HOLISTIC EDUCATIONAL APPROACH: COOPERATIVE LEARNING AND MINDFULNESS IN THE TRAINING OF FUTURE TEACHERS

2021 ◽  
pp. 237-252
Author(s):  
Consolación Gil ◽  
◽  
María Dolores Gil-Montoya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Mindful Attention Awareness Scale ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Development Of Attitudes ◽  
The University ◽  
New Education ◽  
Positive Results

Traditionaleducationalinstructionis being replaced by new, more holistic paradigms requiring both a methodological change and a new definition of the role of the teacher and students. This study proposes a new education paradigm based on active teamwork methodologies (such as cooperative learning)and mindfulness techniques. Cooperative learning is a well-known strategy that has obtained very positive results in the development of competences and skills. Mindfulness techniques favor the development of attitudes and values as well as increase dinner-calm, resulting in lower levels of stress and anxiety among both students and teachers. The proposed paradigm was implemented in a course of the master’s degree program for Secondary School Teachers at the University of Almeria (Spain). The results show that students were more engaged with the learning process and developeda greater sense of responsibility and empathy,not only towards their own learning but also to their classmates’ learning. The procedure included the application of the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) at the beginning and at the end of the course to measure the evolution of the students in different items related to mindfulness.

scholarly journals The Environmental Dimensions of Islam

2002 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-116
Author(s):  
Soumaya Pernilla Ouis
Keyword(s):  
Human Beings ◽  
Senior Lecturer ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Divine Origin ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Positive Force

Dr. Mawil Izzi Dien, Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University ofWales, has been writing about Islam and environmental issues for almosttwo decades. The Environmental Dimensions of Islam is a summary of hisprevious writings presented together with new additions. Izzi Dien is oneof the most prominent scholars in the new discourse of Islamic ecotheology,although he himself seldom refers to other Muslim scholars in this field,which somehow gives the wrong impression that he is the only one amongMuslims dealing with environmental issues.After a short introductory chapter, Izzi Dien discusses in chapter 2"The Environment and Its Components in Islam." This chapter gives aninformative introduction to Qur'anic terminology on various environmentalcomponents and their status in Islam, such as water, earth, living organisms,diversity and biogeological cycles.This Qur'anic terminology is further developed in chapter 3, deaLingwith theology pertaining to the environment. This chapter deals with issuessuch as the question of creation and the unseen and the Divine origin ofeverything: constancy, comprehensiveness, balance, and universal laws innature as the Creation. I sympathize with much of the argument presentedregarding the role of human beings in Creation, i.e., their trusteeship, partnershipand responsibility. This chapter would have been strengthened by adiscussion of the accusations from the environmental movement that themonotheistic religions represent an anthropocentric, and thus problematic,view of nature. For instance, the idea expressed in the Qur'an that God madenature subservient 􀀱·akhkhara) to human beings may be criticized (seeQur'anic verses 2:29; 45:12-13; and 14:33-34), but the author chooses notto discuss this concept at all or to refer to other scholars' criticisms.Another problem is his unusual definition of positivism, a philosophyheld accountable for promoting a hegemonic position of science associatedwith a problematic view of nature. He sees positivism as something thatIslam promotes, as in his view, it implies that human beings "are an active,positive force placed on this earth to construct, improve, and reform it." lnthe Qur'an we read about examples of how people who destroyed their ownhabitat were punished by God in the form of ecocatastrophes ...

scholarly journals Arguments for the definition of the ict skills for prospective teachers: university student perception about the role of teachers of mathematics in secondary

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 757-769
Author(s):  
Yuri Morales López
Keyword(s):  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Student Perception ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Introductory Mathematics ◽  
Secondary Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Technology Resources

In this paper we analyze the main factors (or indicators) that may be present in the use of technology resources, specifically the use of Personal Computer (PC) and, thus, try to infer about possible ways to take advantage of this resource. The main objective of this research was to determine the perception of university students about the role of secondary mathematics teacher, specifically from the technological perspective. For this purpose, we administered a survey to collect information of 264 students in a course of Introductory Mathematics MAX 084, in the first half of 2010 at the Universidad Nacional in Costa Rica. Principally, regarding how the mathematics teacher influenced the development of technological skills, useful for further training at the University.

