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Background: In the previous authorsВ’ publications it was shown that modeling of fundamental properties of mathematics within the teaching process is very efficient. A group of fundamental properties consists of several so-called dualistic properties, which are inherent in all the branches of mathematics in all periods of its history. The purpose of this article is to bring to light some up-to-date factors, which generate a new appearance of the dualistic properties as well as their gradual modification. Methods: ...

During our life, our values and value orientation are shaped by many factors. Values form a dynamic structure of beliefs which, in many ways and with varying intensity, influence our everyday decision making. In the research carried out in 2016, we asked if and how the value orientation is influenced by the economic situation of the family the person lives in. Since the economic situation of the family plays an important role in many areas of our life, we assumed it also had a significant role in the area of value...

The paper presents a brief summary of the research on the educational principles of national public broadcasting systems the new media environment. Background: the purpose of the study is to provide versatile and objective examination, comparison and analysis of foreign experience of public television educational programs and to identify general principles of its functioning. Methods: for the purpose of verifying the theoretical ideas the analysis of foreign web-publications on the establishment and development of...

Oncological disease is a serious illness that affects not only the sick individual but also the family system. Oncological illness has an impact on all dimensions of life, but also on the processes and functions of the family system, on individual members of the family community. The aim of the research was to find out how a family with a cancer patient works. We focused on identifying the impact of oncological illness on the quality of family life, the needs of a family with a cancer patient, and the overall func...

The purpose of this work is to study new and more effective ways of teaching English to EFL students as the timeliness of the issue studied in this article is attributable to the high level of the English language proficiency which potential professionals are required to have due to high competitiveness in the context of the worldwide globalization. The article represents the analysis of advisability and effectiveness of using an authentic feature film in teaching English to EFL students of Kazan Federal Universit...

Nowadays one of the main tasks is the ability of students to self-study due to Federal State Educational Standards 3+ in the system of Russian higher education. The proper organization of studentsВ’ self-education will promote efficient education and monitoring of level of formation of the common cultural competences set by federal standards of higher education: ???-2. One of the modern directions of the organization of self-study having high potential is the use of information and communication technologies. We h...

Various pieces of research have agreed on the fact that Emotional Intelligence (EI) is crucial when it comes to career development and it can also be important in determining personality traits. We assume that the emotional intelligence profile of engineering students is a function of the configuration of a set of complex traits. The objective consists in building an emotional intelligence profile of a group of engineering students by extracting some definition attributes of the latter. To this purpose, we selecte...

In the context in which healthy nutrition, institutionalized nutrition and combating of childhood obesity are a strategic interest in improving the health of young people, this paper is constituted as a nutritional analysis of the quality of menus for school catering in Romania. An efficient system of products quality evaluation provided by the commercial and the social catering system can lead to optimizing the production processes, to improve the legal framework for beneficiaries and to support the education sys...

The educational system in Romania has known many transformations in the last 25 years of democracy. The orientation towards the European values, to multiculturalism, and also the liberalization of the work market, all in all let to a reevaluation of the domestic values and traditions. Family is one of the most important paradigms of establishment in this period of transition in the Romanian society. Without this important segment of our social existence the institutions implicated in the politics of education coul...

Nowadays youth feel freer and less limited by rules and dogmas. Is family influence on the choice of specialty as strong as before? This paper analyzes the changes in family influence on studentsВ’ career choices last five years in Russia (2010/2014). The factor of interest is the correlation between the studentsВ’ and graduatesВ’ specialties and what some family members previously studied. Based on the RLMS-HSE data collected in series of nationally representative surveys the panel data discrete choice model is c...

The aim is to construct a functional model of a centralized admission campaign in Russian universities. As a research tool used methodology for functional modelling IDEF0. The main result was the functional model, decomposed into blocks "Enter data in the federal information system to ensure the state final examination and receiving", "Carry the exam and the state final exams", "Enter the competition results", "Carry entrance examinations in higher educational institutions", "Conduct national competition". The mod...

Background: Originality is the main specific feature of mathematical Olympiad problems. Formulating these problems requires a special kind of creativity and only a few people have this ability. They are called problem composers, and Rosen Nikolaev is one of them. H? creates mathematical tasks every day. More than 14 of them have been selected for the The National Student Olympiad in Mathematic and more than 40 for the Bulgarian Mathematical Olympiad. Such specialists are unique, not only because of their special a...

