Social Education Programs Research Articles

Las necesidades de formación de las educadoras y los educadores sociales en el ámbito de la infancia y la adolescencia vulnerable

The current role of social education professionals is the result of a long process to de- fine a profession. Historically, this profession has been practised by professionals from different scientific disciplines and with different levels of training, factors which directly influence the processes involved in professional specialization. Undergraduate Social Education programmes have experienced this diversity but continue to face the challenge of developing training itineraries that respond to specific areas of intervention. In this study we identify the training needs of social educators who work with children and vulnerable adolescents. To do so, we conducted a quantitative analysis based on a large sample of professionals working with a wide range of resources. Our results show that professionals express a need for training in issues related to disruptive beha- viours, especially among adolescents, and request that dimensions such as behavioural problems, violence and conflict resolution play an important role in available training programmes. However, undergraduate Social Education programmes are still of a general nature while specific master’s or postgraduate degrees in Social Education remain under development. We detect an emerging need for specialized training in social care for children and vulnerable adolescents. This training should be provided from the professional as well as the university environment.

Children with diabetes and the social world: problems and opportunities (social health and educational program “Diabetes. Dances. Children”)

Diabetes mellitus (DM) in children has an impact on the social world of the child, changing his environment and his own role. A comprehensive approach to the treatment of diabetes in childhood involves taking into account the characteristics of a growing organism, analyzing socio-psychological factors and individual personality traits. The article analyzes the significant social spheres in which a child's relationships are built: family, non-family environment (peers and other children, educators, teachers, doctors). Special attention is paid to the negative impact of the Internet and social networks on the formation of opinions and attitudes of a child with diabetes and his parents to doctors and treatment. One of the tasks of DM therapy is to create a social situation that will contribute to the formation of personal qualities in a child that are necessary for managing the disease and maintaining psychological well-being. The tools for implementing this direction are both traditional diabetes schools and promising types of programs with the creation of groups of children involved in active joint activities: artistic, sports, dance, intellectual, etc. As an example of an innovative approach to teaching, adaptation and inclusion of children with diabetes in society, the social health and educational program “Diabetes. Dances. Children”, which has been implemented since 2020 in Moscow. The program is attended by 15 children and adolescents with diabetes (5-15 years), diabetes experience from 2 months to 10 years. The features of the program consist in the adaptation of dance and physical activities to the glycemic indices of children in dynamics; participation in the program of children, their family environment and friends; accompanying endocrinologists and clinical psychologists; conducting seminars for children and parents as part of an educational marathon; participation of children in dance competitions and festivals, video filming and various creative events.

A Case Study on the Social Education of Young North Korean Refugees for Social Integration - Focusing on the HAESOL CAREER PREPARATION SCHOOL -

This qualitative case study aimed at describing and understanding of establishment context, educational goal setting and practice, characteristic as social education program and challenge to social integration of an alternative vocational technical school for the immigrant youth from North Korea (NK) “Heasol Chickup Sagwanhakgyo”in Choonchoen, Gang-Won Province in South Korea(SK). Used resources were literatures, written materials, direct observation, participated observation, interview, questionnair and others. Gathered resources were analized and synthesized through transcribing, memorizing, coding, grouping. We found that the case school was established in 2014 in order to assist the immigrant youth from NK to settle down in SK. It’s educational goals were open communication between school, student and society, contribution toward society, building healthy citizenship, self initiation for learning. It offered also longtermly comprehensive programs for psychological theraphy & sports activities, basic learning competence, technical education, and follow-up after employment. We explored the case school as‘an outsider’from the public educational system has adventurous spirit and voluntarism. It contributed for social integration of immigrant through strengthening employability, sence of belonging, identity building, social reliability of participants. Staffs of the school hope to contribute participants’inward integration in SK. We reviewed positively the consistansy between intial intention and practice of school management, but sustainability and transferability of the school should continually be cared.

Untangling the gender pay gap in radiation oncology.

Untangling the gender pay gap in radiation oncology.

