Academic literature on the topic 'Folk high school teacher'

Erica Simon26/2 1910 - 11/2 1993William Michelsen writes a personal obituary about the French Grundtvig scholar Erica Simon. He first met Erica Simon in the middle of the fifties, when she was studying the Swedish folk high schools and wanted to meet all the Grundtvig scholars and people who put Grundtvig’s ideas into practice. Erica Simon was a university professor in Scandinavian languages and literature, but she also founded her own folk high scholl west of Lyons. Erica Simon’s interest in Grundtvig and her commitment to the Grundtvig’s ideal of .the school for life. was aroused in the mid-fifties, when she studied at Uppsala and met the Swedish folk high scholl Hvilan in Sk.ne. Erica Simon worked together especially with the Nordic folk high school in Kung.lv, and she wanted to spread the knowledge of Grundtvig’s ideas, not only in France, but all over the world. Like Grundtvig, Erica Simon wanted to find the roots of folk culture behind the influence from the Roman Empire, an influence which underlies the centralized school system dating back to Napoleonic France. Erica Simon’s main subject in her Grundtvig research was his ideas of the connection between folk enlightenment and science or scholarship. Science and folk culture are different matters but have to interact in order to establish a scholarship built on folk culture. In accordance with Grundtvig, Erica Simon stresses medieval Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic literature as the Nordic element in universal history, establishing a vernacular culture in opposition to the Latin school and scholarship. Erica Simon was a passionate scholar and interpreter of Grundtvigian ideas. She often visited Denmark and was on the Committe of Grundtvig-Selskabet, where she gave lectures, and she published papers in the Grundtvig-Studier in 1969 and 1973.Erica Simon was born i Königsberg on February 26th, 1910. She spent her youth in Hannover and afterwards studied language and literature in Geneva and in Paris. She married in 1936 and became a widow in 1942, but remarried, bearing the name Vollboudt. Jacques Kleiner, her son from her first marriage, today lives in Switserland. From 1939-54 she was a secondary school teacher in France, but in 1954 she began studying the Nordic folk high school, doing research in Uppsala in 1955-56. In 1962 she became a doctor at the Sorbonne University in Paris (Doctorat d.tat in 1962), with a dissertation about the Swedish folk high schools in the late 18th century.

Transforming a school from traditional teaching and learning to a one-to-one (1:1) classroom, in which a teacher and students have personal digital devices, inevitably requires changes in the way the teacher addresses her role. This study examined the implications of integrating 1:1 computing on teachers’ pedagogical perceptions and the classroom’s educational discourse. A change in pedagogical perceptions during three years of teaching within this model was investigated. The research analyzed data from 14 teachers teaching in a junior high school in the north of Israel collected over the course of three years through interviews and lesson observations. The findings show that the 1:1 computing allows teachers to improve their teaching skills; however, it fails to change their fundamental attitudes in regard to teaching and learning processes. It was further found that the use of a laptop by each student does not significantly improve the classroom’s learning discourse. The computer is perceived as an individual or group learning technology rather than as a tool for conducting learning discourse. An analysis of the data collected shows a great contribution to collaboration among teachers in preparing technology-enhanced lessons. The findings are discussed in terms of Bruner’s (Olson & Bruner, 1996) “folk psychology” and “folk pedagogy” of teachers and “the new learning ecology” framework in 1:1 classroom (Lee, Spires, Wiebe, Hollebrands, & Young, 2015). One of the main recommendations of this research is to reflect on findings from the teaching staff and the school community emphasizing 1:1 technology as a tool for significant pedagogical change. It seems that the use of personal technology per se is not enough for pedagogical changes to take place; the change must begin with teachers’ perceptions and attitudes.

