scholarly journals Pre-service Teachers Perspectives towards English Teaching as a Career Option

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Ida Ayu Mela Tustiawati
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Career Path ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Career Option ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
Teachers Perspectives

Education is one of the parameters to the success of a country. As part of the education system, teachers play an important role. The teaching profession that is now considered to be a well-respected profession in society used to be considered as a way to show your dedication to the country. With the change of view towards the teaching profession, more people are attracted to this profession. However, the number of students who enroll themselves in the teaching training universities and the numbers of graduates who become teachers are not the same. Some of them may become teachers but some of them decide to choose a different career path. This study tries to identify the initial perspectives of the pre-service teachers on the English teaching as a career option through the application of questionnaires. The result shows that majority of the participants have positive perspectives towards English teaching as a career option. They view English teaching as a career that will give them a chance to work with the younger generation and help others. It is also viewed as a respectable job that is quite flexible in their application. Even though the current teaching profession offers good financial support, the finding shows that it is not the main reason why the participants decide to be a teacher.

Effective ways to study the works of great ancestors

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-149
Author(s):  
Bahodir Kuchkarov
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Education System ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Educational Changes ◽  
Younger Generation

In Uzbekistan, special attention is paid to the study of historical, national and spiritual values ​​in the context of socio-economic, spiritual and educational changes. All necessary conditions for the education of young people are now created. The fundamental task of today is to radically change the education system, to educate the younger generation in the spirit of enlightenment, and to encourage patriotism and creativity of the young. In this article, I will discuss the importance of studying the works of ancient great thinkers and to conduct lessons by using topics related to the personality and works of great ancestors in terms of shaping the students' spiritual outlook.

From self-evident norms to contingent couplings: A systems-theoretical analysis of changes in the relationship between schools and the function systems in Denmark

2021 ◽  
pp. 147490412110097
Author(s):  
Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen ◽  
Justine Grønbæk Pors
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Education System ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
School Governance ◽  
World Society ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Point Of Departure

Taking a point of departure in the paradoxical fact that the increase in educational knowledge leads to an increase in uncertainty for educational organisations, this article explores how uncertainty and contingency have increasingly become an integral part of school governance. The article draws on Niklas Luhmann’s theory of ‘World Society’ as a functional differentiated society providing a range of different symbolic media for educational organisations. To trace the increase in the complexity of governing, we provide a historical account of the shifting couplings between schools and function systems. We show how the school becomes linked to an increasing number of symbolic media so that education becomes only one out of many other concerns. The article studies the consequences these shifting couplings have for how schools are governed and how they are expected to self-manage their relationship to different function systems. The article adds to existing studies of how education has become more and more differentiated with the argument that this has also led to new forms of couplings between schools and the education system with a number of important implications for the teaching profession.

scholarly journals English Teachers’ Perspectives on Using Music in English Language Teaching in Thai Secondary Schools

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Xiaowei Xi
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Teachers Attitudes ◽  
Teachers Perspectives

The present study aimed to 1) investigate English teachers’ perspectives on using music in English teaching in Thai secondary schools; and 2) explore the problems teachers met while using music to teach English in Thai secondary schools. Participants in the present study were 55 English teachers from different secondary schools in central Bangkok, Thailand. The instrument for the current study was a questionnaire which included 24 Likert-scale items about teachers’ perspectives involving the attitudes, beliefs, intentions and problems of using music in English teaching, and one open-ended question asking about the problems teachers met while using music in their English teaching. Results from the quantitative data of the current study revealed the significantly positive attitudes and beliefs of the English teachers in Thai secondary schools on using music in English teaching, however, the results of open-ended question mismatched with the teachers’ attitudes and beliefs, which indicated that teachers actually did not use music in their English teaching frequently. The reasons and recommendations for future research have been discussed.

scholarly journals New Curriculum Reform in China and its Impact on Teachers

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Linyuan Guo
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Reform ◽  
Education System ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Complex Dimensions ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Impact

China, the developing country with the largest and oldest public education system, is transforming its education system through a nation-wide curriculum reform. This large-scale curriculum change signifies China's complex and multi-dimensional processes and endeavors in empowering its educational system to meet the challenges and opportunities in the era of globalization. This paper reports on an interpretive case study with a particular interest in understanding the impact of the nation-wide curriculum reform on teachers in urban areas. Findings from this study present the complex dimensions of teachers’ lived experiences during this dramatic education change and shed new insights on the current teaching profession in urban China.

scholarly journals Polish Education After the EU Accession

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-32
Author(s):  
Eugeniusz Suwiński
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Education System ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Accession Process ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Eu

Abstract The aim of the paper is to present changes undergone by the Polish education system after the accession to the European Union. In the article the changes are collated together with the main and distinctive trends which had existed in Europe before the accession and the ones that were introduced subsequently. The article shows that the tendency to unify the member states’ education systems is non-existent in the European Union. It also points out that the importance attached to education by the EU member states has not been as considerable as the importance given to economy. The paper is divided into two main parts. The main objective of the first part is to describe the decision-making process in the member states (as far as the common education policy is concerned) and its result, which was the report stating that education was considered to be a peculiar area of social politics and as such required separate arrangements and decisions. Therefore, there are neither specific procedures nor integration requirements for the associated and associating countries. However, as far as Poland is concerned, during the accession process the country was obliged to meet the expected standards, in particular the standards in the reform of the education structure and curriculum. The second part of the paper comprises the analysis of Polish activity in the following fields: –– lowering the age of the compulsory education commencement, –– reforming the structure of the education system and curriculum, –– practising teaching profession. The article further elaborates at length on the significant factor in the process of democratization of education, which is parents’ involvement in the functioning of a school.

scholarly journals Prestige, status, and esteem of educational occupation in Kazakhstan: temporal, regional and gender analysis of payroll data

