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Nick Rushby
Editorial: Editorial bias 6
Minnenur A. Galaguzova, Yuliya N. Galaguzova, Elena V.Moskvina, Yana S. Dikusar, Anastasia V. Shvetsova
Social rehabilitation of minor criminals. 10
Maryam Mahmoodi, Mojgan Rashtchi, Gholam-Reza Abbasian
Evaluation of In-service Teacher Training Program in Iran: Focus on the Kirkpatrick Model. 20
Nailya R. Salikhova, Martin F. Lynch, Albina B. Salikhova
The Associations Between Tolerance for Ambiguity and Internal and External Motivation in the Scholarly Activities of Doctoral Students. 39
Chancey Bosch, Alesha Baker, Joshua Baker
Using Open Educational Resources and Technology-Enhanced Learning for Teacher Professional Development in Ugandan Schools. 52
Alexey M. Petrov, Ksenia A. Volodina, Tatyana A. Belyaeva
The role of the psycho-physiological characteristics of a person in his professional development. 63
Marina N. Sharafutdinova, Nina A. Nizovskikh
Psychological readiness for management and self-control of behavior as components of the potential competitiveness of senior pupils. 72
E.Y. Vasilyeva, M.I. Tomilova
Assessment of communicative competence of residents. 81
Mark V. Pereverzev, Ilshat R. Gafurov, Valerian F. Gabdulсhakov
Using technologies to prepare graduates for careers in hospitality and tourism. 91
As is often the case, it was short article by another editor that started me wondering
about potential unconscious bias in the way the Education & Self Development editorial
team decides to accept the ‘best’ articles for publication, asks for revisions on others, and
rejects the remainder. In her article, Deborah Bowman (2019) reviews a fascinating account
of how the research into the causes of cholera went un-reported in the medical
literature of the day, because it conflicted with the long-held views of the majority of the
medical profession (see Johnson, 2006).
Social rehabilitation of juvenile delinquents plays an important role in maintaining public safety.
It requires special care and respect for the child’s unformed personality. This article summarizes
the experience of the Russian system of rehabilitation of juvenile offenders. It is emphasized that
the system is closed and standardized, which limits the possibilities of applying new technologies
in working with deviant and delinquent children. The goal of this study was to develop optimal
social technologies combining classical and innovative methods of rehabilitating juvenile offenders
and taking into account the specifics of closed institutions. The main research question was: what
new theoretical developments are effective in the rigid and inflexible conditions of these closed
institutions? Will they give steady positive results or does space itself block them? The pedagogical
experiment conducted by our research team is a unique attempt to go beyond traditional forms. It has
a classical scheme consisting of three successive stages: diagnostic, organizational, and evaluation.
Novelty is determined by the development and implementation of innovative technology to involve
juvenile offenders in voluntary activities in the following areas: environmental (development of
environmental awareness, planting trees and plants, caring for homeless animals, etc.), civil and
patriotic (design of exhibitions based on the results of search operations, care behind memorials,
the organization of festive concerts in for veterans), cultural and leisure (holding concerts, theatrical
performances, holidays for socially-unprotected categories of citizens). Volunteering promotes the
restoration of broken social bonds through self-awareness as a useful member of society. The use
of methods based on cognitive activity, creativity and creativity of children, the active involvement
of parents in the rehabilitation process, has achieved impressive results in learning, interpersonal
interaction, and most importantly – in self-awareness and self-presentation of children, which
society has traditionally become accustomed to writing off.
This study investigated the effect of in-service education and training (INSET) courses on grade
11 EFL teachers’ knowledge base employing Kirkpatrick’s four-level (reaction, learning, behavior,
result) evaluation model (Kirkpatrick & Kirkpatrick, 2006). To this end, the researchers designed
a study at four stages. At the first stage, a standardized questionnaire, English language teachers’
knowledge base (ELTKB), was administered to thirty 11th grade teachers to examine their views
regarding the INSET classes (reaction). Then ten teachers were interviewed, and their classes were
observed to explore to what extent the INSET courses had affected teachers’ perceptions and actual
job performance (learning). In the next step, 126 students filled in the students’ questionnaire (SQ)
regarding their perception of their teachers’ teaching performance in the English classes before and
after their attendance in INSET classes. At the final stage, the performance of the 126 students on
a language proficiency test was measured to study to what extent their teachers’ performance had
affected their achievement. The result of the ELTKB questionnaire, SQ, interviews, and observations
revealed the beneficial role of INSET classes in teachers’ reaction, learning, and behavior. Moreover,
the result of the program was positive since grade 11 students’ language learning improved after their
teachers’ INSET class attendance. This program evaluation can be illuminating for stakeholders,
policymakers, and curriculum designers.
