2017 EMERGENCE/DECLINE OF THE AD -TERRORISM PHENOMENON

Author(s): Nicoleta Annemarie Munteanu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

The activity of ad-terrorism, taking advantage of too easily influential media, is an active generator of negative feelings among the civilian population. 2017 was introduced on the list of time intervals for the most monstrous terrorist attacks, not because of countries such as Iraq, where 267 1446 dead, 1661 wounded and 12 abducted persons were executed, due to the over-mediation of attacks on the territory of European states such as the United Kingdom, which generated about 4% of the attacks by SI in 2017, but which represented the first media news media. Practically, the media is responsible for the gap created between helping, supporting and building security between the West and the Middle East through ignorance of massacres on the Asian continent and the outlook for the Muslim population in the area.

Стефка Петрова на 80 години

Author(s): Darina Ilieva,Mariyan Petrov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 37/2018

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS FOR IASA 8TH WORLD CONGRESS. Laredo TX, 12–21 July 2017

Author(s): Manuel Broncano Rodríguez / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

Laredo is located in the vicinity of the Rio Grande/Bravo, in many senses the epitome of the border, of the frontier, of the “limen” in its etymological sense of “threshold,” “doorway,” or “limit.” The general theme of our reunion was “Marginalia: The Borders of the Border,” and the contributions the IASA members made addressed this theme from multiple perspectives, thus leading to most enriching discussions about one of the most written about topics in the scholarship of the last few decades. Such a topic has rekindled new interest, especially in the light of the recent political transformations in many regions of the globe, which are leading to revived feelings of essentialist nationalism and its atavistic fears of the other, call it the immigrant, the dissenter or, if you want, the barbarian. It is happening in Turkey, it is happening in Poland, it is happening in Britain, it is happening in the US. In this context, borders and walls, both physical and ideological, are being erected once again. Marginalia, in turn, is a Latin term that in its origins referred to the inscriptions that monks and other amanuensis made on the empty space surrounding the body of text inscribed on a parchment. Romance languages are largely the product of marginal inscriptions on Latin manuscripts. Thus, the first manifestations of the Spanish language are found in the glosses that monks scribbled on the margins of those manuscripts to clarify and comment on words whose meaning was already obscure for the medieval reader, and those annotations were made in the new romance language, which was nothing but macaronic Latin. By extension, marginalia refers to those writings that do not belong in the canonical body of works of a culture or civilization, and is close in meaning to apocryphal. Furthermore, it can be understood as referring to the interstices that exist between two or more cultures, nations, or religions. In our usage of the term, marginalia refers to those areas of the world that are populated by displaced or uprooted individuals, limbic spaces in which mere survival may become an illegal activity. The present address seeks to explicate the essence of the basic concepts underlying—and driving—the theme of the Congress.

Методически дейности за развиване на интеркултурната комуникативна компетентност на учениците чрез обучението по български език в първия гимназиален етап

Author(s): Polina Zarkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The present article aims to provide methodological activities of developing students’ intercultural communicative competence in Bulgarian language teaching. The matter of the paper is motivated by the standpoint considering intercultural competence as the key competence of the 21st century. Its leading role is determined by multiligualism and multiculturalism that characterize the world nowadays. To turn youngsters into successful communicators in order to manage the challenges towards them, issued by the modern society, it is necessary for them to develop skills which enable students to participate in intercultural dialogue effectively. The communicatively oriented Bulgarian language teaching has the characteristics needed to make students master intercultural communicative skills.

Параметри на управленската култура и компетентността на мениджърите по образование на възрастните

Author(s): Vyara Gyurova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2016

Adult education performs important functions related to the implementation of the modern philosophies of lifelong learning and life-wide learning. This requires establishing a particular type of educational management – the management of adult education and training of specific managers – those responsible at different levels for managing the sector, the institutions and the services for adult education – known collectively as “adult education managers.” To perform successfully their functions related to the management of the system (sector) of adult education and of the institutions for formal and non-formal education, which offer educational services for adults and carry out the process of adult education, these managers need to acquire and develop a specific competency (or a set of competencies) and a specific managerial culture. The author presents arguments supporting the need for training such managers. The parameters of their managerial culture are outlined in terms of its content: managerial competence, managerial values, managerial beliefs and convictions as well as managerial behavior. A special emphasis is placed on the managerial competence of adult education managers regarded as the sum of competencies related to the management of the organization and educational activities in general (“production management”), human resource management, and operations management (the set of specific activities of all units and all people employed directly or providing and facilitating the process of adult learning and the functioning of the institutions offering it).

