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A továbbképzések hatása a pedagógusok szemléletére

Author(s): Ilona Liskó / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 4/2008

Ilona Liskó analyzed the data from a research project conducted between 2006–2007 which examined the effects of teacher trainings in the Integration Scheme. The Integration Scheme is intended to promote the integrated education of socially disadvantaged and Roma children and the improvement of the institutions that educate them. Throughout the research work the background of the trainees, the evaluation and the outcome of the trainings were examined. The study focuses on the impact of the trainings on the attitudes of the teachers trained. The data showed that the effectiveness of the trainings was strongly influenced by the attitudes of the trainees. The trainings had a positive effect on the attitudes of the teachers trained but the effect was rather small. The majority of the teachers did not believe that students’ skills could be improved neither before nor after the training, and they had serious doubts about whether a successful integration between schools would be possible at all.

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Ability, Examination and Inclusive Education: Stretching the Hard Lines of the Educational System

Author(s): Halis Sakız / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016

The aim of this paper is to delve into the debate about the epistemological nature of ability and examination, which we have been continuously exposed to, but rarely scrutinized. In the paper, I refer to Turkey as a case and argue that the dominance of ability-based paradigm and its associated assessment and placement systems have created a new educational order which categorizes schools and students based on how they perform at a single point in time. What is more, I critically evaluate the construction of “abilities” and “disabilities” through the means employed in the education system, followed by a discussion of the examination culture as a product of an ability-based system. Finally, I propose inclusive education as a powerful means of transforming the education system to an equitable and educationally effective one in which all students are welcomed and provided with education of good quality that both enriches childhood and maximizes chances of leading a fulfilled adult life.

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ABOUT ON-LINE LEARNING AND TEACHING: POINTS OF VIEW, ANALYSIS, OBSERVATIONS

Author(s): Mihaela SUDITU / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2020

The pandemic and the state of emergency instituted last spring took our country by surprise, forcing it to cope with this rapid adaptation from an educational perspective as well. Without a previously thought-out strategy, schools closed and therefore the education process turned to the online for solutions. The impact has led to challenges for both teachers and pupils/ students. Our microstudy captures - through a focus group based on a guided interview and a checklist – students’ perception on going through this unfamiliar situation; it also captures the difficulties of adapting to the technology-based education system, while emphasizing the need to rethink education through digitization and access to resources, technology, applications and tools to which pedagogical significance can be attributed.

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About the Syntactic Structure of Bulgarian Proverbs and English Proverbial Parallels to Them

Author(s): Nadezhda Ershova / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2021

The article considers the most frequent sentence structures of Bulgarian proverbial parallels to Russian proverbs included into G. L. Permyakov’s paremiological minimum. The aim of the study is to classify the syntactic structures of the Bulgarian proverbs in comparison with the structures of the English proverbial parallels. The research has been based on the findings of a paremiological sociolinguistic experiment conducted by Professor M. Yu. Kotova of St. Petersburg State University and her paremiological group that resulted into series of publications titled “Tetradi Paremiographa” (“Handbooks of a Paremiographer”). The relevance of studying sentence structures is due to the fact that the coverage of grammatical issues, i.e. the analysis and description of the logical and syntactic structures of proverbs, is not paid sufficient attention in many languages.

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Academic Success Between Disabling Hearing Loss and Hearing Students in Upper-Secondary: An Inclusive Classroom

Author(s): David A. Hernández-Ontiveros,Diego-Oswaldo Camacho-Vega / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2020

