scholarly journals Supporting the Transition from Primary to Postprimary Education in 2021: Perspectives from Irish Postprimary Practitioners

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 546
Author(s):  
Hilary O’Connor ◽  
Paul Flynn
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Sequential Mixed Methods ◽  
Data Collection Strategy ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Multiple Challenges ◽  
Current Transition ◽  
Significant Milestone

The transition from primary to postprimary education is a significant milestone in children’s education and can be characterised by the multiple challenges that they experience, specifically the move from childhood to adolescence, from one institutional context to another, and from established social groups into new social relations. This research employs a theoretical framework that describes this transition from the perspective of secondary school inservice practitioners as they aim to help students to make a successful transition. An incremental, sequential mixed-methods data collection strategy took the form of an exploratory survey followed by qualitative semistructured interviews. Current transition practices in the context of the challenges presented in Irish secondary schools are reported on in five key areas: administration, social and emotional supports, curriculum support, pedagogical support, and management/autonomy of learning. The findings of this research also highlight a need to reflect on the purpose and timing of current practices, along with calls for continuing professional development programmes to be developed that specifically target the challenges faced by Irish inservice teaching practitioners. It is hoped that this paper will spark discourse relating to the development of transitional supports for students and associated training for those who are best placed to provide those supports.

Pedagogiczny testament Profesora Andrzeja Jaczewskiego

2021 ◽  
pp. 213-225
Author(s):  
Maciej Tanaś
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The Body ◽  
New School ◽  
Personal Accounts ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Mature Person ◽  
Scientific Achievements

The article presents the enormous scientific, organisational and social achievements of Professor Andrzej Jaczewski – the doyen of Polish sexology, doctor and educator. The author recalls the awarding of the Medal of Merit for the Development of Polish Pedagogy, presented by the Chapter of the Committee of Pedagogical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The author describes and analyses the various fields of the Professor’s activities, referring to available studies and insightful personal accounts. Undisputed, original and significant scientific achievements at the medical and pedagogical junctions, as well as beautiful accounts from his own life and accomplishments set new perspectives for pedagogical sciences, earning the Professor enormous respect from within and beyond his Polish and German academic cohort and peers. The Professor was and remains to many, a physician of the body, mind and spirit. With his unwavering passion and dedication to his students and the scouts, he truly exemplifies and models a path that seeks truth, beauty and doing good. There is a discussion about the shape of Polish education concerning errors in teaching science and biology, wasting children’s abilities in the sciences more than it is commonly believed, the problem of physical and mental “splitting maturation”, the role of adventure in scouting, “becoming” a mature person, the highest grades on secondary school-leaving certificates and young people’s lack of skills in communicating in other languages. In addition, the discussion addresses the competences needed to build social relations, personal courage and responsibility, tolerance and respect for other people, the ability to cooperate and build a community, the catalogue of values in the process of education, integration of education and upbringing processes, theatre, ballet, classical and opera music concerts, popular culture, as well as digital media and human rights to a life of value, sailing and education reforms. The conversation with professor Andrzej Jaczewski at his home in Ropki in the Beskid Niski leads to the conclusion: “We have to invent a new school. A school worthy of our dreams and the fate of our children and grandchildren”. The author treats it as the Professor’s pedagogical will.

scholarly journals Temporal aspects of wellbeing in later life: gardening among older African Americans in Detroit

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (12) ◽  
pp. 2614-2634
Author(s):  
Jessica C. Robbins ◽  
Kimberly A. Seibel
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Structural Inequality ◽  
City Life ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Older African Americans ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

AbstractGardening has well-established physical, social and emotional benefits for older adults in varied circumstances. In Detroit, Michigan (United States of America), as in many cities, policy makers, funders, researchers, community organisations and residents regard gardening as a means of transforming bodies, persons, communities, cities and broader polities. We draw on ethnographic research conducted during one gardening season with 27 older African Americans in Detroit to foreground the social dimensions of wellbeing in later life and thus develop a more robust and nuanced understanding of gardening's benefits for older adults. Based on anthropological understandings of personhood and kinship, this article expands concepts of wellbeing to include social relations across multiple scales (individual, interpersonal, community, state) and temporalities (of the activity itself, experiences of ageing, city life). Even when performed alone, gardening fosters connections with the past, as gardeners are reminded of deceased loved ones through practices and the plants themselves, and with the future, through engagement with youth and community. Elucidating intimate connections and everyday activities of older African American long-term city residents counters anti-black discourses of ‘revitalisation’. An expansive concept of wellbeing has implications for understanding the generative potential of meaningful social relations in later life and the vitality contributed by older adults living in contexts of structural inequality.

