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capacity of technological communication, we witness the show of a social life jammed with contradictions, in which community civilisation are unable to find communication bridges. Knowledge and respect of heritage values of a community, lead to a deeper understanding of the complexity of the world we live in, of the mutual influences and conditioning in the social, economic, political and cultural life. Choir singing is one of the most straightforward and accessible methods of human and social communication, due t...

The article is devoted to the issues of mastering project and research competencies as the main result of university education. The article contains the description of the experiment, the main experiment results are presented, the meta-subject orientation of university education is justified. The authors present the specific education tools aimed at the stated goal achievement, the ways of educational assignment design, the types of tasks for students’ self-study work, the techniques of student involvement into th...

One of the important sources of knowledge of the student teacher is not only the theoretical knowledge acquired in the theoretical preparation, but also the practical experience gained during practices. This practical student experience is used when educating without realizing it. Part of the knowledge has a hidden, tacit character. The definition of tacit knowledge is "tacit knowledge is capable of developing, initially not realised or less realised prerequisite to structuring the experience of the students or te...

The paper discusses effective forms of in-class and out-of-class work from the students’ and teacher’s perspectives. The research is based on the author’s 9 years personal experience of teaching literature at the Faculty of Foreign Languages (Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Russia). Methods of research include personal observation, quantitative and qualitative analyses as well as chi-square test employed to interpret questionnaire survey of students’ needs and opinions on effective forms of organizing in...

The curriculum of training interpreters for special settings at a higher education institution includes primarily the development of foreign language skills and competences. As such interpreting is realized in such domains as medicine, law, education etc. interpreters-to-be should be aware and study the peculiar features of the setting implied for interpreting. Content and language integrated learning approach should be realized. Court interpreters are supposed to know different aspects of law domain and specific ...

The paper deals with the issue of the contribution of the education system in Slovakia in terms of its functioning and financing. Slovak Republic has undergone since 1989 a complex process of transformation that has touched almost every component of society. Important role in this regard has played a topic of education, which took place several changes. First, the central management has been translated into the creation of authorities in the system, but which is struggling with several problems. The aim of our pap...

In the last decades the focus of linguistic research has been significantly moved from the study of the language as the so-called “self-contained” system to applying it as a tool of investigating the whole world. Understanding the real meanings of certain linguistic phenomena often leads to gaining the insights of what speakers’ attitudes, connections and associations stand behind them. In this paper, we focus on applying the cognitive linguistics notions to allusive epithets in literary discourse based on the nov...

The paper describes the results of a research study focusing on the perception of personal computer by university students in the Czech Republic and Poland. The objective was to find out whether they use it more as a learning instrument or leisure instrument and how often and how long they use it for these individual activities. The research methods were questionnaire and an optimised version of the ATER semantic differential. The research study was performed in autumn of 2014 and involved students from the Facult...

We aim to present some of our research findings interpreting the education of Roma children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds in the Czech Republic. Namely, we employed Foucault’s (critical) discursive analysis, discursive psychology and conversational analysis. We focused primarily on authors of articles (on education of Roma) in journals for teachers. We aim to explain our research findings within the context of power discourse and blended institutional structures.

Youth and old age are very important stages of human life, which are different but which should be perceived to be of equal value. The research conducted in the Czech Republic indicates that the largest intergenerational gap lies between the young generation and the older population. This gap has continuously been widening, especially in connection with the entirely different ways of life of these two generations. The Czech society has not yet desisted from various negative prejudices and claims concerning seniors...

Children’s education, and, by extension, the education of the young, represents a permanently topical problem in an age of conflicts and overturning of the value axis. For this reason, old pedagogical principles and elements are being made actual again, preserving their content, verified through the experience of many generations. Such an element is also the inner silence, acquired through prayer, and which represents a spiritual state specific of the Christian way of living and, consequently, an element specific ...

This paper draws on our work as associate assistant with the 2nd year students at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania and its extension in Balti, The Republic of Moldova. During the Business English seminars, among other activities, we integrated translation exercises from English to Romanian and vice versa to develop our intermediate students’ productive and receptive skills in a communicative language teaching environment. Our main aim was to dist...

cational space carry out the research of continuous training of teachers. To this end, a number of directions of experimental work are implemented: formation of psychologi-cal and psychodiagnostic culture of the teacher, formation of the creative person of the teacher, formation of teacher's professionalism. The article presents experimental data on the implementation of the system of formation of professionalism at the stage of university training and in the work with the teachers at school. Experimental data pro...

