Naslov
What Awaits a Teacher in the Future?

Autori
Jukić, Renata

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
Didactic Challenges IV: Futures Studies in Education / Inayatullah, Sohail ; Dubovicki, Snježana ; Bilić, Anica - OSIJEK : Fakultet za odgojne i obrazovne znanosti Sveučilišta Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku ; Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti (HAZU) ; Centar za znanstveni rad u Vinkovcima, 2023, 32-45

ISBN
978-953-8371-15-8

Skup
Didactic Challenges IV: Futures Studies in Education

Mjesto i datum
Osijek, Hrvatska, 26.05.2022. - 27.05.2022

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Plenarno

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
alpha generation, future, digitization, teaching

Sažetak
The process of teaching and learning changes as the characteristics of the generations change, including much more than the official curricula, and with the changing needs of the children that keep coming, the teaching process and teachers must adapt and change as well. Education must be futuristically oriented seeing that its main function is to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary for effective participation in the present and future times. Alpha generation students have recently been noticed in schools. They represent children born between 2010 and 2025, children who, as scientists and experts observe and predict, possess several characteristics that affect the changed way of learning, communication and socialization process. They live in a digital world, prefer a virtual environment over a physical one, they are used to rapid changes and exchanges of content, constant availability and immediacy, which makes them impatient for the linear systematicity that dominates in traditional schools. They lack patience for frontal teaching and step-by-step logic. We need to predict the future of the teaching process, and we can expect changes at the level of digitization, virtualization, gamification of the teaching process, but also at the content level. Teachers should be digitally "competitive" with children, arm themselves with knowledge and skills related to content that is more interesting to new generations (Prensky calls it "future content"), use methods and forms of work in a multimodal environment, master the communication methods of future generations. Many authors warn about the possible dangers of the dominance of the digital environment in the lives of children and young people (possible disorders of memory, concentration, loss of empathy and social competence, problems in the process of socialization...). The aim of this research is to examine the attitudes and thoughts of teachers who currently work with the Alpha generation, about the changes they currently see in students, expectations and challenges in the teaching process of the future and predictions of future content. The results of the processed data obtained from the analysis of transcripts of interviews conducted with fourteen teachers in 2 focus groups largely confirm the literature data on the Alpha generation, as well as on predictions about the future teaching process. That resulted in various futurological research in the field of didactics direct future teachers towards pedagogy of relationships, development of critical thinking and connection with students, collaborative learning, co-creation of the teaching process, flipped classroom, studying case studies, learning in different environments, individualization of the teaching process, research, and experiential learning.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Pedagogija, Obrazovne znanosti (psihologija odgoja i obrazovanja, sociologija obrazovanja, politologija obrazovanja, ekonomika obrazovanja, antropologija obrazovanja, neuroznanost i rano učenje, pedagoške discipline)

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