School Network Research Articles

Factors Affecting Islamic School Performance: Dynamic Managerial Capabilities of School Principals Influenced by Networking and Motivation

This study was conducted in the educational settings of the East Java Integrated Islamic School Network (JSIT), encompassing levels from Kindergarten to High School. This study examines the impact of dynamic managerial ability, spiritual motivation, and networking ability on school performance across all East Java Integrated Islamic School Network levels. To achieve the research objective, a mixed-methods approach, involving both quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews was employed. Empirical evidence revealed that the Principal's Dynamic Managerial Ability significantly influences School Performance. Furthermore, Spiritual Motivation has a notable impact both on the Principal's Dynamic Managerial Ability and directly on School Performance. In contrast, while Networking Ability does not significantly affect the Principal's Dynamic Managerial Ability, it does have a marked influence on School Performance. Additionally, Spiritual Motivation and Networking Ability significantly affect School Performance mediated by the Principal's Dynamic Managerial Ability.

CURRÍCULOS E SIGNOS ARTÍSTICOS EM TORNO DE UMA EDUCAÇÃO CONTRACULTURAL

ABSTRACT: The article discuss how curricula that use art with its sensitive signs can enable a movement of thought around a countercultural education that affirms life in counterpoint to capitalist processes. It dialogues, with post-fundamentalist theoretical intercessors, the concepts of cultures, curricula, teachings, and images of artistic signs when forming people to come. Methodologically it is a training research carried out with teachers of a municipal school network, virtually via Google Meet, in the year 2021. Therefore, it aims to think about the strength of artistic signs in cultural and curricular inventions and compositions. In the results, the text points out some destabilizing points that teachers, during encounters with the signs of the arts, excavate, open fissures in dogmatic thinking —thought as representation —opening gaps for the passage of inventive nomadic thought, the one that escapes, which experiences and creates possibilities for power flows of forces. This process expands differentiation processes and thus invents new images for the curricula, cultures, and schools with the force of difference.

China’s conservatories are the highest national level piano education: historiography of the issue

Background. The spread of piano music in China at the beginning of the century, the formation of the foundations of piano teaching methods, the creative international exchange of experience with representatives of performing schools of different countries – these are the stages at which Chinese pianism was formed. The article examines the process of formation of Chinese professional piano pedagogy on the example of the activities of the most significant higher educational institutions and the network of music schools in China. The performing, pedagogical, methodical and organizational activities of representatives of the Chinese piano school are analyzed. The peculiarities of various piano schools in the personalities of leading Chinese pianists are specified in terms of their education, concert-tour activities and participation in international competitions, performance manner and repertoire selection, pedagogical activities, and their contribution to the modern world piano school is determined. Objectives. The purpose of the article is a scientific generalization of the historical experience of the formation and dynamics of the development of the highest degree of the Chinese piano school – conservatory, which led to an unprecedented rise of piano art in the country. Methods. The main methods used in the article were: analytical, theoretical, historical, historical-typological comparative analysis. Results. The historical dynamics of Chinese piano art is related to the professionalization of performance and composer creativity. This process is provided by the largest higher music educational institutions in China – Sichuan, Harbin, Shenyang, and Xinhai Conservatories. Many Chinese pianists, who returned to China after studying abroad and gained performance experience, joined the teaching staff of higher music educational institutions in China. Some of the musicians, returning from abroad, started new musical educational institutions. Such enthusiasts opened the Shanghai, Tianjin, and Beijing conservatories, as well as music departments at several universities. The most significant contribution to the development of piano art in China belongs to the Beijing Piano School, represented by the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music (CCMP). Many pianists, having left China, continued their activities on concert stages and in educational institutions of other countries – the USA, Canada, England, France, Italy. Each of them, with their concert performance and pedagogical successes, confirmed the high professionalism and high-quality level of musical education obtained in international educational institutions, the talent, experience and pedagogical talent of their mentors. Conclusions. Thus, the rapid rate of growth of the level of piano performance in China was ensured by activities aimed at the country’s exit from a thousandyear isolation, and a strict consistent orientation towards the achievement of world piano culture. A decisive factor in the achievements of Chinese piano performance in the 21st century is the focus on high results in mastering mastery.

