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The paper deals with the issue of parents giving up their duties towards their children. The author suggests a model for quality time diagnostics and improvement within a family. The paper is the fourth from a set out of ten papers entitled: “Modern child – Opus magnum”.
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This paper describes a project implemented by students from the University of Economics in Varna and the University of Costa Rica as part of their respective English Language instruction. In the course of the project six teams comprising students from both universities collaborated to create blogs on topics of their choice. The paper dwells on aims of the project, the process that resulted in the creation of six blogs, the skills that students developed or furthered as a result of this activity and the project outcomes.
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Corruption does not simply occur in developing countries, but is often heard in developed countries. Several domestic government officials and enterprise executives involving in corruption in past years reveals that the corruption style is different from public employees with public power changing money with power in the past, and the method of operation is updating to challenge the case handling ability of prosecutors. Corruption prevention refers to developing the functions of deterrence and warning through related procedures and systems. Anti-corruption, on the other hand, induces public awareness of anti-corruption through education and promotion to have people realize the badness of corruption and appeal citizens to collaboratively strike corruption and shape the complete anti-corruption network. With experimental design model to precede the quasi-experimental study, total 202 college students in central and southern Taiwan, as the research subjects, are preceded the 16-week (3 hours per week for total 48 hours) anti-corruption education with case method. The research results show that case method would affect learning motivation, case method would affect learning effectiveness, learning motivation presents significantly positive effects on learning effect in learning effectiveness, and learning motivation reveals remarkably positive effects on positive gain in learning effectiveness. According to the results to propose suggestions, it is expected to deliver certain social value and concept to the public and that the civil society, from bottom-up, could play the role for supervision and accountability, stress on the seriousness and destruction of the negative effect of corruption on the nation and society, and further cultivate the social value to affirm integrity but despise corruption so that people genuinely anticipate integrity.
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In a knowledge-based economy with high levels of competition where there is global economic competition between nations, the contribution of science and education is emerging as fundamental to their economic growth and competitiveness. This draws attention to the key factors for evaluation the competitiveness of higher education institutions (HEIs), as the article proposes a conceptual model for its evaluation, with a focus on cooperation between science, education and business, as a potential way for competitive positioning in the country. The integration processes in the sector stand out, and hence – the importance of the cluster approach to increase competitiveness and its applicability to HEIs
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The development of innovations has an inevitable impact on the ability of organizations to innovate. Reducing costs and increasing the quality of services force organizations to adapt to the ever-changing environment constantly and adequately. The extremely fast development of information and communication technologies gives grounds to believe that innovations will be a key factor in achieving competitiveness and will continue to be a major challenge for companies in the future. This article presents detailed information on a study of the innovation capability of organizations that belong to the industrial sector “Information and Communication Technologies” (ICT) in Bulgaria. A statistically substantiated comparative analysis of the characteristics of the innovation ability is done. The subject and object of the research are presented. Both methodology and logic for testing the research hypothesis are described in detail. The obtained results confirm the main research thesis related to the importance and role of industrial clusters for increasing the innovation capability of organizations.
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The pandemic COVID 19 has posed unprecedented ordeals before the field of sport and education in the last two years. The majority of the research in the field of sports psychology has been related to the psychological consequences from the pandemic. There have been few surveys connected with the psychological determinants of behavior and personal safety prevention. The aim of this study was to investigate the Psychological Capital, Need for Security and their relation to the preferred Coping Strategies during the pandemic COVID-19 among sports students from Bulgaria and to outline their specificity depending on gender, kind of sport, and level of qualification. The research was done among 106 sports students aged between 18 and 34years. For the purposes of the research the participants were divided into groups according to their gender, kind of sport, and level of qualification. The research methods included: 1) Psychological Capital Questionnaire (Luthans, Youssef, Avolio 2007); 2) Methods of Researching the Need for Security in Human Behaviour (Velichkov, Radoslavova, Vasileva, Todorov 1998); 3) Approach to Coping in Sport Questionnaire (ACSQ-1; Kim 1999; Kim & Duda 1997).There were significant differences depending on gender, and kind of sport. There were significant correlations between the components of psychological capital and the strategies: emotional calming, cognitive restructuring, and behavioral risk, between self-efficacy and need for security.