“Digital interprofessional learning (IPL) for health and social care students in a rural area. Teachers' and students' experiences with digital IPL”

There was a need to implement full-scale interprofessional learning (IPL) across health and social educational programmes in a rural area. We wanted to explore how digital tools could be a means to allow student coalitions to collaborate interprofessionally across campuses. A qualitative method with a phenomenological hermeneutical approach was used. The study shows that thorough planning is important for implementing sustainable IPL in the programmes. The facilitators' role ought to be clear. When IPL can be carried out digitally, opportunities are more accessible, and students' interprofessional collaborative competences can be improved. Digital IPL was successful in rural areas. Digital IPL was less time consuming than physical meetings and provided the opportunity to include students from other campuses. The planning and organization of digital IPL and facilitators' roles influence students' IPL outcomes. A stable facilitator group is preferred.

FORMATION OF INDIVIDUAL EDUCATIONAL TRAJECTORY OF DOCTORS OF PHILOSOPHY IN SOCIAL WORK IN THE CONTEXT OF PREPARATION FOR YOUTH WORK

Reforming all systems of modern society is an important stage in the development of education and science in Ukraine. Training of scientific and scientific-pedagogical staff in the field of social work in accordance with modern requirements of society, issues of research that will be potentially implemented and integrated into the educational process, in the field of social services. The training of doctors of philosophy in social work in Ukraine is an important component of higher education institutions and research institutions. The purpose of the article is to carry out a comparative analysis of selected components of educational and scientific programs in the specialty "Social Work" for the preparation of doctors of philosophy for youth work. The study used such methods as analysis, comparison, and generalization of various sources on the researched problem; comparative analysis of selective components of educational programs for the training of doctors of philosophy in social work in Ukraine in the context of youth work.The article highlights the main educational institutions that train doctors of philosophy at the third (educational and scientific) level of higher education; educational and research programs have been covered, that include the study of selected components related to youth work and youth policy; the names of educational programs of educational institutions and research institutions that provide educational services are given; working programs, syllabi, catalog of selective components of educational and scientific programs of the third (educational and scientific) level of higher education in the context of youth work are analyzed. The publication presents a comparative analysis of the selective educational components of the Social Work educational program of the institutions of higher education and research institutions, identifies and summarizes the number of hours, credits, forms of control, purpose, and main topics of the discipline.It is concluded that according to the comparative analysis of selective educational components of educational and scientific programs of training of doctors of philosophy of the third (educational and scientific) level of higher education it is found that the disciplines have in common credits, hours, forms of control. but different content and purpose, which is a feature that can be attractive to the applicants.

Determining Pre-Service Teachers’ Astronomy-Related Self-Efficacy Belief Levels

This study aims to reveal the astronomy-related self-efficacy beliefs of pre-service teachers studying science education, primary school education, and social studies education programmes. The study is conducted using the survey design, a quantitative research method. The study sample consists of 322 pre-service teachers in their third or fourth year of a science education, primary school education, or social studies education programme at a university in Turkey’s Central Anatolia Region during the 2016 fall semester. The Astronomy Teaching Self-Efficacy Belief Scale developed by Güneş was used as the data collection tool. SPSS 22 was used to analyse the data, and the analyses benefited from descriptive and inferential statistics. Based on the findings, the pre-service teachers’ total scores for astronomy self-efficacy showed no significant difference in terms of certain variables (i.e., gender, age, year, and having taken a previous astronomy course). However, significant differences were found regarding self-efficacy scores in terms of the programme and having taken part in astronomy and sky-gazing activity. Concerning the obtained results, the following suggestions can be made: pre-service teachers should be actively involved during the astronomy course, and their classroom management experiences should be promoted to improve their astronomy self-efficacy belief levels.

