The idea of competence is widely discussed in education, accompanied by fierce controversy, when it is strictly associated with work training and, therefore, is criticized. This process of seeking solutions to problems reveals someone’s competence. In light of this, the competence of modern educators should deserve to be treated with more attention than a research topic. It is crucial because teacher competence is fundamental to developing student competence which should be the school’s priority function. Having as a premise the controversies that involve the concept of competence, the relevance of developing competence in a humanistic perception, and also the centrality of the Attitude dimension (values) in education, we set out to reflect on how teacher competence influences the development of the student’s competence. The methodology involved was bibliographic research. The results indicate that the association of the competence concept with the corporate world and the lack of a clear and shared definition of competence need to be overcome to favor that it could be developed.
Journal Issue Number : 3
Bilingual Education in Tatarstan
The relevance of the problem of bilingual education in Tatarstan is explained by the lack of anthropological methods, techniques, means of mastering a second language in the practice of teaching, the lack of analysis of anthropological reasons for the negative development of bilingualism towards a mixed type.
The paper sets out to substantiate the anthropological conditions for the development of bilingual education aimed at fluency in two state languages.
The methods of anthropological analysis and anthropological teaching of a second language became main research methods. These methods included personal, empathic, reflexive, unconscious, the method of the communicative core, synergistic, nature-like, attractive, text-centric, etc. With the help of these methods, the main types of linguistic personality were established – coordinative, subordinative, mixed; the reasons for the dominance of the mixed and subordinative ones were determined; anthropological attitudes are substantiated, the implementation of which makes it possible to ensure the development of a linguistic personality from a mixed type to a subordinate one and from a subordinate one to a coordinative one.
As a result of the study, it was proved that the formation of a linguistic personality of a coordinative type should be associated with transposition (that is, with reliance on the patterns of the native language), with the prevention and overcoming of linguistic interference, with the implementation of anthropological attitudes in the trajectory of movement from mixed bilingualism to subordinative and from subordinative to coordinative.
The novelty of the study lies in the implementation of anthropological attitudes in the process of developing the language personality of students, in obtaining data on the dominant types of language personality and the dynamics of their development in Tatarstan.
The practical significance of the study lies in the fact that the material accumulated in the process of pedagogical experiments can be transformed into didactic and widely used in the practice of bilingual education.
Parental Strategies and Agency of Children Engaged in Extracurricular Activities during the Pandemic
The study explores the relationship between the strategies of parental involvement in education and the ability of schoolchildren to proactive behavior (agency), which allows them to adapt more successfully to changing external conditions. The data was obtained through the Internet survey of students engaged in extracurricular activities about the transition to remote formats of education during the pandemic and lockdown. The latent profile analysis was applied to better understand the differences between respondents in terms of changes in interaction with parents. The results showed that the joint activity of children and parents may be associated with the shaping of the so-called ‘cooperative agency’, whereas the strategy (related to giving more freedom to children, along with the facilitation support) is associated with other behavioral characteristics, which might be called ‘autonomous agency.’ We also found that the lack of interaction with parents, as well as strict control by parents, do not contribute to successful adaptation to the crisis conditions, which might be due to the lack of support of a child’s proactive behavior. It is also shown that the practice of discussing with parents the prospects of participation in educational and research projects is crucial both for shaping proactive behavior and also for expanding the perceived opportunities in crisis periods.
