VOLUME 05 / APRIL 2014
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2024-03-28T17:00:42ZItalian language curriculum versus labour market challenges
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Italian language curriculum versus labour market challenges
GJINALI, Aida; KASTRATI, Diana
The purpose of this research is to emphasize the issues that arise from the actual application of Italian language curriculum versus nowadays labour market challenges that are met in Albania and abroad, and to offer possible solutions related to it. In this research we are going to present a summarized overview of the Italian language curriculum for both existing studies’ cycles in the Faculty of Foreign Languages, of the development of this language in the Albanian framework, a summarized overview on the Italian or Italian-Albanian enterprises operating in our country and the employment needs they have. It is a well-known fact that the Italian language cannot be considered an instrumental language; therefore, there are encountered dificulties in studying, acknowledging and using it within this framework. From the surveys carried on with irst year students in our faculty, there is noticed a lack of motivation from their part in studying Italian, a very signiicant indicator which emphasizes the dificulties this language faces while functioning as a labour language in a labour market. Of course, this will result in a drastic reduction in the number of students who want to study Italian, and a decrease in the quality of students who will apply in our faculty in the upcoming years. It is true that the average marks of students learning Italian has been that of a decreasing trend. Also, the employment index of graduated students according to the proper study proile is very low, and this highlights the low level of needs and requirements that labour market offers for this students’ proile. Therefore, there arises the necessity of an urgent intervention in the curriculum of this language, to offer programmes which are suitable to the education of people who can ind a job in their study ield in the future. Also, this intervention is necessary not only in the employment framework, but also in handling the challenges that we face due to globalization; in order to make our faculty and especially the
programs offered by the Italian department more attractive, so that they can serve to the requirements and needs of the future, in collaboration with local and foreign institutions. The ways and the forms of this intervention and the proposals will be a very important part of this research. This intervention will be vertical, as well as horizontal, for more eficiency and productivity in the education of people capable to manage future challenges.
2014-04-01T00:00:00ZThe importance of e-learning system in higher education in developing countries - A Case of Macedonia
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The importance of e-learning system in higher education in developing countries - A Case of Macedonia
XHAFERI, Gazmend
The growing inluence of information technology on all aspects of life, also including the education sector, particularly higher education, involves developing countries to use e-learning system that helps in the realization of the learning process, to follow the example of developed countries. E- Learning systems are a technological development aimed at the use of the information and communication technology for the distribution teaching materials and interaction between students and teachers. E-learning system in developing countries represent a new era in communication between students and teachers. E-learning represents an essential paradigm on higher education unlimited by time and place, offering new opportunities for the development of the educational process, making it more lexible and cost effective, thus many universities in developing countries have begun apply such a system. The purpose of this study is to identify the importance of using an e-learning system in the learning process in developing countries, such as Macedonia, speciically will focus on State University of Tetovo. By literature review and discussions with university colleagues and students will be shown the importance, various issue and beneits of e-learning system in the learning process in the SUT. From the study will be seen that the implementation of e-learning system in higher education will be very important on improving and increasing the eficiency of the learning process.
2014-04-01T00:00:00ZAdult Attachment Styles Of Mothers In Preschool
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Adult Attachment Styles Of Mothers In Preschool
ATA, Seda; AKMAN, Berrin
The aim of this paper was to review previous research/literature that focused speciically on attachment styles of mothers in the effectiveness of preschool. In early childhood, children make transitions into new environments where they meet new and unfamiliar challenges in. So, they need to strong support for have a smooth transition. Especially as facilitator and encouraging mothering has come to important through this transition. Besides this, the power of home and school cooperation plays crucial role in success of preschool education. Thus, mothers are supposed to make a contribution create a supportive network. The most inluential theories about developmental and interpersonal relationships is attachment theory. Bowlby (1988, p.5) asserts that “Attachment theory is a way of conceptualizing the propensity of human beings to make strong affectional bonds to particular others and of explaining the many forms of emotional distress and personality disturbance, including anxiety, anger, depression, and emotional detachment, to which unwilling separation and loss give rise”. Many researches have shown that attachment inluences processes related to psychosocial functioning, life satisfaction, and well-being (e.g., Cassidy & Shaver, 2008). Secure mothers, are able to be consistent, reliable, and available to their infants and children, effectively attuning to and regulating both negative and positive states of arousal. Mothers with a preoccupied state of mind relative to attachment are inconsistent and unreliable, sometimes overattuning and hyperactivating in response to their infants’ negative arousal. Mothers with a dismissing state of
mind exhibit a restricted range of emotional expressiveness and a tendency to withdraw from interactions involving negative affect. Preoccupied mothers are those whose own internal working models do not support organized caregiving. In this context this study emphasizes on studies that have examined speciic components
(e.g., parent involvement in preschool and communication) on mothers role in preschool education. We also provide general conclusions and suggestions for future research.
2014-04-01T00:00:00ZUsing the Data from Learning Management System in Educational Data Mining (Amasya University Moodle Sample)
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Using the Data from Learning Management System in Educational Data Mining (Amasya University Moodle Sample)
UNAL, Yavuz; CAKIR, Recep
Extracting meaningful results from educational data and using these results in reorganizing education is called educational data mining. In this study, students studying at Amasya University, Faculty of Education, Department of Computer education and Instructional Technology, some of whose undergraduate courses are instructed in accordance with Moodle system, have been analyzed by means of data mining. For this purpose, the log iles received from Moodle system and the database iles of Moodle system were extracted using SQL queries, and clustering, association rule mining analyses were made with the help of the WEKA program and Microsoft data mining tools software. The obtained results and recommendations have been expressed.
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