Social Relations in a Secondary School

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr David H Hargreaves ◽  
David Hargreaves
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Social Relations

Functioning of Mentality in Society: Socio-Cultural Hypothesis

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Губанов ◽  
N. Gubanov ◽  
Губанов ◽  
Nikolay Gubanov
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Reproductive Activity ◽  
Integral Characteristic ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Multiple Challenges ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Mental Characteristics

Category of mentality has additional heuristic capabilities as compared to traditional categories of the mental life. Firstly, it serves as an integral characteristic of the uniqueness of the man’s mental world, and secondly, gives an understanding of the specific type of perception of the world by the subject, thirdly, it explains the distinct way of subject’s activity – his behavior, communication, performance. Because the mentality determines the mode of activity of a social group or an individual; the human activity orientation and it’s specificity, so the mentality can be interpreted as a core for the group and personal culture, also as a strategic cultural program of the subject. One of the basic clashes of society has the form of a contradiction between the mentality, containing new cultural forms, and the social relations. In the course of the individual cultural creativity development as a response to the multiple challenges of history, new mental characteristics are generated in the mentality of the intellectual elite representatives. They represent innovative programs of human being activity – performance, behavior, communication. The new mental characteristics spread in society and become components of group mentalities. This accrued contradiction between the mass mentality and the old social relations generates a constructive tension; negotiation the tension through the reproductive activity of subjects can establish the more progressive social relations. Old elements of mentality, in turn, inherent social inertia and conservatism. They can obstruct the new social relations establishment. Therefore, mentality has the contradictory nature, embodying the dual opposition of tradition and innovation. In the same time mentality is a social progress stimulating factor, and a factor that holds back excessively large and excessively rapid social changes. There is a difference between the mentality of the creators of innovative cultural meanings and the mentality of the masses. In the mentality of the creators that make up the intelligent elite of the society, the innovational component is more intense than the traditional. In the mentality of the masses is vice versa - the traditional component dominates over the innovational. There are many driving motives of the society development: changes in a way of material production, in the culture in general and in education in particular, in engineering, in science. But the most significant force, apparently, displays the changes in mentality that generate new forms of reproductive activity of the subject in the economic, political, social and mental spheres.

Social Relations in a Secondary School

1968 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Lawrence Stenhouse ◽  
David H. Hargreaves
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Social Relations

Preliminary Development and Validation of the Social and Emotional Health Survey for Secondary School Students

2013 ◽  
Vol 117 (3) ◽  
pp. 1011-1032 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Furlong ◽  
Sukkyung You ◽  
Tyler L. Renshaw ◽  
Douglas C. Smith ◽  
Meagan D. O’Malley
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
School Students ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development And Validation

scholarly journals Social and Emotional Skills of Student: the Development of the Tool for Monitoring in Secondary School

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-216
Author(s):  
A.A. Kulikova ◽  
E.A. Orel
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Educational Standards ◽  
Monitoring Tool ◽  
School Students ◽  
Emotional Skills ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Social And Emotional Skills ◽  
Item Functioning ◽  
Psychometric Quality

Measuring the personal aspects of development is a challenge that researchers and practitioners are facing. Despite the fact that the results regarding the socio-emotional development of students are recorded in federal educational standards of Russia, there is neither a theoretical framework suitable for assessing these results, nor re- liable measuring materials suitable for its monitoring assessment. This paper is aimed to develop a monitoring tool to estimate social and emotional skills of secondary-school students. The results of a field test were analysed using Item Response Theory (IRT). Construct validity, reliability, differential item functioning and other characteristics were checked. Psychometric properties of the tool as well as theoretical framework are presented. The tool has good psychometric quality and can be used to assess the development of social and emotional skills of adolescents.

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