The Role of Self-Efficacy and Psychological Well-Being in Students’ Choice of Self-Improvement Strategies
The urgency of the problem justifies the significance of the study of psychological patterns and self-improvement mechanisms as a form of students’ self-development. The research aims to find out the role of self-efficacy and psychological well-being in students’ choice of self-improvement strategies: acquisition, transformation, disposal or restriction. The diagnostic tools include the author’s Self-improvement Quadrangle technique, the questionnaire by M. Scheer, J. Maddux adopted by Boyarintseva. defining general and social self-efficacy, Riff’s Psychological Well-Being Scale adopted Shevelenkova and Fesenko. Mathematical processing of the results was carried out using the criterion φ* of the Fisher angular transformation and the Pearson dichotomous correlation coefficient. The research involved 277 students from universities of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan, the average age of 19.5 (SD = 1.5). The results reveal that students with a predominance of high self-efficacy prefer three strategies: acquisition, disposal and transformation. Students with low self-efficacy in subject activity more often use the acquisition strategy and do not use the transformation strategy. Such structural components of psychological well-being as autonomy, environmental management, life’s goal and personal growth play an essential role in choosing a particular self-improvement strategy. The results show the individual trajectory of students’ self-development and help to carry out more purposefully the process of supporting the personality’s self-development. The obtained data can be used by teacher educators in a training process for students majoring in teacher education and psychology, by tutors and university’s psychological services.
Educational Potential of Preschool Children with ASD
The article substantiates that in order to build an effective variant of an individual development route for a child with autism spectrum disorders, it is necessary to know the level of formation of his/her educational potential. The profile of the formation of the educational potential of preschool children with ASD, according to the authors, contains 11 indicators. The specifics of developing a route map for preschoolers with ASD are conducted taking into account the identified parameters of educational potential. The purpose of the article is to study the formation of the educational potential of preschoolers with ASD to develop a variant of an individual development route. The proposed methods are designed for preschoolers with autism spectrum disorders and adapted by a group of authors from the Federal Resource Center for the Organization of Comprehensive Support for Children with ASD. The minimum level of development of basic communication and speech skills was revealed; at a low level of development – parameters of the game, the cognitive sphere: difficulties in processing information, violation of the formation of the child’s worldview. Such parameters of educational potential as ‘social behavior’, ‘perception’, ‘artistic and aesthetic development’, ‘fine motor skills’, ‘self-service’ and ‘maladaptive behavior’ are almost at the same level of being unformed. The most developed (at the level of partial formation) is an indicator for the development of ‘large motor skills.’ The findings highlighted the importance of developing individual routes for the development of educational potential in preschoolers with ASD to optimize the process of adaptation to society, effective learning, and self-realization as a socialized subject of society. Taking into account the dominance of the parameters of the child’s potential in the development, it is necessary to select technologies for support and training.
Identifying the Level of Medical Students’ Emotional Intelligence to Determine the Need for Improvement of the Educational Process
The study is aimed at assessing the level of EI of medical students. We used the literature analysis’ method, the Lusin’s questionnaire, mathematical processing of research results, comparative analysis, synthesis and generalization. The study involved 324 students of SSMU named after V.I. Razumovsky: 242 women and 82 men. The average age of participants was 20 years.
We found that the respondents generally have an average level of emotional intelligence development, which is sufficient to perform professional tasks. However, there is a disproportion in the scores on the emotion management scale, dominated by very low and low scores. With such indicators for students, the risk of emotional burnout increases. It was also revealed that students with higher grades had poorer control over expression. In addition, it was found that men have a better-developed skill of understanding and managing their own emotions, as well as control of expression, which we associate with the different hormonal background and existing gender attitudes in society about the rules for raising children.
The novelty of this study lies in the selection and description of the optimal ways to improve the medical educational process, which are based on the discovered level of EI development among students. The obtained results can be used to adapt the existing medical education system to the tasks of forming medical workers with developed emotional intelligence.
Development of Multicultural Education in Tatarstan and Kazakhstan
The research relevance can be explained by the fact that ethnic pedagogy with its rich traditions and experience in educating young people should serve as a tool in the context of globalization. Pedagogical science will be effective in addressing the values that lie in oral creativity and within customs and traditions of peoples. The study aims to reveal the mechanisms and tools of ethnic pedagogy in a multicultural educational environment. The leading research method is modeling. This method enables us to consider the development of multicultural education as a process of purposeful and conscious mastery of a certain type of multiethnic culture, the formation of which occurs through interethnic integration, social adaptation of the individual in a multinational society, through the knowledge of the cultural layer of the language reflecting the values. The author’s developed model shows the process of formation and improvement of multicultural education in the elements of ethnic pedagogy and methodological provisions of the pedagogical process. The significance of the study lies in the combination of solutions to educational tasks for preservation of human cultural identity, development of tolerant behavior and respect for cultural differences of interethnic integration, development of common and unique traditions, lifestyle, values of nearby peoples.
