Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10564934.2022.2140061
M. Bielik, Lenka Ďulíková, Olha Rotko, Nataliia Voronska
Abstract The present exploratory study examines pre-service primary school teacher university training in inclusive education in the Czech Republic and Ukraine. Based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB), attitudes, subjective norms, and self-efficacy of first- and last-year students were assessed. The overall differences in item scores between first-year and last-year students are in both countries small and insignificant. These results suggest that the potential of professional training is not fulfilled. Therefore, we suggest further proactive university curriculum development based on the research-supported forms of training.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10564934.2022.2135103
Kalli Drousioti
Abstract Teaching material and textbooks undoubtedly operate politically and should be scrutinized concerning the knowledge that they construct and legitimize. But such scrutiny often involves new hegemonies and political complicities that also require further scrutiny. Following Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s discourse analysis the present article critiques one such hegemony: that which sets civic identity against ethnic identity and, to prioritize the former, depoliticizes or even effaces the latter. To illustrate the need for further scrutiny of such politics the article carries out a deconstructive reading of a text (that of Yannis Papadakis, 2008) that is representative of this hegemony. This reading reveals that Papadakis tacitly blames ethnic identity as such for the wrongful treatment of Otherness, thus incriminating ethnic attachment wholesale and, therefore the very Otherness in whose name he purportedly deploys his social constructionism. I argue that Papadakis’ modernist suggestion to disconnect the present from the historical past undermines ethnicity while failing to stave off essentialist and racial understandings of it. At cross-purposes with social constructionism, Papadakis’ critique of the pernicious political operations of ethnic identities ends up annihilating ethnic identities.
{"title":"Anti-Ethnic Hegemony, Identity Construction and Political Complicities","authors":"Kalli Drousioti","doi":"10.1080/10564934.2022.2135103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10564934.2022.2135103","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Teaching material and textbooks undoubtedly operate politically and should be scrutinized concerning the knowledge that they construct and legitimize. But such scrutiny often involves new hegemonies and political complicities that also require further scrutiny. Following Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s discourse analysis the present article critiques one such hegemony: that which sets civic identity against ethnic identity and, to prioritize the former, depoliticizes or even effaces the latter. To illustrate the need for further scrutiny of such politics the article carries out a deconstructive reading of a text (that of Yannis Papadakis, 2008) that is representative of this hegemony. This reading reveals that Papadakis tacitly blames ethnic identity as such for the wrongful treatment of Otherness, thus incriminating ethnic attachment wholesale and, therefore the very Otherness in whose name he purportedly deploys his social constructionism. I argue that Papadakis’ modernist suggestion to disconnect the present from the historical past undermines ethnicity while failing to stave off essentialist and racial understandings of it. At cross-purposes with social constructionism, Papadakis’ critique of the pernicious political operations of ethnic identities ends up annihilating ethnic identities.","PeriodicalId":44727,"journal":{"name":"European Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73791292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10564934.2023.2167091
Gökhan Önal, Çiğdem Baki Pala
Abstract This article analyses the extent to which history education (HE) in Turkey adheres to the HE principles proposed by the Council of Europe. A compulsory history textbook is analyzed in detail. The analysis finds an understanding of HE that marginalizes minorities due to nationalist and militarist content. The Atatürk’s Principles and History of Reforms (APHR) course also fail to include controversial historical issues and does not adopt a multiperspective approach. Thus, a vital question has emerged: Is the APHR a course that serves to develop universal values such as respect for differences, a culture of inclusion, and support for democracy, or does it continue to be used solely as a tool for reproducing national values or more precisely, the dominant groups’ values? This question reveals the significance of developing a HE curriculum in Turkey and elsewhere that reflects current realities and also supports intercultural dialogue.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10564934.2022.2158106
Omer Ozer
Abstract This cross-national comparative study examined “internationalization” and “quality” in the English and Turkish higher education (HE) sectors, thereby presenting a comparative discussion of the state of HE in the two countries. Using a phenomenological approach, the study generated qualitative and quantitative data from different sources. The findings suggest that all stakeholder groups largely understand internationalization and quality similarly; however, there were marked differences in the obstacles to internationalization and quality management.
{"title":"Internationalization and Quality From the Perspectives of Stakeholders in the English and Turkish Higher Education Sectors","authors":"Omer Ozer","doi":"10.1080/10564934.2022.2158106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10564934.2022.2158106","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This cross-national comparative study examined “internationalization” and “quality” in the English and Turkish higher education (HE) sectors, thereby presenting a comparative discussion of the state of HE in the two countries. Using a phenomenological approach, the study generated qualitative and quantitative data from different sources. The findings suggest that all stakeholder groups largely understand internationalization and quality similarly; however, there were marked differences in the obstacles to internationalization and quality management.","PeriodicalId":44727,"journal":{"name":"European Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72373963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10564934.2022.2158105
M. Maurer, O. Spasovski
Abstract This article contributes to the comparative literature on the growing role of “validation of prior learning,” by analyzing the emergence and implementation of VPL in North Macedonia. Based on documents and qualitative interviews, the article provides an historical- institutionalist perspective on these processes. The article argues that a lack of stakeholder engagement, linked to a very low degree of institutional change in the country’s skill formation system, inhibits the development and implementation of VPL.
