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Journal articles on the topic "Schools - Aims and objectives"
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Md. Yusof, Rozila, and Jamalul Lail Abdul Wahab. "PRINCIPAL’S INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP AND ITS RELATION TO TEACHERS’ COMMITMENT IN HIGH PERFORMANCE SCHOOLS (HPS) IN SEREMBAN DISTRICT." International Journal of Education, Psychology and Counseling 4, no. 33 (December 15, 2019): 107–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.35631/ijepc.433009.
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The transformation of education in Malaysia now focuses on the changes in school leadership. Therefore, this research aims at identifying the Principal’s Instructional Leadership in relation to teachers’ commitment in High Performance Schools (HPS) or Sekolah Berprestasi Tinggi (SBT) in Seremban district, Negeri Sembilan. The level of Principal’s Instructional Leadership is assessed from various dimensions which are defining, creating school’s objectives, organizing instructional programmes in school and encouraging school’s learning climate. On the other hand, the level of teachers’ commitment is assessed from three dimensions which are acceptance of objectives and organization values, readiness to achieve the objectives and willingness to stay in the organization. The researcher chose the research survey method and it is a quantitative nature that used questionnaire forms in which the validity and reliability are tested with the value of 𝛼=0.985. The strata random sampling technique was used to collect data among the population of teachers in High Performance Schools (HPS) in Seremban district, Negeri Sembilan and the size of the samples is a total of 127 persons. Research analysis used descriptive statistics and inferences to find answers for research enquiries. The research data was gathered and collected by using Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale (PIMRS) by Hallinger and Murphy (1987). This research found that the overall level of Principal’s Instructional Leadership was at a very high score of min= 4.40. Meanwhile, teachers’ commitment value showed that it was at a very high score of min=4.15. Besides, this research found that there was a significant relationship between Principal’s Instructional Leadership and teachers’ commitment which showed a strong correlation that is r = 0.687. This research gave an impression of Principal’s Instructional Leadership styles impacts teachers’ commitment in terms of executing tasks at school therefore contributes to effectiveness of an organization in High Performance Schools (HPS) or Sekolah Berprestasi Tinggi (SBT).
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Al-Zboun, Fadi, and Ioan Neacșu. "Calitatea rezultatelor școlare ale elevilor în învățământul primar din Iordania." Studia Doctoralia 5, no. 1-2 (September 27, 2018): 38–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.47040/sd/sdpsych.v5i1-2.43.
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This research aims to identify the quality of school results for pupils in the primary schools in Jordan, through the school administration, teacher effectiveness, school environment, teaching strategies and evaluation. The main theme of the search is linked to school assessment results, to identify weaknesses that must be corrected, and the strengths to keep them, and the reasons that led to the failure to achieve certain goals by the pupils. To achieve the objectives of the study we applied two tools: questionnaire and interview, to study samples that were from the primary schools principals in Jordan. The study found that all areas of the study achieved a higher score.
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Al-Zboun, Fadi, and Ioan Neacșu. "Calitatea rezultatelor școlare ale elevilor în învățământul primar din Iordania." Studia Doctoralia 5, no. 1-2 (September 27, 2018): 38–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.47040/sd0000032.
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This research aims to identify the quality of school results for pupils in the primary schools in Jordan, through the school administration, teacher effectiveness, school environment, teaching strategies and evaluation. The main theme of the search is linked to school assessment results, to identify weaknesses that must be corrected, and the strengths to keep them, and the reasons that led to the failure to achieve certain goals by the pupils. To achieve the objectives of the study we applied two tools: questionnaire and interview, to study samples that were from the primary schools principals in Jordan. The study found that all areas of the study achieved a higher score.
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Mering, Aloysius. "the Study on the Functionalization Role of Student Parents in Education Activities." JETL (Journal Of Education, Teaching and Learning) 4, no. 2 (September 30, 2019): 309. http://dx.doi.org/10.26737/jetl.v4i2.1698.
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This study aims to examine and describe the school's efforts to function the role of students parents in the education process at school. Descriptive research methods are used to achieve the research objectives. The study sample was parents and teachers who were purposively determined on the basis of considering the status of school accreditation. The schools selected as samples were Santun Untan Senior High School (accredited B) and Gembala Baik Senior High School (accreditation A). The research data was collected by interview instruments, questionnaires, and documentation. Data analysis was carried out by descriptive statistical studies to describe the optimal functioning of parents by schools. From the research data obtained the fact that the perceptions of parents of students and teachers in Santun Untan Senior High School and Gembala Baik Senior High School toward the relationship between parents and teachers are "good." In playing the functions of parents in school, both parents and teachers state "no difficulties." Aspects that are considered "important" to "very important" in fostering parent and teacher relationships include not giving up children's affairs to schools, assuming parents as school partners, parents controlling children's education, parents always following the development of the school , and care about children's education. With this perception, it is possible to "ideal conditions" in building optimal cooperation in student education in the two sample schools.
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Azizah, Dinar Martia. "THE VARIETIES OF HOMEWORK GIVEN BY ENGLISH TEACHERS OF VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS." Indonesian EFL Journal 4, no. 2 (August 4, 2018): 48. http://dx.doi.org/10.25134/ieflj.v4i2.1375.
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Learning inside the classroom is never enough because there are various limitations, so it needs the non-school hour assignment called homework. This research aims to find out the varieties of homework given by English teachers of vocational schools. This research uses a qualitative descriptive method by involving eight English teachers of vocational schools in Yogyakarta. Open-ended questionnaires, interview, and document analysis are used to collect the data. In analyzing the obtained data, the researcher does three steps, namely data condensation, data display, and conclusion drawing. The research results showed that homework varieties given by English teachers serve three main objectives. Those objectives are to broaden knowledge, sharpen skills, and inculcate values. It is concluded that formal education in schools requires homework that improve students' English proficiency. Besides, the existence of State Examination is regarded as a special thing that effects on learning process.Keywords: homework; broaden knowledge; sharpen skills; inculcate values; English proficiency.
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KAVURAN, Tamer, and Bayram Dede. "The roles of art educationalists to realize the aims of the art education: Bauhaus case." Global Journal of Arts Education 6, no. 4 (June 12, 2017): 126–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjae.v6i4.1836.
