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In this article the author presents a theoretical reflection of school culture. The first part of the article deals with some historical and methodological issues of the term "culture" from sociology, anthropology and psychology point of view. The second part of the text analyses the concept of school culture from the perspective of its functions, typologies and models. its instability and change are also presented here. At the end the author mentions some researches which deal with school culture and also points out the need to study it more thoroughly from theoretical and practical perspective.
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Addiction on work is a behavioral addiction that is least elaborated in scientific and professional literature, though much faster than addiction on psychoactive substances. This was the reason for carrying out an exploratory field research on representative samples of 3003 respondents in Serbia and 1486 in Montenegro. In addition to the analysis of the spread of phenomena and phenomenological aspects, the risk factors for predisposition of dependence on labor, the social profiles of the defensive mechanisms of labor dependents were examined. Addiction on the work in Serbia and Montenegro by spread is in the upper half of the 11th of behavioral dependencies, and according to some research it is high above certain countries outside Europe. Risk factors are dominated by dependencies of psychoactive substances in parent families and disorders of early psycho-social development, and in the Montenegrin sample and disturbed emotional relationships between parents and children. The social and psychological profile is characterized by subdivision (especially in the Montenegrin sample) which also influences the choice of defense mechanisms, the work is different from most other behavioral agents who, in addition to the immature, use neuroticism more often and formulate defense mechanisms.
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The study is focused on social adaptation of pupils traveling from small towns and villages in Blagoevgrad region to study at schools in Blagoevgrad. The social adaptation is considered in two aspects: in personal aspect and in school aspect. The hypothesis of how sociocultural conditions influence each of the two aspects of the study is being checked. Empirical information is obtained by self-assessment survey of 51 pupils traveling to schools in Blagoevgrad. The results show absence of specific adaptation difficulties of the traveling pupils. The high Grade Point Average (GPA) of the traveling pupils fosters their social integration in the new school. It can be said that girls are more adaptable. Also, there are elements of the “effect of pupils’ assessment of teachers” concerning the objectivity and fairness of the latter in the assessment of the pupils` learning achievements.
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The present text sorts the types of oral texts in a productive paradigm in which the main criterion is their dominant function. This typology is extremely essential to ensure uniformity in the language of learning discourse, greater terminological precision and linguistic precision. In the statement are explicit two aspects - theoretical and practical.
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On the basis of theoretical analysis the achievements of psychology and pedagogy were synthesized in order to reveal the nature, classification and roles of emotions in education. Anxiety was studied as part of the system of emotions and attention was drawn on its impact on learning and success in introverted and extroverted students. With the aid of content analysis, observations and personal experience opportunities were sought to overcome high anxiety and create a comfortable classroom. Attention was drawn to personal, situational and social anxiety and the factors causing them. Conclusions were made about the need to change the emphasis in education, taking into account the importance of emotional intelligence to improve the quality of teaching and to preparing students for the challenges of life in the risk society.
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Over the last decades the conception of permanent education, about lifelong learning, becomes a leading principle in our educational system. Dynamic changes require formation of functional literacy by securing unity and succession between classical and interactive methods of learning. New culture of learning based on constructivism educational paradigm transforms the position of the learner from passive to active subject of dialogic interactive learning in which the educator is not only source of information but also facilitator - rather than teacher in the process of creation of new knowledge and experience.
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The paper considers a new system of teacher’s professional development in Kazakhstan universities. Also paper shows activities of the Republican Institute, cooperation with university partners abroad and wide description of RIPD programs for educational community of Kazakhstan
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The purpose of this article is to make an overview of secondary education funding in Bulgaria as well as the positive and negative impacts of its implementation. The tool of delegated budgets is considered relatively new mechanism for allocating funds to secondary and preschool education. Delegated budgets system emerges from the idea to optimize distributing financial recourses in secondary education. This mechanism is based on legal and sub-legislative regulations and organizational structure. The implementation of this tool is founded on budget law; it determines the Ministry, which superintends the school, as the primary distributor of funds. Schools and operational departments in public education, applying delegated budgeting, have the right to be distributors of secondary importance with budget credits and independent budgets, by decision of municipality councils.Achievements:1. Decentralization in the field of education. It’s organized on three levels of delegating rights, responsibilities and governing resources: central – local authority, local authority – school, school – board of trustees.2. Clear mechanism of allocating municipality budget, creating conditions for regulated relations between municipalities and schools.3. Greater power of decision making by school authorities. The last take responsibilities for maintaining the material equipment.4. Creating incentives for searching for alternative funding sources, as school income is dependent on them.