scholarly journals MOOCs and their Influence on Higher Education Institutions: Perspectives from the Insiders

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel León-Urritia ◽  
Ruth Cobos ◽  
Kate Dickens
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
The University

Since Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) became a global phenomenon in 2012, there has been constant evolution in the way Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) make sense of them. HEIs embracing MOOCs have dedicated a variety of human resource to this venture. Only in a minority of cases, staff have been appointed exclusively to this role. In all other cases, MOOC related tasks have been allocated to professionals who were already performing other educational tasks. This article contains a study that captures the experiences of these professionals in a Spanish university and a British university, as relates to their involvement in MOOCs. Interviews and group sessions were conducted to ascertain the influence of MOOCs in their practice, and in their opinions about the role of MOOCs in their institutions. The results seem to suggest that participants have positive attitudes towards incorporating MOOCs at the university, although they demand a serious bet for this educational approach from the strategic decision makers in the institutions.

scholarly journals The intercultural encounter as a communicative event subject to mediation

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
Grażyna Zarzycka
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Speech Communication ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Original Definition ◽  
The Common ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University

The aim of this article is to discuss the place and role of the intercultural encounter (IE) in communication and education, including in foreign language teaching. Firstly, I present the IE as a communicative event and define it using terms developed by ethnographers of speech (communication). Secondly, I discuss the concepts contained in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Companion Volume with New Descriptors (CEFR 2018) relating to the mediation of text, concepts, and communication, and present the original definition of mediation in intercultural contacts. That section emphasises that mediation does not only act as an intermediary facilitating the course of a communication event but also as an “understanding interview with oneself.” Next, I discuss theoretical concepts related to the IE, I describe it as a tool used in teaching and intercultural education, and I present a description of the IE by a student of the Teaching Polish as a Foreign/Second Language course at the University of Lodz. Finally, I analyse an example description of an IE and present preliminary conclusions on how to use IE descriptions in various educational contexts.

Gaston Mialaret. Ostatni animator idei Nowego Wychowania

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (2 (252)) ◽  
pp. 9-23
Author(s):  
Irena Wojnar
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Educational Reform ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Sciences Humaines ◽  
The University ◽  
New Education ◽  
Changing Role

The article presents the activities and selected views of the French educationalist Gaston Mialaret on the centenary of his birthday. He was a long-time professor at Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines at the University of Caen. He combined the taste for empirical research with interest in philosophy. He continued and enriched the concepts of the New Education, especially the lasting importance of simultaneous research on the subsequent stages of child development and the implementation of education based on the assumptions of development pedagogy. He developed proposals for progressive educational reform presented in 1947 in the project “Le plan Langevin-Wallon”. On the background of the analysis of the changing role of education in the contemporary world, Mialaret showed the changing role of pedagogical studies and especially the new role of the teacher as an animator of educational acts and situations. The article emphasises the basic, in Mialaret’s opinion, the importance of the socalled active methods enabling the enrichment of personality at all levels of education and the development of the educational, intellectual, civic and cultural potential of each student.

scholarly journals Measuring Students’ Information Literacy Skills through Abstracting: Case Study from a Library & Information Science Perspective

2008 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Pinto ◽  
Andrés Fernández-Ramos ◽  
Anne-Vinciane Doucet
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Skill Levels ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Information Literacy Skills ◽  
The University ◽  
New Education

New education models based essentially on competencies and skills are gradually displacing the old systems based on teacher instruction and passive and memory-based learning in students, as these new competencies allow the student to learn actively with better levels of performance. We consider abstracting as a transcendent learning tool to analyze the basic role of information analysis and synthesis skills within the learning processes and their relation to the abstracting processes. Using an action-research methodology, we analyze the abstracting skill of students on the first and final courses of the Faculty of Library and Information Science at the University of Granada (Spain). Based on postulates from information literacy, analysis and synthesis competencies are studied through the students' modus operandi at the different abstracting stages. Similarities and differences between the two groups of students are perceived and displayed, with reference to the relation between the learned subjects and the levels of competence and skill. In the light of these results, meaningful patterns and recommendations for improving students' skill levels are proposed.

