Читалищното образование на етническите малцинства в България 1944 – 1956

Author(s): Penka Tzoneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2018

The research is historical and pedagogical of its kind; it seeks sources and aims to differentiate major trends in the development of the library education of the ethnical minorities in Bulgaria over the period 1944 – 1956. It is a first attempt for researching the contents and the forms of library education of ethnical minorities within a certain period of history. It is completely based on historical sources and enactments. The extracted positive practices and approaches are valuable experience of the contemporary education policy on integration and desegregation of ethnical minorities in one of the types of the extra-school, informal education – the library education which is inseparably involved in the Bulgarian education tradition with its 160-year history.

Образование и обучение на възрастни – поглед към образователните модели и практически полета от началото на XX век и до днес

Author(s): Vanya Bozhilova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2018

The article focuses on adult education and training and their transformations from the early 20th century to the present. Different challenges have been outlined that not only increase the sensitivity to the use of the different opportunities of the environment for education and training but also influence the understanding of adult learning. Based on the results of the survey, there are generalized features and modern development guidelines, educational models for adult learning and good practices from different countries – for example, second-chance training model, model of remedial training, model of workplace learning, model of cooperative learning, model of distance relationship tutor-learner; model of motivation training, model of VET training, model of training for general education.

Неформалното образование на възрастни в България

Author(s): Vyara Gyurova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2018

This article presents the historical steps of the birth and development of informal adult education in the Bulgarian lands. The opportunities for Bulgarians to learn at different historical stages and in the most recent times are outlined.

Читалищното образование в България през периода 1918 – 1944 г.

Author(s): Penka Tsoneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

The research is historical and pedagogical and aims to outline the main trends in the development of the library education in Bulgaria during the period 1918 – 1944. It is also a first attempt for a multilevel study of library education as a segment of Bulgarian education, in particular of non-formal education in Bulgaria.

Eтнографски източници в Научния архив на БАН – култура на паметта

Author(s): Gabriela Vaptzarova,Darina Ilieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2017

The Scientific Archives of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences began its work with the foundation of the Bulgarian Literary Society in Braila in September 1869. Its task is to find, process and offer for use all the materials on the history of the scientific thought in Bulgaria and the history of the BAS. The Scientific Archive preserves the archival documents of the institutes of the BAS as well as the personal collections of academicians, corresponding members and professors; it does scientific and technical processing, estimates the value of the archival documents and restores them. The archive organizes the use of the archival documents for scientific research, reference and other purposes, prepares documentary publications and exhibitions of documents.The cultural heritage preserved in the BAS is a national treasure and we are responsible for its protection.This article examines only archival collections with ethnographic materials and researches. It is an invitation to researchers for future studies.

Един живот между две религии

Author(s): Ani Kisyova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2017

The family and the relations in it have always been in the focus of the social sciences and humanities. They attract particular interest in cases of mixed marriages between individuals from different confessional communities. The present study will pay attention to mixed marriages between Orthodox Christians and Jews. It is based on the history of a family from the city of Sofia, the attitude of the spouses towards religion and the impact of these relations on the children in the family in the 20th century.

Magdalena Lubanska. Muslims and Christians in the Bulgarian Rhodopеs. Studies on Religious (Anti)Syncretism. Warsaw-Berlin, 2015

Author(s): Yelis Erolova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2017

Встъпление

Author(s): Nikolai Vukov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

Проблемът свое – чуждо и моделът на българския книжовен език през Възраждането

Author(s): Tatyana Aleksandrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2018

The article focuses on the relationship between the model in which the Bulgarian literary language is formed during the Revival period and the own - foreign opposition. It analyzes those cultural and historical prerequisites, which determine the specifics of the own – foreign opposition in the field of the literary language and explain the tolerance towards the foreign influences related to the orientation of our society towards European cultural models. The character of Bulgarian Purification is analyzed.

Книги 2018

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 37/2018

Selected bibliography in the field of Bulgarian Studies published in the current year.

IX Дриновски четения „Черно море и Причерноморието като контактна зона на цивилизациите и културите“

Author(s): Mihail Stanchev,Sergey Strashniuk / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 37/2018

Градинарството в едно планинско село през 40-те и 50-те години на ХХ век: социални аспекти

Author(s): Yana Yancheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2018

The paper deals with practices of vegetable gardening in the village of Mezdreya, Northwestern Bulgaria, before collectivization in 1958. The main question is how gardening affects social relations and, conversely, how getting into particular social relationships “makes” the garden. The interrelation between the plant world in gardens, the gardening practices, the economic interests of families, the social relations within and between families, people’s lifestyle, etc. have been studied. The article presents the interactions between families in the process of growing vegetables in irrigated gardens and in seed exchange, the association between neighbours and collective work in common benefit, the distribution of labour activities in the family by sex and age.

