The role of communication in tolerance education

The idea of tolerance, which has a long historical background, has become a necessity rather than a choice for today’s multicultural, pluralistic and democratic society structures. The idea of tolerance in today’s societies is transferred to individuals of the society through family, school as well as the elements of both society and social structure. The way in which the idea of tolerance is transferred to individuals at all three levels is communication. Communication processes are entering the various forms in the family, in the school system and in the social structure and are developing individuals’ understanding of tolerance. This study focuses on the way how communication works at family, school and society levels as a path in the education process and how the communication process can be utilised effectively in order to develop the democratic community. The role and significance of communication in the process of tolerance education was investigated by the literature review method in the case study pattern as one of the qualitative research methods and the findings were evaluated comparatively.

     

The relationship between principals’ configuration of a bundle of HR practices for new teachers and teachers’ person–organisation fit

Abstract

Based on studies in the private sector showing the positive effects of strategic human resources management (SHRM) on performance, many stress the value of adopting SHRM in the public sector. However, until now, the argument for applying SHRM in the public sector remains largely theoretical. Especially in educational contexts, it is unclear through which mechanisms SHRM affects performance. Therefore, this paper zooms in on the relationship between the configuration of a bundle of human resources (HR) practices and person–organisation (P–O) fit. A mixed methods design was used to collect both qualitative and quantitative data from principals and teachers in 56 Flemish primary schools. The qualitative data, which provides insight into principals’ configuration of HR practices, were converted into numerical scores and analysed, together with the quantitative teacher data, using multilevel analysis. The results show that both principals’ strategic and HR orientation are associated with teachers’ P–O fit. This study contributes to the research field of SHRM in education by studying a bundle of HR practices and how this relates to the fit of teachers’ own values with the school culture. The practical implications for schools are discussed.     

An evaluation of class-teachers’ roles in transferring values

Besides their academic success, teachers are bound to equip learners with values and prepare them as good citizens for the society. In this respect, the aim of this study is to evaluate primary school class-teachers’ roles in transferring values to their learners. This qualitative study comprises views by inspectors, directors, subject-teachers working in ten primary schools and parents in the city of Nicosia, Cyprus. The data was collected through interviews. This research indicated that class-teachers are effective role-models with responsibilities and effect of values transferring differed according to academic priorities and personalities. While parents feel satisfied with values transfer, most inspectors, directors and subject-teachers point to deficiencies in the approach. At this point, it is suggested that teachers are trained and a target-based curriculum is designed. This study was particularly aimed at evaluating class-teachers’ roles in transferring values in primary school years, which are assumed to be the most critical period of time. In the literature, the opinions of inspectors, directors, subject-teachers and parents about value transferring are not well known. One of the aims of tolerance education is that all stakeholders in educational organizations are satisfied with the transferring values and they feel peaceful. In this study, these new perspectives will show the state of harmony in educational institutions and the different opinions about transferring values. This research is hoped to add to this issue, which was rarely dealt with in literature, for the development of applications and policies.

     

The pyramid model of school management

Models of organizational management are presented in the literature and in the managerial practices of recent years. They are aimed to improve organizational governance, and to enhance organizational overall efficiency. The common denominator for most, if not all these management models is that they generally focus on a single aspect, or on a very limited number of aspects of the organizational conduct whereas running an organization is a highly complex undertaking, incorporating a large number of functions and processes. School principals tend to adapt out-of-school management process, usually adapting them from the business world. And therefore we can see that the educational system at all and the school system in particular, implement business management methods. This research indicates that school principals are well aware of all the school management processes and procedures. The important contribution of this research, which is based on the unique contribution of the multi-faceted theory, is acknowledging the work of the school principals as a pyramid which its base is composed of essential consensus procedures and its three sided indicate three major school management process. We suggest that this pyramid will be called “The Pyramid Model of School Management”. The various management processes that built this pyramid are based on mutual aims and consensus of the school team to reach these aims. The consensus of the aims is essential, and with out it, the school cannot exist as an affective organization. Choosing when to take a various management action is a feedback based, and situation-based conduct. It is also shown in this research that school principals distinguish between three major management processes which we recommend that they will be called the “pyramid sides” and include: results management, human resources management and general resources management. The three groups are bounded by the “core of management” which we recommend that will be called the “pyramid base”. The pyramid base is connected to each and every phase of the life cycle of the organization, to each process and each result. It includes the school targets and aims which all the school team has to agree upon and there must be an un-doubtful consensus about them.     

