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Thinking and learning are a basic prerequisite for the formation of geographical knowledge and the solving of geographical problems in geography education. They are complex processes that are influenced by a number of factors. Thoroughly modern geodidactics pays attention to their key features and fundamental interrelationships from the point of view of pedagogical psychology, refracted through the prism of geography and its spatial dimensions, in the context of which student interests have an undeniable role in d...

Over the past decade, there has been significant progress in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), marking it as an emerging technology with potential significance in the realm of education. It is poised to assume a substantial role in both the processes of teaching and learning in the immediate future. This study aims to delineate the viewpoints of university students pertaining to the concept of artificial intelligence. To this end, an online survey was conducted among students enrolled at Partium Christian...

Engineering is a highly cognitive activity and as such has long been treated andeducated in solely cognitive domain. However, the role of emotions in engineering hasrecently been closely examined. Engineering is creating products, services and systemsfor people to use. In their use people engage emotionally as well as cognitively.Therefore in defining project requirements attention must be paid to emotional needs ofusers as well as their functional and cognitive needs. It is known that user’s mentalconcept of a ...

The homeroom teacher (HRT) is one of the main roles in the school. HRTs effective teaching and classroom management are central to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education. The main goal of this study was to examine Israeli upper secondary HRTs perceptions of the new multiple domain performance tool (USHRT-MDPT) to evaluate their work performance. The study applied a qualitative paradigm of data collection and analysis. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and were analyzed thematically. ...

A teacher must overcome many different obstacles during these changes when trying to improve the quality of his teaching. As part of the qualitative research, we focused both on the behavior of the pupils and on the behavior of the teacher, who, in order to improve the quality of his teaching, is trying to change his educational style, from a transmissive style to a constructivist style. In the framework of this article, we focused on the obstacles that a teacher changing his educational style must overcome. The r...

In the digital society variety of technological tools became available that bring the new tutoring student-centred ecosystem enhancing professional English L2 teaching/learning skills and abilities. The work aims at adopting technology in education (EdTech) by comparing the advantages and limitations and addressing experimental evidence on the effectiveness of technology-based approaches by developing English communication skills for graduates. The pre-experimental phase recognised and mapped the most effective an...

One of the important elements in the preparation of future teachers in the field of mathematics is the analysis of the pupil's solution. These analyses include the analysis of the video recording of the pupil's solving procedure and the monitoring of the pupil's thought processes. We do not always have a video recording of solving the task (GDPR, video file size, time space, etc.). Therefore, in the preparation of future teachers in the field of the first grade of elementary school, we tried to replace the video r...

The study provides an overview of the pedagogical role of board games. In every section of it argues for the importance and role of them: in the first part it presents a short historical overview by offering evidences and examples of how they were used in different eras, starting from a couple of thousand years B. C. Another part of the article deals with the development of game theories and the perception of using board games for pedagogical aim. As it concludes from this section, these thoughts and ideas are als...

Culture enables sustainable development, it is a driver and enabler of sustainable development. In the context of globalization, cultural exchanges are increasing, the role of language as a carrier of culture is more and more evident. Many countries even include it in the national strategy, and it became an important government action. Confucius Institute is an important platform for Sino-foreign cultural exchanges and mutual learning. And the same of the other cultural institutes which have been mentioned in this...

Covid-19 had tremendously affected the way how people learn. As a general tendency, the sector of adult education has transformed towards digitization offering a wide range of online adult education programmes, including in geosciences. Due to the Covid-19 related restrictions, educational institutions offering adult education programmes were forced to develop their strategies on how to adapt to the new reality. Within this study, a comparative analysis of three adult education institutions representing Latvia, Po...

As law enforcement officers work in the system person-person they must possess the ability to stop conflicting parties’ opposition, resolve conflicts on the basis of the rule of law. So developing conflict managing skill is crucial in professional training of future law enforcement officers. The article purpose is to identify the impact of the pedagogical conditions of the development of future law specialists’ ability to resolve conflicts on the level of this skill development. Research methods were the follo...

