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By Michael J. Mikoś. Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers, 2006.
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By Zbigniew Herbert. Translated by Alissa Valles. Additional translations by Czesław Miłosz and Peter Dale Scott. Introduction by Adam Zagajewski. New York: Ecco Press, 2007.
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Edited by Janusz Korek. Stockholm: Södertörn Academic Studies 32, 2007.
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By Timothy Snyder. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003.
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The standardization of the Test Anxiety Inventory-Romanian version implied many steps. The first step was the translation into Romanian of the TAI’s original version published in English. In order to test the transliteral equivalence between the English and the Romanian version of the TAI, we carried out a series of quantitative analyses based upon the answers given by 79 high school bilingual students. The data supported our hypothesis.
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In this study we examined the relationship between self-esteem, dieting beliefs and body-esteem in the case of adolescents, both at a general level and at a stratified level for each gender. A sample of 203 adolescents participated, 106 girls and 97 boys (the mean age for each group was 17,6). We used the Self-Esteem Scale, the Dieting Beliefs Scale and the Body-Esteem scale to measure the variables in our study. Our results show that self-esteem is strongly related to dieting beliefs and body esteem. Furthermore, we observed that in the case of adolescent girls self esteem was associated only with dieting beliefs. In the case of adolescent boys however self esteem was correlated only with body esteem. This may suggest different types of mechanisms employed by the two genders for self-esteem enhancement.
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This study aims to examine the relationship between adolescents’ identity orientation and perceived parenting context. The sample of the research consisted of 450 high school students, 227 male and 223 female, aged 15 to 18 years. Data were collected by The Aspects of Identity Questionnaire that assesses identity’s orientation in terms of personal, relational and social orientation (Cheek, Smith, & Tropp, 2002) and by The Perceptions of Parents Scales (Grolnick, Deci, & Ryan, 1997) that assesses adolescents’ perceptions of their parents (mothers’ and fathers’ autonomy support, involvement and warmth). Our main research question was: what kind of relationships are there between the adolescents’ identity orientation and perceived parenting context? The results showed a specific association between the adolescents’ perceptions of their parents and their identity orientation and pointed out that identity orientation is more influenced by the perception of the mother compared to that of the father. The research’s results contribute to the development of the empirical database for implementing useful interventions and counseling programs in high schools.
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This study was devised as a conceptual reflection on professional competences from the perspective of modern demands. The premises which lead to this concept were elucidated and repositioned against the background of “professional competence”. This study aims at changing the traditional paradigm of professional competence perception. Thus we begin by presenting a complex analysis of the specialist’s activity which leads to the idea that any specialist represents the outcome of holistic functionality. We thus come to the conclusion that the holistic paradigm presents a referential frame adequate for the conceptualization of professional competence. In addition, we also focused on and described a series of characteristics and facilitating conditions of the professional Self. All these were approached from the perspective of national and European education policy framework.
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A new reform of Russian education was launched in 2010. The modifications affect the regulatory framework that defines the content, technology, education and learning at all levels of the educational system. Competence approach becomes the basis of preparation of teachers, and determines their level of qualification.
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This paper focuses on the measurement properties of the Idea Inventory (Kassinove et al, 1993) which was designed to asses 11 types of irrational beliefs described by Ellis. The original 11 subscales were found to lack internal consistency although the full 33 items showed a Cronbach’s Alpha of 0, 84. We therefore developed a new set of subscales based on the latent structure of the items and the content of the items. The outcome was a relatively reliable set of five subscales that were also consistent with the original ideas of Ellis. However, there seems to be a need for further revision since many of the items seems to measure emotional reactions to irrational beliefs rather than to the irrational beliefs themselves.
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The activity of the Romanian school psychologists has been the subject for a limited number of researches. Moreover, their professional needs were seldom approached statistically. Our research aims to identify the intensity of some major professional needs of the Romanian school psychologists. A sample of 139 participants from 16 counties of Romania was investigated using a self-report questionnaire developed by the authors of the present article. The participants were contacted through e-mail, they completed the electronic copy of the questionnaire, and then they sent it back. The results emphasize (1) the need for bigger space destined exclusively for the activity of the school psychologists; (2) the need for licensed assessment instruments; (3) the need for a better organization of the professional activity; (4) the need to hold a complex network of relationships with colleagues, pupils, parents, and formal institutions; (5) the need to participate to conferences and other forms of continuous training. The research may stand as an argument in the dispute regarding the double-natured status of the Romanian school psychologist: teacher and psychologist.
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When describing individuals, we often remember important or less important features that range from appearance to behavior patterns, thoughts and opinions, strength and weaknesses. We are a composite of many experiences, starting from birth into childhood and then into adult life. Based on our upbringing and genetic heritage, on our parents good and bad examples we form character, define goals and interests. Today magazines and TV describe what is supposedly good for us and where the trend goes. The article brings forward a discussion about personality traits, including various forms and factors of being successful, along with some considerations with regard to emotional aspects, which are instrumental to success.
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Victimization by bullies is associated with several health issues. Prevention of the bullying phenomenon is therefore an important goal for health and education professionals. We used a sample of 330 children from an elementary school, who completed a questionnaire on bullying behavior, and the involvement of teacher, parents and classmates in the bullying incidents. The results of this study show that bullying and aggression are still prevalent in Romanian schools. The research stresses the need for a deeper understanding of the factors influencing aggressive behavior in schools and also the importance of regular communication between children, parents, teachers and health care professionals with regard to the bullying incidents. In addition, children need to learn effective ways to deal with bullying and aggressive incidents. Schools need to adopt a whole-school approach within their anti-bullying interventions.
