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Проблеми при обучението в дигитална среда за преподавателите във висшето образование

Author(s): Milena Filipova,Radostina Yuleva-Chuchulayna / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2022

The changes generated by the current epidemic situation related to COVID-19 are significant in higher education. These changes affected the processes and methods of teaching, as well as affected the communication between teachers and students. As a result of the pandemic, universities ceased the attendance form of teaching and went entirely online through digital communication platforms. The teachers had to start their teaching activity with the students through new platforms, social networks, e-mails, etc., which caused some problems. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the problems of online learning among teachers in higher education. The main research methods are the method of analysis and synthesis, questionnaire, intuitive and systematic approach. The main research results are shown as clearly formulated problems, faced by teachers from higher education institutions in Bulgaria, during the transition to distance learning. The identified problems are grouped into three main groups – pedagogical, organizational and technological.

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Using Online Platforms to Educate University Students in India to Raise Awareness about Covid-19: An Interventional Pilot Study

Author(s): Ruby Devaprasath,Sunitha Kuppuswamy / Language(s): English Issue: 76/2022

The purpose of this study is to explore the prospects of using technology enhanced active learning (TEAL) as pedagogical method in order to augment knowledge acquisition among media science students. It was intended to find out if the intervention is effective in terms of knowledge acquisition about Covid-19 in turn creating the necessary awareness about the same. Therefore, pre-experimental one group pre-test and post-test design was used (Thyer, 2012). The participants were 100 first year graduation students. The Paired sample t-test was conducted to know if the intervention has impacted awareness level of Covid-19 crisis. The findings reveal that there is a significant improvement in knowledge gained about Covid-19 by the students in this approach. The findings have important implications for the educational reformers, researchers and teachers in India and any other developing country with the similar climate in education for that matter.

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Проучване възприятията на студенти педагози за качеството на онлайн курсове по време на пандемията COVID-19

Author(s): Svetlana Angelova,Evgeniya Topolska, / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2022

The article presents the results of a study of students' perceptions of the online courses' quality in response to the changes accompanying the COVID-19pandemic and the need to make the transition from face-to-face to distance learning in higher education. This article aims to survey the pedagogy students’ perceptions– these future pre-school and primary school teachers towards the quality of online courses “Didactics of human – society and human – nature”, “Inclusive education” and “Ecological education” during the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey was conducted with 107 future teachers at Veliko Tarnovo University “St. St. Cyril and Methodius” – Vratsa Branch in June after the completion of the online courses in the summer semester during the academic year 2020/2021. The data collection tool is a structured questionnaire developed by A. Young and C. Norgard with closed ended items used in this survey in an adapted version and provided to respondents via an access link. In general, the results of the survey show that students have positive perceptions about the quality of online courses. However, they need to be encouraged to be active participants in each of the online courses, including by engaging in online discussions, other proactive interactions as well as performing a variety of assessment tasks, recognizing the importance of goals. Regardless of the outcome of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, efforts towards the quality of online courses and the corresponding perceptions of students will therefore continue to be the focus, as changes in the learning environment become more sustainable and the future of higher education should adapt to these changes.

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Explaining the Components of Reflective Thinking Based on Fuzzy Topsis Analysis

Author(s): Fateme Moradi,Lida Mousavi,Sedigheh Hosseini / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

Reflective thinking paradigm contains a set of trainings based on the pattern of mental tools and it helps its users to be able to present the educational materials in a framework that embraces the nature of thinking, various learning activities and the learning based on reflective, creative and critical forms of thinking. Reviewing of the related literature shows that most of the challenges are due to learning and learning-related factors. Accordingly, the present study examines the thinking level of senior postgraduate engineering students of Shahre-Rey University. For this purpose, the Reflective Thinking Questionnaire (RTQ)developed by Kember et al. (2000) was used. TOPSIS method was used to evaluate the thinking level of the subjects. The results showed that habitual action, which is one of the skills of reflective thinking, is ranked first and perception is ranked last, which means that the senior postgraduate engineering students learn superficially. It is suggested to ask professors and teachers to hold classes that train reflective thinking skills, so that they can be a good and appropriate model of using reflective thinking skills for their students. So that students can improve their thinking levels and succeed in their math problems solving and these learners have good academic progress.

