Education Of Schoolchildren Research Articles

Gender Sensitisation for School Teachers: Agents of Change in the Classroom

This article focuses on the role that teachers play in the gender socialisation of children in schools and how a change in teachers through gender sensitisation training is imperative to bring about larger gender equality in society. Educational institutions are among the primary traditional agencies of socialisation. Teachers are important members of both the school and the community and play a major role in shaping the attitudes and ideologies of children—and through them, their parents. The school as an institution has been a major site where one learns to be patriarchal or show an attitude of male domination. Teachers have the advantage of being outside of the family and are often role models for children. As teachers themselves are the products of traditional gender stereotypes and hierarchies, they may form stereotypes that affect the ways in which children grow up. Girls and women may also hold gender stereotypes, so female teachers may not escape the danger of falling into such thinking. In doing so, they often do not realise what impact they can have on children. School teachers are the vehicles of change, and every generation has a different kind of bond with the teacher. The role of teachers in enabling change is immense and it is useful to take advantage of this situation to move ahead. Often, teachers are women—especially at the primary-school level—as teaching young children is considered an extension of childcare. Care occupations have been extremely gendered and underpaid and teaching school children is seen as an extension of care. This article draws from and reflects on the impact of teacher training workshops conducted among primary school teachers in a low-income area in Hyderabad. Many of the teachers and students in these schools are both socio-economically and culturally marginalised. This article thus focuses on bringing about transformation among marginalised communities.

Oral health education for school children and capacity building of local community health workers in cleft care: An experience of student-led community service in a West Java village


 
 
 This article presents a program that seeks to establish partnerships between universities and rural villages in West Java provinces, with a focus on health-related activities. The program involves undergraduate students participating in field studies in the community through three activities: educating school children about oral health, providing capacity building for community health workers in managing infants with cleft, and assisting community health workers at Integrated Service Post (Posyandu). The program was developed by scholars at Universitas Padjadjaran and West Bandung Regency of West Java Province to contribute to the development of neighbouring regions. The program has had two significant impacts. First, the undergraduate students are directly involved in the community and can reflect on what they have learned in the context of the community, while also earning credits towards their transcripts. Second, the program has had a positive impact on healthcare by educating various community groups on topics ranging from oral health to early management of infants with orofacial clefts. This program serves as an example of how academic study and community service can be successfully combined to produce positive outcomes for both the students and the community.
 
 

The Effect of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Education on the CPR Knowledge, Attitudes, Self-Efficacy, and Confidence in Performing CPR among Elementary School Students in Korea.

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) education for schoolchildren is emphasized, as bystander CPR is a vital key to increasing the survival rate of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) victims. This study was conducted to verify the effect of CPR education on knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, and confidence of Korean elementary school students in performing CPR. Data were collected through structured questionnaires before and after CPR education and analyzed using descriptive statistics, T-tests, and hierarchical regression. Significant improvements in CPR knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, and confidence in performing CPR were found after CPR education, with the greatest increase observed in confidence (p = 0.000). The influencing factors on confidence in performing CPR were school grade, attitude, and self-efficacy. Although a significant increase in schoolchildren's CPR knowledge after education was shown, knowledge did not affect confidence in performing CPR. Therefore, early CPR education which focuses on improving confidence in performing CPR is recommended. CPR education might raise attitude and self-efficacy leading to increased confidence in performing bystander CPR. In conclusion, early and regular CPR education for elementary school students is crucial and should be conducted repeatedly.

Information Analysis of Historically Significant Territories at Various Time Stages of their Development

The paper describes: a structural scheme for representing knowledge about a historically significant territory, providing a formalized informational description of a three-dimensional space model; procedural model for determining the values of the characteristics of a virtual space object; the procedure for creating a realistic virtual model of a historically significant territory, according to which conclusions should be drawn about the development of Its development; carried out Informational analysis of inaccurate data from various primary sources using fuzzy set theory. The technology of creating a virtual historical space using the developed information-logical model and software environments 3DVista Virtual Tour Pro, Twinmotion is described. As a result, a virtual tour has been obtained, which can be used for various purposes: remote consideration of issues related to objects of historical reconstruction; teaching schoolchildren, students; passing educational quests.