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The crisis, caused by COVID-19, created a lot of issues in this world. The phenomenon of “domestic abuse” escalated. The pandemic and the lockdowns, unfortunately, aided the “abusers”. The victims remained locked with their abusers and their “escape routes” and opportunities for help decreased. Methods. The aim of the present study is to examine the level of occurrence of violence among student-athletes, as well as their preparedness and competence to react. Results. From the obtained and presented data, it could be concluded that physical and sexual violence are not widespread among Bulgarian athletes. It is noteworthy that parents are more likely to physically abuse their children than the coaches are. Also, the relationship between the athletes themselves is not under the sign of violence – 82.7% (n = 115) say that they have never been a victim of physical violence by a teammate, and three of them say they have been a victim of sexual violence by a teammate. Conclusions. Given the growth in registered cases of violence, incl. the domestic violence, as well as globalization worldwide, it is necessary to implement a unified discrete signal that can be safely shown in the occurrence of violence. This signal is essential so that it can be used when needed from children to adults, from women and men. The promotion of the international signal for help is important in order to prevent and provide timely assistance to victims of violence. It is important for people to know about it, to use it when needed, but also to recognize it when someone uses it.
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The last year of the global COVID-19 pandemic has provoked unprecedented countermeasures in all sectors of the economy, including individual, group, institutional and industrial. The sports industry suddenly stopped all events. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of the introduced emergency measures in Bulgaria on the training process and the performance of taekwondo ITF athletes in the discipline “pattern” of the state online championship in 2020.The study was conducted in the period 27/04-10/05/2020 and involved 79athletes, profiled as representatives of large cities (Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna) –27.8% and 72.2% – of small cities. The division was provoked by the various measures that were imposed during the state of emergency. The survey was conducted through an Internet-based questionnaire, which contains 23 items related to the training process during the state of emergency, as well as the ranking of the competitors in the online championship. The analysis made were the following: alternative analysis (to establish the relative shares of different responses in the questionnaires), comparative analysis (U – criteria of Mann Whitney), Varimax factor analysis and Hierarchical cluster analysis (Ward’smethod). Statistically significant differences were found in the conducted training for equipment, in which in the big cities 4 – 5 times a week the athletes did not train, while in the small ones – 3.5%. The largest number of trainees conducted 1 – 2training sessions a week. In the big cities it ranked second 3 times a week, while in the small cities – I have not trained. It was noteworthy that the representatives of the big cities evaluate the sharing of video trainings positively, while in the small cities they were hesitant in their opinion and the competitors indicate different evaluations.
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There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected the sport sector worldwide as well as sports calendar. Sports events have been cancelled or rescheduled like Summer Olympic and Paralympic games. The same had happened with the Special Olympics (SO) events. The pandemic constitutes a global challenge to the sport movements in terms of security and safety for all participants. Much more complicated it appears to secure the athletes with intellectual disabilities. Pandemic research has found that people with intellectual disabilities are almost six times more likely to die from COVID-19 than the general population. The SO programs organizers will face unknown so far issues in terms of security and safety. Aim: The aim of the study is to explore the influence of new safety and security events protocols of Special Olympics on the mission and particularly on the athletes. Methods: We applied documentary analysis including theoretical-logical analysis, systematic approach (structural-functional, structural-component and structural-integral aspect), comparative analysis, video analysis, field notes and focus group composed by participants in pervious SO World games (delegation leaders, coaches and parents).Results: The results of our research shows that most of the national SO programs are reporting that the pandemic have a devastating impact on the athletes and the movement in general. The new live reality is affecting not only the daily routines of athletes with intellectual disabilities but also their social interaction in terms of communication and emotional functioning. Conclusion: Having in mind that safety is first priority and applying all protocols, SO is attempting to preserve the mission, to ensure joy of sport and physical activity. In the new reality close contact and friendships are approached in a way to preserve them and to keep them as essential part of the events.