"Reorganization of the Primary School Network in the Polish Carpathians in the Period 2000 - 2020 "

"The study focuses on the process of reorganization of the primary school network in the Polish Carpathians, in the period 2000-2020, determined by population dynamics and the education reform in Poland, which focused on the abolition of middle schools (junior high schools) and the return to eight-year primary schools. Primary schools located in the Polish Carpathians represent almost 10% of all schools of this type in Poland, usually with a smaller number of pupils/school (1/4 when compared to the national average). In mountainous areas with a specific settlement network, the closure of a primary school in a small village usually leads to several socioeconomic issues and may become subject to changing the managing authority due to budgetary reasons. The main aim was to determine the dynamics of the process and analyze spatial differentiations, by investigating the relation between population change in the 15-39 age group and the change in the number of schools, and to identify the location of the closed schools. Results show variability in the dynamics of the analysed variables in the case of Polish Carpathians compared to the national level, for instance, much slower dynamics of school closures than the rest of the country, the number of primary schools dropping by 14% between 2000 and 2020, while the greatest decrease in the number of pupils was observed in the Carpathian communes of Subcarpathian Voivodeship, especially in peripheral locations. However, we can conclude that in mountainous areas school closure has been highly avoided due to the engagement of different types of managing authorities, from local government to other public or private entities, in governing these schools. "

The Role of School Autonomy in Promoting Collaboration and Competition Among Schools

This article aims to determine the impact of education management reforms on school autonomy in encouraging collaboration and competition between schools conducted in Jakarta, Bogor, and Bekasi. This qualitative case study research was conducted over two months using data collection techniques through interviews, observation, and documentation. Semi-structured face-to-face interviews were conducted with 12 school principals in Jakarta, Bogor, and Bekasi, who were selected using purposeful sampling. Data analysis used triangulation techniques. The results showed that government decisions related to school autonomy and similar matters significantly influence relationships (collaboration and competition) between schools. The implications of these findings trigger a discussion on the impact of education management reforms aimed at increasing school autonomy in the context of school-to-school relationships. This study showed that educational management associated with school autonomy significantly influences relationships between schools. Decreasing the role of the state and increasing school autonomy exert different effects on school-to-school relationships depending on the governance model adopted. This study also shows that the experience of school collaboration and competition depends largely on the current policy of reorganizing school networks in cities and districts.

Dal voto alla valutazione per l’apprendimento

This paper returns the outcomes of a research-training project, as result of the collaboration between university researchers and teachers and principals of a network of schools in Lazio. Research-training is a way of doing empirical research that, making use of differentiated methodologies aims to develop teaching professionalism through the construction of research paths agreed between universities and schools. The present investigation started from a training need made explicit by schools: the need to develop skills useful for dealing with the transition from grades to judgments. A synthesis of teachers’ diverse views on assessment and perceptions of change is proposed here. The reflection and evidence gathered can help to prefigure the direction to be taken to overcome the risk that the use of feedback or levels may trace a construct that refers to the grade, de-emphasizing or effectively nullifying its value. Feedback and restitution, on the other hand, are tools of a motivating design that aims to provide learners with guidance for understanding and analysing their own learning and support for making effective and conscious choices in organising future learning.