The present article is primarily devoted to the issue of the idea of culture as a factor that helps to create a symbolic level of specific form of the identity. In the first level, we are dealing with different definitions of the term culture. In the second level, we are talking about mythology as an aspect, which also forms a kind of cultural and political context. In the second level then we are talking about mythology as the aspects which also shapes the social and political identity. Social identity helps shap...

The research aim of this paper is to reveal the repertoire and the role of personalized images in the overall structure of the image of Europe as perceived by the young generation in todayВ’s Russia. The study is based on the theoretical model of the image of Europe as an integral part of the political picture of the world, this model encompasses the methodological approaches of phenomenology, constructivism and visual sociology. Twelve focus group discussions with representatives of various groups of youth includ...

Social work has a negative image in public opinion. It determines important barriers for quality social work education and social work practice. The main goal of the research has discovered opinions students and social workers toward main ideas about social work importance and professional development. The research is based on sociological questionnaire of 445 students, social workers and other social groups (Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2015-2016). In result we have described students and social workers perceptions of ...

In working life occupational health and safety is an important issue. The factory workers who feel sick may not have high performance at work. The feeling of illness will lead the worker to depression. Some of the problems of workerВ’s health and safety arise from the individual some of them are from the workplace. With this study it has been aimed to build a model revealing the relations among the individual variants such as perceived pain, The Cornell Musculoskeletal Discomfort Questionnaire. The aim of this res...

In this Study we aimed to reveal the frequently underestimated role that bodyweight exercises may play in building Physical Fitness. Our own bodies offer us all the equipment we need to get in shape. Old-school, forgotten and disregarded Calisthenics, or more fashionable Pilates or Stretching exercises may offer us plenty of alternative tools to replace the machine’s assisted “modern” Fitness programs. Method: The study was conducted on 40 female Students of "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy ...

In this paper we examine how cross-cultural aspects influence Kazakh and Russian students when they form the image of the managerВ’s profession. Our research based on the data of comparative sociological survey of Kazakh and Russian university students studying management from the first to the fourth year of study. We have found that the share of Kazakh students, who plan to work as a manager in business, or in public administration sphere, and who has an experience of such work is bigger than that of Russian stud...

The relevance of the research topic is due to the need to study ways for overcoming the contradictions between the biological and social time of preschool children. In the study the time is objectified in terms of the biological and social age of the child. The concept of asynchronicity – the discrepancy between biological and social age is revealed. The interpretation of the concept of a behavioral strategy for overcoming the asynchronicity is presented. The object of the study is children of preschool age and ...

Focusing on the way universities influence the stylistic and architectural direction of young architect students, this article aims to highlight how the curriculum succeeds in educating their preferences towards expressive and chromatic coherence. This study examines three main directions: architectural, chromatic and stylistic language. The target group is composed of three categories of students from the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Polytechnics Timisoara, Specialization of Furniture and Interior ...

The article deals with the National Qualifications Framework tertiary education in the Czech Republic and its implementation. The theoretical part of the article deals with so-called descriptors. These descriptors are outputs from learning and we use them to describe general abilities, knowledge and skills, which students learn in given subject. The aim of the practical part of the article is to present the way of solutions and outcomes of the project В„The innovation of Microeconomics course with a focus on the c...

The article suggests solutions to the problems that may arise in the practical implementation of a new approach to the distribution of state-funded places among the universities, subordinated to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and the competition among the applicants. These problems include the excess of educational organization material resources with a sharp increase in the number of applicants recommended for enrollment; the mechanisms for taking into account additional creative ...

In the passage into the third millennium, mankind has gone through many changes. Among them or together with them was noticed the belying of the “forecasts” about “the end of religion”. One can feel even the need to re-evaluate the role and the functions of religion worldwide, at a beginning of millennium in which the existential void represents a phenomenon in the information chaos, the confusion of values is much greater, and the sense of life and of the family is increasingly threatened. In front of the...

The article is about written exercises which are necessary to use at the Russian lessons for foreign students. Students should watch and write written exercises at the same level as oral exercises during developing Russian pronunciation skills. Urgency of the research of this theme is in its importance. Intonation and phonetics lessons take a special place in teaching Russian language for foreigners because correct pronunciation of the words is the most important for communication in Russian language and the devel...

The Czech Republic, as a signatory of the Convention on the Rights of the Child has vested the capacity to administer the state protection of minor children into the agenda of the general municipal offices of the municipalities of higher order. The protection of the rights and entitlements of minor children s conducted by the authorities of social and legal protection of children (ASLPC hereinafter). These authorities are incorporated in the system of state administration in a way which enables them to provide com...

