‘I believe in humanity’

“Education as it always should have been”. That was the motto of the summer school where I taught anthropology for a three-week programme aimed secondary school students. The implications of this slogan went far beyond cognitive goals, aiming at the very acquisition of socioemotional skills and, in my case, the transformation of our idea of humanity and our role within society as human beings. This paper will try to discuss some of the teaching experiences of this period to better understand the nature of an education for uncertain (but hopeful) times and the value of methodologies that address uncertainty as prelude for a personal and social growth.

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Evaluation of a Summer-School Program for Highly Gifted Secondary-School Students: The German Pupils Academy

European Journal of Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1027//1015-5759.18.3.214 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 214-228 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Heinz Neber ◽

Kurt A. Heller

Keyword(s):

Secondary School ◽

Summer School ◽

Secondary School Students ◽

Social Cognitive ◽

Gifted Students ◽

School Program ◽

School Students ◽

Positive Effects ◽

Regulatory Strategies ◽

Cognitive Framework

Summary The German Pupils Academy (Deutsche Schüler-Akademie) is a summer-school program for highly gifted secondary-school students. Three types of program evaluation were conducted. Input evaluation confirmed the participants as intellectually highly gifted students who are intrinsically motivated and interested to attend the courses offered at the summer school. Process evaluation focused on the courses attended by the participants as the most important component of the program. Accordingly, the instructional approaches meet the needs of highly gifted students for self-regulated and discovery oriented learning. The product or impact evaluation was based on a multivariate social-cognitive framework. The findings indicate that the program contributes to promoting motivational and cognitive prerequisites for transforming giftedness into excellent performances. To some extent, the positive effects on students' self-efficacy and self-regulatory strategies are due to qualities of the learning environments established by the courses.

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Environmental Ethics for Sustainable Development: A Comparative Study on Tribal and Non-Tribal Secondary School Students

International Journal of Indian Psychology ◽

10.25215/0401.083 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Tanveer Ahmad Bhat ◽

Prof. Ahrar Husain

Keyword(s):

Secondary School ◽

Secondary Students ◽

Environmental Ethics ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Secondary School Students ◽

Human Beings ◽

School Students ◽

Jammu And Kashmir ◽

Student Community ◽

Novel Association

Science, as a part of way of life, has been developed to help human beings and has the ethical responsibility of improving the quality of life. As far as Environment is concerned, the preliminary harmonic association between man and Environment has been critically distressed throughout current decades. The unrestrained progression of Technology and mankind’s leading performance over Nature, have shaped serious environmental troubles. Unless these troubles will be restricted, they may create lasting unfavorable trends which may even put at risk earth’s capacity. In order to attain feasible progress and harmonious coexistence between Mankind and Nature, mankind has to shape a novel association with the environment. At present the world is witnessing numerous environmental problems, which are the result of un-mindful exploitations of natural resources by human beings. There is an urgent need to create environmental ethics among all the citizens in general and student community in particular so as to enable us in ensuring Environmental Sustainability which is one amongst the Millennium Development Goals. The present study was conducted on Tribal and Non-Tribal Secondary Students of Jammu and Kashmir on a randomly selected sample of 302 Tribal and 277 Non-Tribal Secondary School Students. The researcher found that the Non-Tribal Secondary School Students have high Environmental Ethics than their Tribal counterparts.

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Psychological Well-being of Senior Secondary School Students in Relation to Gender and Academic Achievement: An Empirical Study

Shanlax International Journal of Education ◽

10.34293/education.v9i2.3704 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 96-101

Author(s):

Bilal Ahmad Bhat

Keyword(s):

Academic Achievement ◽

Secondary School ◽

Secondary School Students ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Well Being ◽

Human Beings ◽

School Students ◽

Psychological Well Being ◽

Senior Secondary School ◽

Senior Secondary

India, one of the fast growing and developing nations of the world, is doing well in growth, but it is not up to the mark in some fields. In science and technology, it is doing at par with other developed nations, and markable achievements are being touched. But in health or human growth, most of the population is not clear about the importance of health and human potentials. Many portions of the population are not aware of the positive aspects of human beings that can help them to flourish. The study has been done to find the psychological well-being of academic achievement and gender. For the study, a sample of 519 senior secondary school students from different senior secondary schools of Kulgam and Anantnag districts of Kashmir valley were selected. The sample was drawn by using a multi-stage stratified sampling technique. The tools of data collection were Psychological Well-Being Scale (PWBS) developed by Dr. Devendra Singh Sisodia and Ms. Pooja Choudhary (2012) and academic achievement as the marks obtained by senior secondary school students in the board examination conducted by JKBOSE. The data obtained from these students were then analyzed using appropriate statistical techniques with the help of SPSS version 22. The paper also makes some suggestions, keeping the findings of the study in mind to enhance the psychological well-being of our budding human resource.