Formation of the Identity of University Students Prone to Deviant Behavior
The global transformation of society, which consists in changing existing patterns of behavior, traditional norms and values, causes uncertainty. Today young people face difficulties of self-determination, which causes internal tension and leads to social maladaptation and ultimately to violation of identity. Numerous studies indicate an increase in deviant behavior among young people caused by violation of socio-psychological adaptation, a change in the value-semantic sphere of personality.
The article presents the results of a study of 221 respondents enrolled in higher education programs. Some respondents had signs of deviant behavior.
To conduct a psychodiagnostics study, the OKO digital platform was used (https://oko.kpfu.ru). Statistical methods (Student’s t-test, correlation analysis) were used to analyze and interpret the data. The findings made it possible to determine the degree of identity formation of persons prone to deviant behavior, as well as to identify psychological features that contribute to the formation of personality identity.
Cognitive Regulation of Junior Bilingual Schoolchildren in the Process of Learning a Third Language
The work raises problems about the possibility of extrapolating the effects of bilingualism to trilingualism at primary school age, about the increase/decrease in cognitive regulation in bilingual children in the process/result of their acquisition of other languages. The purpose of the pilot study is to identify opportunities in cognitive regulation among primary bilingual schoolchildren in the educational situation of learning a third language. The study involved second grade schoolchildren (N=60) aged from 8 to 9.8 years (M=8.8, SD=0.36), among them with unbalanced bilingualism (N=30, 15 boys, 15 girls ) from the national Udmurt gymnasium; monolinguals with their native Russian language (N=30, 13 boys, 17 girls) from a secondary school in Izhevsk, Udmurt Republic.
To measure the components of cognitive regulation, the following were used: test battery NEPSY-II (children’s version in printed form): “Repetition of sentences”, “Memory for construction”, “Inhibition”; computer test samples of the software of the psychologist’s toolkit “Practice – MSU”: Stroop Test, Shulte Tables, Memory for geometric shapes, Go-NoGo. The main statistical method for analyzing empirical research data is structural modeling (structural equation modeling).
The results of the pilot study show a possible syncretic (mixed) effect of bilingualism in the process of mastering a third language by primary schoolchildren with the need to control it in the educational situation. We assume that bilingualism in the educational situation of learning a third language, as a predictor of cognitive changes, provides advantages in the self-organization of subsystems of regulatory processes at the cognitive level and, at the same time, creates difficulties due to the high regulatory load.
Regional Specifics of Psychological Well-Being among Graduate Students of the Faculty of Psychology
The relevance of studying the specifics of the psychological well-being among psychology students is due to the need to prevent their professional burnout and improve the image of the psychology profession. The purpose of the study was to identify differences in the general level and specific indicators of psychological well-being and happiness of final-year students of the psychology department of the capital and regional universities. Ryff’s theory of psychological well-being, the provisions of cognitive, positive and personality-oriented approaches were used; in addition to Ryff’s multidimensional model of psychological well-being, the M.W. Fordyce scale of happiness and the S. Lyubomirsky & N. Lepper scale of subjective happiness were used. The sample consisted of 200 full-time graduate students from the Faculty of Psychology at two regional universities and a Moscow university. It was shown that the groups differ significantly in eight parameters of psychological well-being and happiness: life goals; self-acceptance; competence; general level of psychological well-being; degree of happiness; time “on the rise”; time of feeling unhappy; level of subjective happiness. The paper concludes that psychology students from a capital university are significantly happier than their peers from regional universities. Methods of autopsychocorrection of negative cognitions are proposed to improve psychological well-being of students. The practical significance lies in the possibilities of using the obtained results to improve course programs as part of the curriculum of the main professional educational program (Psychology), training courses and educational work with students.
