Справяне с предизвикателното поведение при работа с деца в училищна и извънучилищна среда

Author(s): Tsvetoslav Nikolov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2020

The current publication is focused on the main characteristics of challenging behavior and the possible social-pedagogical approach that pedagogical staff members can use to manage it. The approach is applicable to both – school and out-of-school context. It describes the main logic of the support of children with emotional and behavioral difficulties and can be applied in various ways. In this current publication the challenging behavior is shown as a whole process that can be managed by the pedagogical staff members through different strategies for prevention, intervention and support.

Language Strategies to Decrease Aggressive Behaviour of At-Risk Children Deprived of Parental Care

Author(s): Katerina Zlatkova-Doncheva / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

Current study research language impact on aggressive behaviour of at-risk children deprived of parental care. Bulgarian children without parents (n=40) comprehend intervention influenced by four interaction strategies: normal voice and positive language; high tone and positive language; normal tone and negative language, and high tone and negative language. Surveillance has been conducted for data collection accomplished by independent observer in a standardized checklist using the Buss-Durky classification of aggression. Results of current study demonstrate that the use of negative language would increase aggressive expressions of children to a greater extent when the tone is normal while raising the tone would enhance destructive behavior even more among aggressive children and children with emotional disorders

Историята на един лекторат по време (и не само) на коронавирус

Author(s): Assia Assenova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2020

Visual Identity of Universities:
 Logo as a visual symbol of university

Author(s): Ľudmila Čábyová,Alena Kusá,Anna Zaušková,Lenka Ďurišová / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

The authors of the paper deal with the visual identity of educational institutions. They point at the importance of visual identity for communication about universities. Visual identity is understood as an element of corporate identity which is based on the philosophy of institution. The authors of this paper made research on public universities logos and based on the features they have in common, the authors divided them into three main groups taking into consideration the symbol the logos represent. The authors studied individual design manuals (logo manuals) as the aim of the paper was to identify fundamental issues/ mistakes universities make while creating a logo.

Топосът „Монастиря” – изгубен в миналото или с шанс в настоящето (По материали от Сливенско)

Author(s): Vladimir Demirev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2019

The word “monastirya” is not just a dialect variant, meaning a place (an old place), relative to the knowledge of a monastery that existed or still exists. It has a generalizing emotionally-assessing aspect, regarding the place and the function of the religious Christian monastery in the local memory. The stress in it is the statement that these are monasteries from the age of the Bulgarian kingdom.The topos “monastirya” dynamically produces the process of the ethnic and religious identification and self-identification on the grounds of a particular cult. In this same sense, there is also a variant of designation not only of Christianity. Even places, related to the Islam and most often – tekkes – are also referred to as monasteries. The cult has specific dynamics in time and grows with numerous legends and traditions. They motivate its vitality in the past by the particular character of its realization in sites that have really existed and which, in many cases, have been obliterated in the real space. Nevertheless, even today they still have their place and vitality namely as knowledge.The information that has been preserved and the local knowledge about the Little Sliven Holy Mountain confirm the place and function of the topos “monastirya” in the cultural space. Today, it is the vitality of this knowledge that lies at the root of re-creation of sites which have once existed.

Войводите в музея: биографични репрезентации от Русенско и Сливенско

Author(s): Iskren Velikov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2019

The current text examines the museum representations of Hadzhi Dimitar, Stefan Karadzha, Zahari Stoyanov and Panayot Hitov, whose life connects the areas of Ruse and Sliven. The research is based on observations over four house museums – “Hadzhi Dimitar” in Sliven, “Zahari Stoyanov” in Medven and in Ruse, and “Baba Tonka” in Ruse. These examples display ambiguous presentations of the heroes’ biographies, based on the availability or the absence of a memorial house to the character. The type of presentation is contextualized with the settlement’s history, which in this case appears as an environment for the “spiritual growth” of the hero. The absence of a memorial house leads to a fragmented presentation of the image, turning it into an addition to the main topic.

„Предметите говорят“ – споделени наследства и съучастие на публики

Author(s): Nikolay Nenov,Silvia Trifonova-Kostadinova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2019

Sharing heritage is an important process in society, where a narrative makes transmission and turns in a vehicle for the understanding of both past and present. The text presents the contemporary practices of object oriented museology. Using the exhibits with history in Russe Museum, an exposition and museum educational module are produced. On the basis of the principles of the co-participatory museum, a dialogical environment is built in which the artefacts are not only witnesses of time, but also an inspiration for creativity. Russe Museum explores the relationship between cultural heritage and local development with the participation of the Museum as an environment for communication between different social actors, local communities and shared knowledge. In this process object oriented museology gives the possibility to re-conceptualize the ways of change of the approaches connected to communication through heritage. In its core stays the active public, which is part of the local community.

