Culture-Creation Component of Architectonics of Humanities Information and Education Spaces: Value Context of Postmodern Era

There is no shortage of research materials intended to meet the teachers’ need for continuing/life-learning professional development as a creator of the social and educational activities in the national public school spaces in terms of Pedagogy and Knowledge Content Efficacy. The purpose of this manuscript is to stand back from the surface detail of formal education of the teacher and to provide an overall perspective on the teacher’s creative mission as a communicator, a person of high language and communication culture, for harmony and psychological balance within intercultural communication created via different devices. Concept and methodology of this research, based in the main on the principles of humanism which reflect on the ideas of axiological and process approaches that concern the concepts of engaging teachers in a process of recurrent professional development. Results of this research include the comprehensive model that consists of three value concepts for a) creating the humanities educational spaces via acculturation; b) teaching the four skills and spoken communication skills via current devices of language teaching and ideological trend of acculturation; c) involving participants into ‘genuine’ communication via bringing social oriented and language learning activities reflected on the creative mission of national public school education that works its way up through culture experience in the classroom. In conclusion this article presents a handful of arguments of the significance of the growth and level of multilingual culture to affect the diversity of the personality’s vital forces, its development providing opportunities for professional and social self-realization, adaptation, and increasing creative potential in the process of critical thinking and creative communication via Technology, Pedagogy, and Knowledge Content Efficacy of current methodology of teaching and learning in the classroom. By the same token we have grounds for clarifying and verifying our vision on the Concept of “Humanities environment/spaces” in the frameworks of the comprehensive model of its architectonics, i.e. a harmony of the culture-creation elements via languages of education, the polyphony of knowledge, technology, spheres of recurrent professional development of a current educator.

Reforming public education in Chile: The creation of local education services

The government of Chile mandated a system-wide reform in public school education in 2017. The reform calls for de-municipalization of the public school sector (345 municipal education departments under mayoral control) and the creation of 70 Servicios Locales de Educación Pública (SLEPs) between 2018 and 2025. The reform represents a largescale attempt to improve and save public education in Chile. This analysis is based on case studies of implementation of the first four SLEPs in the first year of the reform. Using Stake’s method for multiple case study analysis, the analysis explores how context influences the professional capacity of the SLEPs to provide professional assistance to schools. The study relates to research on the effectiveness of intermediate level agencies in school systems and on contextual influences on organizational innovation and capacity building. The analysis reveals that contextual factors shaping initial professional capacity of the SLEPs reinforced traditional practices of local education agency support to schools in three of the four cases. The differentiating factor centered on the actions of local agency leaders who responded to capacity gaps and lack of direction from government authorities as either constraints on change or as an opportunity for innovation.

"A Study into how Covid-19 changed the public opinion of homeschooling"

– Homeschooling is a term typically used to describe the form of education where parents educate their own children at home with little to no contact with public school education. The purpose of this study is to gather information on the public opinion of homeschooling in Sarajevo Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as to see how the COVID-19 pandemics affected this opinion. For this purpose, a survey was conducted and, as a result, information on the topic is gathered. The general opinion of the public leaned more towards the negative end when all the results were summarized. Homeschooling, in general, is not a term that people are familiar with and accepting of in t h e region of Sarajevo Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Additionally, the COVID-19 pandemic has not had a positive influence on the opinion of the homeschooling.

