Sytuacja pandemii a dostęp do edukacji ucznia ze spektrum autyzmu

Author(s): Edyta Osękowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6/2021

The time of the pandemic is an unknown reality that we all have to face. Remote education does not only affect the state of our knowledge. School is a place where peers meet every day to build their social relationships. For most students, education is primarily the lack of systematic learning, which results in school backlogs. Lack of direct relationships with peers and teachers is associated with a decrease in self-worth. For children on the autism spectrum, both the daily routine and the predictability of what will happen play an important and important issue in their development, education and proper functioning in society. Throwing out of the established rhythm of life evokes fear, frustration, and disturbs the sense of security. Classes conducted through a computer screen are a big challenge for a parent who has to become a teacher overnight, working with his child at home on the basis of the lesson material provided.

Axiomatizing the Education System: Analysis, Taxonomy or Professional Development?

Author(s): Phil Budgell / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2023

The author starts by attempting to Axiomatize the Education System and by clearly outlining what is meant by Axioms and the Axiomatic Method. Essentially. he takes an Axiomatic Approach to defining Axiomatization. He then describes how a facilitated workshop was used to agree the key features of the education system: – a list of short statements (say 100) about education; – cognate groups (say 10) that are used to sort the statements; and – longer statements that describe those groups. The longer statements are initially given the status First Order Axioms, while short statements are given the status of Second Order Axioms. The First Order Axioms were then grouped into: – Fundamental Axioms; – Structural Axioms; and – Functional Axioms. The main body of the paper then clearly articulates: – those First Order Axioms: Pupils; Education; The State; Subsidiarity; The School; Leadership and Management; The Curriculum; Teachers and Teaching; Assessment and Accreditation and Monitoring and Evaluation; along with – the accompanying Second Order Axioms that were generated when the author participated in their own facilitated workshop. The author also provides the diagrammatic overview of the education system that resulted from the facilitated workshop. He concludes that although the approach can be useful, it has its limitations: a number of the key requirements of Axiomatic Systems cannot be met. The education system is so complex that the Axiomatic System derived from an Axiomatic Approach cannot be Consistent and Independent; nor can all the statements be shown to follow logically from statements that are, in turn, the logical result of other statements. The author finally concludes that, although the approach is useful, the terms Axiomatic System and First and Second Order Axioms should be replaced by Taxonomy and First and Second Order Statements. However, he does suggest that developing a Taxonomy of Educational Objectives could be very useful for: – providing an agreed high-level description of the education system; and – in-service education and staff development purposes.

Организация на обучението при използване на модела 1:1 във Втора английска езикова гимназия „Томас Джеферсън“

Author(s): Emilia Lazarova,Veselina Ivanova,Aneta Kineva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2023

Google Workspace is an electronic platform containing a system of digital tools enabling the creation, storage and sharing of digital documents, communication and collaboration through cloud technology in school management and learning. The 1:1 (One to One) model is used to organise the learning process, where each student and teacher has their own electronic device and a personal profile (account) linked to it, which they can access anywhere and at any time. The model involves the use of digital technology as a resource and platform. It changes the role of both the teacher and the student. The teacher becomes the mentor and the students search, select and create learning content.

Литература и кино в епохата на глобализацията – фрагменти от дебата за културната хибридизация през XXI век

Author(s): Ivan Ivanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2023

The article examines the globalization of the 21st century, which is driven by the postmodernist processes of decanonization that create a hybrid cultural environment in the present. The main focus of the text is the film-literature relationship, which is both synergistic and competitive in the market of cultural products. The article presents key postmodern novels from the 80s and 90s of the last century and their film adaptations, which even in the 21st century reproduce with the techniques of cinema a common, archetypal, futuristic, fictional model. Cinema and literature in the third millennium are subordinated to corporate interests and media giants, and the rhizomatic interface between the arts argues for the ubiquitous hybridization of culture. In conclusion, the dialogical modes between world literature, world cinema, and world media are highlighted.

