Pioneer In Education Research Articles

Acknowledging Montessori Education — a Research Perspective of Montessori's Legacy for the Future

On 6 May 2022, 70 years after Maria Montessori’s death, Stockholm University and the Department of Education and Didactics organized an international Montessori symposium. The idea was to present a breadth of research on Maria Montessori. The symposium dealt with Maria Montessori in the interwar period, an analysis of the history of ideas. Another presentation suggested possible research models to study this large field. The symposium also presented interpretations of Montessori’s writings that point her out as a visionary and pioneer in education for a sustainable world. An additional research area addressed was the potential of neuroscience to examine the effects of teaching theory and learning in Montessori education. Finally, this report describes a study on whether Montessori-inspired education compared to traditional education stands up in areas of socio-economic disadvantage.

Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842-1906): The Pioneer of Women's Medical Education.

Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842-1906) was an integral figure in the fight for women's rights to medical education and a pioneer in the debunking of prevailing menstruation myths. Her experiences being denied adequate medical education in the United States led her to pursue medical education in Paris, where she learned the importance of laboratory experimentation and was first introduced to the political discourse surrounding women's rights. She founded the Women's Medical Association and created a medical curriculum for women that paralleled the standards of Harvard Medical School. Her research publications proved that women could conduct work with the same rigor as men and advocated for women's integration into workplaces and educational spaces exclusive to men. Mary Putnam Jacobi's contributions to the women's suffrage movement created new opportunities for women to attain high levels of education that otherwise would not exist today and continue to inspire women to push the limits placed on them solely due to their gender.

Chinese Pioneering Educators’ Understandings and Practices of STEM Education

The Chinese education system issued a series of policies to encourage educators to explore science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and selected a number of schools and educators as pioneers of STEM education. Through the education policy implementation framework, this qualitative study explores eight pioneering educators’ interpretations of STEM education, their knowledge of STEM education policies, and how they transform their understanding into practice. The results show that the pioneering educators hold a similar understanding of the definition of STEM education and how STEM education should be conducted. However, they adopted diverse STEM practices due to their different academic backgrounds, administration roles, school environment, available resources, and personal abilities and interests. They displayed tension and confusion over their own STEM practices and requested official guidance. The tension may have emerged from the conflicts between the top-down policy operation system and the place-based, bottom-up nature of STEM education. Further, STEM policies played a positive role in increasing educators’ openness and confidence in trying new STEM education strategies; however, they could not influence how educators performed their STEM practices. The educators proposed four kinds of policies to support STEM practices. This study highlights the importance of including teachers’ ownership and agency while drafting STEM education policies and proposing practices. The implications for better STEM education policy design and implementation are discussed.

N-SOFT SETS ASSOCIATION RULE AND ITS APPLICATION FOR PROMOTION STRATEGY IN DISTANCE EDUCATION

In everyday life, we always encounter obstacles in seeing the interrelationships between several events to make the right decisions. Universitas Terbuka is a pioneer in distance education that implements digital transformation for new student registration, student services, and alums. The obstacle faced is determining a suitable promotion strategy for new students. As a result, a representative model is needed to handle such cases. As an extension of soft sets, N-soft sets can handle decision-making for binary and non-binary assessments. However, research has yet to be related to N-soft sets decision-making in data mining, especially association rule classification. This article proposes a new combination of N-soft sets with Association Rule (NSSAR). This article also introduces and applies the decision-making procedure using NSSAR to real. The population is new students of Universitas Terbuka Jakarta in the 2023/2024 odd semester. Samples were taken randomly using a questionnaire—primary data obtained by 201 new students. The following results are obtained based on the processed sample data using the NSSAR algorithm: 1) new students from Universitas Terbuka Jakarta are predominantly from Vocational High Schools domiciled in Bekasi, majoring in Bachelor of Management from the Faculty of Economics and Business; 2) The most favorite media information used by new UT Jakarta students is Instagram. Based on the results, the NSSAR algorithm gave relationship patterns between the number of new students based on region, study program, diploma of origin, and information media. Therefore, policymakers should consider the right promotional strategy to increase the number of students.

Tribute to Peter Holmes and his statistical education achievements

AbstractPeter Holmes, renowned teacher, statistical educator, and founding editor of this journal, passed away peacefully on April 2, 2024, age 86 years. Peter was one of the great UK pioneers of statistical education in the 20th and 21st centuries. He developed a reputation nationally and internationally for his teaching ability, innovative ideas for pedagogy, and resource creation for students and teachers in statistics. Many people benefitted from his skills and generosity of ideas, both in the United Kingdom and globally.

