Exploring Value Variations in Instructor Presence Techniques for Online Students

This study sought to define and measure online undergraduate students' perceived value of instructor presence techniques across five communication mediums per pedagogical goal (connection to course content, connection to classmates, connection to the instructor, foster interest, and facilitate immediate feedback). Students found personalized written messages from an instructor (M=4.61) as most valuable due to their ability to provide immediate feedback. Interactive phone calls (M=3.24) were the least valuable in the area of familiarity. Results indicate all instructor presence techniques had value, but some were more valuable than others.

Making the Case for Brain-friendly Pronunciation Instruction

A growing empirical research base has contributed substantially to our understanding of pronunciation instruction. A contemporary perspective entails a balanced approach featuring both the teaching of segmentals (vowels and consonants) and suprasegmentals (stress, rhythm, and intonation) while favoring intelligible (i.e. clear) pronunciation as the pedagogical goal rather than the attainment of native-like pronunciation. Yet, the connection between neuroscience and pronunciation instruction has not been explored in depth so far. Thus, the aim of this article is to further the process of bringing insights from neuroscience into pronunciation teaching and learning. I first explore several interconnected neuroscientific principles that are relevant to pronunciation, including the social brain, emotions, movement, and touch, and then conclude the article by describing a ‘brain-friendly’ approach that reflects a number of those principles: haptic pronunciation instruction.

INNOVATIVE ACTIVITY OF PEDAGOGY

It is known that pedagogical technology in the learning process is a thematic, sequential, integrated pedagogical process, a goal-oriented, well-designed and guaranteed pedagogical process based on the needs and technical capabilities of young people. Collaborative activity for the realization of the pedagogical goal and the achievement of a guaranteed result depends on the set goal, the chosen content, method, form, means, technology. In this article, the innovative activity of the educator is scientifically researched.

Autonomy in language centres: myth or reality?

Autonomy in language learning is for many language centres in higher education a pedagogical goal. However, although autonomy is a concept that has been associated with language learning for almost 40 years, both the understanding of that concept and its implementation in classroom-settings and in self-access language centres vary considerably. In 2017 and 2018 the Cercles Focus Group on Autonomy worked on a survey that was circulated among Cercles language centres, in order to discover to what extent autonomy is part of the language curriculum. Approximately one fifth of the language centres answered the questionnaire, representing 18 different countries. The results of this survey show that autonomous learning schemes are provided in various centres in the form of self-access language learning modalities, blended learning, learning advising as support for independent and cooperative learning, tutoring and tandem learning. However, the understanding of the notion of autonomy and therefore the pedagogical practices vary considerably. In this article, we illustrate the results of the survey, highlight similarities and differences emerging from it, and critically reflect upon issues addressed by the answers. In addition, we briefly discuss the results of some interviews conducted after the survey with stakeholders at different language centres. Recommendations for the future conclude the paper.

Взгляд на формирование системы ценностей личности в дошкольном возрасте сквозь призму аксиологического подхода – теоретический аспект проблемы

The problem of the formation of values and value relationships of a child in preschool age is an important psychological and pedagogical goal. Values are considered as guidelines necessary for a person as a separate “coordinate system” for a concrete assessment of events, one’s own actions, and various aspects of reality. They are the main components of the personality structure, as well as culturally-shaped regulators of behavior and activity. Preschool age is an important stage in the formation and development of personality. This is a period of active knowledge of oneself and the world, the development of basic values, norms of behavior and relationships. Value relationships are considered as a component of the content of education, as a component of the holistic worldview of an individual. Today, it is axiology that serves as the methodological basis for the development of the theory and practice of personality value relations, since it is a doctrine of the nature of values, their place in reality, and the structure of the value world.