중년기 위기감과 심리적 안녕감의 관계에서 개별성-관계성의 조절효과

Objectives This study wanted to understand the effect of middle-aged women s mid-life crisis on psychological well-being and to find out the control effect of individuality-relatedness.
 Methods To verify this, an online survey was conducted and 493 copies of the responses were analyzed using a structured self-report questionnaire for middle-aged women aged 40 to 65 living across the country.
 Results To summarize the results of this study. First, the higher the level of crisis in middle-aged women, the lower the psychological well-being. And the level of individuality-relatedness, the higher the psychological well-being. Second, it was found that individuality-relatedness has a moderating effect in the influence of middle-aged women s sense of crisis on psychological well-being. Third, as a result of verifying the difference in the moderating effect of each group according to the level of individuality-relatedness, the relational partial development group showed the highest psychological well-being when the sense of crisis was low. It was found that the individuality-relatedness development group maintained a high level of psychological well-being regardless of the high and low sense of crisis in middle age.
 Conclusions This suggests the importance of even development of individuality-relatedness among middle-aged women. In addition, it suggests the need to explore the contents of the sense of crisis in middle-aged women during counseling and education, and to provide a differentiated counseling approach according to the level of development of individuality-relatedness. It provided implications for the development of successful experiences and social resources and educational programs for the development of individuality in which middle-aged women seek independent and autonomous identity.

Instrument Validity and Reliability UTAU-ZOOM2 Version 3.1

Zoom has emerged as an alternative application used by most communities in the world of education. The purpose of this study was to produce empirical evidence on the validity and reliability of the UTAU-ZOOM2 instrument for students who had attended Risale-i Nur learning sessions through ZOOM. This Risale-i Nur learning session is a non-formal education referring to a planned and structured personal and social education program and process designed to improve various skills and competencies outside the formal education curriculum. The objective of this study was to measure the instrument using item polarity test, standardized variance test, study instrument reliability test and individual-item distribution map in Rasch analysis. The findings of the study showed that only 16 items were received and met the requirements of the Rasch Model out of the total 24 items. However, all items can be improved in terms of sentence structure and language with content and language experts consultation to further improve the validity and reliability of the UTAU-ZOOM2 questionnaire. This study shows that Rasch analysis helps novice researchers improve systematically in term of constructing questionnaires to produce quality research data.

Применение алгоритма машинного обучения для профориентации абитуриентов высшего учебного заведения

The aim of the article is to describe the experience of implementing our own software product (Wizard UrFU) for career guidance and navigation of university entrants. The importance of introducing digital technologies for career guidance and navigation of university entrants is substantiated. The article addresses both sociological and IT tasks. On the part of information technology, a description is given of the main methods on which the work of a software product for vocational guidance and navigation of applicants can be built. In particular, we have proved that the most promising is the complex method, which is based on a combination of several methods and algorithms for the operation of neural networks for vocational guidance and navigation of applicants. The article describes the algorithm of the software product developed by our team. We show that this algorithm is based on the analysis of digital traces of applicants in the social network VKontakte. The algorithm uses the machine learning method. We also show that the career guidance system in the Wizard web application is based on a comparison of profile data in the VKontakte social network and generalized data of university students successfully enrolled in one of the educational programs. We analyzed the statistics of recommendations of educational programs to UrFU applicants using the UrFU Wizard web application using the Yandex. Metrics. The socio-demographic portrait of the UrFU Wizard software product user is a young man (or woman) aged 18 to 24 from Yekaterinburg or Sverdlovsk Oblast. This description fully coincides with the main target audience of the Ural Federal University. As a result, 12,780 potential applicants of Ural Federal University started submitting documents through the web application. In addition, 32% or 15,293 applicants made a transition to the institutions’ social networks and educational programs for a more detailed acquaintance. The analysis of the admission campaign results showed that all educational programs that were in the TOP of recommended areas had a significant increase in applicants compared to previous years. In general, Ural Federal University in 2021 held the most massive admission campaign among higher educational institutions in the Russian Federation. In our opinion, the use of services based on the work of artificial intelligence for career guidance and navigation of applicants of a higher educational institution allows a successful solution of the following tasks: to expand the geography of admission without holding face-to-face meetings with applicants; to increase the reach of the advertising campaign and personalize advertising offers; to attract creative and motivated youth; to help the applicant to make the right choice of the direction of training and thereby increase the motivation to study.

