Contemporary educational theory and practice increasingly emphasise the importance of integrated education in creating the conditions for success for primary school students. In Lithuania, as part of ...the 2020–2024 curriculum update and the development of general curricula, integrated education is highlighted as one of the priorities for achieving harmony between pupils’ academic achievements and the development of general competences, as well as the creation of a favourable emotional environment for pupils. This creates a strategic perspective on the content of education. However, there is a lack of research and insights into how such practices can be developed smoothly. For this reason, our research was carried out by targeting one of the Francophone institutes in southern France, which has successfully implemented an integrated education practice that enables learning for every pupil in the primary grades. The study analysed the context, i.e. the concept of the educational institution’s activities, which shows what should be done and how it should be done in order to achieve the quality of integrated education. In addition, the data were obtained through semi-structured interviews with 4 teachers at the Institute with experience in integrated education. Qualitative content analysis was used to inductively search for answers describing the essence of integrated education, the most important processes to reflect on before engaging with pupils, and to deductively identify how certain elements contribute to creating the conditions conducive to integrated education and pupils’ successful learning.
The article presents the issues related to the formation of primary school schoolchildren’s solo singing skills. The purpose of the article is to substantiate scientific approaches and principles, ...the implementation of which contributes to successful formation of primary school schoolchildren’s solo singing skills.
These approaches ae bound to the ideas of humanistic, structural-systemic, anthropological approaches. The principles of their implementation have been grounded ‒ the creation of a psychologically comfortable environment; individual-personal planning of the vocal-forming process; monitoring of the process and results of the classes aimed at mastering junior schoolchildren’s solo vocal skills; artistic and communicative orientation of the vocal and educational process; stimulation of primary schoolchildren’s creative activity in musical and playing forms alongside with the solution of their artistic and performing tasks. Some typical mistakes demonstrated by starting teachers have been analysed, which inhibit the process aimed at the formation of primary schoolchildren’s solo singing skills and their manifestation at three levels: interpretative-communicative, performing-artistic, forming-technological. The importance of mastering propaedeutic competence by university teachers has been substantiated as a way to anticipate professional mistakes typical for teachers-beginners.
Keywords: singing skills; primary school pupils; scientific approaches; pedagogical principles; propaedeutics of typical pedagogical mistakes.
Group work has been promoted in many countries as a key component of elementary science. However, little guidance is given as to how group work should be organised, and because previous research has ...seldom been conducted in authentic classrooms, its message is merely indicative. A study is reported, which attempts to address these limitations. Twenty-four classes of 10–12-year-old pupils engaged in programmes of teaching on evaporation and condensation, and force and motion. Both programmes were delivered by classroom teachers, and made extensive use of group work. Pupil understanding progressed from pre-tests prior to the programmes to post-tests afterwards, and results suggest that group work played a critical role. Organisational principles are extrapolated from the findings, which could be readily adopted in classrooms.
Missing school impacts both education and health. The purpose of this study was to address sickness absence in primary schools by adjusting the 'Medical Advice for Sick-reported Students' ...intervention for secondary schools. This was necessary because of fundamental differences in relation to the children's age and in the schools' organizational structure.
The intervention mapping approach steps 1 through 4 were used to adapt 'Medical Advice for Sick-reported Students' to primary schools (MASS-PS), including a literature search, stakeholder interviews, establishing a planning group and pre-testing.
In step 1, a planning group was formed and a logic model of the problem was created. In step 2, a logic model of change was created. In step 3, a theoretical basis and practical strategies were determined. In step 4, practical support materials were designed, and two pre-tests of the materials were performed.
Intervention mapping was successfully used to adapt MASS to primary schools. The main changes were the lowering of the threshold for extensive sickness absence, consultations between teacher and attendance coordinator, and addition of two experts. With MASS-PS, sickness absence can be addressed as a "red flag" for underlying problems.
This research study aimed to identify and analyse attitudes of Czech primary school pupils towards people with intellectual disabilities (ID). In total 2295 pupils aged 10 to 15 years participated in ...the study. The questionnaire based on the Likert scale design was utilised as the research tool. Its items were divided into four dimensions (interpersonal liking; social status and rights of people with ID; social integration; fear) using explorative factor analysis. The effect of pupils' socio-demographic characteristics (gender, school year attended and their declared experience with ID person) was modelled using multiple regression analysis. Pupils' attitudes towards ID were rather positive overall. Neutral/negative attitudes were found in the dimension called "social integration of people with ID", or rather their integration into regular primary schools to join peers without disabilities. The "personal experience with person with ID" proved to be the most significant predictor of all outcomes and it affected pupils' attitudes towards ID in the most positive way. Differences in pupils' attitudes were determined in relation to the effect of gender and the school year attended. In relation to the research findings, the study limitations and recommendations for further research are discussed.
This study aims to analyse and describe the ideas of pupils (aged 10-15 years) about ID. Overall 2324 pupils (without disability) from 23 Czech primary schools of the so-called mainstream education ...participated in the study. Pupils' concepts associated with ID were analysed using mind mapping methods. It was found that an overall frequency of concepts differed in regard to gender, the school year attended and in relation to pupils' declared experience with people with ID. Pupils' ideas may be described in terms of a medical paradigm of disability. ID was most often linked to an illness, a defect or impairment. Physiognomic or mental abnormalities of people with ID and their differences in behaviour were emphasised in particular. A fixed idea about their inabilities, shortcomings or their dependence on others was predominant in pupils questioned, some of whom also suggested that the care should be provided primarily in special institutions (such as care homes, hospitals and special schools, etc.). The study also discusses the implications and offers recommendations for further research.