Reproduction and Change on the Global Scale: A Bourdieusian Perspective on Management Education

Despite a proliferation of critical studies on management education, there is a paucity of knowledge of the ways in which problematic beliefs, values, and practices are reproduced in and through management education. By drawing on and extending Bourdieu's seminal work, this paper offers a new perspective on reproduction on the global scale. Our framework spans three inter‐related levels of analysis: the dominant beliefs, values, and practices (nomos and doxa) of management in global society; the structuration of the field of management education on a global scale; and the prevailing pedagogical practices in management education programmes. Our analysis adds to critical studies of management education by elucidating the overwhelming institutional forces of reproduction and thus explaining how difficult it is to effect change in the prevailing ideas, values, and practices. Unlike most critical analyses, we also explain how change might take place and what it would require. Thus, our analysis advances studies of reproduction in this era of globalization more generally. It also provides an example of how Bourdieusian ideas can be applied and expanded upon in novel ways in research on education in general and management education in particular.     

Technology-assisted tolerance education at elementary schools within the framework of inspector qualifications

The importance of tolerance is being seen as an essential virtue in contemporary societies and in this paper Cyprus sample was chosen as regards tolerance education. The two peoples of Cyprus with different language and religion but the same culture (Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots) thought that only politics could solve the deadlock after the 1974 war and the fact that the two peoples could be converged with education, especially tolerance education, was ignored. In this paper the intention is to approach tolerance education especially on the basis of education management for which reason inspectors are chosen as the study group. It was based on the execution of tolerance education with contemporary teaching approaches, especially in a technology-assisted manner. As a result, the research question was determined as “what is the status of technology-assisted tolerance education in elementary schools in Cyprus within the framework of inspector qualifications?” This is a qualitative research based on case study model. Participants of the study were chosen on a purposive-sampling and convenience-sampling basis. Thus, the sampling of the research consists of 20 educators (inspector, school manager, teacher and scholar) in Northern and Southern Cyprus in 2016–2017 spring semester. Ten of the educators were chosen from Northern Cyprus and the other 10 were chosen from Southern Cyprus. Data collection method used in this paper is “semi-structured interview” technique. Content analysis technique was used in the examination of the data collected in this research. A closer look at the research findings show that the opinions as regards usage of technology in tolerance education in elementary school are as follows: “preparation and usage of different materials in tolerance education”, “usage of positive examples of technology-assisted tolerance education outside Cyprus” and “including both technology and tolerance in every step of education programs”. When different opinions are taken into consideration, Greek Cypriots stated that awareness should be raised in children in environments without tolerance with technology-assisted education. Turkish Cypriots, on the other hand, emphasized that all stakeholders in education should have a technology-friend educator identity and in order to offer tolerance education their level of tolerance should be high in the first place.

     

Evaluation of administrative and supervisory performance of the directors of Special Education Institutions according to the teachers

In this research, the criticism of the performance of the managers of the Institutions of Special Education by the teachers was investigated. In this context, the school principals in the teaching process; planning, organizing, decision making, coordination, evaluation and supervision were questioned about the behaviors of the school in the eyes of the teachers and the suggestions of the teachers. The research was conducted in the Special Education Institutions in Nicosia. In the sample, interview questions were asked regarding the productivity and application levels to 13 teachers in 8 schools. In the findings of the research, the level of implementation of the administrators who work in the Special Education Schools in their behaviors related to the management processes is quite good. Feedback has been received at such a level that managers can appreciate both bilateral relations and each stage of the management process. As a result of the research carried out, change and development are necessary, even though the Director of the Special Education Institutions is considered sufficient in terms of planning, decision making and coordination in bilateral relations and increasing in-service training for teachers and principals nowadays, and training for the awareness of teachers’ communication and democratic attitudes is necessary.

