We are living in an age where knowledge is rapidly produced and consumed. In this period, the future of the individual and the society depends on accessing, using and producing information. This ...situation requires a qualified education and first literacy teaching which is the foundation of it. Primary school is the foundation of everything; likewise, the first literacy learning is the foundation of learning (Gunes, Uysal and Tac, 2016). First literacy is to create a new communication and interaction channel for the individual by teaching the symbols of humankind that it created in ten thousand years. Education performs a great miracle by making a seven-year old child comprehend this script that humankind developed in ten thousand years within a seven- or eight-month period (Guleryuz, 2001). It is desired for and expected of the children who start the first grade in primary school at the level of illiteracy to reach the level of basic literacy with qualified first literacy education under the supervision of an effective program, equipped teacher (Sagirli, 2015). Education in cursive handwriting in our country has started in Ataturk era. Ataturk demonstrated examples of the New Turkish Latin Letters on the blackboard with the cursive handwriting. Elderly and young people of the generation of Ataturk era have learned the cursive handwriting very well and used for many years. Many documents of that period such as diplomas, identity cards, registry of deeds etc. have been prepared with cursive handwriting in a clear, cursive and aesthetic form (Gunes, 2006). In our country, it has been decided to start the first literacy education with the cursive handwriting under the scope of the 2004 draft program. For nearly thirteen years, our students are becoming literate with cursive handwriting. There are many studies in literature that examine the opinions of teachers, students, and parents about the cursive handwriting. The aim of the concerned study is to express the view from the perspective of the parents of the gifted and talented students on the practice of cursive handwriting in first literacy education. Within the scope of the research, interviews were conducted with the parents of the gifted and talented students and their opinions were taken about starting the first literacy with the practice of the cursive handwriting. All of the parents are the parents of gifted and talented children who are attending primary school. The data collected during the 2016-2017 academic year have been obtained by face-to-face interviews. The answers of the parents are recorded and then reported. Screening model is used in the study that is designed by content analysis. The research is a qualitative study. Recommendations are brought at the end of the research.
This study explored why and how Russian speaking parents in an Irish context maintained the Russian language in their school-age children. Using a self-administered unstandardised questionnaire, the ...opinions of 16 Russian-speaking parents, reporting on 24 children, were surveyed. Of this sample, five parents were then interviewed using focus group methodology. The main findings revealed that Russian-speaking parents living in Ireland strongly supported Russian language maintenance in their families and wanted their children to be as fluent as possible in the Russian language. The reasons for the support of Russian language were: cultural preservation, general knowledge of languages in addition to English, and communication with the homeland. Methods employed to maintain the Russian language included conversing with children through Russian, reading and watching Russian TV/DVD. Although most parents spoke only Russian to their children, just three children were considered by their parents to have sufficient language skills to interact through Russian in Russian speaking countries. Interestingly, 15 children were thought to have adequate skills in Russian to speak with those outside their immediate family when in Ireland. Congruent with other studies of bilingualism, development of English, or the secondary, majority language, was also important to parents, as they lived in a dominant English-speaking society.
RésuméAu Bénin, les mères ont recours aux soins dans les formations sanitaires généralement en phase de complications du paludisme de l’enfant (anémie sévère, convulsion/coma). La présente étude a ...été menée en milieu rural béninois, dans le cadre de la mise en place d’une expérience de recherche-action à base communautaire avec la participation des parents pour la lutte contre le paludisme de l’enfant. Au démarrage, nous avons voulu comprendre la situation de base en matière de perceptions et représentations des parents par rapport à la fièvre de l’enfant, les habitudes de prise en charge et de recours aux soins ainsi que les facteurs qui influencent le choix des différents traitements. Les parents ont été interviewés en individuel et en focus group. Le recours aux soins est fortement empreint des perceptions et représentations de la fièvre de l’enfant, considérée comme banale et ne nécessitant pas de soins dans une formation sanitaire. Les formes graves sont perçues comme une manifestation des « mauvais œils » et n’iront à l’hôpital qu’au bout de la chaîne d’itinéraire thérapeutique. La prise en charge adéquate du paludisme de l’enfant passe par une implication des parents de manière à composer avec leurs perceptions et représentations de la fièvre.
