Abstract Millions of people who use their software applications transmit through them information with a high degree of importance. Thus, it was noted that the use of software applications directly contributes to the formation of the knowledge society. The increasing quality of software use has led to the use of a greater frequency of these […]
Month: November 2013
THE TRAINING OF TEACHERS IN PRE-PRIMARY AND PRIMARY EDUCATION IN CYPRUS
Abstract This study aims to introduce the existing scheme of teachers’ training in Cyprus. It consists of important information related to the preparation of teachers, the entry to the profession and the conditions of service. Focus is on the in-service training of teachers, mainly provided by the Pedagogical Institute of Cyprus, which is optional apart from […]
THE UNITY BETWEEN THE MODEL OF APPLIED DIDACTICS AND THE MODEL OF SCIENCE DIDACTICS
Abstract The didactics of science gives didactics, as discipline, a larger framework review placed beyond the pedagogical school frame. The models constituted in the last decades have a very clear purpose, to provide support, the processes of learning, and to prepare the student for professional situations and social complex, related inclusively to the cultural environment […]
LITERATURE REVIEW OF CURRENT STUDIES IN THE FIELD OF IN-SERVICE TRAINING OF PRE-PRIMARY AND PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS
Abstract This paper is an analysis of the most recent studies in the domain of training preschool and primary school teachers. The main purpose is to provide a unitary and updated image of the research in this field, and to elaborate a new vision of the way in which the studies focused on training preschool […]
CHILDHOOD, WITH OR WITHOUT TELEVISION
Abstract The advent of television and other technological innovations have generated significant changes in people’s way of living. In a relatively short time, television has penetrated most houses triggering significant modifications and occupying an increasingly common central space. Thus, many viewers have come to regard television as the safest source of information, and life is, […]
THE DIDACTICS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF STUDENT-CENTERED STRATEGIES
Abstract One of the responsibilities of English teachers is to change students’ perceptions about literature and the value of literary texts. One of the most difficult tasks of teachers is to raise the students’ interest in reading literature and by ‘reading’ we refer to that process which is generally called interpretation and which is meant […]
TEACHERS’ PERCEPTION UPON THE EDUCATION FOR PRIVATE LIFE: A ROMANIAN PERSPECTIVE
Abstract Through this study we aim, on the hand, to delineate the bases of the education for private life from a theoretical perspective and, on the other hand, to investigate teachers’ perception regarding the integration of the education for private life in the process of education from a methodological perspective. We present the results of […]
EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION PROPOSAL FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING VOCABULARY IN SPANISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE IN PRIMARY EDUCATION
Abstract The starting point of this paper is the design and implementation of an quasi-experimental case study on the lexicon available of a group of students who do not have Spanish as their mother tongue, in spite of being residents in Melilla and that they attend the last academic year of primary education (6.º). The […]
DIDACTIC EXPERIMENT BASED ON INTEGRATING PROBLEM- SOLVING STRATEGIES IN TEACHING MATHEMATICS IN PRIMARY SCHOOL
Abstract Teaching strategies have a privileged position for all responsible factors for students’ school success, highlighting the teacher’s ability to choose and combine methods, processes and instruction means, types of grouping students in a certain order, to select and structure the content according to the scientific objectives, to choose some learning experience to be lived […]
DEVELOPING MORAL-CIVIC COMPETENCES IN PRIMARY EDUCATION
Abstract The transformations produced in Romanian education since 1989 generated the need for education, not just in intellectual, aesthetic and religious terms but, most importantly, on the moral level. The purpose of this study is to present the role of specific methods of moral education in the development of civic competences at pupils from primary […]