Evolution of the Network of Religious Schools in Ung County in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

This study presents the situation in the parish schools of Ung County, Kingdom of Hungary, in the years 1721-1734, 1746-1747, 1774-1784, 1864 and 1916. After Francis II Rákóczi’s uprising (1703-1711) and the plague epidemic (1709-1710), Ung County was inhabited by new citizens. The parish network was disrupted for all confessions and, in the case of Roman Catholics, built anew. The Reformed Church partially kept the original network of parishes and schools that had been disrupted by re-Catholization. The Uniates and the Catholics did not have a functioning education system; this was built from scratch in the eighteenth century. The Latin Church created religious schools only gradually; up until the mid-eighteenth century, schools could only be found in the centre of the county. Many schools existed for only a limited time and were subsequently discontinued. By the end of the eighteenth century, however, it was possible to find a school in almost every parish. In the nineteenth century many of the larger parishes and, as a result, primary education was made available to a greater number of children. Schools operated by the Uniates, and later by the Greek Catholics, evolved differently. Based on decrees from that period, it appears there were many schools before the Rákóczi uprising; by the time it had finished, in 1711, the school network had been disrupted. Some schools were partially renewed but many ceased to exist. The biggest problem of the Uniate school system was funding, since the Catholic Church demanded that land owners take on patronage rights and create foundations to pay for a teacher and the parish school. At the end of the eighteenth century, the number of schools was still low but slowly growing. The fastest growth was noted in the nineteenth century; by the second half of the century there were more Greek Catholic schools than any other confession. Reformed Church schools were the only ones that maintained their continuity with the period before 1711. Various decrees passed in Hungary caused development to stagnate, although this changed again following the Patent of Toleration. One key issue when considering schools is the teachers. In this paper, we focus particularly on teachers and their language identity, exploring how this changed throughout the study period. We also briefly examine the subjects taught by teachers and the construction of dedicated school buildings at the end of the period in question.

ENSURING EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF EDUCATION IN TERRITORIAL COMMUNITIES

The article reveals the main content of decentralization in the field of education, which aims to bring educational services closer to the community. It was revealed that the formation of territorial communities became a chance for serious modernization of their education system. It was clarified that all regions of Ukraine joined the creation of territorial communities, which from the first days faced many problems of management of the educational sphere, namely the structure of education management; the number of full-time employees of educational institutions; the format of methodical support for schools; criteria for analyzing the school network; functioning of extracurricular education. It is justified that in order to solve the problems of effective management of education in the territorial community, it is necessary to use an effective tool of public management – strategic planning, as a process aimed at setting priorities and preparing an action plan for their implementation. The main tasks of which are: analysis of the socio-economic state of the community; formulation of a promising realistic future vision; analysis of internal strengths and weaknesses and external opportunities and threats; determination of strategic goals, the achievement of which will enable the realization of the vision; development of operational goals and tasks for achieving strategic goals. It was determined that the strategic goal of the community’s functioning can be the optimization of the school network, which involves considering it in the context of the territory’s needs and economic opportunities. The main steps of optimizing the community’s school network can be determining the number of students, their age groups, resource needs and other factors affecting the educational process; assessment of the condition of buildings, equipment and other resources necessary for training; determining the optimal number of schools; decrease in the number of schools; redistribution of resources; conducting consultations with the community. It was concluded that factors affecting the effectiveness of education management in territorial communities are: lack of a clear strategy for the development of the school network, insufficient number of schools in some districts; insufficient amount of funds to ensure quality education in the community, insufficient involvement of the public in the decision-making process regarding the school network.

Teachers’ Challenges in Times of Protracted Crises in Lebanon

This research study is intended to better understand teachers’ perceptions of remote learning during a time of crises in contemporary Lebanon. It does so by examining the perceptions of public and private schoolteachers that are teaching in Lebanon in relation to the educational experiences that are available to them and their students during the severe economic and political crises that started in October 2019 and got intensified by the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2020 Beirut blast. The study seeks to offer a richer picture of the current Lebanese binary educational system and the implications of this binary system on teachers’ opportunities, working experiences, and commitment to the profession during difficult times. This is set within the context of a longstanding history of educational marketization in Lebanon principally linked to an extensive network of both religious and secular fee-paying private schools that hire mainly qualified teachers and invest in them professionally to gain popularity in the Lebanese community. The study is critical exploratory, and qualitative in nature. It involves semi-structured interviews with a sample of both public and private schoolteachers teaching at different stages in Lebanon. The data collected through the semi-structured interviews are analysed thematically by using Braun and Clarke’s six-phase thematic analysis framework. The findings reveal differences between public and private schoolteachers’ capabilities of teaching remotely during the closures resulting from the several crises hitting Lebanon in the last three years. Also, the findings show that the teachers from both public and moderatefee-paying private schools have been pushed to resort to other sources to enhance their income such as working in several schools or planning to leave the country to work abroad and improve their living

Modularity, balance, and frustration in student social networks: The role of negative relationships in communities.

