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This article examines the place of the specialty Ethnology in the structure of the History Faculty of the Veliko Tarnovo University “St. Cyril and Methodius”. Traced are the links of ethnology with other disciplines in the Faculty – history, archeology, geography and cultural tourism. The article explored the common research fields among all specialties.
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During the last few years, an attempt has been made in Bulgarian society to impose the con-tention that the Ottoman period is represented in the school history and civilizations textbooks through the definition “Ottoman Presence”. The present article seeks to provide a scientifically grounded review of the educational documentation concerning school history education, and in particular the history textbooks, to ascertain whether such a definition is present or absent
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The purpose of the study is to analyze the period of the Bulgarian transition in the modern studentbooks of History and civilizations for the 10th grade on several aspects: significant accents, the ratio of politics-economy-society-culture, multifaceted perspectives. This will assess the ability of new generation textbooks to help understand and analyze current processes, to prepare young people for social adaptation and realization.
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The article aims to provoke a discussion about studying and teaching tangible cultural heritage in Bulgaria. It compares the curricula in Ethnology at different universities. It is obvious that very little attention is drawn to the tangible cultural heritage. This leads to very poor preparation of students who are about to become teachers or to work in museums. A new trend for change is observed at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo. It is taught by the expert in tangible cultural heritage Pavlin Chaushev, PhD. In recent years, the number of lecture courses in which he presents various aspects of material culture from antiquity to the present day has increased. Plamen Sabev, PhD, who is Head of the Laboratory for restoration and conservation at the Regional Museum of History in Veliko Tarnovo, was also involved in teaching ethnologists. His expertise in 3D reconstructions of museum sites is particularly interesting and promising for students. The author points out the positive effect of studying and teaching tangible and intangible cultural heritage at the University on students, and hopes this trend to be shared by other universities.
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The National Museum of Education in Gabrovo has its own specifics in terms of the preservation and promotion of cultural heritage related to the history of Bulgarian education. On the occasion of Prof. Stela Dermendzhieva’s 60th anniversary, the Museum presented a photo-documentary and multimedia exhibition for the first time in the history of modern education. Through this exhibition, it provided an opportunity for citizens, teachers, and especially adolescents to learn, through direct vision, about the rich heritage in the field of geographical practices at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, so that the will of Vasil Aprilov could be fulfilled: “We live for our descendants. Let’s get started so they can finish!”
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The article is devoted to the research of social intelligence as a factor of socio-psychological adaptation of university students with special educational needs during distance learning. Study methods of social intelligence and socio-psychological adaptation are used. The respondents’ contingent of consisted of 78 students with special educational needs. The average level of social intelligence was empirically established in part students, which testifies to their ability to understand properly and the ability to behavior in almost half of life situations. Almost a quarter of students have a higher than average level of social intelligence and the same part is lower than average, which confirms their ability to understand and predict other people’s behavior in almost three quarters and one quarter of life situations, respectively. Students do not have high and low levels of social intelligence. Most students (almost two-thirds) have an average level of adaptability and mal-adaptability; instead, a minority (almost one third) is at a high level. Adaptability and mal-adaptability, respectively, indicate consistency and inconsistency between the needs of the individual and the requirements of the social environment. Students with a low level of adaptability and mal-adaptability were not found. The defined statistically significant relationship of social intelligence with adaptability (direct) and maladaptive (reverse) shows the influence of social intelligence on the effectiveness of socio-psychological adaptation of students. The results of the research proved that social intelligence is a factor of socio-psychological adaptation of students with special educational needs during distance learning.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has put the educational institutions in front of new challenges. Teaching shifted from real-time offline environment into online digital one. Thus, the social process that allows students to learn from their teachers and lecturers should be preceded at the level of the electronic environment. This has put social and emotional competencies like conflict management, critical thinking, emotions management, team work on the background – all of them important for students’ adaptation and their realization within the society. The authors were provoked to test psychologic-pedagogical experiment with implementing social-psychological training in the pandemic online conflict resolution context.
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In the last few decades, Bulgaria has been among the leading countries that lead the charts for the most victims in car crash accidents. Aggressive behavior on the road is due to several factors – dysfunctional traffic control to impose sanctions and to enforce the law in all its severity, poor road infrastructure, poor training of young drivers, poor education in general and dysfunctional awareness of society, for which the most the media is largely to blame because of its manipulative and communicative strategies in the coverage of car accidents in Bulgaria. The present study traces the role of the media in the coverage of such news to the society, as well as a detailed linguistic analysis of the reports, texts and broadcasts reporting on the road accidents.
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Distance education as a product of the digitization of modern society is substantially different from conventional education, but the two forms of learning have been used in parallel until recently, with the latter one considered the priority. The COVID-19 pandemic led to the implementation of restrictive measures of social distancing, which made distance education the sole viable alternative that allows the process of learning to continue uninterrupted. These conditions revealed a number of specific characteristics of subject-object interaction in the synchronous and asynchronous online learning environment, which are the focus of the this study and analysis. The results of the conducted scientific investigation definitively demonstrate the students’ need and desire to develop some of the necessary professional competences in direct interaction with their instructors in a setting that is suitable and specially equipped for the purposes of the education process and simulates the real conditions of their future work environment.
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This group of documents shows that the students were much more difficult to win on the side of communist ideas; on the other hand, students were able to travel more between university centers without the authorities getting suspicious. This is why some of the most active members of the organization called Avram Iancu’s Warriors were students
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The volume presents the state of higher education in Romania, particularly in the academic centre in Iasi, under the communist regime. Fresh information is supplied on the part played by the political report and the personnel department, on the purge and student expelling policy applied, on the nepotism practiced by the governing bodies, and on arbitrary governmental ruling.
