scholarly journals Civic Participation and Citizen Ideals of High School Students from Transylvania

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-126
Author(s):  
Szilvia Varga
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Young People ◽  
Civic Participation ◽  
School Students ◽  
High Importance ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Good Citizen ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
12Th Grade

Citizenship and civic participation are spatially and temporally changing concepts, therefore, their research remains constantly relevant. The question of how 17–18-year-old pupils see their “place” in society and their role in political processes, is of high importance, as they are the future voters. The main objective of the paper is to find out the kinds of categories that can be distinguished in terms of civic participation among the youth on the threshold of adulthood and what are the specificities of these categories. Furthermore, I try to identify the dimensions along which young people interpret the concept of “citizen” and what are the qualities that they consider important to acknowledge someone as a “good citizen”. In this section, my aim is to highlight the influencing factors and their strengths. The results show that four types of pupils are distinguished in terms of participation: those who “accumulate” activities, the “traditionals”, the protesters, and the passive ones. At the same time, based on the responses, one can see that the characteristics of an ideal citizen are organized into three factors: orientation and activity, social, and responsibility. Their activities and ideas are greatly influenced by the environment and the behavioral patterns they encounter and follow. The study presents the results of a survey based on questionnaire, which is representative of the Hungarian 11th and 12th grade pupils of eight large cities in Transylvania. Keywords: civic participation, ideal citizen, youth

Social insertions and representations of oneself and young people: Apprentices and high school students

1994 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thierry Devos ◽  
Jean-Claude Deschamps ◽  
Loraine Comby
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Young People ◽  
School Students

Living class in a ‘meritocratic’ Australia: The burdens of class and choice on young people’s end-of-school transitions

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 396-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Donovan
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Young People ◽  
Educational Outcomes ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
School Transitions ◽  
School Students ◽  
Australian Education

In the Australian education system, there are substantial class inequalities in educational outcomes and transitions. These inequalities persist despite increased choice and individual opportunity for young people. This article explores high school students’ experiences of class in a social context they largely believe to be a meritocracy. Specifically, it asks: how does class shape young people’s thinking and decision-making about their post-school futures? I use Bourdieu’s ‘habitus’ as a frame to understand the role of class in young people’s lives, stressing its generative and heterogeneous aspects. Drawing on qualitative-led mixed methods research, this article argues that young people have internalised the ‘doxa’ of meritocracy, agency and ambition, conceiving of themselves as individual agents in this context. However, risk and security, opportunities and constraints, are not distributed equally in a class-stratified society. Young people from working-class backgrounds more commonly imagine insecure, uncertain futures.

scholarly journals INFLUENCE OF DIETARY TRENDS ON THE NUTRITION OF THE YOUTH

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (9) ◽  
pp. 1740-1746
Author(s):  
Anita Bielawska ◽  
Katarzyna Tomczyk ◽  
Beata Łabuz-Roszak
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Young People ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
The Body ◽  
Gluten Free ◽  
Nutritional Knowledge ◽  
School Students ◽  
Free Products ◽  
Balanced Diet

Introduction: Dietary trends such as consumption of lactose-free and gluten-free products or the use of alternative slimming diets are gaining increasing popularity, especially among young people. They determine their dietary choices, which are important from the point of view of human health. Unconventional diets are still considered as effective weight loss methods. The use of alternative diets may cause shortages of an essential nutrients, increase the risk of chronic non-communicable diseases and lead to the formation of incorrect eating habits. Balanced diet, in contrast to the alternative diet, takes into account the principles of rational nutrition and nutritional recommendations of the Institute of Food and Nutrition (IŻŻ). The aim: To investigate the influence of popular dietary trends on nutrition of high school adolescences. Material and methods: Subjects were adolescences in the age of 17-21 years attending high schools in Ruda Slaska (262 students, including 157 women and 105 men). Self-constructed questionnaire was applied in the study. Participation in the study was anonymous and voluntary. Results: In more than a half of young women (54,8%) and men (52,4%) the body mass deficiency was revealed (BMI<18 kg/m2). 33,6% of the respondents were on the non-balanced diets at least once in their lives. High school students knew gluten-free and lactose-free products but dietary trends, such as the consumption of gluten-free and lactose-free products, did not affect their diet. The main source of nutritional knowledge among respondents were their friends (78,2%). Conclusions: The results of the conducted research indicate the need to implement educational programs on the principles of proper nutrition. The increasing awareness of theyouth in this regard may contribute to reducing the interest in still popular alternative diets among young people and taking appropriate health behaviors by them.

scholarly journals Exploring High School Students’ Cognitive Structures for Energy Concept Through Word Association Test

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Ömer Türksever
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Association Test ◽  
School Students ◽  
Repeated Word ◽  
Word Association Test ◽  
9Th Grade ◽  
12Th Grade ◽  
11Th Grade