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AbstractTo achieve the objective of art education, (i.e. the training of art educationalists) workshops, technical equipment, and curriculum all play an important role. It is impossible to ascertain the objectives of art education if the instructor has insufficient knowledge. The reason why the Bauhaus school of design became globally recognized was due to its superior instructors. Among the instructors of the school, there were Johannes Itten, Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Oscar Schlemmer. They applied their revolutionary methods to the Bauhaus school. Due to these methods the Bauhaus model of teaching has been copied by other art schools; even after the Bauhaus school closed. In this study, the impact of the Bauhaus school and its instructor is examined. The individual contributions of its instructors to art education, as well as how they exemplify the model art educator are also explored in detail.
Keywords: art, design, Bauhaus, knowledge, instructor.
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Lai, Manhong, and Lijia Wang. "Fulfilling Set Objectives: A Case Study of Teacher Development in Two Primary Schools in Beijing." ECNU Review of Education 2, no. 2 (June 2019): 178–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2096531119853083.
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Purpose: This study aims to reveal the recent characteristics of school-based teacher development (STD) in China since it is perceived as a key measure to achieve success in raising educational quality in the country. Design/Approach/Methods: A qualitative research approach with in-depth interviews of 18 teachers at two primary schools in Beijing was used. Findings: Through the lens of cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT), it was observed that the objectives adaptation of teacher communities was made under the control of the District Education Bureau. STD provides the venue for ordinary teachers to learn, understand, and implement the teaching initiatives promoted by the district. Teacher communities at school level therefore implement continuous professional development initiatives promoted by Education Bureau teaching research officers. Originality/Value: This article argues that the administrative style of local government affected teacher community’s object, rules, and division of labor. It also contributes an indigenous interpretation of the CHAT theory.
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Artikova, Makhim. "Implementing Content And Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) In Secondary Schools." American Journal of Social Science and Education Innovations 02, no. 11 (November 28, 2020): 253–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/tajssei/volume02issue11-45.
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This paper aims to give information about the benefits and stages of implementation of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in secondary schools. It focuses on the objectives and implementation stages of the CLIL, target language skills, assessment, feedback, and dual-subject knowledge in this approach. It further states the benefits of applying CLIL in preparing students for 21- century skills (Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Decision making, Creativity, Collaboration, Communication), international standardized exams such as IELTS, TOEFL, and large-scale international assessments (PISA, and TIMSS).
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Tambunan, Hardi. "The Dominant Factor of Teacher’s Role as A Motivator of Students’ Interest and Motivation in Mathematics Achievement." International Education Studies 11, no. 4 (March 29, 2018): 144. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ies.v11n4p144.
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This study aims to identify the most dominant factor of the teacher’s role as a motivator that influences students’ interest and motivation to perform in mathematics achievement. It is conducted in eighth grade of senior high school with 209 students, consisted of five state schools and two private schools from seven regencies in North Sumatera. The data collecting technique uses questionnaire about students’ interest and motivation toward mathematics and teacher’s role as motivator. Numerical data on mathematics achievement of students is obtained from school documents. The result of data with path analysis is obtained by dominant factor of teacher’s role as motivator that is factor of delivery of learning goal and learning comfort equal to 6.10%, and 6.00% is influenced by the delivery of learning objectives and variations of learning approaches, 5.17% is influenced by the delivery of learning objectives, 5.06% is due to variations in the learning approach, 4.61% is influenced by learning comfort and variation of learning approach, and 4.26% influenced by pleasant class atmosphere.
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Abdullah, Mukhammad. "School Culture to Serve Performance of Madrasah in Indonesia." QIJIS (Qudus International Journal of Islamic Studies) 7, no. 1 (June 3, 2019): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.21043/qijis.v7i1.4809.
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<p>School cultures grow with school ages, school objectives, social changes, and school level, whose success depends on leadership styles. This study, aims to see school cultures development and attainments of the schools. Taking in Kediri, Indonesia, this study used grounded theory and selected Senior Islamic School (MAN): MAN 1, MAN 2 and MAN Tarokan, 12 participants, and employed theme-based analysis. The study revealed MAN 2 is the best to maintain school cultures and achieve better academic attainments. School cultures are derived from (1) values, norms, and behavior; (2). school physical environment: beauty, security, comfort, tranquility, and cleanliness; (3). school system: quality based, principal leadership, discipline and order, rewards and incentives, expectations for achievement, access to information, evaluation, intensive and open communication. Schools with established school cultures achieve better academic and non-academic attainments.</p>
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Schools - Aims and objectives"
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Speyer, Elizabeth C. "Teacher evaluation systems in four school boards." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63876.
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Beerman, Susan E. "Indiana "high schools that work" school improvement pilot sites : effects of programmatic change on administrative roles and responsibilities." Virtual Press, 1996. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1027092.
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This study was designed to determine: (a) the nature and extent of programmatic changes that occurred in the nine Indiana "High Schools That Work" pilot sites, (b) how the implementation of these changes has impacted administrative roles and responsibilities, and (c) whether the principal's role is different in program implementation when another educator is directly responsible for a specific school-improvement initiative. Questionnaires were mailed to principals and site coordinators at each pilot site, and personal interviews were subsequently conducted with each of them.Findings and conclusions were:1. All pilot sites used some form of integrated, non-linear planning. Integrated, non-linear planning helped pilot-site principals and site coordinators gain support for their programs and implement a greater number of changes than the researcher expected to find.2. Communication and finding time to plan were the two most significant planning problems. When there was a breakdown in communication among constituent groups, the level of support for various initiatives diminished. Releasing teachers from classroom activities to plan this initiative provided help in the planning process.3. Administrators at each school incorporated programmatic changes to reflect changes in philosophy, curriculum, and instruction. These changes included: (a) raising academic expectations, (b) eliminating the general track, (c) revising curriculum and instructional techniques, (d) integrating subject areas across academic disciplines and between academic and vocational subjects, (e) restructuring guidance programs, (f) collaborating with business communities, (g) modifying student assessment methods, and (h) changing the structure of the school day. Changes made through the "High Schools That Work" initiative have impacted all constituent groups affiliated with the pilot-site schools.4. Educators in dual roles of principal and site coordinator maintained direct control of their projects, and their time commitments were significantly greater than those of principals at schools with separate site coordinators. In situations where a site coordinator was present, the principal primarily assumed the role of supporter. This support role was especially critical with regard to communication and problem-solving.5. When there was no separate site coordinator, the principal assumed a broader range of responsibilities and acted as initiator, supporter, facilitator, and problem-solver for the initiative. When a site coordinator was present, the principal delegated power and leadership responsibilities to him or her.Department of Educational Leadership
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Bosch, Marieke M. "Living the great mythic questions : an exploration of the inspirited school where narrative and authenticity intersect." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=29495.