The fluidity, variety and high speed of change of the modern world breed uncertainty and ambiguity.
This ambiguity is a consequence of freedom of choice, and the many alternatives with which a
person grapples. Ambiguity is both the condition and the subject matter of research activity. The
aim of the present study was to clarify the associations of tolerance for ambiguity with the type
of motivation (internal or external) for various types of academic activity carried out by doctoral
students in a university. Doctoral students (N = 227) from natural science departments at Kazan
University (Russia) identified their level of ambiguity tolerance (high and low). Results showed a
positive link between ambiguity tolerance and external motivation for various forms of universityrelated
activity and an inverse link with internal motivation. Doctoral students with a lower level of
ambiguity tolerance showed a higher level of internal motivation for their scholarly activities, that
is, avoidance of uncertainty served as a source of internal motivation for research-related activities.
For those with high ambiguity tolerance, more external stimuli (reward, constraint) were needed to
motivate the person for research. Moreover, at high levels of ambiguity tolerance the direction of
the associations changed and becomes a positive link between internal motivation and ambiguity
tolerance. The results should be taken into account in the organization of higher education.
Remote areas with technological, environmental, and human barriers to education lack the innovative
practices to provide sustainable, consistent, and meaningful resources and training for educators.
Stakeholders, including investors, organizations, leaders, administrators, teachers, students, and
communities benefit from effective research-based strategies that limit the barriers and empower
new generations of educational inputs and outputs, citizens of the global community. This research
examined the effectiveness of an innovative approach combining concept, software, and hardware to
deliver teacher professional development. A quantitative, relational, non-parametric design reported
a significant increase in personalized professional development using open educational resources
and a content access point. This study established a relationship between the variables and moved
the research community forward toward causal evidence for innovative educational practices.
An important element in the professional development of the individual is professional selfdetermination.
It is important for a teenager to make his own choice, not the choice of his
surroundings. Identifying a predisposition to a particular profession will allow a person to decide
on her choice. We assume that it is possible to reveal the professional predisposition by studying
the psycho-physiological characteristics of a person, namely the frequency-specific characteristics
of the electroencephalogram of the brain. The paper analyzes the results of a pilot study aimed at
identifying professional predispositions through psychophysiological studies of the professional
skills and aptitudes of students in various fields; statistically significant correlations between
electrophysiological indicators, neuropsychological parameters and professional development are
described. Based on a theoretical analysis of the work on this topic, the idea arose of the need to
conduct a full-scale study on the study of the psycho-physiological characteristics of a person in
various professional fields and with different levels of academic achievement.
The study analyzed the indicators of alpha, beta, theta and delta rhythms during the subjects
performing tasks (exam, laboratory work, etc.), which are based on the GEF. The study revealed the
possibility of studying the professional inclinations and inclinations of students in various fields of
professional activity using a single methodology, which is based on the study of the EEG activity of
the brain.
The authors conduct a comparative analysis of the concepts «psychological readiness for
management» and «self-control of behavior», considering them as necessary and interrelated
components in the structure of the potential competitiveness of senior pupils. An empirical research
using the test-questionnaire of psychological readiness for management in a modification of M.N.
Sharafutdinova (PRM-S) and the questionnaire “Style of self-control of behavior” of V.I. Morosanova
conducted on a sample of senior pupils (n = 315). Numerous statistically significant connection of
components of psychological readiness for management and styles of self-control were revealed.