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The paper presents the project “Summer Olympic Games for Kids” realized by Kindergarten “Rodina” – Sofia. This project is an example of good practice in the field of healthy way of living, physical education and sport in the kindergarten.
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Recently, essential part of the demand of academics and practitioners in the field of museum education is the study of the museum audience. The main efforts are directed to study its specific features, needs and expectations, which become the basis for creating a new policy oriented to realization of the educational function of the museum. As part of these efforts, in this article are presented the results of a research project realized within the research at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. The selected study was conducted among 130 students, with the intention to study the influence of involvement in museum activities on the attitudes and expectations of museum education.
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The article focuses on the importance of digital media in the educational sphere. Digital media pose many challenges to culture, art and all areas of social life. They are connected with the progress of society and are part of many peopleʹs lives. The article emphasizes the importance of digital education, media pedagogy, media socialization, digital culture, digital competences and digital experiences.
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The current article considers the intersection between pedagogy and psychoanalysis in the care for children’s and families’ well-being through educative ideas and challenges of education. The aim is to trace the “thin threads” between the two theories that intertwine in the education focusing on the “understanding” of the child with developmental difficulties. The dialogue parents and children, parents and specialists should be in the interests of families, society and, last but not least, in the interest of the Children‘s health.
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The article considers the lesson as a basic form of education, its nature, structure, organization. According to the author, in the first grade IT training, combined type of lessons are the most appropriate. Important requirements for the IT lesson in the initial classes are the saturation of the educational process with problematic situations of varying degrees of conditionality, from game to real ones, and the activation of the motivation of the young pupils through assignment of tasks from other school disciplines. Shown are the benefits of introducing multimedia lessons for the socialization of young pupils, educating in a spirit of tolerance and in respecting the opinions of others.
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The Bulgarian adnominal da-clauses, which have completely displaced the Old-Bulgarian infinitive constructions, are distinguished for a specific semantic specialization: to denote non-referential situations. Their invariant meaning is non-factivity. The research on da-clauses is mostly concentrated on their modal meaning. However, the empirical analysis shows another type of non-factivity: a habitual meaning related to generalized presentation of real situations. The aim of the paper is to present these two variants of non-factivity. The study focuses on the relationship between their expression and the meaning of the modified noun as a factor determining the use of the conjunction da (as a non-factivity marker) and che (as a factivity marker). Two groups of nouns are analyzed: nouns allowing only da-clauses (with modal and habitual meaning) and nouns allowing da- and che-clauses (with neutral meaning).
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The article presents different viewpoints on the concept of communicative competence discussing its scope and meaning as well as the relationship between communicative competence and some close terms such as linguistic competence, language competence, discourse competence, socio-cultural competence and strategic competence. The author argues that communicative competence is a generic term and the other types of competence are its components. Furthermore, the paper aims to show the importance of developing communicative competence in the process of Bulgarian language teaching according to the new Bulgarian normative basis, to reveal the existing definitions of the terms, to present the relationship between the concepts of communicative competence and key competence. The author puts the accent on the existing terminological vagueness and suggests a possible solution to it.