Детската усмивка казва всичко

Author(s): Reni Manova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

Учебно-познавателната евристична дейност като фундамент за развиване на рефлексивните способности на учениците

Author(s): Nina Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2016

The article studies various conditions of combining heuristic activity, taking place in the process of learning, with activation of reflection processes, as well as any possible consequences of such combination. Author’s positive research experience in this area has been shared, related to the realization of reflexive-synergetic approach principles in mathematics education. Concise presentation is made of the results of a pedagogical experiment proving the thesis that the organisation and management of student educational-cognitive heuristic activity by using an educa­tional technology which has been specifically created for this purpose, developed in compliance with the fundamental principles of the reflexive-synergetic approach, increases the level of student individual intellectual reflection abilities.

FÓKUSZ / Ioana Szeman: Láthatatlan színházak

Author(s): Ioana Szeman / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 4/2018

This inquiry focuses on the question of how the figure of the passionate Gypsy has become so fashionable lately at costume parties, in soap operas and reality shows, yet without strengthening the Roma cultural identity itself. The fact that the Roma people are missing from the Romanian theatrical palette also sheds light on​ how the Roma are excluded from the institutional and state-supported forms of national culture.

Színre vitt állampolgárság. Romák, performansz és identitás az európai uniós Romániában

Author(s): László Fosztó / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 4/2018

Ioana Szeman’s new book, Staging Citizenship, reviewed by social anthropologist László Fosztó, discusses both the difficult socio-economic conditions and damaged cultural identity of the Roma people in Romania, as well as their performances and performative actions, carried out in different cultural spaces. The fieldwork​ conducted in the Roma community, depicted under a fictional name in this volume, sheds light on a series of stereotypes and representational problems associated with the Roma, as well as on the chasms in citizenship and on the cultural and political contexts of their characteristic art performances in Romania.

Global Prospects of Distance Education

Author(s): Anna Ślósarz / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

Distance education conferences and publications have the longest tradition in Western world countries, where they are focused on introducing professional solutions into business and administration. In Asia, the implementation of distance education is linked to social development and global expansion of national business within the framework of government strategies. In Latin America and in Africa, distance education provides assistance in equalising educational opportunities and in promotion of peace. In post-communist countries, academic centres poorly cooperate with administration and business sectors, which offer competitive and most attractive distance education courses. Algorithmisation of distant education courses results in insufficient development of self-reliance, creativity, and empathy of employees.

Псевдоцентър и ортоцентър – забележителни точки в четириъгълника

Author(s): Veselin Nenkov,Stanislav Stefanov,Haim Haimov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2016

The paper describes some properties of two notable points inthe convex quadrilateral, which naturally generalize the circum-center and theorthocenter of the inscribed quadrilateral.

Genetic Algorithm

Author(s): Reinhard Magenreuter / Language(s): English Issue: 6/2016

There are four backbones to analyze time-series in general and forecast time-series for financial markets: Chaos-theory, Fuzzy logic, Neural networks and Genetic algorithms. The first one is considered in (Magenreuter, 2016a), while the second one – in (Magenreuter, 2016c) and the third one – in (Magenreuter, 2016b). The present paper is dedicated to the fourth backbone including promising outcomes in financial markts.

The Műnchausen Effect and the post-truth era advertising messages. Critical analysis on fallacious and enthymematic advertising slogan argumentation

Author(s): Vasile Aurelia-Ana / Language(s): English Issue: 22 (2)/2018

Humans have always been prone to adorning the truth and to producing twisted fallacious arguments in order to sketch a truth (i.e., their own truth) that best suited their interest at a certain time, within certain circumstances. Even more, the communication climate of nowadays has moved from face-to-face communication ̶ that offered a limited kit of means to mold the truth ̶ towards the emerging technology mediated virtual communication that enhances the dressing up and the re-shaping of truth to make the message more appealing to its target public to such an extent that truth loses its substance and may turn into its opposite. Advertising messaging exhibits some contradictory characteristics that are involved in producing what we call and aim at coining here as the Műnchausen Effect. Our research findings have shown that all of the 100 taglines on bestslogans.com relied on enthymematic argumentation and where erroneous in terms of content, all as non sequitur fallacies. However, due to the ambiguity brought about by their elliptical structure (as all of them lacked the conclusion and at least one of the premises), these implicit arguments have proved hard to analyze with regard to the specific kind of fallacies that could hide beyond the missing premise(s), as one could imagine any kind of missing premise(s), where there is an elliptical structure of argumentation. This difficulty that is encountered leaves room to another kind of approach to research in communication, the quantum approach that in critical thinking may have to do with informal logic, and that takes into account creativity and the Umberto Eco idea of opera aperta. We may dwell on such an approach in a further study.