Езикови средства за представяне образа на имението в руския реминисцентен текст

Author(s): Lyudmila Karpenko / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2023

The article analyzes the content structure and linguistic means of creating the image of the manor in the Russian-language text on the material of reminiscence character. Texts of different periods in which descriptions of the manor are revealed are analyzed. The work employs a complex approach combining elements of etymological, structural-semantic, contextual analysis. The study concludes that the conceptual core of the image of the manor has been preserved since ancient times: the manor is a place of the mastered world, a dwelling place. This meaning corresponds to the image of the manor in the reminiscences of Russian writers and memoirists. The text of the reminiscences of the XIX-XX centuries allows us to trace the updated semantic dominants: the transformation of the image of the manor over two centuries, the change of ideas about the order of things in the world, the destruction of the ideal image. The dynamics of the development of the image of the manor in the Russian literary text and individual-author semantic increments are revealed, as well as in the systematization of linguistic means of creating the image.

WHAT THE PANDEMIC HAS TAUGHT US – HOW TO ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO KEEP THEIR CAMERAS ON

Author(s): Diana Stoica / Language(s): English Issue: 35/2023

Enhancing interaction in the online classroom is a major consideration in ensuring that students actively participate to create their own knowledge and reach a high level of achievement in learning Romanian as a foreign language. This idea came to my mind during an online conference where a colleague stated that it is ok for students to keep their cameras closed and that teachers do not have the right to pry into students’ lives. While agreeing with the latter, I asked myself why I need students to open cameras and why it is crucial for me to see them. I also thought that until now no teacher would have thought of strategies of encouraging their students to be more involved in the remote classes. This is a novelty for teachers worldwide and I took it as a great advantage and an opportunity to learn new things related to my profession.

Дигитална грамотност: характеристики, проявления и перспективи

Author(s): Ivanka Mavrodieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 11/2019

The article describes briefly features of digital literacy and represents perspectives for its development. The theoretical observation determines parameters for a improvement of digital literacy as well as possibilities of using digital tools in different spheres, including libraries and museums.

ГОДИШНО СЪДЪРЖАНИЕ

Author(s): Not Specified Author / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 6/2023

Приложение на електронните образователни ресурси в интердисциплинарните STEM уроци

Author(s): Emilia Lazarova,Veselina Ivanova,Irina Kostadinova,Aneta Kineva,Georgi Yordanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2023

The report focuses on the development and application of an electronic collection of educational STEM resources for grades 9 and 10. The electronic collection was compiled with resources developed for the innovation of Thomas Jefferson Second English High School – “STEM-Center – Virtual Learning Labs”, implemented in the period 2018 - 2022. The collection contains resources suitable for joint teaching and for the application of the integral approach in education. The resources are presented in Bulgarian and in English, given the specifics of the school and the fact that natural sciences are taught in English. This makes the collection applicable to a wider range of teachers and students.

Има ли място „Новото изкуство“ в класните стаи? Алтернатива ли е моделът 1:1

Author(s): Georgi Yordanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2023

This article attempts to define the intersections between the richness of tradition and the perspective of modernity. It is pointed out that the conventional method of teaching can hardly meet the new demands for knowledge necessary for successful inclusion in the modern society. The role of the school as a communication center where new ideas are born and tolerated and the overall creative capacity is encouraged is highlighted. The place of innovative educational practices in the teaching of art is sought. Given are examples of exercises and good practices in this area.

Въздействие на COVID-19 пандемията върху физическото състояние на децата

Author(s): Ognyan Komitov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2023

The COVID-19 pandemic is leading to unprecedented changes in various aspects of our lives, including the physical and mental well-being of children. With the implementation of lockdowns, closure of activities in schools and restrictions on outdoor activities, children’s physical opportunities are significantly disrupted. This article explores the pandemic’s research on children’s physical health and highlights the importance of addressing this issue. Examines the role of the teacher in achieving good sports physical and social-emotional skills and competencies.

