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As a teacher I have directly conducted research to experiment with new methodologies in teaching to demonstrate that even children or kids can be able to create a drawing and therefore an object in 3D and improve their skills in addition to creativity by developing real problem solving skills. A new teaching methodology therefore requires helpingstudents not to be afraid of making mistakes by encouraging them to move forward on their learning path. Going from the ideal to the real and even better from the virtual ...

The subject of the study is the identification of psychosocial factors and the needs of seniors with cognitive impairment in a situation of persistent pandemic Covid 19. The theoretical basis is the clinical aspects of the target group and the conceptual approach to social health. The paper specifically describes the partial results of a part of longitudinal research, continuously implemented since 2013 within specialized research projects for universities at the Institute of Special Education Studies, Faculty of ...

The basis of the country's educational policy today is the competence approach. It is enshrined in the state‘s educational standard and respectively in the new curricula in all subjects: through the indicated expected learning outcomes in the form of competencies; through the proposed recommended percentage distribution for the different lessons; through guidelines for specific assessment methods and forms; through the sample activities that support the acquisition of key competencies and the implementation of int...

In-store music is regarded as an effective tool of marketing communication and social control. According to the marketing theory appropriately designed music(scape) can mediate two contrary effects: namely approach and avoidance behavior. The first one includes all positive behaviours that might be directed at a particular place, such as a desire to stay, explore and affiliate, joy of shopping, returning, spending money, time spent browsing, loyalty etc. Avoidance behaviour reflects the opposite. What role in thes...

Learning is a result of brain activity, a neuro-phenomenon that can be analysed in response to a variety of research questions. This article aims at focusing on the teacher’s working scope, explaining what neurodidactic actions of the teacher contribute to learning. The obtained results demonstrate that the learning process, which we intend to construct in accordance with neurodidactic principles, can be analysed according to four main factors: students’ neurostimulation, perception and consolidation of teaching m...

The article focuses on the evaluation of therapeutic and therapeutic-educational approaches from the perspective of patients of psychiatric units (Military Hospital Olomouc, Psychiatric Hospital Kroměříž) in the process of addiction treatment (drugs and drug-alcohol combinations). The subject of the research is the factor of evaluation of semantic differential of the following interventions: dramatherapy, progressive stages of treatment (0-3), medication, psychotherapeutic group, self-management - therapeutic comm...

The topicality of the current study lies in the fact that international standards and documents that have been accepted by the European Union education sector emphasize the need to ensure equal pay for equal work and the importance of non-discriminatory treatment, while Latvian planning documents identify tasks to eliminate inequalities, with an emphasis on education system reform - introduction of teacher motivation system, teacher salary system improvement or development of a new salary system. The current teach...

Objective: Assessment of iodine and thyroid status in a group of pregnant women in the perimarine area of Romania, the geographical area without iodine deficiency. Undetected or untreated thyroid dysfunction can be associated with a number of materno-fetal complications. The administration of iodinated compounds in pregnancy requires individualization. The ratio of urinary iodine concentration (UIC)/urinary creatinine (UCr) may be an objective criterion for evaluating iodine nutrition in the perimarine area. Mater...

This communication presents an evaluation of the design-phase of a pedagogical improvement project for the development of competent skills related with the concrete material in Chilean students of Civil Engineering, Building Engineering and Construction Technician. This is done through the transformation from the modalities teaching in the "chair" and "observation of experiences" to teaching based on the use of active-participatory laboratories. More specifically, a project based on a collaborative and interdiscip...

The article substantiates the necessity and possibility of implementing the principle of personalization in education, in particular, in higher education. The approaches to the definition of this phenomenon are analyzed from the standpoint of philosophy, sociology, marketing, and pedagogy. One of the current challenges is the gap between educational outcomes and employers' demands. Therefore, it becomes important to build individual educational paths that will maximally prepare graduates for a specific job. It is ...

Plantar pressure it is frequently used to evaluate the pathologies of the foot with clinical and research application and less used for methodological issues in areas such as sports medicine. The purpose of this study was to assess the plantar pressure in young athletes by using a RSSCAN pressure plate for identification of reference normative data. Foot complaints and history of trauma, surgery, or other pathologies possible were assessed by a questionnaire and a clinical evaluation was performed for identificati...

Joint education of pupils with special educational needs in mainstream education by means of support measures has been in place for some time in the Czech Republic. For quite a long time, these pupils have been educated in mainstream schools in the catchment area. However, Act No. 82/2015 Coll., which amends the Act on pre-school, elementary, secondary, higher vocational and other education (Education Act) and Decree No. 27/2016 Coll., on education of pupils with special educational needs and talented pupils (Amen...