HUMANITARIAN SELF-DETERMINATION OF A PERSONALITY: REGIONAL AND AXIOLOGICAL ASPECTS

Problem statement of this study links with the relevance of the authors’ longitudinal research in-tended to meet the pedagogues’ interests, possibilities, and their motives for recurrent education based on personalized training strategy and tactics in the frameworks of current university edu-cation and additional professional programmes of the In-Service Institute. The purpose of this paper is to stand back from the surface details of formal and informal education of teachers and to provide some of the prospects on creating axiological priorities of professional education spaces in line with innovative approaches to teaching and learning the ways of interpretation of database on the «difficult» issues of National History and Culture. Methodology and materials of the research reflect on the main concepts of acculturation of the educational environment, harmonious interaction of both educators and learners, historical memo, national and language consciousness which constitute the basis for the comprehensive value dominant model, and are focused on transforming the socio-cultural atmosphere of a particular region and the country where the dominant values of national and cultural identity have sharply worsened during the past twenty years. Results and their discussion based on scientific exposition that concern the axiology of the problem statements distinguished via three main groups of scholarship, method-ology and pedagogy of civil education and national public school education in the frameworks of the problem issues of what to teach (Knowledge Content) and the issue of how to establish for training and learning of students innovation educational practices (Technological Aspects) for efficacy (Personality ConceptSphere of Dominant Values). In conclusion, there come some of the authors’ findings on personalized training and learning that compose the axiological model of «management techniques» on the solution of «difficult» questions of Russian history integrat-ed into the concept sphere of the learner via the Thesaurus and Knowledge Content efficacy of additional professional programmes.

Islamic Veil: The Issue of Minors

An important aspect of the Albanian public debate on the exposure of religious symbols concerned minors. In fact, the proposed government law of 2011 was addressed to a category of public school education, that is, regarding students from kindergarten to secondary school. The Islamic veil was always at the center of the debate, but in this case the prohibition was justified as it was aimed at an age group that did not have the ability to make decisions and make choices independently, as in Muslim religion it is expected that a post-pubertal girl must wear a headscarf. In fact, in this case the decision-making passes to the parents, who have the right to educate their children according to the dictates of his own conscience. It is stressed that the same circumstance also applies to other religions, where the decision is always made by parents, such as baptism in the Catholic religion. In particular, the Article 24 of the Albanian Constitution, explicitly sanctions the freedom of each person to choose their belief and the prohibition that no one should be forced to participate in the life of a religious community or its practices. The question that arises in this case is whether this constitutional article also protects this category of subjects or only those who have reached the age of majority? The answer is complex and delicate, even to date the Albanian legislator has not remedied it since no one has appealed.Keyword: Albanian constitution, freedom of religion, religious symbols, Islamic headscarf, the right to educate your own children.

Public School Education

This chapter examines public schools in low income communities in the U.S. by example of two low income high schools in Chicago. It addresses how alliances between U.S. corporations and local government, and public-school officials do not work in the best interest of students of color in low income communities in their pursuit of higher education. The chapter posits that schools for low income communities do not prepare students for white collar corporate positions, putting them at risk of not qualifying for higher education. Considering the claimed school to prison pipeline, the author calls for closing the educational gap between low income and rich public schools in the U.S. by eradicating racism and classism that appears to prevail in U.S. institutions of education.

Evaluasi Program Standar Kompetensi Lulusan Al Qur’an (SKL Al Qur’an) Di Jurusan Pendidikan Islam Anak Usia Dini, Fakultas Ilmu Tarbiyah Dan Keguruan, IAIN Surakarta, Tahun 2017

The purpose of this research is to evaluate SKL Alquran Program. This research used mixed method. The students of SKL Quran program are being subject of this study and the lecturers are being informants because they are also the examiner of SKL Quran. This study examines data collection derived from quitioners, intervies, observations, and documentations. It also examines data validity by using triangulation, which means analysis qualitatif using interactive analysis and quantitative using percentile formula. The results show that SKL Quran needs to be evaluated in the context as an important category. The inputs of charateristic form explain that most participants of SKL Quran come from public school education background. Evaluation process also shows that the things of SKL Quran are needed to be improved in the process such as subjectivity examiners that always have been affect to students graduation of SKL Quran. Last, evaluation of the product knowledge of this study is going to graduate 77.42%. Keywords: Evaluation, SKL quran, FITK IAIN Surakarta

Education and fiscal decentralization. The case of municipal education in Chile

Chile implemented a radical reform in favor of decentralization at the beginning of the 1980s, with municipalities taking over the administration of public school education. The government that came to power in 2014 is committed to revert this reform, removing public schools from municipal control. Using panel data gathered between 2005 and 2013, this study shows that municipalities with greater autonomy performed better when administrating schools. Two major conclusions may be drawn. First, selective decentralization in favor of more autonomous municipalities is a better public policy approach relative to an all across the board solution. Second, since this autonomy is very unevenly distributed across municipal governments, a renewed and more effective fiscal equalization system should be established in Chile.