scholarly journals Environmental worldviews of Serbian and Macedonian school students

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-43
Author(s):  
Mile Srbinovski ◽  
Jelena Stanišić
Keyword(s):  
Principal Component ◽  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
School Students ◽  
Environmentally Conscious ◽  
Limits To Growth ◽  
Balance Of Nature ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Environmental Worldviews ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Universal Applicability

AbstractThe objectives of this study were to assess the dimensionality of the revised New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) Scale in Serbian and Macedonian culture, and to use it to explore the environmental worldviews of young people in Serbia and the Republic of North Macedonia. A total of 850 pupils aged between 13 and 15 from 11 schools (5 elementary schools and 6 secondary schools) took part in this research. The dataset obtained from the scale was analysed via the principal component analysis factor extraction method, and a varimax rotation was applied. This study found all items load on four dimensions: Balance of Nature, Humans over Nature, Limits to Growth and Environmental Philosophy. Differences between subgroups occur in three out of four dimensions. The students’ environmental worldviews were determined by providing the frequency distribution of their responses. Both subgroups in the Republic of North Macedonia and Serbia are (slightly) environmentally conscious, with an ecological view of the environment. Macedonian school students have a slightly higher NEP score than their peers in Serbia, indicating more environmentally protective attitudes among them. The participants did not see the two paradigms as mutually exclusive, as do members of some industrialised societies. The rejection of the Dominant Social Paradigm (DSP) by the NEP is a phenomenon that could well only be present in Western societies, whereas in less industrialised societies, the NEP and DSP could coexist in a comprehensive environmental view. With minor alterations such as word substitutions to facilitate easy comprehension of items by the respondents, the revised NEP scale will show more universal applicability outside developed communities.

scholarly journals PERAN LPDB DAN KUMKM NATUNA UNTUK MENJADI POROS MARITIM INDONESIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-19
Author(s):  
REZZY EKO CARAKA
Keyword(s):  
Principal Component ◽  
Population Number ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Capita Expenditure ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Main Component ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Dimensions Of Space ◽  
Total Diversity

This research was motivated by Nusantara Jaya Expedition activities which were followed by Researcher and organized by the Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia in Natuna. The abundant natural resources in Natuna are mainly marine wealth and fisheries, which are then targeted by the Indonesian government as Indonesia's maritime axis so that more in-depth analysis. The purpose of this study is to find out which areas have similar closeness and will make it easier for LPDB to map potential areas in Natuna. This study involved three dependent variables consisting of GRDP, UN, and Number of Fisheries Households. Then it meant 12 independent variables comprising Capita Expenditures, Poverty  Index, Population, Micro Business Number, Total Business, Number of Traders, Number of Cooperatives, Production, Number of Aquaculture Households, Motorless Boats, Outboard Motorboats, and Motorboats. All analysis objectives can be answered using the principal component analysis biplot. Biplot is a method to make images in many dimensions of space into images in two-dimensional areas. The first Biplot obtained 77.28 percent of the total diversity of actual data.  The interpretation of the main component of the biplot produced can explain very well the relationship between the rate of GDP in Natuna District to capita expenditure and the poverty depth index and the Gini ratio in Natuna. In the second Biplot obtain  82.17 percent of the total diversity, which means that it was able to explain 82.17 percent of the United Nations Against Population, Number of Micro Businesses, Total Businesses,  Traders, Number of Cooperatives. In this analysis also found four dimensions of regions that have similar relationships, making it easier for LPDB to map the potential of the area in Natuna as Indonesia's maritime.

National Customs and Traditions in the Educational Process for Primary School Students

2020 ◽  
pp. 84-91
Author(s):  
Malik Gabdullin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
School Students ◽  
The People ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Comprehensive Development ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
The Republic ◽  
High Level

