Olvasni a szöveget, érteni a közeget

Author(s): Zsófia Ivanics / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 28/2021

A kritikai pedagógia olvasatában a tanítás és tanulás szükségszerűen politikai tett, aminek elsődleges célja, hogy egy igazságosabb és egyenlőbb társadalom létrejöttéhez járuljon hozzá. Ennek a hozzájárulásnak a mikéntje azonban számos kérdést vet fel a pedagógiai gyakorlat szempontjából. A vonatkozó irodalom ritkán beszél módszerekről, vagy technikákról, mivel alaptételének tekinti, hogy a társadalmi viszonyok és a pedagógiai gyakorlatok szoros egysége miatt a módszer soha nem lehet állandó. Emiatt jellemzően nem egyszerű praktikus kapaszkodókat találni sem a módszerek kidolgozásához, sem pedig a pedagógiai gyakorlatok újraértelmezéséhez. Ez az írás elsősorban a gyakorlati tapasztalatok megosztásának és a saját pedagógiai gyakorlatok kritikus vizsgálatának szükségessége mellett érvel, hiszen ez az, ami leginkább elősegítheti, hogy a kritikai pedagógiában központi szerepet betöltő reflexió ne csak az elméleti alapok absztrakt szinten történő megújítását célozza, hanem egyben az érdemi párbeszédet és tanulási folyamatot is lehetővé tegye.

Kritikai pedagógiák – Megközelítések és viták

Author(s): György Mészáros / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 28/2021

This article aims to present and analyse the various scientific approaches and debates of critical pedagogy. The paper offers a theoretical overview and analysis of the different trends; it also integrates the experiences gained in the International Conference on Critical Education. The term “critical pedagogy”; itself has become a term and label taken by very different approaches. Thus, it may be better to talk about critical pedagogies in the plural. In its historical and social context, the article attempts to present the critical pedagogy that has emerged primarily in the United States in the dialogue with postmodernism, as well as its criticisms, especially the Marxist- oriented authors, many of whom are not from the USA. In particular, the Critical Education Conference has become a significant forum for the latter actors over the last decade. From the related experience, a live community of practice seems to emerge. The history of this group and the debates of the different approaches carry lessons for the Hungarian context, too. The final chapter of the study raises questions related to this Hungarian reception of critical pedagogies. The article only undertakes an outline of the various trends without a more profound analysis or a detailed introduction to critical pedagogy(s). Its text presupposes knowledge of the main concepts of previous studies or critical pedagogy in general and a broader view of critical social sciences. Each author’s insights are briefly displayed, and the bibliography allows the interested reader to look into them more deeply.

The Practical Importance of Accounting Education for Future Managers

Author(s): Nataliia Radionova,Radostina Stoyanova / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2021

There is an opinion that accounting is a work on the chronological processing of the data of business transactions that have already occurred at the enterprise. Many applicants are not interested in the accounting profession, considering it narrowly focused, boring, and unprestigious. Although, graduates of accounting specialties have applied knowledge and the ability to implement them in their specialty, as accounting is required by all business entities, without exception, from an individual entrepreneur to transnational corporations. Knowledge and skills in accounting disciplines allow graduates to choose a large number of specialties from an accountant to a financial director or an auditor. Thus, the subject of them research is a set of theoretical and methodological issues regarding the importance of accounting knowledge for managers of various levels of enterprise administration. The purpose of the article is a theoretical justification of the methodological aspects of the importance of acquiring accounting competencies by managers of enterprises.

Индивидуални компетенции на преподавателите в процеса на дигитализация във висшето образование

Author(s): Milena Filipova,Radostina Yuleva-Chuchulayna / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2021

In the process of digitalization and the change of education in almost digital, the professional training of teachers in higher schools is of particular relevance, determined with social and pedagogical importance. This includes a set of a number of individual competences that educators need to possess and develop. The changes in the technologies and economic situation of Bulgaria set new requirements in terms of the skills and individual competencies of the teachers. The purpose of modern higher education is to take into account the current and future needs of the student, as well as to prepare a multi developed person capable of social adaptation in society for the beginning of professional realization and self-improvement. The main objective of this development is to develop a model of the individual competencies of higher education teachers in the digitalization process. The main research methods used in the development are contingent analysis, method of analysis and synthesis, intuitive and systematic approach.

