Studentski stavovi o braku, kohabitaciji i tranziciji u brak

STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS MARRIAGE, COHABITATION AND TRANSITION TO MARRIAGE The paper discusses the understanding of marriage and forms of partnerships in the late modern society, based on data from a survey of students’ attitudes at the University of Rijeka (N = 635). The results reveal ambivalent attitudes about traditional marriage among respondents. Although students reject the idea that every marriage, even a bad one, is superior to other forms of partnerships, the vast majority of them plan to get married in the future. Cohabitation is acceptable to most students and they intend to practise it, but only as a temporary stage before marriage. Attitudes toward traditional marriage and the acceptability of cohabitation were found to be more strongly correlated with the respondents’ overall assessment of how important is it for them to marry than with the assessment of their own future behavior in transition to marriage and parenthood. Religious self-identification is a variable that influences both respondents’ attitudes about traditional marriage and cohabitation and their perception of their own transition to marriage more strongly than other sociodemographic variables. Nevertheless, it has been shown that its effect is greater on the aforementioned attitudes of students than on their perception of their own transition to marriage in the future. Key words: attitudes, traditional marriage, cohabitation, transition to marriage

THE ATTITUDES OF STUDENTS OF HUMANITIES TOWARD PEOPLE WITH DISABILITY AND INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

Although the attitudes toward people with disabilities had improved, there is still evidence that they remain stigmatized. The aim of this research was to determine the differences in attitudes toward people with disabilities among participants based on their sociodemographic characteristics and attitudes toward inclusive education. The sample consisted of 261 students that were surveyed using the Multidimensional Attitudes Scale toward Persons with Disabilities, and a questioner designed by the authors regarding attitudes toward inclusion. Students who have had previous contact with people with disabilities had more positive attitudes. The majority of them had positive attitudes towards inclusive education and had the opinion that children who are enrolled in inclusive classes do not disrupt typically developing children‟s‟ educational process. It is of great importance to examine attitudes of students toward people with disabilities, because it is considered that attitudes of students represent future attitudes of the population. Key words: attitudes, students, disability, inclusion.

The Attitudes of University Students of Batubara in Medan Towards Batubara Malay Language

This study dealt with the attitudes of university students of Batubara towards Batubara Malay language. The data were collected from 20 university students of Batubara in Medan. The instruments used for collecting the data were observation sheet, questionnaire sheet and depth interview. The data were analyzed by Moleong’s theory. The findings showed that the respondents’ attitudes were: 12 (60%) negative and 8 (40%) positive. The attitudes levels of university students included in negative and positive attitudes namely in: receiving 11 (55%) negative and 9 (45%) positive, responding 12 (60%) negative and 8 positive, valuing 10 (50%) negative and 10 (50%) positive, organizing 12 (60%) positive and 8 (40%) negative, and internalizing values 12 (60%) negative and 8 (40%) positive. The factors influenced the university students’ attitudes were language disloyalty 12 (60%) negative and 8 (40%) positive, language pride lack 14 (70%) negative and 7 (30%) positive, in the unawareness of the norms 11 (55%) negative and 9 (45%) positive. Bahasa Indonesia is dominantly spoken by the university students of Batubara in Medan which caused they have less frequency in using their Batubara Malay language with their friends who are from same region in Medan. Key words: Attitudes, University Students of Batubara, Batubara Malay Language

Actitudes hacia la práctica de actividad físico-deportiva orientada a la salud en adolescentes españoles: Estudio AVENA (Attitudes toward the physical activity and sport practice in Spanish adolescents: the AVENA study)

