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Obtaining Educational Minimum and New Curriculum in Lower Secondary Bulgarian School
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The primary objective of this study is to outline the trends in science education research based on content analyses of publications from 2011 to 2015 in four Bulgarian educational journals: “Chemistry: Bulgarian Journal of Science Education”, “Strategies for Policy in Science and Education”, “Bulgarian Physics Education” and “i- Continuing Education”. A methodology for content analysis of the selected journals is described using quantitative and qualitative parameters. A total of 290 research papers were analyzed in terms of the following criteria: 1. Degree of education; 2. Research topics and 3.Components of the process of science instruction, on which educators focused their research in trying to find decisions of specific issues. The criterion “Research topics” was decomposed to ten main research fields: 2.1. Training for science teachers; 2.2. Teaching of science; 2.3. Cognitive aspects of science learning; 2.4. Learning context and learner personality characteristics; 2.5. Educational objectives, curriculum, content knowledge, and assessment; 2.6. Reflective practice; 2.7. History, philosophy, epistemology and nature of science; 2.8. Educational technology; 2.9. Cultural, social and gender differences between students; 2.10. Informal learning. The results of this study found that most of the published articles were related to the secondary degree of science education. The research topic referred to the educational objectives, curriculum, content knowledge, and assessment was the most frequently investigated one in 2011 – 2015.
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The paper presents a theoretical analysis of three important factors to ensure the quality of education in kindergartens and schools - strategic management, evaluation (self-evaluation) and attestation. It refers to both the regulatory framework in the system of pre-school and school education, and affordable theoretical sources concerning studied problems. The article examines the importance of the three factors for creating sustainable systems for quality management education institutions in the system of preschool and school education. Analyzed relationships between strategic management, evaluation and attestation as a factor and guarantor of institutional development and provision of collaborative management.
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Education is a high human value and a right that every person has to take advantage of. In today's technological society, differentiated as a knowledge based society, at the center of which the knowledgeable person is placed, a part of the young people leave the education l system prematurely. What provokes a person to make this fateful choice? Why, since the labor market needs highly qualified staff, a proportion of students chooses to leave school before they have mastered any professional skills? The reasons for dropping out of school are different. They can be differentiated generally as: family, social, economic and educational, personal reasons. The purpose of this article is to identify the educational reasons why students drop out of school. A questionnaire was developed in order to achieve the so set goal. The questionnaire was approbated with high school students. Research methods: content-analysis, survey, pertinent analysis of empirical data. The results indicate that educational reasons occupy a significant place among the reasons that the students give for dropping out of school. In order to reduce the influence of the educational reasons for dropping out of school, targeted training of the practitioners is needed. The teacher who is interested in the future development of his or her pupils needs to work preventively to keep students in the education system. Particularly devoted to this activity should be teachers who educate students mainly from minority groups in whose ethnic perceptions education is not of a significant value.
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The article deals with the problem of character recognition using an artificial neural network. Based on the selected data, a model of a convolutional neural network was built, parameters were selected, and the result of training the network was demonstrated. A mobile application with an embedded neural network model has been developed. The process of connecting an API for displaying information on recognized characters has been described. A mobile application with the functionality of recognizing Japanese characters is implemented.
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There has been comparable neglect of safety aspects and impacts in science and engineering curriculum design and development. It should become an integral part of the higher science education ecosystem. The academic scenario will be much greener if laboratory safety learning content is prescribed at college levels. It should address a multitude of laboratory safety issues in academic institutions, from laboratory design to technology, from conducting an academic audit to developing a sustainable safety culture. The right steps, such as proper coordination, monitoring by conducting inspections at regular intervals, and a robust accountability mechanism in implementing a safety training program, will ensure progress with favorable results. Developing the safety culture and focusing more on a deeper understanding of the risks is essential for efficient safety management. A practical and meaningful laboratory safety course in educational planning and management, promoted by proper motivation, academic guidance, and administrative support, is crucial. Commitment to safety and proper safety precautions based on knowledge, skill, and attitude would have a substantial impact on preventing many unnecessary accidental injuries due to carelessness or oversight. This article looks at the multiple perspectives on academic lab safety in a changing world. It highlights the recent resurgence of interest in the safety to give an idea of the subject’s enormous scope and various safety-related topics.