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The Issue of Gallery as a Public and School Space

Author(s): Jozef Sedlák,Peter Lančarič,Eva Jonisová / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

Reconstructing events, reviving the vital or reminding of and remembering the past are the main functions of an archive. A picture archives not only what has happened, but also, from the perspective of preserving the future, it projects historical time that struggles with timelessness. Photography – an image in archive, thus, comes to life twice, three times, four times. The photographic archive of student works at the Faculty of Mass Media Communication at the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, after ten years of conceptual work with the medium of photography, stores rich archival and image material, which, in its scope of interpretation, visually maps not only the visible reality – public space, but also events, human stories, and urban or environmental space. Through authors’ projects, it breaks the visible world – surface, and dives deeper into the personal space and philosophy of a young person – a student, who uses an image to analyse their identity (regarding themselves and others) and transports their experience towards existential questions. It represents the significant progress of a young person when they are trying and are interested in expressing their opinion on social issues in any way (including the medium of photography) and to code and interpret public life according to their inner empirical knowledge.

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Corona Art Challenge 2020. Strategy of Re-Interpretation/Creation in Art-Marketing in the Environment of Participative Culture of Social Media

Author(s): Lucia Spálová,Eva Kapsová / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

Our study reflects on the unique digital social activity Museum Art Challenge initiated by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles in a transdisciplinary fashion (touching on aesthetics, psychology and media and communication studies), which was shared on social media during the lockdown during the years 2020 and 2021. Our theoretical vantage points refer to the strategy of re-interpretation in the context of postmodern arts (V. Kordoš, C. Sherman, Gemmy). The recreation phenomenon is also discussed with a reference to the transformation of social communication into the environment of the so-called digital participative culture and the relatively novel concept of art-marketing. Using the method of qualitative hermeneutic content analysis, we investigated the artifacts (paintings created in the limited conditions of households on the basis of recreation of iconic art pieces from the collections of world galleries) created by Instagram users, and the specific research file also consisted of students studying media and communication sciences and aesthetics at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra (Slovakia). The results of our study indicate certain common strategies of social media users when re-interpreting art pieces.

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FACTORS INFLUENCING THE IMPACT OF ART ON LIFE SATISFACTION IN THE POPULATION WITH HIGHER EDUCATION IN SOUTHERN ROMANIA

Author(s): Iuliana Coman,Niculae Mihaita / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The objective of this study is to evaluate the association between art consumption, personal convictions and the level of life satisfaction among the population in the south of Romania. The data were collected in an experimental survey of 120 people living in the south of the country. The data were analyzed using Excel Microsoft Office, SPSS and include descriptive results, tables and charts. The results show that most of the respondents (89%) consider that they have a fulfilled life, and the level of life satisfaction is influenced in a small or medium degree by the consumption of art or by the convictions regarding the impact of art on the life of the individual and society overall. The most powerful associations are those between the satisfaction level of life and the consumption of art other than those commonly encountered (Cinema, Music, Theater, Literature). Personal beliefs about the influence of art on the individual or society influence the level of life satisfaction as well.

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Преподаване на ключови термини по гражданско образование на базата на предходен опит и езикови интуиции на учениците

Author(s): Elena Tsvetkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2022

The article is related to the teaching of key concepts in civic communication. The aim is to propose an alternative approach for defining terms such as citizen, rights, person etc., which links the previous experience of the students with these words and their lexical definition. This approach is inspired by the ideas for applying the prototype theory and the study of metaphors in foreign language teaching. The hypothesis is that such methods can be successfully applied in the teaching of civic education, so that the training is related to practice. The article includes examples from civic education textbooks for 11th grade, which provide definitions inspired by these approaches. In addition, a comparison has been made between the linguistic intuitions of the students (shared in the generalized results of a survey) and the proposed definitions in the textbooks.

