Search results for "Educational transitions"
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Relational approach to infant-teacher lap interactions during the transition from home to early childhood education and care
2022
The transition from home care to early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a period of intense change and development in young children's socio-spatial worlds. This article focuses on infant–teacher lap interactions during this transition period. This investigation applies a relational approach to the study of infant–teacher lap interactions. In doing so, it highlights the inherently social and contextual nature of interaction. From a relational perspective, actors, context, and situation are seen as constitutive of each other, and their interrelationality is considered central to the emergence of interactions. The data, regarding infants' first months attending ECEC in Finland, is compo…
Adolescents’ preparedness and motivation across the transition to post-comprehensive education
2017
This longitudinal study aims to test the concept of transition preparedness in the context of educational transitions. The study investigates how adolescents' transition preparedness, conceptualized as their self-efficacy beliefs and their inoculation against setbacks, before an educational transition affect the adolescents' school value and effort related to educational goals after the transition through the effects on achievement goal orientations. Student data from three waves of a longitudinal study are used, first collected in 2004 (before the students' transition from comprehensive school to upper secondary education) and then collected twice after the transition. The students include…
La responsabilidad social de las universidades a través de la memoria cinematográfica
2013
[ES] Este artículo rescata una interesante película británica filmada en 1983 por Lewis Gilbert, "Educando a Rita", referencia fiel a la memoria de los inicios de la Open University, a su espíritu de innovación educativa, pionera en la educación universitaria a distancia en Europa. La cinta explora temas relevantes relativos a la educación superior y susceptibles de análisis en al menos cuatro dimensiones: la cultura de la institución universitaria, la profesionalidad docente, la metodología de enseñanza y el papel del alumnado en los estudios superiores. Las dimensiones consideradas requieren de un elemento posibilitador, de reflexión curricular: la orientación de los planes de estudio. El…