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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsThe Restructuring Process of Teacher Training System in Turkey: A Model of Teacher Training Based on Post-Graduate Education (PGCE)Sabahattin Deniz, Nurettin SahinThe article highlights the development and restructuring of teacher education policy in Turkey and reforms in late 1990s. It includes an overview of the history of modern teacher education in the country and outlines the current system. The purpose of this paper was to describe the nature of reforms and restructuring process based on post-graduate teacher education (PGCE) in the … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 2, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2006 · 7,982 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsThe Impact of Virtual Classes on Students’ Performance in Open Learning Environments: The Case of Arab Open University, Saudi ArabiaKhaled Suwais, Ali AlshahraniOpen learning aims to deliver different educational services and activities for learners throughout an organised set of policies and procedures. The ultimate objective of such policies is to minimise the geographical and time limitations that might affect the students’ performance during his or her academic life. The Arab Open University in Saudi Arabia is one of the leading universities that … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 14, Issue 1 · 3 Jan 2018 · 8,893 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsThe Role of Mentoring in STEM Faculty Leadership to Broadening Participation in STEM Faculty and StudentsKula A. Francis, Karyl AskewMentoring in faculty development is seen as acatalyst to broaden the participation of underrepresented groups in Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) leadership. STEM facultyleaders are organizational influencers with or without formal authority orappointments. Within the fields of STEM,mentoring is often construed as more than senior faculty mentoring junior faculty. Thisstudy explores the perspectives of 13 professors and chairs at HistoricallyBlack … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 18, Issue 1 · 14 Sep 2022 · 6,084 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsThe Rise of Abstract Thinking in History. The Developmental Approach Illuminates the Foundations of the Russian Socio-Historical PsychologyGeorg OesterdiekhoffLuria's empirical study in Uzbekistan and Kirgistan belongs to the core of the Russian School of Socio-Historical Psychology. The goal of this article is to examine that research again and to disclose their true fundamentals. All the tests Luria had used in Central Asia come from developmental psychology. However, neither Luria nor his followers fully understood the foundations and consequences … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 18, Issue 1 · 2 Apr 2022 · 8,134 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsA STUDY OF FIRST YEAR TERTIARY STUDENTS’ MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE- CONCEPTUAL AND PROCEDURAL KNOWLEDGE, LOGICAL THINKING AND CREATIVITYGurudeo Anand Tularam, Kees HulsmanThis study focuses on students in first year environmental science degree programs where traditionally mathematical emphasis has been much less than the strict science or math majors. The importance now placed in applied mathematics means that students need to gain more conceptual and quantitative knowledge in not only the environmental degree programs but also in most if not all non-mathematical … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 9, Issue 3 · 1 Aug 2013 · 7,255 accessesView PDFCite