues for education and learning suitable for applying social constructivism, both at the institutional and interpersonal level. It is concluded that social constructivism, applied in practice as a culture rather than as a set of isolated activities, is highly significant for understanding the complexity of the phenomenon of teaching and learning in school context, as well as for providing concrete guiding ideas (learning through cooperation, discovering and solving problems, joint exploration of knowledge and world reinterpretation) for enhancing educational theory and practice.

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