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Взаимоотношения между очакванията за треньорска ефективност, емоционална интелигентност и лидерски стилове при треньори по футбол в България

Author(s): Tatiana Iancheva,Gancho Prodanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2022

Coaches’ confidence in their own skills, their awareness of their emotions and the ability to control them, as well as their choice of behavior, according to a number of authors, influence their realization and the achieved sports results. The aim of this study is to reveal the relationships among Coaching Efficacy, Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Style of Bulgarian football coaches. The research was done not directly among 172 football coaches between 20and 56 years, with different level of qualifications (license), age group of the competitors, coaching experience, and experience as football players. In order to achieve the aim, we used: 1) Coaching Efficacy Scale (CES), (Feltz et al. 1999); 2) Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS), (Schutte et al. 1998); 3) Revised Leadership Scale for Sport (RLSS), (Zhang et al. 1997). The results reveal significant correlation interdependencies between the subscales of Coaching efficacy, Emotional Intelligence and part of the subscales of Leadership style, as well as between the subscales of Emotional intelligence and Leadership style. In this sense, our results confirm the data in the literature. There are significant differences among the coaches along all of the researched indexes. The results from the regression analysis reveal that Emotional intelligence serves as a predictor of Coaching efficacy and Leadership style. Coaching efficacy does not directly influence the subscales of Leadership style, which is different from the published data in the literature.

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Freelancer – “The spirit of the globally desirable stateless citizen“

Author(s): Predrag R. Živković / Language(s): English,Serbian Issue: 2/2022

The review of the work “Working from Home – Economic, Legal and Socio-Psychological Aspects of Working from Home” lists the features of the culture and history of work that may be considered a map of information capitalism, although work from home can be traced back to not so modern or recent epochs. However, what is in the focus of this “research reformation” of the team of authors are definitely new models of (self)employment that, as it can be clearly seen in the authors’ statements, arise or have arisen as independent paradigms in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. On the other hand, the pandemic encouraged the conduct of a number of compatible studies whose socio- psychological comparisons are used by the authors as a basis to justify their originality. The monograph clearly emphasizes the demarcation claims of working from home, as well as other “horizon of information existence”, or a new entrepreneurial culture. Therefore, apart from the ever more present work culture that is reflected in working from home in informatic capitalism, our task is also to show the results of indicating the possibility of legal, economic and socio-psychological development of freelancers as an entrepreneurial layer in the Serbian society.

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„Remélem, legközelebb sikerül pályáznod”. Függetlenség a filmiparban, és ennek kortárs magyar dilemmái

Author(s): Máté Konkol / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 30/2022

Between 2011 and 2020, the Hungarian National Film Fund was responsible for distributing funds for feature films in Hungary. In this era, different circumstances led to a boom of films that were funded independently from the state, resulting in approximately the third of all movies being independent. In this paper I examine these productions based on their position on a dependent–independent spectrum. Firstly, I inquire whether they aim to use radical aesthetics, or on the contrary: reproduce the forms or genre cinema. Secondly, this paper will also address the wider question whether movie production can exist independently from power as such, or on the contrary, even politically engaged movies remain mere reactions and counter-discourses to existing power structures. Finally, I will look at the above-mentioned questions through a case study on Szabolcs Hajdu’s It’s Not the Time of My Life, released in 2016, also analysing the informal labour and symbolic resources required in making of an independent film.

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Приложение на конструктивисткия подход за развитие на ключови компетентности в обучението по химия и опазване на околната среда (IX клас)

Author(s): Yordanka Stefanova,Petya Gerasimova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2022

This article presents an attempt to organize an education based on the constructivist approach in the study of specific contents of the curriculum in Chemistry and Environmental protection in the 9th grade in order to develop key competences. Examples from the educational practice for the formation of some key competences are presented – learning skills, digital competence, skills to support sustainable development and a healthy lifestyle, basic competences in the field of natural sciences and technologies, which are important for the Chemistry and Environmental protection education. The results of our work in this direction show that the active involvement of students in the learning process is one of the effective ways to form the desired competences in students.