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The problem of student survival in extreme situations is very relevant. The future professional activities of students are connected with actions in various potential extreme situations. It is necessary in the process of training at the university in students to form sufficient readiness for adequate actions in diverse extreme scenarios. On the basis of theoretical analysis of various concepts of extreme situations, it is defined as “a complex of environmental conditions requiring certain actions for a certain period of time”. The main factors of the situation are danger and difficulty, and their integral functions are risk and effort, respectively. Situations are external and internal. Physical preparedness is made up of general and special physical qualities determining certain actions in accordance with the demands of extreme situations. The aim of the study is to form physical readiness in students for survival in extreme situations by applying a specialized impact methodology. The formation of physical readiness in students takes place in the process of regular classes in physical education and sport. Certain exercises are included in the individual classes, which have a positive influence on the formation of physical readiness for actions in extreme situations. In summarizing the variational and comparative analysis of the results of the study, it was found that the applied methods of influence in the process of conducting regular classes of students of physical education and sports has positively affected the physical readiness of young people in the experimental group.
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In the educational system of Bulgaria, extracurricular activities are provided and organized in all schools. There are also schools in the education system of Bulgaria that are neither private nor attached to the Ministry of Education. They are foreign schools in Bulgaria that are under the auspices of their embassies and their education system (e.g. French Lyceum, Anglo-American School, Russian School, American College and others). Sports activities are widespread, as it is well known that most European countries, and especially the United States, believe that competitive spirit is crucial in many professional fields, as well as teamwork, which is imperceptibly developing in most sports. The aim of the present study is to examine the opinion of parents of children from the secondary education level regarding extracurricular activities in physical education and sports in the context of COVID-19. Various research methods were used, like review study of specialized literature and normative documents and survey method. As a result, it was concluded that when students are placed in new and different conditions for sports, their desire and interest to play and to be active is not reduced. The created and well-organized safe environment during the classes gives confidence and peace of mind to the parents that their children are safe.
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The readiness of parents to raise children with intellectual disabilities is a set of emotional-motivational, cognitive and activity components, the formation of which ensures an adequate attitude of family members to the child and the choice of optimal methods of its upbringing. The article highlights the results of a study of parents' readiness for family upbringing of children with intellectual disabilities, the research methodology is described, and a detailed analysis of the results is presented. According to the results of the experiment, it was found that a significant part of parents raising child with intellectual disabilities accept the child and its disorders at the psychological level, but they are emotionally depressed that their child has developmental disabilities. The vast majority of parents are not sufficiently aware of the psychological and pedagogical characteristics of their children, the age dynamics of their development. This negatively affects the choice of tactics and methods of education, knowledge about possible problems in learning and further adult life
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The article reports the results of the empirical study of the impact of volitional qualities development on the level of academic achievements of higher education institution students. The article gives a theoretical analysis of the main types of volitional qualities that affect the assimilation of educational material by students. There was established the level of their development and the relationship with academic achievements. The article also identifies the main psycho-pedagogical and organizational peculiarities that affect the success of mastering the knowledge by university students. The psychological and pedagogical recommendations for forming, developing and supporting the volitional sphere of students are developed.
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The present research explores the perception of teachers in Romania on the implications of the transition to online education. 143 teachers participated in the research, all of them involved in continuing education activities. From the results, we can highlight the fact that as we approach pre-school and primary level in regular education, online teaching is perceived as much more difficult. The same happens in special education, where efficiency is considered low in the online environment. Almost 80% of teachers consider that online education is below the efficiency of on-site education. Teachers consider that they are better prepared than the institutions where they work or than their students for online activities. 40% of teachers consider that they are well enough prepared and no longer need training, most of them investing in their training. Almost half of the teachers believe that some activities could remain online even after the end of the COVID-19 pandemic and they believe that the general responsibility for improving the situation lies with the Ministry of Education.
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The article substantiates the context approach of preparing future teachers for labor education of junior pupils. The relevance of the mentioned problem in the conditions of modern Ukraine is proved. It has been found that pedagogical science has accumulated considerable experience in determining the essence and ways of implementing the context approach. The context approach is seen as a professionally oriented learning, in which knowledge, skills, and skills are acquired in the context of future professional activities. The main function of the context-based approach to learning is to create conditions for the transformation of educational and cognitive activity into a professional, thus modeling the educational environment, as close as possible to the form and content to the professional. The methodology of the context approach consists of three basic forms of activity: educational activity with a leading role of lectures and practical classes; quasi-professional, which is embodied in games, special courses; educational-professional (research work of students, technological practice, diploma and course designing). The implementation of the context approach in the process of preparing future teachers for elementary school to organize the work of pupils, promotes the development of professional skills of future professionals, helps to more objectively and accurately determine their professional suitability. The use of this approach sets not only the vector of personality development, but also creates conditions for it to plan a common, unified and compulsory development line, and assists each student, taking into account his available knowledge of knowledge, to improve and realize their individual abilities and successfully pass the formation process personality The context-based approach to the training of future primary school teachers in the context of reforming higher education ensures that the conditions for future vocational and pedagogical activities are brought closer.