     

CBE教育模式在高职人力资源管理教学的应用研究

CBE即为能力本位教育(Competency-based Education)的英文简称。它强调以全面的职业角色分析为出发点,以岗位职责所需的能力为教学的基本原则,突出学生在学习中的主导性进而使他们具备从事人力资源管理所需的实际能力。这种教育模式符合当今高职人力资源管理教学的要求,故对CBE教学模式在高职人力资源管理教学中的应用进行研究具有极强的现实意义。     

旅游高职院校“三位一体”教学质量评价指标体系构建

本文在文献总结和实地调研的基础上,明确旅游高职院校教学质量定义、特征基础上,构建了包括旅游高职院校、旅游企业(社会)、教育主管部门"三位一体"的教学质量评价体系统,其中,旅游高职院校包括三个要素:教师评价、学生评价、督导评价;旅游企业(社会)包括学生毕业院校、学生综合素养、学生实习、学生实际工作能力四个要素;教育主管部门包括办学指导思想、师资队伍建设、教学条件及其利用、教学建设与改革、教学管理和教学效果六个要素,运用层次分析法(AHP)模型,测算旅游高职院校、旅游企业(社会)、教育主管部门及十三个要素的权重值,以期为更好地评价旅游高职院校教学质量提供客观的、综合的、可操作性的方法。     

浅谈如何做好高职高专院校的辅导员工作

随着2006年3月我校被国家教育部批准为普通高等医学专科院校以来,我校的辅导员工作便进入一个新的阶段。高校是人才的摇篮,高校教育工作者肩负着重大的责任,高校的学生辅导员正扮演着越来越重要的角色。辅导员是高等学校全面负责班级学生思想、学习、生活等工作的教师,是班级的组织者、领导者和教育者,是学校办学思想的贯彻者,是联系班级任课教师和学生团队组织的纽带,是沟通学校、家长和社会的桥梁。在班级管理中,辅导员扮演着多重角色,担负着多种责任,发挥着特殊的作用,辅导员工作的优劣直接影响到学生的成长。辅导员作为大学教师队伍中的一个特殊群体,在整个教书育人的大环境里,在完成高等教育,为社会培养全面、合格的有用人才起着重要作用。     

科学化:高职院校教学管理的终极目标

教学管理是学校管理的重要组成部分,它是为实现一定的教学目标,并根据一定的原则、程序和方法,对拥有的教学资源进行有效计划、组织和调控的过程。随着高等职业教育发展与招生规模的扩大,学校内部组织管理日趋复杂化。因此,必须进一步加强教学管理的改革力度,通过制度创新,建设一支高素质的管理队伍,实现刚性的制度化管理与柔性的人性化管理之间的有机耦合,并且形成良性互动,推进教学管理工作的科学化。     

高职物流管理专业课程教学方法探析

教学方法对教学内容和教学目的具有巨大的反作用，其改革往往会成为某一个时期、某一个学校或某一教学体系改革的突破口。高职物流管理专业向社会和企业输送具有物流综合知识的人才，其教学内容突出了理论知识和实践能力的结合，为取得良好教学效果，将知识教授给学生，就必须重视课程教学方法及其创新。     

吉林省白城市2010年初中毕业生学业考试物理试卷抽样分析报告

基础教育课改的目标是:提高全体学生的科学素养,促进学生的健康全面发展。而初中毕业生学业考试对于引导中学物理教学立足于学生科学素养的培养与发展、引导学生要养成一种"从生活走向物理,从物理走向社会"的良好学习习惯起着导向的作用,具有一定的思想和方向性、指导和实用性,因此初中毕业生学业考试试题备受关注。     

