European Journal of Contemporary Education

390-397

Authors: Bahri Aydin, Rushan Ziatdinov

Self-control is a basic skill which enables individuals to be happy and successful, and it can and needs to be improved through education. One of the objectives of maintaining discipline in a classroom is to facilitate students in developing self-control, and the opinions of teachers may be taken into account regarding this. Moreover, teachers have a crucial role in helping students to develop these skills. The aim of our work is to assess how Turkish primary school teachers can help students acquire these skills. The research was conducted using data from one hundred and three primary school teachers from ten schools in Bolu, Turkey, utilising a screening model. Two sample events relating to how students can acquire self-control were given to teachers in a form. The opinions of the teachers were then represented visually as sector charts using a computer algebra system Mathematica v.10, based on the data provided.

410-417

Authors: Elena Bendíková

The study presents basic information on the curricular transformation of physical and sport education in Slovakia after the year 1989, which is related to the education process in the 21st century. What is more, it points to the basis for modern transformation in relation to sports as well as to insufficient undergraduate teacher training and its consequences for the performance of newly qualified teachers. These findings are partially included in the grant VEGA no. 1/0376/14 Physical Activity Intervention for the Prevention of Health of the Population of Slovakia.

430-437

Authors: Josephine Djana, Babu Georgeb

Many universities in Ghana have had a desire to ensure equitable access to formal tertiary education for the growing number of the working public who have sought to improve or better their educational status in tertiary institutions. For many of these working public or individuals, it is almost impossible to stay off work to enrol in these tertiary institutions but rather would most likely prefer to improve their educational and knowledge acquisition status in the comfort of their homes and in a relaxed and calm environment. This study is aimed at distinguishing between whether tertiary institutions should be evenly and commonly regulated and the learning process standardized for all individuals or to be specifically adapted for the individual needs of the target market.

452-463

Authors: Andrei A. Malyshev, Leonid S. Khodasevich, Marina A. Maznichenko, Sergei M. Romanov

The article reveals the potential of the youth tourism, addressing a number of problems of higher education: formation of a general cultural competence, preservation and strengthening of students’ health, enhancing educational progress, motivating the physical self-improvement, contributing to the formation of healthy lifestyle values and developing social adaptation skills. The need to integrate these tasks with educational, sports, medical and biological technologies is scientifically grounded.The application of sports and wellness tourism in the educational potential of curricular and extracurricular activities of the University was developed as a theoretical model. This work describes the progress and results of its experimental testing.The results show that the sports and wellness tourism practices in higher educational establishments (on the basis of integration of educational, sports, medical and biological technologies) contribute to the formation of a general cultural competence, improve students’ health, increase their fitness and motivate the physical self-improvement, as well as contribute to the development of physical qualities, in both men and women.

472-478

Authors: Yury N. Slepko, Natalia A. Baranova, Elena A. Fayurshina, Nicholas W. Mitiukov

The discussion of the results of an empirical research of the problem of forming the information basis of educational activity of students studying in pedagogical higher education institution is carried out in the article. The information basis of educational activity is considered by the authors as a subsystem of psychological system of activities implemented in the conditions of educational and professional teaching. It is considered in the context of forming other subsystems of activities (motives, purposes, the program, decision making, educational and important qualities) allocated in a single system in system-genetic approach of V. D. Shadrikov. The authors select the concept of professional formation and realization of personality of Yu.P. Povarenkov and his understanding of psychological structure of the subject of work as a basis for the analysis of forming the information basis of educational activity in the conditions of educational and professional teaching. According to the authors of the article, these approaches allow to carry out the analysis of educational and professional development at the personal (psychological) level whereas other existing approaches are limited only to the subject level of the activity analysis. Formation of information basis of educational activity includes qualitative and quantitative changes on different study courses and stages of educational and professional activity. Using methods of correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, analysis of the correlation relation the authors set the task to analyze the process of forming the information basis of educational activity in a more detailed way. The methods used in work allowed the authors to specify the existing ideas not only concerning the relationship between success of educational activities and psychological features of its information basis, but also study the influence of the latter on success of students' education. Also, the authors carried out the analysis of interference of the activities realized in teaching process on psychological features of its information basis.