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In the STEAM – science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics approach, science education is done through artistic experiences. STEAM trainings an incredible opportunity to get boring for some science students. In one lesson, this may not happen, but in a project research activity, the result can be presented precisely through artistic experience. Project-based learning blends in well with STEAM education.
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The article describes a way for communication with native speakers during the period of online learning of the Russian language in the context of modern realities.
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The article presents of a study of citizen participation in the formation, implementation and monitoring of education policies during the 2014-2020 programming period in the Gabrovo region. The study was made under the Citizens for a better education project, funded by the Good governance operational program, co-funded by the European Union, through the European Social Fund.
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This article represents the projects' method as an effective way of teaching that leads to increasing the quality of education and the students' studying motivation. The projects' method affects positively not only the quality of academic and professional education, but also the improvement of skills, competences and values of the young people, thus guaranteeing their successful social inclusion and creation of lifelong learning skills. The text shows a new role of the teacher – an associate that improves the psychological climate in class, creates an atmosphere of mutual aid, creativeness and discoveries.
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The COVID-19 Pandemic has forced schools in most developed countries to accept online learning as the only form of education. In just a few days, teachers had to move to this new form of teaching, which would allow the school year to end normally and students to acquire the necessary skills. The purpose of this text is to summarize the good practices of physical education and sports teachers in schools in different countries. The main research method is the review of the scientific literature in this field. It is concluded that online physical education and sports for school students can become an effective form of teaching that can be used alone or in addition to conventional learning.
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The article examines students' views on online pandemic aerobic activities. Lack of movement and social contacts are one of the main problems during isolation and work from home. According to the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO), a person needs at least 75 minutes of intense physical activity per week to be healthy.
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The training programs and methodologies are structuring units in planning and organizing the long-term sports training process. In accordance with the development’s main trends of sports training, they are constantly changing. The need of modernizing the training process is related to the concepts of “optimal-best” or “dose-training effect”. The purpose of this study is to analyze the existing programs and methodologies for training U12 kids in Bulgaria. There is established earlier sports specialization (7 – 8 years), decreasing of theoretical training, increasing the technical and tactical training and wide range applying of the “multiball training” method.
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In the light of the fact that education is an area of the greatest public importance and the school as an institution is called to develop the knowledge, skills and abilities of all students, the author considers the need to be paid more attention to additional training of gifted and talented students and to their participation in various competitions and Olympiads in information technology. The text examines the growing motivation and desire of students from the Vocational School of Economics - Pernik to participate in extracurricular activities and in development of projects for participation in national Olympiads and IT competitions. These successes are not only the result of traditional teaching methods and techniques, but also of some typical interactive techniques. One of these techniques is the role of the teacher as a facilitator, mentor, supporter, counselor and teammate. Shown are other techniques that increase student motivation and success.