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This thesis is a reflection on the importance of the inspirited school and the value of living the great mythic questions. I am suggesting that we are living in a mythic and spiritual crisis that stems from an education informed by an uninspiring myth. While our traditional pedagogical aim has been to further the education of students, to develop their minds into keen and sharp tools capable of contributing to our economic society, we have forgotten to ask what that means exactly: what does it mean to be educated? Through an exploration of the roles spirituality, authenticity, and narrative play in education, this thesis proposes a vision of the inspirited school providing a rich alternative to the present myth. With authenticity as the goal of inspirited education, narrative and the writing process are the means by which to achieve this goal.
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Adams, Robert M. "Secondary school vision and mission statements : how do principals use this to enhance school objectives and outcomes?" Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/95679.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.Vision and mission statements are believed to play an important role in organisations in their quest to provide clear and concise guidance to their ambitions and purpose. This is especially true for not-for profit organisations as they do not have a ‘bottom-line’ to drive performances and other strategic decisions. Although several studies have been conducted on the effect of effective vision and mission statements on organisations, there is no evidence of a study having been conducted on secondary schools in the Helderberg area, to the best of the researcher’s knowledge. The aim of this study was to explore the extent to which the vision and mission statements are communicated and used within the two secondary schools as part of their decision making processes, especially by the principals of these schools. In order to sufficiently address the implementation, communication and integration of the vision and mission statements in the secondary schools, the following research questions were formulated: • What is the level to which the school’s mission and vision statements are used by its principals to guide decision-making processes and the setting of goals and ambitions? • How well are the school’s mission and vision statements communicated to – and understood by its stakeholders? • How to properly create and integrate the school’s vision and mission statements in order to ensure improved and sustainable academic performances This study explores the levels of communication of the vision and mission statements most notably by the principals to the rest of the school’s stakeholders and the integration of these statements into the daily decision making processes. Furthermore, the study investigates the review process of these statements and whether the principals embody the values and visions of their respective schools. From the analysis of the findings, it was clear that these statements are still largely unknown within the two schools, as only 54% of the correspondents have ever seen these statements. The views were varied about whether principals have communicated the vision and mission statements to the stakeholders of the schools. According to Sherman (2001: 24) the ability to clearly and concisely communicate the vision and mission of the organisation is a critical characteristic of leadership. The study also concluded that the statements appeared to not have been fully understood, embodied and communicated by both the principals interviewed. The lack of a clear strategy and the focus on solving crisis issues at the schools were evident during the interviews with both principals. This research findings were analysed, concluded and recommendations made on the factors that could assist the establishment, communication and integration of the vision and mission statements within secondary schools within the Helderberg area.
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Gammie, Robert Peter. "Psychological contracts in a business school context." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/228.
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Over the last three decades the UK higher education system has operated under an ideological approach sometimes referred to as New Managerialism (Deem, 2004). The psychological contract of the individual actor within this altered environment was the subject of the research in this study. The psychological contract has been defined as an individual’s beliefs regarding the terms and conditions of a reciprocal informal exchange agreement between themselves and their organisations (Rousseau, 1989). The thesis focused on the psychological contracts of higher education lecturers in a post-92 University Business School in the United Kingdom. The study considered the construction of the psychological contract, the appropriateness of the initial contract, perceived influences on the contract, and behavioural consequences of contract breach and/or violation. The research was focussed on the role of the lecturer in interpreting and unpacking his/her perceptions and understandings. The research questions required data that was personal and experiential. Interviews were undertaken which allowed participants to provide life history accounts that described and theorised about their actions in the social world over time. The approach used had a number of limitations which were identified and considered within the thesis. Notwithstanding the limitations of the research approach, the data suggested that each individual had analysed the extent to which a new employment context would deliver transactional, relational, and ideological reward. However, ideology was less relevant in making the decision to accept higher education employment than either transactional or relational elements. Post-entry, sensemaking acted as a confirmation mechanism in respect of the expectations of what the job would entail and the pecuniary and non-pecuniary benefits that would be received. Initial contracts were relatively accurate in their conceptualisation of the work involved in being a higher education academic. Within the Business School examined in this study, management decisions impacted on participants from both an economic and socio-economic perspective. Employees described how individual work contexts were altered by management decisions. Reaction to decisions depended on individual circumstances at any given juncture based on the influences from multiple contexts both internal and external to the workplace. Context was not homogenous and wide-ranging individual differences were apparent. These contexts played a part in defining to what extent changed work environments would be accepted or not. Participants were continuously active and involved in the evaluation of the multiple contexts that were relevant to them. The capacity to manipulate managers and influence decisions to counteract context change was also evident. The ability to thwart changes to work context varied between individuals and over time. This study identified how participants were able to create and shape their own work environment to satisfy their needs and wants during their careers within a structure that remained predominantly organic in nature despite a changing higher education environment. The goal of the employee was to create the idiosyncratic deal, the specific individually tailored work environment that would deliver the satisfaction required from higher education employment. The psychological contracts were self-focussed and self-oriented but this did not necessarily mean that employees were not also actively involved in assisting the organisation to achieve its ambitions. The notion that a managerial agenda had resulted in the erosion of individualism in higher education was not supported. There was evidence that the psychological contract was unilaterally changed and altered by the employee whenever he or she chose, rather than a negotiated change to a binding agreement. Alteration was intrinsically a private determination and often not communicated.
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Paul, Stephen John. "Aesthetic Justifications for Music Education: a Theoretical Examination of Their Usefulness." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331148/.
