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Abstract: This contribution addresses Slovenian in-service and pre-service foreign language and general education teachers' awareness of dyslexia in the foreign language classroom. The authors examine and analyse the levels of familiarity with dyslexia among foreign language teachers and primary school teachers (in-service teachers) and foreign language students (pre-service teachers), their perceptiveness regarding the particularly demanding areas of language learning, and their willingness to engage in additional training to obtain the appropriate skills for teaching children with learning disabilities, particularly dyslexia. The results reveal noticeable differences in answers to individual research questions provided by the participants based on their profiles. The majority of participants stated that they were familiar with dyslexia from a theoretical point of view but also indicated that they were aware of the need to further improve their individual specialist-didactic knowledge and skills in order to give successful support to dyslexic pupils engaged in foreign language learning. The authors also predict the necessary extent of additional training measures in which foreign language teachers, primary school teachers, and foreign language students should engage.
Keywords: pouk tujega jezika, zgodnje učenje, disleksija, dislektični učenci, učitelji tujega jezika, razredni učitelji, empirične študije, foreign language teaching, early learning, dislexy, dislexic pupils, foreign language teachers, pre-service teachers, in-service teachers
Published in DKUM: 21.05.2024; Views: 248; Downloads: 25
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Abstract: The beginning of the article presents a retrospect of the discussion of unifying schools in Austria with arguments for and against them. In the 2008/09 school year a few selected Austrian regions started experimental school models in an attempt to unify their school system at the level of ten to fourteen-year-old pupils. More schools will start similar experiments a year later. Particularism — mainly politically motivated — has become evident: Nine regions, nine concepts. The fact that a new school organization will need teachers that have been educated in line with the new pedagogical concepts has been discussed sporadically. It remains neglected, however, in the overall concept of educational reform — at least in current public discussions.
Keywords: school reform in Austria, unified schools, higher level, school for ten to fourteen-year-old pupils, school reforms, school policy, Austria
Published in DKUM: 21.09.2017; Views: 1088; Downloads: 108
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Abstract: The main aim of this study was to determine the relationship of morphologic features and body composition to physical self-concepts in boys and girls separately. This research included 630 children from north-eastern Slovenia, aged 9 to 11 years (M = 10.01; SD = .810), of which 311 were boys and 319 were girls. Morphologic features of the children were measured with the use of a standardized anthropometric instrumentation; the Maltron BF-907 Body Composition Analyzer was used for the measurement of body fat, fat-free mass, and body water proportions. The gender, age, and physical self-concept data were acquired through the French version of The Physical Self-Inventory – a short form questionnaire for determining the physical self-concept of adolescents, adapted to Slovenia. The relation between individual morphological features and physical self-concept was determined by regression analysis. Statistical significance was established at 0.05. The results show that the physical self-concept is more closely connected with body composition and morphologic features in boys than in girls, whereas the body fat proportion is the strongest predictor of physical self-concept in boys. The findings show that, particularly in boys, the physical self-concept is also largely based on the morphologic features and body composition. It is necessary to give special attention to boys, as we often think that boys are not as concerned with the physical appearance as girls.
Keywords: self-concept, physical development, body measurements, body fat, pupils
Published in DKUM: 21.07.2017; Views: 2021; Downloads: 166
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Abstract: In the first part the paper points characteristics democratisation of the grading process. The second part presents the results of empirical research carried out in December 2003, which involved a sample of seven- and eight-grade pupils of eight-year primary school, and a sample of Slovenian language and mathematics teachers in the seven and eight grades of eight-year primary school. The results showed differences in judgements of the frequency of individual requirements of teachers between the groups of teachers and pupils
Keywords: education, teaching process, pupils, teachers, pupils' cooperation, primary education
Published in DKUM: 07.06.2012; Views: 1621; Downloads: 34
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Abstract: The study, which was conducted on school teachers from all over Slovenia, examines the arts and culture status of primary school teachers, teachers' views about primary school education in terms of the inclusion of arts and culture topics and their opinion about the implementation of the aims of arts and cultural education in the planned and operational curricula. Results show that primary school teachers do not consider spiritual, cultural and aesthetic values as very important. The teachers think that pupils are most attentive to intermedia culture and that in primary school education more attention should be paid to reading culture, the performing arts and cultural heritage. They often achieve most of the arts and cultural education aims in their work. However, they pay less attention to aims such as investigating and expressing the cultures of other nations and developing cultural identity awareness.
Keywords: primary schools, teachers, pupils, arts and culture areas, aims of arts and cultural education
Published in DKUM: 07.06.2012; Views: 2150; Downloads: 187
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