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The transition to the use of new information technology means is a characteristic feature of the modern general education and higher school. The programs of informatization are being implemented and the means of education informatization are being developed in the educational process of the educational institutions of Tatarstan within the framework of the priority national project "Education". Modern educational standards also pay special attention to the need of competence development in the use of information an...

Exhibition business today performs many functions: with the help of exhibitions, an information field is formed, intensification of business communications is provided, jobs are created, and, what is especially important, contributes to the acceleration of innovative processes and the introduction of innovative solutions. The article deals with the development of innovation policy in the field of education and science, modernization of industry. Today, in the development of any business process, it is increasingly...

Online education has become a widespread phenomenon, the dynamic development of which contributes to global educated community formation. The paper reviews changes in educational paradigm that took place in the last decades. These changes concern role of online learning in the present-day society and technologies used for its implementation. Online language learning requires special methodological and technological solutions. The concept of online learning for the Arabic language is fundamentally different from th...

This paper deals with the topic of selected social determinants and their influence on the choice of leisure-time activities. Our intention is to present the results of own research which was carried out in the form of a questionnaire survey in 2016. One of its main objectives was to find out whether the selected social determinants (gender, age, education, fathers and mothers education and employment status) have the influence on choice of leisure-time activities within different types of social groups. For this ...

The problematic of national identity and his affirmation is from a long time an open chapter in the definition of the concept of education from Romania. It had been discussed if the national identity can be defined outside the elements of religious identity and if this issue contradicts or not the perspective of unity on the characteristic of religious diversity. Overall, the national and religious identity is necessary insofar that generates commune values and omens new opportunities of social interaction. Theref...

The study and research of extremism is extremely topical. Extremism touches every country. Increasingly, it also appears between intelligent populations or directly at universities. This theme deserves its space because it is Europe's modern geopolitical problem. The article consists of two parts. One part is theoretical and the other part is practical. The theoretical part was devoted to classical definitions such as: extremism, radicalism, but also political extremism and the resulting right-wing extremism and l...

Teachers as a massive professional social group providing services in the public interest are the subject of educational policies at both European and national levels. These educational policies show a high level of diversity and identify optimal systemic intervention tools to support the professional development of teachers. Educational policies in Slovakia show specific approaches toward teachers arising from school-historical, political and vocational origins. Analysis of these aspects and their impact on the c...

Speech, language and music have much in common. Training in listening affects the perception and recognition of speech and language prosodic properties. Prosodic features of the second language learnt can be very well implemented through music. There are numerous ways in which music can be integrated in the process of the second language teaching. The presented study investigated the issue of the impact of music in the process of teaching the second language to learners of different age levels in the Czech Republi...

In everyday life we can often encounter the terms education and upbringing. These terms may seem to be simple as we use them practically in everyday communication. We bring up our own children, we influence the children of our acquaintances or we set an example for wide surroundings. However, can we really say that these terms are understood by everyone? Who performs such activity professionally? Are qualifications needed for the performance of work connected with education and upbringing? If they are what kind of...

This article is a reflection of civil defence education as one of basic element of education. The research focuses on the period 1938 – 1951; period between the time before World War II burst out and the time of political changes in the Czechoslovakia. The aim of the research is to explore the basic approaches to the implementation of education in relation to civil defence education in Czechoslovakia. The comparative historical analysis is utilized as the research method on the subject of civil defence education. ...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) play an important role in the development of modern Russian society. Their fast development together with the convergence of computer systems with different types of communications resulted in the need to reevaluate the perception of these technologies in the spiritual sphere of a human being. This paper analyses the implementation of information and communication technologies into the spiritual sphere of the Russian society. Based on the analysis of statistical and...

The teaching and ethical competences represent the most important aims of university programs for preschool and primary education teachers. Introductory knowledge in ethical theories is based on students` arguing and on interactive activities. Students analyze ethical principles, design case-studies to illustrate these principles or judge behaviors that violate them. Students are involved in cooperative activities of building the teacher`s ethical profile or in analyzing the main provisions of the Education Law. T...

Globalization, information technologies and presence of media in everyday life have shaped modern society. Not only does media content and information become available to everyone, but also everyone gets the opportunity to create media content. Due to the presence of media and vast amount of information in the 21st century, it is necessary to acquire specific skills considered as media literacy. Media literacy considers ability to access media and media content, to analyse media content and to communicate in a var...

This paper analyzes the relationship between knowledge, education focused on competences and education for entrepreneurship as an imperative of an individual, social, and economic progress. By way of analyzing strategic national documents which pertain to the entrepreneurial competence within the educational system of the Republic of Croatia, the theoretical approach opens up possibilities of a more complete overview of the relations in which education and man should take center stage in the postmodern and postind...

Mankind is currently experiencing one of the serious crises, whose symptoms can be characterized by various attributes, such as post-factual time, migration crisis, confidence in public policy and democracy, information explosion, etc. Part of the process is the emphasis on economic growth, profit growth, consumption growth, preference for technical education, education appropriate to the needs of the labor market and directly supporting the economic growth of the countryside and the consumption of its inhabitants...

