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In this article the author analyzes the influence of amendments in the religious sphere of postsoviet society on strengthening anomie in it. Among factors, that influence anomie and characterizes the religious sphere state of the modern Russian society, he names the existence of many religious confessions due to missionery activities, traditional confession restoration (Orthodox, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Lutheranism), actualization of religious identity matter, phenomena of “out of confession heresy” and inte...

Background. The issues addressed in the article are of particular relevance, being in line with the main current trends in methodology of teaching foreign languages in Russia and abroad. The aim of the article is to present results of building a model of the development of autonomous learning skills among Yakut native students. Method. The research has revealed that there is a strong correlation between the content of the foreign language teaching in Russia and the development trends of the Russian society; the le...

21st century is characterized by rapid changes in economy, science, education and social life. The necessity for the development of new competence for everybody is growing day by day to be able to compete in the labour market. In order to make the students - future podologistВ’s training and their professional competence development successful, it is necessary to introduce systematic changes in the content of the program, in the use of modern teaching and learning methods and evaluation of the study process of the...

Knowledge of foreign languages is very important, and its importance has been growing in recent years. The “Iron Curtain” was pulled back in the early nineties, and the Czech Republic joined the European Union, resulting in ever expanding opportunities to meet and communicate with foreigners in professional or private settings, to seek out and read foreign language texts on the internet or in printed form, to watch foreign TV channels and to listen to foreign radio stations, and, last but not least, to communi...

Background Our research aim was to emphasized different neurological patterns at athletes, by evaluating the parameters of somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) and compare the obtained results, in order to demonstrate the influence of specific professional training over the cortex. Methods The tested subjects were a group of 21 male athletes, with an average age of 19 years, which practiced fencing or handball, for at least 6 years, homogeneous regarding age, height, weight and training regime. We used the Nihon K...

The attitude towards disabled people and to disability is one of the most important indicators of the maturity of society and development of human rights. In the late seventies of the 20th century Europe comes to the historical stage, when attempts of integration of disabled people into normal public life, with full recognition of their civil rights, that fully coincide with the rights of citizens without disabilities, are made. Russia is now only on the way of transition to the fifth stage, when the biopsychosoci...

Leisure time activities pursued by children are influenced by many factors, and a specific role is played by parents. The paper deals with the outcomes of the research of the relationship between leisure activities pursued by todayВ’s children and leisure activities pursued by their parents in their childhood. The research was carried out in the Czech Republic in 2016 and 2017 and focused on children between the ages of 11 and 15. One of the key research questions was: In what way and to what extent the parentsВ’ ...

The paper is focused on the investigation of Dynamic Assessment approach as an alternative to standardized testing methods. Dating back to the Theory of Proximal Development developed by Vigotskiy, the methodology has been actively employed by the helping educationalists, mostly for students with special needs. Its potential is, however, undeservingly undervalued by subject teachers and methodologists, both those involved in schooling and higher education. The given article describes the results of the experiment ...

Care for children deprived of properly functioning families represents an integral element of family-oriented social policy in Poland, which is based on the constitutional principle of subsidiarity. According to this principle, the state, through the system of legal guarantees and support structures, offers conditions for support at a local level while empowering families. The entities that are involved in tasks to support families include local social services institutions, non-governmental organizations, and the...

This paper presents a novel approach in training for orthopaedic surgeons, developed within the ERASMUS + research project 2015-1-RO01-KA202-015230, ERASMUS+ VET "Collaborative learning for enhancing practical skills for patient-focused interventions in gait rehabilitation after orthopaedic surgery”. Considering that classical education of orthopaedic surgeons, which is based on lectures, self-study, workshops and cadaver dissections, followed by supervised practical training within daily practice, quite often r...

Early literacy, as a foundation for future literacy skills and academic performance, is the actual research trend. This developmental face is a source for the results of formal literacy (Scarborough 2009) and a framework of academic performance (in tests like PISA, PIRLS and others). Besides the contribution to the academic success, the interest for early literacy stems also from the need to recognize children at risk for reading disability and dyslexia (Catts, Petscher, Schatschneider, Sittner Bridges & Mendoza, ...

The aim of this paper is to present an ongoing research project „Paradigm Change of Mental Health and Well-being in Lithuania: Towards Empirically Valid Model” (2015-2017) and part of its results (research project is granted by Research Council of Lithuania). This project is aimed to contribute to the paradigmatic change by scientific research and evaluation of efficacy of pharmaceutic and psychotherapeutic treatment to psychological and social functioning, and to estimate economic burden of treatment and menta...