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Lessons Learned from Forced ERT (Emergency Remote Teaching) Caused by Covid-19: The Experience of Heads of Nursing Education Institutions

Author(s): Rachel Kemelman,Daniela Cojocaru / Language(s): English Issue: 78/2022

The aim of papers is to describe and discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the traditional approach in undergraduate nursing education in Israel. The lockdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic forced an abrupt transformation from the face-to-face educational approach to ERT (Emergency Remote Teaching) in tertiary education in general and in undergraduate nursing education in particular. The current research was part of a mixed-method doctoral study that explored the implementation of a new nursing core curriculum mirroring social change in Israel. This particular section was based on in-depth interviews of 14 heads of nursing schools and nursing departments in colleges and universities. The content data analysis was performed on in-depth interviews. The interviews were conducted between March 2019-January 2021, after the release of the draft version of the new nursing core curriculum. Half of the interviews were completed after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, and so relevant to the current discussion. These interviews included additional questions about the transformation to ERT and adjustments for this made in nursing education institutions. The content analysis revealed the theme that exposed the different ways that nursing education programs in Israel were managed during the COVI-19 pandemic. Findings are presented and analyzed. The categories emerging from this theme related to different coping patterns with ERT, consequences, coping with clinical practice challenges and with online examinations and lessons learned. The paper discussed the impact and the perceived necessity of various online platforms. The findings demonstrate that Israeli nursing educators learned to overcome the main barriers to distance learning. This process was largely engendered by the COVID-19 pandemic that forced them to face and manage the situation. The lessons learned equipped them with valuable tools to adjust nursing education to 21st-century demands.

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Factors Influencing the Teaching Beliefs of University Faculty Members during Covid-19 Pandemic

Author(s): Wan-Chen Hsu / Language(s): English Issue: 78/2022

Taiwanese university educators’ efficacy is traditionally associated with the belief in aligning teaching and learning outcomes. However, existing research on teacher efficacy involving modern university educators is limited. We bridge this gap by exploring university educators’ perceived efficacy and the factors that influence those perceptions. We surveyed teachers from a national university in southern Taiwan using the Teacher Efficacy Scale and interviews about the source of efficacy beliefs. We obtained 74 survey responses and descriptive statistics and analysis of variance were performed. During the interviews, four qualitative data sets were collected, and we analyzed the data using a continuous comparison analysis method. Generally, participants had medium- to high-levels of perceived efficacy; however, levels differed by gender. Efficacy scores were also higher in course design, technology usage, and classroom management, compared to instructional strategies and learning assessments. The main sources of efficacy perception included mastery experience, role models, student-teacher relationship, professional growth, and student support. Our findings suggest several strategies for follow-up research to promote university educators’ sense of efficacy.

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Effects of University Teachers’ Emotional Labor on their Well-Being and Job Satisfaction

Author(s): Kieranna Chen,Chenin Chen / Language(s): English Issue: 78/2022

Excellent teachers who provide excellent educational quality educate students with both skills and virtues. Teachers face various emotional problems; they not only work with labor, intellect, and affection, but also have to show appropriate emotions under increasing pressure to create a rational and warm organizational climate in schools. Teachers’ hard work is the emotional labor load. The university teachers in Bangkok, Thailand participated in this study. A total of 480 copies of the questionnaire were distributed. After removing invalid and incomplete ones, 437 copies were remained valid, with a response rate of 91%. The research results showed that a university that fails to meet the teachers’ satisfaction and expectations can result in teachers’ low well-being and job satisfaction as well as teaching inefficiency which seriously lowers the effectiveness of the university and university teachers are medium and high emotional labor workers who consume large amount of emotion and labor in their workplaces, therefore, they can easily show burnout, teaching apathy, and even physical and mental exhaustion under excessive use of emotions, and 3. a university leader who is willing to find a solution to the teachers’ emotional labor load can help them correctly manage their emotions to obtain a high level of well-being and job satisfaction. According to the results it can be discussed that the current study is expected to help in terms of increasing the number of emotion management courses and channels for releasing teachers’ emotional labor load, avoiding emotional dissonance, and promoting teacher efficiency.