All indicators of psychological readiness for management are connected with the general level
of self-control of senior pupils. Statistically significant correlation were discovered between the
general level of self-control and such components of psychological readiness for management as
“achievement orientation”, “analytical thinking”, “initiative”, and “conception thinking”. The results
show that such values-based orientations of a senior pupils as his striving for work’s high results, a
versatile analysis of his actions, a tendency to use all the existing possibilities of the current situation
to achieve a goal, as well as many other values in the field of management, organically connected
with the ability of senior pupils for self-control of behavior.
The problem of assessing the communicative competence of future doctors at all stages of training
in a medical university is one of the most relevant in the theory and practice of medical education in
Russia. The article reveals the basic principles of building a methodology for integrated assessment
of the communicative skills of students and residents on the basis of multilateral assessment. The
basic (universal) communication techniques for the doctor are determined – active listening,
asking questions, advising and motivating patients, and an explanation, which include a number of
communication skills required by the doctor.
The study examined and analyzed self-assessment (n = 132) and expert evaluation (n = 100) of
communicative competence among residents, as well as the subjective perception of the data
obtained by the residents. The results of self-assessment and expert assessment of communicative
competence showed that self-assessment of all communication techniques that make up the core of
communicative competence is statistically significantly lower than the expert assessment (p< 0.001).
It is shown that the method of multilateral assessment ensures the development of reflexivity and
motivation of residents to improve communication skills.
The relevance of the problem at issue in the article is due to the need to develop multifunctional
competence of future managers of hotel and touristic system: these managers face tough competition
for jobs, have to know modern information and communication tools, hotel and tourism business,
that is, have multifunctional competences. However, universities still do not have a single integrative
(interdisciplinary) basis for training such specialists, there is no package of training information
and technical means, strategies and technologies of training, sound organizational and pedagogical
conditions.
The purpose of the study: basing on the analysis of organizational and pedagogical conditions for
training specialists for professional activities in the sphere of hotel service and tourism to determine
the content, structure, features for developing multifunctional competence of future specialists.
The research methodology is based on the concept of key competence. This methodology involves
systematization, classification of significant (key, resultant, autonomous, etc.) problems; developing
on this basis the matrix of significant problems and defining the overall strategy, technology
management process of professional development.
The novelty of the research is that the matrix of significant problems of master’s training of future
specialists for working in the sphere of hotel service and tourism has been developed; strategies and
technologies for developing their multifunctional competence have been defined.
The results of the study are implemented in the form of content, structure and organizational and
pedagogical conditions for the preparation of future specialists to work in the sphere of hotel and
tourism services.
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Selected papers from the International Forum on Teacher Education (IFTE) 2019
Ilshat Gafurov, Roza Valeeva, Aydar Kalimullin
Editorial: teachers’ professional development in global contexts. 6
Zdenka Gadušova, Alena Haškova, Ľubica Predanocyova
Teachers’ professional competence and their evaluation. 17
Manpreet Kaur, Balwant Singh
Teachers’ Well-Being: An Overlooked Aspect of Teacher Development. 25
Branka Radulović, Olivera Gajić, Svetlana Španović, Biljana Lungulov
Challenges of initial teacher education in the context of higher education reform in Serbia. 34
Elisabeth Windl, Johannes Dammerer
Teacher Training in Austria with special consideration of Mentoring in the induction phase. 40
Janina Uszyńska-Jarmoc, Monika Żak-Skalimowsk, Beata Kunat
Creativity and Need for Cognition in Students of Pedagogy. 48
Manuela Keller-Schneider, Uwe Hericks
Beginning Teachers’ Appraisal of Professional Requirements and Implications for Teacher Induction in Switzerland. 62
Sameena Aziz
Are Madrassa and Mainstream School Educational Practice and Teacher-Pupil Relationship Mutually Exclusive? British Muslims discuss the influence of education institutions on their emerging identities. 80
Violeta Rosanda, Andreja Istenič Starčič
A review of social robots in classrooms: Emerging educational technology and teacher education. 93
Valerian F. Gabdulсhakov, Stella G. Grigoryeva, Catherine G. Krivonozhkina, Guyzel Sh. Zakirova
Strategic technologies for pedagogic education in universities.107
Gasangusein I. Ibragimov
Methodology of Research-Oriented Training in the Teacher Education System.117
Olga G. Smolyaninova, Julia V.Popova
Teacher competence deficiencies in the use of mediation technology in education.127
Nadezhda A. Sayfullina, Rosa A. Valeeva
Predictive competence of future educators: a review of the current state of the problem.140
Alexander G. Bermous, Vladimir A. Kirik
Development of local educational standards as a strategy for the modernization of teacher education.150
This special edition presents a snapshot from around the world of the current
state of the research devoted to the issues of professional development of teachers.
