The psychological distance of objects (e.g., things, places, other people) affects how we think about them. Research suggests that psychological proximity and distance might be also related to ...positive and negative evaluations, respectively. In this study, we examined whether we can infer how children aged 13–16 years evaluate objects based on their statements regarding the psychological distance between themselves and these objects. Using a mixed-methods design, we verified the relationship between evaluations of objects and whether they are perceived as psychologically close or distant, in a sample of secondary school students. School subjects were predominantly used as evaluation objects. Students used a worksheet that allowed them to visually demonstrate perceived psychological distance between themselves and objects, and then they were asked to explain their choice. Results suggested a strong association between psychological distance and positive or negative evaluation. Thus, the implications of our findings may be relevant for psychodiagnostics.
•Psychological distance is a subjective cognitive separation from objects/concepts.•Psychological distance may be an effective tool in psychodiagnostics.•We used qualitative and quantitative data from a sample of 13–16-year-olds.•We found an association between psychological distance and concept evaluations.
Students in East Asian locations often obtain high academic results in international high-stakes testing, but lower results on affective aspects of their schooling, such as sense of belonging. These ...findings indicate the need for more holistic research into children’s lifeworlds, including their experiences of school. In this article, we draw on a survey with 627 Year 4 students in three global cities in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Singapore, and Melbourne), exploring dimensions of their perceptions of school. Responses from students were generally positive in terms of sense of school belonging and student identity. Students who responded positively in terms of belonging and student identity were more likely to want academic activities to occur more often. The article adds to the existing literature by offering an exploratory consideration of the relationships between sense of belonging, student identity, and school activity preferences of Year 4 students in Hong Kong, Singapore and Melbourne. It is argued that all of these are essential factors that need to be considered and incorporated in policy planning and curriculum development.
Based on the theory of integrated domains in epistemology, the question of domain specificity of epistemic beliefs was investigated from a comprehensive perspective. We examined intraindividual ...differences in epistemic beliefs about the natural, mathematical, social, and linguistic sciences that represented almost the entire spectrum of subjects taught in secondary schools. The sample comprised 196 pre-service teachers who four times filled in an epistemic belief questionnaire, which could capture four dimensions of epistemic beliefs in four school subject domains with sufficient reliability. Regarding the core question of domain specificity of epistemic beliefs, all four domains were found to largely differ from each other on all four epistemic dimensions. These findings were supported by correlational analyses and structural equation modelling. In total, they provide strong evidence for the domain specificity of epistemic beliefs about school subject domains, which raises the demand for a classification system to specify major fields of personal epistemology.
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We examined pre-service teachers' epistemic beliefs about school subject domains.
We compared beliefs about the natural, mathematical, social, and linguistic sciences.
A questionnaire with four dimensions reliably measured beliefs across domains.
All four domains largely differed from each other in all four dimensions.
Results provide strong evidence for the domain-specificity of epistemic beliefs.
In this article, we explore the concept of 'powerful knowledge' which, from a curriculum studies perspective, refers to the aspects of content knowledge towards which teaching should be oriented. We ...then consider how the concept of 'powerful knowledge' can be developed and operationalized
as a research framework within studies in subject-specific didactics across the curriculum by relating it to the analytical concept of 'transformation'. Transformation is perceived in this case as an integrative process in which content knowledge is transformed into knowledge that is taught
and learned through various transformation processes both outside and within the educational system. We argue that powerful knowledge cannot be identified based on the discipline alone, but needs to consider transformation processes and be empirically explored. A variety of theories and frameworks
developed within the European research tradition of didactics are described as ways to study transformation processes related to powerful knowledge at different institutional levels as well as between different subjects and disciplines. A comparative research framework related to subject-specific
education is proposed around three research questions.
This article presents a study that analyses the types of activity used to teach the curriculum in primary education, and the use made accordingly of digital and analogue resources. The research's ...purpose was to discover whether there are any differentiated patterns of activity in the teaching of these subjects, and whether they are linked to the use of ICT/non-ICT resources. A multiple case study was conducted with 10 primary teachers, with three schooldays being recorded over the 2018-2019 school year, which provided 132 hours of recordings. The research design involved the use of mixed methods. The results reveal a differentiated use of patterns of activity linked to the subjects that make up the curriculum in primary education, as well as a differentiated use of ICT and non-ICT resources when teaching these subjects. The study includes the need to investigate the process of transforming/transposing the academic content into effective classroom teaching practices.
U članku se analizira kurikulum nastavnog predmeta Katolički vjeronauk s obzirom na načelo korelacije ili suodnosa s drugim nastavnim predmetima i međupredmetnim temama te se prikazuje kako je u ...kurikulumima drugih nastavnih predmeta i međupredmetnih tema otvorena mogućnost za korelaciju s Katoličkim vjeronaukom. Ukazuje se na činjenicu da je u planovima i programima Katoličkog vjeronauka od 90-ih godina 20. stoljeća do danas prisutno načelo korelacije. Prvo poglavlje donosi temeljna načela korelacije u nastavnom predmetu Katolički vjeronauk. Drugo poglavlje prikazuje načela korelacije u planovima i programima Katoličkog vjeronauka od 1991. do 2019. godine. Treće poglavlje bavi se korelacijom u kurikulumu nastavnoga predmeta Katolički vjeronauk i kurikulumima drugih nastavnih predmeta s obzirom na područja poučavanja: društveno-humanističko, umjetničko, jezično-komunikacijsko, prirodoslovno, matematičko te tjelesno i zdravstveno područje te nastavnog predmeta Katolički vjeronauk i međupredmetnih tema nazvanih Osobni i socijalni razvoj, Građanski odgoj i obrazovanje, Održivi razvoj, Zdravlje, Učiti kako učiti, Uporaba informacijske i komunikacijske tehnologije te Poduzetništvo.
The topic of the article is the principle of the correlation between the curriculum of Catholic Religious Education and the curricula of other school subjects in Croatia, and between the curriculum of Catholic Religious Education and cross-curricular themes. The main objective is to show whether the curricula of school subjects in Croatia are open to such correlation. The author points out that correlation has been an integral part of the curriculum for Catholic Religious Education since 1991. In the first part of the article, the author explains the principles and levels of the correlation between the student’s experiences and teachings of the Catholic Church in Catholic Religious Education. The second part presents the principles of correlation in the plans and programs of Catholic Religious Education from 1991 to 2019. The third part deals with the correlation between various school subjects and the curriculum of Catholic Religious Education, depending on the subject area: Humanities and Social Sciences, Arts, Language and Communication, Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Physical Education, and the correlation between Catholic Religious Education and cross-curricular themes: civic education, entrepreneurship, the use of information and communication technologies, personal and social development, sustainable development, health, and learning to learn.
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