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This paper gives insight in the meaning and function of the locative case with the prepositions u, na and po, on the basis of Bosnian literature language’s study. I started my research first by analyzing the meaning and then the function of these constructions in sentences, so all the classifications in this paper are organized according to that. The basic conclusions which I made can be described as it follows: – locative with the preposition u can have the meaning of place, time, additional circumstance, cause, instrument, aspect and state in which something can be. These prepositional constructions have mostly the function of adverbial phrases in a sentence, and sometimes the function of adjective phrases, indirect objects or lexical particles of a non–verbal predicate; – locative with the prepositions na and po referes to place, time, aspect, instrument and cause, and in sentences these constructions have the function of adverbial phrases, adjective phrases, indirect objects or lexical particles of a non–verbal predicate. In the last chapter I analized the relations and possible mutual replacements of the prepositions u, na and po in the locative case of some categories, and the influence which these replacements can have on the meaning.
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The well known and ever popular love ballad about Majnun and Lajla (Madman and Layla) is a repeated and widely used leitmotiv in Arabic literature in general, but particularly in modern times. However, only Sallah Abd al-Sabur managed to reinterpret this ballad in a very innovative way in the middle of the 20th century. First of all, Abd al-Sabur chose a poetic drama as a medium to his reinterpretation, which is a very unique and uncommon feature. Furthermore, taking the frame story about tragic love between two lovers, he brilliantly portraits all the flaws and the hypocrisy of his time when the political regime had supreme domination while an individual was reduced to the most banal level of existence. The power of politics is immense, so that every attempt of artistic engagement and effort is naïve and ridiculed. Moreover, in a world of political canon, the deepest places of human intimacy are endangered; love is impossible and this is the most powerful message of Abd al-Sabur’s poetic drama. In these terms, his drama Layla and Majnun is an exceptional epitaph to love and the legendary romantic times.
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With Mourning Becomes Electra, O’Neill had entered a phase of his writing career where concept of time at all levels i.e. linear and past relating to memory was becoming an obsession. For several years he had thought of writing a drama based on one of the Greek tragedies but set it in America, embodying present day concepts and insights. Thus what he intended to do was that he wanted to recreate the old Greek myth and present it in the context of present time. In some thematic respects, Mourning Becomes Electra is closer to Euripedes than to Aeschylus, owing to the Euripedean treatment, its psychological interest and the incorrigible self-justifications for acts of violence in which Euripedes’ Electra and Clytmnestra engage. The incest motif also has its strongest source in Euripedes’ Orestes. The present article aims at showing that O’Neill was recycling the ancient past into a time he felt suitable with reference to contemporary American background showing the wholeness and homogeneity of time. In effect what he has done is that he has analyzed how time affects our emotional pattern and how this emotional pattern change or does not change with time. This article aims at discussing and exploring various aspects of Mourning Becomes Electra, Eugene O’Neill’s masterpiece in which he recreates the ancient myth and gives it an American context.
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The goal of this analysis of the periodic characters is to show that there are no irrelevant characters in Sijarić’s works, and that even women involved with only a few words or those that just briefly appear have an important role in the development of the whole novel’s structure. Altogether, there are five extremely emphasized female characters in Sijarić’s novels, and they are characterized in different ways, which is often shown in the plot. Their actions influence the plot, its development and often the final outcome of the story. Besides the main characters, there are seven less important female characters, but they are also dynamic and important from the aspect of novelistic development. Many female characters appear just briefly, although marriage, physical love, death, shame, slavery, power or people’s beliefs are very important topics in his novels. Women are often only collocutors, passers-by, reporters, a part of the ambience, or they are only involved just because of the characterization of the main male characters through their internal or external projections. The picture of life with a certain chronology and the poetized novelistic structure are possible because of these formally minor characters. In the story “Good Man”, Sijarić talks about our exaltation with the great and the value of the small things which “(…) are waiting someone, and they know how to wait long…”, and once we notice them we realize the truth about the small spring: “Big sky mirrors in a small mirror of water, wide just as two fists. The sky could be seen in the big water that runs through a tap.” (Sijarić 1991:486) As a conclusion it can be said that the whole beauty of Sijarić’s narration is reflected in these minor female characters.
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Hasnija Muratagić-Tuna: Bosanski, hrvatski, srpski aktuelni pravopisi (sličnosti i razlike) (Bosansko filološko društvo, Sarajevo, 2005) Bez predrasuda i stereotipa: Interkulturalna komunikacijska kompetencija u društvenom i političkom kontekstu (ur. Mirjana Benjak i Vesna Požgaj Hadži) (Izdavački centar Rijeka, Rijeka, 2005) Geschichte (ge-)brauchen. Literatur und Geschichtskultur im Staatssozialismus: Jugoslavien und Bulgarien (ur. Angela Richter / Barbara Beyer) (Frank & Timme, Berlin, 2006) Esad Duraković: Orijentologija univerzum sakralnoga teksta (Tugra, Sarajevo, 2007, 395 str.)
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