El objetivo del estudio se centra en conocer las actitudes hacia la práctica de actividad físico deportiva orientada a la salud en una muestra representativa de adolescentes españoles. Para ello, se ha efectuado un estudio descriptivo de corte transversal, empleando la encuesta sobre comportamientos, actitudes y valores sobre actividad física y deportiva del Grupo AVENA. El análisis descriptivo e inferencial, nos permite obtener la opinión de 2.859 estudiantes, procedentes tanto de centros públicos como privados de cinco ciudades españolas: Granada, Madrid, Murcia, Santander y Zaragoza. Los principales resultados verifican que tanto chicos como chicas presentan una mayor orientación hacia actitudes relacionadas con el proceso (AP) de la actividad físico-deportiva que hacia actitudes referidas al resultado (AR) de dicha práctica. En ambos sexos, se produce una disminución progresiva en dicha orientación, tanto en las AP como en las AR, conforme aumenta la edad. En aquellos adolescentes que practican actividad física, la orientación hacia las actitudes es mayor que en adolescentes no practicantes. Como conclusión, las AP adquieren mayor importancia que las AR en los jóvenes adolescentes, siendo ambas mayores en chicos respecto a chicas y disminuyendo los valores de ambas conforme aumenta la edad. El conocimiento facilitado en este trabajo podría servir de apoyo para perfeccionar las diversas estrategias de promoción de la salud sobre las que asentar la adquisición de nuevos estilos de vida entre la población joven de una forma estable y duraderaPalabras clave: Actitudes; Actividad física; Adolescente.Abstract: the aim of this study was to know the attitudes toward the physical activity and sport practice oriented to health in a representative sample of Spanish adolescents. A descriptive cross-sectional study was implemented and the survey about behaviours, attitudes and values related to physical activity and sport practice developed in the AVENA study was used. The sample size was 2859 Spanish students from public and private secondary schools in 5 Spanish cities: Granada, Madrid, Murcia, Santander and Zaragoza. The main results verify that both boys and girls have a greater orientation towards process-related attitudes (PA) of physical activity and sport that outcome-related attitudes (AR) of the practice. In boys and girls, both AP and AR both genders, there is a progressive decrease when increasing the age. Adolescents who engaged in physical activity had higher levels of attitudes than non-practitioners. In conclusion, AP became more important than AR in young adolescents; both AP and AR were higher in boys than in girls and attitude values decreased with increasing age. The knowledge of attitudes might allow to develop effective and long-term successful intervention programmes for adopting healthy lifestyles in the current young people Key words: Attitudes; Physical activity; Adolescent.

BITARA-STEMTM TRAINING OF TRAINERS’ PROGRAMME: IMPACT ON TRAINERS’ KNOWLEDGE, BELIEFS, ATTITUDES AND EFFICACY TOWARDS INTEGRATED STEM TEACHING

The Bitara-STEMTM Training of Trainer Programme is a short-term professional development programme aimed to increase STEM teachers or facilitators’ abilities to teach integrated STEM education and to increase their efficacy, beliefs and attitudes of integrated STEM teaching. The programme involves 35 facilitators, representing a broad spectrum of STEM fields. Pre- and post-test results of the participants’ beliefs, attitudes, perceived efficacy and content knowledge in the context of integrated STEM teaching revealed significant changes. The findings also revealed (i) knowledge of integrated STEM teaching to be related to facilitators’ efficacy for teaching integrated STEM and (ii) facilitators’ attitudes to be related to beliefs of integrated STEM teaching. The outcomes of this study provide evidence that a relatively short-term professional development can have a significant impact on facilitators’ beliefs, attitudes, efficacy and knowledge of integrated STEM teaching and STEM concepts. Key words: attitudes, beliefs, integrated STEM teaching, STEM Education, STEM facilitators.

The Maintainability of Acehnese by Its Speakers at the Eastern Coast of Serdang Bedagai

This qualitative study is designed to find the Acehnese speakers’ attitude in maintaining Acehnese at the eastern coast of Serdang Bedagai Regency. The subjects are thirty intra-marriage Acehnese speakers living long time the districts. Questionnaire is used to find out their daily attitude in communicating and to gather the data about what language they use in the communications and interaction with their husband or wife, children, brothers and sisters, neighbors, and colleagues. Interview is used to find out the positive and negative attitude. These attitudes are influenced by some factors which are analyzed and can be maintained Acehnese at the eastern coast of Serdang Bedagai Regency, living in Acehnese multi-ethnics, use Acehnese in their family every day, and having pride of their own language, use Acehnese to their neighbors and their colleagues. Currently, the existence of Acehnese is the speakers of Acehnese are at the level of safe but in their children or their generation is at the level of unsafe and it leads to the language shift to a dominant language, that is, Indonesian language as well as Malay language and Javanese language or other local language which are the major population, which dominate the use of vernacular. This is due to the weaknesses of vernacular speakers or the loss of belonging to their own language. Key words: attitudes, language maintenance, language shift, maintainability, vernaculars

