The book consists of 76 papers, written by 120 authors, and grouped into four parts: 1. Comparative Education as a University Discipline 2. Pre-Service and In-Service Teacher Training 3. Education Policy, Reforms and School Leadership 4. Higher Education, Lifelong Learning and Social Inclusion The geography of the studies, included in the book, covers: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, England, France, FYROM, Greece, Hong Kong, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Malaysia, Mexico, Montserrat, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Togo, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, USA.
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ISBN 978-954-9842-15-9
Comparative Education, Teacher Training, Education Policy, School Leadership and Social Inclusion
This volume contains papers submitted to the 8th International Conference on “Comparative Education and Teacher Training”, organized by the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in June 2010.
Vol. 8
Comparative Education, Teacher Training, Education Policy, School Leadership and Social Inclusion
Volume 8 Editors Nikolay Popov, Charl Wolhuter, Bruno Leutwyler, Marinela Mihova, James Ogunleye
Bureau for Educational Services
Comparative Education, Teacher Training, Education Policy, School Leadership and Social Inclusion
Publisher © 2010 Bureau for Educational Services Editors © 2010 Nikolay Popov, Charl Wolhuter, Bruno Leutwyler, Marinela Mihova, James Ogunleye Individual contributions © 2010 their authors ISBN 978-954-9842-15-9
Comparative Education, Teacher Training, Education Policy, School Leadership and Social Inclusion
Volume 8
Nikolay Popov
Editor-in-Chief
Charl Wolhuter
Editor of Part 1
Bruno Leutwyler
Editor of Part 2
Marinela Mihova
Editor of Part 3
James Ogunleye
Editor of Part 4
Bulgarian Comparative Education Society __________________
Publisher _________________
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Previous volumes: Volume 1: 2002 Volume 2: 2003 Volume 3: 2005 Volume 4: 2006 Volume 5: 2007 Volume 6: 2008 Volume 7: 2009
Comparative Education, Teacher Training, Education Policy, School Leadership and Social Inclusion Volume 8, 2010 Popov, N., Wolhuter, C., Leutwyler, B., Mihova, M., Ogunleye, J. (Eds.) Quire format 70 x 100 / 16 Printed quires 29.5 Book size 17 x 24 cm Pages 472 Published by Bureau for Educational Services Under the auspices of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society Printed by Ral-Kolobar Sofia, Bulgaria May 2010
Contents Preface
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Part 1 Comparative Education as a University Discipline
Part 2 Pre-Service and In-Service Teacher Training
CHARL WOLHUTER & PETER SCHNELLER
ANNA KIROVA
The Creative Spirit: A Comparative Education textbook for beginning students
Creating Field Experiences to Promote Intercultural Competence in an Undergraduate Early Childhood Methods Course 63
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ABDOLMAJID ESKANDARI
Comparative Education, a Mechanism for the Promotion of Higher Education Systems 15
MAH-E-RUKH AHMED
ELŻBIETA POSŁUSZNA & JACEK POSŁUSZNY
SIRI WORMNÆS
Being and Becoming Professionals in Teacher Education
69
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Including teachers who are blind in teacher education for inclusion - experiences with audio description of training material 75
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STACKUS OKWAPUT
Comparative Physical Education Pedagogy in Teacher Training: Innovation in Comparative Education 33
TANG KEOW NGANG
On the Crisis in Multiculturalism: A Comparative Perspective PETER L. SCHNELLER
“The Creative Spirit” STEVE GEORGAKIS
KONSTANTINOS G. KARRAS
Equal Opportunities in the Classroom: the experience of Greek primary teachers 38 NATHALIE BÉLANGER
What does inclusion really mean in four different school contexts (Canada, France, England and Italy)? 45 JIANG HUA
Comparative Study on Recent Reform of Russian State Education Standards in Higher Engineering Educational Area 52 MARCO AURELIO NAVARRO-LEAL, DORA MARÍA LLADÓ, IVÁN SÁNCHEZ
Exploring contents of comparative education courses in Mexico
Pre- Service Teacher Education for Special Needs Education in Uganda: Experiences from One College 79 Teacher Leadership Style in Creating Special Education Classroom Culture: A China Study
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LIVIJA ZEIBERTE
The role of Competences in structuring Continuous Professional Development for Teachers 91 MARIA LUISA PEDDITZI
Teachers’ Theories about Children’s Learning: An Explorative Research
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PETRA JAVRH & JANA KALIN
Connecting reality with the vision of educating teachers
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JANA KALIN & BARBARA ŠTEH 57
Teachers' and parents' attitudes towards the mutual co-operation 109
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CLAUDIO-RAFAEL VASQUEZ-MARTÍNEZ
NEVENKA TATKOVIĆ & IVA CATIC
Repercussions of the Management and Evaluation of the Costs in Distance and Actual Education and through the Method “Break-even-point”. In Languages Spanish Literature, Teacher Training 115
Curriculum focused on the development of competences in teachers’ initial education 174
MASAMI MATOBA
Lesson Analysis for Sustainable Lesson Study 121
SNJEŽANA MOČINIĆ
