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Social bots influence

Author(s): Anita Zupanič / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

Use of social bots on social media platforms is spreading. Their use became prominent in US 2010 midterm elections and later in 2016 presidential elections between Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton. In Turkey and Russia social bots were not used just for one purpose, they silenced political opposition, sent out propaganda and padded the number of social media followers. They had avatars with pictures on social media platforms. Social bots were clearly connected to PRI party in Mexico, whose leader Enrique Peña Nieto won the 2012 election. The case of 2015 UK general election shows that when more resources are put into social bots, the more effective they are.

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Jednostka w systemie (realnego) kapitalizmu: analiza korpusowa społecznych wyobrażeń o relacji łączącej jednostki i system społeczny

Author(s): Agnieszka Karlińska,Maja Sawicka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2019

This paper aims to identify and reconstruct social imaginary connected with the category of „social system”, and to answer the question how, thirty years after the systemic transformation in Poland, the relation between the individual and the system is conceptualized. The analysis stems from the research into psycho-social consequences of the transformation. However, it is innovative since it employs the methods and tools ofcorpus linguistics. The corpus encompasses the content of 12 focus group interviews (FGI) and of 29 in-depth interviews (IDI) carried out in different Polish cities duringthe project „Values in the times of (global) crisis” financed by National Science Centre(NCN grant no. 2016/21//B/HS6/03199). The results indicate the tendency to locate the individual in an antagonistic opposition towards the social system. A feeling that individuals’ claims towards the system are unsatisfied, and a sense that system blocks and limits individual opportunities, are manifestations of this antagonism.

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Наукометричният подход като средство за обективиране на оценката в науката: развитие, възможности и съвременни тенденции

Author(s): Ludmila Ivancheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2020

The article presents the scientometics and its specific methods and indicators applicable to the evaluation of scientific production and its impact. The evolution of the scientometric approach is traced out and the milestones in its development are outlined.The most important characteristics and specifics of scientometrics as a field of research are elucidated. The main information sources for scientometric analyses are presented, as well as the types of scientometric indicators with their capabilities, limitations and peculiarities in their application. The new points, trends and perspectives of scientometrics are outlined as a method of quantitative analysis and evaluation in the field of research and innovation.It is concluded that the correct and competent application of scientometrics provides ample opportunities for optimizing the science policy.

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Phonics and Instruction in Reading Comprehension for Pupils with Dyslexia: Six Literacy Teachers’ Perspective

Author(s): Blagovesta Troeva_Chalakova / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2020

The paper presents the perspectives of six literacy teaching professionals on the use of phonics and reading comprehension in the instruction of English to pupils with dyslexia. Although synthetic phonics is one of the major components of intervention work for children with reading difficulties, reservations for its panace alike attitudes have been expressed combined with a recommendation for a shift away from individual sound instruction towards work on larger sublexical and lexical units. Enhancing reading comprehension skills has been identified as an important element of reading instruction, though underestimated by some of the respondents in the study, and in spite of it not being normally compromised in pupils with dyslexia. The overuse of books based on regular phonetic patterns is strongly criticized as it deprives children of involvement with the text and do not reflect natural language.

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Диагностичен инструментариум за измерване фонологичната и фонетичната компетентности като „ключ“ за „влизане“ в българската писменост на входа в първи клас – ученици роми

Author(s): Aneta Dzingarova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2020

A common problem that teacher faces in educating Roma students is the unsustainable and unsatisfactory development of oral communication skills in the official Bulgarian language as a second language of this group of students. A serious barrier is the phenomenon of “linguistic interference”, which, in turn, impedes the formation of phonological and phonemic competence, which guarantee a successful “entry” into Bulgarian writing. With this in mind, the article justifies the theoretically discussed issue. On this background, an approbated diagnostic toolkit is presented for measuring the phonological and phonemic competences as a “key” for “entering” into reading the official Bulgarian language as a second language – entry into first grade, Roma students.