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It is a fact, undoubtedly, that the students of today are the bearers of a new culture – the virtual one. The virtual culture is easily accessible and it has a whole new world to offer. This is a global world with no boundaries, but at the same time, the culture of reading more and more becomes a remnant of the past. The main reason for this claim is that now one can find almost everything online, philosophy included. This is what causes the main issue philosophy, as a school subject, faces- it has to prove that adolescents need it. Beyond any doubt, philosophy is helps in the search for a meaning in life and can be helpful in the students’ world, but not as a list of eternal questions and a system of eternal truth but rather as an irreplaceable culture of questions and answers, of dialogue and discussion. The competences that Philosophy creates in students are related to their skills to participate in discussions and debate, to development of the way of thinking and also to the skills and techniques to analyze and write, comment on case studies and role-play, presentations and projects. Philosophy, however, most certainly has to cooperate with modern technologies. Should it stay beyond the present-day circumstances and back in time, philosophy would be inadequate and impossible to understand. The main goal of this expose is to prove that students can make the inter-subject relation between philosophy and information technology themselves and also to propose an unorthodox way of teaching philosophy. The introduction and use of innovative teaching methods can significantly improve and facilitate the acquisition of key competences, namely – digital competences, learning skills, pro-activeness, cultural awareness and skills for expressing through creativity. This could also give students the opportunity to develop different applications and this way – to continuously enrich their knowledge. This is the global goal of “The World of Emotions” website, presented as a successful educational project. The development of such interactive applications and their introduction as a method in the process of education would be a tool for significant increase of students’ interest in philosophy as a science.
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In the last decade the effectiveness of the Bulgarian language education has been sought, not only in the processes of successfully transforming the knowledge-centric to a competency-based approach, nor solely in the communicative-pragmatic study of language units/categories and text models. It stays related to an evaluation (quantitatively and qualitatively) correlated with new forming and creative strategies, realized under the shared activities and responsibilities for both educational subjects – teachers and students. In the context of contemporary assessment and training strategies, this research presents results accumulated by a multi-year, multi-faceted, experimental study of trends in the evaluation activity of Bulgarian language teachers in Bulgaria. The analysis of these results presents not only in the plan of ascertainment, but also as a prospect – as possible effective changes in the communicative pedagogical models of assessment. The prospective positivity of teacher’s evaluative activity is justified not only in the context of compliance with normative documents and criteria. It is also in the context of personally predetermined parameters whose text production is the subject of evaluation (motivation for speech development, axiological register, emotional intelligence, reflexive competence, etc.).
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This article presents a psychological-pedagogical research aiming to prove the significant role of individualization and differentiation of the pedagogical interaction in kindergartens, as well as to give arguments about the necessity of applying variable-dynamic educational technologies focused on expanding the potential for educational progress of each child. This research places at its core the child and his/her diverse mental, physical, and behavioral specifics, experiences, needs, interests, qualities, knowledge, skills, attitudes, achievements, abilities, talents, difficulties, etc. while focusing on ensuring the child’s emotional well-being and stimulating meaningful and naturally-desirable activity based on the valuable, positive and constructive teacher-child relationship.
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The current article is about the implementation of the one-to-one program (1:1 program) in Bulgarian education system. An overview of the nature and development of the program is made. An approach is described for its implementation in a particular Bulgarian school. It is shown that the use of such programs in training is another logical step in the development of Bulgarian education.
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The concept of inclusive education requires in the educational environment all students not only to be present but also to actively participate, make efforts and succeed. The classroom is considered not only as a place for learning but also for getting to know each other, quality communication, group meetings, social life. The use of new approaches towards training, the implementation of variational educational forms and methods is necessary. In the presented research the possibilities of various interactive technologies for the quality realization of the training, for the promotion of active cooperation, diligent learning, and anticipation of all students in the classroom are outlined. The requirements that must be met when applying these technologies are specified. Modern healthcare technologies and art activities are considered, which are useful for attracting the attention and interest of the student, for activating all his/her senses, imagination and body. Their importance for stimulating communication, for showing the flexibility, both of the school system and the particular student is emphasized. Special attention is paid to the students with SEN, whose inclusion in the activities of the inclusive classroom has its own specific features
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This article presents a hierarchical structure of the emotional intelligence of 6 – 7 year old children, comprising three components – recognizing emotions in oneself and in others, empathy and smoothly interaction with others. From the conducted research, part of the dissertation, significant differences between the initial and final results in the experimental and control groups were found, analyzed and compared as a result of the applied technological model for work in music lessons in preschool. The results show that the applied music tasks, combined with appropriate music material, positively influence the level of the three components of children's emotional intelligence.
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