PEDAGOGICAL CONDITIONS OF EDUCATION OF CIVIL QUALITIES OF TEENAGERS BY MEANS OF THE GTO COMPLEX

Введение. Проведен анализ понятий «условие» и «педагогические условия», выявлены и обоснованы педагогические условия воспитания гражданских качеств подростков средствами ВФСК ГТО с учетом выделенных компонентов гражданских качеств подростков. Цель – выявить педагогические условия воспитания гражданских качеств подростков средствами комплекса ГТО. Материал и методы. Материалом исследования послужили теоретические и эмпирические исследования, посвященные гражданскому воспитанию и педагогическим условиям воспитания. Анализ исследований помог уточнить ряд педагогических терминов и теоретически обосновать выявленные педагогические условия. Результаты и обсуждение. Термин «условие» является общенаучным, однако в зависимости от отрасли научного знания рассматривается с разных позиций (философской, психологической, педагогической), в этой связи «педагогические условия» трактуются учеными по-разному, однако функция педагогических условий остается неизменной – влияние на развитие, обучение и воспитание личности. Учитывая тот факт, что педагогические условия являются специально созданными, предлагается рассматривать их с точки зрения повышения эффективности процесса развития, воспитания и обучения личности. Педагогические условия, направленные на повышение эффективности процесса воспитания гражданских качеств подростков средствами комплекса ГТО, делятся на три группы с учетом выделенных компонентов воспитания гражданских качеств подростков: первая группа – это педагогические условия, которые отражают характеристику аксиологического компонента воспитания гражданских качеств подростков средствами комплекса ГТО; вторая группа – педагогические условия, отражающие характеристику когнитивного компонента воспитания гражданских качеств подростков средствами комплекса ГТО; третья группа – педагогические условия, которые отражают характеристику деятельностного компонента воспитания гражданских качеств подростков средствами комплекса ГТО. Заключение. Анализ научно-методической литературы по проблеме воспитания гражданских качеств подростков показал, что для повышения эффективности достижения поставленной педагогической цели обязательным фактором является создание конкретных педагогических условий, позволяющих в полной мере реализовать модель воспитания гражданских качеств подростков средствами комплекса ГТО. Introduction. The author analyzes the concepts of «condition» and «pedagogical conditions», identifies and justifies the pedagogical conditions for the education of civil qualities of adolescents by means of the GFSK GTO, taking into account the selected components of civil qualities of adolescents. Aim and objectives: to identify the pedagogical conditions for the education of civil qualities of adolescents by means of the GTO complex. Material and methods. The research material is theoretical and empirical research on civic education and pedagogical conditions of education. The analysis of the research helped to clarify a number of pedagogical terms and theoretically justify the identified pedagogical conditions. Results and discussion. The term «condition» is a General scientific term, but depending on the branch of scientific knowledge it is considered from different positions (philosophical, psychological, pedagogical). In this regard, «pedagogical conditions» are interpreted by scientists in different ways, but the function of pedagogical conditions remains unchanged-the influence on the development, training and upbringing of the individual. Taking into account the fact that pedagogical conditions are specially created, we will consider them from the point of view of increasing the effectiveness of the process of personal development, education and training. Pedagogical conditions aimed at improving the effectiveness of the process of educating civil qualities of adolescents by means of the GTO complex, we divide into three groups, taking into account the selected components of educating civil qualities of adolescents: the first group is pedagogical conditions that reflect the characteristics of the axiological component of educating civil qualities of adolescents by means of the GTO complex; the second group of pedagogical conditions, reflecting the characteristics of the cognitive component of the education of civil qualities of adolescents by means of the GTO, the third group – pedagogical conditions, which reflect the characteristics of the action component of the education of civil qualities of adolescents by means of the GTO. Conclusion. The analysis of scientific and methodological literature on the problem of restoring civic qualities of adolescents has shown that to increase the effectiveness of achieving the set pedagogical goal, a mandatory factor is the creation of specific pedagogical conditions that allow to fully implement the model of educating civic qualities of adolescents by means of the complex GTO.

Technology of pedagogical goal setting

Based on the theory of pedagogical goal-setting, the monograph reveals the ways to achieve goals as a planned result obtained at each lesson, during the transition from one topic to another, during the school year and all years of study. This book, which includes the technology of pedagogical goal-setting, solves a two-pronged problem: it provides an opportunity to improve the professional skills of each teacher and contributes to improving the effectiveness of managing the development of education from the point of view of the requirements of modern state standards and curricula as an integral process. For teachers, head teachers, Directors of educational institutions, methodologists and heads of educational bodies.

Understanding the Problem by Modeling the Subject Area (with the Goal of Creating a Task Generator)

This article presents a theoretical analysis of the problem of comprehending educational material in mathematics on the example of a problem that was proposed by NN Pangina as a “touchstone” for studying the interaction of a teacher and a student in organizing the latter’s independent work (from ed.: Pangina’s article is published in this issue of the journal). The article discusses a methodological approach based on changing the pedagogical goal in relation to the task. Instead of starting with a search for a solution to the problem with specific data and focusing the student’s attention on “building a route” from the conditions of the problem to what needs to be found, it is proposed to build models that allow generating new problems similar to the one given. This formulation of the problem changes the psychological attitude of the student, relieves him of responsibility for the success of solving a specific problem. At the same time, prompted pushed by the teacher, the student builds various simulation models that can be easily programmed and turned into problem generators, thereby forming a mathematical model of the problem area in which the problem was set. The proposed approach is based on the activity approach proposed in the works of AN Leontiev in the 70s of the last century [1], the idea of bringing out difficult-to-understand intellectual actions outside in order to use the mechanism of internalization [1, 2] and the works of Simour Papert related to the use of computer artifacts as intermediaries for comprehending new mathematical ideas [3, 4].

Phenomenology in Class: A Case Description

This is a descriptive article concerning a pedagogical intervention and philosophical activity carried out in a Law School in Brazil. The activity described has the pedagogical goal of stimulating the critical and comprehensive approach to law on students. The article presents the philosophical foundations and the ethnographic guidance necessary to develop the activity. The analysis of the results was done considering and interpreting student’s written and oral feedback. Results are shown in a positive light since the activity described is understood as a tool to facilitate and improve the awareness of the law students by making them reflect about the concrete practices, symbols and interactions in the professional field.