Educational Point Of View Research Articles

Self-Construction and Life Trajectories: A Pedagogical Reading of Background Guidance Models

Starting by complexity, liquidity, fragmentation that, as highlighted in the literature (Sennett, 2008; 2012; Bauman, 2011; 2013), characterize the post-modern condition, underlines the need for the education system to define and propose formative strategies that, by capturing the transition from technical rationality to personal and professional reflexivity, are able to orient individuals in ability to plan the future, being guided by a wider awareness about the prospects, the systems and processes of meaning that compose their life trajectories. Through the pedagogical review of career construction theory (Savickas, 2005) and self-construction theory (Guichard, 2010a; 2010b), actually among the most influential in guidance and both ascribable to the paradigm of Life Designing, the article proposes a reading of guidance processes like processes of reflexive education focused on life trajectories, which try to define possible prospects and borders of this specific aim for research and intervention from an educational point of view

Wave physics of the graphene lattice emulated in a ripple tank

Using the example of graphene, we have extended the classic ripple tank experiment to illustrate the behavior of waves in periodic lattices. A loudspeaker driving air through a periodically perforated plate onto the tank's water surface creates wave patterns that are in agreement with numerical simulations and are explained in terms of solid state theory. From an educational point of view, the experiment provides an illustrative example of the concepts of reciprocal space and symmetry.

THE EDUCATION OF STUDENTS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORERS FROM THE TEACHER ` S VIEWPOINT – A CZECH / POLISH COMPARATIVE STUDY AT THE SECONDARY EDUCATION LEVEL

ASD are a widely discussed and topical area in the forefront of the interest of professionals from a number of scientific fields. The following paper approaches the issue from the viewpoint of special education and focuses on the area of educating students with autism spectrum disorders at the secondary education level. The topic was addressed under a quantitative investigation undertaken at Czech and Polish schools. The paper presents a part of the results obtained from the investigation. We focus special attention to the issue of raising awareness on the part of secondary school teachers. Further factors will be outlined, such as: factors determining instruction, factors evaluated as the most demanding by teachers while working with students with ASD and action proposed to optimise vocational training of students with ASD.

Presidential Address: Does Finance Benefit Society?

ABSTRACTAcademics’ view of the benefits of finance vastly exceeds societal perception. This dissonance is at least partly explained by an underappreciation by academia of how, without proper rules, finance can easily degenerate into a rent‐seeking activity. I outline what finance academics can do, from a research point of view and from an educational point of view, to promote good finance and minimize the bad.

Technology-enhanced learning in Asia: New educational possibilities for the tomorrow’s doctors and tomorrow’s cures

South East Asia Journal of Public Health Vol.4(2) 2014: 55-58

Información y verdad en el uso de las redes sociales por parte de adolescentes

Uno de los retos más importantes que presenta Internet es el de la veracidad de la información en la Red. Aunque la mentira es una posibilidad inherente en la comunicación humana, Internet ha favorecido que cualquiera pueda crear un contenido falso en la Red. Por otra parte, Internet ha propiciado nuevas formas de sociabilidad y de experimentación en los más jóvenes. En este sentido, las redes sociales permiten el juego con los perfiles virtuales e incluso la creación de falsos perfiles. El presente artículo aborda estos dos temas, además de profundizar en los retos que ello presenta desde el punto de vista moral y educativo, especialmente en los más jóvenes.

Children in Need in a Globalized World

Nowadays, the concept of globalization is well known and connected with many fields. Many global efforts were made in order to improve the life of children from all around the globe but unfortunately the problem of children living or working on the streets it's far for being solved, the children in need are still a significant problem for many undeveloped countries and even for Romania. The aim of this article is to analyze the situation of children in need from Romania in the context of the grand reforms made after the revolution from 1989 and the impact of the globalization on the social system. In the end, some conclusions and solutions are proposed in order to elaborate a global strategy, from an economical, educational, social, psychological and architectural point of view in order to improve the quality of life and education for this category of children.