E&SD 17(3) September 2022
Shamil F. Sheymardanov, Aydar M. Kalimullin
Editorial: Getting New Horizons of Partnerships in Education Research 6
Andi Arif Rifa’i, Winarno Winarno, Ari Wibowo, Ahmad Fadholi, Priyanggo Karunia Rahman
The Students’ Responses toward Implementation of Quality Management Principles and Service Quality in Higher Education 14
Musa Nushi, Ali Momeni
A Comparative Study of University and Private Language Institute EFL Teachers’ Familiarity with and Classroom Practicality Perceptions of Dynamic Assessment 25
Hadi Hamidi, Danial Babajani Azizi, Mohammad Kazemian
The Effect of Direct Oral Corrective Feedback on Motivation to Speak and Speaking Accuracy of EFL Learners 50
Svetlana E. Gaidukevich
Methodological Training of Special Education Teachers in Belarus: State and Development Strategies 64
Elena A. Lemekh
The State of Professional Development Programme of Specialists in Correction and Development Training Centres regarding the Assessment of Quality Education among Pupils with Severe Multiple Disorders in the Republic of Belarus 72
Violeta Rosanda, Tina Kavčič, Andreja Istenič
Digital Devices in Early Childhood Play: Digital Technology in the First Two Years of Slovene Toddlers’ Lives 83
Oksana V. Vashetina, Elena V. Asafova, Balwinder Kaur, Balwant Singh, Parveen Sharma, Martha Maria Prata-Linhares, Vania Maria de Oliveira Vieira, Maria Alzira de Almeida Pimenta, Marilene Ribeiro Resende, Tatiana V. Sibgatullina
Professional Development of Teachers and Future Teachers: Factors and Challenges 100
Bozhidara Kriviradeva, Yonka Parvanova
Intersections between Education and Social Work in Working with Children at Risk: The Perspective of Pedagogical Specialists 119
Ildar R. Abitov, Inna M. Gorodetskaya, Alexey M. Dvoinin
Interrelation of Predictors of Irrational Behavior, Individual-Typological and Personal Characteristics 131
Svetlana N. Bashinova, Oksana I. Kokoreva, Natalya A. Peshkova, Venera A. Khamdamova
Determination of the Development of Social Behavior of Preschool Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder by the Type of Parental Attitude 141
Gulnara F. Biktagirova, Gulnara B. Tazhenova, Aray A. Konyrova, Meruert S. Utegenova, Anargul Zh. Abdikarimova, Maria A. Dvinskikh
Formation of Professionalism of Future Social Teachers in the System of Training in Russia and Kazakhstan (Comparative Aspect) 157
Roza A. Valeeva, Gulfiya G. Parfilova, Irina D. Demakova, Elena I. Adamyan, Faina M. Kremen, Sergey A. Kremen, Vadim N. Lesev, Olga I. Mikhailenko, Rimma Kh. Bagova, Lyubov G. Pak, Nadezhda A. Ivanishcheva, Lyubov A. Kochemasova, Anastasiya P. Eremina, Nadiya G. Yusupova, Galina N. Skudareva
Motivation of Student Teachers’ Professional Career 169
Vera K. Vlasova, Ranija R. Khamatvalieva, Venera G. Zakirova, Aziya E. Zhumabayeva, Albina V. Sadikova
The Development of Integrative Qualities of Primary School Teachers in the Context of Distance Learning 187
Inna I. Golovanova, Aleksei Yu. Alipichev, Timur A. Ayupov, Tatiana V. Baltina, Tatiana Yu. Gorskaya, Olga I. Donetskaya, Maria A. Lapina, Elmira N. Uteeva, Florida A. Fazlyeva, Enge N. Khasanova
Digital Educational Environment and Online Learning Format Through the Lens of Students: Pros and Cons 202
Albina R. Drozdikova-Zaripova, Nadezhda Yu. Kostyunina, Liliia A. Latypova, Anastasiya O. Luchinina, Aleksei P. Zolotykh
Personal Determinants of Selfie Addiction in High-School Students 222
Lera А. Kamalova, Raushania Gaifullina, Makhabbat Zh. Umbetova, Irina V. Novgorodtseva
Telehealth Communication Strategies of Medical Students in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic 242
Nina A. Koval, Venera G. Zakirova, Nikolay A. Utochkin, Stanislav N. Savinkov, Leysan R. Kayumova, Elena Zlateva, Nataliia S. Surenskaya, Boris I. Tenyushev, Anna E. Zavalina, Marina A. Lobach, Jordan Gjorchev
The Study of Socio-Psychological Factors Contributing to and Hindering the Retention of Teachers in the Profession 264
Nataliya Lebedeva, Victoria Ismatullina, Shamil Sheymardanov, Talgat Zhussipbek
The Teacher is a Guide or Barrier to Mathematics: Case Studies in Russia, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan 278
Irina A. Nigmatullina, Elvira A. Sadretdinova, Aisha R. Dolotkazina, Elizaveta Y. Davydova, Artur V. Khaustov, Ulyana A. Mamokhina, Elena A. Chereneva, Evgenia V. Dergacheva, Natalia A. Medova, Anna V. Vinevskaya