Sustainable development goals in education foresee availability of education among others. Availability of educational services exactly near to living place is significant for reaching sustainable development goals. Although, availability of educational services near to living place requires investments and clear understanding of possible demand for the services in the future. Depopulation at regional level is the issue, which complicates availability of education near to living place. As a result, regions need to...

The work aims to apply a divergent and convergent approach in teaching professional English focused on developing verbal creativity within the training of communication skills for university students. The research involved 50 students of economics in an experimental group with a divergent approach (N = 25) and a control group with a traditional convergent approach (N = 25) at the University of Zilina in an engineering study within an 8-week experiment. Before/after the experiment, verbal creativity in topic-based ...

It is important to identify the intentions of young people to start a business and the factors that influence them, as well as to find an explanation that leads to entrepreneurial activities and the emergence of new businesses. Entrepreneurial intentions are important in the context of individual career development. Identifying an individual's entrepreneurial intentions is important because it focuses on activities that could add value to both the individual and society in the future, as well as create new jobs. E...

Developing personal responsibility is crucial in all spheres of life. Since young people represent the future of the world and are the most active part of population it is topical to develop students’ responsibility and Physical Education classes have great potential for it. So, the article is dedicated to the problem of developing university students’ responsibility in Physical Education classes. The purpose of the article is to verify experimentally effectiveness of the methodological instruments of partners...

Taking a risk and making a decision are two important factors in starting a business. Studies show that young people are at high risk. There are a number of factors that can contribute to this phenomenon, including both biological and environmental effects, but decisions may be influenced by prejudices about the immediate benefits over the longterm benefits. Achieving long-term goals is always associated with uncertainty, as it cannot be assumed that all the circumstances that may arise in the future will be known...

The article authors reveal the specific features of music education in Waldorf school. Based on theoretical methods (synthesis and analysis of scientific and educational sources) and empirical methods (observation, survey, conversation, study of the academic results of schoolchildren’s activities etc.), the general tendencies of modern Waldorf education, as well as the specific features of organizing the educational process in Waldorf school and music education, in particular, have been identified. The general t...

Before the pandemic that burst out in 2019, most language teachers noticed that students learn more efficiently when they combine classroom learning with learning outside the classroom. In Romania, this concept is quite new when we think of higher education, where students have been accustomed to learning in more formal environments, such as labs or classrooms. As for learning a foreign language outside the classroom, there are no studies that report on the effectiveness of learning outside this so-called safe env...

Modern global challenges caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, which have been exacerbated by the martial law imposed in Ukraine for almost six months, have determined distance learning technologies with the help of information and communication technologies to be the only alternative to traditional education. The article is devoted to the analysis of synchronous and asynchronous learning technologies in the practice of distance teaching of geographical disciplines in higher education institutions. The article substant...

Today's competitive environment requires managers who are able to identify and distinguish false information and critically analyze information. Today's businesses are driven by a knowledge-based society, and the more critical the thinking, the better the knowledge. Information literacy helps young people to become more critical of the information they receive, while business information literacy can significantly improve decision-making processes. Information literacy is considered to be the ability to critically...

In the frame of the realized research based on the constructivist approach to teaching mathematics at primary and secondary schools, among other aspects, the idea was to focus on one of the key and important activities of the teacher, such as the analysis of pupils' problem solving. In this contribution, the written form of the pupils’ solutions has been focused and shown. According to the missing practical experiences in the mathematical areas, pupils investigated some properties (principles) in a series of mat...

Since the breakout of COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, post-secondary education in Croatia has been held almost exclusively online. Therefore, teachers and students had to adapt to the entirely way of education. Online classes were held by using web-conference tools (MS Teams, Zoom, Moodle webinar), while class materials and online exams were available through learning management systems (Merlin, 2co2, Moodle). In this paper we present the results of surveying students of electrica University of Rijeka, and studen...

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 teachi...