Teachers’ professional and pedagogical activity is significantly changing today (Teacher
education in a time of change, 2016). In many respects, these changes are explained by
a new understanding of the purpose and result of education, which is formulated in the
documents of educational reform in Russia and in the world, in the context of achieving
a new quality of mass education (Valeeva & Gafurov, 2017). The question that becomes
extremely important is: “How exactly should the teacher’s professional and pedagogical
activity change in order to provide a new quality of education meeting the “challenges
of the time?”
The reform process of Slovak system of education requires a professional discussion aimed at
enhancing the quality of the teacher’s professional performance in the context of the pupil’s needs
and overall optimization of the education system, including qualitative changes in the content
and organization of education as well as a change in the social status of teacher. One of the topics
discussed was the possibility of increasing the quality of the teacher’s performance by mapping
them to the requirements of the teacher’s professional competency profile. A team of experts from
Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra (Slovakia) has been addressing this issue in the
form of a research project Evaluation of Teacher Competences, which focuses on the development
and design of a comprehensive evaluation model and tools for evaluating different teaching
competences.
The research team has developed special evaluation tools – a set of assessment sheets aimed at
assessment (Assessment Sheets for evaluators), self-assessment (Self-Assessment Sheets for
the observed and evaluated teachers), and a tool to correlate the assessment positions of the
evaluator and the evaluated teacher. In developing the tools, the specific focus of each professional
competence and the content and performance requirements on teacher’s work have been taken
into account. The methodology for verifying the efficiency of the designed tools included panel
discussion, piloting, and personal interviews. The results of the pilots in primary and secondary
schools all over Slovakia were analyzed, evaluated and taken into account when modifying the
final version of the evaluation tools. These are now offered for implementation by school managers
in Slovak schools.
One of the issues in the research project, testing the process aspect of education, is the competence
of planning education. The research, focused on identifying the complex of the given competence
components and their analysis. The most important part of the competence is the ability to create
a model (plan/scenario) of a lesson, the success of which is based on the correct identification and
realization of the educational aims and objectives. The teachers demonstrate competence through
their ability to implement relevant didactical transformation of the curriculum content, not only
in the view of the requirements of particular subjects, but also in the view of the current societal
challenges and needs, taking into account modern and effective methodological approaches. The
assessment tools for the competence in educational planning were verified in a pilot. The paper
presents partial results of the research, which confirmed the relevance and reasonability of the
methodology for the competence assessment. Education and training requirements in the Slovak
Republic accept common aspects related to the education of citizens of the European Union and
at the same time prioritize education as an essential means for ensuring sustainable development.
Achievement of these goals can be ensured not only via transforming the Slovak school system, but
also via teachers’ personal, professional and career growth.
Teachers are the most crucial factor in the education system and are responsible for students
’achievement, satisfaction and well-being. Thus, teacher well-being has utmost importance for the
success of education. This is the report of an exploratory study which draws on the experience of
50 secondary school teachers randomly selected from different schools of North India. Key questions
include 1) what is well- being?) 2) what are the various factors affecting teachers’ well-being? and
3) how we can enhance teachers’ well- being through professional learning activities?
The Well-being Index (WHO-5) was used to assess the level of well-being of teachers. It was found that
65 % (32) teachers scored low on this scale. Semi- structured interviews were also conducted to find
the factors affecting well-being of teachers. The study indicated that relevant factors are individual,
relational and also external. Results revealed that both the institution and the teacher are important
in maintaining and improving well-being. Teachers’ well- being is not an individual’s responsibility
only but requires that schools, society and other stakeholders of education should work together to
plan activities for improvement of teacher well-being at pre-service stage and professional learning
programs. The study also showed that initiating a continuous focus on teachers’ well-being might be
the best way to provide fertile ground for teacher’s personal and professional development.