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Kонцептуални модели за разработване на познавателни онлайн игри в областта на културното наследство

Author(s): Detelin Luchev,Desislava Paneva-Marinova,Radoslav Pavlov,Gita Senka,Lilia Pavlova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2020

The new strategies for teaching and learning point to the investigation and the deployment of workable learning methods and scenarios for better understanding of the learning content and engage learners in more active participation during the perceiving of knowledge. Good educational results are achieved by storytelling, understanding-by-design, serious educational games, game components, learning-by-authoring, and/or any combinations of them, when the specific learner’s needs and wishes are kept in mind and different digital resources (viz. cultural, historical, encyclopedic, etc.) are contextually used for the target learning purposes. This paper presents some conceptual models for the development of online learning games in the cultural heritage field.

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Развитие на инициативност при деца и младежи с тежки нарушения в резидентните услуги

Author(s): Desislava Popova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2020

This article is aimed at exploring the issues of support for children and young people with severe disabilities in residential services in Bulgaria. A brief analysis of the types of support is proposed, based on the legal framework and the research data. Results from the experimental interaction are presented, including a Program for group work in the services under review. Given the specifics of the target group, the method used to register results is direct observation. The “initiative in activities” and “initiative in communication” indicators are observed. The main conclusions are: increase in the initiative for the group as a whole is observed; reduction of the communication initiative for the majority of participants.

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Отказът от образование в съвременното общество на знанието

Author(s): Maria Teneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2020

The article reveals the reasons why students drop out of the education system. The subject of the study is dropping out of school. The subject of the study is the reasons for dropping out of school. Methods of research: content analysis, questionnaire, statistical methods for processing the received data. A study was carried out with 270 pupils from the main and the secondary educational level of schools in the Stara Zagora Region. The results indicate that a significant proportion of the reasons for dropping out of school is taken up by the educational reasons. Pupils rank the leading positions among these reasons to be the poor classroom discipline; the complex learning content included in school textbooks and the incomprehensible teaching of some teachers.

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Невронауки в обучението на студенти по специална педагогика

Author(s): Mitko Shoshev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2020

The preparation of students in special pedagogy in recent years is oriented towards taking into account the importance of the achievements of neuroscience. The latter contributes to the content of the curriculum. The specificity of special pedagogy as a medical-pedagogical science derives the implicit presence of neurosciences in the study of its object. The results of the surveys’ analysis clearly emphasize that there is an awareness of the application of neuroscience in general. However, the specifics of structuring the presented new knowledge in order to optimally absorb it based on concepts and practical achievements do not cover the real applicability and subject of study of this interdisciplinary science.

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Language Learning in a Nation under Transition

Author(s): Xhavit Beqiri / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2020

This study investigates some features of language learning in countries in transition, focusing on Kosovo and South-East European areas and viewing the process in relation to language learning culture before. Understanding that language teaching is not a task pertaining to a teacher of language and literature, but to the whole school system, and intersubjective thinking began to produce their effects especially from the fall of the Berlin Wall and thereon, in almost all South-East Europe countries in transition. Kosovo was one of the countries affected by a transitional atmosphere in which introduction of different methods and techniques in the classroom were not only being seen as a need, but as a must. The present paper aims to argue that language learning and teaching, especially in countries that are going through a transition process, represents a very important challenge in terms of inputs and outputs of the system of education of today’s society.

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Оценяването на интеркултурната компетентност – инструмент за повишаване на конкурентоспособността и самопознанието

Author(s): Elena Blagoeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2020

The importance of studying intercultural competence (ICC) is increasing due to the large-scale impact of globalization on human society. It is important for academic and professional circles to know, however, that only the highest levels of ICC can lead to genuine intercultural dialogue and competitiveness. Intercultural competence starts with rising awareness for cultural differences, but evolves into an ever more complete perception of people as unique beings with own cultural repertoire that color their perception and behavior in any situation. Therefore, assessing the achieved level of ICC is essential. This article reviews different perspectives and analyzes an assessment model that is appropriate not only for assessment but also for the development of training modules and programs required to form high levels of ICC.

