The Double Consciousness and Disability Dilemma: Trauma and the African American Veteran

Author(s): Sharon D. Raynor / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2018

Daniel Morrison and Monica Casper contend that disability studies and its cultural locations have been remarkably silent on matters of the traumatic origins of many disabilities, on the ongoing relationship between shocking events, their abrupt and chronic impact, and experiences of disability. This article explores how critical disability studies must intersect with critical trauma studies to address how the African American Vietnam war veterans who, traumatized and disabled by war and conflict, are further marginalized by societal constraints of race, class and gender. This essay focus on an understanding of W.E.B. DuBois’s ideology of double-consciousness, critical race theory and cultural studies and how they can emphasize the intersection of war injury and disability with a tremendous regard for the lived racial, class and socio-economic oppressions that contributed to what military service and disabilities of the African American Vietnam veteran reveal about masculine identity.

Фантазиите на Възраждането – генеалогиите

Author(s): Georgi Valchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

Addressing the vicissitudes and times of triumph and failure in the life of Alexander Exarch (Alexander Boev – Beyoglu), a Bulgarian prominent public figure, the paper discusses the invention, construction and deconstruction of personal biographies in the period of the rise of Bulgarian nationalism in the Ottoman Empire. The latter, historically defined as а period of National Revival, mobilized the ambitions and efforts of Bulgarian revolutionary émigrés to turn into recognizable political subjects and reliable representatives of the national community. The case of Alexander Exarch is especially emblematic in this regard as far as he constructed his identity of a promising diplomate and politician on associations and suggestions for presumable aristocratic origin, coming from the byname “exarch”, added to the names of his family members. This byname perfectly assisted in procuring advocates for the Bulgarian cause in the European courts and circles, but at the same time, it attracted opponents among the émigrés, who blamed Alexander Exarch for taking advantage of “a fake noble exarchal genealogy”.The paper clearly shows how the invented biographies worked as an instrument for response and adaptation to dynamic historical contexts of profound and social transformation as well as how they confronted innovative personal strategies, traditional attitudes and local and translocal political projects.

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.

Всеобщ вечен мир – позабравената мечта

Author(s): Jordan Kolev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

The author analyzes the perceptions of educational thinkers on self-knowledge and on peaceful co-operation as the core values of civilization. Accordingly, it reveals the need to extend the legal knowledge of child protection, on which the quality of the future peaceful life of people around the world will depend on.

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.

Самоценност на свободната детска игра и последствията от нейната педагогическа имитация

Author(s): Slaveyka Zlateva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

The study proves the self-esteem of the free game of children by offering a theoretical analysis and introducing an author’s assessment of its manifestation in the basic game types. The main thesis is focused on defining the pedagogical imitation of the game, as well as analyzing the consequences of the paradoxical replacement of the free game of children with its corresponding pedagogical imitation. The focus is placed on hard to measure harms for the child together with losses for the teacher gained by missed opportunities for play-learning as an independent child activity and as a pedagogical paradigm for learning.

Диагностичен инструментариум за измерване на компетентности по четене на официалния български език като втори език – ученици роми, VII клас

Author(s): Tanya Tzenkova-Stancheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

The article presents tested diagnostic toolkit for measuring the reading competencies of the official Bulgarian language as a second language, acquainted through deliberate fostering of reading during the Bulgarian language classes – Roma students, at the beginning and at the end of the 7th grade. The ambition of the author is to support the process for raising the quality of education for every Bulgarian student, no matter of ethnical background, first language or culture

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.

Идеология за масова употреба: носталгията и ревитализацията на вещите от всекидневието на близкото минало

Author(s): Nikolay Papuchiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

The focus of the article is on the recent past – the era of socialism, and especially on the goods for mass consumption. In spite of the fact that the objects are not ideologically burdened, their nowadays’ fate is very interesting – they are one of the main transmitters of the feeling of nostalgia about a simpler and better life in the past. No more part of people’s style of living, they are nevertheless rich in personal memories. Such presence provokes a lot of reminiscences and imaginations about slow and safe but already irrevocably lost life. Exploiting nostalgic feelings among big groups in Bulgarian society, nowadays market actors create special places full of objects of the recent past. Two of them – Raketa restaurant and Com.bar in the centre of the city of Sofia are very representative places for entertainment. This is the reason they to be on the focus of the anthropological fieldwork.

Eдна „риза“ за нестинарска икона от с. Визица, община Малко Търново

Author(s): Goran Stefanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

Магдалена Елчинова. Невидимата общност: православните българи в Истанбул. София: НБУ, 2017

Author(s): Valentina Ganeva-Raycheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

Book review

Марек Якоубек. Войводово. Историята на едно чешко село в България (не само) през погледа на неговите жители. София: Парадигма, 2016

Author(s): Kiril Hristov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

Book review

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.

Читалищата като част от развитието на гражданския сектор в България в периода от 1878 г. до 1944 г.

Author(s): Silvena Bayrakova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

In order to analyse in depth, the process of the present special status of the Bulgarian chitalishta, a look at the past is required to search for historical threads that lead to the reconciliation between their functions as state institutions from the one hand and civic organization ones from the other hand. The article highlights some features of the development of the Bulgarian civil sector and focuses on the chitalishta as the first civic organization with traditions dating back to the Bulgarian nation building period. Two major events in the span between 1878 and 1944 have an impact on the contemporary government policy concerning the Bulgarian chitalishta. Firstly, their consolidation in union in 1911 is initiated by the will of their leaders to coordinate the activities and to form high representation raising the organizational status. Secondly, due to the longstanding efforts of the chitalishte intelligentsia, the first Law to regulate them is passed in 1927, which strongly favours their financial and infrastructural support. This text intends to reveal how the democratic civic associations that have occurred in the context of non-existent national state during the Bulgarian “modernity”, acquire specific social and government-institutional hue that brings forth the prototype of their public duties and functions as a space for civil debate.

Общински годишни програми за развитие на читалищна дейност в контекста на опазване на нематериалното културно наследство

Author(s): Sylva Nalbantyan-Hacheryan / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The article presents and analyses the relation between the chitalishta and the municipalities on the basis of the municipal programs for the development of the activities of this specific institution. The data used is able to demonstrate the resources of the chitalishta, the rich variety of the activities accomplished there, as well as to make more concrete the appeals for support, to show the attitude of the municipalities as cultural institutions participating in the realization of public policies. Having in mind the importance of the chitalishte institution for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage, the content of the programs is analysed from the point of view of the activities and measures for the safeguarding of this kind of cultural heritage.

Българската етнология в началото на ХХI век – теория и практика. Съст. Валентина Васева. София: Издателство на БАН „Проф. Марин Дринов“, 2017

Author(s): Anelia Kasabova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

Book review

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.