The issue of health and safety at work and methods of risk prevention is one of the teaching subjects in schools preparing students for the job and further education of adults. The main aim of discipline Dangerous materials and processes is to obtain information about the hazardous substances and protection and prevention requirements necessary to achieve while handling them. Purpose of this paper is to emphasize the importance of occupational health and safety education as a form of prevention against accidents a...

The article considers the role of expert activity in modern society. It shows that the expert activity becomes significant form of social activity, and in this context the process of its institutionalization, that is gathering pace now and involving the formation of normative, institutional and professional forms of its implementation is studied in detail. This process is very similar to the process of institutionalization of scientific activity, which had a place at the end of the 19th century.

The article is concerned with the problem of adult people education where the behavioral habits transformation is involved. It produces participants’ resistance and may lead to low efficiency of education especially in some time after the educational course was finished. The mediation training course is an adequate object for survey of such problem, because of mediator’ need in neutrality and non-coercive approach to dealing with disputing parties’ disagreements content. Such model of behavior is very different of...

Cyber extremism takes a special place among all asocial acts in the virtual environment. The young adults are sensitive and defenseless to forcible and violent ideas and notions of extremism, xenophobia, intolerance and terroristic radicalization. Preventive measures of keeping/saving young adults from cyber extremism must be taken even in secondary schools. Thus, teachers should be competent in cyber extremism preventive measures, they should be instructed how to resist and stop the spreading of this violent ideo...

Numerous researches have demonstrated the enormous role of teachers in achievements of students. Educated and motivated teacher that cares about the success of students devotes more effort to preparing the lesson and thus provides the students better conditions for achieving results. The problem occurs when teachers are not equally qualified, motivated and prepared so it is justified to ask why some people even opt for the teaching profession if they have no motivation for this noble profession. The purpose of thi...

This study is part of a complex research about the quality of life and aims to obtain information about most preferred activities in their spare time, on how much time students allocate for practicing physical activities and what motivates them chose to have an active life-style instead of a sedentary one. The methodology used in this study is an instrument we’ve developed, a 21 item questionnaire with 6 questions with open answers and 15 questions with closed answers (having 4 response options). The results obtai...

Motivation is a thing that can increase students’ determination and interest in language learning. Working in non-native environment, but bearing in mind that our task is teaching a foreign language, we see some important goals of motivation in: • Fulfilling university requirements • Improving one’s education • Improving critical and creative thinking skills • Increasing job opportunities and salary potential • Increasing global understanding, etc. A teacher should put a strong focus on the student’s motives to be...

Application of modern information and computer technologies in the educational activity has become in the standard practice. Many educational institutions have developed and apply in the learning process electronic libraries. International educational platforms are established and functioning. Knowledge of students is checked with the help of computer-based testing. But despite achievements of technological character, we can point to some serious problems, that are produced by a wide spread of e-learning systems i...

The link between American accredited universities in non-English speaking contexts and the creation of traditionally staffed writing centers is examined in relation to enhancing student engagement. Although writing centers have become fairly commonplace as any other ‘academic’ subject at many universities in the US, there seems to be a deficit in writing center provision at universities outside of the Anglophone context. Research suggests that students are unaware of their need for writing assistance at universiti...

The paper explores the application of corpus linguistics in language teaching and introduces the results of a pilot educational research project aimed at the evaluation of Russian university students’ attitudes to the use of a corpus-based set of classroom activities to study English pronunciation. The corpus-based approach exemplifies data driven learning, it generates learner autonomy by training students to draw their own conclusions about language use. Two of the most challenging topics in practical phonetics ...

The value of the higher education, its availability and prospects of development is one of serious problems of modern society. A number of research works show that education stops being the channel of social mobility. In particular, the higher education in modern society gradually becomes the instrument of reproduction of a social inequality. Besides, this process is followed by transformation of system of values of people deprived of access to a quality higher education. This results in the growth of “ressentimen...

Teaching experiment is the benchmark of understanding the credibility of the surrounding world therefore there is a need to provide optimal conditions for carrying it out. This experiment requires new modern means and methods that will develop and enrich methodology and teaching practice. The analysis of employment of the existing means and methods displays the underdevelopment of topics of experimental studies, low technical capacity of laboratories, and insufficient use of the opportunities of modern training re...