In the last few decades, many European countries have introduced changes in the regulation of
education and higher education systems, accepting the provisions of the Bologna Declaration. The
purpose of this declaration is to create a single European Higher Education Area with comparable
and compatible academic standards and quality assurance standards across Europe. Serbia
subscribed to these changes in 2003 reforming its higher education system in accordance with
the declarations. Study modules have been reformed with the aim of achieving higher quality and
more applied knowledge of students. The changes that have taken place have been reflected in the
fundamental goal of an initial teacher education to create quality graduate teachers who are able
to ensure high quality learning outcomes for all the children and young people with whom they
work. The aim of this paper is to examine the effects and the challengies of initial teacher education
in the context of higher education reform in Serbia. The changes that have occurred need to be
seen from three angles: the initial education being implemented in several faculties within the six
state universities; professional teacher training and self-evaluation and quality management of the
teaching process. In the Republic of Serbia initial teacher education is realized in several forms. The
primary form of initial teacher education is carried out at teaching faculties while the secondary
form of initial teacher education is through the training of teachers, which is regulated by law. Some
of the difficulties faced by initial teacher education programs are: the competitiveness of teaching
careers with other careers that are better paid. The results in a lower student response, but also affects
the funding of the teaching faculty itself. Taking into account the importance of education and its
impact on society, it is necessary to monitor changes in the field of teacher education continuously
and systematically in order to find ways to overcome various challenges and difficulties.
Teacher training courses are currently being restructured not only in Austria but throughout Europe.
This involves a qualitative and a quantitative expansion of practical school studies. In Austria, in
addition to practical school experience during training, an induction phase is to take place after
completion of studies, in which young teachers are accompanied by a mentor.
Mentoring in the induction phase as support for career entry offers many opportunities, but
also requires careful implementation. This article points out possible challenges and theoretical
approaches.
The aim of this research was to evaluate the relationship between the level of creative thinking in
pedagogy students and their internal need to learn about the world and themselves. A quantitative
research strategy was employed. The research sample numbered 250 participants. The questionnaire
Need For Cognition Scale – NCS was used to measure the need for cognition (NFC). The Test
for Creative Thinking, Drawing Production – TCT-DP, test sheets A and B were used to measure
creativity. The results of the research revealed the existence of relationships between creativity
and the need for cognition in pedagogy students. The analysis enabled an outline of the directions
in which university education might develop in order to foster students’ need for cognition as a
precondition for creative activity. Finally, the study delineated the limitations and perspectives for
future research.
Beginning teachers are challenged by a new complexity of requirements they have to meet by
entering their career as a newly graduated and fully responsible teacher. Despite of experiences in
pre-service teaching and the focus on combining theory and practice during teacher education in
Switzerland, further professionalization is needed to master the whole complexity of demands. Based
on the Lazarus transactional theory of stress and coping, professional requirements are perceived
individually different. Developmental tasks for beginning teachers were identified, but teachers
perceive and solve them in different ways. Depending on individual resources of the teachers, such
as knowledge, beliefs, motives and goals, personality traits, coping strategies, health and emotions,
teachers experience professional requirements differently. An induction program for beginning
teachers after their final graduation as a teacher must be designed according to individual teachers’
needs, allowing a flexible use of several offers, based on different didactical settings.
The purpose of the article is to investigate beginning teachers’ appraisals of professional requirements.
The questions are, which professional requirements are challenging, how competent teachers feel
to master them and how relevant they are for them. In addition, based on the wide spread of the
challenge perceptions, different types are identified and analyzed, to determine whether they differ
in their appraisals of competence and relevance.
The main methods used are statistical analyzes (confirmatory factor analyzes, descriptive statistics,
cluster analyzes with subsequent discriminant analyzes, variance analyzes and T-Test) on teachers
data, collected by a questionnaire.
