Problems and Prospects in Higher Education

Edited by Gregory T. Papanikos and Nicholas Pappas

ISBN: 978-960-6672-89-7, 454 pages

First published in 2010 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

Introduction & Acknowledgements

G. Papanikos & N. Pappas

Part I: Higher Education: Teaching and Learning

1.	The Relationship among Gender, Age, Study Mode, Learning Approaches and Academic Achievement: The Case of Hong Kong Sub-degree Students Yiu Kong Ringo Chan		3
2.	A Study of Industrial-oriented Core Competence and its Professional Program for Employment in the University of Science and Technology Chi-Cheng Chang		23
3.	Representations of Citizenship among Turkish University Students: A Qualitative Investigation İlkay Demir		33
4.	Micro-Scaled Column-Chromatography for Separation of Colour Materials as Separation Technique Husnuye Durmaz and Hasan Ozyildirim		45
5.	Theory and Practice in Professional Education: Teaching Strategies for Bridging the Chasm Sue Holt and Yvonne McNamara		53
6.	Undergraduate Nurses’ Perception of Applying their Pharmacology Knowledge to Practice Michelle Honey		65
7.	Study Progress in Higher Education Eva Jereb and Marko Ferjan		73
8.	Boarders, Boundaries and Frontiers: First Year Experience in a Culturally Diverse University Moyra Keane		85
9.	The Impact of a Semester-Long Study Abroad Program on the Intercultural Competence of Undergraduate College Students Gita Maharaja		93
10.	Learning from Contextualized Versus Abstract Representations of Worked-Out Problems: Implications for Engineering Education Roxana Moreno, Martin Reisslein and Gamze Ozogul		105
11.	Adapting Service Learning to Study Abroad: Lessons Learned from the Unexpected Richard J. Rexeisen		115
12.	A Tool Proposal to Assess Competences in Business and Administration Degree Eva Asensio del Arco, Yolanda Cerezo López, Teresa de Dios Alija, Yolanda Rodríguez Luengo and María Consuelo Valbuena Martínez		127
13.	A Curriculum Model for the Education and Training of Management Jasmina Starc and Annmarie Gorenc Zoran		143
14.	Higher Education Preferences in Israel: Center and Periphery Compared Shlomo Getz		153
Part II: Higher Education: Administration and Policy
15.	Change Management in Higher Education: The Introduction of Performance Oriented Payment in German Universities Christoph Biester	167
16.	Strategic Planning and a Balanced Scorecard in Higher Education: How to Make a Strategic Plan in Turkish Universities? Verda Gizem Furuzan and Hoscan Ensari	183
17.	Exploring the Integration of Merged Chinese Higher Education Institutions in Management and Leadership Dimension Dong Li	195
18.	Impact of High Education on Lithuanian and on European Union Labour Market and Economic Growth Žaneta Simanavičienėand Vilda Gižienė	209
Part III: Teacher Education
19.	Restructuring a Secondary Teacher Education Program to Meet 21^st Century Realities Judith Battraw and Marilyn Watkins	223
20.	The Joy of Learning: Becoming Independent Learners Feyza Doyran	235
21.	Attitudes and Developing Practices of Pre-service Secondary School Mathematics Teachers for Urban Contexts Pier A. Junor Clarke	243
22.	A Comparison of Biology Teacher Education Programs in Germany, England and Turkey Hülya Delibaş and Cem Babadoğan	257
23.	The Determination of the Relationship between the University Students’ Areas of Interest and their Academic Achievements From Different Perspectives Sibel Dinçyürek, Müge Beidoğlu and Canan Perkan Zeki	267
24.	Teacher Training in Romania Monica Oprescu and Florin Oprescu	279
Part IV: Pre-Service Teaching and Education
25.	Bureaucratic Socialization and Education Institutions Ayşe Ottekin Demirbolat	291
26.	What Novice Teachers need to know about Classroom Management and Administrators Brenda Logan	305

27.	Problems that Pre-service Teachers Experience and Challenges in Teacher Education (Turkey Sample) Sarem Ozdemir and Ahmet Guneyli	313
28.	Teacher Concerns among the Pre-service Teachers Feride Sulen Sahin	327
29.	The Perceptions of Preschool Pre-service Teachers related to the Children’s Rights Education Course Arife Figen Ersoy and Berrin Dinç	335
Part V: Professional Development and In-Service Education:
30.	Turning Nurses into Teachers: A Work Based Learning Approach to the Development of Professional Identity in Teaching Nicola Andrew	347
31.	Who am I? A Study to Some Private Child Care Workers’ Awareness of their Professional Roles Mei-Chueh Chou	357
32.	The Role of Teachers’ Altruistic Behaviors on Prediction of Job Satisfaction Levels Esra İşmen Gazioğlu and Gamze Eryenen	367
33.	Enhancing the Teacher Selection Process: Early Data from an Investigation into why and how a Group of Successful Teachers developed their Careers as Non-native Teachers of English Betty Jean Gran	379
34.	What Makes a Good Educator? An Exploration of Personality Traits of Educators based on Current Interventions and Approaches Kalaivani Ganesh	391
35.	The Status of the Teaching Profession and Ways to Improve it as Perceived by Various Target Groups Indra Dedze, Marina Gurbo and Irina Jemeljanova	403
36.	The Role of Higher Education in Redefining the Role of Teacher Professionalism Pamela Hodson	417
37.	Teachers’ Performance in the Late Phase of their Career Bohumíra Lazarová	429
38.	School-Based In-Service Education and Training as Intervention Strategy for Teacher Professional Development in the Eastern Free State of South Africa Khazamula Samson Milondzo and Nana Adu-Pipim Boaduo	439
List of Contributors		451