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In the early days of the development, Polish blogosphere recruited from professionals equipped with the ability to program in HTML. Only after some time blogging became widespread, in the XXI century to gain a global character with tools for creating blogs by people not armed with knowledge of software development. Technological progress quickly was mastered by the Internet natives, leading to the dominance of “youth” in the network, sending network users known as the “internet inhabitants” into the oblivion. These last, now retake their voice to create their own social spaces. Digital natives dominate especially fashion/lifestyle blogs but not only. However, increasingly, there are network diaries kept and dedicated for the generation of digital immigrants or digital dinosaurs. Differences and similarities in the conduct of blogs aimed at different target groups raise the question of popular understanding of youth and social networking opportunities in a group of non‑native sites. The above questions are confronting with the contented of chosen blogsconducted by and targeted to tree different age groups:14–35, 35 + and 55 +. Repopulation of the network with digital immigrants without an undoubtly expands the capacity of Polish blogosphere about these social groups,which until recently could feel excluded from the network.
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The creation and development of decentralized financial management of secondary education is one of the major changes concerning the Bulgarian education. The article analyzes the economic theories, on the basis of which the principles of financing the Bulgarian education are developed. With the introduction of the delegated budget system in 2008, the reform aims to transfer resources, decision-making rights and responsibilities to deliver services to lower levels of public governance. Decentralized financial management affirms and extends the financial and economic autonomy of the school as an important prerequisite for improving the quality of education in Bulgaria.
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The text presents the experience of the school council in the “Pencho P. Slaveykov” Secondary School in organizing a campaign against tobacco smoke. The stages of the campaign, as well as its results, are shown: a 12.5% drop in the number of pupil smokers.The authors of the text share the stages of work, the results obtained, the way they are achieved. Several questionnaires are also available - for evaluating the situation before, during and after the initiative.
More...Зорница Ганева (2016). Да преоткрием статистиката с IBM SPSS Statistics. София: Елестра. 712 стр. ISBN 978-619-7292-01-5
The article presents the new book of Dr. Zornotza Ganeva, Assoc. Prof., named “Discovering statistics using IBM SPSS Statistics”. It is the first book, written by a pedagogue about one of the most popular computer packages – “IBM SPSS Statistics”, which helps statistical processing of research data. The book, written as a handbook, helps in the understanding of research work’s essence, as well as the meaning of statistical information by its accessible language and style, sufficient explanations, useful information and “step by step” methodological approach.
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The paper deals with metaphoric transfer of knowledge in English advertising discourse based on two- and cross-domain mappings referring to cultural conceptualizations of the world. On the one hand, text producers’ awareness of social events, as well as of people’s experiences and practices helps them in the construction of advertisements in the most intriguing and sensational way. On the other hand, text receivers are provoked and tempted by the ads deconstruction, though in some cases their unawareness of what is happening or has happened around us or in the world at large may block or hinder comprehension and thus lead to either misunderstanding of the message and their ignorance of it or to their complete indifference to it. The paper deals with all of the above mentioned issues supported by examples of English language ads and commercials. It shows in what ways multimodality related to the use of verbal and non-verbal signs works in them. The results prove the fact that the use of multimodal metaphors, especially in the non-verbal component, is supposed to trigger more emotions and feelings than the mere representation of the advertised items.
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Using a corpus comprised of examples from the Bulgarian and the British print media discourse on the topic of refugees, the paper aims at analyzing the stereotypes and prejudices that are formed and promoted at the encounter of the Other who is culturally and/or religiously different. In addition, the paper looks into the possible attitudes that these stereotypes can provoke towards refugees and the awareness of the image of the cultural Other that they contribute to. The main method of analysis is CDA and the aim is comparing and contrasting the linguistic devices used in both the Bulgarian and the British media on the topic in two different time periods.
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This volume reunites several papers from the Digital Classics, a relative narrow field of Digital Humanities. Some of the chapters were among papers presented at seminars in London and Berlin, however most of them were especially drafted for the present volume. The volume targets scholars in Classics, Archaeology and History, but the editors believe it will also be accessible to teachers and students, as well as non-academics with an interest in the topic.
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The determining role of a reality in terms of creativity manifests by determining role of the subject in terms of the rest material objects and processes of the pedagogical activity.
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The intrusion of Turkic words into different languages is long and complex process that requires serious and in-depth analysis of the extracted material. The analysis of common borrowings in two languages from different groups (Bulgarian and French) requires a complex approach based on the comparative empruntology between lexical elements of agglutinating language, passed into two Indo-European languages, representatives of the Slavic and Romance groups. The aim of the study is to track the phonetic and grammatical changes that occurred during the penetration of Turkic words in Bulgarian and French and outline the thematic fields and the changes in their semantics
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The text describes the grammatical manuscript “Dodavka na slavyanskata gramatika” by Dimitar Yanakiev Biserov from Dupnitsa town. It reveals the important personal qualities of the author, his birthplace and his epoch – the middle part of 19th century.
