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This article analyzes the problems of regional development in Azerbaijan and detailed information about the regional policy of Azerbaijan in various economic areas. Shown for solutions to the problem of regional development at the present stage should take into account the systemic and complex target complex programs and their development.
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The text presents the experience of the school council in the “Pencho P. Slaveykov” Secondary School in organizing a campaign against tobacco smoke. The stages of the campaign, as well as its results, are shown: a 12.5% drop in the number of pupil smokers.The authors of the text share the stages of work, the results obtained, the way they are achieved. Several questionnaires are also available - for evaluating the situation before, during and after the initiative.
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The article presents opportunities for employers to organize the staff teaching by using legislation in support of employability and staff’s qualification, out-of firms teaching organizations, as well as in-service on the work place training. The experience of the State enterprise “German-Bulgarian VET Center” is presented as one of the best teaching organization in Bulgaria, with high quality of the offered educational services. The conditions and technologies of the construction of one internal Center for in-firm staff teaching are outlined as a factor for keeping the human resources quality and competitiveness of the firm.
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The article analyzes the current situation of the system “child-family-school in the conditions of inclusive education of children with special educational needs. The difficulties that are encountered by the teachers, parents, children are pointed out; their fears, as well as their competencies that they should have in order to build positive relations and to realize successful education in the inclusive classroom are analyzed. Results of own empirical research are presented.
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The important, interesting, or just downright quirky news from TOL’s coverage region. Today: Balkan EU membership hopes; an environmental victory in Slovenia; Transdniester demands reparations; homecoming in Uzbekistan; and GoT’s unlikely Russian fans.
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Sudionici znanstvenog savjetovanja održanog 26. studenoga 2009. u Bjelovaru pod nazivom "Bjelovarsko-bilogorska županija: razvoj temeljen na znanju", a nakon šest uvodnih izlaganja i sedam rasprava, svoje su zaključke, na temelju istraživanja, i preporuke saželi u dokument pod nazivom Bjelovarsko priopćenje.
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This issue examines the interrelation of capitalism and climate change
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The paper examines the formation of and interactions between different institutional actors (‘concerned communities’), which are the basis of the establishment of potential social benefits from the participation in sports activities aimed at promoting healthy and active lifestyles among adolescents. It is a contextually conditioned process whose characteristics are influenced by the action of a number of social, psychological, cultural, behavioral, structural and resource factors. Improving the sustainability of the practical implementation of policies and objectives requires the creation of a comprehensive system for the management of collective efforts, resources, efforts and balance of interests between various actors in the inter-institutional network. In the center of the efforts of institutions in the partner network are the interests, needs, differences, and competencies of children and school students. It is unveiled that the motivation for a healthy and active lifestyle is a complex social puzzle where understanding of one aspect does not automatically solve another. It also becomes clear that it is a joint venture and equal resource investment between kindergarten / school / sports organisation and the end beneficiary – the child / the school student. The benefit itself is not contained in the proposed sport activities, but rather in the ways children and school students benefit from them in their lives. Such an interpretation presents educational institutions and sport organisations not as the primary deliverers of benefits, but rather creators of a suitable environment and conditions enabling the process of social interaction to become possible. Adolescents, in turn, are considered simultaneously a source of subjective perceptions and mediators of resources of social type. The basic areas to achieve social change at individual, group and institutional level, through participation in sporting and educational activities are also presented. In addition, the paper provides a discussion on the strategic role of local authorities in shaping the interactions with educational institutions and sports providers enabling for activation of social and resource partnership networks. The implementation of policies to promote active and healthy lifestyle among adolescents, by creating specific social environment and culture should be seen as a continuous process and kind of social product of the interaction between different public, social and private interests, institutional actors’ development visions and alternatives for action. The institution of municipality is interpreted as: strategic terrain for policy making; generator of policies, strategies, programmes; resource partner and investor of public funds; and ‘moral entrepreneur’ being a creator of social rules aimed to regulate and control of the rest of the organisations within the ‘concerned community’.
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This article reviews and analyzes theoretical and practical arguments for introducing a family-oriented approach in social work. The focus is put on how social work is aimed at supporting families at risk, the basic characteristics and principles of the family-oriented approach, and the perception of professionals towards its application. Results of an empirical study among social service practitioners are presented. The data are interpreted according to the understandingand critical factors affecting the implementation of the family-оriented approach. The results show a tendency towards developing an awareness of the basic characteristics and principles of the family-oriented approach as well as a tendency to use it. Key factors that facilitate and hamper its application are identified, along with the predominant view of the practice in working with families as ineffective.