Извънкласната дейност в подкрепа на интересите и талантите на учениците

Author(s): Tanya Bozhilova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2023

Extracurricular activities are an important part of the learning process and can be very beneficial for student development. They provide learning opportunities and experiences outside of the standard classroom and can support students’ interests and talents. An extracurricular event is a combination of various student activities, the organization of which, together with the educational impact implemented during the course of training, forms the personal qualities of the students. The teacher has much greater freedom in choosing the content, forms, means, methods of extracurricular work. This enables one to act in accordance with one’s own views and beliefs; the teacher’s personal responsibility increases Extracurricular activities have ample opportunities to engage the social experience of parents and various institutions. Entrepreneurship comes with many advantages, not the least of which is flexibility and greater freedom to make choices that are best for the business. Entrepreneurship education to effectively develop learners’ competencies, the capacity of schools to create a supportive and stimulating learning environment is just as important as the personal competencies and motivation of teachers. It is our challenge to develop the skills of students to understand the fundamental principles of finance, to be able to make the right decisions about managing their personal finances. This leads to an increase in their well-being, which leads to a more peaceful and fulfilling life.

Открит урок по програма „Иновации в действие“ – тема „Олимпийски игри и спортове“

Author(s): Ekaterina Ivkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2023

Thomas Jefferson Second English Language School has been a Google Reference School since 2018. All teachers successfully integrate traditional and interactive methods of teaching. The effective use of Google Instruments for education in the classroom is becoming more and more common, thus enhancing the process of teaching of every subject in our high school. The article describes an open lesson as part of the activities in the National Program Innovation in Action in April 2023. Both traditional and interactive methods of teaching are utilised: a short lecture followed by a discussion, as well as group and project work respectively, with students using a few basic Google Instruments, which have become an inseparable part of the English language teaching. The open class was attended by colleagues and students from Vidin, Blagoevgrad and Samokov.

Развитие на компетентности и умения чрез медийната грамотност в часовете по история

Author(s): Nadezhda Alexieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2023

The development of educational processes and implementation of new methods of teaching and learning are established as a fundamental characteristic of the beginning of the new millennium. Appling key competences as the goalsetting of educational tasks has the potential to ensure the transition to the digital and innovative school ecosystem. The rapprochement between traditional academic disciplines and modern aspects of everyday life and environment is a condition for the development of the individual and civic potential of young people, for building life-ling skills. Media literacy in the classroom has the potential to become a compass that directs the resources form History as study of change over time to the needs of the present and ensures the most valuable aspect for humanity - freedom.

Формиране на географска компетентност за устойчиво развитие чрез проектна дейност

Author(s): Mariana Boshnakova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2023

The formation of geographical culture among students combines geographical literacy, geographical competence and models of behavior in the geographical space for the achievement of quality geographical education. Geographical competence is made up of geographical knowledge, specific geographical skills, models of reasonable behavior related to a valuable and emotional attitude to the problems of the people on Earth, human activities and the natural environment directly related to sustainable development. Project work is a complex methodological tool aimed at complex educational goals, very suitable for forming geographical competence for sustainable development. The projects give a wide range of practical opportunities for realization, a great „freedom” in the work of the students. The results of the project activity are multiplied in a wide range of activities and events.

The Military Higher Education System Transformations in the New Security Context

Author(s): Alecu Toma,Cătălin Popa,Dinu Vasile Atodiresei / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2023

The contemporary security context is very complex nowadays, passing through living history, facing the toughest challenges from the past 8 decades dominated in the background by the global order rebalancing from a polarized world to a deglobalized multipolar international texture, with regional poles of power, speaking now in clear about the “west global” and ”south global”. Between all the focal points of security imbalances, Black Sea region is concerned as one of the most critical, the consequences of Russian-Ukrainian conflict being nowadays the most impacting vector of security in the region with complex consequences, drawing up a new model of war. The new warfare model on land, air and naval operations becomes more technological, valorising the new technologies, from digital space to the artificial intelligence, enforcing the new approach also against the military educational and training system. The article focus is connected to the real transformations happening nowadays, in such dynamic and volatile environment, depicting in particular the topic of the Military Higher Education System transformations in the new security context, admitting as prerequisite, that the new conflict developments in the regions and crisis scenarios evolvement will definitely influent and change the face of the educational and training processes in the Defence Higher Education System.

