Students In Educational Environment Research Articles

Трудности адаптации студентов-иностранцев в образовательной среде университета

Трудности адаптации студентов-иностранцев в образовательной среде университета

Youth Responses to the Surveillance School: The Bifurcation of Antagonism and Confidence in Surveillance among Teenaged Students

The recent rise of so-called ‘surveillance schools’ is often justified given the need to engender a safe and secure educational environment for students—a fusion of pedagogical and security motives. This article contributes knowledge regarding the attitudes and lived experiences of teenagers in response to school-based surveillance. Focus groups centre discussions on two areas: the effectiveness of policies regarding technology in the classroom as well as school-wide restrictions on Wi-Fi access and the effectiveness of surveillance technologies geared to actively monitor student online activities. We explore a bifurcation of attitudes revealing both resistance to surveillance school practices as well as strong support for monitoring technologies perceived to be effective in addressing cyber-risks like cyberbullying. Our findings point to the need for empirically assessing the contexts where support or antagonism towards surveillance occurs, suggesting neither isomorphic resistance nor wholescale acquiescence.

Subjective-existential interpretation of ideas about the educational environment of students in a situation of prolonged academic failure

The article analyzes the features of ideas about the educational environment of students who have been in a situation of educational failure for a long period of time. Analysis and interpretation of the results are conducted on the basis of a subjective-existential approach to personality. The main position of the given approach assumes the presence of opportunities and basic needs of the person for the demonstration (self-fulfillment) of himself in various spaces of being. Blocking these opportunities (objective or subjectively understood) deprives a person of subjective activity. The article poses and remains open the question of personal dispositions of situations of failure. Variants of ideas about the forming environment of underachieving (according to objective parameters) students are viewed. The study defined the relationship between the leading trends of the environment (personality data in representations) and real achievements of the personality in these specific situational conditions. The levelling of activity as an environmental parameter in the representations of underachieving students is shown. Being space is not interpreted by the person as providing an opportunity to be active at low objective indicators of the success of activities implemented in this environment.

The Life Center Unit's Design for Inclusive Schools in Turkey: A Case of Gokkusagi Primary School

Human rights assured whole population of equal education opportunity across the world by means of inclusive education, which provides non-discriminated and non-stigmatizing educational environment for the disabled students and their peers. Inclusive education proposes to increase participation and integration of disabled students in educational environments through support spaces. In Turkey, SERCEV (Children with Cerebral Palsy Association) has encouraged ‘life center unit' as a support space at primary level inclusive education school, which is called Gokkusagi Primary School in Ankara. The aim is to support disabled students' relationships with other students and users in the school environment. Establishment of life center unit brings out a fact that there is a spatial necessity for social integration in inclusive education schools, which is open to all population to respond their daily needs, especially for disabled students. According to this purpose, interviews were conducted with parents of students to find out the needs related with the usage of life center unit. In this paper, Gokkusagi Primary School will be taken as an example to find out user's expectations and needs for defining a base related to design criteria of the life center unit. Site visits and, interviews at site visits help define user type, type of use, period of use and spatial requirements of life center unit in inclusive education environments. This study aims to create a base for design criteria of the life center unit in order to utilize for further implementations through universal design principles.

Faculty members' experience of student ethical problems: A qualitative research with a phenomenological approach

Introduction:One of challenges that universities faces with it is student ethical problems. Students' unethical behaviors create a sort of weakness of moral commitment and irresponsibility. The purpose of this study is to explore the student ethics problems experienced by faculty members in Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences’.Methods:In this study we used phenomenological approach that emphasizes on the perspectives held by Mandelbaum (1969). All faculty members of University were the participants of the present research paper. The method of choice for gathering the required data was purposive sampling with deep, face to face and semi-structured interview carried out individually. Qualitative data analysis method used herein was the ethical phenomenology proposed by Mandelbaum (17).Results:After interviewing 20 professors from medicine, nursing and midwifery, paramedicine, Public Health, dentistry and pharmacy schools, the information reached to a state of saturation. 55% of the professors were men and 45% were women. After analyzing the interviews, finally three themes and nine categories were obtained. The resulting themes were named respectively value change, deviation and management challenges.Conclusions:Paying attention to all three aspects of ethics and modifying the factors affecting the development of these subjects in students can lead to ethical development in educational settings. Given the serious challenges in the educational environment of students, the relevant institutions should be try to avoid development of such challenges.

