The positive attitude approach for teaching in higher education: An untrodden path for policy and practice     

Ivana Miočić  Marija Brajdić Vuković  Jasminka Ledić 《European Journal of Education》2020,55(4):560-572

This article reports on a study in which a new conceptual framework for fostering a positive attitude towards teaching in higher education (PATTHE) was developed. The PATTHE framework builds on a holistic four-dimensional theoretical concept and is not limited by the specificity of teaching within a particular discipline or national higher education context. The four dimensions of PATTHE pertain to (a) emotional dimension, (b) professional development, (c) constructivist approaches to teaching, and (d) the teaching and research nexus; all of which are relevant for empowering quality teaching at personal, institutional and/or national higher education policy levels. The purpose of our study was to test and analyse this conceptual framework. Creative qualitative research methods were used including identification of keywords, evoking participant opinions through visual materials, reactions to vignettes, and by documenting discussions regarding the proposed PATTHE conceptual framework. A purposive and critically informed approach was used for the selection of twelve higher education experts as research participants. Responses from the selected education developers were collected through an online protocol system. Research results revealed that participant reflections on a positive attitude towards teaching showed a high level of agreement with the proposed conceptual framework; the proposed theoretical concept is thereby deemed well-constructed and acceptable with minimal extensions.  相似文献   

Book reviews     

Jeremy Kilpatrick  Edmund King  Pierre Ferran  Nicolas Hans  A. Harry Passow  Graeme Kemelfield  Eric Ashby  Mark Blaug  Franklin Parker  F. Walz  Fritz Borinski  Russell F. Farnen  Robert F. Lawson  Horst Magdeburg  Robert J. Havighurst  David A. Walker  Alexandre Vexliard  Josef Havlíček  Otto Peters  Hans Tutken  M. A. Boisard  George Z. F. Bereday 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》1969,15(1):83-120

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Validity of E-Advice: The Evaluation of an Internet-Based System for Career Planning     

Branimir Šverko  Nataša Akik  Toni Babarović  Ana Bčina  Iva Šverko 《International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance》2002,2(3):193-215

The paper provides data on the evaluation of an Internet-based system for self-directed career planning that has been developed in Croatia. Rich in occupational information and career-management advice, this application also contains an interactive questionnaire tapping the client's personal skills and interests. Based on the client's answers, the computer proposes an e-advice– a limited set of occupations that match the users' individual characteristics. The evaluation utilized data gathered from a self-selected sample of users (N = 2,064) and two smaller student samples. Apart from the users' satisfaction, the analyses explored various aspects of e-advice validity: factor structure of users' self-assessments and expert occupational ratings, differences in e-advice given to different groups of users, congruence with the classifications based on Holland's Self-Directed Search, and congruence with the advice given by expert human counsellors. The analyses supported the validity of e-advice. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

Does entrepreneurship education matter? Business students’ perspectives     

Egerová  Dana  Eger  Ludvík  Mičík  Michal 《Tertiary Education and Management》2017,23(4):319-333

The paper presents the findings of a mixed-methods study investigating the perceptions of business students in the Czech Republic towards entrepreneurship education, and examining the factors influencing their level of intention to be entrepreneurs. The results indicate that family background significantly influences the student’s entrepreneurial intention, and that participation in entrepreneurship-oriented courses positively influences the student’s level of self-efficacy. The study revealed further that business education had some effect on the student’s ability to gain the necessary knowledge for entrepreneurship. Another key finding was that entrepreneurship education specifically for business students has to equip students with entrepreneurial skills, attributes and behaviours. The results also suggest that entrepreneurship education is a contextually determined concept which requires modification of content and methods to meet the specific needs of particular target groups. The study has important implications for higher education institutions in terms of designing and managing effective entrepreneurship education.  相似文献   

Promoting Sustainable Development: A Case Study of the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve     

Mow  June Marie  Howard  Marion  Delgado  Claudia Marcela  Tabet  Salma 《Prospects》2003,33(3):303-312

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Teacher perceptions of the goals of effective school reform and their own role in it   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：1  

