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Грамотността – интердисциплинарно понятие (Върху примера на обучението по български език и музика в начален образователен етап)

Author(s): Penka Marcheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2024

The publication focuses on some interdisciplinary aspects of the concept of literacy. In scientific aspect definitions of literacy, musical language as a system of functioning of musical literacy are presented. A distinction is made between musical literacy and musical notation literacy. The normative aspects of literacy in teaching Bulgarian language and music in primary school are presented. In practical application, the integration that can be observed at primary school age, when pupils are introduced to letter writing (Grade 1) and musical notation (Grade 3), is traced. The possible connections, the general algorithm and the content parameters of both processes are traced. It is emphasized that the relation “signifier – signified” is the basis of both processes.

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Какво, колко и как чете българският ученик (у нас и по света)? (Анализ на данни от анкетно проучване)

Author(s): Angel Petrov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6s/2024

The article presents the results of an analysis of a survey related to some problems of the reading practices of students (5th - 12th grade) educated in secondary schools in Bulgaria and at Bulgarian Sunday schools abroad. Data from student answers to the following questions were processed and studied: How often do you read? Do you have a lot of books at home? How often do you see your parents at home reading? What do you do when you read? What do you pay attention to when you read? etc. The conclusions of the analysis are used to make a methodological comment on the role of Bulgarian language training in secondary school to help build and improve the reading skills of Bulgarian students in Bulgaria and around the world.

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„Те не четат!“... А ние?

Author(s): Natalija Hristova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6s/2024

This paper focuses on the displacement of students' subjective reading experience that has occurred in the last few decades as a result of the dominance of text-centered analytical literary approaches in school education. In the context of today's alarming disengagement from reading among young people, it makes the case for both overcoming the monopoly of analytical approaches and rehabilitating the inspirational potential of reading literary texts in the classroom. In order to awaken young people's interest in literature and reconcile them to reading, the teacher should at some point undertake the risky enterprise of revealing himself as a reader to his students. For it is through our own passion and enthusiasm that we can achieve that contagious effect through which literature reaches young people. In this way, it seems to us, we would also have more chances to counteract the outflow of reading, to befriend today's young people with books and to show them, as Tz. Todorov, that the great texts of the past speak for them, that they give meaning to their inner lives and help them to live better.

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Нагласи и предпочитания за четене сред учениците в България и в чужбина

Author(s): Antonia Radkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6s/2024

The article examines, analyzes, and compares the habits, preferences, and attitudes towards reading among Bulgarian children living abroad, in comparison with their peers in Bulgaria. The text analyzes the preferred types of literature, literary genres, attitudes towards different reading formats (audio, digital, print), tendencies for multitasking while reading, and more. The study is based on the results of a large-scale online sociological survey conducted in Bulgaria and among Bulgarian communities abroad.

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Къде четат българските ученици?

Author(s): Aglaya Mavrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6s/2024

Based on survey data, this article analyzes the places where Bulgarian students read in the ‘post-literacy age’. These places, perceived as conditions that foster the formation of attitudes towards books, enhance the prestige of reading, and shape actual reading practices, include various social institutions such as the family, school, and library. The article seeks to answer the question of which of these has the greatest impact on cultivating reading habits in today's younger generation.

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За разбираемостта и разбирането на литературата

Author(s): Maya Padeshka / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6s/2024

In the present research, we will analyze a segment of a large sociological study conducted within the framework of the “Reading practices around the world and in our country” project. We will focus on questions from the survey related to the attitude towards reading texts studied at school - in Bulgaria and abroad, as well as the attitudes towards studying literature in general.

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Читателски навици и отношение към четенето на българските ученици в Р България и в чужбина (Анализ на данни от анкетно проучване)

Author(s): Evelina Milanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6s/2024

The article analyzes data from a survey focused on the current reading practices of Bulgarian students in the Republic of Bulgaria and abroad. By comparing the results of the conducted survey with the findings of authoritative international studies focused on students' reading skills and attitudes, an attempt is made to determine the degree of effectiveness of various reading/learning practices. The conclusions could serve for the development of methodical activities, through which the interest and motivation of the students in the Bulgarian language and literature classes is provoked and which would help to master learning strategies, giving better educational achievements.

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COVID-19 and Ripples in Time

Author(s): Luba Pirgova-Morgan / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2022

COVID-19 represents a new era, a time of crisis, and a time of transitions. One of the biggest impacts of the pandemic globally on both individuals and groups has been the transformation of our perception of time. How we perceive time and how time permeates through every aspect of our lived realities during COVID-19, inevitably has brought great changes to research methodologies and approaches used as part of the entirety of the research process: from funding applications, research design, and implementations to collaborations, dissemination, and impact activities beyond project conclusion. The research presented shares key findings and insights from the PRAXIS Project: COVID-19 Strand. A project that examined in depth, via surveys and interviews, Arts and Humanities (A&H) research during COVID-19, with a focus on the pandemic impacts on research practices experienced by academics from the cohort of more than 300 projects funded through the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) and Newton Fund. The impact of COVID-19 on research methodologies, scientific challenges as well as new found opportunities and innovations will be presented through the prism of time. Time will be discussed in terms of the speed of time, content of time, importance of time, lost time, found time, and changes in time, and what all those iterations of time can tell us about the transformation of the research process during the pandemic, but also beyond. The discussion presented aims to show the lessons learned, challenge some of the existing scales of values, design desirables, and varied outputs, while also considering the changes to research as a whole and how to look forward during these unprecedented times.