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Justifications for music education have been studied only by examining historical trends in statements of aesthetic versus utilitarian values, and not from the perspective of evaluating the justifications' usefulness. A number of prominent writers in the music education field, while supporting aesthetic values as important for music education, have expressed doubts about the effectiveness of aesthetic justifications when used for convincing outsiders of the importance of music in the public school curriculum. These doubts, along with a preponderance of aesthetic justifications in the recent music education literature, led to the present study, which conducted a theoretical examination of the usefulness of aesthetic justifications for music education. The study addressed three research problems, namely: (1) the attitudes of the clientele groups of the public schools in terms of their values toward music as a subject in the schools; (2) the attitudes of the groups within the music education profession in terms of their values for music in the public schools and for the profession itself; and 3) the likelihood that justifications based upon "aesthetics" as a system of values would be accepted by the groups both inside arid outside the music education profession. A philosophical-sociological perspective was chosen for the theoretical analysis because the problems of the study concern the manner in which values are accepted or rejected by groups of people. The particular sociological theory chosen combined the symbolic interaction theory of George Herbert Mead and the sociology of knowledge as described by Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann. Conclusions: Problems arise in justifying music education using aesthetic theory because (1) the symbolic universe of aesthetic theory is complex and is not well-understood by music educators or the clientele of the public schools; and (2) aesthetic theory represents gestures of a reference group with norms and values not usually found in the music educator or clientele groups.
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Felix, Alan Alistair. "Dominant pedagogies used in three rural geography primary school classrooms in the west coast district." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2133.
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Thesis (MTech (Education))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2015.The question arose whether the teaching of primary school Geography teachers could be a factor for the declining Grade 12 pass rate in Geography. It is within this context that the researcher decided to investigate the quality of Geography teaching and learning in three rural primary schools in Grades 4 – 6. The theories of Shulman’s (1987) Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) and Koehler and Mishra’s (2009) Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK) framed this research. Although the Intermediate Phase curriculum provides a general education experience, the teacher needs to adopt teaching strategies that will deliver geographical knowledge, skills and values, which will enable all learners to function effectively and responsibly in space-place and time. A qualitative research design was employed for this study using interviews and observations. Six teachers were purposively selected for this study. These schools are in high poverty rural communities and the medium of instruction is Afrikaans. The data was both inductively and deductively analyzed. The findings indicate that the most used pedagogy by these six teachers was the Lecture Method in combination with the Question and Answer Method. It was found that teachers do not have adequate content knowledge about the different pedagogies. This research was an exploratory investigation into the pedagogies used in Geography and offer three recommendations: recommendations for teaching Geography in rural multi-grade classrooms, recommendations for WCED and further research.
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Chan, Wing-kwong, and 陳榮光. "A study of the development of quality indicator systems in Hong Kong primary schools: a case study." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31960017.
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Erbstoesser, Richard James. "Student motivation: instilling a desire to learn in middle school students." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1302.
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Shae, Wan-chaw, and 佘雲楚. "A sociological study of authority in two secondary schools in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31234410.
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Harvey, Long, Marx Gary, and American Association of School Administrators., eds. Preparing schools and school systems for the 21st century. Arlington, VA: American Association of School Administrators, 1999.
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Lane, Mary B. Our schools, frontline for the 21st century: What our schools must become : essays in education. Hayward, Calif: Q Trips, 1998.
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Commission, Nebraska Schools Accountability. Report of the Nebraska Schools Accountability Commission. [Lincoln, Neb: The Commission, 1995.
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Glickman, Carl D. Revolutionizing America's schools. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1998.
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Washington (State). State Board of Education. What are schools for?: Goals for Washington public schools. Olympia, WA (Old Capitol Bldg., FG-11, Olympia 98504): Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1985.
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Bhardwaj, Rajni M. "Aims and Objectives." In Control and Prediction of Solid-State of Pharmaceuticals, 29–30. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27555-0_2.
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Nordtveit, Bjorn H. "Aims of Education." In Schools as Protection?, 21–36. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25651-1_2.
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van der Ham, Vanessa. "Formulating your aims and objectives." In Analyzing a Case Study, 29–30. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-56621-8_7.
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McCall, Theo D. "Positive Spirituality." In The Palgrave Handbook of Positive Education, 581–608. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64537-3_23.
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AbstractPositive spirituality is about acknowledging the personal spiritual growth that can occur through the use of some techniques from positive psychology. Contemporary educational philosophy within secular government educational departments rarely, if ever, addresses the notion of a spiritual life within educational institutions. Religious schools, on the other hand, usually include prayer and spirituality at the foundation of their educational aims. There is a clear disconnection between the two systems in this respect. Positive spirituality potentially provides a bridge between these two systems, bringing a focus on a broad notion of spirituality to otherwise secular government/public systems, and scientifically validated approaches to potentially narrowly focused religious schools. For instance, meditative techniques, relaxation, and physical stillness can help bring spiritual awareness to the fore, and in the process highlight a connection to something larger than oneself—the very goal of all mystics and a noble educational objective as teachers strive to inspire a greater sense of meaning and purpose in their students.
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Oldcorn, Roger. "Setting Long-term Aims and Objectives." In Management, 19–31. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19926-6_2.
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Oldcorn, Roger. "Setting Long-Term Aims and Objectives." In Management, 19–32. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13195-2_2.
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Mehay, Ramesh, Judy McKimm, Mark Waters, Damian Kenny, and Anna Romito. "Powerful Hooks – aims, objectives and ILOs." In The Essential Handbook for GP Training and Education, 34–44. London: CRC Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781846197918-6.
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Dallin, David J. "Objectives and Aims of Soviet Policy." In The Big Three, 55–81. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003188056-5.
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Platz, Monika. "Epistemic Aims of School Education." In Good Relationships in Schools, 9–26. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64137-8_2.
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Jenkins, Paul. "The Aims and Objectives of the Book." In Urbanization, Urbanism, and Urbanity in an African City, 3–24. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137380173_1.
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Tahtamouni, Suha Fayed, Shinda Mohammad, Lina Said Zukari, Momena Khader Tayeh, and Hissa Sadiq. "The effect of teaching science and mathematics in Arabic on the level of students' performance in Qatari schools." In Qatar University Annual Research Forum & Exhibition. Qatar University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.29117/quarfe.2020.0269.
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The interest in education is the cornerstone of the civilized growth of the State of Qatar, because of its great impact on preparing the human resources that the nation needs for its progress in various fields, in order to achieve the Qatar National Vision 2030. In 2003, the State of Qatar launched an ambitious initiative to develop public education known as “Education for a New Era”. A bilingual system that started with teaching Math and Science subjects, so that both Arabic and English are used in the educational process, followed by a decision to teach the two subjects in Arabic in all government schools. Therefore, this research aims to focus on the performance in government schools in the country, which shows the rates of student achievement in specific educational stages and in specific subjects, where the improvement of achievement in government school students in basic subjects (Arabic, English, Mathematics and Science) in the three educational stages, is considered to be one of the objectives of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education to realize the Qatar National Vision 2030, and accordingly the Ministry of Education and Higher Education sets and develops many strategies, procedures and decisions with the aim of achieving this goal.
