Educatia 21Pub Date : 2022-12-21DOI: 10.24193/ed21.2022.23.07
Sebastian Vaida, Gabriel-Alexandru Pongracz
{"title":"Mobile Augmented Reality Applications in Higher Education","authors":"Sebastian Vaida, Gabriel-Alexandru Pongracz","doi":"10.24193/ed21.2022.23.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/ed21.2022.23.07","url":null,"abstract":"Visual technologies such as AR (Augmented Reality), VR (Virtual Reality), or MR (Mixed Reality) show an increase in popularity in the educational field. In addition to the fact that they can significantly improve the transfer of information in education, they can turn lessons into more interesting and interactive activities. Among these technologies, AR has become the most accessible, due to the rise in the popularity of mobile devices. The increasing popularity of distance teaching and the increasing performance of mobile devices and applications will make this topic an important one in the future in educational psychology. The current study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of using AR in learning and compare it with classical 3D models. Following the calculations, we discovered a minor influence. This implies that the group of students who used simple 3D outperformed the group of students who used Assemblr AR, but the gap between the 2 learning methods was not very wide. The results indicate that the use of 3D models is effective in learning but there is no significant difference between the AR and normal 3D models. The limited effects and the findings of other studies on AR in education imply that additional research is required.","PeriodicalId":116937,"journal":{"name":"Educatia 21","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122248381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Educatia 21Pub Date : 2022-12-21DOI: 10.24193/ed21.2022.23.05
Luiza Elena Mureșan, E. Turda
{"title":"The Importance of Role Play and Artistic-Plastic Activities in the Preschoolers Self-Knowledge and Emotional Expressivity Development","authors":"Luiza Elena Mureșan, E. Turda","doi":"10.24193/ed21.2022.23.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/ed21.2022.23.05","url":null,"abstract":"The preschool period becomes a favorable ground for the development of emotional and social skills. We consider that the educational and family environment play an important role in the development of these competencies. Emotional and social skills play an important role in the child's further development. A good ability to understand emotions, self-knowledge, the environment in which and how they occur develops empathy and at the same time allows the preschooler to relate effectively to those around him, to respond appropriately to the emotions of others and to adapt more easily to the social environment. The main purpose of this research refers to the increased efficiency of both the role play and the artistic-plastic activities in the socio-emotional development of preschoolers. By introducing role-playing games in the didactic activity through stories and artistic-plastic activities, educational actions are initiated, the results of which are recorded and processed in order to demonstrate their value. The results of this study showed that the use of artistic and plastic activities as well as role play contributed to managing their own emotions, to understanding the need to respect the feelings and feelings of others, developing the ability to relate to others, improving skills, communication and self-expression in the development of self-confidence, the development of confidence in individual abilities, the development of self-control identifying possible solutions to problems such as anger, disappointment, sadness.","PeriodicalId":116937,"journal":{"name":"Educatia 21","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114318006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Educatia 21Pub Date : 2022-12-21DOI: 10.24193/ed21.2022.23.09
Roland H. Gergely, A. Rusu
{"title":"Linguistic Validation of the Romanian and Hungarian Translations of the Attitudes About Sexuality for People with Disabilities Questionnaire","authors":"Roland H. Gergely, A. Rusu","doi":"10.24193/ed21.2022.23.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/ed21.2022.23.09","url":null,"abstract":"The identification of the attitudes towards sexuality and sexual education in family settings are starting points for the development of sexual education intervention programs for people with special needs, as well as training parents to convey objective and needs-oriented sexual health education to their children. The purpose of this study is to provide the academic and educational community in Romania with linguistically and psychometrically validated versions of the Romanian and Hungarian translations of the Sexual Attitude Questionnaire for Persons with Disabilities (Porat, 2009). 246 Romanian and Hungarian speaking participants completed the online questionnaire. The results indicate very good psychometric properties of the Romanian and Hungarian translations of the questionnaire, allowing the assessment of attitudes towards the sexuality of people with disabilities in relation to other relevant psychological and social variables.","PeriodicalId":116937,"journal":{"name":"Educatia 21","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133206581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Educatia 21Pub Date : 2022-12-21DOI: 10.24193/ed21.2022.23.06
Andrei G. Stupu, A. Rusu
