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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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„Je to o tom, koho potkáš“: Jednodětnost ve světle spojených životních drah

Author(s): Radka Dudová / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 2/2020

Single-child families are a phenomenon that, alongside childlessness, is contributing to the trend of declining fertility, especially in the countries of central and eastern Europe, including the Czech Republic. This article presents the results of a qualitative study based on problem-centred interviews with parents of a single child who had originally planned to have more children aimed at exploring their understanding of the main factors that led to them having one child, when two-child families are still the preferred normative model in Czech society. The analysis presents the main lines of argumentation that the respondents used to try to explain and justify their reproductive choices. In their narratives, a single-child family is constructed as the consequence of certain events and transitions in different areas of life and the timing of these events in the linked life paths of the two partners. In a situation where intensive parenting is the normative ideal and where it is also difficult to combine work and a family, and in view of the normative hierarchy of different paths to parenthood that exists (where the preferred path is to have a biological child in a two-parent family), being the parent of single child is becoming an accepted form of parenthood.

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„Upoután vozíkový“: absence zdvořilé nevšímavosti jako bariéra při pohybu prostorem uživatelů a uživatelek elektrických vozíků

Author(s): Robert Osman,Hana Porkertová / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 1/2020

The article is based on disability geography and draws on the social-geographic conception of relational space, which is perceived as being constantly created, never finished, heterogeneous, and embodied, and not a space that is given and everywhere the same. It offers a specific way of linking the discursive and material dimensions of disability, which intersect in the concept of social space, and refers to Lefebvre’s trialectics of production – spatial practices, the representation of space, and spaces of representations. To analyse the mutual production of social space and social bodies, we use Goffman’s concept of civil inattention. We ask how such social practices as gazing, addressing, asking, or dodging that co-create the social space of electric wheelchair users influence their movement through material space, and through the spatial reactions of wheelchair users responding to unwanted attention we trace the homogenisation and differentiation of space. The text is based on a long-term study (2010–2018) of the temporal/spatial behaviour of five electric wheelchair users (four men and one woman) diagnosed with muscular dystrophy who live in the City of Brno.

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Футболният стадион – център на фенската активност

Author(s): Kremena Iordanova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2018

The aim of this text is to trace the importance of the football stadium for the football fans and the characteristic ritual behavior they use as a way out of everyday life.

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Хабутиси на неформалността: социални полета за прилагане на модели на девиантно икономическо поведение

Author(s): Emilia Chengelova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2019

The text presents an original interpretation of informality in economic relations, systematized and described through the habituses of informality, within which individuals apply different deviant models of economic behaviour. Each of the identified behavioural patterns has a strongly recognizable specificity, both in value normative aspect and in terms of preferred means (legitimate or illegitimate) to achieve the personally significant goals. The behavioural patterns described are empirically captureable, thus making them easy to be recognized and accessible for research.

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Хан Татар и Тодорка (Един прочит на варианта от Велико Търново)

Author(s): Stoyan Antonov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 4/2018

The text interprets Khand Tatar and Todorka ballad by commenting the historical terms used from the one hand, and, from the other hand by doing a transformational analysis of the attributes and functions of the mediator in the plot. The situations connected with the Tartars as historical population are analyzed as potential sources of folk personages and motifs. Resultantly, the folklore situation is seen in the light of a possible reflection of the mythological understandings while at the same time the basic psycho-social functions of the ballad are outlined. Thus the reading combines historical and mythological aspects and compares the particular “Bulgarian” case with the universal models and structures of thinking.

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Хербарт и неговият път към Песталоци и педагогиката

Author(s): Albena Chavdarova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 7/2016

During the period of 1797 to 1799 Herbart is a private teacher in Switzerland. Through his friends and classmates he visited Pestalozzi at Burgdorf. After this meeting follows a two-year research on the scientific basis and practical value of Pestalozzi’s “method”, this also finds expression in Herbart’s first pedagogical works.