The paper focuses on the issue of training and education of children in the field of traffic safety. The topic of education in traffic safety for children is important from the point of view of protecting the life and health of both children and other road users. The main goal of the thesis is to find out under which system children are educated in primary schools in the Czech Republic in the field of traffic safety. The secondary goal of this work is to characterize documents and basic approaches in the field of ...

Background: The study of vitamin D and the interest in its actions are growing exponentially given its broad implications in pathology. Vitamin D assessment and treatment are controversial topics that result in heterogeneous, partially contradictory opinions and recommendations. The aim of the study was to quantify the level of vitamin D among patients with autoimmune thyroid diseases through a questionnaire applied to residents of Dobrogea, perimarine area of Romania. Methods: The questionnaire included variables...

The paper focuses on sexuality in a male with Down syndrome from the perspective of his mother. The main objective of the survey was to reveal specific experiences with maturing, and the development and manifestations of sexuality in an individual with intellectual disability as perceived by his parent. Part of the survey was to identify whether and how the mother communicated with her son with intellectual disability about the issue of sexuality and his needs, how she perceived her son’s sexuality manifestations,...

The need to improve educational organizations has exceeded the limit of experimental knowledge and perceptible reality, the knowledge transcends, through a conceptual shift, the reordering of other areas of impact, with major importance in society. Ensuring a clear vision of educational organizations has become a chronic disease that affects the effectiveness of education in the 21st century and safety and stability are now acute diseases that inhibit creativity and new thinking. In order to achieve its objectives...

Since 2016, the Czech education system has been providing education for children, pupils and students through the institute of the so-called support measures. It is a set of organizational, pedagogical, methodological measures including methods of work, material and compensatory support of the respective disadvantage. There are five levels of support measures provided by law. Granting of level II. to V. is under the responsibility of professional school counseling facilities and is the result of professional speci...

In response to the current situation, when the school has a well-known home mutation, information technologies represent a foundation for development and a reference point for working bodies. Enough in the best area to manage a communication problem generates imposed distances as well as a potential conflict of visibility involved in each category of human resources. Emphasizing the ambiguity of the individual role, a lack of cohesion involves changes and inconveniences on the authorial authorities or paid attenti...

This paper aims to examine the reading comprehension skills of Hungarian bilingual primary school pupils in Slovakia. Hungarian is the largest ethnic minority in Slovakia therefore it possesses extensive native language school networks. The purpose of this research is to determine the pupils reading habits, and to discover the differences between the respondents’ self-assessment and their actual performance in reading comprehension. The survey consisted of two parts. As a method of sociological data collection, we...

The paper focuses on the level of knowledge of the inhabitants of the Nitra region in lay cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The authors deal with the issue of the current state of knowledge and in lay emergency resuscitation, approach lay first aid in Slovakia, including statistics of lay first aid through cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the application of an automatic external defibrillator, and teach first aid in Slovakia. The main goal of the research was to determine the level of knowledge of the inhabitants of...

The article is devoted to the application of the auto-hypno-ideomotor system (AHIM) for training shooters-students with hearing impairment. The purpose of the study is to test the proposed method of using the AHIM system in the training and competition process of shooters-students with hearing impairment. The object of research is the training and competition process of shooters-students with hearing impairment. The subject of the research is related to the study and application of the AHIM system for shooting stu...

In the conditions of Slovakia, the main household income is income from work. Just paid work should be a protective factor against an individual or family falling into poverty. However, various socio-economic processes create conditions in which, despite paid employment, it is impossible for a certain group of people and their families to secure an income that would allow them to fully saturate their needs. Despite the increase in the minimum wage and other measures taken by the government in recent years, accordi...

In my paper I will focus on the most efficient strategies for teaching Romanian as a Foreign Language in the Covid-19 context. My groups are composed of 20 students each, I team up with other 3 teachers and we devise our lessons so we cover general Romanian as well as Romanian for Specific Purposes. Our students study Romanian intensively, in 2 semesters, and at the end they follow their BSc/MA/doctoral programs. Students come from all over the world and their interests are extremely varied. This is one of the fac...

The subject of the study is the identification of effective factors of altered communication of seniors with acquired cognitive impairment in the context of the possibilities of music therapy intervention. Epistemological starting points are clinical aspects of the target group, further verified and functional non non-pharmacological approaches to its representatives and theories and methodologies of expressive approaches. The paper specifically describes the partial results of one of the parts of longitudinal res...