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Around the Bloc-Monday, 14 September

Author(s): Ioana Caloianu / Language(s): English Issue: 09/21/2020

Regional headlines: a boost for Russian opposition; Baltic travel bubble bursts; virus hoax believers in Kosovo; Uzbek cotton; and a remarkable Mongolian cuckoo.

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Развиване на интегрирани дизайн базирани педагогически и изобразителни умения в неформална среда

Author(s): Ani Zlateva,Katya Tineva-Giurkovska / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 7/2020

This paper includes tracing and analysing the dynamics of integrated design based pedagogical and art skills of children placed in an informal educational environment. In the conceptual frame of the research are included theoretical and empiric pedagogical models that provoke childrens’ thinking and develop their creativity, knowledge and skills for creative experiments. Art techniques that are attractive to children are preferred (paper application, drawing with wax and water colour, tampon painting, template printing). Interactive processes are being tracked in the report, and some integrated connections with different scientific subjects – pedagogy, art, history, archaeology, semiotics, combinatorics of the shape-forming etc., are made, brought out on a theoretical and analytical level. The interdisciplinary and analytical approach when researching the processes connected with childrens’ free creative choice when communicating with historical artefacts takes an important part of the project. Children are given the opportunity to form visual culture and the capability to perceive and understand the sculptural achievements of the ancient Balkan civilizations and cultures in a fun and interactive way. In order to fulfil and scientifically develop the project we chose artefacts from the rich historical heritage of the region of Stara Zagora – collection of prehistory and early mid-centuries of the Historical museum. For children acquiring a different type of visual-plastic skills and techniques helps achieve an integrated innovative design thinking, which is very fundamental for achieving main pedagogical purposes and methods aimed entirely at the contemporary needs of the social environment. For the analysis of the received data we used standard methods for pedagogical researches which include: empirical – pedagogical experiment, praximetric – observation, analysis of childrens’ creativity, content analysis, quantity and quality analysis of the received empiric data, expert evaluation. The conclusions made could help the development of the future pedagogical practice in a museum environment not only in the fine arts educational area but also in all educational fields.

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Самоефективност на детски и начални учители за приобщаване на деца със специални образователни потребности в двигателното обучение

Author(s): Galena Terzieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 7/2020

The purpose of this article is to explore the confidence of preschool and primary school teachers in their ability to include children with special educational needs in physical education activities. The study involved 120 preschool teachers and 100 primary school teachers. They complete a modified and adapted version of the Block “Self-Efficacy Scale for Physical Education Teacher Education Majors toward Inclusion – SE-PETE-D” questionnaire. The results show that respondents have a moderate level of inclusive self-efficacy and, despite their hesitation, are more confident in their ability to include children with special educational needs in motor education. Also, teachers who have personal contact with people with disabilities, experience in inclusive physical education or feel prepared show a higher degree of inclusive self-efficacy.

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Обучението в специалност „Корабоводене“ във Висшето военноморско училище „Никола Й. Вапцаров“ в условия на COVID-19

Author(s): Blagovest Belev,Valeri Stoyanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2020

The introduction of distance learning in the educational system of Republic of Bulgaria is a process that has emerged as a result of the development of educational technologies around the world. In some sectors of education, the formal transfer of existed experience would not achieve the expected result. In maritime education and training, attempts have been made to replace some traditional forms of teaching with modern online methods. A number of researchers have expressed a positive attitude towards web-based courses, on-board training using animation tools and more. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced educational institutions involved in primary maritime education to accelerate the application of new methods. The present study aims to establish the attitudes and perceptions of students and professors from Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy for the quality of the conducted three-month online training in specialized subjects for deck officers. The summarized results are taken into account when planning the new steading year.