How critical thinking should be at the heart of digital interactions?

Author(s): HULIN Thibaud / Language(s): English Issue: 22 (2)/2018

In this paper, we study how to teach critical thinking at the digital era, in order to promote practitioners autonomy. A theory of interactions is proposed to identify constraints that structure digital creativity. This model helps to design a critical pedagogy, by connecting without opposing a procedural approach to a reflexive one. The paper presents an implementation of this model into a course about writing on a social network. The study of activity diaries of students shows presence of objectivity forms and reflexivity forms, which reflects the development of a critical thinking. This approach offers a way to develop critical thinking not from outside, in a course of argumentation or media analysis, but within the practice itself, in order to become aware of how interfaces structure our expression and thought.

Educating for critical thinking in university: The criticality of critical thinking in education and everyday life

Author(s): Franco Amanda,Marques Vieira Rui,Tenreiro-Vieira Celina / Language(s): English Issue: 22 (2)/2018

Nowadays, both on-line and "off-line" lives seem to be bound to the terms of democratization of information. While this brings clear advantages, does free and fast access to plenty of information entail that individuals are better informed and well-equipped to think reasonably, make decisions, and solve problems? In a time apparently governed by fraudulent decision-makers, floppy media, fake news, and frantic information, it is essential to know how to think critically. Critical thinking is crucial along schooling, in the world of work, in personal everyday life, and in life as members of a society. Nonetheless, critical thinking is not innate and effortless; it must be developed and mobilized with deliberation in a systematic way. Researchers and international agencies agree that it is critical to have critical thinking to face present-futurist challenges such as the United Nation's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. But before individuals learn to become critical thinkers, teachers themselves need teacher education opportunities to learn how to use their critical thinking abilities, and how to spark students' critical thinking potential and promote it. Here, the role played by education in developing critical thinking is stressed, and specific teaching-learning strategies that have shown to be effective are identified.

The Spanish-Catalan political crisis as represented in the UK, French and German press (2010-2017)

Author(s): PERALES-GARCÍA Cristina,PONT-SORRIBES Carles / Language(s): English Issue: 22 (2)/2018

Political events in Catalonia from 2010 to the present have marked part of the Spanish and EU media agenda and have resonated in the international media. We analysed German, French and UK media coverage and opinions of foreign correspondents regarding the Catalan independence movement for the period 2010 to 2017. We analysed press representations of the positions of the Spanish and Catalan governments and of the confrontation between them, focusing on the main newspapers (Le Figaro, Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeustsche Zeitung, The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian) of the major EU economies of Germany, France and the UK. Analysis was intended to determine the degree of (il)legitimacy of the independence movement as well as arguments in favour of the Spanish status quo and even of European identity. We conducted a framing analysis of 563 press articles and an ethnographic study based on in-depth interviews with four foreign correspondents in Spain. The analysed newspapers provided wide coverage of the Catalan independence movement, framed the crisis as a conflict between the governments of Spain and Catalonia and called repeatedly on the EU to mediate.

La mulți ani!, la 70 de ani... și încă pe-atâtea primăveri!

Author(s): Mariana Vlad / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 9/2018

От главния редактор

Author(s): Irina Koleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

Post-Graduate Qualification of Teachers in Intercultural Educational Environment

Author(s): Irina Koleva,Vesselin Tepavicharov,Violeta Kotseva,Kremena Yordanova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The article analyses the results of a project, witch was realized with a leading team of lecturers from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridsky” and another seven Bulgarian higher schools.The text contains methodology and technology of professional-pedagogical training of 4500 Bulgarian teachers at national level. Teachers are from the primary education system.It presents also a developed training package of: a teacher’s handbook/ handbook, a teacher’s manual, basic and additional instructional materials on intercultural education. The training is conducted in two modules: attendance and distance. The results of the 227 trainings conducted in all regions of the Republic of Bulgaria are discussed.It analyses how these results influence the new law in the Republic of Bulgaria on pre-school and school education and the accompanying state educational standards.

Mihai Botez. Trei schiţe nereuşite de portret

Author(s): Ana-Maria Cătănuş / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3-4/2018

This is a review of the book edited by Radu Ioanid, Mihai Botez. Three portrait sketches. Documents (Mihai Botez. Trei schiţe de portret. Documente) Polirom, Iaşi, 2018, 442 p.