scholarly journals Teacher Training College of the Jagiellonian University as an Example of Special-Purpose Training Institution within the Tertiary Education System of the Second Republic of Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 473
Author(s):  
Magdalena Pyter

<p>The article aims to define the position of specialised training in the system of tertiary education. The study looks into the basic legal acts of the Second Republic of Poland governing higher educational establishments in terms of the position awarded to such establishments as special-purpose colleges. The problem was discussed using the example of the Teacher Training College of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków inaugurated in 1921. Information sourced from the archives of the Jagiellonian University reveals how important a social role that institution played in pre-war Poland. It was a major training centre for secondary school teachers in the recovered general educational system. While remaining part of the university and denied academic status, the college was not an ordinary teacher training facility. Its significant position is confirmed by its operation within the framework of the Jagiellonian University, the use of university staff as lecturers, the practical and scientific nature of the curriculum, and students access to internships abroad. All things considered, the Teacher Training College of the Jagiellonian University operating in newly reborn Poland earned the status of a pioneer of specialist education and set the trend for other special forms of training. The novelty of the research carried out and the results obtained arise from the fact that this subject has not yet been analyzed by legal historians. Also for this reason, it should be recognized that the presented issue has a cognitive value for science.</p>

2020 ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
Wanda Łuczak

Establishment of the National Higher Teacher Training College (WSP) and an attempt to merge it with the Jagiellonian University in 1956 After the Second World War, the Jagiellonian University lost its autonomy and the state authorities destroyed its structures by separating the departments and creating new universities out of them. Independently, in 1946, the National Higher Teacher Training College in Krakow was established. In 1954, it received the right to run a master’s course. The quality of education in WSP was assessed negatively by the Jagiellonian University. In turn, the WSP authoritiesclaimed that their school provided better training for future teachers. At the beginning of the 1950s, some reservations were voiced as to the grounds for the existence of higher teacher training schools due to overlaps with the university curriculum. In 1956, the state authorities decided to close some of these colleges. WSP was to be merged with the Jagiellonian University. A meeting was organized at the Jagiellonian University in April 1956, where representatives of the Ministry of Higher Education, the Jagiellonian University and WSP discussed the merger. However, the meeting didn’t yield the expected results due to the firm objection on the part of WSP. The opportunity to strengthen the Jagiellonian University’s position by merging with WSP was ultimately lost.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltán Sturcz

Az 1860-as években a műegyetem tanári karában többször megfogalmazódott, hogy a reáliskolai képzés színvonalát emelni kell. Ennek módját egy reáliskolai tanárképezde felállításában látták. A kezdeményezés kölcsönösen összetalálkozott az Eötvös-féle tanárképzési tervezetekkel, így 1870-ben nemcsak a pesti egyetemen, hanem a műegyetemen is létrejött a tanárképző intézet. A reáliskolai tanárképezde megszervezésében Stoczek Józsefnek – az intézmény akkori vezetőjének – volt meghatározó szerepe, aki a képezdébe a műegyetemi tanári kar legjobb és legsokoldalúbb erőit vonta be, maga pedig az igazgatást is felvállalta. Stoczek az oktatókat részben polihisztori mivoltuk, részben a műszaki és humán műveltség iránti mély elkötelezettségük, továbbá közéleti szerepük miatt választott be a tanári karba. A műegyetemi levéltári dokumentumok alapján egyértelmű, hogy ennek az intézetnek a működését a magyar értelmiségképzés szempontjából kiemelt és küldetéses feladatnak tekintette a műegyetem. Az alapgondolat szerint egyrészt szakmailag igényes és pedagógiailag kiművelt reáliskolai tanárokat képeznének ki; másrészt az általuk jól felkészített reáliskolai növendékek minőségi és mennyiségi változást hozhatnának a műegyetemre felvételizők körében. Az 1780 és 1873 között működő műegyetemi reáliskolai tanárképezde a szakmai tanárképzésünk alapvető történeti szakaszának tekinthető. 1783 őszén Trefort Ágoston szervezetileg összevonta a két tanárképzőt egy intézetbe. A tapasztalatok egy része beolvadhatott az új közös intézetbe. A rövid ideig tartó műegyetemi működés ellenére – a szervezettség, az igényesség, a sokoldalúság okán – a tanárképző intézet szellemiségének további és jelentős kisugárzása volt a műegyetem munkájának egészére nézve, illetve a helyi pedagógiai szakmai vonulat megszületésére. ’At the distance of 150 years: teachers’ training institution of exact sciences operating at the University of Technology (1870 -1873)In the 1860s, the staff of the technical university worded several times that the quality of education at schools specialized in exact science should be improved. To achieve this, they believed a training institution for teachers of technical schools should be established. This idea met the plans of Eötvös’s teacher training plans, so in 1870 a teacher training institution was established not only at the university of Pest but the university of technology, as well. József Stoczek, the current director of the institution, had a decisive role in organizing the training institute for teachers of exact sciences; he involved the best and versatile members of the staff of the technical university, and undertook leadership himself. Stoczek selected the professors partly because of their generalist nature and engagement for exact and social disciplines, partly because of their role played in public life. According to the documents of the archives of the technical university, it is clear the university took the operation of this institute as a highlighted and mission-like task in terms of educating Hungarian intellectuals. The basic idea was that technical school teachers possessing high quality professional and pedagogical knowledge would be trained on one hand and the pupils prepared by these teachers could bring a qualitative and quantitative change in the group of university applicants.  The teacher training institute having operated at the university of technology between 1870 and 1873 can be considered a basic historical period of our vocational teacher training. In the autumn of 1883, Ágoston Trefort merged the two teacher training institutions into a new one. Despite the short time of operation at the technical university, the teacher training institution, owing to its being well-organized, high-standard and versatile, had further and significant impacts on the work of the whole university as well as the birth of the local pedagogical thread.   