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The study deals with ‘regained’ popularity of the names SIMONIDA (in Serbia) and DESISLAVA (in Bulgaria). Cultural events related to literature, theater, cinema, television made those names fashionable in the XX century, while their current presence in the naming practice has a sociopolitical hint.
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The portfolio of the eminent and significant emeritus Professor of linguistics at the Institute of Slavic Studies at the University of Vienna Gero Fischer titled From Vienna Art Diaspora presents portraits of 18 artists of different nationalities. He gained artistic inspiration by studying world photography, mainly Czech and Slovak documentary photography. He created several cycles about Vienna, the Austrian-Czech border region, Northern Moravia, Moldavia, the Romanian Banat, Turkey, Poland and Estonia, etc. His main interest in taking photograph projects is everyday life in the tradition of the documentary photograph. In later years he has concentrated on creating portraits. He has exhibited his works in Vienna and abroad. As a curator he realized more than 150 exhibitions where he introduced not only well- known artists but also young graduates of art photography schools from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, Germany and other countries. His photography project From Vienna Art Diaspora between 2008 and 2009 was carried out on the basis of a commission from a non- profit organisation and an institution for migrants. In the context of the photographic display, personally, I see a similarity to the style of the remarkable American portraitist Arnold Newman and his environmental portraits, which achieved great acclaim during the 1950s. Fischer, like Newman, defines the being of the artists he captures in connection with their most familiar surroundings and representative visual elements showing their professions and personalities. The relation between the photographer and the depicted subject is defined by the important measure of communication with people in front of the camera. As for Newman, likewise with Fischer, it is just an experimental approach and a tendency to graphical simplicity. In the spirit of “environmental portraiture”, the point is that a photographer does not try to capture only the subject but also his surroundings and with that portrait itself tell its story. Therefore with both authors it comes down to a kind of psychoanalysis of the portrayed artists, either with their artworks, or in the environment in which they work, live - thus everything which affects their personality development. In this way the limits of the photographic medium are moving to an authentic plain of fellowship with the depicted subjects, with their destiny, being and living. It is a remarkable sociological dimension of photography. Our aim should be an effort to understand each another in integrity as well as in fragments.
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Anticorruption training is a key component in counteracting corruption, and its successful inclusion at all levels of education is becoming increasingly important. Policies for anticorruption education are becoming frequently proposed in documents in recent years, both on an international level, as well as on a national level. This article aims to explore the opportunities for developing successful strategies for anticorruption programs in Bulgarian higher education. The main policies for anticorruption education, concrete topics for developing of future educational programs, and the Anticorruption Academy initiative at the University of National and World Economy are presented.
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This paper aims to relate the recent technological revolution 4.0 and the necessity for development of innovation in the educational institutions. In relation to the urgency for a debate on the topic this paper will have two main objectives. Firstly, to focus on outlining the most widely discussed contemporary issues with the management of innovations in the sphere of education. Secondly, to investigate the necessary conditions for successful innovation in Education. The paper will refer to several policies for successful development of innovations in Bulgarian schools.
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The quality of education corresponds to the qualifications of teachers facing challenges of a permanent nature. A fact regulated by the State Educational Standard for the status and professional development of teachers, principals and other pedagogical specialists. It (the standard) creates prerequisites for enhancing the authority and social status of teachers, establishing a system of continuing qualification, for professional development and career development. These prerequisites are the answer to today‘s challenges for the quality of education.
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In the requirements` context of art. 78, para. 2. and para. 3. of the Higher Education Act regarding the quality assessment of PH.D. programs in the papers are presented and analyzed results of a study of contentment of Ph.D. students from the Faculty of Pedagogy at SWU „Neofit Rilski“ on the quality of their training. The selected criteria are relevant to the development of dissertation research, the acquisition of research competencies, the interaction between Ph.D. student and supervisor and training environment. The results are analyzed by the independent variable “status” of the trained persons: “defended dissertation” and“trainees”. Perspectives that the researchers see regarding their development after the successful completion of their Ph.D. studies are indicated.In the requirements` context of art. 78, para. 2. and para. 3. of the Higher Education Act regarding the quality assessment of Ph.D. programs in the papers are presented and analyzed results of a study of contentment of Ph.D. students from the Faculty of Pedagogy at SWU „Neofit Rilski“ on the quality of their training. The selected criteria are relevant to the development of dissertation research, the acquisition of research competencies, the interaction between Ph.D. student and supervisor and training environment. The results are analyzed by the independent variable “status” of the trained persons: “defended dissertation” and “trainees”. Perspectives that the researchers see regarding their development after the successful completion of their Ph.D. studies are indicated.
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The article describes moral and humanistic qualities as key characteristics of a social teacher. The author examines the relationship of emotional and rational in retrospect, the teachings of Aristotle, also, the view of modern researchers (A. L. Fatykhova, I. Koleva) on emotional component as professionally significant qualities of a modern teacher.
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The article highlights the complexity of the concept of health culture, based on different understandings and opinions about health. The connection and the dependence of the problem with the strategy of the World Health Organization on the promotion of health in a different social environment, and in the school. It emphasized the need for a purposeful formation of the students‘ health culture. The essence of the main factors that determine it is revealed.
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