The Level Of Teachers’ Skills Based On Integrated Holistic Education System (IHES) In Relation To Teachers’ Education Background In Selangor

The purpose of this research is to examine the level of teaching skills among teachers of Religious Primary School (SRA) under Selangor Islamic Religious Division (JAIS) through teachers’ training program based on Integrated Holistic Education System (IHES) and its relation to teachers’ education background in Selangor. The research design used is the quantitative approach using a set of questionnaire as the research instrument based on Kirkpatrick Evaluation Model (2000) to elaborate the aspect of JAIS SRA teachers’ teaching skills. The samples selected were among 535 JAIS SRA teachers from 5480 teachers from nine districts in Selangor. The descriptive findings showed a moderately high mean value for all aspects of teachers’ skills. The one tailed ANOVA test showed a significant difference between teachers with level of certificate/ diploma or degree education background and teachers with level of STPM/STAM/Rabi’ Thanawi and below in term of teaching skill aspect. The findings from this research can be an indicator to improve teachers’ training system provided for JAIS SRA teachers particularly related to teaching implementation through IHES

Fostering Critical Thinking as a Life Skill to Prevent Child Marriage in Honduras: The Case of Holistic Education for Youth (HEY!)

This chapter presents findings from a design-based research project between the University of California, Berkeley and a Honduran non-governmental organization, Bayan Association called Holistic Education for Youth (HEY!). We explain why critical thinking is a crucial life skill to prevent child marriage in rural areas of Honduras and illustrate how critical thinking (specifically around gender inequality and marriage) was incorporated into a secondary school curriculum. We describe the pedagogies used to develop this curriculum and offer insights about its implementation. Finally, using classrooms observation and interview data, we discuss how students developed critical thinking and decision-making skills related to the gender inequality in society that has perpetuated the practice of child marriage.

Principles of holistic education applied to the Teacher Education Model for the 21st Century in Singapore

The theoretical study relates the principles of holistic education to the Teacher Education Model for the 21st Century (TE21) in Singapore. Building on the principles of holistic education, TE21 aims to produce highly qualified educators who succeed in nurturing the potential in each child. Holistic education is a humanistic and democratic educational approach that was developed in the USA. Its goal is to help every learner reach their highest innate potential, find their identity and purpose in life, and become socially and environmentally responsible. This study shows how the same principles may lead to slightly different outcomes when adjusted to the needs of Singaporean society. As a direct product of the National Institute of Education and the Ministry of Education, TE21 confirms the importance of a national educational strategy, which is the core of economic growth and political stability, as well as a tool to be used for fighting inequality and dealing with other social issues.

From Learning Literature to Online Holistic Education

This study utilizes the literature education section of an online holistic environment to: (1) develop a literature education survey based on Miller’s (2007) theory of holistic education, (2) explore the effect of students’ holistic learning through online literature immersion, and (3) inquire about students’ holistic development through literature appreciation. Eight hundred twenty two college students were involved in the online literature-related activities. With qualitative and quantitative data collection, the study analyzes online literature and poetry, interactive feedback and reflection, and a survey questionnaire. The study’s content analysis discovers how students’ literature works are distributed into Miller’s three principles of holistic education and their extensive subthemes. Confirmatory factor analysis results suggest the survey instrument captured e-HO’s literature education module’s holistic impact. The discussion and limitations for online literature education from a holistic education perspective are also provided to guide future research

ESTABLISHMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF EXTRACURRICULAR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN POLAND

The article analyzes the process of formation and development of extracurricular education institutions in Poland, which indicates the presence of progressive achievements and positive conditions that affect the creative development of young people. It is proved that in the process of their historical development, extracurricular education institutions have gained significant experience, prestige and formed an integral part of the holistic education system of Poland.The paper reveals that the study of the experience of the Polish system of extracurricular education (on the variety of forms and methods of extracurricular institutions, non-compulsory curriculum, voluntary nature of the contingent, age of the contingent, continuity of the educational process, etc.), is a promising task. It is important to meet the needs of the individual in self-realization – the development of interests, aptitudes, abilities of students and reasonable organization of their free time, finding and supporting young talents, meeting the needs of professional self-determination, obtaining additional education.The necessity of revealing theoretical bases of extracurricular education, systematization and generalization of the historical experience of pedagogical practice is substantiated. The need for structural and historical analysis of extracurricular education is due to the fact that it allows a deeper understanding of trends and patterns of origin and development of many ideas, phenomena and processes in its field, objectively assessing and characterizing them in terms of modernity. In turn, this will help identify promising areas in the development of methods of extracurricular education, their implementation in current conditions.In this regard, historiographical scientific research is becoming relevant in order to organize the experience of educating the younger generation in the cultural and leisure sphere and its important centres, such as extracurricular educational institutions. Keywords: leisure organization; student youth; self-realization of personality; pedagogical practice; the process of education; extracurricular education and upbringing; extracurricular education institutions; courses of extracurricular education; structure of extracurricular education.

The Concept of Green School in Bhutan for Holistic Education and Development

Green school as mentioned in Thakur S. Powdyel’s book My Green School: An Outline (2014) was developed to support the initiative ‘Educating for Gross National Happiness’, conceived in 2009 by the Ministry of Education, Bhutan. This is to realize the need for holistic development of individuals and for the fulfilment of the true purpose of education. However, the green school domain requires deeper understanding in correlation with the nine domains of Gross National Happiness philosophy to unsettle the hollowness and reductionism of modern education. Therefore, the paper attempts to explore how the process of holistic learning and wholesome education become the key to understand the principles of life, by analysing the concentric sense of the green school concept constituting eight dimensions represented as ‘Sherig Mandala’. The inherent meanings of the elements of greenery categorized as natural, social, cultural, intellectual, academic, aesthetic, spiritual and moral have been closely examined to revitalize the claims of education.

Connotation and Realization Path of Labour Education in Universities - Based on the Perspective of Chinese Universities

Labour education has been weakened and alienated in higher education. Repositioning labour education is an important part of the deepening reform of colleges and universities as well as the focus of improving the higher education system. Practicing labour education can enhance college students’ labour awareness, improve labour skills and enable college students to obtain a rational understanding of ‘knowledge’ from the practice of ‘action’. This is an important way to realize holistic education. This article puts forward the connotation of ‘labour’ under the background of the new era and updates the traditional cognition of ‘labour’. It proposes effective ways for colleges and universities to realize labour education according to the background of the era and the labour demand of employers; so as to break the shortcomings of labour education in colleges and universities as well as improve the quality of whole-person education to better meet the needs of the job market.