Three hundred sixty-six parents of children enrolled in a school-wide English-Spanish two-way bilingual program participated in this study. They were asked to answer a survey that attempted to elicit ...information about their degree of satisfaction with the program, as well as the reasons that led them to select it, and their perception of and support for Spanish. In their responses, the parents showed strong support for the program, valued its academic and linguistic emphasis, had positive opinions about Spanish, and created home environments that facilitated their children's development of literacy skills in this language.
This study aims at developing an assessment scale for identifying preschool children’s communication skills, at distinguishing children with communication deficiencies and at comparing the ...communication skills of children with normal development (ND) and those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Participants were 427 children of up to 6 years of age with ND (45% female, 55% male) and 76 children from ages 1–6 years with ASD (25% female, 75% male. Exploratory factor analysis and principal component analysis were applied to maintain construct validity. The total loads of factors were between 65.32% (0–1 module) and 75.75% (4 5 module). The Cronbach’s alpha internal consistency coefficient value was high for all the modules (αmin = .93; αmax = .97). The items in all the modules are highly correlated to the total score of the module (rmin = .35; rmax = .91; p < .001), and the high/low groups of the items included in all the modules are distinctive (tn = −9.95; tmax = −52.67; p < .001). Results of the independent samples t-test applied to compare children with ND and children with ASD revealed the difference in the means of all the modules is significant (tmin = 6.30; p < .001). In conclusion, all the modules in the parent form are sufficiently reliable and valid; thus, the form can be used to distinguish children with ND from those with ASD in terms of their communication skills.
VÝCHODISKA : Lyžování je sportovní aktivitou, kterou většina dětí ráda praktikuje, a proto se rády zapisují do různých kurzů ...organizovaných lyžařskými školami, společnostmi a kluby. CÍL : Studie měla za cíl analyzovat důvody rodičů a zájmy spojené se zápisem jejich dětí do kurzů sjezdového lyžování a stanovit, jak vzdělání rodičů a jejich měsíční příjem ovlivňují četnost, s jakou jejich děti navštěvují lyžařské kurzy. METODY : Provedli jsme průzkum mezi 250 rodiči dětí ve věku 6–8 let, a to za použití dotazníku se 17 proměnnými. Byly vypočítány frekvenční a kontingentační tabulky. Statistická váha vztahů mezi proměnnými byla ověřena kontingentačním koeficientem. VÝSLEDKY : Výsledky ukázaly, že polovina rodičů alespoň jednou zapsala své dítě do kurzu sjezdového lyžování. Rodiče s vyšším vzděláním a vyšším měsíčním příjmem zapisují své děti do kurzů sjezdového lyžování častěji. Osoba, která v rámci rodiny navrhuje, aby se dítě zapsalo do takového kurzu, je většinou otec. Ve více než polovině rodin oba rodiče lyžují; ovšem tři čtvrtiny rodin spolu nikdy nechodí lyžovat nebo toto praktikují jen zřídka. Otcové hodnotí své lyžařské dovednosti lépe než matky. Důvod nejčastěji uváděný v souvislosti s tím, proč dané dítě nebylo zapsáno do kurzu sjezdového lyžování, byly finanční obtíže. Důvody rodičů pro to, aby se jejich děti naučily lyžovat, byly tyto: více než polovina rodičů si myslí, že by se jejich děti měly naučit dobře lyžovat, a 30 % rodičů přisuzuje velkou důležitost bezpečnosti na lyžařských svazích. Pouze 5 % rodičů by chtělo, aby se jejich dítě účastnilo lyžařských závodů. ZÁVĚRY : Naše zjištění pomohou organizátorům lyžařských kurzů lépe pochopit, jaké důvody vedou rodiče, aby zapisovali své děti do lyžařských kurzů. Když má dítě možnost učit se tomuto sportu, pak lépe rozvíjí své zdravé návyky. Pokud jsou některé z těchto návyků zaměřeny na sport, bude lyžování bezpochyby figurovat na seznamu rekreačních aktivit tohoto dítěte. BACKGROUND : Skiing is clearly a sport activity