The good practices for implementation of cyber security education for school children

The increasing use of the Internet calls upon the need for adequate cyber security awareness to better face the risk and dangers connected with the online environment. This research presents an experiment that revealed the cyber security awareness of children at Czech primary schools. They were tested for their skills to distinguish different online risks. After the pre-testing children received training and with the time delay they filled in very similar questionnaires. The re-testing measured how well the children retained the training and their ability to use the skills in the virtual environment. The results show only a moderate level of cyber security awareness at the initial testing. The one-off training had only an insignificant impact on their online behavior. The research reveals an important finding. One-off training does not affect their responsive online behavior and is not a suitable solution for effectively improving online safety skills. The task is to involve cyber security awareness education in the whole educational process. Based on the literature and conducted research this paper provides a set of recommendations for the designers of the cyber security school curriculum.

Enhancing Digital Technology Education for School Children

Enhancing digital technology education for school children has become imperative in the rapidly evolving digital era. This abstract provides an overview of the importance of digital technology education, outlining its goals, benefits, and implementation approaches. It emphasizes the need to equip children with the necessary skills and knowledge to responsibly and effectively navigate the digital realm. The role of educators in designing directed and innovative learning experiences using digital technology is discussed, along with the significance of collaborative learning, creativity, and problem-solving in a technological context. Moreover, this abstract underscores the importance of integrating digital ethics, online security awareness, and privacy protection within digital technology education. By adopting this comprehensive approach, children can develop robust digital literacy skills, enabling them to adapt to ongoing technological changes and tackle challenges and opportunities in our digitally-driven world. This research further highlights the implications and suggests future investigations to gain a deeper understanding of the impact and long-term effects of digital technology education on school children, providing valuable guidelines and recommendations for educators, schools, and stakeholders to enhance its effectiveness and efficiency.Highlight:
 
 Digital technology education enhances cognitive skills, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities among school children.
 It fosters creativity through the use of digital tools, allowing children to engage in digital art, design, and creative projects.
 It promotes collaboration and communication, enabling teamwork and idea-sharing through collaborative tools.
 
 Keyword:
 Digital Technology Education, School Children, Cognitive Skills, Creativity, Digital Ethics

Enhancing Digital Technology Education for School Children

Enhancing digital technology education for school children has become imperative in the rapidly evolving digital era. This abstract provides an overview of the importance of digital technology education, outlining its goals, benefits, and implementation approaches. It emphasizes the need to equip children with the necessary skills and knowledge to responsibly and effectively navigate the digital realm. The role of educators in designing directed and innovative learning experiences using digital technology is discussed, along with the significance of collaborative learning, creativity, and problem-solving in a technological context. Moreover, this abstract underscores the importance of integrating digital ethics, online security awareness, and privacy protection within digital technology education. By adopting this comprehensive approach, children can develop robust digital literacy skills, enabling them to adapt to ongoing technological changes and tackle challenges and opportunities in our digitally-driven world. This research further highlights the implications and suggests future investigations to gain a deeper understanding of the impact and long-term effects of digital technology education on school children, providing valuable guidelines and recommendations for educators, schools, and stakeholders to enhance its effectiveness and efficiency.Highlight:
 
 Digital technology education enhances cognitive skills, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities among school children.
 It fosters creativity through the use of digital tools, allowing children to engage in digital art, design, and creative projects.
 It promotes collaboration and communication, enabling teamwork and idea-sharing through collaborative tools.
 
