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The expectations of teachers and their professional activities are currently changing, and new professional standards are being implemented, including EC Supporting Teacher Competence Development, UK TeachersВ’ Standards, Transforming American Education, and Russian Teacher Professional Standard. An analysis of these standards reveals wide variations in their functions and application, but all of them define teachersВ’ competences in terms that are both country-specific and universal. One of these universal metric...

Environmental Citizenship is a key factor in EU's growth strategy (Europe 2020) and its vision for Sustainable Development and Green and Circular economy. It is widely agreed that significant behavior change amongst both individuals and organizations is required in order to meet EuropeВ’s sustainability objectives and climate change targets. While Europe has undoubtedly made progress in preserving and enhancing its rural ecosystems and semi-natural systems in certain rural areas, continued overall loss of natural ...

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

The paper is devoted to the issues of youth workers’ professionality which are given as the priority by European Commission in 2015. Non-formal education must more efficiently support formal education. For youth workers, this has created, in particular new challenges and difficulties (such as a lack of professional scenes), but also opportunities. During the period 2005-2017 various studies showed the high mobility of Estonia youth workers in youth centers and shortage of personnel with special education. The pu...

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

University teacher is a factor which determines the level of the educational process, but also the level of scientific and research activities. Recently, there can be permanently witnessed the efforts at the national level by stressing the importance of the project and research activities in higher education institutions. In the process of quality assessment are mostly preferred quantitative indicators. The development of personality of students, however, contributes significantly to the level of teaching activity...

In our own times the consensus with respect to the validity of the European policies goes into crisis, reducing the sense of belonging of its citizens in a common destiny. The recent case of Brexit is a perfect example of the malaise in which pours European citizenship. Specifically, European citizenship poses a definitory problem: the status of European citizen depends on being citizens of one of EU member states. This dependence, which determines a relationship of superposition, tends to mask the difference of t...

Background: The goal of the study was to find out whether the educational materials for patients who have undergone the implantation of a vascular prosthesis in lower extremities or abdominal aorta are of high quality, understandable and usable for patients. Methods: The evaluation included educational materials in written form – two brochures for patients prior to the surgery, one brochure for patients after the surgery and an information map. The PEMAT (Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool) was chosen f...

Introduction: Health literacy is a cognitive and social ability determining the individuals` capability of getting an access to information, comprehending and using the information in a way that promotes and maintains good health. It helps to choose healthy behavior and can influence skills achieved in the childhood. Goal: to identify the level of health literacy in children and adolescents between 12 and 18 years. Methodology: A quantitative survey, a questioning method, a face-to-face dialogue. Data collection u...

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

Background: Services create most of employment and value added in modern economies and via delivering key intermediate inputs to other sectors they enhance industrial performance and boost economic growth. The significance of international trade in services is systemically growing together with development of ICT technologies. Although Poland's share in global trade in services is rather small (1.01% in exports and 0.72% in imports in 2016) this sector is important for the Polish economy. In 2016, Poland's service...

The article studies the higher education reforming period in the Russian Federation (since December 25, 1991 to the present time) and presents the analysis of the Russian Federation legislation in the field of education, which is based on the following documents: Law of the Russian Federation "On education" dated July 10, 1992; Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation "On the enactment procedure of the Law of the Russian Federation "On education" No. 3627-I dated 10 July, 1992; Federal Law No. 125-FZ...

Intercultural identity of student teachers is defined as an aggregate of intercultural knowledge, communication skills, attitudes and personal features that are necessary for successful activity of teachers in the context of interaction among different cultures. The aforesaid components are implemented at the cognitive, behavioural and affective areas. In this context, the research problem is formulated as a question: what is the level of the intercultural identity of pre-service music teachers and what are the po...

Creating good relations between teacher and their student determines the student's well-being at school. Many Polish researchers tried to identify the relations between students and teachers (?nie?y?ski 1990, Dylak 1995, ?cis?owska 2000, Brzezi?ska and Rycielska 2009, Szempruch 2012). The development of new technologies in recent years has contributed to the trend of moving communication to cyberspace. In this context, there is a positive impact of social networking in teacher contacts with students (Py?alski, 201...