Sitti Raihanun Zainuddin Abdul Madjid, Female Scholar of the 21st Century: Pioneer in Gender Transformation and Islamic Education in Lombok-West Nusa Tenggara

Sitti Raihanun Zainuddin Abdul Madjid, Female Scholar of the 21st Century: Pioneer in Gender Transformation and Islamic Education in Lombok-West Nusa Tenggara

MENERAPKAN NILAI-NILAI PEMIKIRAN DEWI SARTIKA DALAM PENDIDIKAN MODERN

Dewi Sartika, a national hero of Indonesia, is known as a pioneer of education for women. Her thoughts on education are still relevant today, amidst the modern era full of challenges and changes. The values of Dewi Sartika's thoughts, such as noble character, intelligence, and independence, can be a guide in implementing quality and character-based education in the modern era. This study aims to identify the values of Dewi Sartika's thoughts on education and analyze their relevance in modern education. The research method used is a qualitative research method with a literature study approach. Data was collected through literature studies, including books, scientific journals, online articles, and official documents. The data were then analyzed using a descriptive-analytic method. The results of the study show that the values of Dewi Sartika's thoughts on education are still relevant in modern education. These values can be implemented in various ways, such as integrating moral values and noble character into the curriculum and learning, developing character education through various programs and activities, providing opportunities for students to learn independently and creatively, and utilizing information and communication technology to support learning. There are also challenges and opportunities in implementing the values of Dewi Sartika's thoughts on education in modern education. The challenges include globalization and the influence of foreign cultures that can erode local cultural values, a lack of awareness and commitment from various parties to implement character education, and limited educational resources and infrastructure. However, there are also opportunities, such as increasing public awareness of the importance of character education, the development of information and communication technology that can support learning, and support from the government and various parties to improve the quality of education. Keywords: education, character education, modern education, Indonesia

Walking a desire track: Montessori pedagogy as resistance to normative pathways

ABSTRACT Following calls to ‘bewilder’ (Snaza 2013) the pioneers of early education, this article positions Montessori pedagogy as a ‘desire path’ that acts as resistance to normative policy-driven pathways in early childhood education and care. Desire paths are alternative tracks made aside from officially established walking routes. In this paper I think with the metaphor of pathways and desire paths positioning an educator’s choice to practice Montessori pedagogy as an approach which wanders outside of mainstream qualifications and education. To do this, I take fragments of a professional life story that chart the agentic nature of choosing Montessori pedagogy as a way to problematise how walking that desire line challenges, and defies normative pathways. I also propose a re-reading of Montessori’s pedagogy, not as pioneering but as nomadic, and suggest that social desire paths enable Montessori education to be viewed as multiple, situated, alternative tracks to prescribed pathways.

Unsettling the Play-based Approach by thinking with ghosts and haunting

ABSTRACT In this artistic essay using (re)photography, we analyse two interactions in a Washington DC, classroom that features a play-based approach to child development. The pioneers of early childhood education helped frame play as a method of learning. However, the racial memory of a place continuously disturbs this pioneering conceptualisation of the play-based approach. Adopting Avery Gordon’s (2008) notion of haunting, this essay unsettles the play-based approach to learning by evoking our sense of unease, which derives from articulating children’s play with the racial history of the local community. We invite the readers into our affective connections with the place to show how child’s play becomes a gesture by which to create a space to remember or honour a ghost. In doing so, we hope to show how we critically mobilised the pioneering conceptualisation of the play-based approach.

Pemikiran Pendidikan K.H. Ahmad Dahlan dan relevansinya dengan dunia pendidikan modern

This study aims to explore the insight essence of KH. Ahmad Dahlan and its relevance to the world of modern education as a pioneer of education. The research was qualitatif approach in the form of library research. The collection technique is by documentation, document analysis. The technique of analyzing descriptive data is verification and drawing conclusions. The results of this study are the educational thinking of KH. Ahmad Dahlan combines religious knowledge and general knowledge. Teacher exchange, long life long education, teacher competence, teacher learning program. Social competence, leadership, cosmopolitan open social competence.