Comprehensive Support System for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Regional Experience 296
Vera Khotinets, Evgeniya Shishova, Enge Zinnurova, Oksana Kozhevnikova, Daria Medvedeva, Yulia Novgorodova, Rimma Kumysheva
The Development of Cognitive Regulation in Connection with the Communicative Competence of Monolingual and Balanced Bilingual Children 317
Editorial: Getting New Horizons of Partnerships in Education Research
The events of recent years have produced unique circumstances for the development of the Russian scientific and educational community, requiring significant changes in the topics, subjects, and methods of study. Numerous issues persisted in this field despite the rapidly rising number of educational studies, most of which were caused by their inconsistency with the demands of current educational practice. The excessive theorizing, passion for Russian pedagogy’s history, compilation, and other negative aspects of research are signs of its declining quality. Contrarily, when educational conditions changed quickly, there was a corresponding rise in the demand for pertinent research, the materials and outcomes of which have become crucial to the current educational process. This is especially important when it comes to the need to make decisions and adjustments regarding educational policy based on data obtained from scientific study.
The Students’ Responses toward Implementation of Quality Management Principles and Service Quality in Higher Education
This study aims to examine the implementation of quality management principles and service quality in higher education institutions (HEI’s) based on student responses. This study involved 570 students from public and private universities in Bangka, the province of Bangka Belitung, Indonesia. This is a quantitative study with a correlational research design. The results showed that the implementation of quality management principles in universities had a very high correlation with service quality (r = 0.88). The results of this study prove that improving the implementation of quality management principles, such as development of cooperation, HR (human resources) focus, continuous development, process approach, leadership, process focus, and goal consistency of higher education will improve the quality of service rendered to students.
A Comparative Study of University and Private Language Institute EFL Teachers’ Familiarity with and Classroom Practicality Perceptions of Dynamic Assessment
The widespread prevalence of dynamic tools to assess English language achievement has led to burgeoning research on exploring different aspects of teachers’ beliefs toward Dynamic Assessment (DA). In the educational system of Iran, experts and researchers who have undergone second language education may verify that there is very little, if any, attention given to the perceptions held by instructors and teachers regarding Dynamic Assessment (DA). In an attempt to remedy this gap, the current study aimed to investigate the familiarity with DA of Iranian EFL teachers working in two educational settings (e.g., language institutes and universities). The study also set out to explore the teachers’ attitudes toward the practicality of DA in the two settings. To address the research questions, a sequential explanatory mixed methods design was employed. The instruments of this study comprised a questionnaire and an Email interview with 12 ELT assessment experts in order to have their interpretations of the research findings. The results of the t-tests showed no significant difference between the two groups of teachers in terms of their familiarity with DA and their attitudes toward the practicality of DA in the two contexts. In addition, content analysis of the Email interview data revealed that the ELT assessment experts’ primary arguments for the insignificant difference between the two groups in terms of the two variables related to the fact that DA has remained at the theoretical level, that there is a lack of teacher training in DA and the strict rules of Iran’s educational system which prohibit teachers from applying DA principles and procedures in their classes. The implications of the findings for teacher education, materials development as well as for program administrators, EFL teachers, and learners will be discussed.