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Tammaro, Rosanna, Anna D’Alessio, Annamaria Petolicchio, and Anna Iannuzzo. "THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON THE SCHOOL WORLD." In International Conference on Education and New Developments. inScience Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36315/2021end071.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is firstly a health crisis, but also a huge shock for the educational world (from primary school to university). The impact of COVID-19 on the school world has been very strong. Education has been hit hard with schools closing down internationally and students forced to stay home. The global lockdown of schools has caused a severe and probably unparalleled disruption in student learning. In this scenario, teaching has moved online, the school world has suddenly been forced to move towards the dimension of distance learning, in Italian DAD. A new acronym, DAD, which is used to identify a type of training and teaching that is implemented, precisely, remotely or where there is no sharing of a space and a physical interaction between teacher and students, but everything is mediated by the use of technological means and the internet. The article aims to describe to a teacher audience, the most important steps in online/distance learning, DAD, adopted during pandemic in Italian school system, with its implications for teachers and students. After a brief overview of the main theoretical frameworks, we will try to describe the current state, in our country, of this methodology, its characteristics, its objectives and the roles of the actors involved. This article is an exploratory case study that involved the use of an observational research technique. It sought, through "living the situation in first person", to critically consider the advantages and disadvantages of this new didactic approach, of this different way of studying/teaching and the future prospects in restarting lessons in a Covid world.
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Mastrantoni, Claudia, and Martina Mazzarello. "Vegetable gardens for educational purposes: a specific toolkit for didactic contexts." In Fourth International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head18.2018.8194.
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The paper reports on how urban agriculture, as a sharing system, is becoming a way to increase aggregation, grouping, relationships in a local context, which could turn into an educational and emotional resource within the urban context. This paper will examine the design of community gardens within semi-public spaces in didactic context (schools, associations, learning spaces). One of the research objectives is to improve the quality of urban landscapes by answering citizens’ need for social interaction and fostering the role that community plays in it. Through co-design sessions with different communities related to specific schools, the design output aims at the creation of a systemic space made by a vegetable garden and his convivial spaces. This would strengthen internal local connections, and trigger positivity and better learning performances among users. The expected result is a set of design tools and guidelines that allow these realities to deal with the creation of vegetable gardens by defining the layouts, the functions and the experiences.
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Bejenari, Ludmila. "Interaction Psychopedagogical assistance service - family: up-to-date strategies of collaboration in the Pandemic period." In Condiții pedagogice de optimizare a învățării în post criză pandemică prin prisma dezvoltării gândirii științifice. "Ion Creanga" State Pedagogical University, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.46728/c.18-06-2021.p281-284.
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The interaction of family and school is a process of joint activities to agree on the objectives, forms, and methods of family and school education. The value base of such an interaction is the creation of conditions for the achievement of the child, his personal growth, the formation of motivation for learning, maintaining physical and mental health, and social adaptation. Also, the cooperation between family and school aims to harmonize the relationship between teachers, students, and parents, timely identification of family problems, and effective social, pedagogical, and psychological support of the family, increasing parental responsibility for raising and developing children.
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Zalys, Vytautas. "Interactive Multi-Sensory Environments for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders." In ATEE 2020 - Winter Conference. Teacher Education for Promoting Well-Being in School. LUMEN Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18662/lumproc/atee2020/39.
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The emerging of digital technology not only encourages the development of new tools but also changes traditional approaches to solving emerging problems. The sound, music, art, colors, etc. that prevailed in the 20th-century forms of therapy are being replaced by integrated systems that overcome many of these forms, thanks to digital technology. With the increasing number of people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the world, such systems provide new opportunities for the treatment of these disorders. In this research, the creation of such a system has been chosen as the object of work. The article presents an interactive tool for the education of children with ASD created by audio, video, and computer technologies and assesses its potential impact. The experimental research and its results are presented. This study aims to evaluate an interactive instrument developed for the education of such children. Following the objectives of ensuring the interactivity of the process, provoking all the perceptions of the subject, and developing the subject's ability to respond to the environment, a personalized audiovisual environment was created. For interactivity, the virtual program EyeCon, Webcam and camcorders, video projector, and speaker system were used. The study was conducted with one subject and a case study method was used. The impact of the instrument was established based on a survey of the parents of the child and the findings of childcare experts. The results of the study demonstrated the positive benefits for this child such as increased eye-to-hand coordination, concentration duration, improved communication, and emotional expression. The results obtained show that such interactive multi-sensory environments in special and general education schools can be a supplemental tool for traditional methods.
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Čurová, Viera, Oľga Orosová, Lenka Abrinková, and Marcela Štefaňáková. "EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PROGRAMS UNPLUGGED AND UNPLUGGED 2 ON ALCOHOL USE AND SMOKING AMONG SCHOOLCHILDREN." In International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends. inScience Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36315/2021inpact092.
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"Objectives: The aim of the study is to examine the long-term effectiveness of the school-based drug prevention programs Unplugged and Unplugged2 using a Solomon design and supplemented with n-Prevention booster sessions on the cumulative index (CI) of reported alcohol use (AU) and smoking. Methods: In 2013/2014, Unplugged was implemented during 12 consecutive weeks in Slovak primary schools. A sample of 744(M=12.5; 58.72%girls) was collected before program implementation(T1) and 12months later(T3). In 2017/2018, Unplugged2 was implemented by each school over 6months. A sample of 408(M=14.48; 51.96%girls) was collected before program implementation (T1), immediately after implementation(T2) and 12months later(T3). Participation in Unplugged was divided into control and experimental groups and Unplugged2 into control, experimental and experimental groups with n-Prevention, a pre-test and post-test or with post-test only. CI in the past 30 days was dichotomized (0-not used,1-AU, smoking or both). Binary logistic regressions were used to analyze the data at every measurement point. The moderation effect of gender was examined. The CI at T1 in Unplugged and Unplugged2 with a pre-test and post-test, and CI at T2 in Unplugged2 with a post-test were used as the control variables. Results: There was no significant effect of Unplugged and Unplugged2 with the pre-test and post-test. Unplugged2 with a post-test was significantly associated with CI at T3. The experimental group with n- Prevention was less likely to use alcohol and/or smoke. There was no significant effect or moderation effect of gender. Conclusions: The results show the long-term effectiveness of a preventive program is more pronounced with booster sessions, specifically with the post-test design."
