The purpose of this paper is to present the everyday school life of younger pupils in pandemic times. The rationale behind the study (conducted from the child’s perspective) lies in the conviction that minors are active actors who understand and interpret the social reality around them and, therefore, are the most reliable source of information (for adults) on the meaning of everyday situations for them (Corsaro, 2005). The research material was collected through a focus group interview with first grade pupils from selected primary schools in Poland. This helped the authors understand children’s experience of distance learning. Analysis of the collected material reveals the many and diverse experiences children have regarding e-learning. The study makes it possible to identify the main categories impacting their daily school-related activities, the tangible environment that constitutes the physical space behind these activities, and the accompanying emotions.
This paper describes the Phase II results of qualitative research involving design teams of primary school second-graders divided as follows: designers (D) – the creators of a solution; clients (C) and executors (E) – helping to improve the project. The study aimed to observe and describe what questions and feedback stimulated new idea generation to improve the initial solution, addressing the following research question: What does a constructive dialogue between peers look like when developing a group project? The adopted research approach was based on educational team design (the case study method). Based on observations and peer conversations, the authors determined the conditions that facilitated constructive dialogue, and those that hindered the accomplishment of the group work in question.
W artykule przedstawione będą wyniki badań nad wiedzą pedagogiczną przyszłych nauczycieli na temat celów edukacji wczesnoszkolnej oraz jej modyfikacjami w procesie uczenia się zawodu w ciągu pierwszych trzech lat studiów. Podstawową kategorię teoretyczną wykorzystaną w badaniach stanowiły „reprezentacje społeczne”, definiowane jako społecznie uzgodniona, podzielana, ponadjednostkowa, uogólniona wiedza o obiektach. Celem badań własnych było zidentyfikowanie dynamiki ewolucji treści, struktury oraz znaczeń nadawanych reprezentacjom celów edukacji wczesnoszkolnej. W badaniach pełnych o charakterze panelu rzeczywistego dwukrotnie (w odstępie dwóch lat), uczestniczyło blisko 400 studentów wczesnej edukacji w województwach lubelskim i świętokrzyskim. Wybrana metodologia umożliwiła nakreślenie map, na których zostały uchwycone przesunięcia elementów reprezentacji społecznych w 1. i 2. etapie badania. Dzięki temu można było zauważyć dynamikę i kierunek zmiany rozumienia celów wczesnej edukacji ilustrujący napięcia między tym, co tradycyjne, uzgodnione, znane, i tym, co nowe, jeszcze niewynegocjowane i niezrozumiane/niedobrze zrozumiane.
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This paper presents the results of a study on prospective teachers’ pedagogical knowledge of primary-phase educational objectives and its alterations in the process of learning the profession during the first three years of studies. The primary theoretical category used in the study was “social representation”, defined as socially reconciled, shared, supra-individual, generalized knowledge of objects. The aim of the authors’ own research was to determine the evolutionary dynamics of the content, structure, and meanings attributed to representations of primary-phase educational objectives. The study, in the form of a real-life panel, involved nearly 400 students of primary-phase education faculties in the Lubelskie and Świętokrzyskie voivodeships on two occasions (two years apart). The methodology chosen by the researchers made it possible to draw maps on which the shifts of the elements of social representations between the first and second stage of the study were recorded. This enabled the dynamics and direction of change in the understanding of the objectives of primary-phase education to be observed, illustrating the tension between what is traditional, consensual, and known, and what is new, not yet negotiated and not yet understood, or misunderstood.
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