scholarly journals Increasing Students’ Motivation to Learn at Tertiary Educational Institutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 166
Author(s):  
Natalia Yu. Kolesnichenko ◽  
Tetiana S. Hladun ◽  
Olena S. Diahyleva ◽  
Lyubov Y. Hats ◽  
Antonina V. Karnaukhova

The article is devoted to the study of the main purpose and features of increasing the students’ educational motivation atthe tertiary educational institution (TEI) in times of urgent need for a total overhaul of the educational paradigm and principles of teaching not only at higher educational establishment but also in the Ukrainian education system as a whole. During the investigation the methods of interdisciplinary approach, system analysis, social-cultural method, social-activity and concrete-historical approach have been applied. An important practical conclusion from the results obtained lies in the fact that the effectiveness of the educational process largely depends on the strategies of educational behavior, used by students. Accordingly, educators (and parents) should not only deliver educational material, but also teach students more effective ways and techniques for capturing it. For instance, the educator may recommend students to make a plan (or scheme) of the material studied or lend assistance to students in developing an individual plan for its mastering. Knowledge about the formation peculiarities of educational motivation at the tertiary educational institutions and personality’s value systems in the process of its professionalization can be used in the educational process to optimize the educational activities of students and improve training of specialists. The obtained results make it possible to clarify the subjective criteria for the effectiveness of students’ learning. Knowledge about the content of the value system of the modern student’s personality and its manifestation in the motivation of educational activity is of practical importance both in terms of self-knowledge and human development, and in terms of organizing professional university and postgraduate training. In the course of investigationit was possible to clarify and specify the theoretical ideas about motivation as a structural-level education, torepresentideas about the values that reflect the attitude to activity as a tool of meeting individual development needs, and their impact on the motivation of educational activities. The motives’ conceptof personal educational activity and values of students at tertiary educational institutions as psychological parameters of professional activity, requiring correlation with life objectives, have been highlighted.

Author(s):  
S. Buryy ◽  
Yu. Bura

The article reveals and substantiates the pedagogical conditions that determine the providing quality professional training of future officers, namely: didactic, academic pedagogical conditions in the educational process of higher military educational institution. Pedagogical conditions in the educational process of military management training form the basis in the formation of high military professionalism, which has the following components: system of professional knowledge and skills in the management of the unit, education and training of subordinate personnel; system of behavior qualities; system of moral and psychological qualities. The management culture of the officer and its practical importance for the officer in fulfilling the socially important professional duties are theoretically substantiated in the article. Organizational and methodological pedagogical conditions of the formation of management culture of future officers are measures of the educational process that ensure the subjective behavior of cadets, create favorable conditions for them as a full-fledged subject of the educational process. Methodological and organizational conditions of the educational process of higher military educational institution are the use of professionally oriented methods and didactic technologies of educational activities, which have a methodological reason to stimulate the development and improvement of thinking processes taking into account the age peculiarities, military-professional and management experience, future career prospects and job competencies of future officers; ensuring the development of the bases of management culture of cadets in educational activity. The organizational and pedagogical conditions of the formation of management culture of future officers include the creation of a professionally oriented learning environment in higher military educational institution; providing cross-curricular links between the disciplines that create favorable organizational conditions for the purposeful development of the educational process of military educational institution in the training of tactical level officers. Pedagogical conditions are the basis for mastering professional general theoretical disciplines by a future officer of the tactical level in education and the basis of management training as a military commander.