IMPACT OF PERSONAL ORIENTATIONS ON ATTITUDES TO DIVERSITY AND CIVIC SOCIAL-POLITICAL ACTIVENESS

The dynamically ongoing processes of integration are among the crucial premises for the development of contemporary interpersonal, intergroup and cross-cultural relations, attitudes, conflicts and more. The research problem here directs to an analysis, based on ESS data collected in 8 countries, rounds 2006 and 2008, on the extent to which Europeans' personal orientations significantly influence the attitudes towards ethno-national diversity, in this case, towards two social groups: immigrants coming from poorer countries outside Europe and people with different sexual orientation. Furthermore, the influence of the same factors on the civic activeness and involvement in the social-political processes has been followed. Through regressive analysis the important effect of the co-otherness orientation (a concept developed by Sicakkan, 2003), the orientation to success and traditionalism on all included dependent variables has been proved. The expectations for predicting effects of the three personal orientations have been confirmed regarding the civic involvement and tolerance to diversity. Simultaneously the necessity of working EU politics to deal with the risks of emerging negative attitudes has been pointed out in relation to the broad immigrant and refugee wave to European countries. Key words: attitudes towards immigrants, civic activeness, co-otherness.

THE INFLUENCE OF OWNERSHIP AND USING OF PC ON THE ATTITUDES TOWARD GEOGRAPHY

The influence of information and communication technologies (ICT) is investigated in the present days on the attitudes toward different school subject by the relatively high number if investigators in the whole world. The research is focused on the finding of the influence of the ownership of ICT and using of ICT on the attitudes toward geography. The sample size was created by 351 czech lower secondary school pupils. The research tool was questionnaire, where demographic variables were ownership of PC, ownership of internet, gender, residence and class of pupils. Last demographic variable was how often pupils use ICT in the geography lessons. The attitudinal part was created by 23 5-point Likert type items. The reliability was determined by the using of Cronbach’s alpha coefficient. The construct validity was determined by the using of exploratory factor analysis. From the next analysis was used analysis of variance to find out the influence of using and ownership of ICT on the attitudes toward geography. Key words: attitudes toward geography, information and communication technologies, lower secondary school pupils, questionnaire.

Sikap Guru Sains Terhadap Penggunaan Teknologi Komputer di Makmal Sains

‘Sekolah Bestari’ dan ‘Pengajaran dan Pembelajaran Sains dan Matematik dalam Bahasa Inggeris’ merupakan dua program pelopor yang diperkenalkan di Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia (KPM) untuk meningkatkan proses pengintegrasian teknologi komputer dalam proses pengajaran dan pembelajaran. Pembekalan perkakasan komputer seperti komputer riba dan projektor LCD ke sekolah–sekolah membuktikan kegigihan KPM dalam menggalakkan penggunaan teknologi komputer dalam proses pengajaran dan pembelajaran terutamanya di kalangan guru–guru Sains dan Matematik negara ini. Sehubungan dengan itu, KPM juga merancang untuk memperkenalkan penggunaan teknologi komputer di makmal sekolah. Kajian ini dilakukan untuk meninjau sikap guru–guru sains di Negeri Sembilan terhadap penggunaan teknologi komputer di makmal sains sekolah. Hasil kajian mendapati bahawa guru–guru bersikap positif terhadap penggunaan teknologi komputer di makmal sains sekolah. Hasil kajian turut menunjukkan bahawa pengaruh pengalaman mengguna komputer di rumah pada sikap terhadap teknologi komputer bergantung kepada sama ada guru menerima komputer riba atau tidak. Kata kunci: Sikap; penggunaan teknologi komputer; makmal sains The ‘Smart School’ and ‘English in the Teaching of Science & Mathematics’ are examples of programmes introduced by the Malaysian Ministry of Education (MMOE) to enhance the integration of computer technology into the classroom instructional activities. The fact that all schools are now being equipped with laptops and also LCD projectors shows the dedication of the MMOE to encourage teachers in the intergration process, especially among Science and Mathematics teachers. There is also plan by the MOE to integrate the computer technology in the school science computer laboratory. This article reports on the study undertaken to elucidate science teachers’ attitude towards the usage of computer technology in the school science laboratory in Negeri Sembilan. The results of this study indicates that teachers hold a positive attitude towards using computer technology in the school science laboratory. The results also showed that the influence of computer experience at home on computer technology attitudes depend on whether teachers received laptops or not. Key words: Attitudes; use of computer technology; science laboratory