The main feature of the new Millennium is the rapid development of innovative economy. This has affected engineering education, as the state and employers have formed new requirements for the quality of professional training of future specialists in the current socio-economic conditions. The article examines the requirements for employment and qualifications in the labor market of future specialists, analyzes the results of employers surveys. To determine new requirements for the quality of professional training o...

In this paper, we present the results from research focused on the usage of visual programming languages for teaching programming and algorithmization, which was a part of research named „The usage of educational materials in informatics“. The purpose of this research was to collect data about which didactics aids and educational materials do teachers use and get the foundation for upcoming research that would go deeper into specific topics. The data were collected by a questionnaire among Czech teachers of a seco...

Poverty is a phenomenon that, even though we live in the 21st century, at a time when there is a sufficiency, there are people who are poor. Poverty affects people who are ill for a long time [1], migrants [2], those who are low-skilled, but even some university graduates, e.g. social workers working in certain types of facilities [3]. Poverty is not always the result of unemployment, but people who work are also poor. The aim of the article is to find out how working poverty in Slovakia perceives his life and how...

The paper presents the experimental data obtained on two groups of students, one for the experiment and the other as a witness. For this purpose, two classrooms and a school gym were used, organized in halochamber regime, respectively in normal microclimate conditions. The groups were differentiated by sex and age, comprising children born in 2006 and 2007, at the age with the highest growth rate. Harmonious physical development was pursued by correlating two biometric characteristics (weight and thoracic perimete...

The paper analyzes the challenges of the external environment for economic actors, which are transformed into special requirements of employers for employees. The main purpose of this stage of the study is to identify the components of a comprehensive behavioral model that determines the competitiveness of an economic actor in the new conditions of the modern VUCA-world and are characterized by their proactive position with respect to uncertainty. Moreover, the pool of tools and behavioral patterns are classified ...

The current trend in medicine is focused on the enhancement of basic skills and development of new skills as requested by the labor market. This aspect is crucial for growth and competitiveness of the medical field and in this context vocational education must be able to react to the demand for advanced vocational skills. A growing number of reports draw attention to the need of adjustment of the offer in medical education to labor market needs and the knowledge-based society. In the light of these previous resear...

Today, motorcycle response units are operating in 20 European countries. Based on sta- tistically relevant data, it is proven that the ambulance of the motorcycle response units in the same traffic conditions is half the departure time faster at the address compared to the classic ambulance. Other benefits of motorcycle response units is also promptness in lifelife-saving operations, independence of work at the place of intervention and significantly lower operating costs. Motorcycle response unit is intended for ...

The paper represents comparative study on digital skills and social inclusion among educators and learners in adult education sector in selected EU and non-EU countries. Adult education in the 21st century faces many new challenges that result from the growing possibilities of using and integrating ICT in every aspect of both professional and personal life. The great potential lies in the development of ICT integration in the professional environment and the activation of professional life and adult education. An ...

In this era of globalization, the world has gradually reduced inequalities in life expectancy. Alongside this development, a key aspect of a sustainable society is the level of human health throughout life. In this study, we aim to look at the relationship between healthy life years, Eurostat's European structural indicator for expressing healthy life years or life expectancy without disabilities (these focus on the quality of life spent in a healthy state, rather than the quantity of life, as measured by life exp...

Being fraught with risks, postmodernity forces social actors not only to rationalize their activities and search for fleeting opportunities but also resort to means of influence that help achieve their targets in the minimal amount of time. The field of advertising is not an exception, as copywriters are in constant search for tools that could help them in maximizing the impact of their advertisements and targeting their potential addressees. The paper aims to analyse the provocative aspects of advertising; its ai...

Our article focuses on the teacher`s individual concept aimed at the cooperation with pupil`s family. It analyses the individual concept of teachers as part of their professional competence which influences the way teachers teach and it also determines the teaching process. To a certain degree, it also has an impact on their communication and cooperation with families of their pupils. The article clarifies the understanding of the family-school relationship. It explains how to include parents into the teaching pro...

One of the most important challenges today is to support student?s critical thinking and soft skills development. Many researches point to a deficit of these skills among graduates. The article is focused on the presentation of the research of the impact of the selected teaching method, namely project teaching (project-based learning), on the student access, development of their soft skills and ability of critical thinking. The article compares the results of final testing. In the first part, the focus is on a bri...

Currently, you can find many social processes that are not well explained from the position of sociological theory. These include the growth of practices of symbolic consumption, an increase in the level of deviation and crime, the spread of social and mental stress in society. Sociologists offer many explanations for these phenomena, but they are explanations of symptoms and effects, not causes. The most striking confirmation of the inability of the theory to exhaustively explain the processes taking place is the...