The current study contributes to revealing the perceptions of primary school pupils and teachers of using the educational tablet, its advantages, and disadvantages, by answering the research ...question: what are the teachers’ and pupils’ perceptions about the advantages and disadvantages of integrating the educational tablet in primary schools? The researcher used the descriptive research methodology. The research sample consisted of 306 pupils’ and 8 teachers in five primary schools in Egypt during the 2020–2021 academic year. Data collection was based on questionnaires filled in by the pupils without the help of their teachers. The positive and negative dimensions of tablet use were analyzed. The findings indicate that pupils have a positive attitude towards using tablets. There was no variance between teachers’ and pupils’ attitudes towards the use of the educational tablet as they both agreed on the advantages resulting from the use of the tablet in classrooms, and that the tablet has become a supportive tool in the classroom. The positive attitudes include but are not limited to the following: ending the problem of carrying school bags and printed books, learning has become enjoyable through using an e-book, learning contents contain more interactive materials through cartoon animation, music, and after-lesson exercises. The tablet has a lot of potentials such as browsing, perusing, and communicating with peers and teachers. The results show the positive attitude of teachers towards the use of the educational tablet as it contributes to increasing pupils’ motivation towards learning, increasing academic achievement, improving interaction among them, and developing teachers themselves through free readings and watching videos, drawings, and images.
Girls, Boys and Junior Sexualities takes an insightful and in-depth look at the hidden worlds of young children's sexualities. Based upon extensive group interviews and observation, the author ...illustrates how sexuality is embedded in children's school-based cultures and gender identities. From examining children's own views and experiences, the book explores a range of topical and sensitive issues, including how:
the primary school is a key social arena for 'doing' sexuality
sexuality shapes children's friendships and peer relations
being a 'proper' girl or boy involves investing in a heterosexual identity
children use gendered or sexual insults to maintain gender and sexual norms.
Grounded in children's real-life experiences, this book traces their struggles, anxieties, desires and pleasures as they make sense of their emerging sexualities. It also includes frank and open discussions of the pressures of compulsory heterosexuality, the boyfriend/girlfriend culture, misogyny and sexual harassment. Girls, Boys and Junior Sexualities is a timely and powerful resource for researchers, educationalists and students in childhood studies, sociology and psychology and will be of great interest to professionals and policy makers working with young children.
'This publication will be a valuable resource for all with an interest in childhood studies.' - ChildRIGHT
'This is a fascinating study based on close work in real primary schools' - Gerald Haigh, TES
Emma Renold is a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.
Purpose of the study: This research was conducted to discover primary school pupils’ use of SM in their life.
Methodology: Data were collected using a survey research design through the ...questionnaire. A set of comprises six parts were given to a group of purposive sampling comprises 50 Primary 5 pupils in a rural primary school, Sarawak, Malaysia.
Main Findings: Data analysis showed that there were three most used social media by the pupils which are Facebook, WhatsApp, and YouTube. The findings also revealed that 94% of the respondents believed that SM is one of the best ways to practice English, specifically in writing. Moreover, the findings also showed that the respondents (60% - 80%) considered themselves: prefer to use English; like using English; feel comfortable and awesome to write in English on SM; and like to copy the interesting words, phrases or sentence from SM in their books.
Applications of this study: The research findings can be referred by other researchers especially educators who conduct researches of the same field.
Novelty/Originality of this study: In this research, the focus is placed on studying the use of SM among pupils in a rural primary school in Sarawak, Malaysia.
The article is devoted to the issues regarding the modelling of the experimental methodology aimed at forming primary school pupils’ linguocultural competence by means of Chinese artistic works. The ...experimental methodology aimed at forming primary school pupils’ linguocultural competence is specified. “The model” of a specific experimental education is understood as a hierarchically structured system for the formation of the primary school pupils’ linguocultural competence which reflects the components of the process aimed at developing the designated competence, in particular: subject-object determinants, goals, stages, pedagogical principles and conditions, means, forms and methods of training organization, criteria. The main stages of the teaching / learning (cognitive-enriching, reproductive, productive and creative-reflexive) are characterised; the specific methodological principles facilitating the formation of the competence under study are identified (principles of consistency and systematicity, gradual and sequential training; unity of educational culture- and language-oriented material in the context of interaction between Ukraine and China; integration of perceptual and productive types of speech activity within the classroom and extracurricular activities); pedagogical conditions influencing the formation of the primary school pupils’ linguocultural competence are determined. These competencies were chosen as the criteria: literary-accumulative (with indicators: philosophical, fundamental and Confucianism-centric); artistic and authentic (with indicators: ethnically patriotic, epic-folkloric and prose-lyrical); contrastive-comparative (with indicators: general cultural and cultural-specific); operational-interactive (with indicators: culture- and resource-centred, perceptual-cognitive, productive and demonstrative).
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