most children enjoy practising and are thus happy to enroll in various courses organised by skiing schools, societies and clubs. OBJECTIVE : The study aimed to analyse parents' reasons for and interests in enrolling their children in an Alpine skiing course and to establish how parents' education and monthly income levels relate to the frequency of children attending a skiing course. METHODS : We surveyed 250 parents of 6 to 8 year old children using a questionnaire with 17 variables. Frequencies and contingency tables were calculated. The statistical significance of relationships between the variables was tested by a contingency coefficient. RESULTS : The results showed that one half of the parents had enrolled their child in an Alpine skiing course at least once. Parents with a higher level of education and higher monthly income enroll their children more frequently in an Alpine skiing course. The person proposing to enroll a child in the course is mostly the father. In more than one half of the families both parents ski; however, three quarters of the families never or rarely go skiing together. The fathers assessed their skiing skills higher than the mothers. The reason most often stated for not having yet enrolled their child in an Alpine skiing course was financial difficulties. The parents' goals for children concerning skiing are as follows: more than one half of the parents believe their child should learn to ski well and 30% of parents attribute a high level of importance to safety on ski slopes. Only 5% of the parents would like their child to engage in competitive skiing. CONCLUSIONS : Our findings will help organisers of ski courses to better understand parents' reasons for sending children to ski courses. If a child has the opportunity to learn this sport, they are able to develop permanent healthy habits. If some of these habits are dedicated to sports, skiing will undoubtedly figure on the list of their recreational activities.
Not only children but also adults now spend much more time in front of the screen (computers, laptops, tablets, phones, TVs, Play Station, other game consoles, etc.) for various reasons: work, study, ...a lot of free time, communication, entertainment, information retrieval. The aim of this paper is to examine how the time spent in front of the screen at school influence the developing of computer addiction in primary schoolchildren. The development of Internet addiction has negative educational (deterioration of academic performance), medical (reduced mental health, decreased general stress-resistance, risk of depression), and social consequences (reduced quality and quantity of social contacts). The respondents were 120 parents and 120 secondary school students of one of the schools in Moscow. The participants were asked to answer 9 multiple-choice questions. To assess the level of Internet addiction of schoolchildren, the Internet Addiction Test created by K. Young and modified by V.A. Loskutova (Burova) was used. As a result, 69% of the parents surveyed noted that their children spend more than four hours a day on online learning. Proposed approach consists of two stages, which are a gradual reduction of the time children spend on the Internet and the replacement of problematic behavior with other alternatives. The research results provide the knowledge to prevent cyber addiction in schoolchildren and the incentive for further research.
Summing up the results of the study, an effective approach for the prevention and solution of the problem of Internet addiction among students during the period of online learning based on cognitive-behavioral therapy was proposed. The approach involves two phases, which are a gradual reduction of the time children spend on the Internet and the replacement of problematic behavior with other alternatives. Future research could consider in detail the factors that contribute to the formation of computer addiction in schoolchildren during online learning, interview students of different ages, and expand the sample.