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Холистичният подход като актуална практика в социалната работа с деца в риск

Author(s): Rositza Mihaylova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 4/2017

Holistic approach in social work with children at risk is current practice that helps the efficiency and quality of social services for children in these target groups. This report addresses the concept of a holistic approach and its application in current modern practice of social work.

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Цел и роля на образованието след 16-годишна възраст

Author(s): Phil Budgell / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2019

In this article, the author compares school education for pupils aged 16 years and over in Bulgaria and England. At the beginning of the article, he looks at the general matrix of the curriculum and the degree of freedom of choice for students. In Bulgaria, the educational model follows the way of training students aged 14 – 16, with limited choice within the profile. In England, on the other hand, there is a significant difference: after 16 years of age, students have the complete freedom to choose which subjects to study.Further, the author focuses on teaching Bulgarian in Bulgaria and English in England to illustrate the different approaches. For this purpose, he uses the Bulgarian language requirements published by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science and the English language requirements of the Ministry of Education in England.Finally, the author examines the examination process and compares the types of questions that are included in the Bulgarian matriculation in Bulgaria and the types of questions included in the GCS A Level Exams in England.

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Целите за стимулиране на преживяванията и личностно значимият детски опит в контекста на индивидуалния образователен напредък в детската градина

Author(s): Rozalina Engels-Kritidis / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 4/2018

The current paper outlines the perspectiveness of the goals of stimulating emotional and personally-significant experiences in the context of the effective individualization and differentiation during pedagogical interaction in the kindergarten. It includes presentation on the results of a study involving 127 children aged 3-7 years old in 4 experimental groups (I, II, III, and IV age groups), which prove that individual educational progress has a strong correlation with each child’s well-being, as well as the level of fully-productive involvement of the children in the process of pedagogical interaction.

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Ценността на дара или стойността на подаръка

Author(s): Petia Bankova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/2016

The article presents and discusses a widely spread in the past and practiced inpresent day rite associated with the birth of the child. On one hand it draws its datafrom ethnographic sources (archival, literary and personally collected field material),presenting the custom in its traditional version, and on the other – on research conductedthrough the method of participant observation and semi-structured interviewsduring contemporary manifestations of this custom. Analyzing specific ritual elementsand focusing on gifts/presents received by the child, the author develops theidea that this custom gradually loses its characteristics as a rite of passage. Furthermore,the lack of information or its laic presentation and interpretation has resultedin the development and approbation of a „scenario“ of the custom, which leads to aprocess of deritualization and transformation so this custom becomes primarily a festivemoment, a party, a visit, an occasion for gatherings of people who, through theirpresence and especially through their gifts, support the new-born and his/her family.

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Центровете за изнесени услуги като глобални „спасители“: краткосрочна перспектива, престижна алтернатива или социална принуда за младежите в България

Author(s): Niya Neykova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1-2/2016

The paper sets forth the task of continuing the tradition of Cultural Studies’ approach to contemporary youth cultures in Bulgaria. Based on fieldwork (a participant observation in two outsourcing companies and in-depth interviews), the analysis presents the new opportunity on the labor market, rapidly turning into a major option for youths in big cities – the outsourcing companies (Bulgaria is currently considered to be among top outsourcing destinations). The text is an effort to comprehend the unprecedented development of this sector in the last fifteen years and in particular the work of client service centers which are mainly outsourced in the country. This reveals some changes in the labor market, in youth alternatives for work, but also in the idea for successful career development and for an adequate professional biography. Specific media rhetoric meets the specific professional strategies of three groups of youths who consider such professional realization respectively as short-term perspective, as prestigious alternative or as social constraint, all this when “import” of corporative culture in Bulgaria does not take into consideration regional factors in relation with country specific context which produces different type of workforce in the sector, with different motivation and requiring different methods of loyalty building.

