Экономический механизм обеспечения экологической безопасности региона как объект управления

В статье раскрываются вопросы определения функциональных компонент экономического механизма обеспечения экологической безопасности региона, в качестве которых выделяют: экономико-финансовую, организационную, технологическую, нормативно-правовую и социально-культурные компоненты. Представлена классификация и характеристика составных элементов финансово-экономической компоненты механизма.У статті розкриваються питання визначення функціональних компонентів економічного механізму забезпечення екологічної безпеки регіону, у якості яких виділяють: економіко-фінансовий, організаційний, технологічний, нормативно-правову й соціально-культурний компоненти. Представлено класифікацію й характеристику складених елементів фінансово-економічного компонента механізму.The article deals with the questions of the functional components determination for economic mechanism of regional ecologic safety providing, as which are determined: economy-financial, organizing, technological, normative-legal and social-cultural components. There is presented a categorization and feature for the elements of financial-economic component of the mechanism

Listening to Young Children’s Voices: The Evaluation of a Coding System

Listening to young children’s voices is an issue with increasing relevance for many researchers in the field of early childhood research. At the same time, teachers and researchers are faced with challenges to provide children with possibilities to express their notions, and to find ways of comprehending children’s voices. In our research we aim to provide a method for listening to, and analyzing young children’s voices on educational issues. In this article we describe a new step in our research in which we are dealing with the issues of validity and reliability for the evaluation of our coding system: is our coding system for analyzing young children’s voices valid and reliable

Dutch early years classroom teachers facilitating and guiding musical play: problems and opportunities

Musical play is an activity in which young children more or less freely explore and create with sound with limited guidance from a teacher. This study explored the occurrence of musical play in Dutch early years education (4–5 year olds). Twenty early years classroom teachers were interviewed about the content of the music education taking place in their classroom, and about a possible facilitation and guidance of musical play. Findings showed that ten teachers were unfamiliar with musical play, whilst nine experienced it as too difficult due to limited experience and knowledge. One teacher successfully included musical play, due to additional pre-service training. We argue that musical play may be a valuable addition to early years music education, one that enables young children to learn about music more consistent with their age and interests. Based on our outcomes, we advocate the provision of additional teacher education around facilitating musical play

Towards a knowledge-rich learning environment in preparatory secondary education

In this case study a novel educational programme for students in preparatory vocational education was studied. The research questions were: (1) Which teaching/learning processes occur in a simulated workplace using the concept of a knowledge-rich workplace? (2) What is the role of models and modelling in the teaching/learning processes? The curriculum project consisted of design and construction tasks. The students were collaboratively involved in the process of designing a tricycle for a real customer. This real-life activity creates opportunities for students to develop and use models, which can be used in more than in one context. The case study explored how the teachers deal with the students' explicit and implicit need for knowledge and skills. The main findings are that teachers more often provide this knowledge, rather than guide the students in reconstructing it, and towards the end of the project, knowledge tended to remain situated