scholarly journals Joy in learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 54-77
Author(s):  
Marita Cronqvist
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Teacher Support ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Compulsory School ◽  
Decisive Importance ◽  
Current Context

Both in research and in the Swedish curricula, positive emotions such as joy, pleasure and desire are said to stimulate learning. However, it is not clear what the meaning of joy is in relation to learning. The purpose of this phenomenological study is to gain knowledge about the essential meanings of the phenomenon joy in learning for children aged 9 and 12 years in compulsory school. The questions are as follows: What meanings constitute the phenomenon joy in learning in the current context? What implications do the findings have for teaching? The study is phenomenological and is based on interviews with or written stories by the participating children. The findings indicate how joy stimulates learning and emerges when children understand and ‘own’ their learning process. Teachers are important as ‘facilitators’ for joy in learning through being supportive and inspiring. Joy in learning during lessons is related to joy and friendship during school breaks. Teachers’ decisive importance for joy is discussed in relation to various modalities of pedagogical contact. Conclusions can be drawn that school breaks need attention from a learning perspective and that children need teacher support to understand their learning process.

scholarly journals EXPLORIA, a New Way to Teach Maths at University Level as Part of Everything

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1082
Author(s):  
Pantaleón D. Romero ◽  
Nicolas Montes ◽  
Sara Barquero ◽  
Paula Aloy ◽  
Teresa Ferrer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Colour Space ◽  
Engineering Degree ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
University Level ◽  
Academic Results

The main objective of this article has been to evaluate the effect that the implementation of the EXPLORIA project has had on the Engineering Degree in Industrial Design and Product Development. The EXPLORIA project aims to develop an integrated competence map of the learning process, where the subjects are no longer considered as isolated contents, by elaborating an integrated learning process where the competences and learning outcomes of the subjects are considered as a whole, global and comprehensive learning. The EXPLORIA project connects the competencies of the different STEAM subjects that make up the degree, designing a learning process as a logical, sequential and incremental itinerary. Through concepts on which the foundations of design are based—shape, volume, colour, space and structure—the competencies of the different subjects are defined in incremental learning levels: understanding, applying, experimenting and developing, all taken from Bloom’s taxonomy. Mathematics is linked to the rest of learning through active learning methodologies that make learning useful. This new methodology changes the student’s affective domain towards mathematics in which positive emotions are transformed into positive attitudes that will improve the learning result and therefore, the students’ academic results. To validate it, at the end of the paper, the academic results compared with previous years are shown, as well as an ad hoc survey of the students’ assessment of the new teaching methodology.

scholarly journals Play, Playfulness, and Self-Efficacy: Parental Experiences with Children on the Autism Spectrum

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosa Román-Oyola ◽  
Verónica Figueroa-Feliciano ◽  
Yoliannie Torres-Martínez ◽  
Jorge Torres-Vélez ◽  
Keyshla Encarnación-Pizarro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Internal Control ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Comparison Method ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Parental Experiences ◽  
Coaching Strategies

Background. Play serves as an essential medium for parent-child interaction; however, engaging children with ASD through play can be a challenge for parents.Purpose. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the perspectives of parents with children on the autism spectrum regarding play experiences and self-efficacy during play encounters.Method. Semistructured interviews were administered to 8 parents of children 3–7 years of age with ASD. The analysis was guided by the constant comparison method.Findings. Parental narratives denoted playful experiences reflecting components of Skard and Bundy’s model of playfulness. The facilitation of framing and suspension of reality were generally more challenging than facilitating intrinsic motivation and internal control. Participants associated self-efficacy during play with their perceived ability to interact with their child and with positive emotions experienced during play. Fathers generally derived a greater sense of self-efficacy from play encounters than mothers, and this was explained by differences in fathers’ and mothers’ motivations for playing. Mothers were motivated to play for outcome-oriented reasons (e.g., promote the child’s progress) whereas fathers’ motivations depicted greater emotional emphasis, reflecting a better match between motivation and perceived indicators of efficacy during play.Conclusion. The results suggest that a good match between motivation for playing and perceived indicators of efficacy during play is important for a parental sense of self-efficacy. Occupational therapists should utilize coaching strategies to increase parents’ understanding of play and playfulness and how they can affect a sense of parental self-efficacy.

scholarly journals Learning Strategies Employed in English Language: Perceptions and Practices

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 87-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pitambar Paudel
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
English Language ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Learning Goal ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
Teaching Learning

Learning strategies are the key tools to determine the approach for achieving the learning goal. They are included in different phases of teaching learning process. They are usually tied to the needs and interests of students to enhance their learning efficiency. This article aims at exploring perspectives and practices of learning strategies in learning English language. For this, phenomenological descriptive qualitative research was conducted with a class of 48 students of Bachelor in Education at a constituent campus, under Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Both the class of the students and campus were selected purposively to meet the requirement of phenomenological study. Thirty classes were observed as a participant as well as teacher and from the same group of the students only ten students were interviewed. Then, the data from both the sources were triangulated, interpreted and analyzed descriptively. From this study, it was interpreted that students employed various strategies to learn different language skills and aspects. The study revealed that students felt difficulty in selecting proper learning strategy for learning grammatical rules due to many exceptional cases and listening skill due to their less time devotion on it while the felt ease to select and employ proper strategies in learning vocabulary.

EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING IN SCHOOLS

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 116-125
Author(s):  
Gunita Elksne ◽  
Zanda Rubene
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Passive State ◽  
Human Organism ◽  
Quantitative Research Methods ◽  
The Central Nervous System ◽  
The Impact

The goal of the paper was to research the emotional well-being of students, teachers, and factors that impact it using quantitative research methods. Research was a case study and reflects a situation in one particular school. Emotional well-being plays an important role in personality development. Presence or absence of emotions like joy, satisfaction, trust, and reliance determines the perception, thinking, and actions of students. Positive emotions cause energetic and functional mobilization of the central nervous system and the whole human organism, promotes purposeful actions by connecting cognitive processes with fulfillment of student’s current needs. Emotions either enable or disable the learning process for a student. If positive emotions are absent, brain is in a passive state - active learning starts when emotions activate the brain. The impact of emotions on a student in the learning process can be mainly observed through attention that is payed towards studying; however, positive emotions that are connected to studying can also promote student’s interest in the study subject. Positive emotions can encourage several abilities like interest, enthusiasm, optimism, loyalty and the motivation to act. In addition, thinking can also be enabled, as well as an improvement in the ability to learn new things. These abilities make the learning process more productive. As a large part of students day is spent at school their emotional well-being is directly related to emotional well-being of pedagogues. It is crucial that a pedagogue is able to be aware of their own emotions and feelings and knows how to accept them and use them in solving pedagogical situations, as well as improving of his/her own life while still acting within professional ethical norms.  

Teacher support and math engagement: roles of academic self-efficacy and positive emotions

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ru-De Liu ◽  
Rui Zhen ◽  
Yi Ding ◽  
Ying Liu ◽  
Jia Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Teacher Support ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Academic Self Efficacy

scholarly journals O ENSINO DA ADMINISTRAÇÃO DA PRODUÇÃO E OPERAÇÕES NA CIDADE DE MARINGÁ-PR: análise das metodologias e abordagens teóricas utilizadas nos cursos de graduação em Administração

Revista Foco ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Igor Gonçalves Guerreiro ◽  
Priscilla Borgonhoni Chagas
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Operations Management ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The City ◽  
Qualitative Discussion

Este trabalho tem por objetivo compreender as metodologias e abordagens teóricas utilizadas pelos docentes das Instituições de Ensino Superior da cidade de Maringá-PR para ministrar a disciplina da Administração da Produção e Operações (APO). O trabalho adota uma pesquisa qualitativa, na qual entrevistas semiestruturadas foram aplicadas com nove docentes que ministram a disciplina de APO em seis instituições da cidade. Os resultados apresentaram as metodologias de ensino utilizadas pelos docentes para ministrar o conteúdo, contribuindo para as instituições avaliarem os desafios que possuem no processo ensino-aprendizagem, bem como realizar uma análise dessas práticas, impactando na qualidade do ensino. Essa avaliação influencia na matriz curricular e ementa das instituições pesquisadas do curso de Administração, pois algumas concepções e ferramentas dos sistemas de produção não são ministradas pelos professores por não comporem o conteúdo programático da disciplina, impactando na qualidade do processo ensino-aprendizagem. Por fim, o artigo colabora com a discussão qualitativa da educação brasileira, contribuindo para que as instituições reflitam sobre o ensino e a formação do administrador no contexto atual. The aim of this article is to understand the methodologies and theoretical approaches used by the teachers of the Institutions of Higher Education in the city of Maringá-PR to minister the discipline of the Production and Operations Management (POM). The study adopts a qualitative research, in which semi-structured interviews were applied with nine professors that minister the POM discipline in six institutions of the city. The results presented the teaching methodologies used by the teachers to deliver the content, contributing to the institutions to evaluate the challenges they have in the teaching-learning process, as well as to carry out an analysis of these practices, impacting on the quality of teaching. This evaluation influences in the curricular matrix and the menu of the researched institutions of the Administration course, since some conceptions and tools of the production systems are not taught by the teachers because they do not make up the programmatic content of the discipline, impacting on the quality of the teaching-learning process. Finally, the article contributes to the qualitative discussion of Brazilian education, contributing to the institutions' reflection on the teaching and formation of the administrator in the current context.

scholarly journals Från förväntningar till motstånd och anpassning. Fyra barns övergångar till och från förskoleklass

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Ackesjö
Keyword(s):  
Compulsory School ◽  
Children’S Perspectives ◽  
Preschool Class ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Over Time

This article focuses the Swedish preschool class and the transitions from preschool to compulsory school, out from children’s perspectives. The study indicates that children, in these transitions, are constructing identities such as future pupils, Ex preschoolers, playful preschool class children and adjusted and responsible pupils. It’s indicated that children’s ways of defining themselves, and their markings of borders between the institutions, are changing over time and are depending on the current context. The study also highlights how Swedish children conduct two school entries where they have to reconstruct both their identities and their understanding of institutional borders.

scholarly journals Philosophical and Biological Foundation of Brain Based Learning: A Phenomenological Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Fozia Fatima ◽  
Sabir Ali
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Subjective Method ◽  
Brain Based Learning ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Biological Foundation

This investigation was undertaken to look at the philosophical and biological foundation of brain based learning through phenomenological approach. Subjective method of investigation was used. Interviews were taken through semi-structures procedure in which 12 instructors were involved as a sample. Two topics of the examination were assessed and it was discovered that authenticity, optimism, realism, dualism, naturalism, cognizant and oblivious part of cerebrum and constructivism were straightforwardly related with brain oriented learning approach. Correspondingly, Brain is not organically comprehended by the educator completely in light of the fact because cerebrum discovery is tranquil as a young ground of teaching learning process. Instructor have been rehearsing cerebrum based adapting normally yet they are not ready to express a reasonable balanced for their activity yet the educators still practice the mind based adapting adequately. Keywords:  Brain-Based Learning, Philosophical and Biological Foundation, Phenomenological Study

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