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Global Pandemic and Local Communities

Author(s): Albena Nakova-Manolova,Elya Tzaneva / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a new and unprecedented situation in the world at large and the smaller national, regional, and local communities. This text focuses on the last-mentioned, offering an analysis of data from interviews and focus-group discussions conducted in two Bulgarian localities that were among the first to be quarantined and to react after the pandemic was declared: the towns of Bansko and Karnobat in Bulgaria. Accordingly, for the two mentioned settlements, the contexts of reaction at the community level are examined and compared with those at the levels of the family, kinfolk/neighbourhood, and rural/urban community. This perspective allows tracing how the pandemic has disrupted the normality of existence and created a cognitive imbalance in people’s perceptions, in response to which corresponding concepts and explanations of the disease and the pandemic are built to help people cope with the stress of the unknown. Processes occurring in individual cognitive structures, as well as attitudes towards institutions and collective human communities, are explored, and ways of finding a rational explanation and possible solution to the pandemic problem are studied.

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COVID-19 Pandemic Prevention Efforts and Economic Recovery Path of Sub-Saharan Africa

Author(s): Thanh Nga Kieu / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2022

Like other regions in the world, Africa has also suffered a significant impact from the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted supply chains, isolated societies, and closed countries, creating unprecedented challenges. Using the qualitative research method, this study will describe, explain and discuss to clarify the research question: What is Africa’s fighting against COVID-19 with focus on Sub-Saharan region? What are the impacts of COVID-19 on the region and its prospects for recovery? The results show that, unlike previous outbreaks, during the COVID-19 pandemic Africa played an important role in gathering scientific knowledge that helped shape the global response. Hundreds of scientists have been working continuously to sequence strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Even in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, African States reacted quickly and coordinatedly, so that the negative health impacts were minimised, beyond all previous forecasts. These experiences will certainly benefit the world – as demonstrated by South African scientists who were the first to discover the Omicron variant in November 2021. However, these efforts can be phased out due to the lack of vaccines, outdated health systems, and the effects of the pandemic on the economy. It can be the most severe barrier in Africa’s recovery path. so that the negative health impacts were minimised

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The First Quarantined Settlements in Bulgaria

Author(s): Yelis Erolova,Ilina Nacheva / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2022

Can we call the COVID-19 pandemic a ‘crisis’? The first cases of coronavirus infections were announced in Bulgaria in the spring of 2020. Here, as in many other countries, various measures were introduced to prevent the spread of the disease. At the same time, the public received contradictory messages from politicians and medical experts, which led to confusion and uneven levels of risk awareness in Bulgarian society. Our paper is focused on the country’s first quarantined settlements: the town of Bansko (a mountain winter resort) and the village of Panicherevo, Gurkovo region. We aim to explore the perceptions, reactions and coping strategies of the local communities with regard to the pandemic and in particular to the lockdown. The specificities of the two models of interpretation and management of the situation are outlined and compared with the definition of ‘crisis’. Examples of effective coping mechanisms related to the two cases are described. The methodology includes qualitative research methods – field study with interviews, focus group discussions and observation of the behaviour of local communities (conducted in 2021 under conditions of an ongoing national state of emergency), and analysis of official documents and media publications.

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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Death Rite of Kosovo Albanians

Author(s): Vlorë Fetaj-Berisha,Angelina Hamza-Hasanaj / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2022

Death as part of the human life cycle has been in focus since the existence of mankind. The rite of death takes an important place in Albanian culture. Many rituals are performed during the rite of death, based on various magical beliefs and acts. This rite has changed as a consequence of different social, cultural and historical factors. Another factor that has certainly influenced the practice of rituals in the rite of death is the COVID-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, families have been obliged to abide by all the rules set by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kosovo. In this paper, we will deal with several cases of death during the COVID-19 pandemic. In short, we will address (explore) the actions and experiences of family members after the loss of their loved ones. By analysing these cases, we will try to find out how the rules established during the pandemic have affected the practice of rituals, both religious and traditional. How burials took place? By whom? What are the ways family members have used to say their last goodbyes to their loved ones?

