scholarly journals Experience Changes Perceptions: Arabic-Speaking Students’ Perceptions Regarding the PDS Model and Teacher Training

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Orr Levental ◽  
Edni Naifeld ◽  
Saleh Kharanbe ◽  
Marcel Amasha
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Professional Development School ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Arabic Speaking ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Teaching Instruction

During their studies, education students are required to engage practice-based experience in a collaborative model: Professional Development School (PDS), where there are many options for building professional and personal development processes. Through this experience, students formulate professional identity and perceptions about teaching. This study sought to examine the impact of this experience model on Arabic-speaking education students attending a Hebrew speaking college. The effect of the practice-based experience was examined on both the concept of teaching as a profession, the process of teaching instruction and social and cultural aspects. The findings of the study showed that PDS practice-based experience directly and indirectly contributes to the way students perceive teaching, the role of the teacher, the education system, as well as the importance of the practical experience in the teaching training process. However, there was no significant contribution of PDS practice-based experience to students’ perceptions of multicultural aspects of campus life.

scholarly journals Adolescence as a “critical period” in the heritage language use. Polish in Germany

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 301-315
Author(s):  
Hanna Pułaczewska
Keyword(s):  
Role Models ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Critical Period ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Age Related ◽  
The Media ◽  
Role Of Parents ◽  
Qualitative Part ◽  
The Impact

Abstract In the article, we consider the impact of adolescence upon the usage of Polish in Polish-German bilinguals raised and living in Germany and demonstrate how adolescence surfaces as a socially based “critical period” in this usage using results from a survey and interviews conducted with 30 teenagers. In the quantitative part of the study, we seek to establish whether adolescents’ age affected the pattern and quantity of their usage of Polish in the media and contacts with age peers, whether the latter two facets of growing up with Polish were interrelated, and which other factors affected peer-relevant activities in Polish. Both age and peer contact turned out to significantly affect the use of the media in Polish, while peer contact in Polish was affected by the parental use of Polish in parent-child communication. The qualitative part presents the context and motivation for using Polish by the youths in peer-relevant activities. We integrate the results with insights provided by child development psychology from the perspective of language socialisation theory and interpret the age-related decline of interest in the Polish media as an effect of a diminishing role of parents and the increasing role of age peers as role models in personal development.

THE MAIN DIRECTIONS OF SIBLING RESEARCH

2021 ◽  
pp. 96-115
Author(s):  
Oksana V. Baskaeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Central Feature ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
The Family ◽  
Sick Children ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Impact

An overview of the areas of sibling research that laid the foundation for the modern understanding of sibling issues is presented. Attention is focused on the importance of sibling relationships for personal development, socialization and adaptation, and on the existing shortage of relevant work at the same time. The main stages of the development of sibling theory in their continuity are considered, starting from the first studies devoted to the search for a connection between the order of birth and achievements and dated to the end of the 19th century, to the term “individual environment” developed by the genetics of behavior in the second half of the 20th century. It emphasizes the role of A. Adler, who has made sibling a central feature of family life and personal development and has long determined the future direction of empirical family research. It shows a gradual shift in the interest of researchers from studying the influence of birth order, gender, and age intervals between siblings on personal characteristics. In this connection, an analysis of the nature of sibling relations on the basis of reciprocity and complementarity, undertaken by Dunn, is given. Early works on the jealousy and rivalry of children in the family, the study of the impact of parental differential treatment on them, as well as the influence of child characteristics on siblings in families with sick children are considered.

Erasmus Skills

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
New Host ◽  
International Context ◽  
Host Culture ◽  
Sources Of Support ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Different Sources

Students participating in mobility experiences need to constantly adapt to new circumstances, not only during the experience itself, but also before leaving and after returning to their home country. They change their lifestyle, get acquainted with other cultural forms and, in some cases, they even change habits and attitudes to adapt to the new host culture. In this scenario, the different sources of support for students are of great added-value, e.g. family, friends, classmates, as well as the receiving institution – higher education institutions (HEIs) in our case. The supporting role of HEIs in the process of sending students abroad could go beyond the administrative dimension of it. A way of doing that is by offering a provision of support services on the acknowledgment and maximisation of their learning process and acquired competences (understood as a combination of knowledge, skills and attitudes – see Boyatzis, 1982; or Council of Europe, 2018) gained during their adaptation to a new international context. In this way, HEIs could increase the impact of such mobility experiences on students’ professional and personal development.

scholarly journals The confidence delusion: A sociological exploration of participants’ confidence in sport-for-development