The Effect of Direct Oral Corrective Feedback on Motivation to Speak and Speaking Accuracy of EFL Learners
Considering the significance of corrective feedback to improve language learners’ speaking performance, the current study aimed to examine the impact of direct oral corrective feedback on speaking accuracy and motivation to speak of Iranian EFL learners. To this end, 46 EFL learners who were preparing themselves for the IELTS exam, both male and female, were invited to participate in this study. Having homogenized the participants through the Oxford Placement Test, the researchers divided them into one experimental and one control group. As to the pretest, a valid IELTS speaking test and a motivation to speak questionnaire were administered to both groups in order to measure the learners’ speaking ability and motivation to speak level. The experimental group received direct oral corrective feedback on their speaking performance for 15 sessions. The control group did not receive any special kind of corrective feedback. A posttest, equivalent to the pretest, was administered after the end of the treatment sessions to both groups to find whether direct oral corrective feedback affected the learners’ speaking accuracy and motivation to speak. The results of statistical data analysis indicated that the experimental group significantly outperformed the control group on both speaking accuracy, and motivation to speak. Pedagogical implications are suggested to language teachers and teacher trainers.
Methodological Training of Special Education Teachers in Belarus: State and Development Strategies
The widespread dissemination of humanitarian ideas, integration and inclusive processes create new challenges for the professional education of special education teachers. The focus is on methodological training, the ability to work with different children, organizational and methodological heterogeneity. A new social order is the methodological competence of a specialist who does not have just knowledge and skills, but experience in effectively solving the pedagogical problems of students with special education needs. The aim of the article is to identify the state of the methodological competence of Belarusian future special education teachers (graduates of higher educational institutions), to see the features of the existing methodological training, to determine the main strategies for increasing its effectiveness at the national level. The leading method is self-assessment of students’ state of methodological competence. The study involved 578 students from four Belarusian universities. The article describes the structure and content of future teachers’ methodological competence (4th year students) in the context of the ability to implement the educational process in the new conditions of variable educational practice. The research materials allow us to see the problem areas of the existing practice of methodological training in Belarusian universities and to assess the possible directions of its modernization.
The State of Professional Development Programme of Specialists in Correction and Development Training Centres regarding the Assessment of Quality Education among Pupils with Severe Multiple Disorders in the Republic of Belarus
In 1999, the Republic of Belarus began to educate children with severe multiple disorders (SMD). For this purpose, new special educational institutions – correction and development training centres (CDTC) – were opened across the country. Curricula for preschoolers with SMD appeared only in 2011, and curricula approved by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus appeared in 2014. Before 2011, teachers were more engaged in the care and supervision of preschoolers with SMD than in the actual educational process. Currently, changes are taking place in preschool education. The education of children with SMD should be built on a competency basis where the formation of their life competencies should play the leading role. The need to assess the quality of such education has emerged, and, consequently, the issue of professional training of specialists of CDTC in this direction. The aim of the article is to determine the possibilities of the system of professional development of teachers of specialized institutions on the issues of quality assessment of education of pupils with severe multiple disorders at the present stage in the Republic of Belarus. The basic methods in the study of this problem were questioning and content analysis. The experimental base of the study is represented by 63 state educational institutions “Centre for Corrective and Developmental Education” (Brest, Vitebsk, Gomel, Grodno, Mogilev, Minsk regions and the city of Minsk, Republic of Belarus), as well as 8 institutions providing professional development of CDTC personnel (Brest, Vitebsk, Gomel, Grodno, Minsk regions, the city of Minsk, Republic of Belarus). The study involved 345 respondents: 334 teachers of CDTC and 11 employees of professional development institutions. The study was conducted in 2020. The article presents the author’s view on assessing the quality of education of preschool children with SMD, highlights the results of the empirical study, and substantiates the possibility of changing the training of teachers of CDTC in the context of professional development institutions. The obtained data allow us to see a holistic picture of the modern system of professional development for special teachers on the problems of assessing the quality of education of preschool children with SMD, which further allows to adjust the training programs of professional development in specialized institutions (Academy of Postgraduate Education, Institutes of Education Development), to include the most popular topics in their content.