Онлайн обучението във висшето образование: алтернатива по време на COVID-19. Силни и слаби страни

Author(s): Veselina Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2021

The article describes online learning against the background of theCOVID-19 pandemic in the Bulgarian context of higher education and the challenges faced by university professors during this period and examines their readiness for online learning. The strengths and weaknesses of online learning are considered, as well as the opportunities of higher education to respond to educational problems arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Качество на училищното образование – измерване и значимост

Author(s): Albena Vutsova,Antoniya Baltova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2021

For the past few decades, extensive research has been performed on the factors that determine economic growth. Theories vary in terms of classification, underlying concepts, and methodology of assessing those factors. However, all of them suggest that quality of education plays a key role in sustaining long-term economic progress. Тhis article focuses on the importance of measuring the education quality. It outlines certain indicators and methods of assessing student achievements which at the same time could serve as a measure of quality of education. It also examines the effectiveness of these parameters to provide a full and objective quality assessment of a country’s education system. A review upon bench marking of basic quality indicators of EU countries has been provided as well. The article sets apart the quality of the Bulgarian educational system and proposes measures for its effectiveness.

Аспекти на медийното образование в България

Author(s): Katya Stoyanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2021

The paper considers media education and its importance for the Bulgarian education system. It presents some aspects in the practical application of the scientific discipline Media Pedagogy, as well as the communication process, on which it is implemented. The thesis outlines some main goals, perspectives, and challenges in the context of the digital society, and the development of media culture. Media education promises to become an important factor in the creation of new forms of teaching and communication within and outside the educational system in the XXI century.

За образователната интеграция и залозите на настоящето

Author(s): Gergana Dyankova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2021

„Хората сигурно са полудели“ – за липсата на качествено време, прекарано между съвременните родители и техните деца

Author(s): Svetoslava Saeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2021

The paper deals with the issue of parents giving up their duties towards their children. The author suggests a model for quality time diagnostics and improvement within a family. The paper is the fourth from a set out of ten papers entitled: “Modern child – Opus magnum”.

Здравно образование за пълноценен живот

Author(s): Aneliya Angelowa / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2021

This article focuses on the importance of the health education. Shown are the essence of health and the essence of health education. Discussed is the importance of school work for the formation of personalities and also the sequence and importance of the activities in forming knowledge for a better life. Accent is also put on preparing students by learning – for taking prompt decisions and forming an attitude towards oneself, others and towards nature.

Основанията на науката в изследванията на руския учен Вячеслав Семьонович Стьопин

Author(s): Nikoleta Mihaleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2021

The focus of the article is a philosophical and methodological reflection of V.S. Styopin on three main components of the foundations of science: ideals and norms of scientific research, the scientific picture of the world and the philosophical foundations of science. Each of them, in turn, has a rather complex internal structure. Therefore, the task of the article is not limited to the development of perceptions of these three "blocks" of foundations, which has been thoroughly achieved by a number of authors, including Styopin, but mainly to what extent these grounds express important values and goals and dimensions of science.

Култура и политики на паметта в Германия - предпоставки и критика

Author(s): Daniela Decheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2021

The paper analyses the contemporary debate about memory culture and memory policy in Germany which are highly valid for Europe as well. They base on the political consensus that the memory of collective crimes committed in the past, especially of the Holocaust, and the honour to the victims, are a basic prerequisite for the protection of human rights. In the second part of the paper different critical views on the conception and practice of memory culture and memory policy in Germany are discussed.

Az elnyomottak pedagógiája

Author(s): Paolo Freire / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 28/2021

Hungarian translation of some sections from Paolo Freire's book, the Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Válaszút a pedagógiában

Author(s): Antonio Gramsci / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 28/2021

Selections of Gramsci's pedagogical writings.

How to Realize Diversity at a Workplace? The Business Model Point of View

Author(s): Joanna Hernik / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2018

Human beings have been moving through the earth globe since the dawn of history, and as a consequence, each community is heterogenic, which means that inhabitants from one place are different from inhabitants from another place not only in terms of gender or age, but also in terms of personal history, education and style of life, etc. Nowadays everyone agrees that the issue of diversity is becoming more and more important, from the point of view of growing migration of people for example. Therefore modern entrepreneurs cannot ignore the presence of diverse clients, as well as diverse employees, and have to adapt their business model to the new circumstances. That is why the purpose of this paper is to show the process of diversity implementation from a business model perspective. This text includes discussion of business models, and indicates main advantages and disadvantages of a diversity management-based model. The article is theoretical in nature.