Planning a course on the basis of learning outcomes 183 SHAKIRA MUKHTAROVA
Formation of intercultural competence of 190 pre-service teacher in globalization
TAKEHIRO HIRAYAMA
The Current Situation and Issues in Primary Pre-service Teacher Training in Cambodia: Toward to Improving the Quality of Primary Education 127
Part 3 Education Policy, Reforms and School Leadership
YIYING WANG & YANJIE YANG
A New Mode of In-service Training for Art Teachers in Rural Areas of China: From Experiencing to Expressing 132
PHILIPPE REMY
NORMA TARROW, RACHEL TAL, RINA AKOTONAS
BOB ADAMSON & KERRY KENNEDY
Effect of an Ongoing Professional Development Program for Teachers in the ACCESS Program of Negev Bedouin Schools 139
Pragmatic international transfer and outcomes-based curriculum design in Hong Kong
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I. NTSHOE, P. HIGGS, L. HIGGS
Policy reforms in higher education in South Africa: the Changing Academic Profession Project 209
SYLVIA MCMILLAN
Kierkegaard’s Challenge to Corporate education: Lessons for Teachers and teacher educators
Improving School Leadership: Actions & Developments
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CLIFFORD MAYES
The Psychodynamic Dimension of Teaching and Learning: What Prospective Teachers Need to Know 151 MUAMMER ERGÜN, KEREM TEKSEN, AYTEN CANASLAN
The University Preferences of Anatolian Teachers’ Training High School in Turkey 157
POLLY CHEW & DAWN TAN
An Investigation into the Engagement Level as a result of Interdisciplinary Approach in Teaching at Primary 3
215
EMMA LETICIA CANALES RODRÍGUEZ & REYNA DEL CARMEN MARTÍNEZ RODRÍGUEZ
The area of coaching and mentoring: training promoter of the resilient skills in students of junior high school in Mexico (13-15 years old) 221 SABINA JELENC KRASOVEC & SONJA KUMP
IVA CATIC & NEVENKA TATKOVIĆ
Education of Primary School Teachers for 163 Teaching Democratic Citizenship
Learning activities of older adults in the context of their social networks in 227 Slovenia
FRANC CANKAR & TOMI DEUTSCH
SEZGI SARAÇ-SÜZER & ARDA ARIKAN
Cooperation between teachers and parents
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The State of English Language Teaching in Turkish Primary Schools as Reflected in
Prospective English Language Teachers' Memoirs 233 AMALIJA ŽAKELJ
Development of literacy – a pathway to 239 complex knowledge
HASAN JASHARI
Contemporary Concept of School Leadership
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RYMSHASH TOLEUBEKOVA
KRYSTYNA M. BLESZYNSKA & MAREK SZOPSKI
Ethnocultural education in the higher education institutions and its importance in future teacher’s preparation 312
Socio-political determinants of paradigms in Intercultural Education: Cases of Poland and the United States 245
SALTANAT TAZHBAYEVA, AIDA BEYSENBAYEVA, NURZHAMAL SMANOVA
KRYSTYNA NAJDER-STEFANIAK
The specifics of pedagogy of creativity: A comparison of three kinds of pedagogy 251
Part 4 Higher Education, Lifelong Learning and Social Inclusion
IRENA KOTOWICZ-BOROWY
Regional Education in Poland and Ukraine
Educational process modeling in the organisation of nonlearning activity of the higher education institutions 315
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JAMES OGUNLEYE GULIZ AKKAYMAK
PAOLA DUSI
A comparative research report on academics’ and practitioners’ professional views on factors facilitating and hindering the take-up of lifelong learning by adults with mental illness across Europe 317
Participating in order to belong. Affiliation in multicultural society 269
HILARY ENGLISH
OLIVERA KNEZEVIC- FLORIC
The Role of the vocational BTEC National Diploma (BND) in the widening participation agenda 323
Neo-liberalism and 2004 Primary School 264 Education Reform of Turkey
A school leadership or pedagogical management: A key for efficient changes 276 in education
ELIZABETH ACHINEWHU-NWORGU
Reforms in Music Education: Towards Multicultural Music Education 281
Leadership and Management in education – what constitutes an effective and ineffective leadership and management in a ‘Tough Time’? 329
LJILJANA KRNETA
QUEEN CHIOMA NWORGU
Planning and functioning of higher education according to the system quality model TQM supported by information and communication technologies 286
Key factors contributing to undergraduate students' academic success in a higher 336 education institution
SNJEŽANA DOBROTA
GERTRUDE SHOTTE BISERA JEVTIC
The influence of schools on the formation of moral values 291 HAIM GAZIEL
The educational philosophies of primary school teachers: What makes difference? 297
Inclusion, Exclusion and Creativity: Confluences and Contradictions
342
MARTA ANCZEWSKA, CZESŁAW CZABAŁA, JOANNA ROSZCZYŃSKA-MICHTA, JUSTYNA WASZKIEWICZ, PIOTR ŚWITAJ
Recovery in the context of selfmanagement and narratives theories
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PATRÍCIA ALBERGARIA ALMEIDA, JOSÉ JOAQUIM TEIXEIRA-DIAS, MARIANA MARTINHO
Teaching and learning Chemistry: a new approach at the University of Aveiro, in Portugal 357
ANA CANEN & ALBERTO G CANEN
Breaking Up Curricular Borders in Higher Education: opportunities of a multicultural perspective for social inclusion 411 MISS SHAMAAS GUL KHATTAK
ELVI PIRŠL, MARINA DIKOVIĆ, ALESSANDRA POKRAJAC-BULIAN
Intercultural competence and sensitivity from students’ viewpoint 363
Perceptions and Experiences of Women Towards their own Higher Educational Opportunities in Peshawar, NWFP (Pakistan) 416