Digital Devices in Early Childhood Play: Digital Technology in the First Two Years of Slovene Toddlers’ Lives
This article offers a first insight into the digital environment of Slovenian toddlers. We report on the use of digital technology and toys allowed by parents in their children’s home environment. The study is based on the results of an online questionnaire completed by parents of 26 Slovenian children up to 2 years of age (M = 17.8 months; SD = 5.6). On average, 9% of all children’s toys are digital toys and they spend 10% of their play time playing with digital toys. Among the most commonly, but still only occasionally, used digital toys or technology are smartphones and tablets. Compared to other types of digital technology, parents believed that screen-based digital toys in particular supported their child’s skills development. Ultimately, parents do not strongly associate digital technologies with positive developmental and educational effects, but rather they believe that digital technology provides entertainment, enables information-seeking and keeps children busy. Nevertheless they allow, or will allow, the child to use digital technology mainly because they believe it enables learning. Further research, if needed, will be carried out to look closely at the children’s use of digital technology and its effects on young children’s development.
Professional Development of Teachers and Future Teachers: Factors and Challenges
The article discusses the features of professional development and self-development of teachers and students of pedagogical educational institutions in Russia, India, Brazil.
Russian researchers analyze the influence of activity of future teachers in digital environment on their professional development and self-development, as well as the relationship of professional development with students’ self-determination, namely, goal setting. Empirically, the relationship between the digital activity of students of the pedagogical magistracy and the desire for professional self-development was revealed, which, in turn, depends on the severity of the goals and their orientation on obtaining a teaching profession.
The study of Indian scientists is aimed at studying the quality of life of teachers on the effectiveness of professional development. It was found that the majority of Indian teachers has a low level of professional development. Factors that negatively affect the level of professional development were identified, namely: low financial status, unfavorable family environment, physical and psychological well-being, job security. Researchers also consider reasons for professional development, including lack of time, lack of accountability for professional development activities etc.
The Brazilian study examines the features of social perceptions of teachers about teacher education and their professional development. The authors depicted social perceptions of teachers about teacher education based on four categories: planning, didactic procedures; assessment and teacher-student relationship.
The article also provides recommendations for the successful application of pedagogical practice and the creation of an environment for the teachers’ professional development, taking into account the results of all three blocks by countries participating in this study.
Intersections between Education and Social Work in Working with Children at Risk: The Perspective of Pedagogical Specialists
The article presents results from an empirical research study with 208 pedagogic specialists. Its main objective was to find teachers’ views about their cooperation with specialists from social work system regarding working with children at risk in Bulgaria, as well as to find the extend of such cooperation and its future perspectives.
Children at risk learn, educate, and socialize in different types of educational institutions and they also receive support and protectio0n from different organizations for social protection at their residence territory. That is why the development of effective cooperation between those two systems is especially important.
Empirical research was done with a survey questionnaire designed for the research itself. The questionnaire includes questions in three main areas: teachers’ evaluation about the challenges they face when working with children at risk; characteristics of their interaction with social protection system; changes which need to be made at both systems so work with children at risk to be more effective.
Research results show that teachers are mainly dissatisfied with their interaction with social work system due to lack of information, additional workload, and lack of effective support for those working at school level.
More and more teachers state that children at risk create new challenges in their work and teachers face unusual requirements when they interact with social workers. In addition, teachers are not familiar with institutions for social work and social services, and they contact them only in severe cases of family dysfunction and aggression, while expecting social workers to practically solve the problem of the child. They want to transfer all this type of work to social services and outside of educational institutions. Teachers also state that there is a lot of documentation which complicates the interaction between the two systems (educational and social work). They think that there is a need of change in social workers’ work, while work of teachers should not be changed.