This article aims to demonstrate how career counsellors perceive discrepancies between requirements of the labour market and education of job seekers. We delivera closer perspective of view of a young and employed people on the labour market as well as the requirement that employers have on job seekers. Young graduates are disadvantages by the lack of work experience. Employees often prefer people with larger work experience although they may have lower qualifications as well as job seekers who speak some foreign ...

Education of young people through a quality education system and in line with the requirements of the time is the main goal for each country, especially for developing countries. In the case of Kosovo characterized by the young population and at the same time with a low degree of development economy, the creation of a quality education system should be a top priority. The theoretical part of the paper deals with the advantages and weaknesses of the public and private system in secondary schools as well as the opin...

There has been a trend towards the destruction of semantic unity between the past, present and future generating significant gaps in social memory of the people in the XXI century. The pace of sociocultural changes become extremely high. All these challenges relate to the process of globalization, strengthening of mass communications unification and unpredictable consequences of modernization projects. Challenges of modern situation demand a participation of new specialists in educational process who have interdis...

At the beginning of the third millennium, rural areas are still representing the home for more than 45% of the world’s population. Despite the lacks of a clear definition for rural space, there are sufficient classifications and approaches which can give an almost clear image of the rural areas importance and dynamics. IPCC reports do not approach rural space as a distinct element of human society but many rural space components are approached from specific viewpoints and through specific disciplines. Relevant fin...

At present, the patients' safety is the key parameter of quality of health care provided. Falls of hospitalized patients constitute the most frequently reported accidents in health care facilities. A fall may occur for different reasons, e.g. due to weakness or balance disorder, sudden change of health condition, sight disorder, effects of medicines, slipping due to unsuitable shoes, disorientation in unknown environment. The prevention of falls constitutes the base of nursing care for a fall-endangered patient. E...

Topicality. The visualization of scientific inquiry became already a specific but recognized and independent from the scientific rules - art. For medicine the visualization is still a technical tool to adjust the professional routine procedure, especially for surgery. Could we find the sense of the beauty in the case of bloody surgery invasion? If not, what is the purpose to make a video registration of the surgery invasion and to organize a competition between films in the frame of Surgery Conferences? The aim is...

Introduction: Adverse factors in occupational exposure of healthcare workers are bringing risk and health threats in mental and somatic symptoms of health care workers, including the burnout syndrome. The aim of the paper is to evaluate psychological risk, focusing on the stress and psychological burden of health care workers. Material and methods. Cross-sectional study was based on the form of structured anonymous questionnaires evaluating the amount of psychological burden of healthcare staff, according to the c...

The current age is characterized by the leadership of professional as well as layman discussions about the nature and importance of education, about its quality and direction as one of the most important premises for the creation of a knowledge society. Issues related to raising the level and quality of university education are gradually coming to the forefront. Regarding this, it is important to emphasize that the main purpose of university education is to increase the knowledge, cultural, scientific, technical a...

The article characterizes the post-perestroika period, which, trying to materialize its life to the detriment of spirituality, has lost the basis of traditional concepts of the people. The stratification of society into the poor and the rich, the blocking of Russia by Western countries, children's films about violence, cruelty, otherworldly forces of darkness, deaden the origins of spirituality. Many peoples of Russia and Eurasia, in an effort to preserve their native culture, began a policy of indigenization agai...

The article is devoted to the study of the actual interrelations of education, mobility (primarily tourism) and city development. This article is not about the mobility of low-skilled labor migrants, but about the part of the population wishing to get a better education before they start looking for a place to apply their labor. The desire to receive quality education, new knowledge, and constant (lifelong) learning is one of the striking features of the post-industrial economy. Knowledge, as the main commodity of...

The paper examines the issue of “two cultures” (natural science and humanities) in relation to the realities of contemporary education. The peculiarities of the humanities rationale are analyzed. The authors demonstrate that educational practices are based on incorrect assumptions regarding the correspondence between intellect and affect, the non-critical perception of which promotes an undesirable dissent between the two above mentioned cultures. The historical origins of the entrenchment of such assumptions are ...

Research and studies of literature focused on prevention of cardiovascular diseases and didactic approach in education have led our project team to develop a program for group preventive activities. The program is aimed at familiarizing the clients with influence able factors causing cardiovascular diseases and at leading the clients towards healthy life style at theoretical and practical level. To meet one of the aim of the research project there was physiotherapist, nutritionist and psycholog also involved in th...

Information and Communication Technologies are one of the basic educations of areas in the Framework Educational Programme for Basic Education to enable students to acquire a basic level of information literacy. The aim is to equip students with elementary skills in operating of computer equipment and modern information and communication technologies, but also to navigate in the world of information, creatively work with information and use them in further education and in practical life [1]. In the framework curr...

The formation of independent Kazakhstan after the collapse of the USSR (1991) led to a change in the language situation, the formation of language policy and language construction. The most urgent topics in society were the questions of the revival of the vitality of the state - Kazakh language, the narrowing of the spheres of functioning of the Russian language, the transition from Cyrillic to Latin. A large number of scientific articles analyzing the language situation of Soviet Kazakhstan and post-Soviet Kazakh...