By the year 1983, Slovakia was in mortality rating under the global average. After this year, mortality in Slovakia reached a level above the global average, which was affected by a stronger demographic aging process. Its impact is particularly evident in the increasing share of people over the age of 65 and the decrease in the proportion of people in pre-productive and productive age. In the coming years, Slovakia will have to cope with demographic aging issues and take action mainly in the area of health and soc...

Education is essential to the survival of any social group, since a community secures its continued existence and development only through the transmission of its accumulated knowledge, derived power, and ideological aims to the next generation. Education may be simply (and brief) defined as the process of teaching and learning, the imparting and acquisition of knowledge and skills. The need for education was no less true for the students included in „The Burning Altar” movement, who regularly attended Antim at...

The current state of education in Romania might be described as follows: Unhappy students, unhappy teachers and unhappy parents. There is a widespread feeling that corruption, moral degradation and inefficiency are suffocating the education system. There is also a widespread perception that after any attempt to ”reform” education the situation got worse. The purpose of this study is to explore ”The dysfunctional paradigms hypothesis”: It is possible that one or more dysfunctional paradigms may become domin...

The main objective of the paper was to find out what conceptualisation processes are evoked in children of older school age by the word “education”, and what meanings are attached to this word in Czech Radio's newcast programmes from 1970 and 2015. The individual goals of the research were to reveal a particular influence of school upon the education of children, and to spotlight the changes in education in relation to a particular ideology in society. The theoretical basis of the research were theses of cultu...

{{Background: }} The aim of the study was to find out the way of providing information preferred by patients after implantation of vascular prosthesis in lower extremities or abdominal aorta in order to develop a new educational material. {{Methods: }} The participants involved in the study had achieved at least 24 points of Mini Mental State Examination and had undertaken the surgery. The study was agreed by the institutions`s ethical committee and all the participants who had been informed about the study purpos...

The purpose of the article is to try to analyze the main online education technologies which are used today by the universities to identify their advantages and disadvantages in the educational system. The methodological approaches used by the author include the theory of synergetics and chaos, the theory of academic revolution, the concept of smart education, e-learning and open education. To achieve this goal, the methods of document analysis, statistical analysis, comparative analysis and content analysis have ...

Introduction: Dental caries is a disease that affects all age groups, most commonly children. Dental caries in preschool represents a health and a social problem, especially when the the provision of preventive measures and the treatment rate are very low. A severe category of dental caries that is very common among children of preschool age is known as early childhood caries (ECC). In an earlier study, the prevalence of ECC in preschool children of Kosovo was 17.4%, while the mean dmft in children with ECC was 11...

{{Introduction: }} Reducing lipid levels in blood plasma is one of the ways of preventing cardiovascular disease. The purpose of this work is to present the changes found in the plasma lipid concentrations of Indian students who had engaged in the yoga practice known as Dynamic Suryanamaskar (DSN) for a period of 2 weeks. {{Methods: }} 105 randomly selected Indian male students aged 17.15В±1.42 years participated in the study. The subjects were divided into 4 groups, according to the Solomon Four Group Design. Gro...

Mechanical systems for producing mechanical vibrations gained more and more the role of training equipment and the vibrations obtained have an effect on muscles, facilitating the contraction or relaxation reflex depending on the possibilities of adjusting their parameters. Vibration platform training generates a tonic stretch reflex in all the muscles involved in the effort. During this reflex, the muscles contract and relax at very high speeds and the amount of active fibers reach 95% of muscle fibers involved in...

The article deals with the process of improving competences and work performance through the provision of a wide range of opportunities for personal and professional growth in knowledge and skills. The purpose was to integrate learning maintenance of the individual learning plan with daily activities. The article brings forward the mechanism for a strategic planning of educational steps, based on the analysis of searching ways. Strategic planning is based on a code of regulation and procedures containing a series ...

Active introduction of computer technologies which influence the improvement of students training quality within the training process of educational institutions is an inseparable part of modern education. The article considers the organization matter of the training process in Physics with the “Educon” helping as an electronic support. One of the most important factors significantly impact on the physics teaching effectiveness in high school is the students' willingness to cognitive activities, in-depth and d...

The main purpose of this research is to reveal the financial events which, in unfavorable economic conditions, emotionally arouse in students either a negative or a positive reaction. The research is based on the hypothesis that there is a difference in the psychological perception of events relating to the objective economic life conditions of a student and to events connected with his personal economic activity. Students of the Humanities Departments of the Ural Federal University underwent the survey. The infor...

Debt is a commitment to do something, to give something or refrain from doing anything. Debt itself is not harmful, like fire or knife is no harmful itself. Social work focuses on the debt when the indebtedness of individuals or of the entire population grows so much that it is a barrier to further individual, social or economic development. The Czech Republic is fighting over-indebtedness both by education ie by increasing financial literacy (the subjective side) and by regulating the conditions under which banks...

