Confucianism and Education

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlene Tan
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Educational Vision ◽  
Changing Times ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

Issues related to the aim of education, curriculum, teaching, and learning are perennial concerns in Confucianism. Within the Confucian canon, two texts, Analects (Lunyu) and Xueji (Record of Learning), are particularly instructive in illuminating the principles and practices of education for early Confucianism. Accordingly, the aim of education is to inculcate ren (humanity) through li (normative behaviors) so that learners can realize and broaden dao (Way). To achieve this aim, the curriculum should be holistic, broad-based, and integrated; students should constantly practice what they have learned through self-cultivation and social interaction. Supporting the curriculum is learner-focused education, where the teacher is sensitive to the individual needs of students. The “enlightening approach” is recommended, where the teacher encourages and guides students using the questioning technique and peer learning. The impact of Confucian education is evident in the creation and flourishing of “Confucian pedagogic cultures” in East Asia. However, a key question confronting a Confucian conception of education is whether such a paradigm is able to nurture critical and creative thinkers who are empowered to critique prevailing worldviews and effect social changes. A textual analysis of Xueji and Analects reveals that critical and creative thinking are valued and indispensable in Confucian education. Confucius himself chastised the rulers of his time, modified certain social practices, and ingeniously redefined terms that were in wide circulation such as li and junzi by adding novel elements to them. Confucian education should be viewed as an open tradition that learns from all sources and evolves with changing times. Such a tradition fulfills the educational vision to appropriate and extend dao, thereby continuing the educational project started by Confucius.

THE IMPACT OF SOCIETAL CHANGES ON INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR

Moldoscopie ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 112-118
Author(s):  
Elena Railean ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Global Education ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Audio Video ◽  
The Impact

The social changes are the result of societal challenges and are related to profound, sustainable, and non-linear actions and their result on the environment, society, and the individual. The impact of societal changes on human and social behavior is not unequivocal, and its understanding depends on the research methodology. For this paper is applied the phenomenological description - a method that refers to the experience lived in the immediate existential from the perspective of the essence of phenomena. The research data is the result of applying an online questionnaire developed with Google Form on a sample of 158 respondents. The results obtained allow us to describe the impact of societal changes on human and social behavior through the specifics of the phenomenon of “global education”: the diversification of the forms of organization of the educational process; interactive discourse - effective teaching method; prioritization of action methods; the use of audio / video sequences in the teacher’s message; the issue of computerized evaluation; the theme of continuing education courses and the importance of the interactive portal for in-service teachers.

The Effect of Using Class PC and Interactive Boards on Students' Academic Achievement and Creative Thinking

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Mohamad M. Hileh ◽  
Abdel-Aziz Ahmad Sharabati ◽  
Tamara Yacoub Nasereddin ◽  
Suheir Mustafa Hussein
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Experimental Design ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Traditional Learning ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of the article is to investigate the impact of teaching and learning methods on Jordanian students' performance in primary schools. This study is of quasi-experimental design. Three tools are used in this study: an interactive board, a class PC and traditional tools. The data was collected by questionnaires, and then regressions were used to test the hypothesis. The results indicate that for creativity thinking, the highest difference between pre and post-test is related to class PC followed by traditional learning and finally interactive boards. Moreover, results indicate that the three tools affect fluency, flexibility and originality, while they have no significant effect on elaboration. The results also indicate that for the academic achievement class the PC reported the highest mean, followed by interactive boards and finally by traditional tools. Furthermore, results show that using class the PC and interactive boards affect students' creative thinking as compared to traditional teaching.

scholarly journals Impact of Social Interaction on Individual Environmental Behavior: Empirical Analysis Based on CGSS2013 Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-122
Author(s):  
Yuyuan Zhou ◽  
Wenli Song
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Ecological Environment ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

A good ecological environment is of great significance to improve happiness index and satisfaction of personal life. By analyzing the impact of society interaction on individual environmental protection behavior, it is found that how to improve individual environmental protection behavior plays an important role in building a green ecological environment. This study used the data of CGSS survey conducted by Renmin University of China in 2013 and employed SPSS statistical analysis to determine the influencing factors. Therefore, the higher an individual’s income level is, the more willing the individual is to take environmental protection behavior. The conclusion can be used for reference for policy formulation and environmental improvement in China. 

scholarly journals Trends of science technology engineering mathematics (STEM)-based learning at elementary school in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Fitri Nuraeni ◽  
Yopi Malagola ◽  
Suko Pratomo ◽  
Hafiziani Eka Putri
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Scientific Literacy ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
The Impact