Overview of the Qualification Frameworks. The Bulgarian Case

Author(s): Nedko Dimitrov / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2023

The paper presents research, conducted by author in order to identify the relation between the European Qualifications Framework and Bulgarian National Qualifications Framework and to position the European Sectoral Qualifications Framework for the Military Officer Profession in the Bulgarian’s educational system. The comparative analysis is made using predefined criteria. The content analysis of the European Qualifications Framework and Bulgarian National Qualifications Framework gives the arguments for comparison. As the military qualification is a professional one, the author tries to compare the defined Sectoral Qualifications Framework for the Military Officer Profession qualifications with those of the Bulgarian Sectoral Qualifications Framework in order to decide about the cross-reference possibilities and application of the Sectoral Qualifications Framework for the Military Officer Profession for Bulgarian Sectoral Qualifications Framework for the Military Officer Profession development.

Similarities and Differences in Marine Security Challenges and Threats in the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea

Author(s): Tomasz Szubrycht / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2023

The straight-line distance from Gdynia (Baltic Sea) to Varna (Black Sea) is 1,450 km, although preliminary analysis shows that despite the distance separating these two water bodies, there are many similarities and differences between them. These include the dominant religion in the coastal states, regional and global political, economic and military importance, hydrometeorological conditions, climate, and, finally, historical conditions determining the perception of these water areas by the coastal states. The purpose of this article is to identify similarities and differences between these water bodies. The greatest attention in the research process was focused on the similarities and differences in their perception by Russia and the consequences resulting from Russia’s Black Sea and Baltic policy. It should also be noted that in the next few years many of the presented conclusions may turn out to be incorrect or incomplete, because the outcome of the war in Ukraine and the peace provisions concluded between Ukraine and Russia. Those will be decisive in determining the real role and importance of mentioned water areas in the coming years.

Commercial Transport and Energy Corridors in the Back Sea Region in the Current Maritime Security Environment

Author(s): Siyana Lutzkanova / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2023

The high degree of military intensity in the Black Sea region, caused by the Russian aggression towards Ukraine results in strong defragmentation and interests’ divergence of the states. The paper examines the current risks in the maritime security environment, their wide impact on the commercial and energy transport corridors in the context of some conventional and nonconventional emerging threats in the region. The reduction of the volume of the commercial transport and merchant fleet and the risks towards security and safety of commercial ports, the maritime lines of communication and the maritime critical infrastructure increase the defragmentation of the Black sea states in their operational and strategic long-term goals. The current war makes predictions of possible scenarios very difficult resulting in financial and economic insecurities. Besides the conventional physical security issues some key threats like hybrid and information warfare, lawfare of the Russian Federation, non-compliance with the international maritime law, seizure and control of national Ukrainian maritime spaces are considered, examined and analyzed. Another important aspect refers to the general advantage of NATO’s conventional combat fleet and the limited financial framework for the acquisition of new conventional combat capabilities of Russia that may result in the deployment of medium-range tactical systems for the purpose of deterrence as most adequate response. The role of the Black Sea in this scenario should not be underestimated with very bad economic consequences.

Придобиване на нова способност от системата за командване и управление на въоръжените сили като част от федерираната мисийна мрежова среда в НАТО

Author(s): Ivan Chakarov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1s/2024

The text presents an overview of trends and transformations in NATO’s communication and information systems and reveals the need for acquiring new capabilities of the command and control system of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Bulgaria, as part of NATO’s federated networks. Determined are the directions for the development and modernization of the communication and information systems of the armed forces at national level – in the context of a comprehensive reengineering of the network communication and information infrastructure.