Academic performance between disabling hearing loss (DHL) and hearing students is unclear when considering students in the same classroom. The main objective of this study is to identify significant differences in grade by semester between DHL students who study in the same classroom supported by sign language interprets. Second, this study looks to identify what school subjects show significant differences between DHL and hearing students. N= 35 upper-secondary students from a Mexican school with an inclusive educational methodology (deaf and hearings share the same classroom supported by an interpreter) participated in the study (M = 17; SD = 2.2), n = 21 disabling hearing loss students (52% males) and n = 14 hearing students were followed during three years (six semesters). The first step was to obtain the previous grade earned in their low-secondary studies. Second, we got the overall rate by semester identifying grades by subject and comparing results between groups. Results indicated significant differences in academic performance, showing higher mastery for DHL students in the fourth and fifth semesters, particularly in computer-logical subjects and social subjects. In conclusion, this research provides evidence that supports the success of an inclusive methodology where DHL and hearing students share the same instructional design supported by a sign language interpreter. Additionally, DHL students performed better in the computer-logical subjects, an important skill daily but even more in the current COVID -19 crisis, as well as a social subject, an important factor suggested by prior evidence.

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Access to Education for People with Special Needs in Algeria

Author(s): Rachid Bessai / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

This study aims to address the report of disabled children in school, a subject which has become in recent years a special concern and attracted education specialists’ attention and created an international debate related to the policy of taking in charge this category of children. Such a problem calls today to question about disabled children’s schooling in Algeria and the mechanisms of their inclusion at school. Many such questions are raised to serve the study’s objective as: do children with disabilities have access to education in our country? How can we accompany these children in school? Is their inclusion feasible after giving real hope to their parents? And what is the role of associations in this process? To respond to this series of questions, which refract well the aspect of inclusion in the Algerian actuality, we will proceed to a sociological reading of the statistics put forward by the Ministry of National Solidarity through its different structures in relation to the disabled children schooling. The aim will also be to show the state of the arts of takings such children in charge through diverse associations’ actions.

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Accessibility and Inclusion in Higher Education: Implementing International Imperatives in National and Institutional Contexts

Author(s): Hanan Alexander,Jurgita Vizgirdaitė,Palmira Jucevičienė / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

This paper reports on a capacity-building project in higher education known as DARE (Developing programs for Access of disadvantaged groups of people and Regions to higher Education), as viewed through the lenses of Hanan Alexander’s pedagogy of difference, Uri Bronfenbrenner’sbioecological theory of human development, and Chris Argyris’s concept of action science. The project is funded by the European Commission’s Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency. Following a literature review, the report analyzes data drawn from documents, observations, and focus groups to explore how and why policies addressing accessibility to higher education for disadvantaged groups are implemented in different international contexts. Influenced by international initiatives, DARE has provided material, conceptual, professional, and collegial resources to have an overall positive effect on advancing access to and inclusion in higher education for minorities, students with disabilities, and women.

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Accessible Learning Management Systems: Students’ Experiences and Insights

Author(s): Aleksandra Karovska Ristovska,Olivera RASHIKJ-CANEVSKA,Alma Tasevska,Rūta Bružienė,Monika Orechova,Gonçalo PAIVA DIAS,Elisabeth Brito,Henrik HAUBRO / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2021

Learning Management System (LMS) is a type of an e-learning system is one of the main infrastructural requirements that improves access to higher education for persons with disabilities. The primary aim of the research study[1] was to explore perceptions of students with disabilities regarding the use and accessibility of learning management systems and benefits and/or barriers in e-learning. Students mainly have negative experiences while attempting to enter university web-sites/libraries/LMSs because of the inadequate adaptation to the specific needs of students with disabilities. In countries that do not have a developed LMS, the prevalent mean of communication with professors is via e-mail, in those where there is a LMS, there is not a fully accessibility of entire content and services for students with special needs. This research defined the need for creation of an accessible LMS or adjusted already existing LMS with accessibility solutions such as: a text-to-speech engine for blind students, a mode with sign language support for deaf students and a mode which supports dyslexic.