Предпоставки за възникването и фактори за дейността на предприемаческия елит през епохата на Българското възраждане (начални бележки)

Author(s): Ivaylo Naydenov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

This paper presents an unknown photograph from the time immediately after the Liberation of Bulgaria. It depicts a collective portrait of the members of the European Commission for the organization of Eastern Roumelia. The photo document is created outside a studio in a natural environment and could be defined as one of the early examples of reportage photography on socio-politicalaffairs that took place on the Bulgarian lands.

Experiences from Bringing Together Digitally the Heterogeneous Heritage of Plovdiv

Author(s): Dimitar Minev,Ivan Kratchanov / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

National Library Ivan Vazov in Plovdiv is the second biggest library in Bulgaria. It functions as the second national depository of Bulgarian printed output and has contributed significantly to preserving the national cultural and historical heritage. This article offers an overview of the library’s history and current developments in the field of digitization.

Statul – Element fundamental pentru studiul relațiilor internaționale și științelor securității. Repere istorice privind evoluția conceptului de stat.

Author(s): Dragoș - Adrian Bantaș,Ionela Cuciureanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 12/2019

Most international relations theorists regard the state as their primary actor, and the security concept is based too upon the society in its state form. However, the present phase of state existence, was only achieved after an extensive process of human societies' development in this direction, and the current state form, in its turn, is not definitive, as the state-organized societies are still in a continuous process of evolution, characterized by permanent change. In this paper we shall analyze how human societies have traversed the transition from the early stage, based on the itinerant exploitation of natural resources, which requires only an incipient organization,to the proto-state societies, and then, in a later process, we will continue our analysis until we find the model of state that we meet today.

NIGERIA’S REGIONAL AMBITIONS: CHANNELS AND CHALLENGES

Author(s): Aslam Khan,Lawan Cheri / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

Nigeria is the most populous black nation in the world, member of the UN Security Council and largest economy of Africa. In addition to its globally acknowledged qualitative oil, it also has large deposits of mineral resources including tin, coal and gypsum, gold and lead. The country is not only engaged in a passionate competition with South Africa to attain the position of a continental superpower preparatory towards becoming a globally acknowledge giant but also comfortably playing a big-brother role among Africa nations. This paper uses documentary analysis to examine Nigeria’s social, economic and global potentials of fulfilling its dreams vis-a-vis the potentials of its competitor(s). The paper found out that Nigeria faces multidimensional challenges on its path towards continental leadership ranging from domestic problems of rising crime, incessant insurgency, dilapidated infrastructure, growing unemployment, over-reliance on dwindling oil income and leadership crises among others to intense competition from other strong African countries like South Africa, Egypt and Ethiopia. The paper concludes that the country’s goal of a regional superpower status is achievable but Nigeria must address its domestic challenges to win the race of attaining continental hegemony.

Периодика 2018–2019

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 38/2019

Content of the main Bulgarian scientific journals for the current year in linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography and art studies

Studies and Documents on the City of Vidin and Its Region. Vols. 2 and 3. Edited by: Plamen Mitev and Vanya Racheva. Sofia, University Publishing House “Sv. Kliment Ohridski”, 2018. Vol. 2. 588 p.; Vol. 3. 620 p.

Author(s): Margarita Dobreva / Language(s): English Issue: 3-4/2018

Book Review

Общности и читалищна институция в съхранението на нематериалното културно наследство – нормативни документи и практики

Author(s): Stela Nenova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The aim of the present study is to explain the role of the Bulgarian chitalishte institution in the process of safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage. The analysis focusses on the legal provisions and on the regulations concerning the chitalsihte (as cultural and educational institution, which is specific for Bulgaria) in the context of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. The author also analyses the different aspects of the relations between this specific institution, the community and the cultural heritage in the context of the chitalishte (i.e. as museum artefacts in ethnographic collections, as written, photo, phono or video recordings in chitalishte archives, as traditional knowledge, skills and experience diachronically transmitted within the particular local communities).

Дилемата „Аз съм българче?!“ Добрите педагогически практики при възпитаване на патриотичното чувство у децата, родени в чужбина

Author(s): Diana Verter / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2016

The article highlights the main difficulties and problems that Bulgarian teachers face abroad, particularly in the US, in bringing up patriotic feelings in children born and growing outside of Bulgaria. Also, the author shares her good pedagogical practices that she apply in one of the biggest Bulgarian schools in Chicago, USA to deal with the difficult task to teach their students to care about Bulgaria.