Signed networks provide information to study the structure and composition of relationships (positive and negative) among individuals in a complex system. Individuals, through different criteria, form groups or organizations called communities. Community structures are one of the important properties of social networks. In this work, we aim to analyze the perturbation of negative relationships in communities. We developed a methodology to obtain and analyze the optimal community partitions in nine school networks in the state of Yucatán, México. We implemented a technique based on the social balance theory in signed networks to complete negative missing links and further applied two methods of community detection: Newman's and Louvain's algorithms. We obtain values close to Dunbar's ratio for both types of relationships, positive and negative. The concepts of balance and frustration were analyzed, and modularity was used to measure the perturbation of negative relationships in communities. We observe differences among communities of different academic degrees. Elementary school communities are unstable, i.e. significantly perturbed by negative relationships, in secondary school communities are semi-stable, and in high school and the university the communities are stable. The analyzes indicate that a greater number of negative links in the networks does not necessarily imply higher instability in the communities, but other social factors are also involved.

Between familiarity and strangeness: Russian Jews in Josep Sabah’s letters from the coast of Entre Ríos

This article analyzes the correspondence exchanged between Josep Sabah, a teacher originally from the Ottoman Empire, and the leaders of the Alliance Israélite Universelle and the Jewish Colonization Association, institutions that had sent him to Argentina to found a network of Jewish schools in several towns in the province of Entre Ríos, from 1894 to 1922.
 In the first place, we focus on the contradictory ways through which this cultured Jew, educated in French and Sephardic schools, represents the new settlers sent from Russia to Argentina by the Jewish Colonization Association. Second, we focus on the self-rendering of this teacher in his letters, and on the tensions between the expectations of his employers, the demands of the settlers and the gradual disenchantment with the conditions of life in his adopted country.

Sociocultural role of Catholic schools in German Togo (1892-1914)

This article concerns the social and cultural role of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) in German Togo ‒ the Catholic missionary order that commenced its work in the colony in 1892 ‒ and specifically the importance of its schools for the German colonial project in that part of Africa. I seek to substantiate the thesis that Christian missions were in fact vital for modern colonial states as holders ‒ mainly through their educational effort ‒ of cultural/symbolic capital that is imperative for a proper functioning of any polity. The SVD mission made a considerable impact on social life of the colony through a network of competitive schools that it established, and for which it also secured a large part of financial resources provided by the colonial government. The importance of mission schools for the colonial project, on the one hand, and their reliance on the government funding, on the other were also important factors in the settling of a protracted conflict about social justice between the order and the government (1903-1907). One essential component of the educational success of the SVD missionaries in Togo was a genuine interest of indigenous elites in the acquisition of Western-style education, especially in the south of the colony that had been exposed to direct European influences for centuries.

NEW PROJECTS OF DEVELOPING EDUCATION

The article presents the existing practices of the developing education, which are imple-mented in educational institutions of the Russian Federation in the period from 1998 to the present day, taking into account modern trends and challenges to the world educa-tion: individualization and personalization; digitalization, networking, collaboration (coop-eration, team work); interdisciplinarity in the content; meta competence as a result of edu-cation; smart learning in the era of the information society with the availability of commu-nication technologies and team work; gamification as an introduction to learning educa-tional games, etc. To all these challenges and trends of the modern reality, the educa-tional system of D.B. Elkonin- V.V. Davydov has its own "answers" through certain prac-tices that are realized in the network of classes and schools of the developing education of the Russian Federation. In addition, new projects that can be viewed as a resource of the development of the domestic educational system are described

The COVID-19 Sentinel Schools Network of Catalonia (CSSNC) project: Associated factors to prevalence and incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in educational settings during the 2020-2021 academic year.