Future social and health workers will be implemented in a complex, multifaceted, difficult activity that needs professionals prepared to work flexibly and effectively with people who have social and health problems. ?hey are responsible for performing different social roles: provider of information /related to documents on social policy and practice/ generator of new ideas / in connection with problem solving/, partner in the process of communication, organizer, assistant in the performance of various practical ta...

In the context of a need for lifelong learning as a factor determining success of a modern qualified specialist in the international labor market, assertiveness and creativity of an individual throughout the process of self-education are of a top priority. Formation of the latter is in the stage of a significant progress during the period of study at university, since by this very moment students have formed a conscious attitude towards such activities, connected with vision of their future professional growth. Th...

Each stage in a man’s life is important, at each moment the individual grows up, develops, evolves, changes; yet, the preschool period is significant in this process, because now one lays the basis of the future personality, and the most important acquisitions take place, both physically and especially psychically. Called by some specialists the “golden age”, the period comprised between 3 and 6 years is characterized by a strong desire to know, to discover the world around and to master it; the child is curi...

This article describes topical issues of ethno-cultural methods of teaching Tatar language in the system of higher education. Tatar language as the state language of the Republic of Tatarstan in the Russian Federation is studied in higher education institutions and for this purpose textbooks of communicative and ethno-cultural orientation have been developed. In the process of studying Tatar language, foreign-language (including Russian-speaking) students almost master both the speech and socio-cultural competence...

The purpose of the article is to demonstrate the efficiency of the ethnomethodical model of teaching Russian as a foreign language (RFL) on various aspects of language and types of speech activity. The article analyzes various approaches to teaching Russian as a foreign language. An intensive approach based on ethno-oriented methodology seems to be the most promising. Taking into account the results of the analysis, the authors created an ethnomethodical model of intensive teaching of Russian as a foreign language...

Literary evidence and the results of our personal observations of patients with osteochondrosis are given in the article. Symptoms of spinal cord disorders and spinal nerve root disorders such as radiculopathies and dorsalgia are described here. It is known that osteochondrosis is a widely spread disease. At this disease, not only bone and cartilage items of the spinal cord suffer but also spinal roots do which leads to pain, automatic and vegetative disorders. Radiculopathies is one of the most serious variants o...

Improving the quality of the teacher's professional competences is currently the subject of professional discussion in Slovak education. The intention is to improve and expand the theoretical and practical teacher training. Examination and reflecting on the issue of evaluation of the work of pupils in the process of education is considered to be an important aspect of undergraduate study. Effective and objective evaluation of the process and the results of education are among the basic pedagogical competencies. Th...

Nowadays the increase in effectiveness of education management and in the system of education assessment implementation is the key factor of modernization of Russian education and the level of human capital asset. The distinctive feature of present stage of education development in the Russian Federation is regionalization and municipalization. The development of common educational space taking into account national and regional specific features of federal subjects, uniqueness of natural and geographical, social ...

In adolescence, reproductive capacity and even physical growth gradually reaches. In terms of health, it is important to pay attention to the sexual behavior of adolescents, their health education within the meaning of minimizing the possible risks and incidence of sexually transmitted diseases (STD). Design: The study was designed as a descriptive cross-sectional study. {{Materials and methods: }} The aim of this study was to determine the level of sexual behavior of adolescents in relation to use of contraceptio...

In this paper we extend an existing approach developed by M. Abrams to the analysis of Russian youthВ’s consumer behavior in the field of fashion. The major research objective was to clarify whether the choice of fashion clothes constitutes a certain form of consumer behavior and, if so, which factors affect this social activity. {{Methodology.}} Fashion as a phenomenon has been considered from the standpoint of the concept of imitation, the theory of demonstrative consumption, theories of postmodernism, theory of...

The development of cultural competence can be affected by various factors. Bearing this in mind, two groups of factors can be distinguished: internal and external. The aim of the current article is to analyse the factors that influence the development of the cultural competence of pre-service teachers of foreign languages. The research was conducted in 2014 as part of the doctoral research and involved 504 respondents, i.e. pre-service teachers of foreign languages at the five largest Lithuanian universities. The ...

According to literature data, there are many causes, motives and motivations for smoking. Connecting adolescent occasional smoking with sensory experience searching can be one of the most important risk factors. The less mature the personality is, the more exposure to the challenges. There is an important influence also for the socio-cultural environment in which the adolescent is socialized. Cigarette consumption might be considered as a lifestyle model. The formation of this lifestyle model in childhood and adol...