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In this paper the authors try to highlight some of the problems facing higher education in Bulgaria. The relevance of the problem and research attempts to analyze the system and its supporting elements are presented. The article is an attempt to take a picture of higher education in Bulgaria, in the context of the specialists prepared by it. Using a questionnaire survey, the authors derive the needs of the labor market and the regional focus of socio-economic development. Analysis and assessment of the opportunities for the formation of an online labor market is also conducted. The trends of the need for higher education specialists in the labor market are examined, drawing relevant conclusions and recommendations.
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The present material brings out theoretical foundations with an emphasis on development of motor potential and specificity in motor qualities. The following are tracked: scientific status in teaching methodology of physical education and sports in initial stage of basic educational level, educational standards for development of motor quality and agility. Technology for development of motor quality and agility with aim of increasing motor capacity has been approved. Statistical verification of effectiveness of a tested technology is presented with following: organization of experimental work, ascertaining, training, and control stage. Scientifically based conclusions and generalizations are drawn. The purpose of study is to establish and assess presence of Wellness Culture in primary education by applying an innovative methodology for development of motor quality agility and increasing motor capacity of students from initial stage of basic education level by testing an innovative methodology in training of PES , consisting of an author's set of motor exercises related to Blaze-Pod Trainer System and checking its effectiveness in practice.
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The digitalization of the modern world makes the topic of emotional intelligence more relevant. Emotional intelligence is becoming a basic characteristic of the modern man, and therefore the need to study, research and develop it in the educational environment is of utmost importance. There is still little talk about the emotional intelligence of teachers. This study is oriented towards them and their self-esteem in relation to this personal construct. Through self-assessment questionnaires, teachers determine their level of personal emotional awareness, emotional self-management, social emotional awareness and relationship management - the main markers of emotional intelligence. The results are linked to the sense of well-being and the problem of personal distress in teachers.
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The study presents a part of the conclusions of the doctoral thesis, entitled The University of Jassy in the First Decades after the World War If defended in 1994 at the Faculty of History, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University in Jassy. The author proposes a new perspective on the Romanian higher education institutions, presenting the modalities whereby, in the 1944-1964 period, higher education came under the total control of the Communist party and the implications deriving thereof. The author’s interest is to reconsider the main trends of the Romanian academic life during the transition period before the establishment of the Communist dictatorship.
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The individual approach as a standard way of working with students is one of the most widely-used methods of work in Bulgarian schools. The approach is presented through diverse perspective in the scientific-methodological aspect. However, beyond the level of practical application, quite often the individual approach may be a cover for practices of hidden discrimination on the behalf of teachers toward their students. The article presents the results of a study on hidden discrimination when applying individual approach in Bulgarian schools and kindergartens.
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A two-subjects webinar: information technology and arts with the participation of a lecturer from the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics and the Laboratory of Telematics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is presented. The article describes the concrete activities of the e-facilitator, the lecturer and the teachers in this specific scenario. In order to make it easier for the e-facilitator, a "webinar technical readiness check" form is prepared. Inside are listed possible difficulties when hosting the webinar during a class along with possible solutions. Some ideas and tasks are shared connecting artist Piet Mondrian’s style with studied mathematical objects along with the possibilities of using computer technologies for studying them in the context of STEAM. The article presents some results of the experiment. Emphasis is placed on the additional objectives achieved through the chosen form of training.
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This article is a review of Assistant Prof. Doncho Donev’s book - Social Psychology of School Education. The substantive aspects of the monographic work and its contribution to clarification of basic issues and problems in educational reality are considered. The focus is on the scientific and practical value of development, which is innovative in nature. The opinion expressed concerns the value of the monograph and its contribution to the Bulgarian pedagogical and psychological science by defining the intersection points between sociopsychological knowledge and the interdependence between the different pedagogical processes that in the modern Bulgarian educational space confronting teachers through serious challenges, mechanisms and expressions
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The article analyses which image of Poland is present in modern Ukrainian textbooks of history for pupils of 10th and 11th forms (regarding the period since 1918 till present) that were written after the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2014 and were published during 2018-2019. The study is based on content analysis of 30 textbooks on The History of Ukraine, World History and the integrated course “History: Ukraine and the World” for pupils of 10th and 11th forms. In order to determine how positive or negative is the image of Poland that is formed in the mind of the reader, the 4th year students of the History Department of Mykhaylo Kotsiubynsky Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University were asked to determine the number of mentions of the words Poland, Polish, the Poles etc. with positive, neutral and negative connotation in every textbook. The obtained results were then subject to quality analysis. We may observe the ambiguous reflection of the image of Poland in Ukrainian history schoolbooks, which is a logical reflection of long-lasting and complex historical relations between the Poles and the Ukrainians. In general, the image of Poland in The History of Ukraine textbooks is worse than the one presented in the World History textbooks as the authors were forced to show different sides of Polish-Ukrainian interaction in the 20th century. However, real historical conditions for Polish-Ukrainian friendship and cooperation at the current stage and the results of the work of the Joint International Committee of Experts on Improving the Content of School Textbooks have undoubtedly influenced the situation – in spite of highlighting truly difficult relations between the two peoples, the “enemy image” of Poland is not formed; attention is mostly focused on broad political, social, cultural and other circumstances that have led to ambiguous situations in Polish-Ukrainian relations. At the world history level authors mostly focused on presenting Poland as a victim of totalitarian regimes and a symbol of the fight for freedom.
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