2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-117
Author(s):  
Ungsi A.O. Marmai ◽  
Elda Martha Suri

This analysis examines some of the problems that are faced by teachers and students in the teaching and learning of English for special purposes (ESP) in multilingual nations. A survey recently found that although 98 percent knew that English was the sole language of instruction at the institution, only 49 percent expected to study English as a subject in any form as part of their curriculum. Many students looked upon English as a subject of study necessary only to gain entrance into the university, and had little motivation to study it past the secondary level. Other problems faced by teachers and students include the multilingual background of the learners, lack of cooperation from teachers of other subjects, the need to import language materials, poor levels of language teacher training, and large class sizes. An alternative approach to ESP is suggested, one in which the learner's native language and other languages in the learner's environment play a major role in tertiary education. The importation of culturally and educationally irrelevant materials is noted along with the urgent need for teacher training reform.


2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 83-99
Author(s):  
Jana Majerčíková ◽  
Anna Rebendová

Abstract The study is of empirical character. It presents a story of a kindergarten which is a private, a company and a university kindergarten. The establishing authority is a university that can preferentially accept children of its employees. The parents of the children financially contribute to running the kindergarten.The research was based on the strategy of a one-case study. This integrated quantitative and qualitative research approach. Data from two types of questionnaires were used in the study presenting interviews with parents, teachers, students in teacher training and members of the school board, as well as data from observations of the educational process and from the analyses of the available school documentation. The aim was to describe the kindergarten and the contexts in which it operates, explain its operation and clarify the mechanics, circumstances and subjects it is most influenced by. Three basic factors influencing the school’s operation and fulfilling its function emerged from the collected data: the relations with the establishing authority, the community of university-educated parents and the status of a faculty school providing space for practical training of the students in teacher training. The major conclusion that emerged from the study is: The kindergarten works in specific conditions with strong contextual conditioning linked to the university environment and the authority’s conditions.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 238212051773877
Author(s):  
Matthews Tiwaone Mkandawire ◽  
Zubing Luo ◽  
Felix Kondwani Maulidi

About half of the secondary school teachers in Malawi are professionally unqualified. Furthermore, the net enrolment of eligible pupils in secondary schools is at 36% per year. Hence, this study sought to establish factors affecting access to quality and relevant secondary education in Malawi with reference to coordination, collaboration, and feedback between secondary school teacher education institutions and the Ministry of Education. Officials from the Ministry of Education and secondary school teacher training colleges participated in the study. Findings suggest that there is weak collaboration, coordination, and feedback between teacher training institutions and the Ministry of Education which is affecting the quality and relevance of education in Malawi. The study has also established that the weak linkage has resulted into perceived mismatches between expectations of the ministry and those of the education institutions about the problem in question. Theoretical and practical implications of this study are discussed in this article.