Review of Kyosa-do hakkyo-ga turyeopta ('Teachers are also scared of school'): From a viewpoint of yungbokhap education

Review of Kyosa-do hakkyo-ga turyeopta ('Teachers are also scared of school'): From a viewpoint of yungbokhap education

A Survey of the Foundations of Liberalism Axiology and Its Implications for Education

The present study is an attempt to survey the foundation of liberalism axiology and its implications for education. To this end, educational viewpoints of liberal scholars including Locke, Smith, Hume, Kant, and Russell are examined along with an introduction to liberalism axiology. Additionally, the implications of liberalism for education from will be discussed from two viewpoints, 1) foundations of value system of education, and 2) education system goals. The results highlighted some of the foundations of liberalism axiology such as individualism, liberty, humanism, intellectualism, empiricism, scientism, law, modernism, epistemological pluralism, believe in achievement, tolerance, equality, and social justice. On the other hand, the value foundations of liberal education are rationality, autonomy, and equality of respect. Furthermore, among the liberal educational goals the most important ones include public education, civil education, applied and practical education, autonomous and liberal individuals, mental development, and expansion and promotion of secular curriculum. Such educational viewpoints, however, have attracted criticism regarding radical individualism, autonomy, ethical anarchism, and negligence of public interest.

The Art of Living and Positive Psychology in Dialogue

The idea of happiness boomed in the public as well as in the academic domain over the last decade and has not reached its peak yet. However, the understanding of happiness (understood as eudaimonia) as being the utmost goal of human beings is hardly new. Philosophers have discussed this topic, under various terms, throughout history. One of the most recent philosophical concepts has been conducted by Wilhelm Schmid in his book Philosophie der Lebenskunst [Philosophy of the Art of Living], which is a theory about the good and beautiful life from a modern perspective under consideration of the philosophical history of this topic. Martin Seligman presented the ‘happiness formula’ in his book Authentic Happiness in 2002 and research about happiness, subjective well-being and life satisfaction (among others) began to form the field of positive psychology. This article provides a critical comparative analysis of philosophical concepts of the art of living and positive psychological research from an educational point of view. It will explore the extent of common ground between these disciplines, where they differ, and where they might be complementary.

Architectural Guidelines for Building a Special Learning Environment for Children in Need

The study environments are the problem analysed from an educational point of view, but closely correlated to the architectural, psychological and social principles. This article starts from the idea that a learning environment adequate to the children's requirements represents the key to their better development and implicitly investing in our children's education we invest in our future as society. A challenge for the educational environment is the rehabilitation of the children living on the street. They are facing addictions, and they have developed a vicious behaviour, determined by their life on the street, they survive in unhealthy environments and they do not enjoy even the minimal hygiene conditions. Numerous studies in the field of resilience have proved that, the ambient environment and the learning environment have a determining role in this process. The purpose of this article is that to analyse educational programs dedicated to them from architectural, psychological, political, economic and social point of view, trying to identify the main positive and negative factors in the centres dedicated to them and stating a few architectural principles for a better development of their learning and rehabilitation environment.

Chinese characters and e-ducation ― from the viewpoint of education between theory of the exclusive use of Hangul versus theory of Chinese characters mixed

Chinese characters and e-ducation ― from the viewpoint of education between theory of the exclusive use of Hangul versus theory of Chinese characters mixed

Does Finance Benefit Society?

Academics’ view of the benefits of finance vastly exceeds societal perception. This dissonance is at least partly explained by an under-appreciation by academia of how, without proper rules, finance can easily degenerate into a rent-seeking activity. I outline what finance academics can do, from a research point of view and from an educational point of view, to promote good finance and minimize the bad.

Greed from the Educational Point of View of Islam

This study aimed to study the role of greed from the point of view of Islamic education using a qualitative method and content analysis. Data collected by library resources showed the greed is an innate trait in humans causing a person to desire to possess a God's blessing entirely, and if others use this blessing, that person will become sad. When there is no greed trait in a man, the mental health is affected and s/he will suffer from mental instability. Therefore, this attribute accompanied with Islamic training method should be used to guide persons properly. It has been divided into two parts as the praised and the reviled by ethics scholars. The praised part leads to helping, fairly competing to perform necessities and charity, and eliminating unpleasant features; the reviled part is the root of many difficulties and the destruction of human benefits. This trait must be fought against and controlled; contentment and generosity are the cures for the reviled part. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n2s1p147

An Educational Activity: The “Noise” Problem in Cosmic Ray Experiments

There are many experiments on cosmic rays located in different countries; sometimes they use muon telescopes assembled by students and teachers of secondary schools, with a clear added value from the educational pointof view. In Italy, one of them, is located at High School “E. Fermi” in Catanzaro, which is involved in the Extreme Energy Events (EEE) project, a national project carried out by a collaboration of several research institutes.This paper reports about one of the educational activities carried out with the students of high school “E. Fermi”, related to the concept of “noise” affecting scientific experiments.