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-190
Author(s):  
Kuanysh Tastanbekova
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Payment System ◽  
Highly Qualified Teachers ◽  
Gender Analysis ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Effective Measure ◽  
Qualified Teachers ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Low Pay

Since gaining independence after the dissolution of the USSR, the education system in Kazakhstan has undergone significant reformations. Retention of highly qualified teachers is crucial for successful reforms. However, educational occupation that employs almost one million people, the majority of the workforce (26.5%) in the economy, is one of the lowest paying sectors. Low pay causes unpopularity of teaching profession among youth, aging and high feminization of the personnel, harms prestige, status and esteem of teachers and thus intensifies turnover and makes retention of qualified teachers a difficult task. This study proposes to use temporal, spatial and gender three-tiers payroll data to analyze prestige, status, and esteem of educational occupation in Kazakhstan. It argues that while improving a social package is important, fundamental reforms of the payment system in education are likely to be the most effective measure to improve the prestige and status of teachers.

scholarly journals Teaching Profession Attitudes and the Anxiety towards Mathematics Teaching of Turkish and Kosovan Teachers

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Bunyamin Aydin ◽  
Dilek Sezgin Memnun
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Education System ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
Anxiety Levels ◽  
Teachers Attitudes

Kosovo needs some improvements about its education system and requires some essential and rapid changes in teachers' attitudes towards their profession and in teacher training. Attitude and anxiety are important components that affect the success in profession life and teaching of them. Because of that, the aim of this research is to examine the attitude towards teaching profession and the anxiety towards mathematics teaching, and to explore the differences between the attitude and the anxiety levels of Kosovan and Turkish teachers. The attitude towards teaching profession and the anxiety towards mathematics teaching scales were applied to a total of 64 teachers with this aim. A total of 29 of these teachers were from Turkey while a total of 35 of them were from Kosovo. These teachers were determined randomly from the teachers working in Turkey and Kosovo. At the data analysis stage, firstly total points were divided into the items for each scale and then average points were calculated separately for each one. After that, descriptive statistics and variance analysis were applied to the average points. After the analysis of the data, it was understood that there was not a significant difference between the anxiety towards mathematics teaching of Kosovan and Turkish teachers while there was a significant difference between their attitudes about teaching profession. Besides, it was indicated that Kosovan teachers had a higher level of attitude towards teaching profession than Turkish teachers. Additionally, there were significant relationships between the attitude towards teaching profession and the anxiety towards mathematics teaching not only for Turkish teachers but also Kosovan teachers.

Social Biography of a Late Ottoman Shari'a Judge

2004 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 83-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris Agmon
Keyword(s):  
Financial Support ◽  
Career Path ◽  
The Body ◽  
Late Ottoman

In July 1910 a letter, signed by Şamlı Abdülkadir Hikmet'ul-Hatib, arrived at the ministry of Şeyhülislam (Bab-ı meşihat or Bab-ı fetva) in Istanbul. The writer notified the ministry about the death of his father, the former shari'a judge (naib) of Jaffa, Hatibzâde Ebu'n-Nasr Efendi, adding that before his father died, he had appointed him as executor of his will. Accordingly, he asked the officials to allocate him financial support on behalf of his father's dependents: two widows and three orphans, a son and two daughters (SA dos. 3720, 3 Temmuz 1326/17 IIV 1910). The letter was passed on to the Council for Orphan Affairs (Meclis idare-i eytam), the body in charge of supporting the widows and orphans of deceased ulema. From there, it was transmitted to other departments in the ministry with requests to provide information about the late judge's career path, apparently in order to calculate the financial support for which the judge's relatives were eligible (ibid., doc. 1852, 19 B 1328/27 IIV 1910; doc. 417, 4 Ş 1328/11 IHV 1910; list, 17 Ş 1328/24 IIIV 1910). This letter, with the comments and information added by the clerks, was the last document filed in the personal dossier of the late judge in the archive of Bab-ı meşihat.

scholarly journals The Institutionalized Stratification of the Chinese Higher Education System

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fei Shu ◽  
Cassidy R. Sugimoto ◽  
Vincent Larivière
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Education System ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Research Capacity ◽  
Chinese Higher Education ◽  
Research System ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
System P

To promote research excellence, China’s government has been offering substantial financial support for a small group of selected universities through three national research programs (i.e., Project 211, Project 985, Double First Class). However, admission to these programs is not merit-based; based on a statistical analysis of Chinese universities’ scientific activities, this paper shows that this institutionalized hierarchy is not supported by empirical data on research performance, which contributes to inequalities and inefficiencies in Chinese higher education. To build and maintain research capacity, China must support meritocracy across the research system.

scholarly journals INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND PERSPECTIVES OF THE TEACHING PROFESSION

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 178-183
Author(s):  
Rudolf L. Livshits ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Education System ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Technical Device ◽  
The Social ◽  
Telephone Operators ◽  
Mental Operations

The progress of information technology is viewed as an aspect of the development of the social productive forces. At first, the use of information technology leads to the displacement of elementary types of labor activity that do not require complex mental operations and more advanced types of it afterwards. This raises the question of what awaits teachers as a social group. Will there be a significant reduction in the number of teaching staff? And won't the teaching profession disappear altogether, as the pro-fessions of telephone operators and secretaries-typists have previously sunk into oblivion? We proceed from the fact that information technology, facilitating the handling of information, can and should be a teacher's assistant, since the learning process is largely asso-ciated with its assimilation and comprehension. But no technical device can replace the teacher, because teaching is a process of spir-itual growth of the student's personality, which occurs under the influence of the teacher's personality. Based on this view, a number of arguments are formulated against the idea of "optimization" of the education system and speaking bluntly, against the reduction of the number of teachers and the intensification of their work.

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