 Keyword:
 Digital Technology Education, School Children, Cognitive Skills, Creativity, Digital Ethics

Od idei korczakowskiej samorządności do niemożności jej spełnienia w publicznym szkolnictwie

The purpose of the historical and problematic research was to establish the sources of student self-government in public education and to establish their relationship with the pedagogy of Janusz Korczak. Eighty years had passed since Korczak’s death, and the political and school system changed. In the process of educational activities, the author distinguishes three generations of scholars who took up the issues of student self-government: (1) the generation that preserved the memory of Korczak’s pedagogical thought during the communist period; (2) the generation on the border of the political transformation in 1989 and (3) the generation of a new interpretation of Korczak’s pedagogical thought in the first decades of the 21st century. Research shows that Korczak’s idea of self-determination of young people in matters concerning their rights in public institutions is unique, because teachers and wielding power in the state lack courage to democratise the educational process in these institutions. The generations of educators and teachers mentioned in the article were not able to stop the reproduction of quasiself-governance in public education. The author encourages the renewed study of Korczak’s thought and renewed attempts to change for the benefit of educating school children and youth in democracy, instead of teaching only about democracy.

A Study on Disability and Accessibility of the Children in English Indian Children's Higher Education

Disability in higher education has different implications from that of school Education. Higher education increases the chance of employability, thus, affirming dignified life for the persons with disabilities. While going through the policies and programmes in India it is found that not much has been done in the field of disability and higher education. There are number of groups working on the school education of children with disabilities. This has not translated in the entry of students to higher education because of various reasons. Infrastructural facilities within institutions, attitudes towards persons with disabilities, transportation facilities, and lack of support services are a few areas, which hinder the entry of children with disabilities into higher education.

Педагогический аспект изучения агиографической литературы

The article actualizes the problem of registration in a separate scientific field of teaching the bases of the Orthodox Faith, and as part of it - the methodology of working with hagiographic literature. The purpose of the proposed article is the justification of the pedagogical aspect of working with hagiographic literature, with its emphasis on the semantic, ideological framework of hagiography to solve problems of spiritual and moral development and education of students in the lessons of the basics of the Orthodox Faith. Materials and methods. The leading research methods were the analysis and synthesis of information from contemporary scientific articles, historical and pedagogical literature, normative documents in the field of education, school textbooks; comparison of scientific ideas and concepts, pedagogical experience of the past and the present. Results. The article substantiates the importance of hagiographic literature for solving the problem of spiritual and moral development and education of schoolchildren. The authors of the article proceed from the fact that the task requires at the first stage of its solution the formation of value representations of students, which have a high degree of abstraction, uncertainty in the wording of the relevant concepts. These problems can be solved by hagiographic literature, illustrating in visual and verbal form spiritual and moral qualities of personality, values which are difficult to define precisely, but whose manifestations can be observed through thoughtful reading and analysis of hagiographic literature. The authors of the article offer readers an analysis of pre-revolutionary editions of hagiographic literature for children and focus on the diversity of modern books on the lives of saints, as well as features of the modern presentation of hagiographic text that complicates the work of the teacher and requires him to carefully select books in accordance with the tasks, age and individual characteristics of children. Also the authors offer a sequence and the maintenance of stages of work with hagiographic literature at a lesson with the purpose of realization of a knowledge component, the emphasis on relevance and simultaneously complexity of work on a conclusion of a moral conclusion from the read hagiography is made. Conclusions. The proposed ideas about the importance of hagiographic literature for the formation of ideas about the spiritual and moral qualities of personality and the value foundations of Christianity can be put into the development of a separate topic of scientific research related to the study of hagiographic literature in the pedagogical aspect. To do this you must, firstly, to explore the moral meanings, worldview framework of the lives of saints, and secondly, to develop a method to work with these meanings and worldview attitudes consistent with age, social experience of children and their experience of church life, establishing interdisciplinary links and rationally linking the study of hagiography with other subjects of the school curriculum

Роль карело-финского эпоса «Калевала» в этнокультурном воспитании младших школьников

