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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…

eTwinning Collaborative Learning Environment in Initial Teacher Education

2018

This paper aims to describe the eTwinning Teacher Training Institutes Pilot (TTI)1experiment during academic year 2014/15 with 550 undergraduate students from first and second year of Educational Technologies degree courses. The research was given start with the purpose of preparing tomorrow's teachers for a future where the use of ICT and is in everyday teaching, to promote their digital skills and communication skills, and their use of English as a foreign language within a cross-cultural context. The teaching presence was proved through proper supervision and the emergence of mutual support from 36 tutors and 550 students. The results of the research contributed to our understanding of h…

Profesionālās mācīšanās kopienas Latvijas vispārējās izglītības sistēmā

2017

Maģistra darba mērķis ir noskaidrot, vai Latvijas vispārējā izglītības sistēmā pastāv profesionālās mācīšanās kopienas un, ja šādas kopienas pastāv, tad noskaidrot, kā tās tiek organizētas. Pētījuma teorētisko ietvaru veido I. Illiča sabiedrības “atskološanas” koncepts, kā arī mācīšanas un mācīšanās funkcijas. Maģistra darbs tika īstenots kā individuāls darbības pētījums, izmantojot jaukto metožu pētījuma stratēģiju, tā ietvaros veicot padziļinātas daļēji strukturētas intervijas ar izglītības ekspertiem, kā arī pedagogu un vecāku aptauju. Pētījumā tika secināts, ka Latvijas vispārējā izglītības sistēmā pastāv profesionālās mācīšanās kopienas, un tās tiek organizētas izmantojot “no apakšas u…

Technology as an influential variable in the development of dialogical learning

2021

Schools have a responsibility to prepare new generations born in a globalized and interconnected world. The main objective of this paper is to analyze the role that technology plays in the development of dialogical learning in learning communities. We try to understand the influence that technology has in fostering communication and interaction in an educational project that presents interaction and words as basic learning tools. An instrumental, interpretive, and embedded case study is applied in which the communicative methodology is developed from interviews and two discussion groups. The singular case involves a rural school constituted as a learning community that is geographically spl…

Building a professional learning community in a conflict and post-conflict environment : a case-study of a high school in Liberia

2014

The Challenge of Philosophy Subjects: Towards Equality of Results

2017

Resumen: El objetivo es presentar una propuesta didactica que permite que los centros educativos sirvan como instrumentos de cohesion social y como lugares de posibilidad de transformacion social y educativa. El texto esta estructurado en tres partes. En primer lugar, se reconoce la necesidad de las propuestas innovadoras y se alerta del riesgo que pueden conllevar al perpetuar un sistema de desigualdad. A continuacion, se propone un cambio en la cultura organizativa de los centros educativos de la mano de las Comunidades de Aprendizaje; tras analizar sus fundamentos, se exponen tres de las acciones didacticas que pretenden lograr la igualdad en los resultados. Finalmente, se repasan las ve…

Educació Intercultural i TIC: claus pedagògiques de la innovació i el canvi social en el segle XXI

2012

Aquest article planteja la necessitat d'oferir claus pedagògics de la innovació i canvi social a les universitats i institucions de formació del segle XXI. Per tant, el que subratlla és la importància de promoure l'educació intercultural a través de les TIC (tecnologies de la informació i comunicació) com a element d'innovació i projecció positiva de la diversitat cultural. Cooperació en xarxa des d'una perspectiva intercultural i la promoció d'habilitats Interculturals són elements fonamentals per a transformar una societat formació escenaris en permanent canvi social.

It takes the Entire University Community to Educate Students in Becoming Academics

2018

Development of scientific thinking is considered an essential but challenging aim of academic studies. In practice, this challenge becomes evident when students begin preparing their theses. Therefore, proper guidance combined with suitable guidance methods are needed. The staff of university libraries face this daily challenge through students’ questions, which often start as ‘what’ questions and morph into ‘how’ questions. Based on these genuine necessities, a new collaborative model to implement guidance for students was developed at the Open Science Centre, Library at Jyväskylä University, Finland. The model is constructed of three intertwined principles: 1) strengthening student agency…

It takes the Entire University Community to Educate Students in Becoming Academics

2018

Poster at The 8th Edition of The Future of Education International Conference. Florence, Italy, June 28-29, 2018. Development of scientific thinking is considered an essential but challenging aim of academic studies. In practice, this challenge becomes evident when students begin preparing their theses. Therefore, proper guidance combined with suitable guidance methods are needed. Based on students’ genuine necessities, a new collaborative model to implement guidance for students was developed at the Open Science Centre, Library at University of Jyväskylä, Finland. The model is constructed of three intertwined principles: 1) strengthening student agency, 2) producing diverse but explicit op…

Understanding the sense of community and continuance intention in virtual communities: The role of commitment and type of community

2019

Virtual communities (VCs) have become essential in current organizations and society, and so their sustainability is a topic of interest for researchers and practitioners. We focus on the sense of virtual community (SoVC) and commitment as relevant antecedents in achieving the success and maintenance of different types of VCs (communities of interest, virtual learning communities, and virtual communities of practice). Specifically, this study examines a moderated mediation model in which the type of virtual community moderates the indirect effect of a SoVC on the intention to continue through the perceived commitment of the users of the VC. The sample consists of 299 members of Virtual comm…