150 Years of the Folk High School- Books around a JubileeBy Hans HenningsenWith the book »Rødding Folk High School 1844 - 1994«, Käthe Z. S. Pedersen and John Pedersen have provided an interesting contribution to the history of the folk high school. Thanks to Chr. Flor, the man behind the initiative to establish the school, Rødding Folk High School became an attempt to realize Grundtvig’s folk high school ideas from the 1830s more than any other school in the first hundred years of the folk high school movement. Among successive principals at Rødding it was above all Sofus Høgsbro who tried to continue Flor’s socially oriented line, but came up against difficulties from several sides. After the war in 1864, the principal and teachers decided to carry on the school at Askov, north of the new border.Another publication from the jubilee year is »Knowledge and Spirit - Ask Folk High School 1869 - 1994« by Thorkild C. Lyby, Doctor of Divinity. After the national disaster in 1864 folk high schools sprang up everywhere, some of them sustained, first and foremost, by the need of the peasants for education and social and political equality, others also by the revivals and the educational ideas of Grundtvig and Kold. The schools that were named after Lars Bjømbak, Viby near Aarhus, belonged to the first category. The »Bjømbak« schools did not have the spirit of the time on their side, as the Grundtvigians had. But politically, the »Bjømbak«s were more class-conscious than the Grundtvigians.The goal was the uprising of the peasantry. As this goal was gradually being approached, the justification for this type of folk high school disappeared. The Association of Folk High Schools in Denmark celebrated the jubilee with a publication by Professor Gunhild Nissen, Doctor of Pedagogics: »Challenges to the Folk High School«. The main view is that the folk high school, which should concern itself with universal matters, was hampered by the alliance with the peasantry and allowed itself to be restricted culturally by the Christian world picture as determined by the revivals. The folk high school proved incapable of opening up towards the young people of modem urban culture, and it failed when the democratic wave of the 60s included the question of student influence, which for example showed itself in the Askov controversy around 1970, which is dealt with in detail in the book.An important post-war innovation within the folk high school was Krogerup Folk High School, established in 1946. This is the subject of the book »Hal Koch and Krogerup Folk High School«, written by the former Minister of Economic Affairs, Poul Nyboe Andersen. Krogerup was a modem attempt to create a folk high school on the immediate inspiration of Grundtvig’s folk high school model. But Krogerup turned out to be a disappointment to its founder and first principal, Professor of Theology Hal Koch.In the political associations and youth organizations that Hal Koch had appealed to, tbe belief in the importance of a national community spirit and the enthusiastic faith in dialogue as the mainstay of democracy did not for long survive the War and the Occupation.However, nothing has contributed more than Hal Koch’s Krogerup work to the transplantation of Grundtvig’s idea of the dialogue and the national community feeling to the modem democratic society.

Debatforum[Forum for debate]In the Forum for debate, readers are invited to respond to issues raised, or to raise new issues relative to the field of Grundtvig studies. Items submitted, preferably in the form of an article, may be of any reasonable length and in any of the languages usually accepted by the journal. Contributions in Grundtvig-Studier 2007 are written by Ove Korsgaard and Pål Bødtker Walstad.Unfortunately, due to a mistake during the editing of Professor, dr. p.d. Ove Korsgaard’s contribution “Hvordan erindres folkehøjskolens historie?” in Grundtvig-Studier 2006, certain sections were misplaced. As this may have caused confusion to the readers, we are reprinting the contribution in its original form. The editors of Grundtvig-Studier 2006 would like to apologise for the misprint. Debatforum: Ernst Triers Grundtvigresepsjon: Om dannelse og yrkesutdanning i Vallekilde[Forum for debate: Ernst Trier ’s Grundtvig reception: On general and vocational education at Vallekilde]By Pål Bødtker WalstadIn 1865 Ernst Trier, a young Danish theologian with a close relation to Grundtvig, established Vallekilde Folk High School. He developed a broad range of occupational education units, covering farming, seamanship and fishing, painting and arts, and, especially with the help of the carpenter and teacher Andreas Bentsen, Vallekilde Folk High School offered a variety of education within the field of crafts. Trier strove to maintain all the occupational education units among Vallekilde’s activities. Since, as he believed, each pupil was created in the image of God and therefore a unique human being, Trier wanted his school to “match” the individualities of the pupils. Grundtvig’s expression “Education and Proficiency for Life” (“Dannelse og Duelighed for Livet”) was by Trier interpreted as a folk high school including general as well as vocational education.

From its establishment in 1942, the Sami folk high school included crafts as an important part of its education program. The Swedish Mission Society, who founded the school, not only wanted to educate Sami youth to better their chances on the labour market but also to give them the opportunity to get acquainted with their Sami culture. Thus Sami crafts had a crucial role in educational activities at the folk high school. With the help of Gert Biesta’s concepts, the article shows that crafts had a socializing function. The teaching strengthened the students’ collective identity and provided them with traditional skills and knowledge. However, Lennart Wallmark, the school principal (1942-1972), stressed the importance of learning crafts for other purposes. Influenced by religious thinkers, he stated that the students would also be strengthened as individuals: a process of subjectification. Moreover, the crafts lessons had a third function: qualification. Though the studies were not vocational as such, they could simplify the process of procuring the quality label bestowed by the Sami organization Same Ätnam to crafts of especially high quality. Wallmark and the teachers in crafts were important for the development of craft education at the folk high school. However, Same Ätnam’s ideas of Sami handicraft and government regulations were also influential. These inner and outer forces contributed to the teaching so that it, on one hand, did not change much but, on the other hand, was congruous with the rest of the society.