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Arafeh, Labib. "Introducing Information Technology to Palestinian Schools." In 2002 Informing Science + IT Education Conference. Informing Science Institute, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/2437.
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The paper presents the two perspectives of IT in the Palestinian schools. The basic IT literacy - based courses have been introduced in most of private schools since 1985, and formally started in all public as well private schools in 1999. This covers eight grades from the fifth up to the twelfth. An additional two classes per week have been introduced to the weekly school program. The main objective is to create a new technological-mentality generation that understand, use, explore, and involve in the highly demanded field. Students will be facilitated with the basic IT skills to understand, use, and promote their studies in effectively understanding, searching, reporting, and documenting. Teachers badly need IT paradigms to boost their instructional materials and teaching aids. In addition to the workshops, an Arabic language-based web site will be constructed to assist schoolteachers, administrators, and students etc. in learning technology online an offline. Further more, a collaborative Palestinian School Teachers
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Possoly da Silva Alves, Daianne, Franciele Therezinha Magno Calidoni, Mariana Sales de Oliveira, Thaís Araújo de Azevedo, Thalissa Bastos Batista, Rafaela Pinheiro de Almeida Neves, and Edson Ribeiro de Andrade. "The psychosocial impacts of remote education on black youth: an intersectional debate on the COVID-19 pandemic, gender, race and class." In 7th International Congress on Scientific Knowledge. Perspectivas Online: Humanas e Sociais Aplicadas, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.25242/8876113220212452.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has moved scientists from different areas of knowledge worldwide to bring reflections on the impacts caused by it, whose scope goes beyond human health in its physical and psychological aspects and affects the economy, politics, social relations at work, the educational system, etc. Therefore, this project, promoted by the Laboratory for the Study of Stigmatization Processes (LEPE) in partnership with the Racism Studies Line (LER) of the Psychology Course of the Higher Education Institutes at CENSA -ISECENSA, aims to promote the debate on the psychosocial effects of remote education on black youth, through an intersectional analysis between Covid-19 pandemic, gender, race and class. The objective of this research is to understand the ways in which black youth was affected in the psychosocial dimension with the establishment of remote education in the public state network with the Covid-19 pandemic. This is an exploratory research, in which a bibliographic review will be carried out to support the researchers' views on the proposed theme, using books and scientific articles on social psychology, remote education in the Covid-19 pandemic, racism and intersectionality. Besides field research, using the semi-structured interview technique. We intend to conduct group interviews, through Google Meet, with black students graduating from Liceu de Humanidades de Campos high school and from other public schools.. We hope to foster the discussion on structural racism that affects the Brazilian society focusing on the psychosocial vulnerability of black youth in the face of remote education established by the Covid-19 pandemic, and, finally, to publish two scientific articles in “Revista Perspectivas Online” with the obtained results
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Karbalaei, Alireza, Damla Turgut, Melissa Dagley, Eleazar Vasquez, and Hyoung J. Cho. "Collaborative Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Experiences in IoT (Internet of Things) for Teachers Through Summer Research Site Program." In ASME 2018 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2018-87491.
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The objective of the NSF RET (Research Experiences for Teachers) site program hosted by the University of Central Florida is to provide K-12 teachers with a hands-on engineering design experience covering all aspects of the Internet of Things, from the manufacturing of a sensor, to the hardware and software that allows it to connect to the Internet. This program gives teachers learning opportunities to explore the practical use of science for engineering applications, and provide a context in which students in their classroom can test their own scientific knowledge as they recognize the interplay among science, engineering and technology. The uniqueness of this site program lies in the engagement of teachers in various facets of scientific, engineering, and educational methods based on Train-the-Trainer model with rotation in multiple research labs. In order to support the STEM educational services for teachers and students in middle and high schools, our site program aims at creating competent teacher trainers who ensure quality pre-service and in-service teacher education, by providing multidisciplinary experiences that are relevant to the current technical development. Teachers in the adjacent public school districts are primary participants in this site program. Significant efforts have been made to recruit teachers serving underrepresented student populations, and female and minority teachers who can reach out to them. In our RET site program, the participants rotated to four different laboratories with a 1.5–3 week residency in each, where they learned about the practice of engineering in various disciplines at the research laboratories on the university campus under the guidance of faculty and graduate mentors. The teachers presented their learning outcomes in the final week and were invited back to share their educational implementation experiences in their classes. This site program provided teachers with interdisciplinary engineering design experiences relevant to innovative technical development, and helped them develop teacher-driven teaching modules that can be deployed in the classroom.
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Cohen Zilka, Gila. "Distance Learning During the COVID-19 Crisis as Perceived by Preservice Teachers." In InSITE 2021: Informing Science + IT Education Conferences. Informing Science Institute, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/4776.
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Aim/Purpose: This study examined learning during the COVID-19 crisis, as perceived by preservice teachers at the time of their academic studies and their student teaching experience. Background: The COVID-19 crisis is unexpected. On one hand, it disrupted learning in all learning frameworks, on the other, it may create a change in learning characteristics even after the end of the crisis. This study examined the productive, challenging, and thwarting factors that preservice teachers encountered during their studies and in the course of their student teaching practice during the COVID-19 period, from the perspective of preservice teachers. Methodology: The study involved 287 students studying at teacher training institutions in Israel. The preservice teachers were studying online and, in addition, engaged in online teaching of students in schools, guided by their own teacher. The study used a mixed method. The questionnaire included closed and open questions. The data were collected in 2020-2021. Contribution: Identifying the affecting factors may deepen the understanding of online learning/teaching and assist in the optimal implementation of online learning. Findings: Online learning experience. We found that some of the lessons at institutions of higher learning were delivered in the format of online lectures. Many preservice teachers had difficulty sitting in front of a computer for many hours—“Zoom fatigue.” Some preservice teachers wrote that collaborating in forums with others made it easier for them. Some suggested diversifying by digital means, incorporating asynchronous units and illustrative films, and easing up on online lectures as a substitute for face-to-face lectures. Online teaching experience in schools. The preservice teachers’ descriptions show that in lessons taught in the format of lectures and communication of content there were discipline problems and non-learning. According to the preservice teachers, discipline problems stemmed from difficulties concentrating, physical distance, load, and failure to address the students’ difficulties. Recommendations for Practitioners: The findings suggest that it is recommended to combine synchronous lectures and meetings with asynchronous learning that integrates 21st century skills. It is advisable to use collaborative tools, such as forums, shared files, and open content repositories, and to encourage meaningful dialogue between learners, and between learners and their teachers, to better deal with the physical distance. Recommendations for Researchers: A change in the learning medium also requires a change in the definition of objectives and goals expected of each party—students, teachers, and parents. All parties must learn to view online learning as a method that enables empowerment and the application of 21st century skills. Impact on Society: Teachers’ ability to deploy 21st century skills in an online environment depends largely on their experience, knowledge, skills, and attitude toward these skills. Future Research: This study examined the issue from the perspective of preservice teachers. The issue should also be studied from the perspective of lecturers in academia, teachers in schools, and school students. Future studies should examine whether the change that took place during the COVID-19 period in relation to the deployment of 21st century skills, as experienced by all parties, led to the continued use of these skills in the post-corona period. Continued use depends largely on past experiences, knowledge, skills, and attitudes toward these skills. *** NOTE: This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, 18, 141-159.] Click DOWNLOAD PDF to download the published paper. ***
Reports on the topic "Schools - Aims and objectives"
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Lambon-Quayefio, Monica P. The Challenges of Child Labour Research: Data Challenges and Opportunities. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), May 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/acha.2021.006.