The article deals with the issues of ethnocultural education of younger schoolchildren and the features of their solution in the modern information world; the results of an empirical study are presented, showing the insufficiently formed level of knowledge of the culture of the Karelian people by children on the example of the Kalevala epic, the development of which is mandatory in the educational space of the Republic of Karelia; examples of the use of the ideas of the synthesis of arts in the course of creating a choreographic work based on the Kalevala epic have been studied. The work is based on the author's observations of the process of studying the Karelian-Finnish epic “Kalevala” by students of primary school age in the conditions of the city of Petrozavodsk. The main research methods were theoretical analysis and experimental and practical work with an experimental group of younger schoolchildren. The author has studied the possibilities of applying the synthesis of arts in the formation of knowledge about the Kalevala epic. The epos “Kalevala” is included in the national-regional component of the educational program, the implementation of which makes it possible to achieve the tasks of ethno-cultural development and education of schoolchildren. However, in the conditions of multitasking pedagogical practice, forced to respond to all the challenges of the information world, the issues of preserving cultural traditions and transferring ethnocultural experience in the modern world become difficult to solve and depend on the stereotypes formed by modern mass media.

ФОРМУВАННЯ ТВОРЧОЇ АКТИВНОСТІ ШКОЛЯРІВ У ПРОЦЕСІ ВИКОНАВСЬКОЇ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ НА УРОКАХ МУЗИЧНОГО МИСТЕЦТВА

The article clarifies the formation of the creative activity of schoolchildren in the process of performing activities in music lessons, analyzes the methodological techniques of leading domestic scientists, musicians, teachers, considers the theoretical contribution of Ukrainian composers-pedagogues to the modern system of school musical and aesthetic education, who believed that schoolchildren should acquire knowledge through direct familiarization with artistic works, through live communication with music, as well as the education of schoolchildren's musical culture, which includes the artistic activity of students, the development of musical abilities, attitudes towards music, and the activation of creative expressions. The criteria and levels of formation of students' creative activity in the process of musical performance activity are determined.

Folktales as indigenous pedagogic tools for educating school children: A mixed methods study among the Nso of Cameroon.

In many low and middle-income countries, schools are sites of cross-cultural contact and conflict due to a mismatch between the learning priorities and pedagogical practices used in children's homes and those they encounter in school. The alien nature of school as a learning context contributes to several negative outcomes. It hampers children's acquisition of academic skills, limits their parents' engagement in their schooling and prevents schools from benefiting from the learning resources and pedagogical practices available in the local context. To prevent this, many low and middle-income countries are considering the feasibility of incorporating local cultural activities into the school curriculum as a means of bridging the cultural divide between schools and the communities they serve. This research aims to inform these decisions through a case study of stakeholders' views towards the integration of a specific indigenous pedagogic tool, folktales into school settings in Cameroon, Central Africa. Qualitative data were gathered from 20 teachers and 15 parents in Kumbo, the capital of the Nso Kingdom where traditional child-rearing customs remain strong. A thematic analysis of the data revealed that most parents told their children folktales as one component in an indigenous participatory pedagogy designed to stimulates some cognitive skills and enhance moral development among children. Most teachers and parents believed that there were many potential importance of integrating folktales into schools as a traditional pedagogy for schoolteachers' professional practice. All teachers reported that they used folktales during lessons and/or pupils' free time. Like parents, teachers both narrated folktales and invited children to narrate them though some parents indicated that it was not necessary. This pattern of findings supports the conclusion that folktales provide invaluable pedagogic values and prospects for schools and formal education in general. Caution should be exercised in any attempt to generalize these findings because the sample and the geographical site were limited. However, this study suggests that folktales may be a readily available indigenous pedagogic tool that has both a high level of acceptability among teachers and parents and can be effective in bridging the cultural divide between schools and communities in many low and middle-income countries.

Gamification techniques for introducing Russian and Arab schoolchildren to aquatic life

The article analyzes gamification techniques that can be used to overcome the deficits in the education of schoolchildren (primary school) in relation to aquaculture. It is shown that the modern content of teaching on the subject "World around" for elementary school does not allow to form ideas about aquatic organisms and their cultivation on farms. To fill the deficits, it is proposed to use the potential of computer games. Computer games developed in Arab countries and the Russian game "Aqua Farm" are analyzed. It is concluded that gamification increases knowledge about aquaculture.