Creation and development of functional reading literacy is presently a actual topic. The ambition of this paper is to highlight the current situation in reading literacy in the Slovak environment. The starting point of thinking are the results of the international survey under the Program for International Student Assessment, in which our students achieve below average. The author is looking for possible solutions to given problems, highlights the need to develop reading competencies in civics. The objectives of t...

Pupil evaluation is an expression of teacher professional competence and thus becomes an important topic in preparatory teacher education. However, students? pedagogical thinking is influenced by the real situation in schools where pedagogical training takes place. The key person is the faculty teacher trainer who - in the role of a mentor - supports the implementation of theory into practice. In the presented essay the authors outline the similarities and differences between the theoretical and practical approach...

The paper focuses on the significance and need to develop critical thinking in the educational process on the basis of the documents and recommendations of the Slovak government and of the Ministry of Education as well as on practical experience. The contribution assumes that the repetition of facts and information does not mean their comprehension. Information is processed only if a learner is able to explain, connect and use the acquired knowledge. The paper presents several methods of critical thinking applied ...

Modality in scientific texts has been investigated from various angles and has been found to be indicative of stance and dependent on various factors, such as discipline, culture and context. Cross disciplinary studies point out that, in English, the epistemic use of modals in scientific texts exceeds the deontic use, given the communicative purposes of such texts, i.e. the production and transfer of knowledge. The present paper explores the use of modal verbs in a corpus of scientific texts on Economics written i...

The aim of the study is to identify the factors that act as facilitators and inhibitors in the inclusion of students with disabilities in secondary schools. Mainstreaming of disability can be defined as the systematic integration of the priorities and needs of persons with disabilities in all areas of life with a view to promoting equal opportunities. The current trend in Czech Republic proceeds further from integration towards inclusion. The idea of inclusive education is also a part of the declarations and laws ...

The quantitative reduction and qualitative deterioration of business ideas and projects carried out through business incubators (BI) affiliated with higher educational institutions leads to a need in strategic endeavors encouraging improvement in the quality of projects, promoting quick formation of professional project teams, and increasing the number of business projects incubated on innovative grounds. In order to solve this problem, we suggest defining and forming a new development strategy for business incuba...

Higher education takes on an increasingly international dimension, as more and more higher education institutions enroll students from third countries, create the opportunities for the exchange of students, staff, projects and knowledge, as well as get involved in international academic and research cooperation. In rising globalization, Lithuania is being increasingly involved in international networks and experiences influence of supranational powers of education. Lithuanian higher education and its legal regulat...

The quality of a training program can be identified both through its process of implementation and later through the actual activity of the trainee. During February-December 2013 the strategic project named “From start to success – national mentorship program for the professional insertion of teachers”, financed by the social European fund, was implemented. The program’s aim was to improve the professional insertion and the activity growth of junior teachers from the secondary education system through the developm...

The article is written as a reply to M. Barber, K. Donnelly and S. Rizvi the researchers of the global educational systems, in response to the question on the ways to improve the education efficiency. One of the ways the authors believe to be the interactive innovational technology of collective teaching method by V. Djachenko. This method the authors find one of the greatest discoveries of the 20th century, since this technology of managing the educational process integrates the teaching and learning processes, w...

In 2008 a curricular reform took place in Slovakia. This reform brought the ISCED 1 curriculum model to Slovak primary schools for the first time. In general, we may say that this reform cancelled the centralized model and established a two-level curriculum model. After seven years, it is clear that neither teachers nor executive workers at primary schools accepted the reform. Many negative responses have appeared calling for the re-establishment of the centralized curriculum model. The goal of this paper is to de...

Implementation of learning organization requires continuous analysis of the current state and the continuous improvement. To be able to analyze the current state, it is necessary to know the criteria by which it is possible to evaluate. The paper describes method of self-assessment organization. First part of the article identifies criteria based on previous studies and literature. Subsequently the evaluation criteria are used in the process of creation of self-assessment method in terms of learning organization.

This paper focuses on the subject of learning patterns in higher education. In a traditional way, learning patterns, styles, strategies, and regulation mechanisms are regarded as stable across time and contexts. Recent research argue the flexibility of learning patterns across contexts, persons, and time. The article proposes the analysis of both approaches based on the results of a study conducted on undergraduate students in regular universities. The research was based on a qualitative approach, blending photovo...

Article will include research of existing best practices of cooperation amongst High Education Institutions (HEIs), Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), science institutions and public. Continued with more recent research findings in project Nordic-Baltic Network for Internationalization of SMEs NOBANET and EKOSOC-LV State Research programme of Latvia, Part 5.2.2. Final findings will also include field research on most appropriate model for successful cooperation to improve education of 21st century entrepreneurs.