Is parody dangerous?

Author(s): Sergey Troitskiy / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

This article arose from the scandal which broke out in Russia in 2018, when Ulyanovsk cadets made an amateur video clip parodying the Benny Benassi’s musical video (2003). Soon, this video had more than a million views. But official Russian media sharply reproached the cadets’ performance, and even Russian authorities discussed the video. The Russian Internet community issued a lot of videos in support of the cadets. The reaction of Russian media on the cadets’ parody was mainly strong and not always adequate.I am interested in the reasons behind the fear of parody because,in my opinion, the official discourse had nothing to fear. My analysis is based on the Russian theories of parody and the medieval cultural experience. Can parody be dangerous? Why did the official media overreact?

Book review

Author(s): Alberto Dionigi / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

Polish highlander jokes and their targets

Author(s): Władysław Chłopicki,Dorota Brzozowska / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2017

The aim of the paper is to identify the characteristic features of jokes about Polish highlanders and analyse them to isolate the comic script of a highlander. This group of jokes is treated as a good illustration of Christie Davies’s ethnic jokes theory concerning canny versus stupid and centre versus periphery oppositions, as well as mind over matter. A particular type of reasoning and the use of regional dialect are distinctive features of the joke targets that make it possible to perceive these jokes as a culturally specific phenomenon. The head shepherd (called baca) is the key character of the cycle. He is a very down-to-earth person, who is proud of his practical wisdom and has a very relaxed attitude to life—a wise fool in some jokes, thus even resembling Good Soldier Švejk in some respects. His lifestyle is usually contrasted with that of ceper—a town dweller, coming to the highlands as a tourist—treated as a kind of intruder who asks stupid questions and does not know how to appreciate life and what really matters in it. The jokes about highlanders are analysed within the paradigm of General Theory of Verbal Humour, and particularly its reasoning and reversal Logical Mechanisms. Even though Christie Davies treated the Logical Mechanism with some scepticism, claiming it is of no use in the GTVH (Davies 2004, 2011b), he would not probably mind the logic of highlanders’ utterances and behaviour being analysed. We believe he may even have enjoyed that.

Effect of Applying Case Method to Anti-Corruption Education on Learning Motivation and Learning Effectiveness

Author(s): Cheng-Hsun Huang,Luke H.C. Hsiao,Shin-Lin Ko / Language(s): English Issue: 73/2021

Corruption does not simply occur in developing countries, but is often heard in developed countries. Several domestic government officials and enterprise executives involving in corruption in past years reveals that the corruption style is different from public employees with public power changing money with power in the past, and the method of operation is updating to challenge the case handling ability of prosecutors. Corruption prevention refers to developing the functions of deterrence and warning through related procedures and systems. Anti-corruption, on the other hand, induces public awareness of anti-corruption through education and promotion to have people realize the badness of corruption and appeal citizens to collaboratively strike corruption and shape the complete anti-corruption network. With experimental design model to precede the quasi-experimental study, total 202 college students in central and southern Taiwan, as the research subjects, are preceded the 16-week (3 hours per week for total 48 hours) anti-corruption education with case method. The research results show that case method would affect learning motivation, case method would affect learning effectiveness, learning motivation presents significantly positive effects on learning effect in learning effectiveness, and learning motivation reveals remarkably positive effects on positive gain in learning effectiveness. According to the results to propose suggestions, it is expected to deliver certain social value and concept to the public and that the civil society, from bottom-up, could play the role for supervision and accountability, stress on the seriousness and destruction of the negative effect of corruption on the nation and society, and further cultivate the social value to affirm integrity but despise corruption so that people genuinely anticipate integrity.

Commentary piece:

Author(s): Edyta Koncewicz-Dziduch / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

Ethnic jokes are a form of comical narration extremely widespread throughout the social life of various nations. They generally centre on neighbouring nations and reveal a positive assessment of one's own ethnic group, usually negatively evaluating other nations. The subject of the analysis is jokes about Montenegrins, who are known in the Balkans for their laziness and slow lifestyle. However, they are able to transform this unfair stereotype into an advantage, a cultural identifier, which is reflected in popular culture, numerous jokes and tourist promotion of the country.