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‘An inside job’: An autobiographical account of desistance

Author(s): Wayne Hart,Deirdre Healy / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Various theories have been put forward to explain the processes underpinning desistance from crime. To provide additional insights into this phenomenon, this article presents an autobiographical account of one man’s journey towards a crime-free life. The narrative reveals a change process that is at once personal and universal, and describes the external forces that shaped his pathway to desistance as well as his experiences of personal fortitude and agency. In addition, it highlights the role of probation supervision as a catalyst for change. The autobiographical account is accompanied by a reflective academic commentary that situates these personal life experiences within the wider desistance literature. While the reader may view the autobiographical tone of this article as subjective, it should be noted that the account is not simply a re-telling of an individual life story but offers a critical appraisal of existing knowledge viewed through the lens of one person’s journey towards desistance.

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“You’ll never stand-alone”: Electronic monitoring in Germany

Author(s): Frieder Dünkel,Christoph Thiele,Judith Treig / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

Electronic monitoring (EM) in Germany is used only exceptionally in cases of highrisk offenders released from prison after fully having served a prison sentence or after release from the preventive detention measure (added to a prison sentence in cases of “dangerous” violent or sex offenders). About 70 cases on a daily total of more than 36,000 supervision of conduct cases are under global positioning system (GPS)-EM. Only in one federal state (Hesse) EM on radio frequency technology is also used to avoid pretrial detention or in regular probation/parole cases. Numbers remain very low also in this context. EM is always combined with a probation or supervision of conduct order, which means that it is embedded in the rehabilitative work of the probation services. The German judiciary and crime policy are very reluctant to expand EM, as there is no pressure from the prison system (no overcrowding) and the “ordinary” probation service (without EM) works quite efficiently.

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„Цаката била в кацата…“ или как градският шлагер преживя социализма

Author(s): Anton Angelov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2020

Between the mid-1940s and the late 1950s the centralization and ideologization of culture marginalized the schlager-song practice from pre-socialist times. Performing and listening to this musical genre was recognized by the authorities as a relic of the bourgeois past and was at the same time regarded as non-aesthetic by the professional composers. In the 1960s the generational change and the penetration of the new modern Western popular culture in Bulgaria altered the focus of the institutions of the regime. The old-fashioned pre-war schlager lost its political incorrectness to a significant extent and gradually became a convenient instrument in the hands of the institutions thus allowing to cover the attention of the elderly generations.

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Феминизация на учителската професия в България

Author(s): Petrana Stoykova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 6/2018

Alongside with the massovisation of the Bulgarian education there is also a process of feminization of the teaching profession. According to Eurostat data from 2017, the demographic profile of the contemporary Bulgarian teacher is as follows: with bachelor or master degree (93% of the teaching staff); female (84% of all teachers in the country); over 50 years old (48% of the Bulgarian teachers). This article investigates different reasons for the feminisation of the teaching profession in Bulgaria and the consequences of turning this profession into a predominantly female one. The analysis is based on the results of 30 in-depth interviews with former and current Bulgarian teachers conducted by the author in March 2018.

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Фемининность в дискурсивном пространстве российского истеблишмента

Author(s): A. L. Shishelyakina / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 1/2015

The main purpose of the article — to shed light on the dynamics of the discourse of the Russian establishment on the issue of femininity and the social role of women in society. The material of press in Tyumen region shows the post-Soviet transformation of the discourse of the establishment. The author draws attention to the normative and non-normative patterns of femininity, mechanisms of stigmatization of non-normative patterns of femininity in different historical periods.

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ФЕНОМЕН ДЕЦЕ РАТА (РАТНИКА)

Author(s): Hatidža Beriša,Vladimir Tomašević / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 5/2020

Modern political reality that we are witnessing, is marked by an escalation of terrorist activities around the world. Terrorism is the weapon of the weak, which in the modern era to which we belong, as a way of confronting the powerful enemy forces, using numerous and various political and religious groups and organizations. Although it is well known that all terrorist organizations around the world have their own offspring, and that the recruitment of children and manipulation of them do not differ significantly from the same phenomenon in countries affected by armed conflict, in the following we will passages, because the thematic specificity and nature of the work itself, exposure primarily focus on the abuse of children in armed conflict, without particular reference to the abuse in the commission of terrorist activities. Guided by this fact, the paper will seek to said phenomenom approach relying on scientific methods of content analysis of publicly available information contained in the reports of UN bodies, as well as a number of regional initiatives and the coalitions, their programs and work activities, gathered around the same goal-reducing the expansion of the multiple significant social phenomena.

