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Milena Valenčič-Zuljan / Mara Cotič / Darjo Felda / Zlatan Magajna / Amalija Žakelj

The Efficiency of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Grouping of Students in Mathematics

Didaktik in Forschung und Praxis

The questions of grouping students have always been present in the history of education with diverse intentions and according to different criteria. The researchers of education as well as teachers and pedagogues have tried to find out when the grouping should start and what the objective of grouping is, how it should be performed, and if students should be grouped into heterogeneous groups regarding their abilities or should they stay in homogeneous group. Furthermore,…

Marijana Županić Benić, Jerneja Herzog (Eds.)

A View of Art from the Perspective of Education Systems and Policies

Schriften zur Kunstpädagogik und Ästhetischen Erziehung

The complexity of the scientific monograph is reflected in the fact that the field of visual arts in the educational context is very diverse and broad, both in preschool, primary and secondary education, as well as in terms of professional development of teachers, teaching methods and different teaching strategies.

All scientific discussions refer to a single educational system, namely education in Croatia. From this point of view, a scientific monograph can be…

Sandra Mršnik / Majda Cencič / Daniel Doz / Darjo Felda / Mara Cotič

The Relationship Between Students᾿ Attitudes Towards Problem-Solving and Their Achievements in Mathematics

Studien zur Schulpädagogik

Different learning theories have attributed great importance to problem solving, but the perception of what influences the problem solving and what problem solving is really about differed significantly between theories. From the conception that only the reproduction of learned procedures is important for problem solving, to concepts advocating that the acquired specific knowledge suffices, that problem solving strategy is crucial, that automated mental skills play an…

Robert Celec (Ed.)

Sustainability as a Way of Life – From Education to Economy

EUB. Erziehung – Unterricht – Bildung

The scientific monograph embraces the results of various research areas that have a common ground in the study of sustainable development through aspects of fairly complex environmental issues. At the beginning, we get an insight into the results of research that explores the importance of carrying out physical or sports activities of future kinesiologists directly in the natural environment. In the following, we encounter interesting research findings that talk about the…

Mehmet E. Altin

Internationalization Through Localization: Gülen Inspired Schools

EUB. Erziehung – Unterricht – Bildung

For this study, Dr. Altin conducted an empirical study and visited Gülen inspired schools in Europe, Africa and the US. He focuses on three important issues about the Gülen Inspired schools, namely: the educational concept of the Gülen inspired schools, their global expansion, and the current situation of these schools, especially under the political pressure of the Erdogan regime after the failed coup attempt in July 2016 in Turkey. [...]

Marek Krawiec / Ferit Kılıçkaya / Gabriel Sánchez-Sánchez / Erik Castello (eds.)

New Themes and Dimensions in Applied Linguistics

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

The volume New Themes and Dimensions in Applied Linguistics is a collection of articles written by scholars from different academic centres in the world who are interested in applied linguistic studies. In a novel and innovative way, it presents and discusses problems relevant to applied linguistics and emphasizes the important role which language-related practices and research play in such areas of human activity as foreign language learning and teaching and…

Hui Ji

The Impact of Culture on Preferences for E-learning Systems in Higher Education

A Comparison between China and Germany

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

As an international student in Germany, the author is part of a large community: more students than ever decide to study abroad. However, learning orientation and cultural adaptation issues are unavoidably associated with study abroad. An important option to address the problems is e-learning.

The present study verifies the German and Chinese students? cultural standards, teaching/learning cultures, and preferences for e-learning systems documented in the…

Sonja Čotar Konrad / Mara Cotič / Darjo Felda / Jurka Lepičnik Vodopivec / Milena Valenčič Zuljan / Amalija Žakelj / Tina Štemberger

Classroom Climate: Student and Teacher Perceptions

Studien zur Schulpädagogik

The scientific monograph entitled Classroom Climate: Student and Teacher Perceptions comprises the theoretical and empirical sections.

The theoretical section focuses on the justification of the school’s role of a place that encourages the development of the student’s potentials where we aim to highlight that the teaching and learning of contents prescribed by the curriculum are coupled with other processes that are important for an individual’s…

Veronica Jemanyur Rop

Human Dignity – Participation of Women in Integral Human Development

A Study Among the Kalenjin in the Catholic Diocese of Eldoret, Kenya

THEOS – Studienreihe Theologische Forschungsergebnisse

The title of this book is Human Dignity- Participation of Women in Integral Human Development and the subtitle is A Study Among the Kalenjin in the Catholic Diocese of Eldoret, Kenya.

The dignity of the human person is central to the integral human development (IHD) of any community. The Catholic Social Teaching teaches that human dignity originates from God and is of God, because human beings are made in God’s own image and likeness. As a person…

Xiaoxiang Su

Radical Awareness among Chinese-as-a-Foreign-Language Learners

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

This study examined radical awareness among college students who learned Chinese as a foreign language (CFL).

Radicals are subcomponents of characters. They follow positional constraints and they have meaning-cueing and pronunciation-cueing functions. Radical awareness, the knowledge about the positional and functional regularities of radicals has been found closely related to Chinese word reading and word writing among developing readers in first language…