{"title":"Integrative Analysis of Ethical Intelligence and Moral Intelligence: New Conceptual Models and Developments in Education","authors":"Andrei G. Stupu, A. Rusu","doi":"10.24193/ed21.2022.23.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/ed21.2022.23.06","url":null,"abstract":"This study proposes an integrative analysis of the moral intelligence and ethical intelligence concepts in order to understand the chronological and conceptual evolutions of a new type of intelligence, which will later on serve as a base for the operationalisation of the concept. The methodological approach consists in an integrative literature review, which is generally defined as a form of research that reviews, critically analyses and synthesises representative studies on a topic in an integrated way, allowing for the emergence of new frameworks and perspectives. This research examines the literature for a period of 185 years (up to 2021) aiming to develop chronological taxonomies in order to provide an overview of the meanings associated with the concepts of ethical and moral intelligence. The results of the integrative review consist in chronological taxonomies of the concepts, that are complemented by conceptual maps of the ethical / moral intelligence. The conceptual maps emphasise the functional relationships between the constituent elements of ethical / moral intelligence, as well as the applied values in the area of education.","PeriodicalId":116937,"journal":{"name":"Educatia 21","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121704975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Educatia 21Pub Date : 2022-12-21DOI: 10.24193/ed21.2022.23.12
Monica Levy, N. Popa
{"title":"Factors of Pre-service English as Foreign Language (EFL) Teachers’ Choices to Pursue a Teaching Career","authors":"Monica Levy, N. Popa","doi":"10.24193/ed21.2022.23.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/ed21.2022.23.12","url":null,"abstract":"Teacher shortage is severe around the world and this dearth is also strongly felt in core subjects in Israel, specifically in English and Mathematics. As a result, efforts should be made to guarantee that the majority of pre-service teachers choose to pursue a teaching career upon graduating from their teacher education program. This study investigates the main motives of pre-service EFL teachers to enroll in teacher education and their perceptions about the importance of a set of internal and external factors, namely, self-efficacy, availability of a support system and satisfaction from their teacher education program regarding their decision to pursue a teaching career. In this qualitative study, 24 pre-service EFL teachers in a teacher education college in Israel were interviewed in semi-structured interviews. The results yielded evidence for perceived teaching ability being the most substantial initial motive for choosing a teaching career, and for the significance of the specifically explored internal and external factors in the decision of pre-service EFL teachers to pursue a teaching career. The results and their implications on teacher education are discussed.","PeriodicalId":116937,"journal":{"name":"Educatia 21","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128636549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Educatia 21Pub Date : 2022-12-21DOI: 10.24193/ed21.2022.23.10
Cristina Bălaș-Baconschi, Andra Barbulescu
{"title":"Reducing Inappropriate Behaviors and Enhancing Social Skills in Children with ASD Through Social Stories","authors":"Cristina Bălaș-Baconschi, Andra Barbulescu","doi":"10.24193/ed21.2022.23.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/ed21.2022.23.10","url":null,"abstract":"Teaching social skills is a challenging process due to the fact that each skill is difficult to motivate and reward and to the sheer number of skills that can be considered social skills and the infinite ways in which changes in the environment affect the perception of each skill. The most important step in the development of the social skills repertoire in children diagnosed with ASD consists in the occurrence of social desire. Therefore, the social environment must be implemented in a way that is attractive to the child. Many social skills are learned automatically in typical ABA/VB programs. Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) seem to lack a desire to search for deeper causal links in their understanding of the world. Instead, they remember predictable routines (for example, brushing their teeth) and processing information at the surface level. This leads to a fragmented and superficial understanding of the environment, although they can remember much about it. Children with ASD face difficulties in achieving social contexts in the sense of other people's behavior, because it relies on understanding their intentions. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of a Social Story as an intervention used to reduce maladaptive behavior and to enhance social skills in 3 children diagnosed with ASD.","PeriodicalId":116937,"journal":{"name":"Educatia 21","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115098695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Educatia 21Pub Date : 2022-12-21DOI: 10.24193/ed21.2022.23.11
Camelia Augusta Roșu
{"title":"Integrative Psychotherapy - An Important Resource for the Psychophysical Wellbeing of the Person in the 21st Century Society","authors":"Camelia Augusta Roșu","doi":"10.24193/ed21.2022.23.