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Фестивалите за „тежка“ музика между почитателите и местната общност: случаят „Каварна“

Author(s): Iliyana Choevska / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/2018

The article looks into the festivals for “heavy” music in Bulgaria. The primary hypothesis, proven by the study, is that such events assist in the development of the settlements in which they are hosted, and benefit their residents in many fields,in particular tourism and local economy. The article focuses on the main “actors“ –the fans and the local community, based on a particular case. The festival “Kavarna rock“ is chosen as an example of a most successful event of this genre in our country, with 11 years of history. The study of the opinions of the fans and the residents, the organization and the evolution of the festival over the years of its life time, the issues that have had to be resolved, add up to a comprehensive picture of such events in our country. Even though the event is no longer being organized, the results achieved are an example of development of an alternative form of tourism in our country, which is still underdeveloped.

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Фестивалът на дивите цветя – нови посоки за развитие на селото

Author(s): Yana Yancheva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/2018

In this article I present the potential of the Wild Flower Festival in the area of the villages of the upper bank of the Arda River as a new type of ‘production’ and an alternative non-agricultural way for development in the rural context. The article follows the history and mission of the festival in its development, the specialized events and the interactions between the main social actors – external NGO specialists and local stakeholders. It reflects the impact of the festival on the local communities through the mobilization of knowledge and experience, the appreciation of local cultural specifics, targeted actions for preservation of the natural and cultural wealth of the Rhodope Mountains. The article explores how local natural and cultural resources are being used as a new type of production in rural areas.

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Философски основи на интеграцията и включващото образование на деца със специални образователни потребности

Author(s): Pelagia Terziyska / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 4/2015

The study directs reader’s attention to the philosophical origin of the integration as a phenomenon. Various philosophical aspects of the integration and the inclusive education of children with special educational needs are being examined. The author clarifies the significance and the role of the axiological approach for overcoming socio-cultural stereotypes about people with disabilities, equality and freedom of choice. Philosophical elaborations for the ethics of life, for the tolerance, ideas for existentialism are being analyzed, because they are exclusively important for understanding the essence of the integration and the inclusive education.

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Фокус групата като метод при оценяване на приложението на Закона за защита от домашно насилие

Author(s): Georgi Dimitrov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 4/2019

Focus groups are appropriate method for studying the practices of preventing domestic violence at a regional level. The method provides a reflexive space for identification of collective insights in the course of group interactions and preservation and registration of the implicit individual preferences of participants in the group discussion. Focus groups are organized in order to study the relationships of the target groups with the institutions in Razgrad district and the extent of their involvement in the process of prevention of domestic violence. Sharing of own experiences and ideas and the interactive comparison of the viewpoints of the participants that arise during group interactions in thematic focus groups, provide a more complete picture of the phenomena studied. The dynamics of symbolic interactions and the social exchange of information in the group process of the focus group reveals additional, subdivided views on the content and validity of the empirical data collected by this method. The focus groups do not apply the survey-specific pressures for a structured response to the moderator’s questions, which allows a higher level of authentic sharing and understanding of the experiences, attitudes, practices and relationships presented.

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ФОРМАЛЬНО-ЛОГИЧЕСКОЕ МЫШЛЕНИЕ ДОШКОЛЬНИКОВ ПРИ РАЗНОМ УРОВНЕ КУЛЬТУРНОЙ КОНГРУЭНТНОСТИ

Author(s): Larisa Faritovna Bayanova,Timur Ravilevich Mustafin / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 4/2015

The results of the empirical research on the specifics of formal and logical thinking of preschoolers with different levels of cultural congruence are discussed in the paper. Using the methods for assessment of formal and logical thinking, it is found that children with the high level of cultural congruence (i.e., complying with rules in the normative situation) are characterized by the high level of formal and logical thinking. The levels of generalization and establishment of the cause-and-effect relationships as indicators of formal and logical thinking in preschoolers appear to be positively correlated with their cultural congruence.