Teachers S. A. and K. Ya. Lyugebil and their first kindergarten in Russia

Introduction. The history of the creation of the first preschool institutions in Russia is of interest to modern Russian historical and pedagogical science. The purpose of the article is to characterize the work of the first Russian kindergartens and the ascetic educational activities of the pioneers of Russian preschool education. Materials and methods. The leading research methods are the analysis of scientific literature, the biographical method. The author actively used an axiological methodological approach, which made it possible to identify and evaluate the most important achievements of the Lyugebil spouses and other Russian teachers in opening the first kindergartens in Russia. Results. Spouses Sofya Andreevna (1824-1914) and Karl Yakimovich Lugebil (1830-1887/1888) entered the history of Russian education as the founders of the country's first kindergarten. In their work, the Lugebil couple used the experience of their foreign predecessors, first of all, the German teacher F. Froebel, the creator of the first kindergarten in Europe. They were active members of the Pedagogical Society, at whose meetings they closely communicated with K. D. Ushinsky, P. G. Redkin and other prominent Russian teachers of that time; they invariably supported their progressive position on various issues of education development and sought to promote the idea of widespread preschool education in Russia. Discussion. The advanced teacher E. N. Vodovozova believed that the Lugebil spouses in their work sought to avoid thoughtlessly following the experience of others, even famous teachers such as F. Froebel and his direct students and followers. The Lugebiles went their own unique way. The progressive magazine Sovremennik paid close attention to the work of the first kindergarten, and in its articles gave a full account of the educational work carried out in this institution. The first kindergarten gave an impetus to the opening of similar institutions throughout the country, including in the province. Conclusion. The practical activities of the Lugebil spouses and other Russian teachers of the second half of the XIX – early XX centuries included axiological, humanistic content and therefore had a noticeable impact on the development of preschool education in Russia. The opening day of the first kindergarten, September 27 (1863), is celebrated in modern Russia as the day of the preschool worker.

Significant Challenges in Front of Indian Public Libraries in the Digital Era: an Overview

In this presented component, we are going to study about the challenges facing Indian public libraries and the strategies that can be helpful for address the challenges in the digital Era. A library is a place of collection of books, library is an ancient social institution with a long history parallel to human civilization. Books, readers, and librarians are the three main components of a library. Mahatma Jotirao Phule, the pioneer of women's education, said that lack of education is the main reason behind the backwardness of the society. In the digital Era, knowledge is said to be power, man's power increases with his knowledge. Therefore, man should convert every moment of his life to add knowledge and increase his strength. Since ancient times, such knowledge has been preserved in the form of books, books are considered very valuable. The best place to acquire knowledge is the library and information center, there are various types of knowledge tools for imparting knowledge to the general public. Education should reach every section of the society as the circle of knowledge widens every day. To make the society progressive, remove the ignorance in the society, increase the appetite for knowledge among the readers and overall development of the society, there is no alternative but public libraries.

Strategies for Preparing Future Public Health Leaders: Learning from Trailblazing Women in Health Education

Many female health education pioneers made seminal contributions to public health and social justice, yet these examples are not well documented in textbooks or integrated into public health curricula as pedagogical learning opportunities. Providing biographies and lessons learned from the past leaders within undergraduate health education curricula can help develop students’ skills as future leaders and address gender inequities in the field. Gender inequities in higher education as well as many public health practice settings result in lower salaries, slower career advancement opportunities, fewer supervisory positions, increased work-life conflicts, and heavier workloads. Developing women’s competencies in leadership and professionalism early in their careers is critical to meeting public health challenges such as COVID-19. We present four female health education trailblazers from different historical eras and various workforce sectors who exemplify leadership attributes (i.e., courage/risk taking, vision, advocacy, mentorship) and can be highlighted as a part of future health education curriculum. Innovative methods and approaches are provided for integrating these leadership lessons into undergraduate public health courses, in alignment with the HESPA II 2020 competencies. Learning from the past to inform the future is critical to inspiring and shaping the careers of emerging health educators.

Pioneers of digital education: navigating the technological currents of education

This study addressed Digital Education, investigating trends, practices and challenges related to this area. The central problem was the need to understand how digital technologies shape education and how they can be integrated effectively. The general objective was to analyze the current state of Digital Education. The methodology involved a literature review and analysis of practical examples. The results indicate an evolution in Digital Education, with the integration of emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, personalizing teaching. Active methodologies, such as the Flipped Classroom, are also gaining prominence. However, digital and social inclusion remains a challenge, due to a lack of access and infrastructure. Curricular adaptations are necessary to take advantage of the potential of technologies. To this end, Digital Education is promising, but complex. Digital inclusion and creative use of emerging technologies are essential. This study contributes to the understanding of these dynamics and offers insights for future research.