This research investigates the results of studies related to the implementation of Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)-based learning at elementary schools in Indonesia. Using the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) with meta-synthesis model, this research selects research articles related to STEM-based learning at elementary school in Indonesia from google scholar and google site as sources for primary data and secondary data, respectively. After reviewed through inclusion and exclusion criteria evaluated by quality assessments, 15 scientific articles published within 2015 to 2020 are analysed.  Findings show that many studies have great interest in developing STEM-based teaching and learning materials, while others focus on identifying the impact of STEM-based learning on various learning achievements such as creative thinking skills, critical thinking skills, basic questioning skills, and scientific literacy, and learning achievement in general.

scholarly journals Education Resilience in the Time of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 273-283
Author(s):  
Faisal Al Saidi ◽  
Issa Al Hinai ◽  
Basim Al Mushaifri
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Contingency Plans ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Learning Plans ◽  
Recurrent Patterns ◽  
The Impact

Due to the world pandemic, COVID-19, higher education institutions (HEIs) have found themselves in an unprecedented situation. Like no other time before, this pandemic has posed a serious test of resilience of HEIs – hence, the current study sets off to seize this opportunity to study the resilience of Omani HEIs. HEIs in Oman have devised contingency plans in light of the directives and declarations received from the government Supreme Committee responsible for handling the impact of COVID-19. The study aimed at examining the directives received by Omani HEIs against the framework of the securitization theory in order to identify the substances of the basis on which HEIs built their teaching and learning plans. The study was also planned to closely investigate the individual experiences of various stakeholders directly involved in the implementation of the contingency of the teaching and learning plans. Data were collected using document analysis and analysis of reflective texts. Discourse content analysis was applied in order to understand the lived experiences of stakeholders and to identify what shaped their experiences. The discourse of the collected data was analysed using the approach of thematic analysis which helped to identify recurrent patterns concerning the teaching and learning plans of some Omani HEIs during COVID-19. A number of challenges along with the challenges of other HEIs worldwide were identified, such as uncertainty and lack of resources and experience in online teaching and learning. The discussion of the findings in this study revealed dichotomies, as well as agreement, in the way stakeholders perceive aspects of the contingency plans of teaching, learning and assessment. On the basis of this finding, the study calls for a more nuanced approach to strengthen the resilience of higher education. Particularly, the study recommends incorporating processes of normalization of teaching and learning as well as of assessment in HEIs delivery modes as a way to consolidate HEIs’ resilience.

scholarly journals Doing paying during the Covid-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 720-752
Author(s):  
Lorenza Mondada ◽  
Julia Bänninger ◽  
Sofian A Bouaouina ◽  
Guillaume Gauthier ◽  
Philipp Hänggi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Health Prevention ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
Money Transfer ◽  
Recorded Data ◽  
The Impact

The Covid-19 pandemic has affected not only the health of populations but also their everyday social practices, transformed by orienting to risks of contagion and to health prevention discourses. This paper emanates from a project investigating the impact of Covid-19 on human sociality and more particularly the situated and embodied organization of social interactions. It discusses how Covid-19 impacts the design of ordinary actions in social interaction, how this is made publicly accountable by the participants orienting to the pandemic in formatting their actions and in responding to the actions of others. Adopting an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic perspective, the analyses focus on a particular social activity: paying. The organization of payments in shops and services has been affected by the pandemic, not only by official regulations, favoring some modes of payment over others, but also in how sellers and customers situatedly adapt their practices to imperatives of prevention. On the basis of a rich corpus of video-recorded data, which spans from the pandemic’s prodromes to and after its peak, we show how money transfer is methodically achieved – imposed, negotiated, and readjusted – while variously taking into account possible risks of contagion. Thus, we show not only how pandemics affect social interaction, and how prevention is incarnated in social actions, but also how, in turn, situated solutions implemented by people during the pandemic reveal fundamental features of human action.