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This article presents survey results of the educational and professional attitudes, expectations, communicative competence and professional adaptation of trainee teachers, regarding their practical training. A theoretical analysis of key notions has been carried out and the relationship between them has been clarified. Three authors‘ survey questionnaires has been probated in order to take account the results through a 5-point Likert-type response scale. The data obtained allows future surveys to be done for improving the practical training of trainee teachers.
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The article is devoted to the problem of multilingual education in the context of situation in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia). Through the clarification of main notions, the model of multilingual education developed now in the Sakha Republic (the largest region of the Russian Federation) is discussed. It is revealed that the model is based on “Western” approach in educational practices and characterized by the systematic integration of the teaching of languages into the educational system. It is concluded that the model is aimed at achieving functional bi- and multilingualism – effective mastering the second and third languages using bi- and multilingual education – and built on parity bilingualism (native-state languages) and in-depth study of foreign (English) language.
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This article attempts to present the forecasts for the development of education and its peculiarities in the 21st century. On the basis of the current state of education, some more important trends related to the peculiarities and characteristics of the education of the future are hypothetically presented. Possible solutions are presented in the context of the unpredictable future educational reality. Modern education does not need reform, it needs revolutionary change. The new architecture of education does not stem from the past, but requires unconventional solutions in the light of an uncertain and unpredictable future educational reality.
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The issue presents the results of a investigation aimed at revealing the peculiarities of teacher perception of child faces. The face perceptions of two groups – teachers and students in Primary education – are studied. A conclusion is drawn that there are no specific differences in the results of the two groups although the professional experience of teachers. A proposal for special classes for students developing face perception skills is made.
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The article highlights the complexity of the concept of health culture, based on different understandings and opinions about health. The connection and the dependence of the problem with the strategy of the World Health Organization on the promotion of health in a different social environment, and in the school. It emphasized the need for a purposeful formation of the students‘ health culture. The essence of the main factors that determine it is revealed.
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The subject of the present paper is academic autonomy as one of the fundamental principles for the functioning of the higher education institutions. The need to examine it is necessitated by changes in public attitudes and the resulting new requirements for higher education institutions. This demands the implementation of a multi-disciplinary (philosophical and legal) approach, through which both the notion of academic autonomy and its relationship with the idea of the university are to be explored. The changed attitudes towards the notion of knowledge, motivated by a number of factors (scientific, political, economic), have an impact on the idea of its free distribution and acquisition. This calls for the creation of new models of higher education and the necessary legal regulation of the relations between the higher education institutions and the state, based on a balance between the freedom and autonomy of the academic community and the state control.
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The article aimed at presenting the results of an analysis of school curricula for the school subjects “Bulgarian Language and Literature” and “Foreign Language” for the 4-th Grade of Bulgarian primary school level, in view of their educational potential for developing intercultural competence in school setting. The inclusion of elements that facilitate the development of interculturality, such as tolerance, empathy, solidarity, counteracting violence, equality and non-discrimination, as well as positive communicative attitude, are sought in the analysed material. These elements are related to moral, intercultural and worldview education and are suitable to be included in any language school curricula. Thus, their presence in official documents established by the Ministry of Education and Science is considered as a potential for educational work in developing intercultural competences.
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The new educational situation requires students to learn how to think, establish and develop critical thinking skills, which are the core of the key national regulations. In this context, the focus is put now on the outline of Program Standards (RWCT), encouraging students' critical thinking and self-learning.
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The effort in the football game presents energetic characteristics, which must be taken as a starting point in the planning of the training effort. Of course, there is controversy regarding the level of participation of one system or another in supporting the effort, but one fact is certain, all three energy supply systems contribute to supporting the specific effort. Muscles contain 80% water and 20% solids, organic and inorganic. Organic substances. The most important are the proteins and energetic substances that are divided into myofibers and sarcoplasm. Myofibril proteins are contractile proteins (actin, myosin), others have a regulatory role. The energetic substances of the muscle are carbohydrates, lipids and macroergic substances.
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Today’s regional roundup: deputy replaces ousted Ukrainian PM; Dacia’s electric revolution; Central Asian prisoners; demographics in Central Europe; and bears in Russia.
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Unlike other resources, human resources are rare and hard to imitate, that makes them seen as a unique source of sustainable competitive advantages. Hence, it is essential for organizations to exert extra effort in order to manage such valuable assets. Through well-defined human resource management (HRM) practices, organizations can enhance their employees' satisfaction and commitment. As a result, it will stimulate them to perform extra efforts on behalf of their organizations and will increase their intention to stay. The study examines the role of HRM practices in increasing employees’ job satisfaction and strengthening their organizational commitment, as well as explores the role of organizational culture and leadership style as a moderator of these relationships. By using secondary data from the previous studies, the result shows that the HRM practices play a significant role in increasing employees’ satisfaction and commitment, and that role might be maximized if the HRM practices integrate properly with organizational culture and leadership styles
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