The main direction of the educational process is to develop the education system in accordance with the strategic directions of social and economic development of the republic, integrating it into the world educational space, preserving its national essence through the use of national customs and traditions, as well as cultural values, creating conditions for the formation of a personality in the national spirit, development of a high level of outlook and creative potential of the personality, cognitive competences. The implementation of these tasks requires a review of the content of the educational process in the country's schools from a new methodological standpoint, based on the use of elements of national customs and traditions. Such a new methodological system shows the need for radical changes in the traditional educational process, the development of a creative approach to teaching, and the updating of the content of education on a national basis.In the modern period of the development of society in the educational process of educational institutions the principle of education is implemented, taking into account the comprehensive development of students, such a system of education and upbringing provides an opportunity for the formation of cultural and ethnic identity, it is aimed at an in-depth study of the spiritual culture of the people and the ability to connect it with modern values. This system of education and training is based on the link between national customs and traditions (customs and traditions related to children's upbringing, household customs and traditions, social customs and traditions) and the educational process.

scholarly journals The Mathematics Learning Attributes Valued by Students in Eastern China

2020 ◽  
pp. 209653112093024
Author(s):  
Hengjun Tang ◽  
Wee Tiong Seah ◽  
Qiaoping Zhang ◽  
Weizhong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Eastern China ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
School Students ◽  
And Control ◽  
Senior High School Students

Purpose: Research has confirmed that students’ mathematics values significantly affect their mathematics learning. Accordingly, understanding how students’ values form and change, especially during different learning stages, is an important topic. Design/Approach/Methods: This study administered a questionnaire to investigate the values of primary, junior high, and senior high school students in Eastern China. A principal component analysis was conducted to investigate the factor structure of the students’ learning values. Then, paired sample t-tests were used to examine the differences in the two continuous categories ranking of each group, and a one-way analysis of variance with a Brown–Forsythe test was used to test the differences in the ranking of each dimension by the different grade-level groups. Findings: We found that students’ mathematics learning values consist of seven elements: culture, memorization, technology, objectism, practice, understanding, and control. Students placed different degrees of importance on these seven elements at different learning stages. Additionally, we found that junior high school is a critical period of change in students’ values. Originality/Value: These findings will be invaluable to teachers and educators as they reflect on their teaching approaches. Moreover, the findings that students’ values undergo changes in the course of their schooling are important information for educators seeking to foster students’ learning.

A cultural insight into the development of teacher autonomy support scale

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosna Awang-Hashim ◽  
Rajaletchumi Thaliah ◽  
Amrita Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Autonomy Support ◽  
Teacher Autonomy ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Cultural Variation ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
School Students ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Structure Equation Modeling ◽  
Group Interviews

Purpose The cross-cultural significance of autonomy within self-determination theory is divisive on universal significance. This paper aims to report a sequential exploratory mixed methods study conducted to construct and validate a scale to investigate how, in Malaysian context, the construct of autonomy is conceptualized in comparison with the existing scale owing to cultural variation. Design/methodology/approach Focus group interviews identified dimensions of autonomy support that were specific to Malaysian culture and guided the development of the survey and construct validation was done using structure equation modeling. Findings The results show that the proposed scale has satisfactory psychometric properties, and the hypothesized model had a good fit to the data. The new scale produced four dimensions of teacher autonomy support, namely, responsible, approachable, shows respect and conveys confidence, with three items in each dimension. Malaysian secondary school students’ perception of autonomy support was found to be distinctive from the traditional measure. Originality/value Implications for teachers are discussed for culturally meaningful interpretation of the autonomy construct for classroom teaching practices.

scholarly journals Features of mathematical concepts formation at school students on the basis of bilingual education

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-225
Author(s):  
Natalia Ivanovna Spiridonova
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Bilingual Education ◽  
Speech Development ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
School Students ◽  
Mathematical Concepts ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
The Republic

The paper deals with mathematical concepts formation at students on the basis of bilingual education. It describes the results of experimental work, including the questioning of students and teachers, aimed at identifying preferences of native or the Russian language as the language of instruction, screening efforts to identify the level of mathematical language learning at pupils of 5-6 classes on the basis of the two languages. As a result of psycho-pedagogical and educational materials and dissertations analysis the author describes peculiarities of bilingual educational process aimed at mathematical concepts formation in educational institutions of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). This process takes place in stages and is implemented through the combined action. The author concludes that the primary means of performing steps corresponding to the steps of mathematical concepts formation can be bilingual didactic complex, aimed at concepts formation and pupils mathematical speech development. The findings of the study can be used as the basis for designing a technique of mathematical concepts formation in terms of bilingualism, for educational materials creation, as well as used by school teachers with native language training.

scholarly journals Ethical Correlates of Environmental Consciousness among Members and Non-Members of Nature Club