AbstractWith increased emphasis on student achievement in schools, teacher education programs are challenged to meet the demand for highly effective teachers. Ensuring that pre-service teachers feel confident in their ability to teach, prompted one Midwestern University to implement an extended student teaching placement. The idea behind this endeavor was two fold; first to provide future teachers a more robust and diverse classroom experience; and secondly to provide more opportunities for students to get experience in high-risk school settings. There is very limited research on the impact of year-long student teaching on a teacher’s sense of efficacy. The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy of teacher candidates placed in a year-long student teaching placement to teacher candidates placed in a traditional one semester (16 week) placement. All teacher candidates completed a 24 questionTeachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scaleas well as nine demographic questions. The survey developed at Ohio State University by Tschannen-Moran and Woolfolk Hoy (2001), measures teacher attitudes towards working with students, student engagement, instructional practices, and classroom management. Specifically, the questions represent essential tasks in teaching such as assessment, differentiating lessons for individual students, dealing with students with learning challenges, repairing student understanding, and encouraging student engagement and interest. The results of the study indicated that pre-service teacher candidates in a year-long student teaching placement were more satisfied with their ability to engage students and manage classroom behavior than their counterparts in a traditional one semester placement.

Today, the issues of creativity, the disclosure of the creative beginning of each child as a real subject of life, are gaining a new sound. Society today desperately needs people who think creatively, are able to create culture, live р р, develop р. Therefore, the formation of an educated, creative personality р one of the priority tasks of education reform р Ukraine. Under the conditions of the national revival of the spirituality and culture of the Ukrainian people, oral folk art can р an effective means of forming communicative competence. Therefore, younger students should р offered the best examples of folklore. After all, they are close to the children’s world. The ред of oral folk art during the educational process with children has its own methodology and sequence, which takes into account the specifics and features of the child’s age, compliance with which will contribute to the development of speech р general and the formation of speech and communicative competence. Also, one of the important, effective ways to develop verbal creativity р junior high school has always been a folk tale, as one of the varieties of folklore. After all, р р a fairy tale that best activates children’s imagination and creative thinking, serves as a model of literary language and a means of developing coherent speech, a source of images and plots. Listening to fairy tales allows you to expand, enrich your vocabulary, lay a solid foundation for coherent speech and communicative competence. After all, fairy tales, as a rule, include repetitions, repeated listening to which helps to memorize words and individual expressions and, consequently, replenish the passive vocabulary.The teacher needs to create appropriate conditions for the full speech development of students. After all, by systematically using various genres of oral folk art р the educational process, significant results can р achieved. Oral folk art provides an example of literary correct, pure language, significantly enriches the passive and active vocabulary, forms knowledge about the environment, as a result р the basis for the formation of both language and speech competence of primary school children.

Modern higher education actualizes the need of patriotism upbringing for future teachers as a feel and as a basic quality of the person on the basis of new approaches and new ways of its implementation. To solve the problem with success, it will be effective to create a patriotic educational environment of the University. Patriotic revival, taking place in modern Ukraine, activates society attention to the problem of harmonious, creative, spiritually developed, tolerant personality. Therefore, Ukrainian music using in patriotic education of the future teacher becomes prospective, necessary and relevant. The patriotic upbringing of high school students by means of musical art has its own characteristics, which requires extraordinary approaches to the quality of teacher training as a unique person capable in creativity and innovation in the process of patriotic education of schoolchildren. In order to find ways to improve the activities of universities, it is necessary to synthesize the latest achievements of pedagogy and old pedagogical traditions. Modern science should acquire a profound national content and character, to continuously evolve. Young people need to master new conceptual approaches to a correct understanding of patriotism, their own position on this issue. Musical art as a means of forming the national of future teachers is a powerful stimulus in the young people spiritual and moral formation. But attracting students to art is possible only on the solid foundation of spiritual, patriotic, folk music and the best works of modern times. Improvement of students’ musical education system affected the issues of using Ukrainian national folklore. The eternal spiritual traditions of the Ukrainian people should become the property of future teachers. The attraction of musical art specialty students to Ukrainian folk music is one of the ways in spiritual revival of Ukraine. The national awareness upbringing of youth by means of musical art will be effective provided when innovative technologies are used: purposeful, systematic and consistent introduction into practice of original, innovative methods, techniques, embracing a holistic educational process.

The development of a teaching material must be based on the analysis of student needs. Development of teaching materials have to be able to answer or solve problems or difficulties in learning. This study aims to know the development of writing folk poetry teaching material according to the materials expert team with copy the master technique for seventh grade student of junior high school 1 Rantau Selatan, in Labuhan Batu District. This study was conducted by using Probability Sampling technique. The result shows that all teachers and students need modules in the learning process. Teaching material products developed in folk poetry writing materials with copy the master learning technique for seventh grade students of junior high school 1 Rantau Selatan meet the requirements and are appropriate to use based on the validation of material experts and design experts.