Едно актуално изследване: „Културно наследство в миграция. Модели на консолидация и институционализация на българските общности в чужбина“. Редакционна колегия: Владимир Пенчев, Николай Вуков, Лина Гергова, Яна Гергова. София: Парадигма, 2017

Author(s): Veselka Toncheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2019

Book review

The Transformation of Local Society in the 20th Century in the Light of Dancing Practice: The Case of the Kóny Verbunk

Author(s): Ágnes Eitler / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2019

During the twentieth century, the male dance verbunk in the village of Kóny, initially performed in traditional lad societies as part of the local heritage, became a staged attraction. Between the two world wars, the Kóny verbunk was performed in the village as a representation practice of the lad societies and, as such, besides maintaining the group identity, served to indicate the spatial segregation and social differences within the local community. The decade after the Second World War brought the socio-economic transformation of local society in line with national processes. The relational network on which lad societies had been based was suppressed. In the first half of the 1950s, along with the persisting practice of the lad guilds, the verbunk became increasingly a staged spectacle for the community. At the same time, it should not be ignored that, under the supervision of the local authorities, the phenomenon shifted from the framework of church holidays to the field of political celebrations.

Понятието „общност“ в Конвенцията на ЮНЕСКО за опазване на нематериалното културно наследство – 2003 г. и свързана с нея документация

Author(s): Mila Santova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2019

The article analyses the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the basic documents related to it with a view of analyzing of the content of the notion of community within these documents. The author finds the lack of a stable definition of community and at the same time outlines its basic characteristics as they are present in the mentioned above documents.

Интонационни модели на двугласно пеене от с. Брезница, Гоцеделчевско (По материали от съвременната брезнишка попрèлка)

Author(s): Petyo Krastev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2019

Poprelka in the village of Breznitsa, Gotse Delchev Region is an event deeply related to the tradition as far as its model and content are concerned, but at the same time it represents the contemporary condition of the local culture. This is the place for the performance of the well-preserved, “living” traditional musical folklore in the natural environment. The article is an attempt to typologize the intonational models of women two-part singing in Breznitsa, which is interesting because of the still existing specifics of the ancient musical thinking in the present. The scholarly research on which the article is based was provoked by fieldwork observation allowing for the accumulation of detailed knowledge about the processes of development and change thus functioning as a key to the understanding of the immanent specifics of the traditional Bulgarian culture.

Етнопредприемачество и медии (Представянето на руски реалии в руски общностни медии у нас)

Author(s): Tanya Matanova,Vladimir Penchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2019

Ethno-entrepreneurship is a characteristic mechanism for declaration of ethnic and cultural identity and a specific resource for the safeguarding of cultural heritage. The present text is an attempt to reveal how the Russian ethno-entrepreneurship is emblematized as an ethnic entity in the social environment in Bulgaria due to its media positioning. Here one should take into consideration that the representatives of this characteristic social category are naturally a part of the Russian community in Bulgaria and have to be analyzed within its parameters of being.

Външни трудови миграции на ромите – спасение от бедността и акумулиране на нов социален опит

Author(s): Ivanka Abadzhieva-Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2020

The Roma people joined the general migratory flows a bit later than the other ethnic groups; however, the mobility patterns and routes do not differ significantly compared to those of the rest of the population. For the Roma communities, this is one of the few opportunities for employment. For the present, the financial transfers help break the vicious circle of unemployment – poverty – lack of education in the sending communities, which circle many families have entered. Along with better financial security, migrants bring back new ideas and knowledge which stimulate social development in the encapsulated neighbourhoods. The crossing of the physical borders symbolically destroys the mental boundaries of the communities. The stress is put on the opening to the world which creates opportunities but leads to two main risks: complete dependency on labour mobility and loss of human capital(brain drain) in the Roma communities; this could hinder the processes of social development at a later stage.