Motor performance as a multidimensional concept cannot be defined and characterized through a single motor ability. Multidimensionality of the structural model of motor abilities was, however, initially formulated for adult population and mechanically transformed for child population. The purpose of the study is to determine a factor structure of motor and somatic indicators in primary school children. A sample of 436 children aged 7 to 10 years, of which were 222 girls and 214 boys, performed physical fitness tes...

A majority of students have the opportunity to be the centre of attention (to present a speech, to read a report, to sing, to conduct, or to play) and to feel emotional strain. The latter touches us all but not in the same way. For some personalities emotional stress helps to mobilise their spiritual power, others change unrecognizably: a person becomes tense, confused, the colour of his/her skin changes, a personВ’s hands start trembling. The profession of the music teacher may also be regarded as a profession of...

The effectiveness of scientific research belongs to the categories that are difficult to measure. Its assessment is generally subjective and based on various criteria. In the paper it is assumed that the effectiveness of scientific research is determined by a number of publication as well as the speed of commencing and concluding the doctoral conferment procedure. The effectiveness of scientific research is affected by many factors. The authors assumed that the most important ones is the knowledge of methodologica...

The major research objective was to analyze the problem of organization of inclusive social space from a perspective of disabled peopleВ’s social activity. Authors examine the problem of social inclusion as interdisciplinary task, whereas social activity of people with disabilities is viewed as activity caused by both internal and external factors. Methodology. This work actualizes formation of disabled peopleВ’s social demands for opportunities corresponding to principles of humanism, social equality, tolerance a...

This paper interprets the contents of family education, investigated through a historic analysis, written in discussions of annual reports of folk schools. Many authors refer to the period from the middle of the 19th century until 1918 as the “golden age” for their generation. The reports of folk schools dating from that period were analyzed, and in 40 of them, texts were found relating to the field of family education. This paper analyzes the contents of family education with which authors wish to act on rais...

Background: The new content of mathematical education should ensure the achievement of state, social and personal needs and interests of students. Current situation related to the methodological and psycho-pedagogical aspects in-depth studying of mathematics is considered by authors. The rethinking of traditional methods of teaching and searching new techniques to form independent and cognitive activity occurs at the step of transition to the new quality of education. It happens in the process of teaching mathemat...

The aim of the paper is to measure the level of financial literacy of students of the Social Work study programs in their last study year, as many experts are convinced that social workers are suitable professionals to help individuals and families with an advisory on finance and debt counselling in the context of accompaniment and social counselling. The authors chose a quantitative research strategy and used the data collection method of a questionnaire, which was composed of three parts: socio-demographic chara...

In the paper I present the Slovak illustrator Miroslav CipГЎr. His artistic creation is famous and appreciated at home as well as abroad. CipГЎrВ’s works of art, thanks to their fine-art properties, go beyond home as well as beyond European fine-art traditions. In his works of art there are mixed motives from Slovak folklore art and non-European fine-art cultures, which he became acquainted with during his professional internships in several world-wide destinations. Typical features of CipГЎrВ’s fine-art expressio...

Background: The monitoring of the skin lesions in clinical practice varies significantly. For the necessity of unified pressure ulcers monitoring, the care process, and the treatment of pressure ulcers (hereinafter named PU), a specially prepared and pilot-tested dataset was compiled. The aim of the research is to analyse the completeness and availability of data according to the created dataset in the individual centres (faculty hospitals) involved in the research. There were observed items evaluating incidence a...

Introduction: The efficiency of the cardiovascular and respiratory system is an important factor determining the physical performance and health of subjects. The aim of the study is to present and compare the state of physical fitness, including cardiovascular and respiratory systems of obese women and men. Methods: 12 women and 12 men of similar age and possessing Io obesity were subjected to the study. After recording the age of the subjects and the basic anthropometric features in resting conditions and during ...

The article reveals eating patterns as a tool for human body construction. The main contradiction in the realization of eating patterns is the contradiction between the biological nature of the human body, predetermined by genetics and heredity, and the social standardization of corporality in modern social systems. Preferred food labels the human body in the context of its normativity, the phenomenon of the normative body of a person appears. The article states positive attitude of the younger generation to alter...