Let's Get Virtual: Observing Physical Education Field Experiences through Synchronous Video Conferencing

The student-teaching experience is the most noteworthy experience for a teacher candidate (TC) in a teacher preparation program. University supervisors play a crucial role in this experience through feedback, support and maintaining congruency between the student teaching environment and the teacher preparation program. Due to issues related to time, distance and budget, completing on-site observations of the TC can be challenging. This article serves as a practical guide for university supervisors to virtually observe TCs using synchronous video conferencing. Technology and equipment needed, preparation tasks, and factors to consider are explored.

Toward an informed usage of online resources and collaboration tools for a better educational environment

Recent development in digital technologies not only enabled us to address many issues in architectural education but created new complexities as well. In this case, the availability of online resources has created an educational and moral paradox. Resources that are useful to professionals might not be as helpful to students who are supposed to draft the most mundane elements of their work themselves. However, students do have access to the same resources professional have. The natural evolution of today’s social networks and the plethora of online websites that offer ready-made, well drafted architectural solutions has also greatly enforced the movement. For instance, Facebook groups have become a significant source of support for beginners in many fields with questionable quality because of the unknown level of knowledge of the active group members. From an educational standpoint, student users might treat that content as natural go-to locations to obtain solutions. How much of such behavior is considered plagiarism? This paper investigates the use of online resources habits of the students in educational environments. The purpose of the study is to understand the students’ online behavior and the extent that the new medium benefits or hurts their learning.

Influencing Positive Outcomes For Troubled Youth

The BHB Theory (Haggis, 2011) is based on an empirical case study that examined teachers’ perceptions of what they do in their educational settings to create a positive learning environment for troubled youth in their classrooms. Research - including this study - indicates a need for transformational change in how teachers interrelate with students in education environments intended for at risk-youth. Traditionally, approaches to working with troubled youth have been punitive in design. Research indicates that this approach is counterproductive and that teachers have the opportunity to build capacity for success with at risk-youth through the use of peers; building social competencies; role modeling; relationship building; setting high expectations and fostering student strengths. Understanding what effective teachers working with troubled youth do to create a positive learning environment in their classrooms is critical for identifying factors that influence a positive outcome for students in such programs. The descriptive case study described utilized a mixed methods approach using teachers within two residential schools. The BHB study’s data analysis discovered that there was significant agreement among the teacher participants of the study about factors perceived as strongly influential in creating a positive learning environment for their students. Consistent with prior research, these factors included providing a classroom atmosphere that supports positive peer relationships, setting high expectations for student success, encouraging students to take responsibility for their own actions, strong relationship building and generating an environment of trust and respect. Recommendations for strengthening teacher practice are offered.

To the question of the adjustments of the undergraduate foreign students of the higher medical school

The article deals with topical issues of adaptation of foreign students at the initial stages of training in a medical college. The features of pedagogical communication, styles of behavior, which must be adhered to teachers in the process of teaching foreign students are described. The author presents the ways and means undertaken by the teachers of the Department of Human Anatomy of N. Turkestovich of the Higher State Educational Institution of Ukraine Bukovina State Medical University to solve the problem of accelerating the process of adaptation to the new educational environment of students, taking into account the specifics of the learning process, which uses cadaveric material, which, in turn, makes significant adjustments to the educational process as a whole.

ВКЛЮЧЕННЯ МЕРЕЖНИХ СОЦІАЛЬНИХ СЕРВІСІВ У ДІЮЧІ МОДЕЛІ ОРГАНІЗАЦІЇ НАВЧАННЯ УЧНІВ

The combination of ICT with pedagogical training technologies promotes to the formation and development of information and educational environment of students' learning, as well as the appearance and development of services of network technologies allows to expand the traditional educational process. Educational practice of networking tools usage, such as social services, is at the stage of formation. In the article the functional features of social Internet services in the context of the information and educational environment development as an environment of social interaction between students and appearance of new ways of their educational and cognitive activities have been investigated. There are highlighted the groups of social networking services and organizational forms of teaching, in which the use of the relevant services is a pedagogically appropriate.