Loréa T. Acuszaar Biography

Abstract: This is a brief biography of Loréa T. Acuszaar, educator, counselor, advisor, and pioneer in multicultural education and diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. She was among the early "Bridge Generation"—the Second Generation, American-born children of immigrant parents. Her life path was distinctly Second Generation, pursuing opportunities for education, experience, and expertise, often as a trailblazer—the first or among the first Second Generation children to go on to advanced degrees, positions of authority, leadership, and creativity; a leader inspiring upcoming generations to pursue and hone their own passions and talents.

Construction of Student-centered Teaching Evaluation Index System in College Classroom

The classroom teaching evaluation system commonly used in current universities is facing multiple challenges, such as the disconnect between evaluation indicators and evaluation subjects, vague evaluation objectives, and unreasonable indicator design. These problems directly lead to the neglect of student's learning experience and satisfaction as learning subjects, making it difficult to effectively achieve the original intention of "promoting teaching quality improvement through evaluation and driving student learning progress through evaluation". In view of this, this article focuses on the current student evaluation index system in a university in Hebei Province, China. Drawing on the educational philosophy of the humanistic education pioneer Rogers' "student-centered" approach, a diversified evaluation index system guided by student satisfaction and learning outcomes is constructed through reconstruction and optimization.

Examining Dewi Sartika's educational concept: Exploring the meaning behind her struggle and inspiration for contemporary education

This research examines the concept of education according to Dewi Sartika, the challenges faced, the support received, and the relevance of the education concept by current conditions. The research procedure used is library research. Such investigations contribute to the advancement of science, particularly in educational practice. The research results show that Dewi Sartika is an educational pioneer who is tireless in providing access to education for women. Its holistic educational concept, which involves academic, moral, and practical skills, has helped shape individuals who are not only intellectually intelligent but also ethical and have relevant skills. In addition, his recognition of the importance of local cultural values in education has contributed to maintaining and respecting Indonesia's cultural heritage. Dewi Sartika's dedication to creating an inclusive and values-centered education system has left an important mark in the history of Indonesian education that is still remembered today.

The Prophet of Democratic Education: The Overlooked Lessons and Legacy of Boyd Bode

Abstract: Democracies experienced a serious rise of totalitarianism during the 1930s. Concerns surrounding this threat to democracy fueled discussion amongst scholars of education about how schools should approach democratic education. Atop the helm of these scholars was Boyd Bode, educational philosopher from the Ohio State University. This article aims to resuscitate Boyd Bode as a pioneer of democratic education in the United States of America by focusing on his vision toward the role of reflective thought in democratic life, how this role was challenged within the progressive education movement, the role of schools in cultivating democratic life, and how he empowered others at Ohio State to perpetuate his vision.

Konsep pendidikan Ki Hadjar Dewantara dan implementasinya di Sekolah Dasar di Indonesia

This research aims to explore the essence of Ki Hajar Dewantara's educational thinking and its relevance to the world of modern education as an educational pioneer. Ki Hajar Dewantara, or his full name Raden Mas Soewardi Soerjaningrat, is an Indonesian educational figure who has made a major contribution to the development of education in Indonesia. One of the theories he developed was "Young Shoots", which can be applied to learning in early elementary schools. Ki Hadjar Dewantara's thoughts on education have become a distinctive image for the history of education in Indonesia. The educational concept displays the uniqueness of Indonesian culture and emphasizes the importance of processing students' potentials in an integrated manner. This type of research is qualitative research in the form of library research. The collection technique is documentation, document analysis. Verification descriptive data analysis techniques and drawing conclusions. The results of this research are Ki Hajar Dewantara's educational thoughts and their implementation in elementary schools today.

Tropical Modern Architect

Professor John Owusu Addo is a Ghanaian tropical modern architect and a pioneer in architectural education and practice in the nation-building of Ghana and other Commonwealth countries. His contributions to the modern architecture discourse seem to be overshadowed by the cohort of architects of both Western and Socialist origin who practiced in Africa during the decolonization era. The Community Center at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) campus in Kumasi-Ghana was designed by him; it represents a classic example of ‘unknown’ heritage within the narrative. This short essay examines both primary and secondary data, including unpublished interviews, master series events, articles, and papers to contextualize Prof. Owusu Addo as an exemplary protagonist to be explored for the benefit of tropical modern architects, especially in African settings.