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-398
Author(s):  
David S Scott
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
The Body ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Sport For Development ◽  
Development Capacity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ethnographic Methodology ◽  
The Impact

Although sport is widely utilised as a tool for personal development, capacity building, and fostering peace, there are still numerous theoretical gaps in our knowledge about how sport influences individuals’ identities, and how this translates into their everyday lives. Within the academic literature there has been seemingly little focus placed upon participants’ emotional and embodied accounts of their sport-for-development (SfD) experiences. This paper uses phenomenologically-inspired theory to explore individuals’ lived experiences of a SfD course, and their descriptions of the social interactions and feelings of confidence they encountered, in order to address this lack of experiential data. An ethnographic methodology was used to collect data through four sports leadership course observations, and cyclical interviews over 4–10 months with eleven course attendees, plus individual interviews with five tutors. Participants’ understandings of their course experiences and the subsequent influence these understandings had on their lives were described through their use of the term confidence. A further phenomenological and sociological interrogation of this term enabled confidence to be seen as being experienced as a ‘frame’ and ‘through the body’ by participants. This study provides original conceptualisations of confidence in relation to participants’ SfD experiences, as well as important discussions regarding the role of emotions and embodiment in understanding the impact of SfD on participants’ everyday lives.

ANTICIPATORY ABILITY OF COACHES IN THE SYSTEM OF THEIR PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE EVALUATION BY ATHLETES

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 103-111
Author(s):  
Lusine Stepanyan
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Perceptual Evaluation ◽  
Competence Evaluation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact

Current research in psychology and psychophysiology focuses on the subject of anticipation and forecasting. Anticipatory sustainability is a personal trait that determines the ability to anticipate events and possible ways of personal development, as well as the ability to prevent interpersonal conflicts. The aim of the study was to identify the role of development level of anticipatory competence of coaches in their professional competence evaluation and perception by athletes. Research methods and organization. The research involved two groups of test subjects. The experimental group consisted of sport dance coaches and their students. The control group brought together experts in socionomic area with different work experience. We used testing and questionnaire methods to achieve the goal and objectives of the study. Testing method included the test for diagnosing anticipatory sustainability according to A. Mendelevich and the test of socio-perceptual coaching evaluation by athletes. We used the results of testing and questionnaires to provide a comparative and correlation analysis of data. Research results. The analysis of test results revealed the impact of work experience on the development of both spatial and temporal characteristics of the anticipation of coaches, indicating a possible effect on the intensity and direction of development of those characteristics in specific conditions. We have identified valid connections between the gnostic parameter (professional competence evaluation) of the socio-perceptual coaching evaluation by athletes and spatiotemporal characteristics of coaches' anticipation, defined as professionally important qualities of coaches. Moreover, we have demonstrated a weak direct relationship between the personality-situational component of the anticipatory sustainability of coaches and the emotional parameter of their socio-perceptual evaluation by athletes, indicating a significant role of communicative-anticipation sustainability in the development of an attitude of athletes to the coach. Conclusion. In summary, we can conclude that the anticipatory sustainability of coaches plays a key role in the structure of their competence, and the development of this property is possible under certain conditions.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
pp. 165-178
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Practical Philosophy ◽  
Science Philosophy ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

After a quick reminder of this project's main objectives and their outcomes, this chapter considers the impact of a cross-disciplinary approach on education, arguing that it is not only a fruitful pedagogical method, but also a deeply enriching path for personal development, in the same way that mentoring and international journeys are. We also consider what we have learned about the way in which science, philosophy, and narratives are intricately connected. We make recommendations for further research, especially on the role of narratives and philosophy in other cross-disciplinary fields, such as culture, psychotherapy, and the challenges currently posed by technology. We encourage further exploration of the ways in which narratives may be abused to advance particular interests in various fields of public life. We end with a reminder of the prolific role of both stories and practical philosophy in the process of formative education (or personal development in general). Here, mentors and journeys have a key role, equivalent to that of internships in formal education.

scholarly journals Digital school: Searching for Explanatory Models. Part 2

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 80-95
Author(s):  
Sergei Alevtinovich Smirnov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Behavioral Model ◽  
Explanatory Models ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Explanatory Model ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
The Impact

