Carl Friedrich Rammelsberg and the Early Diffusion of the Periodic Table of Dmitri Mendeleev

Author(s): Pierre-Léonard Zaffalon / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

When Dmitri Mendeleev (1834 – 1907) proposed his periodic law in 1869 on a pedagogical purpose, few teachers were enthusiastic. However, as early as 1873, a manual of chemistry already reproduced his periodic table. A renowned German chemist wrote it: Carl Friedrich Rammelsberg (1813 – 1899). With the exception of the chemists involved in the classification of the elements, he was, as far as we know, the first to present the periodic table of Mendeleev in a textbook.

AFRICA IN QUEST OF STABILITY? REFLECTIONS INSPIRED BY THE CURRENT PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

Author(s): Alphonse Zozime Tamekamta / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

This study proposes to analyze the determinants of the volatile situation of Africa and its capacity of adaptation or appropriation of the global stakes, with regard to the current problems of the humanity, described in the work coordinated by the Professor Dumitru Otovescu. Africa is considered here as a field of application since this continent is subject to all attention eye, all anxieties and all hopes. To lead this reflection, three methods of data collection were favoured: First, the ethnographic method which involved neutral direct observation. Observation provides information about social and political actors. Then, the interviews (unstructured, semi-structured and standardized) that gave rise to conversations, formal and informal, conducted on the basis of an interview guide, a questionnaire or a survey, structured around from subject. Finally, the exploitation of newspaper articles, magazines and periodicals, various reports, books, etc. At the end of this work, it is observed that Africa suffers as much as the other continents the volatility of the banking and economic system due to the practice of capitalism. Although sector-specific (developed-country) and global responses have been taken following several global economic and financial crises, Africa has remained isolated and compartmentalized. Today, its galloping demography and the extreme youth of its population as well as the natural wealth at its disposal are the basis of the hope of Africa. In contrast, the segmentation of its economic recovery programs, the tribulations of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), the faculties of its political governance and the recurrence of crises and complex escapes.

CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AFTER THE END OF COMMUNISM: THE BEGINNING OF RELATIONS WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION: THE CASE OF UKRAINE (1991-1999)

Author(s): Cesar Garcia Andres / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The countries that were part of the Soviet Union were forced to start on their own the democratic process after the disintegration of the communist bloc. These countries had to enter the new world order that had been unknown to them. Two ways were developed in order to achieve their development as newly independent states. Firstly, the new independence countries have opened up to the European Community in the 90s. And secondly, the countries that remained linked to Russia in order to achieve the stability of those first moments. In the case of Ukraine, its path as an independent country began on 24 August 1991, and since that year its main task has been to strengthen its position as a state. Ukraine initially remained linked to Russia somehow through different policies. However, there was a change due to Ukraine's need for assistance in different areas: from social and political to economic. From this moment the institutions of the European Union came into play in Ukraine to promote its modernization and democratization. It is necessary to know which were these means and how they have served to advance these relations until the entry into force of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement in 1998. In order to carry out this analysis we will address with specialized monographs and articles related to these subjects, as well as the extensive documentation provided by the European institutions.

Основни показатели за състоянието на сектора за учене на възрастни

Author(s): Stoyan Baev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2018

Based on a brief analysis of Bulgaria’s benchmarks under the EU’s “Education and Training 2020” strategic framework, the article presents the state and trends of the adult learning sector and some new aspects in order to make progress. Discussed is the participation of the population aged 25 – 64 in formal or non-formal education and training, the situation of early school leavers is analysed. Based on the data analysed, it is made the conclusion that the adult learning sector in 2017 state is improving but the positive changes achieved are not large enough to ensure that the national targets set for the most important indicators – participation of adults in education and training and the number of early school leavers.

Some Concepts from Probability and Statistics and Opportunities to Integrate Them in Teaching Natural Sciences

Author(s): Elena Karashtranova,Nadezhda Borisova,Dafina Kostadinova,Nikolay Karashtranov / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The aim of the suggested approach is to focus on acquisition of elements of Probability and Statistics that are included in the curricula of Mathematics, Informatics and Information Technologies in Bulgaria. The educational tools of¬fered show the opportunities for co-related education in Informatics and Statistics. The approach used for the development of educational materials allows a quick and flexible reaction to the changes in education.

Опит за обосноваване на професиограма на началния учител (I – IV клас)

Author(s): Maria Teneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

The article presents the idea of justification of a set of professional requirements for the primary-school teacher. The performed attempt to justify a set of professional requirements for the primary-school teacher in the I – IV grade is aimed at regulating the specific requirements for the selection of candidates for the specialty “Primary School Pedagogy”, as well as their academic preparation and subsequent professional realization. A four-component model of a professional set of requirements for the primary-school teacher is presented and justified, which includes a description of specific requirements for the personality, theoretical training and the professional achievements of the practitioners. The professional set of requirements for the I – IV grade teacher is based on the idea of interdependence between the components: a medicogramme, a psychogramme, a sociogramme, requirements for the primary-school teacher‘s professional training.