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahina H ◽  
Dr. Neelima Ranjith
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Environmental Behavior ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Environmental Consciousness ◽  
Environmental Attitude ◽  
School Students ◽  
Limits To Growth ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Ecological Worldview

The need and relevance of the concerns for nature and a pro-environmental attitude and behaviour is at its peak in the present world. It has been long recognized that ecological balance and safety of nature is central to human existence on earth. Despite this understanding, human activities are deteriorating the earth. If this situation is allowed to continue, the earth will soon turn out to be a useless and lifeless planet, along with marking the very end of human existence. One way to tackle this crisis is to reduce and prevent human actions that pose threats to nature and environment. A sustainable change in such actions is achieved effectively only by bringing about a change in ethics, values and attitudes of people. Ethics refers to a code of conduct. Values held by people contribute to their ethics. Since values are acquired, it can be instilled into people through different means; also implying that they are changeable. The concept of environmental consciousness refers to specific psychological factors related to individual’s propensity to engage in pro-environmental behaviors (Zelezny & Schultz, 2000:367). Environmental consciousness can also be addressed as the psychological dimension of pro-environmental behavior. Objectives: The purpose of the present study is to investigate the ‘ethical correlates of environmental consciousness among members and non-members of nature club’. Method: (a) Participants: The study was conducted on 54 high school students from various schools in Ernakulam district, Kerala. Participants included both members (n=21) and non-members (n=33) of any kind of nature club. (b) Materials: The Ethical Values Assessment (EVA- Jensen & Padilla, 2004) and New Ecological Paradigm Scale- Revised (NEP Revised-Dunlap, R. E., & Van Liere, K., Mertig, A., &Jones, R. E., 2000). EVA measures 3 categories of ethics, namely: Ethics of Autonomy, Ethics of Community and Ethics of Divinity. NEP scale assesses ecological worldview along 5 dimensions, namely: Reality of Limits to Growth, Ant anthropocentricism, Fragility of Nature’s Balance, Rejection of Exemptionalism and the Possibility of Eco-crisis. (c) Analysis: Analysis was done using ‘t- test’ and ‘correlation’. (d) Results: There is significant difference between members and non-members of nature club in the dimensions Ethics of community, Overall ethics, Overall ecological worldview and Awareness of the possibility of eco-crisis. Students with membership in nature clubs have higher Ethics of community, Overall ethics, Overall ecological worldview (significance at 5% level) and Awareness of the possibility of eco-crisis (significance at 1% level). Also, Overall ethics has a significant positive correlation with Overall ecological worldview. Conclusion: Membership in nature club is found to enhance better environmental consciousness and ethics. The study implies that making students part of nature clubs facilitate pro-environmental behavior and better ethics.

scholarly journals Teaching Primary School Pupils Through Audio-Visual Means

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (22) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Sabdenova Bagila ◽  
Abdullah Kok ◽  
Aziya Zhumabaeva ◽  
Zharkynbike Suleimenova ◽  
Asima Riskulbekova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Elementary School Students ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
The State ◽  
Practical Work ◽  
Visual Aids ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Set Up

Recognition of Kazakh language as the state language of the Republic of Kazakhstan by the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan, adoption of ‘State programme of functioning and development of languages for 2011–2020’, the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan ‘On languages of the Republic of Kazakhstan’, ‘The State programme on education and science development for 2016–2020’ allowed our native language to develop and prosper. Nowadays, special attention is paid to the problem of teaching the Kazakh language. In today's organised pedagogical environment, it is not fully examined the need for the development of communication skills of elementary school students and scientifically-based and practical communication to solve this problem via audio and graphic tools. Therefore, this article focuses on the need to teach elementary school students to work with audio and graphic materials and technology issues on the use of practical materials. Provided that the theoretical foundations for the development of communication skills of elementary school students through audio-visual aids hold true, the structural-substantial model will allow the development of each student’s individual abilities and creativity. Taking into account the foregoing, we have set up a positive outline of the effectiveness of the work with audio equipment through the organisation of practical work, practice-assemblage, research, diagnostics, practical work in elementary school teachers through specially organised thematic seminars

scholarly journals Leadership style and employee readiness: Basic factors of leadership efficiency

