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The subject of analysis is the „near” and „far” contexts of origin and development of the Russian book for popular reading of the XIXth century, which was an important channel of familiarizing the reader-commoner to the world of science and culture. Close attention is paid to little-studied works of the author of mass orientation, at one time a popular Russian novelist Vladimir Burnashev.
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The article is dedicated to Polish & Russian competition carried out with the help of the printed word and its influence on the formation of national identity of the Ukrainian peasantry leaving at the Right-Bank Ukraine in the late nineteenth and early twenty centuries. The author analyses famous literary records, published source data and materials from the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Kyiv. The article reveals the spheres of Polish social activities, which encouraged villagers to participate in Polish readings in spite of antagonism of Russian official establishments. The author shows the subjects and aspects of reading being very important for patriotic education of the peasantry. It is stated that Polish educational system encouraged social mutual cooperation of the representatives of different social classes by distribution of a wide range of literature. At the same time, an out-dated ideologue of Russian official educational politics prevented the development of various reading practices among the villagers, disabled self-identification of the community and discouraged further transformation of the society.
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The handwriting Maurizio da Castellazzo‘s dictionary is likely to be the first survived Bulgarian-Italian Dictionary of the times of the Bulgarian Revival. It was created by a Catholic missionary, probably in Rakovski area, in purpose of getting familiar with the flock of believers. The dictionary is valuable with its concrete parameters of the interlingual symmetry in sounds, letters, meanings, idiomatics, but just as important is the contemporary Bulgarian worldview, fixed in and by the words, the material and the spiritual culture of Bulgarians, and the ethno-cultural identity of the Bulgarian Catholics.
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The aim of this paper is to contribute to the improvement of the work of school librarians, in order to be able to evaluate their work through objective and systematic monitoring, and by taking over new professional initiatives to improve the quality of their operations and thus increase the efficiency of total educational process in school.Through the process of self-evaluation a librarian receives concrete testimonies that show, confirm, illustrate and document his/her weaknesses and flaws, but also emphasize the quality and good patterns of set performance targets. Accepting the methods for creative evaluation, the librarian has an opportunity to give his/her best in accordance with his/her capabilities. Using self-evaluation, a librarian estimates, develops, and accepts new professional approaches and principles, trying to find new opportunities for his/her work and set new goal for himself/herself. The process of individual self-evaluation provides an opportunity for a librarian to perceive specific needs and create specific conditions in school library, where he/she can operate more effectively and improve the professional skills that are required. By displaying the best implemented activities, a school librarian self-actualize himself/herself. Displaying those activities that best illustrate the development and advancements, he/she exchanges with other experiential achievements that can stimulate the creative process and cooperation with colleagues, both in school among teachers and among librarians.
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An innovative culture is considered by scientists not only as a factor of modernization and development of certain types of human activity, but also as a form of modern culture, which emerged as a result of wide implementation of guidelines for innovative relationship of person to himself and to the world. A key feature of innovative culture as a certain part of socio-cultural and ideological complex of modernity is its readiness for production and implementation of innovations in all areas of management, as well as search for new ideological values that are not only authorize innovations and facilitate their replication, but also define ethical and humanistic content as a leading content of any innovation. For its successful performance innovative culture requires not only intellectually developed and professionally educated person, but also personality that can rapidly de-velop, improve and learn himself, which is able to "permanent education", "lifelong education" and "lifelong learning".The purpose of this article is to explore the relationship of innovative culture and informal education, which is emphasized along with formal and informal education, differentiating educational forms by the degree of institutional for-malization. This aspect of the study is important and urgent, because, on the one hand, it reveals the mechanisms and direction of formation of innovative culture, and, on the other hand, defines the target setting of perspective education, determines its ultimate goal – the creation of innovatively attractive product.The informal education is implemented through: communication with friends, colleagues and just random people, reading, watching TV, use of media resources (not only educational), Internet communication in social networks, visits of cultural institutions, religious organizations, visits of exhibition or events, festivals, master classes, while traveling, through self-education, cultural activity etc. Informal education is provided by traditional areas of education, but in a different way. It does not evident purpose of learning, it is not as structured, organized, purposeful, as traditional education, it is not as re-flective and perceived, it is a voluntary, spontaneous, and autonomous, it is the result of every-day life, the result of learning through experience. The person himself directs his education, and appears as a teacher and as a student at the same time.There are the following functions of informal education: broadcasting or communicative; educational or devel-opmental; professional, it improves qualifications (job qualification); compensatory; integrating; adaptive; function of so-cialization; it is also spoken about the function of re-socialization; humanistic function should be leading in informal edu-cation (formation and establishment of high humanistic ideals of humanity, promoting humanity as a certain way of relation to the world must be dominant content of informal education that though is self-organized and spontaneous, yet