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/ed21.2022.23.11","url":null,"abstract":"The psychotherapist is an important specialist who makes a major contribution to ensuring the mental health of people in today’s society. Unfortunately, however, the psychotherapist is not correctly perceived, or he/she is even unknown to the collective mind, despite the fact that psychotherapy is a valuable resource in today’s social context loaded with a multitude of stressful and traumatic factors. Integrative psychotherapy, one of the newest forms of psychotherapy, responds effectively to the challenges of today’s society in an integrated way, focusing on the relationship between the therapist and the patient. The integrative psychotherapist is the specialist who, through prevention, diagnosis and intervention, guides the person towards the balance that ensures mental health. The research carried out on a panel of students confirms that the image of the psychotherapist is not known or is perceived in a distorted way, even by a public with a certain level of intellectual background. The integrative psychotherapists involved in the research also highlight that psychotherapy is an important resource in enhancing quality of life, but it is little known and not valued. Therefore, there is a need to promote the image of the psychotherapist at the level of the collective mind, the need for an education to promote mental health, an education that focuses not only on physical health but also on mental health, an education that leads to the psycho-physical well-being of the person.","PeriodicalId":116937,"journal":{"name":"Educatia 21","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131518696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Educatia 21Pub Date : 2022-12-21DOI: 10.24193/ed21.2022.23.13
C. Glava
{"title":"Mechanisms for Objectivity Ensuring and Fraud Prevention in the Online Academic Assessment","authors":"C. Glava","doi":"10.24193/ed21.2022.23.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/ed21.2022.23.13","url":null,"abstract":"The recent online teaching experience we all were forced into during the pandemic period made us reflect on the existing teaching practices and their efficacy, while imposing on finding new ways, roles and functions for the classical teaching, learning and assessment activity. Academic assessment in particular proved to be a challenge in the sense that new and unexpected isses had to be managed. While the use of digital platforms offered support for new assessment and evaluation strategies, including improved feedback and ways of tracking students’ development, sensitive issues such as that of avoiding exam fraud risks, and the need for improving evaluation validity and authenticity appeared. The present paper offers an insight on university students’ and teachers’ perception on academic assessment, its added value and risks. It also provides some empirical proves for the need of integrating valuable lessons from the online evaluation experience and transfer them in hybrid and onsite academic education process.","PeriodicalId":116937,"journal":{"name":"Educatia 21","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129055514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Educatia 21Pub Date : 2022-12-21DOI: 10.24193/ed21.2022.23.14
Dragoș Grigoriu, L. David, M. Bocoș, Diana-Crina Marin, Cristian‐Dan Opariuc, Ciprian Baciu
{"title":"The parents' Opinions regarding the Usefulness of Establishing the Configuration of the Profile of Intelligence of the Pupils, Using a Digital Application based on the Content of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences","authors":"Dragoș Grigoriu, L. David, M. Bocoș, Diana-Crina Marin, Cristian‐Dan Opariuc, Ciprian Baciu","doi":"10.24193/ed21.2022.23.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/ed21.2022.23.14","url":null,"abstract":"Recent studies have shown that the educational approaches based on the Theory of Multiple Intelligences are efficient and should be applied frequently in the classroom. Through this study, we set out to determine which are the parents' opinions regarding the optimum age to discover the configuration of the profile of intelligence of children and adolescents. Thus, we carried out an online survey. The online questionnaire was filled in by 507 parents. The study revealed that parents are interested to discover the dominant intelligences of their children, in order to choose appropriate extracurricular activities and to identify a suitable career for them. The results obtained indicate a strong desire of parents to understand children's strengths using a digital application based on the content of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences, developed by Howard Gardner. The results of the study are useful for school principals, teachers, and researchers in the educational sciences.","PeriodicalId":116937,"journal":{"name":"Educatia 21","volume":"436 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123614306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Educatia 21Pub Date : 2022-05-06DOI: 10.24193/ed21.2022.22.09
L. Verdeș, Ciprian Baciu
{"title":"\"Resilient Primary School Teachers in Pandemic Times and their Self-Assessment on the Quality of Online Teaching Activity. A Retrospective Analysis\"","authors":"L. Verdeș, Ciprian Baciu","doi":"10.24193/ed21.2022.22.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/ed21.2022.22.09","url":null,"abstract":"Through this study we aimed to explore how primary school teachers were able to adapt their teaching practices in the online context during the COVID-19 pandemic and which were the protective factors that contributed to the development of resilience. We focused on their self-assessment of online teaching quality and investigated its correlation with their level of resilience. In measuring the resilience levels of primary school teachers we have taken into account risk and protective factors. Thus, we observed that social and family support had the greatest influence on the formation of resilient attitudes among teachers. The majority of the teachers that participated in this study scored a high and very high level of resilience. We obtained a positive correlation between the chosen variables: primary school teachers' level of resilience and their self-assessment on the quality of their own online teaching during the quarantine caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":116937,"journal":{"name":"Educatia 21","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114135615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}