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The process of globalization provides the conditions of the international spread of English as a "lingua franca"; in this context our language asserts its capacity to accept a large number of English loans and highlights its creativity through innovations arising from usage. While some of these loans enter into a process of adaptation and assimilation in the Romanian language, others maintain their English form in both spelling and pronunciation. But how strong is the need to borrow, and how often the Romanian recipient language gives up its own vocabulary items in favour of the foreign ones? This article is concerned with the use of English in Romanian magazines. In order to support my research, I studied five Romanian magazines, (Capital, Casa Lux, Unica, Click! Sănătate, Auto Motor și Sport), which due to their uninterrupted circulation and broad coverage in terms of topics discussed, give a reliable picture of the on-going contact between English and Romanian. The intention of my analysis was to see which of the English words found in the corpus are assimilated and recorded in Romanian dictionaries and under what category of Anglicisms (luxury or necessary) they fall, and, finally, to list their frequency.
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The ascendancy of the bilinguals over the monolinguals in expressing creative potential (Ricciardelli, 1992; Cushen, Wiley, 2011; Lee, Kim, 2010) is verified also for the language pair Ukrainian/Romanian, the present research considered seeking to identify the nature of the connection between bilingualism and creativity in the case of high school students, half of them native Ukrainian (speaking Romanian and Ukrainian) and half monolinguals (Romanian) that were the same age. Other checked variables were: the geo-residential zone, the scholar environment, gender structure of the compared samples. Secondly, it was established both the way that differences of the creative potential are connected with the biological gender of the subjects, and the effects of interaction between the two independent variables. To measure the creative potential The Battery of Creative Thinking Tests (Stoica, Caluschi, 2006) was used. The results showed that bilinguals had better performances at all estimated elements: fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration. The gender variable has an impact, but more limited and particular, that the linguistic one: girls prove creative potential for the elaboration’s dimension, while boys are better to the dimension of fluency and ideation. Also results prove that, in case of combination between bilingualism and biological gender, influences are manifested only in elaboration. Therefore, both bilingual and monolingual girls use more details in their works, taking their bearing more in idea development and being more creative on this field, comparing to bilingual, respectively monolingual boys.
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The article examines the history of transactional analysis (TA) in Bulgaria. The presentation of the ideas of TA in the literature in the country is traced in historical terms. Emphasis is placed on the use of TA in different fields by different scientists and specialists who use it in these fields. Its institutional history related to the establishment of the Bulgarian Society for Transactional Analysis and the entry of TA in academic world is examined.
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COVID 19 closed the people in their homes but for a small part of the society the period of isolation has passed in a learning and office environment. What are the effects of the social isolation on people – we will find out. How the environment – parents, friends, society, colleagues, influences on the successful dealing with stress and how it helps personal sustainability, we will know in the future. During the research we will see the dynamics in the resilience levels of the cadets before, during and after the quarantine. The results will show us how the military environment helps the cadets to deal with the negative sides of the social isolation. The development of resilience will be monitored as an ability of self regulation in a moments of crisis.
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Writing as an activity may be observed simultaneously from the perspective of the nature of the writing skill, but at the same time from the basis of writing in L2, which requires a higher level of cognitive capacity. In theoretical research there is a consensus that both writing in the mother tongue and writing in a foreign language requires a systematic approach and that the writing skill can be taught to students through various approaches. Therefore, we are able to observe a historic development and change from the traditional to contemporary approaches to teaching the writing skill, and the change from writing as a product to writing as a process. The aim of this study is to reflect upon this development through the expressive, cognitive, social and discourse periods and to present the gradual development of the writing as a process approach, both from the perspective of science and practice. The results of the study may contribute to the individual teaching practice, but also to the institutional policy towards the practice of teaching the writing skill.
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