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Central Europe & Baltics-A Sad Fall From Grace

Author(s): Jiří Pehe / Language(s): English Issue: 10/26/2020

The Czech Republic went from being a leader in the fight against COVID-19 to a disaster in less than six months. What happened?

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Амотивация: съвременното предизвикателство пред образователната система

Author(s): Irina Danailova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2020

The aim of this article is to systematize the problem areas in the behavior of young people in the labor market and to clarify the importance of amotivation on the observed processes. The behavior of young people, the decisions they make, are particularly important, as they will have a strategic effect on the economy. The behavior of young people, the decisions they make are especially important, as they will have a long-term effect on the economy and overcoming the motivational effect is with strategic importance for the future development of our country.

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Нагласи за четене (Проучване сред българските ученици)

Author(s): Despina Vasileva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2020

A study of the attitudes of Bulgarian high-school students regarding reading is presented in this article. Over five hundred subjects have taken part in the study, 337 girls and 180 boys of age 13 to 18, from the capital Sofia and other schools in country. The study was implemented through a five-module survey, including 74 statements distributed in groups as follows: "During reading", "Most often I read", "When (what time) do I read", "I prefer to read", "I find information in". Each statement was evaluated by the subjects according 5-level Likert scale of two types: agreement and frequency estimates. Analysis of the results is also presented. Data obtained in the study lead to outcomes as follows: Online and on-screen reading is preferred rather reading of paper; a lack of well-mastered metacognitive reading skills is observed; the basic source of information is the worldwide web (Internet).

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Moralna odpowiedzialność rodziców za szczepienie dzieci – czynniki modyfikujące w realiach polskich

Author(s): Piotr Jan Morciniec / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 10/2020

Kontekst badań: Szczepienia ochronne dzieci są dobrodziejstwem dla zdrowia indywidualnych osób i epidemicznej ochrony społeczeństwa. Obserwowane narastające lawinowo zjawisko uchylania się przez rodziców od szczepień dzieci wymaga pogłębionych badań pod kątem ich odpowiedzialności moralnej za zaniechanie działania.Cel badań: Zweryfikowanie hipotezy badawczej, która brzmiała: Odpowiednio silny wpływ czynnika modyfikującego postawy rodziców wobec szczepień ochronnych dzieci może zmniejszyć odpowiedzialność moralną rodziców za niepodjęcie obowiązku szczepiennego.Metoda badawcza: W badaniach zastosowano desk research, a więc analizę danych zastanych, z uwzględnieniem dostępnych dokumentów, badań i publikacji, i ich konfrontacja z kryteriami wartościowania czynów ludzkich, szczególnie w zakresie przeszkód aktualnych.Osiągnięte wyniki: Analizy potwierdziły, że odpowiednie nasilenie przeszkód (zwł. niewiedzy niepokonalnej i strachu), często na skutek celowej dezinformacji (disinformation) przez ruchy antyszczepionkowe, znacząco zmniejsza odpowiedzialność moralną rodziców za odmowę szczepienia dzieci.Wnioski: Najskuteczniejszym mechanizmem zapobiegania odrzucaniu szczepień jest celowana i holistyczna edukacja rodziców i społeczeństwa w zakresie szczepień i szczepionek.

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Kształt i problemy polityki cyberbezpieczeństwa ASEAN

Author(s): Paweł Soja / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

The ongoing process of increasing digitalization of life in Southeast Asia brings new challenges for local integration centred around the ASEAN organization. Its countries face new type of problems related to the question of adoption a coherent approach to cyberthreats and elimination of so-called digital gap between them. ASEAN’s leaders traditionally perceive cyberspace as a tool of continuous development of common market and ASEAN economy. Therefore, most of the group’s current activities, which are initiated at the community level, aims at protecting and bolstering this area. The article presents institutional and law mechanisms incorporated so far by ASEAN to create basis of common cybersecurity policy within organization. This process is growing slowly, but gradually and carrying on regardless of the diverse technological capacities between countries, their available resources or different priorities towards cybersecurity policy.

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