Reception of Critical Educational Science and the Contemporary Educational Crisis

Abstract The basic starting point in the research of the educational reality within the critical educational science was represented by criticism of the ideology and comprehension of the influence of social processes on education. The purpose and principal objective of education from the critical educational science point of view is striving towards maturity and self-determination leading to emancipation and solidarity development. Contemporary society is marked by large educational crisis determined by postulates of so called “neoliberal pedagogy” where, very frequently, education becomes its opposite. Due to that, the question arises of whether we could and should analyse the existing contemporary educational crisis through the reception of the critical educational science.

A 3D Printed Power-Split Device for Testing Energy Management Strategies Applied to Hybrid Vehicles

This work presents a testbed emulating the hybrid electric vehicles powertrain with both teaching and research purposes. The core of this testbed is a 3D printed epicycloidal gearset actuating as a power split device. Its design and hardware equipment are explained as well as its working principle. From an educational point of view, this system states an interesting control problem and, at the same time, exemplifies the operation of this kind of machines with the scope of a motivating application. Consequently, a teaching methodology comprising this testbed is proposed. In addition, the challenging nature of the system encourage the development of optimization techniques aimed at reducing the overall system energy consumption. Results of a preliminary experiment are satisfactory addressed. As a consequence, the presented testbed is proposed as a remote lab for teaching and benchmarking new control strategies.

Development of a Mobile Application for Robust Tuning of One- and Two-Degree-of-Freedom PI and PID Controllers

This paper presents the development of a mobile application for Android systems devices, that helps in the control system design task. The application allows to compute the parameters of PID-type controllers. The controlled process can be represented by a first- or second-order plus dead-time model and from that, the application tunes 1DoF PI and PID controllers for servo and regulatory control operation, and 2DoF PI and PID controllers, using methods presented in Alfaro and Vilanova (2012a,b). It is shown the use of the application tool where it is possible to evaluate benefits for the control systems undergraduate students. This is one of the main contributions from the educational point of view.

An analysis of the factors influencing pulmonary artery catheter placement in anesthetized patients.

Background:Pulmonary artery catheters are usually placed by resident anesthesiologists with pressure wave monitoring from educational point of view. In some cases, the placement needs longer time or is difficult only by observing the pressure waves.Aims:We sought to examine the time required for the catheter placement in adult patients and determine factors influencing the placement.Settings and Designs:Prospective, observational, cohort study.Methods:We examined the time required for the catheter placement. If the catheter is placed in longer than 5 min, this could be a difficult placement. We examined the effect of the patient's age, body mass index, cardiothoracic ratio (CTR) and tricuspid regurgitation, left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and training duration of a resident on the difficult catheter placement. Next, we excluded the difficult cases from the analysis and examined the effect of these factors on the placement time.Statistical Analysis:The data were analyzed by logistic regression analysis to assess factors for the difficult catheter placement and multiple linear regression analysis to evaluate the factors to increase the placement time after univariate analyses.Results:The difficult placement occurred in 6 patients (5.7%). The analysis showed that LVEF was a significant factor to hinder the catheter placement (P = 0.02) while CTR was a significant factor to increase the placement time (P = 0.002).Conclusion:LVEF and CTRs are significant factors to be associated with the difficult catheter placement and to increase the placement time, respectively.

Rodziny wielodzietne wyzwaniem dla duszpasterstwa Kościoła

The Church showing the anthropological reality of the family emphasizes its foreground value and role in the life of the Church and society. Ministerial service of the Church to the families encloses the abundance of spirituals, moral and financial help. Nowadays multiple children families shouldn't be associated only with negative circumstances, especially when it's aware. The Conference of Polish Episcopate clearly states that identifying multi-child families with pathology is hurting and unauthorized. Multi-child family is crucial for the development of the society and work human capital, it creates a great chance for its future. Despite in some cases greater poverty, large family is happier as it creates an environment rich in interpersonal relations and statistically is more religious. Such kind of families should be supported by proper legal help and tax reductions. A family with many children is a picture of civilization of love and live, it strengthens love – selfless gift for another human being and generous accepting of new life, affecting the life of the whole society. The Church should advocate more strongly in favor of parenthood and multi-child families as important environment for Church and whole community from educational, cultural, economic and demographic point of view.