Jana Kalin  Milena Valenčič Zuljan 《Educational studies》2007,33(2):163-175

The role of the teacher in the modern school system is increasingly important and complex. A teacher needs a high level of professional knowledge and autonomous decision‐making when faced with professional challenges. The curricular reform in Slovenia has encompassed several areas of teachers’ professional activities. This paper establishes that declarative goals by themselves are not enough for successful introduction of reform, as the achievement of reform goals in practice is highly dependent on teacher perceptions and how actively they are involved in all phases of the reform. The empirical study examined how teachers understand the main aim of the reform, and how they evaluate their own level of competence in areas which have gained in importance as a result of the reform. The study included 468 primary and grammar school teachers. The results show that teachers have a fairly narrow view of the goals of the reform. The categories stressing a more active and responsible role of the learner (in line with modern models of instruction and learner‐centred paradigms of curriculum development) did not rank highly. The study also points at areas where teachers need additional training. The importance of quality teacher education at pre‐service and in‐service levels is stressed as a pillar of effective school reform.  相似文献   

Possible reasons for low scientific literacy of Slovak students in some natural science subjects     

Renata Bellová  Danica Melicherčíková  Peter Tomčík 《Research in Science & Technological Education》2018,36(2):226-242

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The challenges of setting up the evaluation of extension systems by using a systems approach: the case of Greece,Italy and Slovenia     

Evagelos D. Lioutas  Chrysanthi Charatsari  Majda Černič Istenič  Giuseppe La Rocca  Marcello De Rosa 《The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension》2019,25(2):139-160

Purpose: Considering current debates on ecosystem services’ effectiveness and the AIS/AKIS functioning, in this study we suggest a new, systemic way to evaluate extension systems (ESs). Using this model, we compared the effectiveness of ESs in three countries with essential differences but also characteristic similarities in their agricultural sectors: Greece, Italy and Slovenia.

Design/methodology/approach: Initially, we defined ‘extension system’ as a wide range of actors integrating resources with the aim of co-producing value (not for but with) farmers. To capture the value flow within this constellation of actors we distinguished between the notion of ‘value in production’ – i.e. the value embodied in service offerings – and the value emanating when service content is used in real settings or ‘value in use.’

Findings: Our approach revealed that, despite their structural and organizational differences, the ES in the three countries share common problems arising from a limited focus on the issue of value in use.

Practical implications: The application of a systemic approach – seeing farmers as co-creators and not as end-users of extension services – in the evaluation of ESs contributes to better understand the complexity of value flow within the system and can strengthen extension systems’ effectiveness.

Theoretical implications: The present study, by reconsidering traditional evaluation approaches and by focusing on value co-production, offers an alternative value-centric framework for the conceptualization of extension services and points out to the need for refining the evaluation criteria of ESs.

Originality/value: Our work, by emphasizing the reciprocal creation of value within ESs, and by adding the concept of value in use, offers a new systems approach worth considering when evaluating ESs within different organizational and sociocultural contexts.  相似文献   

Teachers’ perceptions of the inclusion of marginalised groups   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Mojca Peček  Ivan Čuk  Irena Lesar 《Educational studies》2008,34(3):225-239

This paper is based on the concept of inclusion as a process of recognising and minimising the barriers to learning and participation of all children, with teachers as the key players in implementing inclusion in practice. There are two key questions: (1) How do teachers rank different groups of marginalised children? (2) How do teachers see their own role, the role of the marginalised and other children, and their parents in the inclusion process? The groups included in the research were children with special needs, migrants from former Yugoslavia, Roma/Gypsies and children from poor families. In the latter group, it also looked at their counterparts, the children of wealthy parents. Research carried out on a representative sample of primary school teachers in Slovenia showed that children with special needs are among all surveyed groups of children those seen as the most helpless. For these children, teachers are also most likely to lower learning and discipline standards, while at the same time feeling the least qualified to teach them and seeing them also as having the lowest abilities. In the teachers’ opinion, parents of other children have the greatest reservations when their child associates with a Roma/Gypsy child, and teachers also put the least trust in Roma/Gypsy parents.  相似文献   

Specific learning disabilities   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Zdeněk Matějček Ph.D. 《Annals of dyslexia》1977,27(1):7-25

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