This study aims to establish the level of self-esteem at young people who are active and who practice regularly physical activities. The methodology used in this study is an instrument developed in 1965 by the american sociologist Morris Rosenberg, Self-Esteem Scale. This is a ten item scale which reveals information about what people think about their own person, about how satisfied are about themselves, if they think they have qualities that are equally proficient in doing things as well as others or better than...

In the paper we will focus in detail on the field of literacy and its relationship to chosen cognitive theories and models of information processing, which have influenced the reading comprehension since the 50?s to these days. Reading comprehension is a very difficult process that uses analysis and synthesis of various text levels, it has a relational character. There are three basic types of connection that are necessary: connection between the phenomena of objective reality with text elements that refer to thes...

The study is based on a methodology proposed by European Association for Education Law and Policy for their research conducted in 2009 and devoted to commercialization, competition and corruption in European education. In the article, the attempt is made to apply their methods to analyze the competition in Russian educational market which existed before the adoption of new educational legislation which came into force in 2013. The subjects of examination in this article are: competition law in education, free and ...

The paper on the professional self-concept of a pre-service teacher presents the results of the qualitative research into the professional self-concept of students (n=204) at the Faculty of Education at Masaryk University in Brno, the Czech Republic. The research presented is a grounded theory research using a multi-method approach for collecting data. Thus, the free response was proven to be a valid tool for studying professional self-concept. The part of the paper in which the results are presented highlights th...

Background The mean is the instrument used to act for reaching the targeted goal. In the field of physical education and sport, it is defined as a motor action of instrumental value, designed and programmed to reach the goals specific for different motor activities. The physical exercise is the main mean for the physical education and sport. The means used in teaching swimming are of special nature due to the horizontal position designated to practicing, the special aquatic breathing, the pressure always exercised...

In this paper, the using of e-learning by 3D multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) in mother tongue teaching is analysed. The focus is on didactic aspects of using a MUVE which enables the participants to meet people from different places in the same virtual space. As in a virtual space there are no geographical boarders or time limitations, we consider this environment naturally suitable also for language learning including mother tongue education. The aim of our research, though, is finding out the appropriatene...

The turbulent global environment intensively is changing the paradigm of managing organizations. Changes initiated visionary and proactive corporate coding based on permanent organizational learning based on quality management talents, knowledge and change. The experience of developed economies in the world shows that the functioning of modern organizations is not effective without implementing the system of management of intellectual capital. If the organization prefers to become a learning organization, then it ...

The paper aims to reveal the pedagogical potential of cognitive-oriented teaching of the mother tongue. We started out from the theoretical premises provided by cognitive linguistics, both its American branch, emphasizing the body anchoring of meaning, and from the Polish orientation, concentrated on the theory of linguistic picture of the world and semantic profiling. The theories mentioned were modified in accord with the educational goals of mother tongue teaching and applied namely to the sphere of lexicology....

The interaction between the integrated management of the issues regarding the policy of urban architecture and the development of the design of a material environment is a topic important to be explored in order to attain environmental, economic and social sustainability. To achieve coexistence and harmony, innovative teaching methods have become an important instrument. The problem-based teaching/learning method (PBT/LM) is one of the techniques analysed for understanding its peculiarities and applications. The g...

Purpose – Based on the communication skills of adults it can be made correlations between these skills and those of children, as a means of highlighting the importance of heredity in development, but also to highlight the importance of practicing communication from an early age. To improve communication skills of employees in order to increase performance across the organization, you can make different training, personal development activities etc. Communication is the mediator between people and also the mediator...

Based on Law no. 245/2008 Coll. on education and training (The School Law) it is necessary to realize the importance of emphasizing the development of key competences in the educational process. According to Millenium, one of the key powers are said to be communication skills and personal and interpersonal skills. At the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts of Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, bachelor and master studies are realised in the field of Citizenship Education. Students of the ...

Higher Education in Kosovo has been through difficult periods and has undergone a long transition period. There have been many changes from its beginnings of educating Kosovo society, always focusing on adapting itself from the old system to that of the Bologna System. From the 1990s the Education System functioned under extreme conditions, because Serbia’s Government did not allow Albanians to study in the Albanian language. Between1999-2005 when Kosovo was governed by the UN mission, there was not much improveme...