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Higher Teacher Education: Raising Awareness toward Constructing Teaching Philosophy Statements 高等教师教育:提高建构教学哲学的意识

Athens Journal of Education Pub Date : 2022-01-04 DOI: 10.30958/aje.9-2-3

Abdulghani Muthanna

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引用次数: 0

Teaching the Sound Concept: A Review of Science and Physics Education Postgraduate Theses in Turkey 健全观念的教学:土耳其科学与物理教育研究生论文述评

Athens Journal of Education Pub Date : 2022-01-04 DOI: 10.30958/aje.9-2-5

Müge Aygün, Yasemin Hacıoğlu

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引用次数: 6

Ethics Teaching in Education for Sustainable Development 可持续发展教育中的伦理学教学

Athens Journal of Education Pub Date : 2022-01-04 DOI: 10.30958/aje.9-2-2

Lars Samuelsson, N. Lindström

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Examination of the Relationships between Secondary School Students’ Social Media Attitudes, School Climate Perceptions and Levels of Alienation 中学生社交媒体态度、学校氛围感知与异化水平的关系研究

Athens Journal of Education Pub Date : 2022-01-04 DOI: 10.30958/aje.9-2-6

Emrullah Deniz, Hilal Kazu

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Pedagogical Science Practices in Public Higher Education Institutions of Ethiopia: Progress Made but Challenges Remain 埃塞俄比亚公立高等教育机构的教学科学实践:取得了进展，但挑战依然存在

Athens Journal of Education Pub Date : 2022-01-04 DOI: 10.30958/aje.9-2-7

R. M. Egne

{"title":"Pedagogical Science Practices in Public Higher Education Institutions of Ethiopia: Progress Made but Challenges Remain","authors":"R. M. Egne","doi":"10.30958/aje.9-2-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30958/aje.9-2-7","url":null,"abstract":"The contribution of education to the overall development of a nation becomes evident especially through higher education. This is because higher education is considered a key to delivering the knowledge required for ensuring sustainable development. Studies reveal a strong positive correlation between higher education participation rates and levels of development, as high levels of education are essential for designing and producing new technologies, and enhancing innovative capacities for the development of a society. While the reforms of higher education in high-income countries have received much attention, relatively little is known about the change dynamics in higher education system in developing countries. Therefore, with this research I want to contribute to a better understanding of higher education system in Africa, from the perspective of the type of pedagogy being practiced frequently and its consequences in producing competent graduates for the world of work by taking Ethiopian public higher education system as a case. To this end, data were collected from selected higher education institutions’ officials and instructors using questionnaire and interviews. The collected data were analyzed using mixed method. Findings of the study revealed that despite the offering of on-job pedagogical science trainings in the sample universities, little progress has been made in terms of applying student-centered pedagogy. Most of the instructors in the institutions still predominantly use traditional teaching methods. It is recommended that instructors in higher learning institutions should use critical pedagogy. Keywords: higher education, pedagogical science practice, progressive pedagogy, traditional pedagogy, transformative pedagogy","PeriodicalId":36453,"journal":{"name":"Athens Journal of Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42267232","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}

引用次数: 2

The Bright Future of Democracy is in Education 教育是民主的光明未来

Athens Journal of Education Pub Date : 2022-01-04 DOI: 10.30958/aje.9-2-10

G. Papanikos

{"title":"The Bright Future of Democracy is in Education","authors":"G. Papanikos","doi":"10.30958/aje.9-2-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30958/aje.9-2-10","url":null,"abstract":"Does democracy have a bright future? This brief paper addresses this question and argues, that, thanks to Prometheus, political “animals” can build a better-managed corral for their common living which includes a better provision of education for all “animals.” A historical analysis of the long past may be used to discern what lies ahead. Democracy requires education and virtue, or to put it in one word, it requires pedagogy. The higher the level of pedagogy, the closer a politeia would come to an ideal democracy. Sometimes democracy is confused with equality in everything. Political “animals” are not equal, and political systems which treat people with different abilities equally have no future. An ideal society should discriminate according to levels of education obtained and the acquisition of material wealth. If the politeia is ideal, then each citizen has the same opportunity to become more educated and wealthier. In this free competition of being educated and the acquisition of individually made material wealth, ideal societies can flourish as Hesiod postulated in the 8th Century BCE and become stable despite Polybius’ predictions in the 2nd-1st Century BCE of the inevitable historical cyclicality of political systems. Keywords: education, pedagogy, democracy, oligarchy, monarchy, ochlocracy, tyranny, ideal politeia, Polybius","PeriodicalId":36453,"journal":{"name":"Athens Journal of Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48124032","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}

引用次数: 3

Teachers’ Moral Evaluation of Students in an Inclusive Secondary School: A Study of Minority Students’ Behaviour and School Performance 全纳中学教师对学生的道德评价:少数民族学生行为与学业表现的研究

Athens Journal of Education Pub Date : 2022-01-04 DOI: 10.30958/aje.9-2-8

M. Alhassan

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Facts that Influence College Students’ Reading Motivation 影响大学生阅读动机的因素

Athens Journal of Education Pub Date : 2022-01-04 DOI: 10.30958/aje.9-2-1

Suhua Huang, Marcie Reynolds

引用次数: 2

Predicting the Mathematical Abstraction Processes Using the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy: Secondary School 7th Graders 使用修订的Bloom分类法预测数学抽象过程:中学七年级学生

Athens Journal of Education Pub Date : 2022-01-04 DOI: 10.30958/aje.9-2-4

Elif Kilicoglu, Abdullah Kaplan

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On how RE Teachers Address the Sometimes Conflicting Tasks of Conveying Fundamental Values and Facilitating Critical Thinking 关于RE教师如何处理传达基本价值观和促进批判性思维有时相互冲突的任务

Athens Journal of Education Pub Date : 2021-11-03 DOI: 10.30958/aje.9-1-2

N. Lindström, Lars Samuelsson

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引用次数: 2