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Achieving Effective Teaching of Module “Chemical Kinetics – Chemical Equilibrium” with the Aid of an Integrated Website

Author(s): A. Thysiadou / Language(s): English / Issue: 5/2019

A website has been created, which seeks to bring out the ways in which is possible, a pedagogic technique, based on exploiting the Internet, to achieve the “higher” learning goal, namely the cultivating of critical thinking. It contains chapters with the theoretical material on “Chemical Kinetics-Chemical Equilibrium” and related subunits. They have the appropriate theory and examples that the student should study before proceeding with the questions to check for understanding and the proposed exercises. It addresses the students in order to help them move away from the classical method of learning from the book and on the other hand to help them experiment with the use of the computer, in order to turn the lesson more attractive to all of them. Except for the creation of the website and its structure, various online tools are presented for its implementation. The goal was for the students to understand the theoretical framework that covers the concepts of “Chemical Kinetics-Chemical Equilibrium”, to have their active participation and to maintain their interest during the teaching of the subunits undiminished.

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Adalékok a Csehszlovák Köztársaság magyar nyelvű siketoktatás-történetéhez

Author(s): Kinga Horváthová,Dorottya Szepessyné Judik / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 3/2021

In this study we present the educational-historical data of the only institute for the Deaf operating in the Czechoslovak Republic, in Komárom (Komárno), between 1920 and 1938. By 1918 a unified deaf education network had been established in the territory of historical Hungary in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy where 16 institutes for the Deaf were run, covering the entire area of the country. Out of these, three were located in Upper Hungary (Felvidék): in Jolsva (Jelšava), in Körmöcbánya (Kremnica) and in Pozsony (Bratislava); in the Carpathian region, school-age deaf learners were expected in an institute for the Deaf in Ungvár (Uzhhorod). This system disintegrated with the Trianon Peace Treaty. The institutes located at Pozsony (Bratislava), Körmöc¬bánya (Kremnica), Jolsva (Jelšava) and Ungvár (Uzhhorod) became organisations lo¬cated in the Czechoslovak Republic from the former Hungarian institutes for the Deaf. A Hungarian-language, newly established school for the Deaf was run in Komárom (Komárno) between 1920 and 1938 in the territory of the Czechoslovak Republic. After the First Vienna Award, the aforementioned institute for the Deaf was moved to Losonc (Lučenec). While researching the history of the Hungarian-language Institute for the Deaf of Komárom (Komárno), it turned out that the sources referring to operation and history (statistics, archive, library, press history) are scanty, I therefore used the term addenda in the title.

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Adapting An English Language Textbook To The Principles And Laws Of Suggestopedia

Author(s): Dessislava Todorova- Hlavacik / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016

The article aims to describe the application of Suggestology in the pedagogical practice – Suggestopedia/Reservopedia. An overview of “suggestion” as a communicative factor and as a psychological basis for the science of Suggestology is presente together with the main principles, means and laws of Suggestopedia. Some characteristics of the suggestopedic textbook and my work in remodelling the original textbook “Energy for Bulgaria, for the 6-th grade” into a new stopedically adapted version are presented.

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Adding Value to Higher Education Through Mainstreaming of Training in Standardization into University Curricula

Author(s): Evgeniya Nikolova,Yanislav Zhelev,Mariya Monova-Zheleva / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2021

In today’s single market, standardization helps integrate market requirements and reduce costs, and standards ensure compatibility, quality, safety and efficiency. The impact of standards is highly dependent on the level of knowledge among the workforce. Knowledge, skills, attitudes and experience in standardization add value to professions and roles in many fields. The rising awareness and spread knowledge about standardization are globally-recognised as a powerful tool to assure public safety having a proficient workforce, bring new technologies to market and drive future businesses.The paper presents the main results of research aiming to identify what is the expectations and requirements of the lecturers and students of five EU countries, namely Bulgaria, Finland, Greece, Latvia, and Romania, for a standardization course. What are opinions, and attitudes of the faculty staff as well as the students regarding the standards focused education? How the integration of the standards’ focused training into HE could be facilitated and improved?