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The present article proposes a new series of Olympiad problems in Mathematics. It provides an overview of the Olympiad problems, the content of which aims at studying qualitative (possible, acceptable) or quantitative locations of a rook or rooks on a chessboard. The formulations of new tasks are related to the study of combinations of a chessboard with numbered cells and four rooks on it. The rooks are placed on the chessboard in such a way that each of them beats two of the remaining three. All cells of the chessboard are supplied with numbers. The sum of the numbers covered by the rooks is calculated and is called half-sum. It is necessary to determine the possible values of such half-sums. A matrix is juxteposed to a chessboard with numbered cells. The rectangles of the chessboard are associated with corresponding rectangles of the matrix, which are called its squares. The half-sum is called a sum of square matrices. Enter a number equal to the number of the square matrices. This number is studied for its possible values and its symmetry with respect to a certain number, if it is considered as a function of one variable. The properties of this number refer to the numerical characteristics of the square matrices. The four rooks problem turns out to be a problem of determining the numerical characteristics of the square matrices. The article deals with an example of solving the four rooks problem and provides an overview of such problems solved for certain cell numbers.
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Technology enhanced learning is shifting from a centralized platform environment to a variety of elements to support and enrich interactions between learners and educational material. In this context, the paper addresses the creation of eBooks in EPUB format based on the existing content in a Moodle environment. The main purpose is to create enriched eBooks capable of supporting and tracking student activity usually reserved to educational environments. The work describes a plug-in developed to support Moodle course translation to EPUB and details potential user tracking formalization using xAPI.
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A dry benzene solution of the Schiff base, N-(2-hydroxyphenyl)-3‘-carboxy-2‘-hydroxybenzylideneimine upon reacting with mercaptoacetic acid undergoes cyclization and forms N-(2-hydroxyphenyl)-C-(3‘-carboxy-2‘-hydroxyphenyl) thiazolidin-4-one, LH3 (I). A MeOH solution of I reacts with CoII and CdII ions and forms the monomeric coordination compounds, [Co(LH)(MeOH)3](II) and [Cd(LH)(MeOH)](III). The coordination compounds have been characterized on the basis of elemental analyses, molar conductance, molecular weight, spectral (IR, reflectance, NMR) studies and magnetic susceptibility measurements. I behaves as a dibasic tridentate OOS donor ligand in these compounds. The compounds are non-electrolytes (LM = 5.1-7.8 mho cm2 mol-1) in DMF. A tetrahedral structure for III and an octahedral structure for II are suggested. The ligand (I) and its coordination compounds shows antibacterial and antifungual activities towards bacteria, E. Coli. (Gram Negative) and S. Aureus (Gram Positive) as well as towards fungus, Candida Albicans. Keywords: thiazolidin-4-one, coordination compounds, magnetic susceptibility, magnetically dilute, strong field and covalent character
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In fact, the first law of conservation (that of mass) was found in chemistry and generalized to the conservation of energy in physics by means of Einstein’s famous “E=mc2”. Energy conservation is implied by the principle of least action from a variational viewpoint as in Emmy Noether’s theorems (1918): any chemical change in a conservative (i.e. “closed”) system can be accomplished only in the way conserving its total energy. Bohr’s innovation to found Mendeleev’s periodic table by quantum mechanics implies a certain generalization referring to the quantum leaps as if accomplished in all possible trajectories (according to Feynman’s interpretation) and therefore generalizing the principle of least action and needing a certain generalization of energy conservation as to any quantum change. The transition from the first to the second theorem of Emmy Noether represents well the necessary generalization: its chemical meaning is the generalization of any chemical reaction to be accomplished as if any possible course of time rather than in the standard evenly running time (and equivalent to energy conservation according to the first theorem). The problem: If any quantum change is accomplished in all possible “variations (i.e. “violations) of energy conservation” (by different probabilities), what (if any) is conserved? An answer: quantum information is what is conserved. Indeed, it can be particularly defined as the counterpart (e.g. in the sense of Emmy Noether’s theorems) to the physical quantity of action (e.g. as energy is the counterpart of time in them). It is valid in any course of time rather than in the evenly running one. That generalization implies a generalization of the periodic table including any continuous and smooth transformation between two chemical elements.
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