Implementing Learning Communities in a Medical School

Learning communities have been successfully incorporated into undergraduate medical education around the globe. These communities promote student and faculty interaction as well as senior-to-junior student mentorship opportunities and vast learning experiences. These may positively impact the students' personal and professional development. This chapter focuses on the experience of one medical school during the design and implementation of a learning communities model incorporated into its curriculum. The authors expand on the technical aspects of the model and on challenges, solutions, and learning experiences gained during more than six years since the program's implementation in their institution.

Accountants’ IT Competencies and IT Responsibilities in Supporting IT Sustainability Practice: The Variations of Students’ Perspective

This study looks at the variability of accounting students’ perceptions in Indonesia on the importance of IT competence and IT responsibility for accountants and the importance of IT sustainability practices. This study measures different perceptions of accounting students based on gender (male and female), year of study (junior and senior), and the type of university (public and private). The majority of accounting students agree with the importance of accountants’ role in IT sustainability practices by utilizing information systems. However, differences in perceptions of accountants’ IT responsibility, accountants’ IT competence, and the importance of IT sustainability practice are found in the senior and junior student groups. This finding results in junior students being higher than senior students in understanding the importance of the accountants’ role in the IT sustainability practice. Differences were also found in the groups of students from public and private universities, where students in public universities have a higher perception than students in private universities toward IT sustainability issues. There is no difference in perception in the gender group. This study can be helpful for higher education providers and teachers in accounting who play an essential role in supporting students to understand the practical implementation in accounting professions regarding their role in sustainability through the utilization of information technology.

FORMATION OF THE CREATIVE PERSONALITY OF THE JUNIOR STUDENT

The article examines one of the ways of forming the creative personality of a junior student. The main goal of teaching construction from natural material is to form in junior students the ability to design independently and creatively.

Axiological multiplicity of primary education curricula

The article substantiates two-leveled values of the primary education curricula, including the values that are related directly with education applicants, and could be considered as planned results of their education; and values that reflect the process of education, that is the position of a teacher reflected in the organization of educational process, the specifics of teaching methods, the nature of the relationship with students. It is emphasized that the preparedness of a junior student to adapt, accept beliefs and values, and successfully participate in the surrounding world includes the following components: intellectual readiness (ability to independently acquire knowledge, ability to work with information); communicative readiness (competences necessary for communication); social readiness (ability to cooperate, exhibit activity and volitional features of character, own attitude to the world, to the natural and social environment); activity readiness (possession of educational activity, ability to transform practical tasks in educational tasks, ability to construct their activities from the goal setting to obtaining the results); regulatory readiness (ability to exhibit reflexive qualities); creative readiness (ability to solve various educational and daily tasks creatively); emotional readiness (ability to feel, worry, respond emotionally to life events and phenomena, share their experiences, show empathy when interacting with others). The researcher argues that the components of a young person's readiness to interact with the environment are interconnected, complement each other and are basic prerequisites for the design of the primary school curricula. Important principles of constructing the content and curricula of modern primary education are principle of natural expediency and individual significance of the content, activity principle, culturological principle, principle of differentiation and individualization. Keywords: primary education, axiology, content of education, education curricula, principles of primary education curricula design.

THE DIAGNOSTICS OF JUNIOR STUDENTS’ INTELLECTUAL AND CREATIVE POTENTIAL

The paper deals with the problem of developing and diagnosing intellectual and creative potential of junior students. The intellectual and creative potential is defined as an integral characteristic of a person. It is the prerequisite for the development and is prognostic and systematic in nature. It is usually manifested in some activities in different spheres and is related to personality transformation. The intellectual and creative potential contributes to self-development of a junior student. Three criteria of intellectual and creative potential have been defined as the result of the diagnostics: cognitive, motivational and creative. The author has also identified five levels of junior students’ intellectual and creative potential

Perbedaan Perspsi Antara Mahasiswa Senior dan Junior Mengenai Profesi Akuntan Pada Program S1 Reguler Fakultas Ekonomi Universitas Lancang Kuning

This Research aimed to see whether there are differences in perception between senior and junior students of the accounting profession in the S-1 Regular program. The results showed that the S-1 Regular program, senior students perceptions of the "accountant as a profession" is lower than the junior student perceptions. The results showed that the more senior they (the longer they follow accounting education), the more they do not like accounting and increasingly do not want a career and worked as an accountant.