The aim of the paper is to introduce how to implement gamification elements into an online digital platform to create a digital, user experience based university course. First a brief introduction to gamification, game design elements and advantages are introduced. To understand the advantages of the different game elements (e.g. points, leaderboards, freedom of choice) to use, pilot tests were held for 2 semesters, in which 118 and 156 students participated. In these pilots, some of the course elements were teste...

The global struggle for resources as well as increased life expectancy and birth rates conditions the search for new forms of satisfying the needs of the countryВ’s population by using artificial combinations of the potentials of natural organisms. To prevent RussiaВ’s insurmountable social and economic backwardness in the area of new opportunities and also to facilitate the change in shaping the public opinion and the citizensВ’ outlooks, it is vital to establish the actual coordinates and vectors of development ...

Socialization is the process by which individuals learn, gradually, through interaction with other peers and participation in social life, norms, values, thinking and knowledge of a particular culture of birth, or in other words, socialization is the interactive communication of values, norms and methods of behavior specific to a group or a society, throughout his life. Deviance is a set of behaviors and conditions that group members judge the most inconsistent with their expectations, norms and values, and which,...

The major research objective was to study the social role of the paternity in a modern family. Nowadays the family has been transformed as a social institution, and its importance in the life of both men and women is decreasing. More and more people choose a career at the expense of the family, childfree phenomenon becomes popular. On the one hand, there is an increase in single-parent families and a decrease in the father's overall contribution to the upbringing of children. On the other hand, there is a reorient...

Problem statement: In this paper we aimed to demolish the modern „myth” stating that when it comes to optimize the motor potential, „high-tech”, machine-assisted training is compulsory. This myth is wide spread in modern society. Many people believe that, in order to reach his maximum physical potential, one has to train with last-generation fitness machines. We strongly believe that old school, Progressive Calisthenics may be a viable alternative for improving several aspects of the motor potential of the s...

Introduction. A series of studies presented in the paper indicate that people with motor experience are better mentally prepared to prevent and combat stress, negative emotional states due to the fact that psychic states influence the physiological state of the body which in turn has a repercussion on the psyche. Objective. This research seeks to identify the impact of physical activity on the personality of future lawyers, the echo of the research results, which we expect to be positive, reaching other students o...

Bullying is a common phenomenon in primary and secondary schools. In order to battle bullying, it can be important for students to have teachers whom they see as taking an active stand against bullying in terms of propagating antibullying norms and having an efficacious approach to decreasing bullying. The study realized in elementary schools in Kosovo. In these study include the 6 schools, from three city(Gjilan, Ferizaj and Prishtina). In these study participate 100 teachers. The investigation is realized in fou...

This article is an attempt at understanding the role and place of the ethical expertise in the search for competent and fair decisions on issues important from the standpoint of moral in the practice of the social work. Making decisions is an integral part in the social work practice. These decisions are often problematic due to different reasons: insufficient information, time constraints, pressure from various sources, uncertainty about the outcome of the various options and fear of prosecution. This study on th...

This article is devoted to the study of modern trends in the education of Russia, namely the question of integrating business technologies into the educational process, which at the present stage of economic development acquires special significance. As for the education sector this process is new and not adequately worked out by law and educational programs are facing many problems while including and implementing educational programs using modern business technologies. In this context, it is interesting to study...

Our living in the dramatically globalizing world makes us admit that individuals need new abilities to survive and succeed in the societies with a high level of interdependence and integration. As a response to these current challenges global competence appears to play a very important role in bringing up a globally competent person who can work and communicate effectively with people from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds which is especially urgent for Russia as it is actively participating in solving...

This paper deals with the concept of the social area of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Directed interviews conducted in a few large chemical enterprises in the Czech Republic discovered an interesting fact concerning perception of social activities within corporate social responsibility. What is surprising is the fact how often statutory employee care is confused or identified with above-standard care in corporate practice. It is also obvious that employees take a number of above-standard employee benefits...

In search of new sources for updating pedagogical interaction in higher education due to disturbing strain of spiritual and moral values in the youth ambit, it is necessary to develop creative educational tactics that would facilitate the successful socialization of future professionals and also help them obtain pragmatic communication competences in the course of foreign languages acquisition. From the authorsВ’ point of view, the staging method as a universal method meets perfectly the challenges of modern didac...