Prosocial Behaviors Among the Vietnamese Population During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Social Education Programs

Objective: The objectives of this study were to estimate the prevalence of prosocial behaviors and to examine associated factors among the Vietnamese people during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Two hundred and ninety-two Vietnamese people participated in the study through web-based respondent network sampling. Result: Findings showed that the prevalence of high prosocial behaviors was 75.3%. Conclusion: In the multivariable regression models, significant factors for prosocial behaviors were institutional trust and age. Implications for social education programs were also discussed in this study.

At the intersection of tourism social entrepreneurship and empathy: Development and validation of an empathy scale

The main purpose of the present study is to develop and validate a theoretically sound and empirically rigorous measure of cultural empathy, entitled Tourism Social Entrepreneurial Scale of Ethnocultural Empathy (abbreviated as TSE-SEE). To this end, both qualitative and quantitative approaches to data collection and analysis were employed based on four complementary and independent studies and samples (total n = 1182) from different sectors of the tourism industry. The final refined TSE-EES encompasses 25 items and four dimensions. The results demonstrated the validity and reliability of the TSE-SSE in China, Iran, and Poland. The TSE-SEE can be considered, among others, a diagnostic instrument for evaluating the impact of social entrepreneurship education programs and its application may prove effective means of developing emotional skills in the field of tourism social entrepreneurship.

PRESERVICE SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHERS’ OPINIONS ABOUT MOBILE AUGMENTED REALITY APPLICATIONS

The aim of this study is to reveal the opinions of social studies preservice teachers about their experiences during an action research on mobile augmented reality. In line with the aim of the study, a total of 46 preservice teachers (25 female, 21 male) studying in the second year of a social studies education program of a state university in the spring semester of the 2018-2019 academic year were determined as the study group. In the data collection phase of the research; focus group interviews, researcher diaries, observation reports were used. During the interview data analysis, the content analysis method was used. The findings obtained from the interviews were also supported by the observation and researcher diaries. Finally, the data about the devices that the participants have and their level of using these devices were collected through the personal information form, and then tabulated and interpreted. The knowledge background of the participants required to perform Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) activities was found to be inadequate. The participants reported that the use of AR on mobile devices increases accessibility, fosters interest, supports active participation, and improves perception. On the other hand, they reported that that its use in education concretizes the abstract concepts, ensures learning retention, enhances success and encourages collaborative learning. The MAR was also found to be perception-changing, enjoyable, motivating, growth-enhancing, and facilitative from students’ perspective. From educators’ perspective, the findings indicate that MAR increases productivity, supports the resourcefulness of the teacher, and keeps the teacher social.

Predictors of the COVID-19 Social Distancing Practice among Undergraduate Health Students in Samarinda City, Indonesia: A Cross-Sectional Study

Social distancing is a health protocol recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) for reducing the spread of COVID-19. Undergraduate health students play an important role in the dissemination of accurate information. This study identified predictors that influenced the COVID-19 social distancing practice and examined the sources of social distancing information among undergraduate health students in Samarinda City, Indonesia. This cross-sectional online survey study (March-April 2021) to involved 422 undergraduate students from medicine, public health, and pharmacy faculties at Mulawarman University. Binary logistic regression was conducted to identify factors associated with the COVID-19 social distancing practice. The results showed that age (AOR 1.47; 95% CI 1.97–2.22, p = 0.045), sex (AOR 2.26; 95% CI 1.38–3.69, p=0.001), and attitude (AOR 2.61, 95% CI: 1.75, 3.90, p<0.001) were significantly associated with social distancing practices. The top three sources of COVID-19 social distancing information used were social media (80.6%), websites (14.0%), and television (3.8%). The study findings encourage the government to disseminate more health information on social media and education programs to this target population.

