In the monograph, Contemporary Topics in Education III twelve contributions are presented. Papers were written in the scope of a doctoral study program Teacher Education and Educational Sciences at the Faculty of Education University of Ljubljana within the Writing scientific papers and presenting scientific results module. Scientific field of Education is extremely interdisciplinary and in that manner also the papers present various contents: factors of quality science and mathematics teaching, gifted students, people with special needs, immigrants, different forms of assistance to individuals that are in distress, psychological well-being of individuals, intergeneration coexistence, role of the Catholic church in the educational context and analyses of the scientific research in the field of education.
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
COBISS.SI-ID: 281165568On the 20th and the 21st of August 2015 an international conference organised by The Centre for the Research and Promotion of Giftedness at the Faculty of Education University of Ljubljana on Identifying the Gifted and How to Work with Them in Pre-school Institutions and Primary Schools was held. The opening ceremony speeches were given by prof. dr. Maja Makovec Brenčič, the Slovenian Minister of Education, Science and Sport and prof. dr. Janez Krek, the dean of the Faculty of Education University of Ljubljana. The conference was attended by around of 250 pre-school teachers, teachers, school-counselling workers, headmasters and higher education teachers and co-workers from nine European countries. Eight plenary lectures were presented and participants could select between eight content focused sections with presentations of the professional work in practice. They could also attend two out of 14 practical workshops and a symposium. In the scope of the conference on the 20th of August, a roundtable to celebrate a recently obtained accreditation of CRSN PeF UL as an European Talent Centre was organised on cooperation in the field of working with the gifted.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 10687561Trends of contemporary science education indicate that it is necessary to encourage students to understand authentic problems and develop their ability to solve them. This is more difficult in science due to the complexity of science concepts which is reflected in the presentation at the macro, submicro- and symbolic level. The complexity of the science concepts and its impact on teaching, learning and consequently on the ability to solve various science problems are presented in this paper. The formation of the adequate mental model of a specific science concept depends on understanding of all these three levels. The macro level is supposed to be always included in teaching, but the other two depend on the abilities of students, such as their preknowledge and their abstract thinking abilities. Different visualization elements can be used to lower chemical conepts abstractness at submicroscopic level. In recent years, eye tracking has become an increasingly used technique for the monitoring of various processes of learning and problem solving in science education. This technique allows gathering data about eye movements in the information processing, because there are significant correlations between the processes of cognition and eye movements. In this way it can be determinated how students think when exposed to the authentic science problem solving, and which factors influence the problem solving.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 10848073At the lecture Home economics study program at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education, was presented. The aspects of using molecular gastronomy and specifically where we can find molecular gastronomy in Slovenia were discussed. The presentations of the elective module (3 ECTS) at the 2nd cycle entitled Molecular and nutritional aspects of contemporary gastronomy was following where we discussed the course competences such as: (1) understand the importance of molecular gastronomy; (2) understand the changes in food, taking place in various technological food processing operations… Some topics of molecular gastronomy, such as definition, history and some methods in molecular gastronomy (sferification, carbonization) were presented to the students. It si important to evaluate the course with students, and for that reason some results were presented.
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
COBISS.SI-ID: 10877257The main topics of the higher education textbook Music activities of literacy training are music literacy and music literacy training. The authors discuss literacy as an ability to establish communication in a given symbolic system. Accordingly, they define music literacy as a scope of abilities, skills and knowledge that enable us to listen, experience, evaluate, perform and create music. In doing so a characteristic process of music literacy training is in the forefront that is theoretically and practically reasoned through listening and preforming an also reading and writing music phases. The innovation of the approach to the discussed content is in the way that the information is given and rationalised. Namely, the book is published in an e-form. Since music is by its nature, an auditive form the information in this way can be heard and furtherly evaluated and acquired by a direct connection to listening audio and video recordings on YouTube. This approach of integration of various learning environments enables readers to achieve a high level of interactivity. The reader learns about music from the music, and meanwhile develops audiation skills – the form of music thinking that enables and supports the process of music literacy training.
D.10 Educational activities
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