От „роднински срещи“ до „пазаруване“: динамика на взаимоотношенията между граничните региони на Петрич, Р. България, и Струмица, Р. Северна Македония

Author(s): Violeta Periklieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2020

The article presents a case study of a particular part of the Bulgarian-North Macedonian border – the border regions of Petrich, Republic of Bulgaria, and Strumica, Republic of North Macedonia. The study is focused on the level of everyday experience. Its aim is to study how in their everyday life and transborder experience the people from the border regions adapt to the changing border regime and do this alter their“traditional” forms of contact. After the setting of a state/political border between the regions of Petrich and Strumica, the people adopt a pragmatic approach to this border and the life in the context of borderness. The pragmatism in the transborder contacts is not a particular form of relations rather one of their features which expends its range and significance in the course of time. The various layers of relations transform into tools for solving pragmatic issues in everyday life in the border regions, i.e. the pragmatisation turns into a peculiar form of adaptation to the border. At the same time, the pragmatic attitude towards the border rearranges to a certain extent the different layers of the traditional relations putting the family, kin, friend and cultural ties aside. Nevertheless, as long as they function as tools for solving pragmatic issues, they remain and revitalize.

The Development of Managerial Creativity of Future Heads of Preschool Education in a Higher Educational Institution

Author(s): Tatiana Ponomarenko,Liudmyla Kozak,Lyubomira Popova / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2020

In the current conditions of development of preschool education in Ukraine, focused on the world and European educational standards, the professional quality of heads of preschool education such as managerial creativity is of great importance, updating of which in management activity will make it possible to make effective, non-standard managerial decisions, ensure the work of preschool educational institutions in the regime of development, not functioning and condition the high quality of preschool education and successful development of every child of preschool age. However, in the practice of local preschool education, there is a shortage of managerial creativity among the heads of preschool education. Therefore, the study of peculiarities of the development of this quality among future heads is the aim of our research that will help to develop and use a system for the development of managerial creativity in the context of university education and independent student activity.

Развитие на инициативност при деца и младежи с тежки нарушения в резидентните услуги

Author(s): Desislava Popova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2020

This article is aimed at exploring the issues of support for children and young people with severe disabilities in residential services in Bulgaria. A brief analysis of the types of support is proposed, based on the legal framework and the research data. Results from the experimental interaction are presented, including a Program for group work in the services under review. Given the specifics of the target group, the method used to register results is direct observation. The “initiative in activities” and “initiative in communication” indicators are observed. The main conclusions are: increase in the initiative for the group as a whole is observed; reduction of the communication initiative for the majority of participants.

Language Learning in a Nation under Transition

Author(s): Xhavit Beqiri / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2020

This study investigates some features of language learning in countries in transition, focusing on Kosovo and South-East European areas and viewing the process in relation to language learning culture before. Understanding that language teaching is not a task pertaining to a teacher of language and literature, but to the whole school system, and intersubjective thinking began to produce their effects especially from the fall of the Berlin Wall and thereon, in almost all South-East Europe countries in transition. Kosovo was one of the countries affected by a transitional atmosphere in which introduction of different methods and techniques in the classroom were not only being seen as a need, but as a must. The present paper aims to argue that language learning and teaching, especially in countries that are going through a transition process, represents a very important challenge in terms of inputs and outputs of the system of education of today’s society.

The Burden of International Obligation and Responsibility in Granting Amnesty to Boko Haram by the Nigerian State

Author(s): Regis Chima Anyaeze / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

In 2013, the Nigerian government declared Boko Haram a terrorist organization, prompting some other states to do the same. The United Nations (UN) has also declared Boko Haram a terrorist organization and regards it as the third deadliest terrorist group in the world thereby convincing others in the international community to treat the sect as a dangerous terrorist group. The prolonged presence of Boko Haram and its brazen and ruthless attacks on innocent citizens has given rise to suggestions to negotiate with, and grant amnesty to Boko Haram as a means to end the human and material casualties arising from the activities of Boko Haram in Nigeria. The paper aims to screen the international implications of granting amnesty to Boko Haram by the Nigerian state. For these reasons, aspects of the current global war on terror are highlighted, especially the in¬ternational regimes enacted by the UN to combat international terrorism and their implications for amnesty to Boko Haram in Nigeria.

Гражданското образование – ново предизвикателство пред обучението по история

Author(s): Kostadin Paev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2020

Starting from the school year 2020/2021, the Bulgarian school will begin studying a separate subject “Civic Education”. Previous practice has provided that civic education at school should be realized through its integrated study in general subjects, among which “History and Civilizations” played a leading role.The purpose of this publication is to analyze and predict whether, in the new situation, the place of history of students' civic education and their formation as citizens will be maintained or weakened.

Budilova, L., M. Jakoubek. Bulgarian Protestants and the Czech Village of Voyvodovo. Sofia, 2018

Author(s): Vasil Dimitrov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2020