This is the English language contents page for E&SD 13(4)
Nick Rushby
Editorial: What’s in my bookcase 6
Milica Krivokapic
Imitative Learning: the teacher as a role model 11
Catherine Doherty
Cultivating ‘good’ practice or ‘best’ practice? moralities for teacher education 20
Neelofar Ahmed
Cross-cultural educational partnerships to prepare global leaders: training teachers, teacher candidates, and school principals to teach students in the multi-cultural classroom 32
Yu Cheng Shen, Hai-Yan Nie, Yu-Lui
Electronic portfolio architecture based on knowledge support in senior project design 41
Aysylu G. Gilemshina
A differentiated approach for teaching Russian language to foreign students: the example of Arabic-speaking students 53
Natalia E. Zhdanova
Teenagers’ vandalism and the importance of parent-child relationships in addressing it 62
Valentina Sharlanova
Strengths-based professional and career development of teachers 71
Farit M.Yusupov
Evaluating the effectiveness of a professional orientation procedure 80
Notes for authors 100
It is important that young people develop self-determination as they enter into adult life. However,
in practice the mechanism of professional orientation does not provide the reliable choice of their
future profession that is needed and those who provide such guidance need assistance. The article
demonstrates the necessity of using reliable quantitative criteria in evaluating the effectiveness of
professional orientation. It has been suggested that the correlation coefficient can be used and, in
order to verify this assumption, an experiment was designed and conducted. The results confirm the
possibility of using the correlation coefficient as a means of evaluating the effectiveness of professional
orientation.
The study of contemporary trends in career development reveals rich opportunities by developing
personal competencies through individuals’ own agency. Analysis shows that there are no clear
strategies and policies for the career development at all ages. This also applies to teachers and future
teachers and this article addresses the development of teachers’ career management competence.
The study aimed to develop a model of teacher’s career development training based on a study
of international experience in the field of contemporary policies, theories and practices for career
development, adult education and strength-based approach in education. The model is competencebased,
and creates the conditions for personality-orientating and motivating learners. It provides
group diagnostics and a flexible set of approaches. Modern adult career development theories are
integrated in the teacher’s career development training. The model will facilitate future actions
for planning, organizing and implementing teacher’s career development training. Conclusions
are drawn about contemporary perspectives on career development and on the proposed modern
strengths-based andragogical model
Vandalism in the urban environment is a common phenomenon but is difficult to evaluate. The
scale of damage caused by vandalism is rarely analyzed, and therefore a limited number of scientific
works are devoted to the phenomenon of vandal behavior and the identification of its causes. While
the role of the family in the formation of deviant behavior is indicated by many researchers, the
context of vandalism and the issue of family determination remains open. This article studies the
parents’ styles of upbringing and their preparation for teenagers’ vandal behavior. By identifying
the degree of influence of the family in the formation of such a destructive form of interaction
between teenagers’ and the material environment it is possible to identify a group of teenagers
who are ready to commit acts of vandalism. An attempt is made to correlate child-parent relations
with teenagers’ motivational readiness to commit acts of vandalism. To study the relationship of
child-parent relations and teenagers’ vandal behavior, data was collected (using psycho-diagnostic
techniques) from 60 teenagers and their parents from complete and incomplete families, the
socially well-off and the socially disadvantaged. The results were processed using descriptive
statistics, MANOVA and linear regression analysis. It was found that parental upbringing styles
play a decisive role in initiating vandalism, while the educational effects of mother and father
have their own specific characteristics. The results can be used in the organization of social
support for children from socially disadvantaged families in order to prevent vandalism and its
radicalization.
The article discusses a ‘differentiated approach’ concept for teaching Russian as a foreign language
to a group of students from Arab countries. Special attention is paid to linguistic and cultural differentiation,
differentiation in the level of training students and differentiation in the interests and
tendencies of students. It offers various solutions for problems related to the implementation of
a differentiated approach in teaching Russian, and practical recommendations for optimizing the
educational process
ePortfolios based on the practice in self-assessment, and self-reflection and self-regulation are viewed
as important tools in facilitating and supporting learner-centered environment at higher education.
