Forest pedagogy in a primary education and its perception by the pedagogues

Currently, elementary education teachers and tutors in Slovakia express massive interest in collaboration with forest pedagogues. This collaboration focuses on fulfilling educational standards and meeting educational objectives tight to the topics of the forest environment. These are mainly the topics from the subjects of Human and nature, Human and society, Human and the world of labour. The object of the research was teachers' opinions on collaboration with forest pedagogues and the impact of forest pedagogy on the educational process.

A Review on The Professional Development of Elementary Education Teachers in China

The school field is the main field of teachers' study and work, which creates the field space for teachers' professional development. In order to explore the situation of teacher professional development in school field,based on the general condition of the research, from the research scope, the research perspective, the fit between "teaching" and "learning" in the study and the discussion that the theoretical research focuses on the value of practice, we have sorted out the hot spots and trends of the research on the professional development of Primary and high school teachers in China from the perspective of school standard.In the subsequent analysis, we need to make further thinking or exploration in the five aspects of the origin and fulcrum of the research, the positioning of the study, the establishment of the research thinking, the consideration of the influential factors in the research and the enlightenment of the research methodology.

THE AWARENESS OF AUDIOVISUAL AND CULTURAL REALITY OF FUTURE ELEMENTARY EDUCATION TEACHERS

Current cultural paradigm, founded on audiovisuality, creates new hierarchy, sets its own rules, brings dislocation on the stage of social communication, institutes new semiotic code, redefines the anthropological interpretation of a human being, at the same time generating different possibilities and different needs of a child at the elementary level of education. If one is to accept the assertion, that the organized process of education should be incorporated in cultural and civilizational context, and if one took into consideration the scientific research, claiming that as a result of new media expansion school pupils and students get to know the world mostly outside their schools, then cultivating teachersʼ awareness in the field of audiovisual culture consequences, especially within the system of elementary education, becomes the urgent need. Meanwhile, university courses, dealing with youngest pupils educational activities, very rarely offer lectures on anthropology, culture or media science, thus the knowledge which is absolutely necessary to run a reflective practice. Present article is by extension the comparison of research, which aimed at becoming acquainted with the amount of information on the subject of audiovisual culture and its implications, acquired by university students of elementary education courses. The method of diagnostic survey was applied in the research carried out in the year 2018, and the results demonstrate clearly the respondentsʼ weak uptake of modern world regularities, which, by overpraising audiovisuality, brings changes in every area of our life.