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TAHAP KESEDARAN DAN PEMBUDAYAAN ALAM SEKITAR DALAM KALANGAN PELAJAR SEKOLAH MENENGAH DI KOTA KINABALU, SABAH

MANU: Jurnal Pusat Penataran Ilmu dan Bahasa (PPIB) ◽

10.51200/manu.vi.3580 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 73-88

Author(s):

ABDUL HAIR BEDDU ASIS ◽

SYAMSUL AZIZUL MARINSAH ◽

HABIBAH @ ARTINI BINTI RAMLIE

Keyword(s):

Environmental Education ◽

Secondary School ◽

Secondary School Students ◽

Descriptive Analysis ◽

Environmental Issues ◽

School Curriculum ◽

Human Beings ◽

School Students ◽

Starting Point ◽

The Relationship

Isu alam sekitar telah menjadi ancaman yang sangat berbahaya kepada manusia. Kebergantungan manusia terhadap elemen alam sekitar memaksa manusia untuk masuk ke dalam sistem alam sekitar yang sangat terbatas. Cara terbaik untuk menjaga hubungan baik terhadap alam sekitar adalah melalui pemuliharaan dan pemeliharaan alam sekitar agar sentiasa lestari. Hal ini tentu sekali bermula daripada titik awal iaitu pendidikan. Pelbagai usaha menerapkan pendidikan alam sekitar ke dalam sistem kurikulum sekolah namun kesedaran terhadap alam sekitar dalam kalangan pelajar sekolah menengah masih berada pada tahap yang kurang memuaskan. Oleh hal yang demikian, kajian terhadap kesedaran dan amalan pendidikan berunsur alam sekitar dijalankan. Selain itu, hubungan antara kesedaran dan pembentukan amalan pendidikan alam sekitar dalam kalangan pelajar sekolah menengah di Kota Kinabalu turut dikenal pasti. Kajian ini menggunakan borang soal selidik yang diedarkan di sepuluh buah sekolah terpilih dengan jumlah responden seramai 500 orang dan analisis data dilakukan secara analisis deskriptif. Hasil dapatan menunjukkan hubungan antara kesedaran terhadap kepentingan alam sekitar dengan amalan pembudayaan amalan pendidikan alam sekitar dalam kalangan pelajar sekolah menengah di daerah Kota Kinabalu, Sabah adalah tidak signifikan. Environmental issues have become a very dangerous to human beings. Human dependence on environmental elements forces humans to adapt into a very limited environmental system. The best way to maintain good relations with the environment is through conservation and preservation of the environment so that it is always sustainable. This starts from the starting point which is education. Various efforts implemented environmental education into the school curriculum system but the environmental problems among school students are still at an unsatisfactory level. Therefore, this study was conducted to identified the level of awareness and practice of environmental education as well as to measure the relationship between awareness and practice of environmental education among secondary school students in Kota Kinabalu. This study uses a questionnaire distributed in ten selected schools with a total of 500 respondents and data analysis was done by descriptive analysis. The results of this study found that there is no significant relationship between environmental awareness and practices on environmental culture among secondary school students in the district of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.

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Environmental Awareness and Emotional Maturity: A Study on Secondary School Students

International Journal of Indian Psychology ◽

10.25215/0304.120 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Tanveer Ahmad Bhat ◽

Prof. Ahrar Husain ◽

Mukhtar Ahmad Wani

Keyword(s):

Secondary School ◽

Secondary School Students ◽

Environmental Awareness ◽

Human Beings ◽

School Students ◽

Jammu And Kashmir ◽

Emotional Maturity ◽

Student Community ◽

The World ◽

The Relationship

At present the world is witnessing numerous environmental problems, which are the result of un-mindful exploitations of natural resources by human beings. There is an urgent need to create environmental awareness among all the citizens in general and student community in particular. The present study was conducted to study the relationship between Environmental Awareness and Emotional Maturity among Secondary School Students in district Anantnag of Jammu and Kashmir on a sample of randomly selected 250 students. The researchers found that there is significant correlation in Environmental Awareness and Emotional Maturity among Secondary School Students.

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Ethnolinguistic Identity and Television Use in a Minority Language Setting

Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications ◽

10.1027/1864-1105/a000071 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 24 (4) ◽

pp. 135-142 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Jake Harwood ◽

Laszlo Vincze

Keyword(s):

Secondary School ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

Secondary School Students ◽

Minority Language ◽

German Language ◽

Tv Viewing ◽

School Students ◽

Ethnolinguistic Vitality ◽

Ethnolinguistic Identity ◽

Television Use

Based on the model of Reid, Giles and Abrams (2004 , Zeitschrift für Medienpsychologie, 16, 17–25), this paper describes and analyzes the relation between television use and ethnolinguistic-coping strategies among German speakers in South Tyrol, Italy. The data were collected among secondary school students (N = 415) in 2011. The results indicated that the television use of the students was dominated by the German language. A mediation analysis revealed that TV viewing contributed to the perception of ethnolinguistic vitality, the permeability of intergroup boundaries, and status stability, which in turn affected ethnolinguistic-coping strategies of mobility (moving toward the outgroup), creativity (maintaining identity without confrontation), and competition (fighting for ingroup rights and respect). Findings and theoretical implications are discussed.

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Smart Girls, Dumb Boys!?

Social Psychology ◽

10.1027/1864-9335/a000167 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 112-126 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Martin Latsch ◽

Bettina Hannover

Keyword(s):

Secondary School ◽

Stereotype Threat ◽

Gender Stereotypes ◽

Secondary School Students ◽

Learning Goals ◽

School Students ◽

Compensatory Strategies ◽

Media Portrayal ◽

Stereotype Lift ◽

The Media

We investigated effects of the media’s portrayal of boys as “scholastic failures” on secondary school students. The negative portrayal induced stereotype threat (boys underperformed in reading), stereotype reactance (boys displayed stronger learning goals towards mathematics but not reading), and stereotype lift (girls performed better in reading but not in mathematics). Apparently, boys were motivated to disconfirm their group’s negative depiction, however, while they could successfully apply compensatory strategies when describing their learning goals, this motivation did not enable them to perform better. Overall the media portrayal thus contributes to the maintenance of gender stereotypes, by impairing boys’ and strengthening girls’ performance in female connoted domains and by prompting boys to align their learning goals to the gender connotation of the domain.

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