Every year in Romania, a significant number of youth and children fall victim to different forms of exploitation: sexual exploitation, forced labor exploitation, exploitation for begging, exploitation by forcing to commit juvenile delinquency. According to the studies published by the National Agency Against Trafficking in Persons (ANITP), in 2016 the number of victims was 756, 14% lower than in the previous year. Adult victims prevail (402 victims, of which 294 women and 128 men), although the number of minor vic...

Strategic communication and foreign policy are fields interlacing with high intense in latest years. Reasons behind this phenomenon are technological possibilities to spread the message, and, nevertheless, foreign policy visibility via open and active international society. The same time actors and agents playing in the foreign policy field have various interests. Such effects as informational noise, disinformation, propaganda, and provocation (under circumstances of hybrid-warfare) largely puzzles global informat...

The article considers the history of the development of the leading university of the Ural region in the context of modernization of the country's higher education. One of the most important tasks facing the Russian state was the development of higher education and, above all, engineering. The authors, using the example of the largest regional university in Russia, traced the main stages of its creation, development and modernization in accordance with socio-economic realities in the twentieth and early twenty-fir...

Introduction: Social demands aim at the improvement of the modern engineering and technical education in the conditions of the information educational environment of a technical university. The priority purposes of the teaching in the system of Higher education are the personal and professional growth of students: the formation of such qualities of a personality as the ability to take the responsibility, creativity, reflexivity, the ability to work in a team and readiness for further self-development. For this rea...

Military psychologists play an important role in a modern army, particularly under conditions of war. During hostilities, a military psychologist extensively uses the group form of work. If this is the case, he applies a number of professional skills that are pedagogical or related to them. This makes it expedient to use immersion of military psychologists into pedagogical situations during their training. The paper describes the advisability of exploiting such a pedagogical situation as giving mini-lectures. The ...

One of the trends in the development of the meat industry is the introduction into the production process of modern environmentally friendly energy-saving methods for processing raw materials and semi-finished products. At the present time, attention is paid to non-traditional physical principles of processing food raw materials - electrical, magnetic, electromagnetic fields, also and electrocontact and acoustic methods. These methods have such advantages as non-inertial operation of the equipment, reduction the d...

Participation in culture is an important element in the proper development of children. Thanks to the encounter with culture, they develop internally, become more open to the world and other people. This is extremely necessary in the modern world, because it is very diverse. There are many institutions that popularize culture These include cultural centers, also called centers. They conduct cultural and educational activities, often connected with sports or recreation centers. The cultural institution is a library...

Risk behaviours in youth are often the result of personal identity issues and internal conflicts, connected with the need for new and more complex excitement, and a new image about themselves. Such behaviours often precede delinquent behaviour or occur with delinquent behaviour. It also could be related to impulsive decision-making, negligent behaviour, conflict with peers or authority, and having a significant negative impact on the wider society. The aim of this paper is to gain insight the experiences of young ...

The paper focuses on the empirical study of the attitude to the nature in a sample of student teachers. The study was conducted by Thompson and Barton’s [8] questionnaire aimed to assess the ecocentric approach in this group. The second tool used was a questionnaire of won provenience of the study author called Animal Respect Questionnaire (AniRe). The AniRe questionnaire is a unidimensional tool designed to assess the responders’ respect for animals. The research has shown a significant difference between ecoc...

In the modern scientific research, there are developments dealing with the problems of professional communication of the future professionals in the areas of teaching, law, economics, etc. However, not enough attention is paid to the problems related to professional communication of the social work specialists. In this respect, improvement of the training process suggests inclusion of the game as a training tool modelling in a suitable way the future professional environment. As the game unfolds, improved are the ...

The urgency of the investigated problem is due to the constantly increasing role of game in study of different disciplines, including foreign language. Despite of the obvious attractiveness of gaming techniques, they are not used enough in foreign language lessons as the full-fledged teaching aids. This article is devoted to the analysis of innovative and active training method – gaming activity in English language teaching for special purposes in higher educational establishments. The article is aimed at a crit...

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

The aim of the study was to identify the professional public`s opinion of general public`s health literacy and approach to their own health. A quantitative method using a non-standardized questionnaire was chosen to meet this aim. This questionnaire was based on the standardized questionnaire called The HLS-EU-47 of the HLSEU Consortium for the European Health Literacy Survey (HLS-EU), which is designed for the identification of health literacy. The questionnaire contained 38 questions arranged in individual areas...