Author(s):  
Iryna Usatova ◽  
Vadym Tkachenko ◽  
Artem Vedmediuk

In the article on the basis of scientific and pedagogical sources the ways of perfection of the system of professional education with the purpose of preparing the future specialist for the practical realization of the idea of health saving of the nation at all stages of educational activity are analyzed and solved. New approaches to the development of the content, forms and methods of professional training of specialists of the new formation, as well as introduction of the modern technologies in the educational process of higher educational institutions are studied. It is noted that the educational process should be transformed in the direction of individualization of educational interaction, learning, formation of creative thinking and increase of independent work of students. It is characterized that a specialist-innovator is the bearer of specific innovations, their creator, modifier, it has wide possibilities and has an unlimited field of activity, since in practice it is convinced of the efficiency of existing technologies and teaching methods and can correct them, carry out research work, develop new methods and technology. The focus of this activity is the innovative potential of a future specialist. The directions of introduction into the educational process of modern technologies are revealed, where the teacher becomes more and more the functions of a consultant, counselor, mentor, since in professional activity not only special subject knowledge is realized, but also modern knowledge in the field of pedagogy and psychology, acmeology, technology of education and upbringing. In the course of scientific research, the preconditions for creating a concept for forming the readiness of future specialists for the implementation of innovation as the basis for improving the educational process, the essence of which is the introduction of modern tools and methods into the traditional system of education, is outlined. the pedagogical conditions of effective use of health-saving technologies are formulated, essential characteristics and stages of training of future specialists in educational institutions are highlighted; substantiated the basic provisions, the observance of which provides the training of specialists of the new formation to the implementation of healthcare-saving technologies. It is emphasized that in the educational space of a higher educational institution it is necessary to create conditions that will promote the formation of the right attitude of health professionals to the health of the future as the main value of the person that will significantly stimulate their reflective activity and awareness of personal responsibility for the health of their pupils.


2021 ◽  
pp. 32-44
Author(s):  
K. Sedykh

The article is devoted to studies of the psychology of interaction of families and educational institutions. Through a prism of genetic psychology and the system approach as methodological paradigm of research theoretic and empirical study of interaction of a family with educational social institutions was carried out. Features of families and educational institutions as systems were explored. The complete system analysis of a phenomenon of intersystem interaction between systems “family” and “educational institution” is carried out. The interaction concept between a family and an educational institution is developed, interaction is the backbone factor. The educational institution has the double nature of the organization: it is a formal structure which is created by society for realization of teaching and educational process; and it is a system, which is being self-administrated.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Oksana Ukhanska ◽  
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Volodymyr Hladun ◽  
Andriy Senyk ◽  
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An Information system for the analyzing the methodical work of higher educational institution department has been developed. It is established that the methodical work of the department is of great importance in ensuring the quality of educational activities of higher educational institutions, which provides in particular the availability educational and methodological support of the educational process and information systems for effective management. Given the important role assigned to the formation and development of the system of methodical work in the educational institution, the modern requirements and conditions of reforming and diversifying the system of higher professional education has been analyzed. Based on the general review of the methodical work of higher educational institutions department, has been revealed that the development of an applied software product for accounting and analysis of the methodical work of both an individual teacher and the department as a whole is relevant. The developed information system of analysis of methodical work of department allows analyzing the methodical work of both individual teachers and the department in general, to asses the quality of educational activities, documentation, and also provides diagnostics and monitoring of methodical work of department for different periods of time, comparison of teachers’ activities and preparation of recommendations for subsequent periods of work. The proposed information system allows to effectively manage the methodical work and to provide recommendations for planning, implementing and controlling the effectiveness of the strategy for improving the educational process and its methodical support. In particular, it is envisaged that the program includes such activities as: accounting for the methodical developments available in the department methodical cabinet with their reference to the name of the discipline; names and codes of the specialty; course; teachers-authors; lectures; study groups; the number of students in the group and general in the stream; the number of copies of educational and methodical literature; time of publication; taking into account the existing methodical developments within the virtual learning environment with their binding to the above parameters, as well as the time of the last editing; the number of lectures and students registered for the educational complex, student activity; accounting for existing methodical developments within the section “Electronic Library” of the department’s website with a separate link to the number of copies by users. The developed information system is being tested at the Department of Applied Mathematics of Lviv Polytechnic National University.