Teaching a foreign language for specific purposes is one of the goals of the curriculum at a non-linguistic higher education institution. Various lingo-didactic technologies are used to realize this goal. Gamification approach i.e. the use of educational games including computer games is of crucial importance. Different aspects of using games in teaching English for specific purposes were already examined by one of the authors (Belenkova N. Computer Games: Leisure or Stimulus to Learning. International Conference ...

The following text tries to approach the selected phenomena of theatrotherapy, as an expressive-formative approach which exactly stands on an imagined border between art and therapy. The aim is to establish this approach as an independent and unique system with its inter-disciplinal relations, especially with the field of special pedagogy and classic psychotherapeutic approaches. When comparing the text we are stemming from the research carried out by the author between the years 2006 and 2016 and also from his lo...

The purpose of the research is to study the issue of training highly skilled professionals in the sphere of international economic relations in nonlinguistic universities. The chosen methods of research are the method of studying the teaching techniques, as well as the comparative method. The study shows that it is essential to train professional language on early stages of the education programme. Early training of professional language contributes to the forming of professional cross-cultural communication compe...

The aim of the study is to clarify the specifics of individual media platforms operating in the Internet environment. At the same time, its goal is to point out the consequences of media convergence, as well as terminological chaos in the area of Internet media. The author of the study defines the causes of this situation. The first one is a relatively short history of media operating in the Internet environment and the second one is the absence of their exhaustive theoretical reflection. According to the author, ...

Contemporary architectural education consists in a repetitive trial and error learning model. First year students, with no previous architectural education, are expected to create and design by using their innate talent and previous knowledge, as well as their subjective opinions and instincts. Since such a model can scarcely encourage the development of independent and critical thinking, architectural education needs effective teaching strategies in order to improve learning efficiency and the development of crea...

Heritage is central to all humankind and to any community. Throughout millennia the distribution of cultural background, necessary skills were done by way of a tradition. In a tradition as well as in other developments of social life a historical link between new and old on-going process of continuum and consistency is true to take place. At present the subject of conservation and consolidation of the younger generation cultural values appears to be currently central more than ever. A young gentleman in a contempo...

The aim of the paper is to analyse the historical perspective of changing the social status, role and position of the woman and to focus on the womenВ’s self-realization in the public sphere and the labour market. Statistical data not only from the Czech Republic, or more precisely, from the EU, but also from other developed and developing regions in the world reflect the unequal position of women in the labour market, access to education, their limited representation in positions and posts connected with decision...

The article deals with the statistical relationship between transformational leadership and initiation of interpersonal communication of senior school students. The article emphasises peculiarities of new generation school students. It is relevant to reveal the main traits of transformational leadership of new generation students and their relationship to interpersonal communication. The results of the research show that the most typical leadership of senior school students is the transformational one. The transfo...

The Western Balkan countries during the last three decades go through successive changes which sociologically are articulated as "social transition". The transition process represents a social change that is primarily political in nature, but that ultimately affects every pore of the society. This radical transformation brought up the debate over the new values against the old ones, about the nature and construction of the new society, etc. Macedonia as a country with mixed multicultural and multiethnic society ha...

This paper studies the trends in higher education and internationalization policies in context of Singapore and Russia. The main idea of this research is analysis and comparison of education system policies in Singapore and Russian Federation in order to discover the key differences and possibilities for future development and growth factors. Correlation analysis of the economical and educational statistical data reveals common principles responsible for the economic success. Problems and possible actions in the a...

In the area of complex issues of the Romanian education, the teachersВ’ initial training represents a modeling action of the student according to the societyВ’s requirements and the Romanian education systemВ’s priority, apparently slightly valorized, but in fact closely correlated with the other components of the education systemВ’s reform in Romania. The present studyВ’s orientation toward the initial issue of teacher education requires the approach of the theme not only from the initial training perspective but...

Background: Institutional trust is one of the fundamental issues in the Russian society. The crisis of trust towards the social institutions, which are responsible for the processes of vital importance, is becoming total. The use of such category as institutional trust is due to the necessity to react in an integrated and contextual way the processes, which are currently occurring in the system of higher education. The following study, which is based on the sociological research data, shows that strengthening of t...

The paper focuses on the factors influencing the process of teaching students with hearing disability at university. A qualitative approach was used in this preresearch. It was realized through an interview with university teachers and with using a semi-structured questionnaire. The aim was to describe the factors influencing the communication between the university teachers and the student with hearing disability, to identify the forms of cooperation between the subjects and the form in which the students are mad...