Horticultural therapy professionalism and educational programs development in Hong Kong and China

ISHS XV International People Plant Symposium and II International Symposium on Horticultural Therapies: the Role of Horticulture in Human Well-being and Social Development Horticultural therapy professionalism and educational programs development in Hong Kong and China

Social Entrepreneurship Education: A systematic review of curricula contents and teaching methods

Abstract: Social entrepreneurship education is one of the fastest-growing subject areas in the world. Despite these developments, scholars and practitioners are far from reaching a consensus about what and how to educate social entrepreneurship. This study presents a systematic review of 30 articles published in Scopus and web of science databases between 2007 to January 2020. It offers an overview of the most popular SE courses and teaching methods on social entrepreneurship education programs. Based on identified research gaps, we provide future research directions that will help more researchers and practitioners conceptualize social entrepreneurship education. Keywords: Social entrepreneurship education, SE courses, teaching methods, entrepreneurship education, Social entrepreneurship

Uddannelse til ældrepleje: Et scoping review af læring i dansk social- og sundhedsuddannelse

The purpose of this article is to initiate a Nordic exchange of research-based knowledge about elderly care education. The aim is to shed light on and discuss learning issues that the Nordic countries have in common. Changing ways of understanding and performing care work throughout the Nordic region create a need for new understandings of the roles of welfare professionals and of issues of their learning. In Denmark, elderly care education is anchored in social and health care programmes within the vocational education system. Targeted research has taken place in the field since 2006, but no attempt so far has been made to create a systematic overview of the existing research. This article presents the results of a scoping review of the research in social and health care education in the Danish context. The review includes 45 publications in which themes and types of learning actor are identified. The article concludes that there are relatively few studies that take a learning perspective on social and health care education programmes. The analysis shows a predominance of studies that examine the trainee as a learner, while few study teachers and care workers as learners or focus on organisational learning.

Upaya Pemberdayaan Masjid sebagai Pusat Kegiatan dan Layanan Sosial Kecamatan Alam Barajo Provinsi Jambi

Efforts to empower mosques are as centers of activities, both religious, educational and social services. But in reality, the function of the mosque with worldly dimensions does not have a maximum role in the development of the ummah and Islamic civilization. In order to preserve and develop mosques, it would require innovative thoughts and ideas as well as the will of all parties, especially the managers. The Miftahul Jannah Mosque, which is located in Kenalil Besar Alam Barajo, Jambi, is not only a place of worship, it has also functioned as a center for social activities and educational programs for local children. The forms of mentoring programs include: 1. Mosques as places of education and teaching, 2. As places for social and political activities, 3. Mosques as places for economic activities.

The Effectiveness of Social Participation Educational Program on the Feeling of Loneliness of Elderly People in Rural Areas of Baiza City (South of Fars Province)

The Effectiveness of Social Participation Educational Program on the Feeling of Loneliness of Elderly People in Rural Areas of Baiza City (South of Fars Province)

Working with parents of children with complex mental health issues to improve care: A qualitative inquiry.

The study objective was to explore the experiences of parents of children (6-17years) with complex mental healthcare needs in accessing healthcare services in Alberta, Canada. Parents were interviewed using a semi-structured guide with open-ended and probing questions. Interviews were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim. Thematic analysis revealed three main themes: (1) Fragmented healthcare services profoundly impacted participants' experience of mental health care due to (a) a lack of a collaborative approach across disciplines in the healthcare system; (b) unavailability of information related to mental health care and (c) a lack of patient-centred care. (2) Navigating the complex healthcare system was difficult due to fragmented services and was hindered by gaps in accessing and receiving care, lack of continuity of care and lack of resources. (3) Distressed parents discussed the emotional challenges, financial burdens, self-advocacy and stigma they experienced in navigating the system. Parents offered insights into potential solutions to these gaps. Parents recommended the creation of a one-stop shop service with a team approach led by a navigator to facilitate and support navigations across healthcare services that work collaboratively across disciplines among healthcare services and across sectors inclusive of social services, education, policing and community programmes.