Мултидисциплинарен подход за съвременно академично присъствие и устойчиво опериране с актуални ресурси

Author(s): Violeta Gueorgieva-Hristozova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

The article refers to university didactics and professionals in this field. This is a brief reflection on the current challenges that faces the Bulgarian education in result of the evolution of the society, on the current Bulgarian educational context, on the professional profile of the modern university lecturer - in his role as educator, and also as a head of an educational structure. On the basis of studied theory and practice in pedagogical management is proposed the author’s idea for contemporary academic presence and sustainable usage of modern information resources.

Пространства, празници, практики. Визуално представяне на света на детството при роми

Author(s): Svetoslava Mancheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

From an anthropological perspective, the world of childhood is a combination of the world of children as well as the world of adults and it includes a process of cultural learning, which does not end with childhood. The present article seeks to answer the question where and under what conditions these processes take place in the light of the various spaces and their uses during holidays. Using visual narratives, the article presents case studies from the Roma neighborhood in the village of Belozem,Plovdiv District, and a micro neighborhood in the residential district of Stolipinovoin the city of Plovdiv.

Русифициране на градското пространство. Варшава и провинциалните градове на кралство Полша през ХІХ и началото на ХХ в.

Author(s): Andrzej Szwarc / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2016

From the late nineteenth century together with the rise of modern nationalism, a widely spread belief is that there is a natural antagonism between the nations, which also affects the field of culture. This seems particularly clear in the territories inhabited by people of ethnic groups that are not dominant and constitute the centralized European powers such as unified Germany and Russia. The article presents some aspects of the Russia‘s cultural policy towards Polish lands in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Part of this policy is the construction of monumental objects with civilian or religious purpose in the Polish cities, whose architecture hints at Russian traditions and their functions are considered a symbol of foreign domination.

Ян Карски – герой на полската съпротива

Author(s): Andrzej Żbikowski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2016

Жизненият стандарт в Полша от Средновековието до XX век

Author(s): Michał Kopczyński / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2016

The paper examines the evolution of living standards over the last millennium, viewed through the prism of the body height of the inhabitants of the Polish lands. Body height is determined by both genetic potential and by living conditions. The highest values were recorded in the late Middle Ages and in the second half of XIX century

Le dialogue pédagogique en tant qu’outil de la médiation cognitive en classe de langue. Cas des élèves en difficulté d’apprentissage

Author(s): Jolanta Sujecka-Zając / Language(s): French Issue: 4/2016

We would like to propose in this article an innovative approach to dialogue in a language class going beyond its usual function of only being a means to develop the communicative competence in a foreign language. From our point of view, the dialogue of an educational and formative type allows to give better tools of thinking to the learner and to remedy to his deficits in his learning ability, this through exchange around ways of learning and his mental processes. In the theoretical framework thus defined are concepts that have proven themselves in different educational contexts: the pedagogical dialogue of Antoine de La Garanderie, the explication interview of Pierre Vermersch and the cognitive interview aiming at Learning of Michael Perraudeau and Maria Pagoni. On the basis of these analyses, we conducted our research that aims to demonstrate the value of dialogue in a language class, especially for students with learning difficulties. In the article we present the main lines of this reflection and examples of dialogues with Polish students in a school in Warsaw.

Съотнасяне изпълненията на задачите за когнитивно развитие на Жан Пиаже с показателя за умствена възраст Бине-Търман при ученици със специални образователни потребности

Author(s): Milen Zamfirov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2019

The paper presents a correlation model based upon Piaget’s phenomena and Binet-Terman’s intelligence test. There are approaches pointed out in the paper, which can determine an individual’s mental age via conducting J. Piaget’s experiments as well as vice versa – via determining Piaget’s stage the IQ can be specified. The suggested Model would allow the mainstream teacher as well as the team of experts assisting personality development in the school, to easily orientate in the abilities a student with special educational needs has and to design his/her individual programs so that they would correspond to his/her development.

Влиянието на социалните мрежи върху отношението на учениците към ценности с хедонистична насоченост

Author(s): Liliya Lozanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2019

Technological innovations transformed social networks in part not only from the living space but also as a part of the personal space of the contemporary.In this context, technological innovations importance raises a number of questions, especially for students about the role in the transmission of value influences in the conditions of modern consumerism and hedonism. This article presents the results from a study of the attitude of upper-school students towards hedonistically oriented values. The analyzed results represent pupils’ attitudes towards the values of “Pleasure” and “Adventure Life”, as well as the impact of social networks on the dynamics of their attitudes.

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.