2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Olena Pyshchyk

The article is devoted to the problem of educational institutions' heads’ academic diplomacy development by creative cooperation means. The main task of educational diplomacy in forming the educational institution image and all participants' interpersonal relations in the educational process is substantiated. The attention is focused on the educational institutions' heads' communicative activity as a phenomenon and creativity pedagogy subject; the educational institutions' heads' creativity directions are substantiated; considered the concepts theoretical content of «diplomacy», «communicative culture», «educational diplomacy», «creativity»; diagnostics the readiness of educational institutions' leaders and teachers for the educational diplomacy development as a tool for the creativity pedagogy was carried out. The diplomatic qualities of the leader and teachers of an educational institution are characterized, which provide an opportunity for the manifestation of their own creative abilities and characteristics, which encourage the creative potentials to be processed in a high-quality, enrich them with mental new formations, creative activity experience, and creative abilities, and also develop communicative interaction. The direction of interaction between the educational process participants on the dialogue basis and the head preparation for the creation of psychological and pedagogical conditions, concerning the creative educational activity of students, with educational diplomacy application, communication methods and receptions of their creative activity is defined. Pedagogical creativity occupies a special place among different types of creativity, because it determines the dynamic development vectors of mankind all creative processes, and the creative nature development is determined by communication and increase in communicative culture. The peculiarity of any communicative process – the process as a result of which a qualitatively new one is created – is that not only man, the creator influences his own creativity result, but also the subject of creative interaction contributes to further human development. That is why in the pedagogical interaction process the creative development of the educational institutions' heads is both their activity purpose and the creative development means of the leader's personality, increasing his professional competence and communicative skills level. Thus, creativity leads to professional and personal self-realization of the leader in the management process.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 866-873
Author(s):  
Elena Viktorovna Frolova ◽  
Olga Vladimirovna Rogach ◽  
Anton Nikolaevich Ostrovskii ◽  
Irina Viktorovna Vorontsova ◽  
Vladimir Ilyich Savinkov

The financial and economic crisis, including the COVID-19 pandemic, determined the negative changes in the modern labor market. Under these conditions, the understanding of the role of higher educational institutions in solving the problems of employment of graduates is of both scientific and practical importance. The key method of collecting information was a questionnaire survey of students (N=974 respondents). The curators of the study groups distributed the link to the questionnaire posted on the Google platform. The purpose of the study is to analyze the specifics of the work of the Employment Assistance Center functioning in the structure of a higher educational institution. It was found that the majority of students (87.8%) consider it necessary to create Employment Assistance Centers in the structure of universities. The following services would be in demand among students: referral for internships, information about vacancies and internships of partner companies, career events, assistance in finding employment during their studies. It is concluded that modern youth is focused on an early start of a career, combining study and work. The following dysfunctions of the activity of the Employment Assistance Center were identified: an insufficient level of information support, a narrowed list of services provided to the students. The conclusion is made that the employment of graduates requires improvement of both pedagogical methods for the development of professional competencies of graduates, and the formation of organizational mechanisms that ensure the provision of services for internships of students, their part-time employment, carrying out activities for interaction with employers. The authors substantiate the concept of “seamless employment” of the students: the integration of the educational process and part-time employment within the study period, focusing the key areas of the university’s activities on the career needs of young people.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 321
Author(s):  
Svitlana O. Lavrynenko ◽  
Liudmyla V. Krymets ◽  
Alona M. Leshchenko ◽  
Yana M. Chaika ◽  
Olha V. Holovina

Today there is a downward trend in the credibility of the humanities in university education including philosophy, it is evidenced by the reduction of popularity and the number of teaching hours. Nevertheless, according to students and professors, philosophy is an interesting and necessary discipline for specialists of various knowledge areas. The article is devoted to the study of the basic purpose and features of teaching philosophical disciplines at tertiary educational institutions. Training specialists in various fields in times of urgent need for total revision of the educational paradigm and principles of teaching not only in tertiary education but also throughout the entire system of Ukrainian education as a whole. In the course of the investigation, the methods of interdisciplinary approach, system analysis, social-cultural method, social-activity and concrete-historical approach have been applied. In the framework of the study conducted, the basic functions of philosophical disciplines have been identified that make them an integral part of the educational process at the tertiary educational institution, namely: a) philosophy as a system of world perception formation; b) philosophy as a methodology of scientific research; c) philosophy as the grounding of moral and ethical education; d) philosophy as the basis for critical thinking formation. In the course of investigation it was possible to identify some of the most important general formation principles of the required competences while studying philosophical disciplines, which are further necessary for the comprehensive learning of educational material at a sufficient level. Innovative principles and technologies of modern education help create the relevant matrix of pedagogical design, which makes it possible to better understand the processes and phenomena studied in different disciplines, to comprehend them, to conduct reflection. In the article it was possible to analyze the value of philosophical education for students of tertiary educational institutions of all training areas, to prove the need for such knowledge for the formation of professional, scientific, research, political and social competences of a future adult human, a responsible worker and a concerned citizen.