TO THE QUESTION ABOUT THE ROLE OF THE CURATOR IN THE UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL SPACE

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-246
Author(s):  
Горшкова ◽  
Marina Gorshkova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
System Approach ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Student Group ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Educational Conditions

At the present time the priority destination of the education system is formation of personality, which is socially and professionally competent, capable of creative search and of precise definition of his (her) location in the changing world, responsible and creative. The search for new approaches to education in educational institutions leads to the need to apply for the system approach, the study of the role and capacity of subjects, realizing it, including the teacher-supervisor. In this regard, the interest in the study of curatorial activities in the system of higher education is increasing. The article presents a theoretical analysis of some scientific sources on the role of the curator of the student group in the educational system. Educational conditions of the professional work of the curator of the student group in the contemporary university are analyzed; conclusions on the results of the poll of teachers, curators of student groups are made.

scholarly journals What Is Practice Research and Why Is It Important

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Austin Michael ◽  
Sarah Carnochan
Keyword(s):  
Support Groups ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Partnership Model ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University

Chapter 1 of Practice Research in the Human Services: A University-Agency Partnership Model discusses the evolving definition of practice research. It highlights the need to identify ways to improve practice in the complex situations that characterize human services, by developing knowledge that emerges directly from everyday practice. Practice research often focuses on the relationships between service providers and service users, between service providers and their managers, between agency-based service providers and community advocacy and support groups, and between agency managers and policymakers. The chapter outlines the “practice” and “research” components of practice research, the role of theory, and the importance of local context in shaping specific approaches to practice research. It provides an overview of the university-agency partnership that provided the platform for carrying out the studies described in the volume, and offers perspectives on the related phenomena associated with learning organizations and evidence-informed practice.

scholarly journals Local and global environmental education: public policies and participation in Fernando de Noronha

2020 ◽  
pp. 49-61
Author(s):  
Vivian Battaini ◽  
Marcos Sorrentino
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Fernando De Noronha ◽  
Sustainable Societies ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University

This article seeks to analyse factors that may foster, hinder or increase environmental social participation and environmental education (EE) on the Island of Fernando de Noronha - Pernambuco / Brazil. The role of public policies in fostering a culture of democratic procedures aimed for building sustainable societies is another aim in this study. The relationships between research and experimentation in EE are the basis for this analysis. A survey provided a better understanding of the local reality and offered opportunities for the dialogues maturation focused on the definition of principles and initiatives that can contribute to the cycle of public policies formulation and implementation for EE.  This was a qualitative research-intervention carried out with a conservationist institution, which operates in the field of EE. It dialogues with ethnographic research in the field of education and used as techniques of data collection: analysis of official documents, participant observation, music and semi-structured interviews.  The analysis of the fieldwork were enhanced by other experiences of the Laboratory of Education and Environmental Policy (Oca) of the University of São Paulo and showed the need for public policies able to provide a permanent, continuous and articulated EE with the population of each territorial group. It also indicates some possible ways for that betting on the centrality of dialogical participation which articulates initiatives through an interinstitutional pedagogical political project.

scholarly journals Vivienda para estudiantes indígenas: permanencia, representatividad y proceso de proyecto participativo

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (60) ◽  
pp. 28-47
Author(s):  
Ricardo Socas-Wiese ◽  
Eneldo Fernanda Machado ◽  
Alice Hammerschmitt da Veiga
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Physical Models ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
Human Diversity ◽  
Indigenous Students ◽  
The Social ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University

This article presents the project process adopted for the design of indigenous student housing at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and discusses its impact both on the formative process of architecture and urbanism students, regarding the experiences of indigenous students at the University. Aside from the relevance of that architecture as support for the permanence of students in public higher education, its importance as a symbol of shelter and respect for indigenous peoples at the university stands out. For this purpose, a participatory project was built that began with dialogues stages with indigenous students at the university and interactions with one of the ethnicities involved in its traditional territory (its village), for the definition of project guidelines and the needs’ program. Subsequently, for the proposal’s presentation and discussion, experiences were gathered in the proposed area for the project’s implementation and the physical models and drawings were presented, which were used to facilitate dialogue and participation of Indigenous students in the project process. The article presents the path followed, the spatial results of this process, the perceptions of the future users of the space, and reflections on the importance of outreach actions in the training of professionals in the area of architecture and urbanism, valuing the social role of the profession, and building a more sensitive projective repertoire, prepared to consider the human diversity that contemporaneity constitutes.

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