The Sentinel Schools project was designed to monitor and evaluate the epidemiology of COVID-19 in Catalonia, gathering evidence for health and education policies to inform the development of health protocols and public health interventions to control of SARS-CoV-2 infection in schools. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence and incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infections and to identify their determinants among students and staff during February to June in the academic year 2020-2021. We performed two complementary studies, a cross-sectional and a longitudinal component, using a questionnaire to collect nominal data and testing for SARS-CoV-2 detection. We describe the results and perform a univariate and multivariate analysis. The initial crude seroprevalence was 14.8% (95% CI: 13.1-16.5) and 22% (95% CI: 18.3-25.8) for students and staff respectively, and the active infection prevalence was 0.7% (95% CI: 0.3-1) and 1.1% (95% CI: 0.1-2). The overall incidence for persons at risk was 2.73 per 100 person-month and 2.89 and 2.34 per 100 person-month for students and staff, respectively. Socioeconomic, self-reported knowledge, risk perceptions and contact pattern variables were positively associated with the outcome while sanitary measure compliance was negatively associated, the same significance trend was observed in multivariate analysis. In the longitudinal component, epidemiological close contact with SARS-CoV-2 infection was a risk factor for SARS-CoV-2 infection while the highest socioeconomic status level was protective as was compliance with sanitary measures. The small number of active cases detected in these schools suggests a low transmission among children in school and the efficacy of public health measures implemented, at least in the epidemiological scenario of the study period. The major contribution of this study was to provide results and evidence that help analyze the transmission dynamic of SARS-CoV-2 and evaluate the associations between sanitary protocols implemented, and measures to avoid SARS-CoV-2 spread in schools.

Science Education and Bureaucratization of Fieldwork

The establishment of a network of collaborators in nineteenth-century Serbia, dedicated to scientific rock specimen collecting, required ongoing negotiation with the state administration over allocation of resources, including the mobilization of state clerks. In this period, Serbia’s state-building involved, among other things, considerable investments in science education and mining. By appealing to the state’s educational goals, Jovan Žujović managed to organize collecting through the network of schools, whose professors occasionally sent specimens to him. Various other state clerks, officers, and diplomats participated in this network as well, making field collecting practices situated by state administrative networks and contemporary nationalist ideologies. Through the collaborative and competitive intellectual efforts of scientific and non-scientific actors, fieldwork was co-produced as a politically contested space through the interplay of scientific, administrative, political, educational, and diplomatic initiatives that competed and collaborated within state-building projects.

Nurturing focused motivation: leadership development in Indonesia

PurposeThe present study aims to examine how a group of young leaders in Indonesia developed their leadership throughout their early and later years. In particular, the study examined focused motivation (“undeterred, intentional perseverance”), which is a common trait found in high-achieving individuals (Paik, 2013, p. 106). The study further investigated the nurturance of focused motivation through key support networks in home and school environments.Design/methodology/approachUsing the productive giftedness model (Paik, 2013, 2015) as its theoretical framework, the study used a mixed-method design comprising a structured interview and survey. The final sample included 38 high-achieving Indonesian leaders.FindingsFindings from the study demonstrate that focused motivation can be cultivated through a combination of opportunities, support and resources. More specifically, the home and school are integral in the development of characteristics contributing to focused motivation, such as resilience and mastery-orientation. In the study, positive characteristics and support networks of young leaders enabled them to overcome a variety of personal and professional challenges, including overcoming social barriers experienced by some of the leaders.Social implicationsFindings from the study can inform practice and policy efforts in creating nurturing home and school environments that will help children and young adults achieve their leadership potential, especially in developing countries where access to education and resources is often limited.Originality/valueThe study highlights the sociocultural context in Indonesia to discuss the opportunities and barriers in talent and leader development.

