Adult Education Philosophies Guiding Educational Theory and Practice: The Case of Greek Primary Education Teacher Counselors

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 393-406
Author(s):  
Labrina Gioti
Author(s):  
Bella V. Sergeeva

The relevance of the problem is due to the requirement of pedagogical theory and practice in ensuring professional self-development of a future primary education teacher and the existing imperfection of modern technological means of supporting professional self-development of a future primary education teacher in a digital educational environment. The information support of professional self-development of the future primary education teacher in the digital educational environment is considered. A theoretical review of the concepts of “information educational environment” and “digital educational environment” is also presented. The closest, in the context of the study, is the definition of a digital educational environment, as a combination of digital educational technologies, means and related resources that ensure the educational process in the context of society digitalization. The informational means of implementation were the technologies of pedagogical support of professional self-development of the future primary education teacher, which were substantively modernized: “Time Management” technologies, projects, web quests, modeling, foresight technologies, discussions, project technologies, various social and moral practices, modeling and gamification of future professional strategies, technology of achievements and success (competitions, olympiads). In the framework of this work, we substantiate a new scientific direction in the field of the theory and methods of professional education, substantiating both theoretical and applied solutions to the important problem of pedagogical support of the process of professional self-development of a future primary education teacher in accordance with the requirements of federal state educational standards of higher education, as well as the standard of profession “Teacher”.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3341
Author(s):  
Jesús Maya ◽  
Juan F. Luesia ◽  
Javier Pérez-Padilla

Universities strive to ensure quality education focused on the diversity of the student body. According to experiential learning theory, students display different learning preferences. This study has a three-fold objective: to compare learning styles based on personal and educational variables, to analyze the association between learning styles, the level of academic performance, and consistency of performance in four assessment methods, and to examine the influence of learning dimensions in students with medium-high performance in the assessment methods. An interdisciplinary approach was designed involving 289 psychology, early childhood education and primary education students at two universities in Spain. The Learning Style Inventory was used to assess learning styles and dimensions. The assessment methods used in the developmental psychology course included the following question formats: multiple-choice, short answer, creation-elaboration and an elaboration question on the relationship between theory and practice. Univariate analysis, multivariate analysis, and binomial logistic models were computed. The results reveal Psychology students to be more assimilative (theoretical and abstract), while early childhood and primary education students were evenly distributed among styles and were more divergent and convergent (practical) in absolute terms. In addition, high scores in perception (abstract conceptualization) were associated with a high level of performance on the multiple-choice tests and the elaboration question on the relationship between theory and practice. Abstract conceptualization was also associated with medium-high performance in all assessment methods and this variable predicted consistent high performance, independent of the assessment method. This study highlights the importance of promoting abstract conceptualization. Recommendations for enhancing this learning dimension are presented.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Madkur ◽  
Abdullah Farih ◽  
Ahmad Ridho Rojab ◽  
Andini Linarsih ◽  
Beny Hamdani ◽  
...  

This is a great effort to summarize bright ideas about educational theory and practice, especially English language education and teaching, during the COVID-19 pandemic. This anthology book will be very useful for teachers, lecturers, students, and education practitioners, especially language education, to gain experience that can be directly practiced in online, face-to-face classes, or a combination of online and faceto-face. Hopefully, this small effort that has great benefits can be continued by IELA (Indonesian English Lecturer Association) in particular and seminar organizers in general to produce important writings containing theoretical and practical ideas that are useful for the advancement of education, especially language education in Indonesia. By sharing this knowledge and experience, we can transfer these smart ideas to fellow teachers and lecturers, researchers, and practitioners to be able to solve some teaching problems with this solution.


Author(s):  
Paul Wood

George Turnbull was an early champion of the use of empirical methods in the moral sciences. Involved in contemporary religious debate, he favoured religious toleration and the use of rational argument in defence of Christian belief. He also made contributions to educational theory and practice.


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