This research, which was conducted in order to reveal the cognitive structures of high school students regarding the concept of energy through the word association test, was designed in a survey model. Word association test was used as a data collection tool. After the necessary information was given to the students, they were given three minutes and they were asked to write the first words that came to mind about the key concept. The study group of the research consists of 202 students studying in a high school in the province of Malatya in the 2019-2020 academic year. 58 of these students are 9th grade, 46 are 10th grade, 45 are 11th grade and 53 are 12th grade. While choosing the study group of the research, one of the purposeful sampling types was chosen based on easily accessible situation sampling. The words obtained related to the concept of energy are tabulated using Microsoft office excel program. The cut-off points of the tables, which were examined in detail and repeated words were taken into account, were determined. Concept networks were created in line with the determined cut-off points. In the research, 189 different words were produced for the concept of energy by high school students. While 114 of these words were not included in the analysis because they had 4 or less frequencies, 75 words were included in the analysis. Among the words included in the analysis, the most repeated word in the 9th grade was &ldquo;petrol&rdquo; (f = 30), the most repeated word in the 10th grade was &ldquo;fossil fuel&rdquo; (24), the most repeated word in the 11th grade &ldquo;electricity&rdquo; (19), the most repeated word in the 12th grade was found to be &ldquo;potential&rdquo; (28). In the comparison between the classes, a difference in quantity and quality is observed. It has been observed that as the grade level increases, the quality of the answers given increases.

scholarly journals Applying Pedagogical Usability for Designing a Mobile Learning Application that Support Reading Comprehension

Proceedings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Gustavo Zurita ◽  
Nelson Baloian ◽  
Sergio Peñafiel ◽  
Oscar Jerez
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Likert Scale ◽  
Added Value ◽  
School Students ◽  
12Th Grade ◽  
Comprehension Ability ◽  
Reading Comprehension Ability

The pedagogical usability is an important characteristic of applications that support learning as it relates to the added value students perceive while using it for learning. A good pedagogical usability means that an application has more chances to be accepted and used by the students thus raising the possibilities that students actually will learn with it. However important, this concept tends to be neglected by many authors. In this work we show how this concept can be applied to evaluate an application by presenting a real example of an application that has been re-designed to improve its usability, thus showing how pedagogical usability can be operationalized to be applied in general. The application shown in this work is called RedCoMulApp (Reading Collaborative Multiple-option Application) and its goal is to raise the reading comprehension ability of 12th grade high school students. In order to capture the pedagogical usability, we used 12 metrics to design a questionnaire with 26 questions to be answered with a 5-point Likert-scale, plus two open-ended questions to capture aspects that were positively valued, and those that should be improved. The results for the pedagogical usability allow us to validate that the design of the application was perceived by the students as pedagogically useful to learning about reading comprehension.

scholarly journals Typical dynamic peculiarities of the spheres of manifestation of social activity among student youth

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 08009
Author(s):  
Elena Bocharova
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Young People ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
University Students ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
School Students ◽  
Youth Policy ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Life Values

The purpose of the study presented in the article is an empirical study of typical dynamic peculiarities spheres of young people’ social activity manifestation. The study sample consisted of 240 participants (Saratov region, Russia), including: university students (n = 120), age M = 18.22 (SD = 0.87) and high school students (n = 120), age M = 16.43; SD = 0.53. We used a questionnaire (R. M. Shamionov, I. V. Arendachiuk, E. E. Bocharova et al.) to register various forms of social activity and the degree of their manifestation, and the “Morphological Test of Life Values” technique (V. F. Sopov, L. V. Karpushina) to study various spheres of life. In the sample of students we have recorded a trend towards negative dynamics in the range of typical spheres of social activity manifestation, which, moreover, differs in its substantive multidirectionality. The study has shown that manifestation of various forms of social activity in the typical spheres of life is characterized by multidirectional dynamics of their motives’ actualization, depending on the person’s social and age-related status. The applied aspect of the problem under study can be implemented in the development of youth policy programs.

Meanders of Landscape Perception. Empirical Studies among High School Students / Meandry percepcji krajobrazu. Badania empiryczne wśród młodzieży gimnazjalnej

2014 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paweł Pytka
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Young People ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
External Factors ◽  
School Students ◽  
Landscape Perception ◽  
Individual Preferences ◽  
Complex Process

AbstractLandscape perception is a complex process, conditioned by a number of external factors related to perceived characteristics of landspace and resulting from personality traits and psychosocial level of development of the recipient. Important elements which condition the overall perception of the landscape are significant places - places of symbolic, magical, leisure qualities. Selection, type and characteristics of these places will depend on individual preferences of the recipient of the landscape. The studies carried out among young people from Bieszczady indicate significant subjective choice of places, often a given image differs from the usual stereotypes. Regularity as well as aberrances in the perception and evaluation of sites described in this paper was observed.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document