高职教育中实验室建设的方法和思考

我国及国际的铁路技术在快速发展,高等铁路职业教育需要紧盯先进技术,努力培养知识结构合理,具备一定技能满足社会需要的实用型人才。高等铁路职业教育体系中实验教学是不可分割的一个组成部分,实验室水平的高低、工作的好坏,是学校教学水平、科研技术和管理水平的一个重要标志。因此有必要分析实验教学的现状,改进实验教学的方法。     

The historical background of tolerance education for blind learners in Cyprus

Tolerance, in its broadest sense, can be understood as accepting all the differences in the society. Some people in society have limitations on certain parts of their bodies or their organs, which can lead to impairment on their physical functioning. Some of these people in society who have disabilities are those who have sight impairments. In order for blind people to be able to function in society in the same manner as other individuals it is possible that they can receive a private education in a similar manner to other people with disabilities. In Cyprus, the first school for the sight impaired was established under the British administration. The institution was opened in Nicosia in 1929 under the initiative of the wife of the Governor Ronald Storss as the St. Barnabas School for Blind Children, where Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots had the opportunity to be educated together. By the end of 1963, the Turkish Cypriot sight impaired children from various regions of the island were educated at St. Barnabas School for the Blind. At the school, English, Greek and Turkish teachers worked together. The main aim of the school was to educate the blind children and reintegrate them into the society. In the present study, information obtained from Blue Book and Cyprus Gazette has been supported by the information compiled from domestic and foreign publications as well as verbal sources. Consequently, it is understood that children in society who became blind for various reasons were educated at the St Barnabas School for Blind Children.

     

多渠道提高成人高等教育人才培养质量

随着学习型社会在我国的逐步建立以及构建我国一体化的终身教育、终身学习体系的渐近,社会成员对成人教育的需求日益扩张,成人高等教育的功能向高层次发展更加突出。而如何提高成人教育人才培养质量是成人教育的生命线。本文以当代教育的重要性为出发点,主张在加强教师队伍建设与管理,建立稳定的教师队伍;抓好生源工作,加强管理,优化人才培养环节;深化教学改革,改善学生学习效果;加大实践教学,提高学生实践、创新能力;大力加强教学管理,提高教学质量等方面来提高人才培养质量。以应对飞速发展的未来社会,实现教育的信息化、终身化和国际化。     

浅析高校教学秘书的职能与作用

高校教学管理中教学秘书是重要的管理人员,起着承上启下的作用,本文从教学秘书应具有的素质、应具有的职能做了阐述,更要求教学秘书专业化管理水平,以促进他们在学校的发展中发挥更大的作用。     

Experiences of a dyslexic child in an English as a foreign language class

This qualitative study investigates and reveals the difficulties experienced by a dyslexic 7 year-old child learning English as a foreign language in a state elementary school. Aiming to advance the understanding of challenges dyslexics experience in English as a foreign language classes, a qualitative case study was designed. Thematic analysis of the interview data revealed that a dyslexic child struggles with linguistic difficulties, such as pronunciation, spelling, reading and writing. In addition, short and long term memory are impaired, which causes problems concerning word finding, memorization and naming objects. Contrary to the findings of most research, the participant of this study was found to be highly motivated towards learning English and that she had positive affectivity due to her personality. This study is expected to contribute to the teaching of English language to elementary school children with dyslexia and serve as a means to increase service quality of foreign language classes offered for dyslexic children.

     

激活高中英语课堂 提高课堂教学质量

课堂教学是教师对学生进行素质教育的基本途径和主要形式。针对传统高中英语课堂教学中存在的问题,激活英语课堂,使其成为一个开放、互动、有序、善思、高效的新型课堂,对提高英语课堂教学质量具有非常重要的意义。