{"title":"Expanding the Validation of Prior Learning in the Context of European Integration: The Case of North Macedonia","authors":"M. Maurer, O. Spasovski","doi":"10.1080/10564934.2022.2158105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10564934.2022.2158105","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article contributes to the comparative literature on the growing role of “validation of prior learning,” by analyzing the emergence and implementation of VPL in North Macedonia. Based on documents and qualitative interviews, the article provides an historical- institutionalist perspective on these processes. The article argues that a lack of stakeholder engagement, linked to a very low degree of institutional change in the country’s skill formation system, inhibits the development and implementation of VPL.","PeriodicalId":44727,"journal":{"name":"European Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90557627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10564934.2022.2163181
Y. Forestier
Abstract Forty-six interviews of French and Finnish Junior High School teachers clearly show a strong will to link professional commitment to common progressive values. However, the interviewees have to adjust these political or philosophical views when confronted with the reality of their professional everyday life and to the development of widely broadcast educational debates, like the ones about the recent reforms concerning the Junior High School level in both France and Finland, conducted at the time of the interviews (2016 and 2017). These adjustments, linked either to the circumstances or to practical realities, challenge the internal coherence of their ethical choices. This paper shows that the reference principles and the practical implications of such choices are not asserted as sharply in France as in Finland. It highlights the unequal ability of the teachers of both countries to make sense of their professional experience and to appropriate the terms of the debates on the evolution of teaching.
{"title":"How Principles and Values Backing the Profesionnal Identity of French and Finnish Teachers Differentiate Their Ability to Face Educational Change","authors":"Y. Forestier","doi":"10.1080/10564934.2022.2163181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10564934.2022.2163181","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Forty-six interviews of French and Finnish Junior High School teachers clearly show a strong will to link professional commitment to common progressive values. However, the interviewees have to adjust these political or philosophical views when confronted with the reality of their professional everyday life and to the development of widely broadcast educational debates, like the ones about the recent reforms concerning the Junior High School level in both France and Finland, conducted at the time of the interviews (2016 and 2017). These adjustments, linked either to the circumstances or to practical realities, challenge the internal coherence of their ethical choices. This paper shows that the reference principles and the practical implications of such choices are not asserted as sharply in France as in Finland. It highlights the unequal ability of the teachers of both countries to make sense of their professional experience and to appropriate the terms of the debates on the evolution of teaching.","PeriodicalId":44727,"journal":{"name":"European Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85874785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10564934.2022.2134030
Aray Saniyazova, A. CohenMiller
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10564934.2022.2072748
A. Almukhambetova, Aliya Kuzhabekova
Abstract The rapid outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected the students’ international mobility globally. However, little is known about the challenges that the students, intending to pursue outward mobility experience in deciding between studying in the home country or a foreign country in the current reality. Using a “push-and-pull” model as a framework, this qualitative interview-based study aims to find answers to some of these questions by exploring how the pandemic affected science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students’ intentions to pursue international mobility, looking at students from Kazakhstan, one of the typical source countries. The analysis is based on the interview data with 22 students who planned to pursue higher education abroad when the COVID-19 pandemic started. The key lessons from the study are useful for policymakers and practitioners working in the higher education field internationally as they provide insights into the potential influence of COVID-19 on the outward mobility of STEM students globally.
{"title":"COVID-19 and the Changes in STEM Students’ Intentions to Pursue International Mobility. What Do the Students Say?","authors":"A. Almukhambetova, Aliya Kuzhabekova","doi":"10.1080/10564934.2022.2072748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10564934.2022.2072748","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The rapid outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected the students’ international mobility globally. However, little is known about the challenges that the students, intending to pursue outward mobility experience in deciding between studying in the home country or a foreign country in the current reality. Using a “push-and-pull” model as a framework, this qualitative interview-based study aims to find answers to some of these questions by exploring how the pandemic affected science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students’ intentions to pursue international mobility, looking at students from Kazakhstan, one of the typical source countries. The analysis is based on the interview data with 22 students who planned to pursue higher education abroad when the COVID-19 pandemic started. The key lessons from the study are useful for policymakers and practitioners working in the higher education field internationally as they provide insights into the potential influence of COVID-19 on the outward mobility of STEM students globally.","PeriodicalId":44727,"journal":{"name":"European Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74022757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10564934.2022.2134029
Aray Saniyazova, A. CohenMiller, Aigerim Kadylova, A. Rakisheva
Abstract This study examines student experience in the context of their transition to remote instruction during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic with a particular focus on the gendered aspects of the student experience. The researchers conducted a survey in July 2020 at one of the leading universities in Kazakhstan, Nazarbayev University. We sought to capture the immediate effects of the crisis on student experience and to see the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on learning, teaching, and assessment. The survey was developed by the Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Consortium (Berkeley, USA) which granted permission to all interested universities to use a survey instrument to explore the experience of their students. Nazarbayev University was the only university in Central Asia that surveyed their students using this survey instrument. The survey assesses five areas of the student experience for both undergraduates and graduate students impacted by the pandemic and campus closures: (1) the transition to remote instruction, (2) the financial impact of COVID-19 on students, (3) student health and wellbeing, (4) belonging and engagement, and (5) future plans.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10564934.2022.2138767
Aliya Kuzhabekova
Abstract The study explores the experiences of international faculty at an international university in Kazakhstan during COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from 25 qualitative interviews of women and men employed as faculty at the university the study explores the challenges and opportunities experienced by the faculty during the pandemic, how the experiences were shaped by the unique context of the non-Western highly internationalized residential campus university, as well as how the experiences were different for the faculty members of different genders, marital and parental status.
{"title":"Gender Differences in International Faculty Experiences during COVID-19 in Kazakhstan","authors":"Aliya Kuzhabekova","doi":"10.1080/10564934.2022.2138767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10564934.2022.2138767","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The study explores the experiences of international faculty at an international university in Kazakhstan during COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from 25 qualitative interviews of women and men employed as faculty at the university the study explores the challenges and opportunities experienced by the faculty during the pandemic, how the experiences were shaped by the unique context of the non-Western highly internationalized residential campus university, as well as how the experiences were different for the faculty members of different genders, marital and parental status.","PeriodicalId":44727,"journal":{"name":"European Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77290449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}