The article shows how teachers appraise the relevance of professional requirements, how competent
they feel dealing with them and how challenging they perceive the experience. In addition, different
types of challenge were identified to investigate, whether they differ in their competence and in the
relevance of these professional requirements.
Based on the results of this study it is obvious, that teachers are challenged by requirements and
that they need phase-specific opportunities to foster their further professionalization. Derived from
the types of perceived challenges, it is significant that such programs should be used on demand
and with a focus on the concerns of the individual teacher, including metacognitive strategies. For
further professionalization it is crucial that the elements of an induction program do not focus
only on mastering professional requirements, but on reflection on strategies to master them in a
professionalization- and health-supportive way.
This paper presents the findings of a study exploring the attitudes, experiences and relationships of
Muslim youth with their madrassa (supplementary school) and mainstream school teachers in the
backdrop of British government’s intense scrutiny and regulatory practices of educational spaces
occupied by Muslim youth.
This study further explores the perceived pedagogy used in both educational contexts and its influence
on the growth and development of the learners. British Muslims discuss how they negotiate their
identities against a normalised societal narrative dictating diverse cultural, religious and secular
educational contexts as conflicting polemics culminating in Muslim youth leading segregated lives.
The research was conducted in a small inner city, through an independent measures design
involving two groups of 22 participants, current and ex-madrassa pupils, aged 11 – 19. Interpretative
Phenomenological Analysis of the data revealed that over the past ten years there has been a change
in the attitudes of British Muslims towards their madrassa and school teachers. Due to the repetitive,
impersonalised rote learning pedagogy inculcating little meaningful knowledge; the harshness and
punitive nature of teachers and limited teacher-student engagement the ex-madrassa pupils held a
stronger relationship with their mainstream school teachers. In contrast the current pupils preferred
their madrassa teachers describing them as ‘fun and kind’. School teachers are perceived to develop
them as wealth producing capital and madrassa teachers as inculcators of moral character, laying the
foundations for becoming a better human being.
British Muslims discuss the changing nature of their madrassa teachers from overseas, to homegrown
British educated imams, helping to contextualise their understanding of Islam to their lives
in Britain and now more recently to online tutors with British teaching qualifications. They compare
these with professionally trained school teachers.
This evidence-based small-scale study identifies, through the voices of British Muslim youth, that
school and madrassa education does not have to be mutually exclusive. Through mutual sharing
of teacher training, pedagogy and curriculum planning, schools and madrassas have the potential
to homogenise the learning experiences helping Muslim youth inscribe their religious identities
within a secular pluralistic British society. This paper provides British Muslim youth a platform to
voice their felt experiences and make recommendations for madrassa teachers and leaders; school
teachers and leaders and policy makers.
The 21st century is the age of robots, an age in which we are witnessing the development of social
robots for education. In the future teachers will be required by the labour market to prepare students
for work with robotic technology and co-work and interact with robots. Initial teacher education
needs to follow the development of robots and prepare students and teachers in applying robotic
technology in teaching. In the review study, we aim to identify how robotic technology is applied in
classrooms on different educational levels and subjects. We performed a review of the Web of Science
Database for the period between 2006 and 2018. The analysis categories included: the educational
level and research participants who experienced social robot activities, subject areas, outcome
types and robot-learner interaction time. We also examined the research design and publication
source. Findings indicate that the educational-pedagogical aspects in the studies often represent
more a vehicle, rather than a final goal of integrating robots into teaching practice. The studies
reviewed focus mostly on mixed human-robot interaction (HRI) and educational-pedagogical
outcomes. Robotic learning activities are prepared in the function of research goals, and not for
the introduction of robots into regular teaching practices. They engage a small number of students
in a diversity of learning contexts. Robot-learner interaction takes place primarily as a unique
experience or as several short-term ones, during fragmented activities that rarely approach the time
unit of the lesson. Robots carry out short, detailed tasks in classrooms for which lengthy studies and
preparations have been required. The novelty of this work is in focusing also on (1) The demarcation
between the focus of studies on educational-pedagogical outcomes; educational-pedagogical and
HRI outcomes; HRI outcomes; (2) study of the robot-learner interaction time dimension.