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Methodological Preparation and Pedagogical Mastery in the Process of Strategic Management Teaching

Author(s): Elitsa Petrova / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2022

The strategic security environment is characterized by high dynamism and growing unpredictability, and it is obvious that every member of society needs to be able to understand strategic problems, both individually and supranationally, and to be able to make informed strategic decisions that will ensure the achievement of certain education goal – the transfer of knowledge between adolescents and older generations. The relevance of the study is in connection with the successful achievement of the objectives of individual and collective military training, and specifically the training in Strategic Management, as well as in connection with the successful acquisition of the officer’s profession. The subject of research is the relationship education-pedagogical mastery-strategic management, while the object is a part of the methodological pedagogical approach implemented in the Strategic Management academic subject on the example of the National Military University of Bulgaria. In this regard, the paper presents exhibition and demonstration of some of used good teaching practices and experience.

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Формиране на модел за иновативни стратегии на университетите в България

Author(s): Radostina Yuleva-Chuchulayna / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2022

In a context of change and uncertainty for universities, it is important to identify, invest and support their vision for innovation in teaching, learning and assessment – in such a way as to adapt to the unknown. Innovation is part of the culture and is integrated into the strategy, operational plans and vision. The analysis of the genesis of innovative approaches to the development of universities shows that it is an example of increasing the sustainability of the educational system in the evolutionary period of development. The main purpose of this article is to clarify the types of innovations and innovation strategies of universities in Bulgaria. The main result of this article is the creation of a model for the formation of innovation strategies of the university. The main research methods used in the development are the method of analysis and synthesis, questionnaire research, intuitive and systematic approach.

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Current Social Media Trends and Young Audiences - Risks and Opportunities

Author(s): Lucia Novanská Škripcová,Vladimíra Hladíková / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

Media and technology convergence has caused many changes in the world of the young public - from preferred social media, to content creation, to media consumption and its volume. In the online world, young audiences live their own lives, often separate from real ones. This article aims to describe the paradigmatic changes associated not only with the convergence of media, but especially with the convergence of the public, which is most observable in young recipients - digital natives in the era of so-called technological interference. In addition to opportunities, these changes also bring with them certain risks, especially in the area of psychological and sociological survival. These include, in addition to the current FoMO and JoMO effect, many others, which this article, through a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach, seeks to identify and explore in the context of current trends in social media.

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Дигитализация на образованието в България: състояние и общи тенденции

Author(s): Teodora Varbanova,Nikolay Netov,Albena Vutsova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2022

The accelerated implementation of information and communication technologies in all areas of public development requires in-depth studies of its effects at both national and global level. As education is one of the sectors most influenced by these trends, the need for systematic research on the application of digital technologies in the educational process is becoming increasingly apparent nowadays. In this context, the study presents an attempt to compare the level of use of e-services in education and other public sectors, also identifying the main target groups of users. The results of an author's empirical study are presented, which analyzes the state of the educational environment in Bulgaria, the use of information and communication technologies and their impact on it. The challenges in introducing digital education as well as the factors for their sustainable implementation in Bulgaria are also outlined. Based on the analysis are derived the types of educational e-applications offered, their quality, trends in their use, as well as the most typical groups of users of this type of education in Bulgaria.

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RETROSPEKTIVNI KOLONIJALIZAM: OBRAZOVNE POLITIKE BIH, HRVATSKE I SRBIJE

Author(s): Lamija Milišić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 5/2022

The research for this paper was motivated by the inadequacy of the EU reforms implemented in the educational systems of B&H, Croatia and Serbia, that is, the problem of the continuous formal and never structural educational reforms in these countries. This paper gives a post-colonial perspective on the educational policies of the Balkan countries, with a special focus on their ways of instrumentalizing education, the relationship and ways of breaking with the socialist education system, and ways of adapting to EU standards. The aim of this paper is to outline the mechanism of latent colonialism, i.e. Europeanization, through the analysis of educational policies in the Balkans, which points to the eternal otherness, almost obscenity of the Balkans, and to point out the responsibility and potential for the engagement of educators in B&H, Serbia and Croatia in the educational process.

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