remains one that is a result of a conscious choice of the subject of educational activity).An innovative culture is considered by scientists not only as a factor of modernization and development of certain types of human activity, but also as a form of modern culture, which emerged as a result of wide implementation of guidelines for innovative relationship of person to himself and to the world. A key feature of innovative culture as a certain part of socio-cultural and ideological complex of modernity is its readiness for production and implementation of innovations in all areas of management, as well as search for new ideological values that are not only authorize innovations and facilitate their replication, but also define ethical and humanistic content as a leading content of any innovation. For its successful performance innovative culture requires not only intellectually developed and professionally educated person, but also personality that can rapidly develop, improve and learn himself, which is able to "permanent education", "lifelong education" and "lifelong learning".The purpose of this article is to explore the relationship of innovative culture and informal education, which is emphasized along with formal and informal education, differentiating educational forms by the degree of institutional formalization. This aspect of the study is important and urgent, because, on the one hand, it reveals the mechanisms and direction of formation of innovative culture, and, on the other hand, defines the target setting of perspective education, determines its ultimate goal – the creation of innovatively attractive product.The informal education is implemented through: communication with friends, colleagues and just random people, reading, watching TV, use of media resources (not only educational), Internet communication in social networks, visits of cultural institutions, religious organizations, visits of exhibition or events, festivals, master classes, while traveling, through self-education, cultural activity etc. Informal education is provided by traditional areas of education, but in a different way. It does not evident purpose of learning, it is not as structured, organized, purposeful, as traditional education, it is not as reflective and perceived, it is a voluntary, spontaneous, and autonomous, it is the result of every-day life, the result of learning through experience. The person himself directs his education, and appears as a teacher and as a student at the same time.There are the following functions of informal education: broadcasting or communicative; educational or developmental; professional, it improves qualifications (job qualification); compensatory; integrating; adaptive; function of socialization; it is also spoken about the function of re-socialization; humanistic function should be leading in informal education (formation and establishment of high humanistic ideals of humanity, promoting humanity as a certain way of relation to the world must be dominant content of informal education that though is self-organized and spontaneous, yet remains one that is a result of a conscious choice of the subject of educational activity). Informal education as one that is carried out independently and spontaneously as conscious and unconscious reaction to the socio-cultural environment and its new content and forms, it embodies the philosophical foundations of innovative culture. Innovations can be initiated by socialized and educated people, they can be learned only by people who are ready and open to changes. Innovative culture is a powerful information resource of informal education. Its artifacts are a kind of irritants that require the human response to them. Innovative culture requires spiritually mature individuals. informal education, in its turn, serves not only the gnostic and cognitive goals, but also ethical and humanistic.Innovative culture forms a creative attitude to the world. Informal education aims not person’s academic enrichment with scholastic truths, but gaining of "life knowledge", the knowledge that person needs in life. Innovative culture and informal education provide a combination of theoretical studies with humanistic orientation of their implementation. Both exist as regulators of alternative communicative environment, as the leading popularizers of scientific discourse.For innovative culture and informal education high technology, information space are important. They state the heterogeneity as the defining parameters of the modern world view, as well as tolerance as a way of coexistence of different elements in it. Also they state its ethical expertise of both theoretical and practical achievements. Synergetics as the science of self-organization of various nonlinear systems, which regards bifurcation points as ways to the occurrence of new, can be used for a more thorough study of innovative culture and informal forms of education in it.
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This paper presents the result of simulating a photovoltaic central using Matlab. The obtained data show results of the parameters investigated in real conditions
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The article includes the description of factors forming the definitions of psychological background in a language group. The author evaluates the factors in the view of psychology, pedagogy, and related sciences. Furthermore, she gives numerous examples of language and non language teachers’ behaviours which are conducive to creating certain psychical interpersonal reactions.
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The article presents the results of theoretical analysis of the problem of designing a university e-learning course. It outlines the main features and stages of each model as well as the basic building unit that defines the model. Their educational opportunities are analyzed with regard to putting their strengths in different educational contexts. Summaries of the analysis are presented in the form of conclusions and generalized prescriptions for e-training course design in higher education.
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“Client services management” functions for meeting the client enquires – questions, help, activation and deactivation of services, and general questions about the company portfolio services. The aim is implementation and execution of processes which allow the Call center to serve the client on all subjects by a single contact person. The more complex questions are being serviced by a qualified person from a specialized unit. The number of complaints is being reduced by using tailored approach to each case. It is essential to pay a special attention for retaining customers, to use effectively outbound campaigns for meeting certain business needs, to constantly develop the personnel through different programs and trainings and to support of a high level of QoS.