The research aim was to examine the role of family life quality in the aetiology of antisocial behaviour. A multidimensional nine-part questionnaire was implemented during 2015 with 1300 participants aged 15-16 (N=799, 60%) and 17-18 (N=496, 40%) in Croatia. Boys reported higher delinquent behaviour (p<,001), antisocial behaviour and criminal acts (p<,001) and parental approval of risk behaviour (p<,001). Older adolescents reported more delinquent behaviour (p<,01). Adolescents with lower academic success reported...

The paper, as the title has announced, proposes a discussion about the religious dimension of Education provided by Father Ivan KulГ®ghin, major personality. Attempts of his biography to have been reconstituted caused, in time, various controversies. Monk Ivan KulГ®ghin was born on the 24th of February to Elet (Orel) in Russia. He belonged to one of the greatest spiritual Russian centers, Valaamo Monastery, which after the communismВ’s installation, had been savagely destroyed by the Soviets. So, the Russian monk ...

Background: As a result of globalization, borders between countries become only imaginary lines on the map. Due to this spontaneous uncontrolled process there is a blending of cultures whose philosophy can be more or less different from that of the majority society. The objective of this paper is to present partial results of the research grant project and to reflect on the finality of life in contemporary religious traditions. Methods: The research was funded with support of the Grant Agency of the University of ...

The paper is based on a case study of flipped classroom approach to teaching English for specific purposes. The major goals of the pedagogic experiment were to create and implement an online classroom to increase the number of academic hours dedicated to learning English for professional communication at university level. The idea behind the experiment was to foster active learning as well as create accessible learning environment that would challenge students outside the classroom and save on-site time for produc...

The priority of universal values, life and health of a person, free development of personality finds reflection both in organization of educational process that strengthens attention to a problem of education humanization and personalization of training. In this regard the inclusion becomes one of the priority directions of modernization of modern education in changing Russia. In article the task of finding of new means and methods in training of deaf and hearing-impaired students in discipline “English” is se...

In the article the authors put a strong emphasis on the whole system of education (higher vocational and additional vocational for adults) for the preparation of competitive specialists-managers of social control in public administration and business administration spheres in modern Russia, taking into account national socio-cultural characteristics, as well as accumulated foreign progressive experience. From this point of view the opportunities of achieving qualitative and effective impact of society and the stat...

The State Forests National Forest Holding (PGL LP), which manages the forest resources of the State Treasury, has a great impact and largely contributes to building ecological awareness of the society through taken activities in terms of forest education and the development of educational and natural infrastructure. These activities are an element of sustainable forest management. The objective of the article is to present the forest education system in Poland. For the purposes of this study, fundamental documents...

Global increase of cultural variety in modern society has led to the necessity of formation of ethnic and cultural tolerance of the youth as the most active social group. Educational space should be built inf the context of harmonization of intercultural and religious relations. Pedagogical influence on sensitive points of personal development, aimed at formation of ethnic and cultural tolerance may prevent the youth from patterns of extremist behaviour.

The represented article is devoted to the investigation of conditions for the developing of the pedagogical experience of newcomers to the university teachers in the process of intercultural interaction and improvement of the training of newcomers to the university teachers for intercultural interaction. The analysis of the scientific literature declares that named issue has not yet obtained the sufficient theoretical substantiation in pedagogical literature and viable practical fulfilment. As a result, the proble...

The State educational standard has defined the requirements for the results of education in the level of Primary school, among which an important place is occupied by interdisciplinary (“meta-subject”) results that help children with the developing the ability to learn. Achievement of interdisciplinary results is possible only if students have sufficient level of self-regulation. Self-regulation means regulation one's own activities, including situations of choosing different ways of realizing one's activity, ...

This article looks into natural science problems. Although a lot is being done in the country in the improvement of natural science education in schools, however, as international research data show, studentsВ’ natural science competence is insufficient. The present day student as well as schoolchildren is a technology generation person. His attitude to natural sciences, motivation to develop natural science competence is similar to schoolchildrenВ’s. In this article it is discussed, how pre-service primary school...

Gamification in education can be considered as the algorithm of use of the game elements and game thinking in the educational process in order to archive the educational and training objectives. This process that involves internal motivation and engagement in a greater level, is more innovative, helps not only to archive educational tasks faster but to incorporate new experience into existing pool of knowledge. The article systematizes social and educational functions of gamification, introduces the description of...

{{Background }} Dental erosion (DE) is the loss of dental hard tissue due to the action of gastric juice and acidic foods, without the participation of bacterial flora. Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is the involuntary passage of gastric juice to the esophagus. Patients with GERD have changes in salivary parameters. {{Objectives}} The purpose of this study is to analyze the levels of some salivary parameters and oral hygiene in patients with GERD and DE before and after therapy and to assess their correlat...