QUALITIES AND STYLE OF THE PRINCIPAL OF SECONDARY SCHOOL (SS)

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 1159-1161
Author(s):  
Lidia Nikolova Koleva
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
School Management ◽  
Management Style ◽  
Management Culture ◽  
School Activities ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

The quality and style of the Principal of secondary schools is of great importance for the effectiveness of school management. A number of studies have shown that school management is second only to teaching in the classroom in respect to the impact on student education. The knowledge, abilities and competence of the principal are crucial to establishing schools that promote quality teaching and learning by all students.Different researches have shown that effective school leaders influence achievements of the pupils by influencing other people or organizational elements and impacting on school processes. This requires specific qualities and style.Director of secondary schools manage every day with different situations as a part of his management and this makes his work very dynamic and challenging. Eventually, we can summarize that managing impact is ultimately a synthetic concept.It includes the management culture, style, the complex of personal qualities, the specificity of the system in which it operates, the organizational structure, the specificity of the impact of the regulatory mechanisms and many others.There are also a number of important factors influencing management impact - such as the level of the management body, the level of organization of the internal environment, the degree of uncertainty of the external environment, etc.The optimal version of the educational institutions in such a way that each decision is linked to the final outcome of the school activities. This fact affects effectiveness as well as satisfaction of the staff needs. This would achieve a unity between the objectives of the school and the aims of the individual individuals working in it. In order to carry out his/her various professional tasks, the Principal of an educational institution enters a variety of interactions. It has been proven that the personality of the Principal influences significantly the establishment and maintenance of the organizational climate in the school.The management style of the director is very important for the effectiveness of school management. In a study on the dominant style characteristic according to the principals’ self-assessment, priority is given to the fulfillment of the tasks, the direction of the changes and the solving of the problems of the people.

scholarly journals The Impact of Societal Transformations on the Urban Spaces During the Local Festivals

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Rasha A. Moussa
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Transformations ◽  
Urban Transformations ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

Urban Spaces had played an important role in the individuals’ psychological life and in their integration with their environment as it’s considered as the mediator through which the interactions between people with each other and with their natural environment, they can exchange their cultures and spread activities. Despite its importance, many communities suffer from the absence of positive communication between individuals and place they belong to or lack of happiness while being in it. The reason for that is the ignorance of some urban designer to the role of the humanity in the process of the design and its impact on the formation of the urban spaces, though through urban design the complexities of the place can be managed and a general framework for change can be created by designing a compatible and sustainable space for users depending on the events and activities located in it that show political, social and economic transformations that occurs to the communities and affect the social development for individuals. Although there are social diversity among members of the same community but it was observed that there is a similarity in their behaviors towards certain positions, which expresses their culture. Social celebrations (Festivals) are considered the most effective patronize for social formats impact on the spatial formation, as it helps in supporting the idea of individuals’ belonging to the place since the human there is the main sponsor for forming the spaces that contain all the activities and events that may be specific or temporary with a time or an event, and thus it was essential to show physical and non-physical components for space formation in order to gain access to identify the reciprocal relationship between the individual and the place and highlight the most important and successful spatial expressions that help boost the spirit of communication between individuals and develop a sense of belonging to the place. The paper examines how the dynamics of social life at the local scale are shaped by the special spatial arrangements created for urban festival events by the observation of the social changes impact on the resulting urban transformations during festival and its role in individuals’ sense of belonging substation.

scholarly journals Increased patterns of Islamic social interaction with E-Learning-based learning methods during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-42
Author(s):  
Silwana Mumthaza ◽  
Isa Anshori ◽  
Istikomah Istikomah
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Educational Innovations ◽  
Limited Mobility ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The One ◽  
Future Education

The spread of Corona in the world in 2019-2020 caused a global pandemic. The COVID 19 pandemic is forcing changes on many fronts. This impact also affects education in a big way. Meanwhile, the school acts as a forum to form intellectualism and values that arise in individuals so that they are able to influence social changes in society continu- ously and massively. The goal is for individuals to be able to survive and adapt in this pandemic.Various educational innovations were made as a step to be able to survive with the interaction of the realm of education. Learning process innovation is an impor- tant strategy in school innovation. The use of ICT is carried out as an effort to improve the business of running education. Elearning is a learning model that can be applied with limited mobility. However elearning is a double-edged knife-like tool. On the one hand, this method has effectiveness that can work during a pandemic. But on the other hand there are social changes that occur as a result of e-learning. This social change changes the transition of knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, skills and other aspects. As a result, social changes in education as a process of teaching and learning will experience social shifts.The social shift that occurs is a form of change in social interaction. The sociological approach to education is used to understand the changes in interaction that arise in e-learning. Limited due to this pandemic, humans must still have to perform their function as social individuals to influence each other. Education as a forum for influence must carry out this interaction through e-learning.Social interaction is one of social activi- ties and integration. Contact and communication will create social interaction so that they are able to carry out a role in their life. This interaction is both associative and dissocia- tive.The identification of social interactions in e-learning learning can provide insight to the teacher in providing important strategies in more meaningful learning so that learning objectives can be achieved. Teachers can also explore the potential of e-learning as an alternative to future education.

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