Vol. 1 No. 12 (2019)

The articles contained in this issue of the journal contribute to the broad context of the processes and interactions aimed at changing individuals placed in different educational spaces. These changes depend primarily on social alterations and expectations, and are largely due to ideals, intentions and educational goals.

The texts in the first part constitute a presentation of research related to cognitive processes necessary for pupils and students to perform specific au- tonomous tasks. They raise issues regarding safe educational environments and the relationships that occur between anti-social behavior and a sense of identification with selected educational environments in a group of socially maladjusted youth. They also present the conditions and symptoms of depres- sive disorders while pointing to their effects, i.e., suicides committed by minors. The next part presents, in turn, research devoted to art as an educational intervention aimed at improving social relations and communication com- petences of early childhood education students. It also includes an analysis of research on teaching methods, forms of organization of classes, didactic measures used by teachers of early school education, as well as the presentation of research results related to the social self-reliance of preschool children.

This part also presents studies on the analysis of categorized educational exercises in school textbooks, based on the updated version of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Next, we present studies regarding the construction and initial assessment of psychometric properties of the Situational Motivation Scale (SIMS-15) for children as well as those regarding the means for assessing the reliability of the tool employed to test and diagnose the locus of control of school events in students.