This study explains how an electronic portfolio system was designed and used as a useful repository
for learning products to help instructors monitor in-service kindergarten teachers’ progress,
provide feedback and develop in-service kindergarten teachers’ self-assessment, and self-reflection
and self-regulation through the presentation of a detailed and ongoing short-term training program
used as a comprehensive measure to determine degree mastery in the Department of Early Child
Development at Wenzhou University in China. The finding shows in-service kindergarten teachers
can be trained to carry out authentic tasks associated with ePortfolios and reveals that instructors
can improve in-service kindergarten teachers’ skills by enhancing their motivation and inspiring
their positive training in the curriculum, such as building up group cohesiveness and having positive
learning experiences.
With the growing incidents of terrorism, war, and warlike situations around the globe, academic
achievements, physical and mental well-being of affected children in schools have become a major
concern for the educational stakeholders. This paper discusses three key issues. Firstly, the article
discusses the emerging role of school teachers and leadership in supporting students affected by war
and terrorism in a cross-cultural context. Secondly, it focuses upon similarities between Canadian
and Pakistani classrooms, and the challenges that school teachers and leaders encounter while educating
students affected by war and terrorism. Thirdly, the article proposes the establishment of a
cross-cultural learning community connecting the school leaders and teachers from both countries
through the train-the-trainer model. This paper also contributes to the existing body of literature on
the role of school leadership in teaching multi-cultural classroom.
This paper engages with the double meaning of ‘good’ in English. ‘Good’ can refer to the morally
correct choice, and it can also refer to high quality. The question then becomes whether these types
of ‘good-ness’ refer to the same thing in teacher education. Theoretical treatments of moral goodness
in education highlight morality as a social fact that changes with the times. In contrast, goodness
as quality is tested and measured through international comparisons which increasingly define
what counts as ‘quality’. In available research accounts of Russian education and Scottish education,
different kinds of ‘good-ness’ emerge, with the risk that they conflict. The conclusion reflects on how
we might and should prepare teachers for different versions of goodness and their contradictions.
The knowledge required for teaching can be divided into three groups: knowledge needed for practice,
knowledge used in practice, and knowledge about practice. Knowledge needed for practice is
acquired during academic education. As soon as this process is completed and a person acquires
desired knowledge, he/she proceeds to the next step. The stage titled ‘knowledge used in practice’
promotes professional development of teachers. This process is an integral part of the teacher’s profession.
During this process, it is crucial to constantly acquire subject-specific knowledge, master
skills, develop personal competences, and take part in research activities.
Modern technologies lead to rapid changes in the world in every field. New trends in the development
of the world require schools to follow them. Education requires reorganization and adaptation
to new changes. Consequently, the role of teachers in the education system is changing. The teacher
remains a role model, setting an example for all pupils.
The social role of teachers is crucial when it comes to the development of the pupil’s individually and
the development of the society as a whole. Parents are the most important role models in the earliest
period of childhood development but teachers and peers are becoming increasingly important in the
later stages of children’s lives.
Pupils’ imitation of the teacher’s behaviour is one of the most important forms of learning according
to the opinion of American psychologist Alberto Bandura. The pupil imitates behavior patterns,
social values, attitudes, skills or modifies traditional ways of behavior. Imitative learning has a
great potential, greater than other ways of learning. The emotional connection between a pupil and
teacher is very important in imitative learning.
There are three variations of imitative learning: identification, imitation, and role learning. Identification
is an unconscious mimicking of other people’s behavior patterns. Children usually mimic
parents, teachers, cartoon characters, accept their attitudes and moral norms, and change their behavioral
patterns. Identification implies the adoption of internal characteristics, system of moral
values, personality traits.
The teacher as a role model influences the formation of social identity and personality of children. It
is well known that pupils are eager to learn only when they like a teacher.
According to G. Tarde, the process of imitation presupposes that certain images are created in the
mind of the imitator on the basis of observation.
In order to examine the role of teachers in shaping pupils’ behavior, we conducted a survey among
elementary school teachers and pupils in Belgrade.
Six years ago I moved house. I moved from a large house with four bedrooms and a
large study, to a much smaller but charming cottage where my study measures just two
metres by two metres. I sit at my desk and can touch all four walls! A consequence of the
move was that I had to reduce the number of books in my library. Instead of over 6000
books I now have a few hundred. That was painful because I love books, but it also made
me think very carefully about which books I would keep. The books on my bookcase are
those that I value the most and I wanted to share those titles with you – together with
the reasons why I have chosen them.