Оценка эффективности оздоровительных мероприятий, направленных на повышение качества жизни младших школьников, пребывающих на дистанционном обучении

Distant learning, being a necessary form for maintaining the educational process and teaching schoolchildren in extreme conditions of socio-demographic cataclysms, requires the close attention of scientists and in-depth research to prevent negative influences and optimize this process. The purpose — to evaluate the effectiveness of the impact of a health-improving program on the life quality of young schoolchildren undergoing distant learning. Material and methods. A study of the life quality of young schoolchildren was conducted using the international questionnaire Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory PedsQL 4.0TM with participation of 182 children, whose training took place in a distant format for 5 months. The main group of (79 children) consisted of young schoolchildren undergoing distant learning and a health-improving program. Control group I consisted of young schoolchildren also undergoing distant learning, but for various reasons not included in the health-improving program (103 people). Control group II included 234 primary young schoolchildren undergoing full-time education. Results. In the young schoolchildren undergoing distant learning, all aspects of life quality were decreased. Boys had a physical functioning reduced by 23.97 (2.18) points (p = 0.032), while girls had emotional functioning reduced by 22.04 (2.17) points (p = 0.025) and school functioning reduced by 16.77 (1.69) points (p = 0.021) compared with the indicators of children receiving full-time education. Conclusion. Distant learning decreases all aspects of life quality in schoolchildren. Health-improving measures contribute to increasing their life quality.

Immersiveness as a Pedagogical Technology in Teaching Schoolchildren in the Museum Space

Immersiveness as a Pedagogical Technology in Teaching Schoolchildren in the Museum Space

Цифровая живопись как составляющая художественного образования: целесообразность и пути реализации

The article deals with the actual problem of the reasonableness of including the basics of digital art in the Art Education system of school children. Art Education is aimed not only at teaching a specific craft to young people, but also at forming a person's spiritual culture and gaining a special emotional experience. The analysis of the concepts of "Art Education" and "Digital Art" is carried out. The purpose of the study is to substantiate the reasonableness of including the basics of digital painting in the Art Education of school children. The factors that create obstacles to this integration and a possible way to overcome them are outlined.

Kulturní dědictví národnostních a etnických menšin v expozici Dějiny 20. století v Národním muzeu

The paper aims to discuss how the cultural heritage of na­tional and ethnic minorities is presented in the permanent exhibition “History of the 20th Century” at the National Museum in Prague. It explores current approaches and trends in exhibiting minorities world­wide, focusing on national minorities. The paper considers how these approaches are applied in the exhibition and examines the response from experts. Additionally, it introduces museum education programs as a way to educate school children and students about this topic.

Media Educational Technologies in Teaching Schoolchildren and Students in the Age of Digital Transformation

Media Educational Technologies in Teaching Schoolchildren and Students in the Age of Digital Transformation

Operation and sustainability of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in schools: Evidence from a vulnerable and deprived area in Ghana

Abstract: Safe and adequate water supply and sanitation in schools are pre-requisites for the right to basic education for school children and the achievement of goal 4 and 6 of the Sustainable Development Goals. Nonetheless, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in schools is fraught with inadequacy of toilet and handwashing facilities, and poor sustainability mechanisms that threaten its success. This paper, therefore, assesses the operation and sustainability of WASH in schools in the Nabdam District of Ghana. Adopting a qualitative approach, thirty-seven semi-structured interviews were held to capture the understanding and experiences of students, head teachers, health officers, officials of the Ghana Health Service and District Education Directorate on the phenomena. Fifteen focus group discussions were further held with students in the basic schools. The findings indicate that WASH is poorly managed even though the schools studied had some established WASH facilities. WASH in the schools was bedeviled with challenges such as inadequate toilets and handwashing facilities, poor funding and ineffective WASH committees. The WASH committees lacked the capacity to raise funds and carry out their duties in accordance with the WASH implementation guidelines. The study recommends that the Ghana Education Service organizes periodic capacity building programs for WASH committees to address this shortcoming. The Ministry of Education should support basic schools in districts in their efforts to provide WASH facilities and fund WASH activities. The study also calls for the formation of student WASH clubs and sanitation brigades to promote the operation and sustainability of WASH in schools.