Smoking among students is a significant global issue. Health students, expected to be knowledgeable about smoking dangers and serve as role models, are found to engage in smoking behavior, which is ...concerning. This study aimed to analyze health students' perceptions regarding parental social control and their intention to quit smoking using the Theory of Planned Behaviour, specifically focusing on the role of subjective norms. The study used a descriptive qualitative approach with a phenomenological methodology involving in-depth interviews and observations. The research was conducted in Jember Regency with five primary informants, health students at the University of Jember, and key informants who were close friends and parents of primary informants. Data processing used the interactive data analysis model proposed by Miles and Huberman, involving three steps: data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion drawing. The study found that health students who smoke positively perceived their parents' opinions and social support regarding smoking cessation behavior. They viewed their parents' efforts to prevent them from smoking as beneficial and effective in influencing their behavior. health students who smoke acknowledged that the social control exerted by their parents was crucial in helping them overcome their smoking habits. Most health students who smoke expressed a strong intention to quit smoking, indicating a willingness to change their behavior in response to the support they received from their parents. The study suggests that parents should set a good example and communicate effectively to influence adolescent smoking behavior. Health students and health offices can also support this effort through smoking cessation activities and education.
This research was carried carried to reveal the opinions of the parents of primary school students about mathematics homework. The research was designed with the case study model, which is one of the ...qualitative research methods. The study group of the research consists of 26 parents whose children are studying in a primary school in the central of Konya, Provincial Directorate of National Education in the 2022-2023 academic year. Care was taken in the selection of an equal number of participants from each grade level. The parents were selected using criterion sampling, one of the purposive sampling methods. The research data were collected with a semi-structured interview form and the interviews were recorded on a voice recorder. The semi-structured interview form prepared by the researcher consists of five questions aiming to reveal the views of the parents of primary school students on mathematics homework. Content analysis method was used in the analysis of the data. Parents participating in the research define mathematics homework as reinforcement and repetition. Parents are involved in mathematics homework as control or direct support. Although students usually allocate half an hour for their math homework, this time is less in the 1st and 2nd grades, and more in the 3rd and 4th grades. According to the parents, teachers check the homework constantly and in detail. It has been concluded that the students love to do short-term homework using technological tools, made with concrete materials, and they do not like to do long-term homework that requires writing.
Bu araştırma, ilkokula devam eden öğrenci velilerinin matematik ev ödevlerine ilişkin görüşlerini ortaya koymak amacıyla yapılmıştır. Araştırma nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden durum çalışması modeli ile desenlenmiştir. Araştırmanın çalışma grubunu, 2022-2023 eğitim öğretim yılında Konya İl Milli Eğitim Müdürlüğü’ne bağlı merkez ilçede bulunan bir ilkokulda çocukları eğitim öğretim gören 26 veli oluşturmaktadır. Katılımcıların her sınıf düzeyinden eşit sayıda seçilmesine dikkat edilmiştir. Veliler amaçlı örneklem yöntemlerinden ölçüt örnekleme kullanılarak seçilmiştir. Araştırma verileri yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme formu ile ve görüşmeler ses kayıt cihazına kaydedilerek toplanmıştır. Araştırmacı tarafından hazırlanan yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme formu ilkokul öğrenci velilerinin matematik ev ödevlerine ilişkin görüşlerini ortaya koymayı amaçlayan beş sorudan oluşmaktadır. Verilerin analizinde içerik analizi yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Araştırmaya katılan veliler matematik ev ödevlerini pekiştirme ve tekrar olarak tanımlamaktadır. Veliler matematik ödevlerine kontrol ya da doğrudan destek olarak müdahil olmaktadırlar. Öğrenciler matematik ödevlerine genellikle yarım saat ayırmakla beraber 1 ve 2. sınıflarda bu süre daha az, 3 ve 4. sınıflarda daha fazla olmaktadır. Velilere göre öğretmenler ödevleri sürekli ve ayrıntılı olarak kontrol etmektedirler. Öğrencilerin teknolojik alet kullanılan, somut materyallerle yapılan ve kısa süren ödevleri severek yaptıkları, uzun süren ve yazı yazmayı gerektiren ödevleri yapmaktan hoşlanmadıkları sonucuna ulaşılmıştır.
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