Introduction. The purpose of the article is to consider the consequences of the virtual shift or virtual inversion, which has led to blurring the structure of the act of development proposed within the framework of cultural-historical psychology. In this regard, the problem is the need to develop an alternative to this phenomenon of inversion, and returning a person (both a school student and an adult mediator) their basic roles as subjects of development. Materials and Methods. The conceptual ideas of cultural-historical psychology including the idea of mediation, objective action, the semantic field, the role of an adult as a mediator in an act of development, were used as a methodological background of the research. Results. The article is the second part of the author’s previous publication. The paper considers the concept derived from L. S. Vygotsky’s cultural-historical psychology, which is proposed to be adopted as a basic one in order to build an explanatory model used by the author to describe and comprehend the phenomenon of transformation of the human development process in the new reality of the digital environment. The article introduces the basic principles and provisions, the explanatory model is built on, concerning the role of symbolic-instrumental mediation in human development, the role of an adult as a mediator, the structure of the act of thinking and the act of development, the basic mechanism of mastering a person's behavior, which permeates the formation of higher mental functions. The author compares this explanatory model and the behavioral model used in most modern research investigations that examine the impact of digital technologies on schoolchildren and students. The language of the model of cultural-historical psychology is used to clarify the reality of the current virtual shift (virtual inversion), according to which the main provisions that play the role of supports in the cultural-historical model are subjected to radical revision and transformation, due to which the process of human cultural development is called into question. In this regard, the author proposes to use the resource and project potential of cultural-historical psychology in order to develop new models on its basis, build a new research and project agenda that returns the main ideas of cultural-historical psychology within the framework of a new mixed hybrid reality, where digital technologies are becoming the tools of personal development. Conclusions. In conclusion, the work offers a cultural task for the further development of cultural-historical psychology. It is proposed to restore the adult-student relationship, restore the idea and the role of the semantic field for teaching a subject action, restore children's communities within the new social-digital hybrid reality, where digital technologies do not act as means enslaving students, but as smart mediators-assistants.

scholarly journals The Impact of Statistics in Industry and the Role of Statisticians

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-20
Author(s):  
Ronald J.M.M. Does ◽  
Albert Trip
Keyword(s):  
Process Control ◽  
Statistical Process Control ◽  
Six Sigma ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Statistical Process ◽  
Quality Program ◽  
Quality Programs ◽  
The Impact

The use of statistics in quality management has a long history. Pioneers in this field, such as Walter A. Shewhart and W. Edwards Deming, refer to themselves as industrial statisticians. Statistical thinking in industry means that all work is regarded as a series of interconnected processes, that all processes show variation, and that a reduction in variation is the key for continuous improvement. In literature we find several quantitative quality programs to achieve this. We may mention Statistical Process Control (SPC)and the Six Sigma quality program, among others. We have implemented Statistical Process Control and Six Sigma in several industries. In this paper we briefly describe the philosophies of both programs and the steps needed for a successful implementation. Based on practical experience with both programs we describe the role that a statistician can play in industry. We shall also give an overview of research initiated by the projects we have carried out.

Little Phil

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-127
Author(s):  
Joshua Murchie ◽  
Jean-Paul Gagnon
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Philanthropic Foundations ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Impact

This Practitioner’s Note considers the disruptive function of Little Phil, a mobile app that seeks to democratize philanthropic giving. Although many of the cultural aspects of philanthropy – such as increased control over donation, tracking the impact of one’s giving, and building interpersonal relationships with receivers – can be opened to any person with an app-hosting device and internet access, it cannot supplant the role of big philanthropy and solve Rob Reich’s problem: how to domesticate private wealth so that it serves democratic purposes? Little Phil’s disruption has in concept gotten us halfway to legitimizing philanthropy. Perhaps the uptake of citizens’ panels by large philanthropic foundations will cover the remaining distance.

Impact's Perception of Entrepreneurship Competences Acquisition in Polytechnic High Education Students

2019 ◽  
pp. 179-201
Author(s):  
Teresa Paiva ◽  
Amaia Yuberrasco ◽  
Pedro Tadeu ◽  
Maria Leopoldina Alves ◽  
Elisa Figueiredo
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Perceptions Of Students ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
Quantitative Impact ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The discussion about the evaluation of the teaching of entrepreneurship or training programmes from the perspective of a higher education institution is usually linked to the quantitative impact of entrepreneurship creation and often does not take into account the increase in skills and abilities, or the evolution towards a more entrepreneurial mind-set. In this chapter, the authors propose to analyse the learning perceptions of students who participated in the Poliempreende programme of Portuguese polytechnics. The goal is to see if students feel that their participation was profitable, not only for their personal development, but also for their professional work. Within a perspective of learning in an entrepreneurship, the transformation of entrepreneurs' experiences into knowledge can influence the relationship between their professional experience and the development of their wisdom about entrepreneurship. Thus, it is proposed to implement the evaluation of the impact of the perception of these students through the evaluation model of Kirkpatrick.

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