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his Rapid Review is an attempt to instigate a broader discussion on child labour by considering the various dimensions and angles associated with the phenomenon beyond the straitjacket definitions provided in most reports. Its objectives are threefold. First, it aims to determine whether re-analysis of existing data sets is likely to yield new insights into the forms, prevalence and drivers of children’s work in agriculture in Ghana. Second, it aims to provide specific guidance on how these re-analyses might be undertaken and framed. And third, it aims to determine whether any of the available data sets might be used to map the number or density of children to the main agro-ecological zones or agricultural systems. In doing this, the review describes the nature of child work in the agricultural sector, highlighting areas that have often been ignored in the literature. The conclusion offers suggestions for future research on child labour based on our renewed understanding of the broad concept of child work.
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Smyth, Emer, Joanne Banks, Adele Whelan, Merike Darmody, and Selina McCoy. Review of the School Completion Programme. ESRI, October 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.26504/rs44.
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The School Completion Programme (SCP) aims to have a significant positive impact on levels of student retention in primary and second-level schools. This report draws on a survey of SCP coordinators and chairpersons, in-depth case-studies of local clusters and interviews with key stakeholders to review the programme in terms of the students targeted, the kinds of activities offered, governance and funding, and perceived effects at the school level.
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Hashemian, Hassan. Infrastructure Academy Transportation Program. Mineta Transportation Institute, January 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31979/mti.2021.1919.
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The College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology at the California State University, Los Angeles has expanded its National Summer Transportation Institute into a year-long program by creating the Infrastructure Academy Transportation Program (IATP). The goal of this program is to build a pipeline of diverse, well qualified young people for the transportation industry. The program works with high school students and teachers to offer academic courses, basic skills, workforce readiness training, internships, extracurricular activities, and career placements to prepare students and place them into the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) College track. The academy emphasizes on transportation as an industry sector and aims to increase the number of underrepresented minorities and women who directly enter the transportation workforce. It also aims at increasing the number of young people who enter college to study engineering or technology and subsequently pursue careers in transportation- and infrastructure-related careers. The IATP was conducted as a full-year program with 30 student participants from high schools.
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Denaro, Desirée. How Do Disruptive Innovators Prepare Today's Students to Be Tomorrow's Workforce?: Scholas' Approach to Engage Youth. Inter-American Development Bank, December 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0002899.
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The lack of motivation and sense of community within schools have proven to be the two most relevant factors behind the decision to drop out. Despite the notable progress made in school access in countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, dropping out of school has still been a problem. This paper explores Scholas Occurrentes pedagogical approach to address these dropouts. Scholas focuses on the voice of students. It seeks to act positively on their motivation by listening to them, creating spaces for discussion, and strengthening soft skills and civic engagement. Scholas aims to enhance the sense of community within schools by gathering students from different social and economic backgrounds and involving teachers, families, and societal actors. This will break down the walls between schools and the whole community. This paper presents Scholas work with three examples from Paraguay, Haiti, and Argentina. It analyzes the positive impacts that Scholas' intervention had on the participants. Then, it focuses on future challenges regarding the scalability and involvement of the institutions in the formulation of new public policies. The approach highlights the participatory nature of education and the importance of all actors engagement.
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Petrie, Christopher, Clara García-Millán, and María Mercedes Mateo-Berganza Díaz. Spotlight: 21st Century Skills in Latin America and the Caribbean. Inter-American Development Bank, June 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003343.
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There is a wealth of conversation around the world today on the future of the workplace and the skills required for children to thrive in that future. Without certain core abilities, even extreme knowledge or job-specific skills will not be worth much in the long run. To address these issues, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and HundrED conducted this Spotlight project with the goal of identifying and researching leading innovations that focus on 21st Century Skills in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Spotlight program was supported by J.P. Morgan. The purpose of this project is to shine a spotlight, and make globally visible, leading education innovations from Latin America and the Caribbean doing exceptional work on developing 21st Century Skills for all students, teachers, and leaders in schools today. The main aims of this Spotlight are to: Discover the leading innovations cultivating 21st century skills in students globally; understand how schools or organizations can implement these innovations; gain insight into any required social or economic conditions for these innovations to be effectively introduced into a learning context; celebrate and broadcast these innovations to help them spread to new countries. All the findings of the Spotlight in 21st Century Skills are included in this report.
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Rost, Lucia, Amber Parkes, and Andrea Azevedo. Measuring and Understanding Unpaid Care and Domestic Work: Household Care Survey Toolkit. Oxfam, October 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.21201/2020.6775.
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This toolkit provides guidance on using Oxfam’s Household Care Survey (HCS) methodology, which was developed by Oxfam as part of the WE-Care initiative to transform the provision of unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW). UCDW underpins all our lives yet is overwhelmingly provided by women and girls. Recognising UCDW is essential for any initiative that aims to understand and address gender inequality. The HCS is a quantitative survey tool that generates context-specific evidence on how women, men and children spend their time, how care is provided, by whom, and the main factors that affect people’s responsibilities for UCDW, such as access to care services, infrastructure and social norms. The HCS can be used to generate a baseline, or to measure the impact of a specific policy or programme. The methodology can be integrated into different projects with different objectives and adjusted for use in various contexts. The HCS toolkit is designed to be used by development practitioners, policy makers, employers, academics and researchers. Part A provides guidance for planning, collecting, analysing and using HCS data. Part B provides guidance for understanding, adjusting and using the HCS questions. Both sections should be read before undertaking the survey.