EFUA AMENYAH, ETIENNE BOURGEOIS & MARIANE FRENAY
L. HIGGS, P. HIGGS, C.C. WOLHUTER, I. NTSHOE
Perceived value, goals and engagement in 369 learning in adult literacy programs
Lifelong Learning and Social Inclusion: 423 A South African Perspective
KSENIJA ROMSTEIN
ALOY EJIOGU
Quality of inclusive practice in preschool education 375
Higher education in Nigeria and the pursuit of excellence and relevance
MARIE J. MYERS
ALEKSANDRA ŠĻAHOVA & MĀRIS ČAČKA
Knowledge-in-action: interactions with cultural diverse group members 381
Art students’ motivation for a creative study activity
GREGORY S. POOLE
MILKA OLJACA, SVETLANA KOSTOVIC, MARIJANA KOSANOVIC
“International” higher education in Japan: Expanding intra-cultural knowledge or (re)defining cultural boundaries? 387
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Lifelong Learning and the Adult Literacy Program as the Approach of Social Inclusion 445
TIBURCIO MORENO OLIVOS
Competence based curriculum frameworks: some roadblocks along the way to change in Mexican Universities
MILICA ANDEVSKI & OLIVERA GAJIĆ
Diagnostic competencies of teachers – 451 a precondition of life-long learning 393
ESMERALDA SUNKO & SONJA KOVACEVIC JORGE G. ARENAS BASURTO
The Age of Majority for Mexico’s Technological Universities: Opportunities for Self-Financing Revenues through Lifelong Learning Programs 399 AMPARO OLIVEROS RUIZ, BENJAMIN VALDEZ SALAS, MARGARITA STOYTCHEVA, JUAN JOSE SEVILLA GARCIA, MIGUEL SCHORR WIENNER, ANGEL VAZQUEZ ALONSO
A Science Technology and Society (STS) Program Implementation to Improve the Social Inclusion of Engineering Students 405
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The inclusion of the autistic children from the educators’ point of view 458 MERUYERT SERIKOVNA MALIBEKOVA
The realization of open remote methods of education 463
PREFACE The Conference This volume contains papers submitted to the 8th International Conference on “Comparative Education and Teacher Training”, organized by the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 9 – 12 June 2010. The overall goal of the conference is to focus academic discussions on the role of Comparative Education and new practices in teacher training. The conference objectives are: 1) to examine different approaches to the role of Comparative Education as a science, research methodology, and academic discipline; 2) to develop linkages with colleagues who work in various teacher training programs at universities, colleges, and institutes around the world; 3) to outline prospects for the development of education policy and school reforms at the institutional, regional, national and international level; 4) to discuss new practices in higher education, lifelong learning and social inclusion. Organizing this Conference is our way of being an integral part of the international comparative education community. The Bulgarian Comparative Education Society The Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES) was founded in Sofia in October 1991. Since March 1992 it has been a constituent member-society of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES). The BCES is very small. It is perhaps the smallest society in the WCCES. Yet despite its size, the BCES plays an active role in the Southeast European region and keeps close contacts with the WCCES Secretariat and many member-societies. The Bulgarian Comparative Education Society is registered as a non-profit, nongovernmental organization. It focuses on: • organizing conferences on comparative education • doing comparative education studies • coordinating international research projects • supporting publications on problems of education • organizing study visits to Bulgaria for foreign students and teachers • publishing books on comparative and international education BCES topics of special interest are: • comparative education as a university discipline • pre-service and in-service teacher training • education policy at international, national, regional and local level • new practices in preschool and primary education • new practices in secondary education • reforms in higher education 9
The Book The book consists of 76 papers, written by 120 authors, and grouped into four parts: 1) Comparative Education as a University Discipline (9 papers) 2) Pre-Service and In-Service Teacher Training (22 papers) 3) Education Policy, Reforms and School Leadership (21 papers) 4) Higher Education, Lifelong Learning and Social Inclusion (24 papers) The geography of the studies, included in the book, covers: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, England, France, FYROM, Greece, Hong Kong, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Malaysia, Mexico, Montserrat, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Togo, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, USA. I would like to express my most sincere gratitude to all participants in the BCES 8th International Conference for their contributions. Special thanks are also due to the Thematic Section Chairs – Charl Wolhuter, Bruno Leutwyler, Marinela Mihova, and James Ogunleye – for their constructive cooperation in the conference organization and editorial work on the different parts of the book.
Nikolay Popov Conference Chair, Editor-in-Chief
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Sofia, Bulgaria April 2010