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УРБАНОТО ВО МАКЕДОНСКОТО ПОЕТСКО ЖЕНСКО ПИСМО

Author(s): Vinsent Vilchnik / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 29/2024

The subject of this paper is the urban theme in Macedonian contemporary female poetry and Skopje as the main topos of the lyrical subject, in which she moves, breathes, creates and lives. The analysis of a certain corpus of poetry with an urban theme seeks the answer to the questions of what spirit of the city the analyzed poetesses convey with their urban poetry, what is the dynamic between the lyrical subject (female) and the urban topos of Skopje. In order to create a general picture of this, the poetry of several contemporary Macedonian poetesses was analyzed: D.A. Lori, Snezhana Stojchevska, Iva Damjanovski, Juliana Velichkovska, Biljana Stojanovska, Ana Golejska, Violeta Tancheva-Zlateva and Ivana Jovanovska, whose city, more specifically Skopje, is their inspiration. From the analysis it can be concluded that the city is really a source of identity, inspiration, impetus for social changes and self-discovery. With all analyzed poets, it is inevitable to note that Skopje is the center, the place where their life takes place. Several general components of the urban in the Macedonian female poetic writings can be highlighted: personification of the city, a certain amount of sarcasm in highlighting social and political, even environmental problems of Skopje, mention of the marginalized ones in society, some peculiar forms of flaneurish wandering and getting lost in the city. When reading the poetry, written in the last two decades, one notices that suddenly new topos appear in the poetry. One finds beauty and touch with oneself in different things: in banal, even sometimes primitive details of city life. Poetry becomes more real, more tangible, poetry becomes life.

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Музеят в хипермодерните времена: основни тенденции в пиар комуникацията

Author(s): Hristina Hristova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 2/2024

The main tendencies and priorities in the strategical and communication management of the museums in the hypermodern times are being examined in the text. In the dynamic context of the epoch, significant changes in the public life related to the triumph of the digital technologies and the transformations in the communications and the marketing are being observed. In the large-scale processes, which comprise the separate industries and draw new perspectives in the development of the organizations from different social fields, the museum as a type of a cultural institution with a rich history, is transformed into an open territory for the new tendencies and successfully implements the tools of the digital PR whose identity is being formed and manifested in the times of the hypermodernity, which came into existence in the last quarter of the ХХ century. In the conditions of increasing competition and the growing interest towards technological innovations, the museums in a worldwide scale, apply new approaches in the communication with their diverse audience and constantly widen their integrative potential. The study is based on the theoretical formulation of the French philosopher and sociologist Gilles Lipovetsky about the hypermodern and hyperconsumerist society.

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Eureka! Pocket guide to creativity

Author(s): Martin Engler / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2024

Review of: Jelinek, M. (2024). Eureka! Pocket guide to creativity. Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design in Prague.

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Routledge handbook of esports

Author(s): Mária Koscelníková / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2024

Review of: Jenny, S. E., Besombes, N., Brock, T., Cote, A. C., & Scholz, T. M. (Eds.). (2025). Routledge handbook of esports. Routledge.

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From “Homo Spieldens” by Fröbel to “Homo Ludens” by Huizinga: The Foundations of Human Development and Culture through Play

Author(s): Kevin Rebecchi / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2024

Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel, the founder of the kindergarten system, is a pivotal figure in understanding the role of play in human development and culture. His innovative approach to education, emphasizing the importance of play and its intrinsic connection to language and creativity, laid the groundwork for modern educational theories and practices.

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Не другата буза, или предпочитаният отговор в словесния конфликт

Author(s): Angelina Tatareva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2024

The general idea of the study is to outline the nature and the linguistic realisation of preferred responses in conflictual verbal interaction. The phenomenon is considered through the prism of conversation analysis and specifically, in the light of basic parameters such as sequence organisation of talk, adjacency pairs, preference structure, etc. The observations are based on selected empirical material from the Bulgarian television broadcasting: communicative situations, part of a well-known show in a reality format, containing open confrontation between a guest and a host, marked at speech level in their turn exchange. The aim is to identify diverse adjacency pairs at key moments and phases of clash development and to describe the corresponding type of preference structure. A supporting thesis is that dispreferred responses in ordinary, harmonious communication seem to be preferred in the context of verbal confrontation. The results of the work are applicable in the fields of communicology, oral dialogic discourse analysis, and conflictology.

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Ролята на институциите на паметта (библиотеки, читалища, архиви и музеи) в процеса на изграждане на културни идентичности през ХХI век

Author(s): Viktor Kostadinov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2024

The aim of this text is to present the role of cultural institutes such as libraries, community centres, archives, and museums in the process of generating, preserving, and popularising identities. The object of the research focuses on the process of identity formation in the XXI century, with the main emphasis being placed on cultural ones. By means of a parallel between the approaches of instrumentalism applicable in the formation of ethnic identity and the techniques used by the four types of memory institutions in the construction of its cultural variety, the key role of the latter in this process is highlighted, which is also the main subject of the study. In addition to the pedagogical functions of the four types of institutions necessary for the formation of identities, their membership in international organisations and the cooperation carried out within these through various initiatives are also examined. An interdisciplinary approach was used to write this article.

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The Educational Role of the Academic Library

Author(s): Yana Doneva,Vyara P. Angelova / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

The dynamic flow of information and rapidly developing technologies have a significant impact on today's knowledge society. Following the trends in technology and user behavior, libraries as part of this community are also changing. They are transforming the way they gather information, their architectural environment, and the services they offer. Thus, from guardians of knowledge, they are becoming centers of learning. Their passivity remains in the past and they are on the path of active communication with readers, combined with digitization. The subject of the article is the academic library of the University of Economics - Varna, and the topic of research is the direction of transition as a result of the changing environment. The aim is to trace the opportunities and services that the institution provides to its readers and the prospects for development.

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