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The purpose of this study is to identify problems such as administration, program and parental issues that pre-school teachers encounter. The other purpose is to investigate whether the teacher perceptions on problems that pre-school teachers encounter differ statistically significantly depending on the presence of a helper in the class, school building type and the economic status of the neighborhood in which the school located. This is a survey study, and the Problems of Pre-School Teachers Scale was developed as the data collection tool of the study. The population of this study is composed of 329 teachers who work in the center of Şanlıurfa, Turkey during 2012-2013 fall semesters. The study is conducted with the participation of 220 teachers selected via simple random sampling method. The exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, t test and one-way analysis of variance methods were used. The findings indicate that there are significant differences in the perceptions of pre-school teachers related to administration, program and parents. These were discussed along with literature support and recommendations to school administrators were generated.
Advances in Global Education and Research
Examining Teachers’ Readiness for Using Technology in ECE in Turkey2017 •
Nowadays, technology has become an indispensable part of our lives as well as education, and the majority of countries are striving to catch up with recent changes in technology and integrate it with education. “In Turkey, like many other countries in the world, the implementation of educational technology is the central focus right now” (Kurt, 2010, p. 68). The potential and promise of technology to promote enhanced learning has growing support in the research literature. Holden and Rada (2011) have noted that actively using technology as an educational tool in classrooms helps to make learning more effective. The results of their study also showed that teachers’ attitudes have a major role in the effectiveness of technology use in schools. Confident teachers who are early adopters of technology into instruction can positively affect students’ academic achievements. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine teachers’ readiness to use technology in early childhood classrooms in Turkey. This study is significant to determine the level of teachers’ readiness to use technology in early childhood classrooms and their attitudes towards using technology as educational tools in the classrooms in Turkey. For the purposes of the study, one kindergarten teacher who is working in Turkey currently was selected as a participant and was conducted in interviews via Skype. She is living in a small city that is located in the middle of Turkey. She is teaching at a public kindergarten classroom, and her students are 6-years old. In addition, she has 5-years teaching experiences. The results showed that although the Ministry of Education in Turkey has been creating a project to improve technology integration in early childhood classrooms and providing classrooms with technological devices, teachers are not ready to use technology as an educational tool because of different reasons such as preparing at university levels, age and personal attitudes towards technology.
Bu araştırmanın amacı ilköğretim öğrencilerinin Bilişim Teknolojileri Dersine Yönelik Tutumlarını ölçmeyi hedefleyen bir tutum ölçeğinin geliştirilmesidir. Ölçeğin oluşturulma aşamasında öğrencilere sorulan açık uçlu sorunun analizi ve literatür taraması sonucu belirlenen 41 maddeden 5 tanesi uzmanların görüşleri neticesinde çıkarılmış ve ölçeğin deneme formu 216 öğrenci üzerinde denenmiştir. Yapılan analizler ölçeğin iç geçerliğe sahip olduğunu kanıtlanmaktadır. Ölçeğin Cronbach Alpha iç tutarlılık katsayısı 0.95, Sperman Brown güvenirlik katsayısı ise 0.94 olarak hesaplanmıştır. Bilişim Teknolojileri Dersine Yönelik Tutum Ölçeği olarak adlandırılan ölçeğin, eğitim alanında kullanılabilecek, geçerli ve güvenilir bir araç olduğu belirlenmiştir.
Rahmad Syah Putra, dkk
BOOK ABSTRAK2018 •
This conference is conducted to improve the capacity of members of the PKK (Pemberdayaan dan Kesejahteraan Keluarga: Family Welfare Empowerment) and the members of the Bunda PAUD (Bunda PAUD Teachers’ Association) which are semi-formal social and educational organizations under the umbrellas of the wives of the Governor and the Deputy Governor of Aceh.
Jagiellonian University Institute of Public Affairs
The Investigation of The Relationship Between Attachment Styles and Social Problem Solving Skills of Preschool Children2018 •
Jagiellonian University Institute of Public Affairs, Kraków.ISBN: 978 - 83 - 65688 - 35 - 4 (e-book)
“The Dissertation Journey: Doctoral Student’s Perspectives” (in Educational Policy and Research Monographs and Studies of the Jagiellonian University, Hasan Arslan, Roman Dorczak, Dragoescu Urlica Alina-Andreea, Eds.)(p.443-450)2018 •
the international researches lately. Young children have been considered to have lack of participation experiences in early education settings because of institutional policies, social understanding about childhood and perspectives of educators (Bae, 2009; Emilson & Folkesson, 2006; Smith, 2002). Focus of children as active agents of their own development through sociocultural learning paradigm the approach of participatory learning has been considered important in early childhood education and research (Berthelsen, Brownlee & Johansson, 2009). This approach of children’s learning views participation as a developing and dynamic cultural phenomenon. This research is focusing on the educators’ perspectives and the conceptions of children’s participation in everyday pedagogic practices and is based on a survey conducted in early childhood education in Metropolitan area of Helsinki in 2010. The survey was realized in the VKK-Metro development and research project funded by the Ministry of Social and Health affairs. The participants represented 1114 working teams from 350 kindergartens. The working teams included 3721 educators taking care of 19 907 children. The analytical framework of research is based on an abductive approach conducted with mixed methods. The findings indicate that children’s voice was considered important by educators. Also opportunities to make independent initiatives and choices were considered as a right and an item of learning and of developing of skills of participation. However children’s chances to participate in decision making process and pedagogical processes were weak because of challenges of children’s participation experienced by educators. These challenges were connected to both institutional issues, such as routines and adult-child ratios, and professional skills and beliefs about children’s competence. According to findings of this research children’s participation is understood to include such aspects as having opportunities to have an influence in their learning and the culture of kindergartens, becoming respected and listened to by educators and having chances to practice responsibility and self-regulation. The role of educators as facilitators of children’s participation is found essential and the research builds knowledge of children’s participation through framework of participatory pedagogy in early education context. Through this framework the challenges of children’s participation could be reflected and a culture of developing participation built in co-operation between educators, children and political and social environment of early childhood education.
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