SUS Ombudsman offices and the Brazilian Public Health School Network: a novel experience

RESUMO Este relato de experiência teve como objetivo analisar o processo de formação de ouvidores do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), uma parceria entre a Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca (Ensp/ Fiocruz), a Rede Brasileira de Escola de Saúde Pública (RedEscola) e a Secretaria de Gestão Estratégica e Participativa do SUS (SGEP/MS). Considerada pioneira, a formação foi desenvolvida dentro da lógica de construção participativa, envolvendo atores municipais, estaduais e nacionais das Ouvidorias do SUS, instituições/escolas de saúde pública estaduais, Conselho Nacional de Secretarias Municipais de Saúde (Conasems) e Secretaria Técnica e Executiva da RedEscola, em uma articulação de governança consertada que resultou na formação de 451 ouvidores.

Strategi Komunikasi dalam Merekrut Peserta Didik Baru di SMP Islam Al Abidin Surakarta

This research is motivated by the number of private educational institutions, especially those who are members of the Integrated Islamic School Network or JSIT and these institutions will carry out a communication strategy in introducing schools to the community and compete with each other to increase the number of students through the quality and quality of the school. In the midst of increasingly fierce competition, this will be taken into consideration in how to develop the most effective communication strategy to introduce the school to the wider community. This study aims to find out how the communication strategy used by Al Abidin Islamic Junior High School Surakarta in recruiting new students. The research approach used in this study is a qualitative descriptive research approach. The setting of the research was conducted at Al Abidin Islamic Junior High School. The subjects were the head of SMP Al Abidin and the deputy head of SMP Al Abidin in the field of curriculum. The informants of this research were the PPDB team, school principals and vice principals in the field of education. Methods of data collection using the method of documentation, interviews and observations. The results showed that the Communication Strategy carried out by Al Abidin Islamic Junior High School Surakarta was realized in three stages of strategy, namely strategy formulation, the second was strategy implementation and the final stage of strategy was strategy evaluation.

Programa Saúde na Escola: potencialidades e limites da articulação intersetorial para promoção da saúde infantil

ABSTRACT The study aimed to understand the potential and limits of the intersectoral articulation of the School Health Program for the promotion of children’s health from the perspective of primary care professionals. This research had a qualitative, descriptive-exploratory approach, carried out with 20 health professionals from different professional categories, in four municipalities in the Greater Florianópolis. Data collection was carried out through interviews from November 2020 to March 2021. The data underwent content analysis and discussed according to the theoretical framework of health promotion. It stood out as potential: monitoring the health conditions of schoolchildren, expanding access to health information, partnership with other sectors, and the creation of links with the school community. The limits highlighted were the partial coverage of the school network, the lack of knowledge about the program, the overload of activities, the lack of human resources and infrastructure, and the impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. It is concluded that there is a need to strengthen the School Health Program as a public policy with the purpose of implementing articulated actions between health and education so that they can actually improve schoolchildren’s quality of life and act on their social determinants.

New Trajectory of Kyai’s Political Participation in Contemporary Indonesia: Rises, Challenges, and Opportunities

The political roles of Kyai post-1998 political Reformation has always been an interesting theme to be debated. This article discusses the rise, the challenges, and the various opportunities which open the new direction for kyai’s political participation in Indonesia post-political Reformation. This article uses the political and social science approaches on qualitative data and literature review regarding kyai’s political history in Indonesia. The results show that the openness of the post-Reformation politics opens doors for the kyai to enter electoral politics by using religious authorities (traditional and charismatic authorities in the Weberian perspective) also the extensive support network which follows the pesantren (Islamic boarding school) network, alumni, and tarekat. Kyai’s entrance in the post-Reformation electoral politics have opened a new era in Indonesia’s political history. A new generation of pesantren figures with good competences in the political views is born. The kyai’s participation is basically a transformation from the subject culture to the participant culture