Immersion in a language environment is a method developed to teach people in a second language that assumes that the language being studied is used just for educational purposes. Immersion education is not only suitable for most students but may also be the only opportunity for some students to learn a foreign language. In some cases, when a student lags behind in development and cognitively, termination of an immersion program is beneficial to the student. Deciding which way one or another student should go is up...

The majority of information has a spatial context that can be represented in the map. For some kinds of users, the map is not only the possibility but also the necessity. In such cases it is highly important that presented information is correctly understood by the target group of users. Among these belong people with visual impairments, for which, however, the conventional map is insufficient. The number of visually impaired people increases every year and to their full-fledged integration into society is devoted...

The subject of the paper is the training of sales managers. Sales managers represent an important category of employees in terms of meeting company’s goals and achieving the required performance. The paper presents the results of the research carried out on a sample of Slovak companies. The aim of the research was to find out the current situation in the use of the selected methods of sales managers training in Slovak companies and to test statistically significant differences in the use of these methods in terms ...

The article proposes a methodological approach to forecasting the staffing needs of the innovative economy which makes a provision for creating strategic long-term and mid-term forecasts and their annual adjustment at the operating level. The decomposition by the types of forecasts for such characteristics as level of regulation, purpose, key definitions, methods and approaches, factors, types of information, tools for providing staffing needs at each level has been carried out; the main results are presented. Mod...

The purpose of the study is to determine the essential features of the concept "teaching method" and to give its correct definitions. The materials of the study are definitions of this concept in didactic and methodological texts. The methods of the study are conceptual analysis, terminological analysis, and logical analysis of this concept. Results of the study are the following: 1) most of the existing definitions of the concept "teaching method" do not contain its essential features; 2) scientific definitions o...

The end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century has been a period of rapid development of digital technology, which is a base for everyday functioning of the society based on knowledge. The growing importance of information caused rapid development of technologies facilitating and accelerating exchange of information, so called communicators. A new space for sharing knowledge and information has been created by the network of information and communication tools, which is now called cyberspace. It is simu...

For some kinds of users, the map is not only the possibility but also the necessity; among these belong people with visual impairments, for which, however, the conventional map is insufficient. The tactile cartography is a part of cartographic science that deals with the creation of maps, plans, globes and other geovisualization products specially made for the perception by touch. Tactile cartography has to significantly simplify the presented reality with regard to the possibility of recognizing symbols on the ma...

The paper is involved in the discussion on the educational meaning of rock narratives. It presents research results aimed at understanding pedagogy students’ approaches to rock narratives considered by them to be educationally meaningful. The qualitative research strategy, including both the hermeneutic method and descriptive-interpretive analyses, was employed to realise the aim of the paper. Essentially, the goal of the qualitative method is enable one to explore, extend and gain a deeper understanding of the mu...

Educational aspect of human capital is the main value of the economy of the 21st century. The global competition between economically active people with professional competencies has not ever been as acute as it is now. The competitiveness is growing along with the technological development. The global educational objective is to create the economic growth model based on the cooperation of the state, business and society by developing human capital. A student’s awareness of his role in the national economy via edu...

The problems associated with the transition of the Kazakh state from Cyrillic to Latin, especially in 2017-2018 are of concern to many people. The discussion was attended not only by specialists, linguists, but also political scientists and, of course, "natural linguists" – citizens of some post-soviet countries. Among the different opinions there are very provocative. Some people, including those who identify themselves with the educated elite, still retain an oriental, arrogantly condescending attitude toward th...

At different historical stages education played various roles in society. If initially it was understood as a way of transferring knowledge from one generation to another, then eventually its functions became more complicated. For a few centuries education was closely connected with economic factors, that is it was focused on economic needs of the states of Modern times. The 20th century with all evidence has shown a qualitatively new function of education – political. Certainly, the economic component continues t...

The study is an analysis of the literature on the subject in the area of aspects of the transition of a young person from education to the labour market and the related implications for shaping the professional identity. The subject of reflection will also be the professional activity of young people, with particular emphasis on the dynamics and directions of changes on the labour market. A special role in preparing a young person for the transition process may and should be played by career counselling, which in ...

Introduction: Tobacco smoke and second-hand smoking exposure, at home or in school during childhood and adolescence, increases the risk of respiratory illness. Youth smoking is mostly associated with parents, and their smoking behavior. Also, there are other influences: social environment, targeted advertising, easy access to cigarette products, no control over age limit in purchasing cigarettes, lack of knowledge about the effects of smoking. Material and method: To evaluate the influence of the environment, soci...

The aim of this study is to justify a classification of the Italian Renaissance paintings based on aspects of the educating function of linear perspective. The importance of the problem is in unrealized educating potential of linear perspective in the field of publication activity. Researchers mostly examine the mathematical aspect of linear perspective as the artist’s tool for modeling the three-dimensional world in two-dimensional pictorial art forms. However, reducing linear perspective to a technical device ca...