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Oza, Shardul, and Jacobus Cilliers. What Did Children Do During School Closures? Insights from a Parent Survey in Tanzania. Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), May 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-rise-ri_2021/027.
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In this Insight Note, we report results of a phone survey that the RISE Tanzania Research team conducted with 2,240 parents (or alternate primary care-givers) of primary school children following the school closures in Tanzania. After the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Tanzania on 16 March 2020, the government ordered all primary schools closed the following day. Schools remained closed until 29 June 2020. Policymakers and other education stakeholders were concerned that the closures would lead to significant learning loss if children did not receive educational support or engagement at home. To help stem learning loss, the government promoted radio, TV, and internet-based learning content to parents of school-age children. The primary aims of the survey were to understand how children and families responded to the school closures, the education related activities they engaged in, and their strategies to send children back to school. The survey also measures households’ engagement with remote learning content over the period of school closures. We supplement the findings of the parent survey with insights from interviews with Ward Education Officers about their activities during the school closures. The survey sample is comprised of primary care-givers (in most cases, parents) of students enrolled in Grades 3 and 4 during the 2020 school year. The survey builds on an existing panel of students assessed in 2019 and 2020 in a nationally representative sample of schools.4 The parent surveys were conducted using Computer Assisted Telephonic Interviewing (CATI) over a two-week period in early September 2020, roughly two months after the re-opening of primary schools. We report the following key findings from this survey: *Almost all (more than 99 percent) of children in our sample were back in school two months after schools re-opened. The vast majority of parents believed it was either safe or extremely safe for their children to return to school. *Only 6 percent of households reported that their children listened to radio lessons during the school closures; and a similar fraction (5.5 percent) tuned into TV lessons over the same period. Less than 1 percent of those surveyed accessed educational programmes on the internet. Households with access to radio or TV reported higher usage. *Approximately 1 in 3 (36 percent) children worked on the family farm during the closures, with most children working either 2 or 3 days a week. Male children were 6.2 percentage points likelier to work on the family farm than female children. *Households have limited access to education materials for their child. While more than 9 out of 10 households have an exercise book, far fewer had access to textbooks (35 percent) or own reading books (31 percent). *One in four parents (24 percent) read a book to their child in the last week.
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Yaremchuk, Olesya. TRAVEL ANTHROPOLOGY IN JOURNALISM: HISTORY AND PRACTICAL METHODS. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2021.49.11069.
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Our study’s main object is travel anthropology, the branch of science that studies the history and nature of man, socio-cultural space, social relations, and structures by gathering information during short and long journeys. The publication aims to research the theoretical foundations and genesis of travel anthropology, outline its fundamental principles, and highlight interaction with related sciences. The article’s defining objectives are the analysis of the synthesis of fundamental research approaches in travel anthropology and their implementation in journalism. When we analyze what methods are used by modern authors, also called «cultural observers», we can return to the localization strategy, namely the centering of the culture around a particular place, village, or another spatial object. It is about the participants-observers and how the workplace is limited in space and time and the broader concept of fieldwork. Some disciplinary practices are confused with today’s complex, interactive cultural conjunctures, leading us to think of a laboratory of controlled observations. Indeed, disciplinary approaches have changed since Malinowski’s time. Based on the experience of fieldwork of Svitlana Aleksievich, Katarzyna Kwiatkowska-Moskalewicz, or Malgorzata Reimer, we can conclude that in modern journalism, where the tools of travel anthropology are used, the practical methods of complexity, reflexivity, principles of openness, and semiotics are decisive. Their authors implement both for stable localization and for a prevailing transition.
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Woods, Mel, Saskia Coulson, Raquel Ajates, Angelos Amditis, Andy Cobley, Dahlia Domian, Gerid Hager, et al. Citizen Science Projects: How to make a difference. WeObserve, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.20933/100001193.
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Citizen Science Projects: How to make a difference, is a massive open online course (MOOC). It was developed by the H2020 WeObserve project and ran on the FutureLearn platform from 2019. The course was designed to assist learners from all backgrounds and geographical locations to discover how to build their own citizen science project to address global challenges and create positive change. It also helped learners with interpreting the information they collected and using their findings to educate others about important local and global concerns. The main learning objectives for the course were: * Discover what citizen science and citizen observatories are * Engage with the general process of a citizen science project, the tools used and where they can be accessed * Collect and analyse data on relevant issues such as environmental challenges and disaster management, and discuss the results of their findings * Explore projects happening around the world, what the aims of these projects are and how learners could get involved * Model the steps to create their own citizen science project * Evaluate the potential of citizen science in bringing about change This course also provided five open-source, downloadable tools which have been tested in previous citizen science projects and created for the use of a wider range of projects. These tools are listed below and available in the research repository: * Empathy timeline tool * Community-level indicators tool * Data postcards tool * Future newspaper tool * Co-evaluation tool
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Johnson, Mark, John Wachen, and Steven McGee. Entrepreneurship, Federalism, and Chicago: Setting the Computer Science Agenda at the Local and National Levels. The Learning Partnership, April 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.51420/conf.2020.1.
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From 2012-13 to 2018-19, the number of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) high school students taking an introductory computer science course rose from three thousand per year to twelve thousand per year. Our analysis examines the policy entrepreneurship that helped drive the rapid expansion of computer science education in CPS, within the broader context of the development of computer science at the national level. We describe how actions at the national level (e.g., federal policy action and advocacy work by national organizations) created opportunities in Chicago and, likewise, how actions at the local level (e.g., district policy action and advocacy by local educators and stakeholders) influenced agenda setting at the national level. Data from interviews with prominent computer science advocates are used to document and explain the multidirectional (vertical and horizontal) flow of advocacy efforts and how these efforts influenced policy decisions in the area of computer science. These interviews with subsystem actors––which include district leaders, National Science Foundation program officers, academic researchers, and leaders from advocacy organizations––provide an insider’s perspective on the unfolding of events and highlight how advocates from various organizations worked to achieve their policy objectives.