The article focuses on the applicability of transformational leadership in the educational field. It analyses the evolution of the concept and its relationship with transactional leadership, as well as a series of related concepts, such as charismatic leadership. The effects of transformational leadership on aspects with direct implications on the success of school institutions, such as the psychological well-being of the teaching staff, are considered. Given the role of the human resource in education, the influe...

Relationships between principal and teachers in the school require communication skills through partnership and collaboration. The quality of this cooperation is very important, which consists in the increasing involvement and creativity of teachers. In order for the potential inherent in the teachers to be fully utilized, a person who will manage them properly is necessary - manager, supervisor, less often referred to as a leader. The role of the leader is to motivate attitudes aimed at achieving goals and to hel...

This paper aimed to understand how fashion design higher education programs are approaching fashion 'eco-design' initiatives and how or if this could influence the diffusion and adoption by the whole sector. Furthermore, this paper argued that online education, sustained by a lifelong learning perspective, would present a valid way to deliver and disseminate the knowledge about sustainable principles in business, technological, social and environmental practices, making them quickly available for professionals and...

By creating the right conditions for developing creative potential and creative activity of children we should eliminate various blockades that inhibit this development, share knowledge about the work and practice cognitive skills, necessary for creative thinking. To make this possible, it is important that teachers were able to accurately identify and then develop and stimulate the creative potential of each student. It is important, whether they have professional knowledge or base on current knowledge and their ...

Burnout syndrome is a state of emotional, mental and physical exhaustion caused by situations affecting an individual in the long-term, which are extremely difficult and demanding. This study focuses on the social structure of the key causes of burnout syndrome in the context of social work. The aim is to establish the burnout syndrome measure from the aspect of the physical, emotional and mental exhaustion of social workers at facilities providing social services. It focuses on social workers working for public a...

Background: One of the most important predispositions of successful treatment is the patient?s collaboration. The article is focused on problematical patient?s collaboration with healthcare professionals; the most frequent reasons of the patient?s lack of collaboration during the disorder period are described, and the possibility of the improvement of patient collaboration based on high quality and well planned education implementation is mentioned. The goal was to identify to what degree chronically ill patients ...

The present paper focuses on the importance of developing health literacy among future teachers, i.e. students of teacher training courses, who can in the framework of ISCED 0 to ISCED 3 induce a positive approach to their health and lifestyle and at the same time increase the level of health literacy among the upcoming generation in the Czech Republic. The requirement to develop health literacy among the young generation is based on the fact that 60% of the current adult population in the Czech Republic shows low...

The theory of intercultural citizenship in language education developed by M. Byram plays a very important role as a basis for developing competences for democratic culture. The first goal of this intercultural investigation was to compare Russian university students' self-assessment and peer assessment of the competences of intercultural citizenship. The second goal was to find out whether the results of self-assessment and peer assessment were different among male and female students. The theoretical and empiric...

Nowadays, education is needed, more than ever, and this education cannot be done anyway. A nation is healthy, if the individuals, who compose it, are healthy. Starting from this undisputed reality, this work aims to address one of the most important issues, that of establishing and fulfilling managerial objectives in terms of public health and the Romanian health system. The transition and changes process in the Romanian society also its dynamics included the health system, in its attempt to adapt to the current r...

The paper deals with important shifts in the postnonclassical paradigm of the education. The author underlines the necessity of the compliance of the modern system of education to the requirements of the society (consider, generation Z and Alpha). New technologies of ICT, multidisciplinary researches and magic methods of teaching should be effectively applied in classroom and extracurricular work of students. The author analyses the main reasons of the popularity of the sequel of Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling from ...

The paper presents the most important aspects of the defensive positioning of football players according to the possible ways of approaching offensively the opponent. The study focuses on general principles, which are valid in all ways of positioning, as well as on some specific principles that are required to be used according to the characteristics of the own players in the direct relationship with their opponents. There are described ways of behavior of the players who are positioned in different defense system...

The pharmaceutical field in Romania, although, at first glance, seems to be well-organized, in practice faces a number of problems, many of them being the consequence of a failure to apply a good management, but also of a sometimes confusing or contradictory legislation. The pharmacist, is responsible of a pharmacy, as manager, faced with a multitude of issues requiring immediate solution, which makes the spectrum of managerial activities more extensive and complex. There are often situations in which such a manag...

It is assumed that the content of the broad concept of educational interaction consists of many related components and competences that determine the quality of vocational education and training. In order to understand the educational interaction, the vocational teachers' experience in communicating with modern students, their behaviors and insights better, the qualitative research was conducted. The research design was based on five group interviews with 48 vocational teachers from vocational education and traini...