The article is devoted to the topical problem of the Russian Federation foreign policy in the Far East transformation in recent decades. Traditionally, the region is a sphere of Russia's special interests. The collapse of the Soviet Union marked a shift in the balance of power in it towards the US-Japanese alliance and the new powers have emerged claiming a leading place, it is primarily China. In the 21st century, Russia is gradually returning to regional affairs as an active actor, focusing its efforts not on pr...

The article is devoted to the urgent problem of economic cooperation between China and Japan in the era of the "World Financial Crisis". The global economic crisis of 2008, which became a powerful blow for the capitalist world since the Great Depression and inflicted a heavy blow on the economies of the United States and Western Europe, did not have such a strong impact on East Asia, China and even Japan, despite their greater involvement in the world financial and economic system. It confirmed the fact that the c...

The breakdown of world trade flows that occurred in 2008-2009 due to the financial and economic crisis was followed by a swift recovery. However, since 2012 global trade growth has been sluggish and the growth rates lower than average growth of global GDP. Various reasons have been named to explain that phenomenon. One of which is the supposed protectionist policies spreading all over the world. The main goal of the paper is to analyze global trade flows since 2012 and pinpoint the main tendencies and factors affe...

In the article the author's model of fixing of young specialists at the regional labor market is presented. The main approach to a research presupposes accounting of different factors influencing the number of graduates, and the demand for them at the regional labor market. The dependence of market development of educational services on economical and demographic conditions of the region is revealed. The role of state regulation of education market and stimulation of need for a young personnel from business is pro...

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

In this paper we present the results of an ongoing educational project which was started in the year 2016 in Samara State University of Economics, Russia. The purpose of this study was to monitor and assess the changes in the studentsВ’ Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) level attained through two different approaches: blended Learning approach and Traditional Classroom method. In Russia English for Specific Purposes (ESP) clearly dominates in tertiary educational institutions. Thus, the research was based on ESP course. ...

Designing public spaces has become one of the most relevant issues in contemporary cities thanks to their integrating and inclusionary character. Public spaces are playing a far more important role in promoting a healthy lifestyle and encouraging us to do different activities. Therefore, contemporary public spaces should enhance creativity, stimulate physical activity and influence mental health. The methodology used in the research includes literature survey, study visits and comparative analysis of some selected...

Background: Health literacy, which is a part of the fundamental equipment for life and the path to the health of the individual and of the society, has been coming to the foreground of many scientific disciplines in recent years. The crucial issue of the presented area consists in the fact that low health literacy is a serious risk factor for health, which deepens undesirable health inequalities and results in high costs for health care. The goal of this article consists in presenting partial results of a study ma...

The aim of the presented text is to analyse the level of health literacy in health promotion, namely in healthy lifestyles, in a selected population of seniors. The text first defines health literacy as a key concept, and explains the importance and models of health literacy, including the possibilities of measuring it. The paper presents the results of an empirical survey of a selected population of seniors, namely students of the University of the Third Age at PalackГЅ University in Olomouc, where a higher degre...

Background: Health and health promotion in the old age are one of the hot topic both in association with the ageing population and in the context of providing complex health care of the elderly, not only in the Czech Republic. Health promotion in the old age, as one of the dimensions of health literacy, relates (1) to getting and understanding the health-related information, (2) to the ability to take care of one`s own health, and (3) to reducing the inequality in the approach to health in the elderly population. ...

The article considers the results of the biological age assessment of 354 students of Magnitogorsk State Technical University named after G. I. Nosov. The study reveals that the age increasing shows the deterioration of health, as for 1.66 times decline of the number of people with good health and 1.93 times increase of the number of students with satisfactory health standard. In all age groups the most students have a biological age below the supposed one, but a third of the students have a biological age higher ...

Introduction: Besides the conditions under which an individual is born, grows up and grows old, health literacy is an important factor participating in the quality of health. Health promotion and prevention of diseases include, through all the individual`s life, a wide range of activities contributing to the health improvement of population in individual countries. The traditional areas contributing to the improvement of health quality include the public health protection and promotion and health education. The he...