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Часът на класа – възможност за формиране на интеркултурна компетентност в началните класове

Author(s): Ekaterina Tomova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 4/2020

This article attempts to outline various possibilities of the form “tutor session” to form an intercultural competence in the elementary classes. The author emphasizes on the axiological parameters of this process and its realization in the real pedagogy practice.

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Четящият студент, четящото дете – едно малко прозорче, една величествена гледка

Author(s): Mariana Mandeva,Boryana Tutseva,Gabriela Nikolova,Tsvetelina Kovacheva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 8/2017

Through the theoretical rationale and the sharing of innovative Pedagogical practice of the circle “The Reading Student, The Reading Child” – University of Veliko Tarnovo, Faculty of Pedagogy proves the possibilities of Non-formal education to turn the reading in elementary school age into a key for harmonious multidimensional building of the child’s personality.

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Чистота и опасност в медиите. Форми на медиен боклук и стратегии за рециклиране

Author(s): Niya Neykova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2020

The article categorizes several types of media bullshit, based on three aspects that are embedded in the very definition of “media” and create the contemporary media environment – namely media as a technical device, media as a type of connection (hierarchical or not) and media as a mediator. The functional conception of the media as meaningful to society, enshrined in its very definition, allows one to show what is not pure or what violates public order, that is, media bullshit. The analysis shows three divisions in the contemporary media environment as key elements in the production of media bullshit: inclusion-exclusion (in relation to the definition of the media as a technical device); information-communication (in relation to the media as a type of connection); truth-manipulation (in relation to the media as a mediator).

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Читалищното образование на етническите малцинства в България 1944 – 1956

Author(s): Penka Tzoneva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2018

The research is historical and pedagogical of its kind; it seeks sources and aims to differentiate major trends in the development of the library education of the ethnical minorities in Bulgaria over the period 1944 – 1956. It is a first attempt for researching the contents and the forms of library education of ethnical minorities within a certain period of history. It is completely based on historical sources and enactments. The extracted positive practices and approaches are valuable experience of the contemporary education policy on integration and desegregation of ethnical minorities in one of the types of the extra-school, informal education – the library education which is inseparably involved in the Bulgarian education tradition with its 160-year history.

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Что значит бьlть грубмм по-англииски?

Author(s): Marina A. Jegorova / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 4/2003

Straipsnyje pateikti skirtingi požifirio taškai i savokas „mandagumas”, „norma” ir „grubumas”. Pabrežiamas itraukimo i sferq pragmatines, NEkooperati- nio komunikacinio elgesio, lyginant su tradiciškai tyrinejamu kooperatiniu elgesiu, analizes aktualumas. Tyrinejimo objektu уга apgalvotas ir motyvuotas grubumas, kaip samoningas individo pasirenkamas elegesio stereotipas.

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Чувството за принадлежност към Родината като аспект от националната идентичност на учениците от началното училище

Author(s): Mariana Koseva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 9/2019

This article presents the results of a qualitative empirical study. The theme of national identity is approached with the idea that in the period of “middle childhood” the cognitive and emotional foundations of its further development are laid. An attempt was made to explore in a comparative sense the sense of belonging to the homeland of children of Bulgarian and Roma ethnicity at the end of the period. Special attention is also paid to their self-determination towards the national group as a basis for forming a sense of belonging.

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Чуждоезикова сугестопедия в училище

Author(s): Galya Mateva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 4/2020

The present article focuses on the long standing experimental work of suggestopedia in the area of foreign language teaching at school. It surveys the specific ways of structuring the teaching materials and teaching process for different age groups (first to seventh grade of the Bulgarian school) in compliance with the principles and methods of suggestopedia. It reveals the original character of the main application areas of school suggestopedia related to integrated language and subject teaching (grade one), accelerated formation of initial reading skills in L2 (grade two), the introduction of concert sessions and subsequent activities for children (grades two to seven), the global-artistic approach aimed at developing cultural and communicative competence of learners (grades VI – VII). The experience of the classical period tests its validity against some recent developments of ELT school suggestopedia.

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