3D face model dataset: Automatic detection of facial expressions and emotions for educational environments

AbstractEmotion detection using facial images is a technique that researchers have been using for the last two decades to try to analyze a person's emotional state given his/her image. Detection of various kinds of emotion using facial expressions of students in educational environment is useful in providing insight into the effectiveness of tutoring sessions. Robust recognition with conventional 2D cameras is still not possible under realistic conditions, ie, in the presence of variation in lighting and illumination and pose variations of the participants. This paper discusses in brief how facial expression recognition from 3D models could be achieved for applications under various educational environments. 3D Face Model dataset for various facial expressions of about 95 undergraduate students of the Department of Information Science and Engineering was collected. The new dataset produced comprise 3D models of emotions represented by five groups of facial expressions, namely: normal, happy, sad, surprised and angry, which are mainly seen among students during their college days. These data were collected using a Kinect camera, which also gives the depth map for the facial expressions. The dataset collected is a point cloud. The Kinect camera measures a large number of points on the face of the person and this output is stored as a point cloud data (PCD) file. The point cloud thus represents the sets of points that the camera has measured. The data are stored in the PCD file format, which supports the 3D point cloud data, and which can be viewed using any point cloud library (PCL) viewer.

Educational Environments for Students’ Organizational Learning

Scholars agree with the necessity to relate university educational environments with real life situations. Some universities try to create such environments through organizing students’ practical tasks in real work organisations. Unfortunately, students encounter difficulties in adaptation to organizations. This paper is a theoretical attempt to investigate educational environment for students’ organizational learning concept, aiming to substantiate educational environments for organizational learning in university studies. Organizational learning is analysed in the light of management and educational sciences. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/10.5755/j01.ss.87.1.12317

Biblioteczne zasoby cyfrowe jako niezbędny element współczesnego środowiska edukacyjnego studentów z niepełnosprawnością wzroku

Biblioteczne zasoby cyfrowe jako niezbędny element współczesnego środowiska edukacyjnego studentów z niepełnosprawnością wzroku

Teachers in Distress: Using Lifeskills Helping Framework to Identify Counselling Needs of Secondary Teachers in Romania

Focusing counselling on students in educational environments may seem both justified and consistent with frequently cited paradigms. However, at least in Romania, there is a growing consensus that teachers are being deprived of proper counselling and that something should be done about it. The study analyses current professional and social contexts influencing teachers and identifies counselling needs, using the Lifeskills helping conceptual framework.The Lifeskills helping conceptual and operational framework proved to be a useful tool for defining counselling needs in such a way as to increase the probability to set up relevant counselling programs targeting specific groups of teachers, as well as to select appropriate intervention techniques and means for individual problems.

RESILIÊNCIA E EDUCAÇÃO: APORTES TEÓRICO-PRÁTICOS PARA A DOCÊNCIA

This article analyzes theoretical and practical aspects of resilience in the area of education, and more specifically, in teaching, in order to gather information for further studies on the subject of teacher’s malaise/wellbeing, as well as enabling support for teachers. We chose a qualitative approach, using as a source of data works published in the CAPES and ANPED databases, in 2009. Our analysis revealed the following categories: Resilience, adolescence and school, Resilience and teacher’s knowledge, Resilience and sheltering institutions. We conclude that resilience has been understood as the subject’s capacity to overcome adversity in a positive way. It is therefore necessary in the educational environment, as it favors the promotion of the teacher’s mental and emotional health, enabling them to experience wellbeing in the profession, and creating a favorable teaching environment for students’ learning.