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-65
Author(s):  
Marijana Rodić ◽  
Slobodan Marić
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Style ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Significant Research ◽  
Repeated Sampling ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Republic ◽  
New Variables ◽  
The Impact

The scope of this study is based on the Situational Leadership Theory according to the model created by Hersey and Blanchard, predominantly defined by two research sub-fields: leadership style and readiness of employees. This model distinguishes four different leadership styles, while the subject area of readiness of employees comprises two components: readiness of employees based on the competency component and readiness of employees based on a psychological (motivational) component. The subject matter of the study is to identify leadership style as a new variable which will be utilized for determining the interdependence with leadership efficiency levels and readiness of employees. Leadership efficiency is determined by the degree of compatibility between the dominant style of leadership and the level of readiness of employees. In addition to the main objective of the research, aimed at determining leadership efficiency, significant research findings come as a result of specific objectives. That is impact of the dominant leadership style on readiness of employees and leadership results, based on each specific component. The sample will be a random sample from a finite population of units, with repeated sampling and known probability sampling. A sample of size n=100, with a proportion of 0.10, is based on a list of top 100 biggest companies in the Republic of Serbia in 2019. The application of Principal Component Analysis aims to identify new variables in the form of regression coefficient results, while the application of the hierarchical regression model will help determine the impact of each leadership style on readiness of employees. The study findings confirm the basic hypotheses of the aforementioned model, with regard to the results of leadership efficiency, as well as its impact of each leadership style on readiness of employees.

scholarly journals A Study on Emotional Intelligence among School Going Adolescents in Kolkata

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-58
Author(s):  
Bikash Chandra Ghorai ◽  
Samayita Kundu ◽  
Sunil Santra
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Intelligence Scale ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Understanding Emotions

The aim of the present study is to determine the level of emotional intelligence of school going adolescents; and to compare the emotional intelligence and its four dimensions/sub-factors i.e., understanding emotions, understanding motivation, empathy and handling relation of school going adolescents with respect to their gender, grade and board pattern of education. The present study was carried out on 288 higher secondary school students selected as sample from six schools of three different boards of education (viz. two WBCHSE, two CBSE and two ICSE) of Kolkata district in West Bengal using convenient sampling technique. This research is cross-sectional survey type study. The measuring tool in this research originally was of two-point emotional intelligence scale entitled as ‘Emotional Intelligence Scale (ESI – SANS) of Dr. A. K. Singh and Dr. S. Narain [1] which was translated in Bengali version by B. C. Ghorai and L. L. Mohakud [2]. After the initial exploratory analysis of the data, different statistical (descriptive and inferential) techniques are used to analyze the data set via SPSS 20. Results of the study revealed that there is no statistically significant difference in emotional intelligence and it’s sub-factors of school going adolescent with respect to their gender grade and board pattern of education. The findings provide a further need on how to more improve upon the emotional intelligence of school going adolescent. Implications and recommendations for developing emotional intelligence school going adolescent are discussed.

scholarly journals National identity of secondary school students in the Republic of Serbia

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 1018-1054
Author(s):  
Dušan Ranđelović ◽  
Jelena Minić ◽  
Kristina Ranđelović
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Individual Characteristic ◽  
Place Of Residence ◽  
School Students ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Achievement Motive ◽  
The Republic

This paper was aimed at examining the structure and expression of national identity among secondary school students (N=568) in different towns in Serbia, its relation to self-esteem and achievement motive, as well as the differences regarding socio-demographic characteristics (sex and place of residence). The instruments used are the Scale of National Identity NAIT, the Global Self-Esteem Scale, and the Scale to Measure Achievement Motive MOP2002. The results have shown that the values of national identity are above the theoretical average and significantly higher than the values recorded among the adolescents in an earlier study. Among general characteristics of their own nation, secondary school students value culture more than history, character traits and state institutions (lowest-ranked in comparison to all other characteristics), finding that courage is the most pronounced individual characteristic, while the least pronounced one is hypocrisy. A positive correlation of national identity with self-esteem and achievement motive was obtained, whereas achievement motive is also a significant national identity predictor. Significant differences were found in the expression of national identity among secondary school students in relation to their place of residence (secondary school students from Belgrade have a higher level of national identity in comparison to their peers from Niš and Kosovska Mitrovica).

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