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Форми и политически инструменти за стратегическо направляване на образователни институции и спортни организации

Author(s): Ivan Sandanski / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 6/2017

The article sets out to unpack the modes of governance and related policy instruments for steering educational establishments and sport organisations employed by the Sofia municipality Department of Prevention, Integration, Sport and Tourism (DPIST). These instigate a process of institutionalization the actions and behaviours of local schools, kindergartens, sport clubs, youth organisations, and various social groups participating in DPIST funded or supported projects and sport initiatives. Four primary modes of strategic steering are identified including coercion, voluntarism, targeting and framework regulation. The process of steering collective actions, policies and resources is premised on creating a system of institutionalized rules. In fact, such a process takes hybrid forms. The key mechanism for achieving both the strategic and sport policy intentions of Sofia municipality has been the machinery of project management. It is also demonstrated that the pursuit of the new promoted vision envisaging Sofia as a vibrant city of juvenile, active and innovative people where sport, in combination with education, volunteering and entrepreneurship, is seen as the key means and agent of social change, however, requires a proactive forward thinking and strategic approach. It is directed towards pursuing some future, but still unknown desired state in terms of necessary social time, space and projection. Due to this uncertainty Sofia municipality reasonably has relied on a set of already tested in the social practice sources of reasoning and mechanisms of cognitive knowledge and social interventions.

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Формиране на езиковите и речевите компетентности на учениците от етническите малцинства чрез технология за стимулиране процеса на ограмотяване в условията на семейна среда

Author(s): Daniel Polihronov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 5/2018

The article justifies the need to construct and apply a technology for stimulating the literacy process in family conditions as a prerequisite for raising the level of proficiency in Bulgarian language and raising the results of the students in a multicultural environment in accordance with the state education standard for general education. Different activities for multisensory learning that stimulates the process of literacy in a family environment are suggested.

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Формиране на комуникативно-речева компетентност по метода „Mонтесори“ при деца, отглеждани в условията на социален дом

Author(s): Diyana Georgieva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 7/2020

The obsessing of communicative-speaking competence assures the individual full participation in communication. As a major aspect in the mental and personal development of children, it has the status of a species concept with respect to the generic concept ’communicative competence’. The article is dedicated to research focused on one of the most current problems of special pedagogy – the formation of communicative-speaking competence in preschool age children raised in a social home setting, using alternative teaching methods. The comparative approach in the analysis of the empirical data from the two research corps allows them to be compared against pre-formulated criteria and indicators. The results show that the Montessori method provides more effective development of communicative-speaking skills and habits in the children raised in a social home setting compared to the traditional methods of education and communication.

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Формиране на морална компетентност в предучилищна и начална училищна възраст

Author(s): Tatiana Avdulova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/2017

The article presents an analysis of the maintenance of moral development in preschool and younger school age. The mechanisms of moral development are also considered. Principles of construction of programmes for moral development of children are presented and proved.

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Формиране на новобългарския книжовен език през Възраждането

Author(s): Tatyana Aleksandrova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2018

The article discusses the relationship between some peculiarities of the New Bulgarian literary language and the process of formation of the Bulgarian nation during the Renaissance. Characteristics such as piety to native language, movement to build a common and comprehensible for all literary language with modern norms, use of variant forms; a lack of a narrowly dialectic basis mark the pattern of forming of national literary language corresponds to such historical features as the lack of political autonomy, as well as the principles of egalitarianism and democratization, and a network model of social organization and functioning of public and cultural institutions.