Analysis of the Pedagogical Perspectives Represented in the Movie Dangerous Minds: Based on the Constructivist Framework

The purpose of this paper is to analyze educational theories and practices represented in the movie Dangerous Minds. This paper begins by giving the overview of the movie. Then this paper makes an analysis of the pedagogical methods and practices used by the teacher in the movie, which can encourage students to fulfill their academic success and social mobility. The lives of students at risk are transformed through the teacher’s beliefs and pedagogical practices based on the constructivism, leading students on a path of selfdiscovery and self-empowerment. What is imperative in the students’ lives here is their intrinsic motivation and self-efficacy toward the self and their educational system. By providing constructivist pedagogical paradigms and viewing these media texts within the context of an urban school, this paper intends to introduce educational theories and methods which can create better educational environment for students. In short, this study explores teaching theories and methods represented in the movie based on the constructivist perspectives, which are supposed to fully cultivate the potential of students.

Releitura de conceitos relacionados à astronomia presentes nos dicionários de libras: implicações para interpretação/tradução

Após 10 anos da promulgação da Lei nº 10.436/2002, constata-se que a presença de alunos surdos nas salas de aula comuns já é uma realidade. Com a regulamentação do Decreto Federal nº 5.626/2005, notam-se avanços no que concerne ao acesso e à inclusão dos alunos surdos nos ambientes educacionais, consolidando lutas históricas da comunidade surda. Nesse sentido, a busca por novas estratégias de ensino e de avaliação da aprendizagem faz-se necessária. No entanto, percebe-se que muitos tradutores/intérpretes de língua de sinais (TILS) possuem dificuldades para interpretar os conceitos científicos, muitas vezes distantes da sua formação. O objetivo deste trabalho é fornecer aos professores e TILS, das séries iniciais do Ensino Fundamental, subsídios para o ensino dos conceitos relacionados à astronomia. Para isso, foi realizada uma pesquisa de levantamento dos sinais relacionados à astronomia, indicados pelos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (PCNs), presentes em dois principais dicionários de Libras em circulação no país e em um dicionário especializado em Astronomia. Por meio desse levantamento, foram analisados 49 conceitos e suas definições, fazendo uma releitura e indicando uma definição mais adequada para os TILS e professores. Constatouse que as definições de alguns sinais presentes nos dicionários possuem distorções, redundâncias e conteúdos que demandam uma formação mais específica para sua abordagem. A releitura permitiu a construção de uma redação mais simples e ofereceu a possibilidade da sugestão de conceitos ainda não constituídos na Libras.

The Design of Implementation about a Education Asistive System to Improve Special Educational Environment of Students with Low Vision - The Design for Function and UI of Educator Class S/W and Low Vision Class S/W -

The Design of Implementation about a Education Asistive System to Improve Special Educational Environment of Students with Low Vision - The Design for Function and UI of Educator Class S/W and Low Vision Class S/W -

Optimizing the Assignment of Students to Classes in an Elementary School

Every summer, the Salanter Akiba Riverdale (SAR) Academy must create class placements for their elementary school students. Each grade of 80 to 100 students must be divided into four classes. In assigning students to classes, the school administration aims to foster a positive social and educational environment for students while satisfying placement requests and recommendations from parents, teachers, and school therapists. The school must satisfy several constraints such as not placing certain pairs of students in the same class or keeping boy/girl ratios balanced. The process of creating optimal class placements by hand can be laborious and difficult, especially for grades with many constraints to satisfy. This paper describes a model that is being used to assist SAR Academy with creating class placements. Following the constraints and objectives given by administrators at the school, we describe an integer-programming model for satisfying placement constraints and heuristics to further improve on the outputs of the integer-programming model. The results of this process were successfully used to assist administrators in assigning students in one grade for the 2012–13 school year, and SAR Academy plans to use the model for help with future class placements.

РОЛЬ КОМПЬЮТЕРНО-ИНФОРМАЦИОННЫХ ТЕХНОЛОГИЙ В ПРОЦЕССЕ ПРОФИЛЬНОГО ОБУЧЕНИЯ

The article describes the conditions and forms of special environment for the application of computer and information technology in the informatization of school education, providing effective realization of the didactic principles of computer systems that foster the creation of interactive educational environment for students and teachers, unification and dynamic management procedures educational process. Models of specialization training. Outlines the differences of the content of training in specialized classes using computer and information technology. Given the solution didactic tasks is possible through the profile differentiation of elective courses, reflecting the type of professionalization.