Speech Disfluencies of Preschool-age Children Who Do and Do Not Stutter

Author(s): Yulia O. Filatova,Dobrinka Georgieva / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2019

The purpose of the present study was to determine (i) the frequency of normal disfluency (ND) and stuttered disfluency (SD) in young children who stutter (CWS) and who do not stutter (CWNS) and (ii) whether SD serves as a risk factor for stuttering in CWNS. Participants were 30 preschool-age CWS (n = 14) and CWNS (n = 16). The speech (dis)fluency of all participants was measured from 100 words selected from samples of each child’s conversation and storytelling using the Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN, USA) Disfluency Count Sheet. Results indicated that CWS, when compared to CWNS, significantly differed in stuttered but not in non-stuttered disfluencies. Within-group analysis indicated that CWS exhibited a significant relation between total speech disfluencies and an index of stuttering severity and that a relatively few CWNS (n = 4) exhibited a percentage of total and stuttered disfluencies within the lower ends of the distribution for CWS. Findings appear to suggest that inclusion of the Vanderbilt Disfluency Count Sheet as part of a comprehensive diagnostic assessment of childhood stuttering helps fine-tune such assessment through consideration of both ND and SD in a child’s speech as well as the ratio between these measures of disfluency.

Училищна превенция на употребата на психоактивни вещества при ученици от V – VII клас

Author(s): Penka Kozhuharova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 8/2019

The aim of the study is to explore the trends in the alcohol and drug abuse among students from 5-th to 7-th grade and, subsequently, to define problematic areas as well as the appropriate interventions for the implementation of a prevention school-based program in this setting. The program builds on an on-going three year prevention among teenagers. It is run by a team of teachers, experts and young volunteers. The structure and the aspects of the program are presented. In 2017, the study was conducted by using standardized questionnaires and an intervention in a group of 1,396 7-th grade students from 36 schools in the South-Eastern Region of Bulgaria. Their results have been compared with a control group of 7-th grade students. The selected indicators for the assessment of the tobacco and alcohol abuse were: frequency of use, age at first alcohol or tobacco use, use patterns, and sexual development. Furthermore, risk factors as well as protective factors associated with the peers groups and family environment have been studied. Pedagogical aspects in the implementation of the school-based program were addressed by the awareness and attitudes of students towards drug abuse, a dedicated curriculum, methods and forms of preventive action. In conclusion, the established program managed to: reduce the proportion of students who smoke occasionally; delay the first tobacco use; decrease the rates of tobacco use when meeting peers. Although there was no significant overall difference between the two groups in the frequency of alcohol use, the frequency of alcohol abuse at parties decreased significantly; a higher proportion of students in the intervention group claimed not having friends who have ever tried drugs.

Гората – очарованието на живота

Author(s): Elena Milcheva,Ignat Ignatov,Venetka Ilieva,Irinka Hristova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2019

A group of students from 10v grade whose specialty is “Forestry and Hunting Enterprise” represented a STEM lesson devoted to the celebration of eminent anniversaries in our high school. Knowledge from the special subjects Dendrology, Silviculture, Soil Science was presented during the lesson. The students showed great competence in the general subjects, too: Physics, Mathematics, Computer Sciences and Information Technologies. The presentation of the subjects included some quotations from Nikolay Haytov’s works. The famous Bulgarian writer had worked as an engineer-arborist also.

Споделяне на десетгодишен опит и добри практики в работата с ученици със специални образователни потребности в ПГГСД „Николай Хайтов“

Author(s): Maria Georgieva,Maia Rogashka / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2019

The text presents an already established model for educating students with special educational needs (SEN). The Vocational School of Forestry and Woodworking “Nikolay Haytov” has been training students with special educational needs for more than 10 years. Such experience and many years of practice have enabled us and contributed to building a working model in our institution which, on the eve of the 95th anniversary from the foundation of the school, deserves to be shared and presented.

Модел на педагогическа среда с антидискриминационен компонент и формиране на позитивни нагласи към хора с различен етнически произход и хора с увреждания

Author(s): Sasho Nunev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 9/2019

In the article, a research of the formation of positive attitudes towards people with different ethnic backgrounds and persons with disabilities in the social work students in the conditions of the model of pedagogical environment with an anti-discrimination component is presented. The sample and the research instruments used are consistent with the purpose and specificity of the research. The results of the statistical analysis of empirical data reveal the role and importance of the model of pedagogical environment to create conditions which stimulate students: to accept and value the cultural heritage of the communities and to respect the human dignity of their representatives; to know and study their own and of the people from different groups of cultural and other contexts; to create a sensitive and valued microclimate in curricular and extracurricular activities, to overcome their own stereotypes and prejudices and to enhance their cultural competences; to accept and value diversity and to work for its validation in the academic community and society. The presented aspects create an integrative basis for the formation in the social work students of positive attitudes towards people of different ethnic backgrounds and persons with disabilities.