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Формирование способов преодоления трудных жизненных ситуаций в будущей профессиональной деятельности выпускников вуза средствами рефлексивных семинаров

Author(s): Anastasiya Evgenievna Kargina,Irina Stanislavovna Morozova,Evgenia Aleksandrovna Medovikova,Daria Nikolaevna Grinenko / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 4/2020

Introduction. The article focuses on the development of coping skills to deal with difficult situations in the future workplace of senior students pursuing undergraduate degrees in Technosphere Safety. The purpose of the article is to evaluate the effectiveness of reflexive seminars as a means of fostering undergraduate students’ coping skills in the final year of studies. Materials and Methods. For this study, the authors used the following methods of data collection: S. S. Goncharov’s ‘Ways of managing negative situations’, R. Lazarus’s ‘Coping strategies’, ‘Index of life style’ (L. I. Wasserman, O. F. Eryshev, etc.), and ‘Uncompleted sentence’ technique. The sample consisted of 48 senior students pursuing their degrees in Technosphere Safety. The data obtained were interpreted and statistically analyzed using the Student’s t-test. Results. The study clarifies the concept of ‘a difficult life situation’. The research participants (senior students) described it as a state of anxiety about the result. The findings of the study suggest that reflexive seminars contribute to acquiring flexible coping skills for managing difficult situations by senior students in the final year at university. Conclusions. The authors conclude that reflexive seminars enable future technosphere security professionals to take responsibility for solving problems. The obtained results can be used in designing programs to prepare students for the future career.

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ФРАГМЕНТИ СЛИКЕ ЕВРОПСКЕ МИГРАНТСКЕ КРИЗЕ У ДНЕВНОЈ ШТАМПИ СРБИЈЕ

Author(s): Zoran B. Jevtović,Predrag Bajić / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 4/2019

Although the European migrant crisis has not finished, it is rarely on the front pages, with only occasional reminders that it is still present. In this way, the stories of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers remained out of public focus, although they were numerous in time when the crisis was at its peak. By using quantitative and qualitative content analysis, the authors researched the ways in which migrants, refugees and asylum seekers are highlighted as individuals on the front pages of Serbian daily newspapers (Politika, Danas, Večernje novosti, Blic, Kurir, Alo and Informer) between the beginning of 2015 and the end of the first half of 2018, as well as how the image about them in this context was upgraded, confirmed or changed. During the research, two directions were clearly noticed - indicating a humanitarian character on the one hand and a security aspect on the other. The results also point to the difference between the dominant narratives in the tabloids and in the quality press. Unlike the sensationalist discourse in tabloids, mixed with fear and panic, or a quick excitement of the readers, quality press is developing the human aspect of the migrant crisis, with elements of critical research.

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ФРАКТАЛЬНОСТЬ ГЕНДЕРНЫХ ОТНОШЕНИЙ И ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕ ГЕНДЕРНОГО РЕСУРСА ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЙ ПОЛИТИКИ И УПРАВЛЕНИЯ В СОВРЕМЕННОЙ РОССИИ

Author(s): Marina Aleksandrovna Kashina,Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Vasilenko / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 2/2019

The authors analyze the possibilities of using the synergistic potential of the society which is related to the optimization of gender relations in the society and equalization of the resource availability for the gender groups. The notion of a gender resource is presented as a possibility of social changes which is derived from the inclusion of the task of population’s biological and social reproduction optimization in the activities of the public administration bodies. In the article two forms of using the gender resource are considered. The first form is an extensive (wasteful) one. It means the policy of gender relations conservation and the promotion of traditional gender norms. The second form is could be called intensive (increasing). In this case the government will modernize the gender relations and norms. The article reveals the fractal nature of gender relations in the society, the connection of fractals of gender relations, roles and statuses of gender groups with the nature of the use of the gender resource by the public administration.

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Функционално оценяване на потребностите и практически техники за успешното приобщаване на децата с увреден слух в общообразователната среда

Author(s): Neda Balkanska / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 8/2018

The ways of integration of children with hearing impairment in mainstream schools are the object of discussion in this article. The main thesis advocated in the content is the importance of adequate needs assessment of hearing-impaired children, the application of an individual approach in education that is oriented not only to children with hearing impairment but also to all children with SEN, as well and to all students in the class. The theory of multiple intelligence offers a solid argument in this direction regarding registering the learning style for each child and his/her inclusion in structured group activities that also stimulate social integration.

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