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This paper presents the library journal Zajednica biblioteka (Library Community), published by the Parent Library Community of Serbia in the period from 1970 to 1997. This journal takes an important place in the history of Serbian periodicals in the .eld of librarianship, because in a very dynamic period of development it provided extraordinarily useful professional information and instructions to the libraries in SR Serbia. This journal is also a relevant indicator of the Serbian librarianship development, which at that time had a great potential and successfully followed the modern professional achievements in the world.
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The research is studying the relationship between modern humanitaristics and the knowledge in the aspects of: crisis of the authority of the Humanitarians; tradition and interdisciplinarity in the development of humanitaristics; metamorphoses in the humanitarian knowledge – publicity and marginality; visual culture in humanitaristics; humanitarian paradigm in perspective
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The paper presents two lexical resources developed in the Department for Bulgarian lexicology and lexicography at the Institute for Bulgarian language – online version of many-volumed academic Dictionary of Bulgarian language and the resource Infolex. The possibilities for their application in the Bulgarian language education are discussed.
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The present work is dedicated to contemporary means and teaching methods, using cloud technologies in Bulgarian secondary education. A review is elaborated on the development and essence of cloud technologies. Digital instruments are listed which are applied to new teaching methods. Some new and adaptive methods are indicated and examples are shared for their application in a concrete Bulgarian school. It is shown that the use of contemporary means and teaching methods applying cloud technologies facilitates teacher’s work and raises student’s interest towards the learning process including active attitude to it.
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The article examines the specific features of today’s students, called „net generation“ and the impact of their characteristics on the educational process. It recommends strategies that would help teachers to overcome the difficulties in the process of training.
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Methodological ideas are given in the paper for using the random numbers generator in programming education. A set of problems is presented in connection with visual programming education on the base of the C# language. The aims and the main stages are exposed for the solution of each problem. Also, the problems illustrate a possibility to combine the process of programming education with the creation of games. The set under consideration contains 10 problems, including 7 ones which are original and 3 ones are well-known classic games. The aim and the main stages of the solution are presented for each problem.
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In this article, I offer a summarized survey of the different folklore genres in Bulgarian traditional culture that refer to dreams, dream interpretation and the consequences of dreams. The study is based on a substantial number of narratives of dreams and dream interpretations that I have recorded through fieldwork, and on my research on this topic. I have also utilized published and archive materials, dating since the Bulgarian Revival period until modern times, and published research by folklorists and ethnographers from the distant past until the present day. I delineate the main principles of dream interpretation; the ways of dream interpretation, and the factors that influence it. It is underlined that dream interpretation is part of the cultural education in patriarchal Bulgarian society as an essential element of the skills and practices referring to predicting the future. All of this confirms the fact that dreams and dream interpretation are a significant part of the system of Bulgarian traditional culture. I emphasize the unity of opposites, which is basic for the classification and interpretation of dreams. It is an important characteristic of Bulgarian traditional culture as a whole and also of the Bulgarian culture and language from the Middle Ages until modern times. Simultaneously, I also dwell on the analytical-psychological essence the unity of opposites. Special attention is paid to the crucial role of the context for the correct interpretation of dreams, which corresponds to the method of amplification in Jungian psychology.
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Разговор между Миглена Николчина и Еньо Стоянов
The text presents a discussion on the variety of concerns that are accompanying the continuous rise in popularity of video games today. The discussion focuses on the "medicalization" of the so-called video game addiction, the question oThe text presents a discussion on the variety of concerns that are accompanying the continuous rise in popularity of video games today. The discussion focuses on the "medicalization" of the so-called video game addiction, the question of the reasons for the overexposure of violence in this novel cultural form, the dangers, inherent in some of the business practices, espoused in this largely unregulated industry, as well as the conditions for the reception of its products in Bulgaria.
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Basing on the content analysis of 200 texts of the 20th century and on the author’s model of 8 subcultures of the postmodern era, this paper assumes a hypothesis that postmodern consciousness is characterized by egocentrism, tends to a dialogue with the other and to the understanding of him and refers directly to the text and textual reality. In the information era, that is, the postmodern period we are living in, individual forms of egocentric existence in the virtual reality turn paradoxically and relentlessly from isolation to polylogical interactive communications between people both in virtual and immediate reality.The metaphor “thumb generation” is used in the article as a marker of the informational way of living but designates at the same time the phenomenon of rising bodily activity in the informational milieu. The bodily pole counterbalances the informational way of living of new generation in the immediate but not in the virtual reality and involves a person in a special sort of messages to the mankind called flash mobs.
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