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Addressing the Acceptance of Students 'Studies in Other Countries in the Context of National Policies and Security Strategies

Author(s): Casen Panaitescu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Access to education outside applicants' country of origin has increased in recent years for some countries, but has also created numerous barriers for others. Thus, for certain specializations, age groups have become representative. Countries with lower taxes and engineering specialties sought on the labor market have applicants from the age group 25-34 years. The other developed countries have a higher proportion of older students in MA and other postgraduate studies, including doctorate. Such countries are Australia, Germany, the Netherlands.The Participation of foreign students in the education system does not take into account the traditional view. Thus, in this paper, a non-random component was developed that uses two tools as evaluation tools: state laws where the prospective student applies and proximity to the applicant's university.

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Adults and old people learning opportunities: case of Lithuania

Author(s): Kęstutis Trakšelys / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016

The article discusses the adult and old people learning opportunities for Lithuania. Adult education is one of the most important factors that determine both the development of the society and the human achievements in modern society. Education is a social practice which includes education and cultural communication in the broadest sense, as well as actions of human reproduction at large. Access to adult education should ensure the justice in the society, although scientists argue that education system is usually powerless to correct other social systems created by inequality and in justice Accessible and quality adult education system ensures better life, social mobility, and provides status. Accessibility of education (particularly adult’s) is unconsciously problem, unequally understandable phenomenon, rarely becoming the object of special investigation. This can be logical: usage of this concept gained a wider scope only in last years, when essential European political educational documents appeared, first of all, Memorandum of life-long learning. In long-life learning ensuring strategy, the analysis of present state is provided. A potential of informal adults education suppliers when integrating groups of social exclusion, consolidating local communities by raising political and civil literacy of society, what is directly related to common welfare of society, are not fully used. Seeking to increase the integration of socially vulnerable society groups, juridical base is constantly improved in recent years. The law of disabled people social integration and the law of social companies are enacted, interinstitutional programs, reflecting the needs of different social separation groups, making assumptions to develop the initiatives directed to education of social separation groups are implemented.

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Advances of Photothermal Microscopy of Composite Magnetoelectric Nanolayers Using Laser Heterodyne Probe

Author(s): Vasilka Pencheva,Stoyan Penchev,Lyuben Ivanov / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

A theoretical solution advances the potential for photothermal mi¬croscopy of nanostructured composite magnetoelectrics and high-temperature su¬perconductors. Photothermal displacement (PTD) is a sensitive effect employed as a fingerprint of the physical and structural properties of a variety of prospective materials. Thermal-diffusion model is developed for the general case including opaque and also transparent probes. Laser double-heterodyne technique is em¬ployed to improve the resolution of PTD measurement. The excessive noise is eliminated to the level viable to detect structural inhomogeneities and thickness of nanolayers up to 0.1nm. The method is applicable to nanolayers deposited on opaque substrates, as well, transparent substrates with large gradient of refrac¬tive index of the interface. Very good agreement between experimental results and theoretical prediction is achieved. The developed laser scheme is particularly feasible for non-destructive measurements of samples at operational conditions and restricted access.

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Affirmative Action in Post-Secondary Education: Contrasting Approaches in Brazil and Canada

Author(s): Michelli Aparecida Daros,Diandra Singh / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

This paper compares and contrasts approaches to affirmative action that are intended to increase access to post-secondary institutions to students racialized as Black and Indigenous in Brazil and Canada, respectively. Both of these demographics are underrepresented in post-secondary institutions in these countries, as a result of the legacy of colonization and systemic racism within these nations. To explore various approaches to affirmative action a comparison of several documents are made including: the Brazilian Federal Law 11.645/ 2008, which obliges the addition of the History and Culture of Afro-Brazilians and Indigenous people to the national curriculum; the Brazilian Federal Law 12.711/2012, which supports access to federal universities and other federal educational institutions through quotas (best known as the "Quotas’ Law"); and the Truth and Reconciliation Final Summary Report (2015), which provides 94 calls to action for the Canadian government to redress the issues created by the residential school system. Through document analysis, a list of affirmative actions is compiled, followed by an analysis of their implementation. Moreover, data related to racialized students who have benefited from these approaches, highlight the importance of affirmative actions to build more inclusive democratic systems.