Comunicar ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 9 (18) ◽  
pp. 130-136
Author(s):  
Raquel Casado-Muñoz

Disabilities concerning mass communications media is an important subject of enquiry for several reasons: because of the influencing role the mass media play in shaping social images; because it raises the awareness of the people to the problems of disadvantaged groups; and as an insightful didactic resource to be used in teacher training for critical-analytical purposes. Mainly with reference to the latter, we aim to show a practical approach carried out with students at the Teacher Training College of the University of Burgos. La discapacidad en los medios de comunicación es un tema relevante por distintos motivos: por la influencia que los medios tienen en la configuración de imágenes sociales en la población; por su papel sensibilizador ante los problemas de colectivos desfavorecidos; y como recurso didáctico para formar a los futuros maestros desde un planteamiento reflexivo y crítico. Situados fundamentalmente en esta última perspectiva, describimos una experiencia llevada a cabo con estudiantes de Magisterio de la Universidad de Burgos


2018 ◽  
pp. 189-196
Author(s):  
Ernst Håkon Jahr

The University of Agder changed status from a university college to a full-fledged university with all university privileges in 2007. However, the academic roots of the university go back to the year 1839, when the first teacher training college was established in Holt in Agder, close to the small town of Tvedestrand. This year (2014), then, the University of Agder can celebrate that the oldest studies at the university are 175 years old. This paper takes a closer look at the man who became the first rector of the college at Holt, the priest Andreas Faye (1802-69). Faye was an extremely active scholar and an important pioneer in several areas – folklore, history and education being perhaps the most important ones. This paper also shows how he, and more than his contemporary Norwegian colleagues, was engaged in an international network of researchers, especially in Denmark and Germany.


Author(s):  
Francesca Costa ◽  
Amanda Murphy

The internationalisation process in European universities has increased since the Bologna declaration was signed in 1999, with many universities adopting English-Medium Instruction as a top-down strategy to improve the international profile of the institution. Against this background, a research and training centre in a university in the North of Italy has responded to requests from some academic staff for the enhancement of their preparation for teaching in English. The centre offers training modules on EMI teaching to international classes. Drawing on the data collected during the modules, and based on a questionnaire sent to 150 lecturers engaged in EMI in a variety of disciplines within the university, this paper reports on the attitudes of lecturers to teaching their subject in English and on adapting contents and teaching methods to international classes. The results reveal a variety of attitudes among lecturers and point to a need to change some teaching practices in relation to the syllabus as well as the type of assessment adopted. Moreover, there is a need to strike a balance between respecting cultural differences in international classes and connecting international students with the local culture.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fariha Azalea

University is relatively considered a stressful moment in the life of students due to numerous academic workloads and academic activities. The situation is further aggravated by the fact that some university students are in emerging adulthood, a developmental period which is psychologically fraught with uncertainty, instability and identity issues among others. Added to these, the context of most universities like Cameroon which is marred with political, economic and social turbulence common to other developing societies in the sub Saharan region makes life unbearable. Looking at the challenges that confront tertiary education students in the third decade of life, increases possibilities of fears that they will founder thus narrowing the route to a blossomed transition into adulthood and through the university from home into the world of work. However, observations reveal that some have remained hopeful as they continuously believe in themselves and their worth. As such, they have resiliently shrugged off the vast burden placed on them by the adult society as they struggle intentionally with continuous efforts to succeed. Being hopeful and self-efficacy beliefs are observed to be some of the effective drivers that pull emerging adults through the storms of university transition thus facilitating positive development into subsequent life stages. Unfortunately just a paucity of literature albeit theoretically actually narrates via scholarly corridors the monumental successes recorded by students as they sail flourishingly through university in the midst of storms an in the third decade of life. This paper examines and addresses the foregoing through the lenses of some theories.


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