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Fugitive Eduard Bagirov says a political vendetta was behind his four-month detention.
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Fugitive Eduard Bagirov says a political vendetta was behind his four-month detention.
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Is the Hungarian grand opera reaching its tragic denouement?
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Plus, Vladimir Meciar sets his sights on a return to parliament and Moscow police may find it harder to earn extra cash. Around the Bloc is TOL's daily digest of the important, the trivial, the tragic, the weird, and the sober from its coverage region.
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In political matters it is very hard for a man in office to be purer than his neighbours.
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A fan of the controversial Czech artist's work in Prague, I couldn't pass up a chance to visit his spinning-metallic-human-head-water-fountain in the U.S.
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Plus, the Romanian king’s stutter-free speech and independence day gifts for happy Turkmen. Around the Bloc is TOL's daily digest of the important, the trivial, the tragic, the weird, and the sober from its coverage region.
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A vicious circle of poverty, migration, and limited state resources condemns many Moldovan children to life on the fringes of society
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Plus, Azerbaijan-Turkey deal sparks hope for Nabucco and a well-respected Russian educator dies a lonely death in prison. Around the Bloc is TOL's daily digest of the important, the trivial, the tragic, the weird, and the sober from its coverage region.
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If you were a dictator looking to siphon off some oil money, you would do well to look west for some help.
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Plus, police investigate the gunman who opened fire at the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo and Serbian liberals tell the Russian ambassador to butt out. Around the Bloc is TOL's daily digest of the important, the trivial, the tragic, the weird, and the sober from its coverage region.
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In the work the competences of the contemporary teacher in the framework of the constructivist as well as cognitive theories have been presented. The attention has been focused on the personal features and competences of teachers in the range of the use of the information and communication technologies in their pedagogical work and the shaping among the learners the medial and digital competences, motivation to the learning, development of pupil’s interests and ethical behaviors of a teacher.
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This article outlines the necessity of developing the social capital. The first part deals with a dilemma surrounding the expectation that teachers will engage in developing cooperation skills — one of the aspects of social capital — despite the individualistic trend dominating our culture. The second part focuses on the basic skills contributing to the efficiency of cooperation when developed. These are the ability to understand others and communicate with them, empathy and self‑control. Teacher’s activities enhancing their development were also characterised.
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The starting point of this paper is derived from considerations of two opposing functions of education: socialization and liberation (Richard Rorty). Their irreducible antagonism, not only poses an essence of contemporary tensions and challenges of education, but also presents, how problematic the definition of education is and should be, because in this case a simplification would mean — among other things — shrinking from teachers’ responsibility for comprehensive educational influence and their own professional development. Unfortunately, in theoretical discourse of education teachers are often shown just as knowledge transmitters and pushed aside of crucial disputes. The article considers two aesthetics of being in culture as a remedy for such situation.
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Change is a category which is permanently interwoven with the teacher’s career. Therefore, it seems significant how teachers define this notion and what their attitude to changes is. What is presented in this text are the analyses of the studies carried out among active teachers — such teachers who are outstanding in their professional and local environment due to actions they undertake and their involvement. In such a selected group, a positive attitude to change and innovation should prevail. Who else, though, if not such teachers, ought to change school reality and take part in social transformations?
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The article discusses the process of music education evolution in the world from the situation of interesting ideas and concepts between infiltration the individual countries up to the megatrends that characterize musical education in the twenty-first century. The author compares contemporary proposals of music education implemented in selected countries from five continents (North America, Asia, Australia, Africa and Europe) highlighting the existing current megatrends. The resulting image serves for the reflection on the application of global trends in the Polish system of compulsory public education and the role of a contemporary music teacher in the cultural situation that occurred.
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The article focuses on the universal character of education through art. The role of the teacher has been indicated within the shaping process of values’ hierarchy and forming of responsibilities among wards. "The standards of the cultural education" was mentioned as an interesting educational proposition both through the art and with the art.
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