Search results for "General education"

Teacher preparation for inclusion in Norway: a study of beliefs, skills, and intended practices

2017

ABSTRACTThe aim of this study was to examine the relationship between the educational experiences of teacher education students and their attitudes towards planning and making adaptations for children with learning disabilities in inclusive classrooms. Participants comprised pre-service teachers in the second and fourth years of teacher preparation at a major Norwegian university. Fourth-year students were completing a 1-year elective in special education (n = 34) or coursework in other subjects (n = 30). Second-year students were grouped based on their intention to take special education (n = 26) or other coursework (n = 62). Participants rated their beliefs, skills, and intended practices…

Pedagoginen asiantuntijuus liikkeessä ja muutoksessa : huomisen haasteita

2014

A Small Special Needs Class or a Smaller Class at the Beginning of the Educational Path?

2016

<p>This article is based on the case study which focuses on the small class (in this article used to describe a small special needs class) operation of one medium-sized Finnish town. In the study an attempt was made to clarify what kind of alternative the small class is to the first grade of general education at the beginning of the child's educational path, what kind of experiences the teachers had of the pupils of the small class, of multi-vocational cooperation and of pupils' integration and success in general education. The results of the study showed that a large part of the pupils who come to the small classes had learning difficulties, and attention and behavioural disorders. I…

Anthropology of Political, Social and Cultural Memory: Practices in Central and Eastern Europe: Program & Abstracts : International Scientific Confer…

2020

COMPREHENSIVE TEACHER’S PROFESSIONALISM FOR CONTENT AND LANGUAGE INTEGRATED PROVISION

2019

T opicality of the problem is determined by several factors as well as the amendments on the Education Law and the General Education Law, which provide for a gradual transition to the acquisition of general secondary education in Latvian only, educational content reform and teachers experience to work in an ethnically and linguistically heterogeneous environment. The aim of the study is to analyse comprehensive school teachers theoretical background and practice experience to work in the content and language integrated teaching and learning approach. Because language not a subject only but a mean of acquiring other subjects in the comprehensive school, too, all teachers need theoretical kno…

Taxonomy of Learning in Virtual Reality

2020

Promocijas darbs tika izstrādāts izglītības zinātņu nozarē, vispārīgās pedagoģijas apakšnozarē Latvijas Universitātes Pedagoģijas, psiholoģijas un mākslas fakultātē, profesores, Dr. paed. Lindas Danielas vadībā. Darba apjoms ir 147 lpp., ieskaitot 30 attēlus un 16 tabulas, kā arī literatūras un avotu sarakstu ar 114 nosaukumiem. Darbam papildus pievienoti arī 2 pielikumi uz 21 lpp. Pētījuma mērķis ir informēt pedagogus un mācīšanas dizaina izstrādātājus, kā arī VR tehnoloģiju izstrādātājus, un potenciālos izglītojamos par VR mācīšanās principiem, tostarp, to sinerģijām un mijsakarībām, piedāvājot pamatotu teoriju virtuālās realitātes mācīšanās taksonomijai. Šī pētījuma nozīmīgākais devums i…

THE IMPACT OF HEADMASTER’S LEADERSHIP PRACTICE ON THE FORMATION OF A PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITY AT SCHOOL

2019

In the context of general education content reform initiated in Latvia, which also provides change of teaching approach, the issue of the role of headmaster has raised. The introduction and implementation of competence approach requires strengthening and development of cooperation between teachers in professional learning communities (PLCs) at school, in order to address didactic issues, regularly analyze pupils` learning outcomes and find best ways to increase the learning outcomes of each pupil, and give an opportunity for teachers to improve their teaching by sharing good pedagogical practice. The change of teaching approach prompts a revision of school management practices as well. In o…

SYSTEMOLOGY AND ONTODIDACTICS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN GENERAL EDUCATION

2006

Dear colleagues! Due to serious global and local changes in our modern economical and political life o n t o d i d a c t i c s has established itself as the theory of qualitative changes in modern education. Traditional didactics, following principle of moving from simple to complex, today must be supplemented with ontodidactics, following the principle of transition from complex to simple. It means the step to higher level of generalization when starting new stage of education (like upper secondary after lower secondary education) or starting development of qualitatively new structure of educational content to respond demands from our qualitatively changing lifestyle.

Micro and Small Businesses Access to Finance and Financial Literacy of their Owners: Evidence from Latvia, Estonia and Georgia

2021

Lack of financial literacy of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) owners/managers is often mentioned among the reasons of their financial exclusion. The main objective of the article is to verify whether the targeted group - MSMEs - access to finance and financial literacy of their owners/managers are closely linked in observed countries – Latvia, Estonia and Georgia. As a supportive objective, analysis of the relationship between financial literacy of MSMEs owners, adult literacy and the level of general education in a country is also analyzed. The research is exploratory in its nature, based on intensive literature review, analysis of the countries’ statistics and the case s…

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PATTERNS OF ADOLESCENTS WITH LONG TERM ILLNESSES OR DISABILITIES IN FINNISH GENERAL EDUCATION

2014

Physical activity (PA) of adolescents with long term illnesses or disabilities (LTID) in general education is examined to provide evidence of PA levels from specific population groups. This study describes the PA levels of adolescents with LTID based on recommendations of daily 60mins of moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) and vigorous leisure time PA (VPA) of at least two times a week for at least one hour per week. Finnish data from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study was pooled from 2002 and 2010 surveys. 1126 respondents (14.6%) self-reported as having a LTID and details of main categories of LTID were used to examine PA behaviours. Overall, 15.6% of adolescents with LT…