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Age and Technology in Digital Inclusion Policy: A Study of Italy and the UK

Author(s): Simone Carlo,Maria Sourbati / Language(s): English / Issue: 26 (2)/2020

The role of media and communication technologies in increasing the quality of life of the elderly is today a key topic in academic and policy debates. This article discusses findings from a study into the way public policy frames the role of technologies in later life. The aim of our study was to critically investigate the policy discourses on ‘old age’ and on the role of digital ICT in fixing challenges associated with ageing. Our focus was on digital inclusion policies of the UK and Italy, two countries experiencing similar trends in population ageing but different ICT diffusion patterns. We found that an age-based understanding of digital technology use was quite common, as was an enthusiastic embracing of the role of digital ICT in the implementation of Active Ageing and Information Society goals. We also found that the understanding of the role of digital technology and its relationship to (old) age has been changing over the last decade, starting to reflect social complexity as ICT diffusion increases among older age groups.

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Aggressive Behaviour in the Context of Multiple Disabilities of Institutionalized Children and Young People – Case Studies

Author(s): Desislava Popova / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2021

The topic of aggression is extremely relevant in our daily lives and this is why it is often the subject of theoretical and practical analysis. In the context of institutional care, it acquires specific dimensions related to a number of factors. This article presents two cases of residents of residential institutions for children and young people with disabilities, with an emphasis on influencing their level of aggressive response to reality. At the root of the interaction proposed are the ideas for supporting communication and for verbalizing desires and experiences in the context of group work. The cases described testify to the existence of positive tendencies in the ability to regulate one's own behaviour in the natural environment as well as in situations of рrovocation by others

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Aging in Online Communities: A Systematic Literature Review of Design Recommendations

Author(s): Ana Isabel Veloso,Sónia Ferreira,Liliana Vale Costa,Óscar Mealha,Carlos Santos / Language(s): English / Issue: 26 (2)/2020

The increase of computer-mediated communication use and the aging population has led to a renewed interest in online communities and social networks for active aging and social support in daily living. However, a systematic understanding of the design recommendations in Senior Online Communities is still lacking in scientific documentation. The aim of this paper is to identify the design recommendations used in online communities that support active aging. In addition, this paper highlights some of the benefits of using online communities by older adults. Twenty-three papers published between January 2015 and May 2020 in English-language, peer-reviewed publications, met inclusion criteria. The review presents a set of recommendations for designing online communities to enhance older adults’ social interactions. A process that aims for “engagement” is suggested to strategically guide the design of Senior Online Communities: Interacting – Sense of Belonging (Role-playing, Storytelling, and Legacy) – Engaging.

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Air Pollutant Emission Measurement

Author(s): Nicola Račić,,Branko Lalić,Ivan Komar,Ladislav Stazić,Frane Vidović / Language(s): English / Issue: 6s/2021

One of the main methods for estimating air pollutant emissions from ships is the method developed by Carlo Trozzi, which was later accepted and recommended by the European Environment Agency in its air pollutant emission inventory guidebooks. Consequently, it has become the most commonly used methods for making inventories of air emissions in the shipping industry and for predicting future trends. The method and its equations use emission factors to calculate the emission of air pollutants from ships. Emission factors are calculated depending on fuel consumption or main engine power; results are given for different year of manufacture and engine speed. This paper presents the measurement of air pollutant emissions and some other parameters on marine engines operating in different conditions. The measured values are calculated to obtain values which will enable the next step, the comparison with the emission factors in the latest guide of the European Environment Agency on the inventory of pollutant emissions.

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