2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 545-555
Author(s):  
O. Yu. Zaytseva ◽  
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N. Yu. Yablontseva ◽  
O. N. Babitinskaya ◽  
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Abstract. Introduction. Cooperative activity of an educator and preschool children is a priority form of education in the modern preschool organization. The purpose of the article is to conceptualize the definition of “Collaborative Educational Activity” and a humanitarian diagnostics of the preschool teachers’ readiness for designing this activity and its realization. Study materials and methods. The components of preschool teachers’ readiness to design and to realize variable forms of collaborative activities with children were subjected to diagnostic study. Purpose of the research is to determine the problems of FSES practical realization in the point of the requirements to the organization of collaborative educational activities in the context of a holistic preschool educational process. As well as to define the role of methodological support in preschool educational institution from the senior educator’s position in the development of educator’s readiness for open cooperation in educational activities. Results. In the process of analyzing theoretical and methodological positions in the field of collaborative activity of educators and children, the authors conclude that the importance of humanitarian methodological support in understanding this phenomenon. The results of educators’ self-analysis of organizing collaborative activities with children are presented for discussion. It turned out that most of educators have difficulties in selecting the content of collaborative activities; difficulties in designing the technological component, difficulties in implementing reflection of collaborative activities. Conclusion. The significance of the presented research materials is determined by the importance of increasing the readiness of educators for productive collaborative activities with children. In the future, these studies can serve as a basis for further research on the problems of educator and child’s collaborative activities. Keywords: holistic educational process, a collaborative educational activity of an educator and preschool children, an open cooperative action, social constructive didactic model, the educational situation, preschool education.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Zvarych ◽  

The article considers the results of scientific research on the problem of monitoring the quality of educational services, as well as analyzes and summarizes the important parameters of such monitoring. The activities of educational institution have many components and aspects. Proposed to develop integrated indicators of the quality of educational services, which would combine many factors of educational activities and reflect the central goal of the educational process − the development of the child's personality. The author writes that comprehensive personal development is the main goal of educational activities, so such an integral criteria for the quality of educational services can be the development potential of the educational process in educational institutions. The article considers the system of students’ skills, abilities, personal and mental qualities, which provide an opportunity to successfully acquire the necessary school knowledge and skills. They are considered as indicators and manifestations of effective developmental effect of the educational process on the student's personality. They characterize the development potential of educational services. Described the following types of universal learning activities: cognitive (ability to learn, logical thinking, etc.), communicative (social competence, ability to communicate, etc.), regulatory (goal setting, planning, etc.), personal (provide value-semantic and moral-ethical orientations of students ). Criteria and levels for assessing the development potential of educational services were presented.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Марина Черниковская ◽  
Marina Chernikovskaya

The article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of the organization of educational activity in a higher educational institution. It is prepared on the basis of monitoring results of students of higher educational institutions in Penza. More than 410 students from 6 regional universities took part in the monitoring. Elements of educational activity of students, such as participation in the educational process, building relationships in the university, independent work of students are considered. The main problems of students in the organization of the educational process, the features of the activity of students in training classes, during the passing of tests and examinations are revealed. The psychological atmosphere in higher education institutions in which students are trained, the level of building relationships in the student environment is analyzed. The answers to many questions on the educational activities of students are answered. Based on the results of the study, recommendations were developed to improve the effectiveness of student learning activities.


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