The study focuses on architectural motifs in the selected sample of illustrations by Slovak artists and the reception of such motifs by junior school aged children. Fantasy architectural motifs are relatively frequent in the illustrations to fairy tales however, their detailed descriptions are not so often present in the fairy tales’ texts. The study introduces basic types of architectural motifs in fictional literature for children relative to whether the illustrators took inspiration from history or from real ...

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 ...

Prague focuses on the training of professional counsellors, while also focusing on identifying, analysing and characterizing the educational needs of employers and employees. It also finds suitable ways to obtain a new qualification, to extend, change or innovate an existing qualification, etc. In this context, the authors focus on the profession of a police soldier, being traditionally understood as purely male work. The Military Police of the Czech Republic was established in 1991 and its tasks include, for exam...

The mission of civil protection is, to the extent stipulated by the Act of the National Council of the Slovak Republic no. 42/1994 Coll. on civil protection to protect life, health and property and to create the conditions for survival in the event of an emergency and during a declared emergency. EU Member States have committed themselves to exchanging information on various infectious diseases. The programs of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control in this regard support the development of specifi...

Assessing students’ learning is one of the most important responsibilities a teacher can have, as well as being one of the tasks teachers spend more time doing. Thus, assessment skills are a primary tool that every teacher should master. The set of assessment skills is known as assessment literacy. Several studies point to the fact that initial teacher education has serious shortcomings in preparing future teachers for the assessment-related tasks. It seems clear that, for the development of skills in assessment...

The theoretical problem of a study is scientific description and typology of historical strategies in search of harmony between human and the world, reflected in European socio-cultural projects and ecological practices of XVIII to XXI centuries. The obje

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 KromД›Е™Г­Еѕ) 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 ...

In our paper, we discuss the potential of Solfege as a means for the development of music literacy and musical abilities in pupils of primary and secondary schools. The aim of this study is to explore Solfege, to bring its brief historical introduction and to investigate its benefits in the experiment with extended music education. The main method used for obtaining the information was the document analysis, and statistical analysis of the data gained in 1997, during the 10th year of an experiment aimed at increas...

The article is motivated by the rapidly growing interest in e-education in general and mobile learning. The main purpose of the article was to develop an educational product, namely WebQuest, for language teaching using mobile applications. Our methodolog

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 i...

The work aims to identify how to enhance the communicative competence of undergraduates by introducing a teacher-supported online "Job Lab" English language course on oral speaking skills training. The course goal was to meet the needs of non-native students of Economics (50 participants) who formed two groups with a different approach (videotaping and without). The main task was creating, delivering, and evaluating oral speaking using an assessment rubric and learn how to give/get constructive feedback. Before th...

Last decades have witnessed the growing interest towards multiple problems of language education. In the lime light there is the issue of language anxiety as a form of the psychological barrier in the foreign language learning. The tasks of the research w

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...

The issue of risks in health care is closely related to the quality of health care provided and the area of safety for all those who participate in providing this care in any way. In healthcare facilities and other organizations in the public and private sectors, risk ma agement is an integral part of management processes. It is gaining in importance, especially in connection with ensuring the safety of patients, which, together with the quality of treatment, is becoming the primary task of the management of indiv...

As part of longitudinal research project that is concerned with the new implementation of computational thinking (CT) into the primary school curriculum in the Czech Republic, several surveys have been conducted on the concept of CT itself, both among students and teachers. this paper summarises the outcomes of a project focused on the possibilities of measuring the development of computational thinking in students and seeks to determine the key competencies that teacher purposefully develop in their students or a...

Quality assurance of teaching and learning is among the strategic goals of tertiary education. The key trend is towards comparable educational systems (achieved mainly by defining the teaching results) with improved permeability allowing for higher student mobility and better preparedness for jobs in a globalised economy. A great challenge of tertiary education is linking the research outcomes with degree programmes, which results in the graduates coping better with the real practical problems. The protracted accr...

Mankind has always been preoccupied with the issue of sustainability. In today’s soc al context, however, it seems to be an increasingly important issue that what and how we produce can be sustained in the long run. This is not just a key issue for a market economy. This paper addresses the issue of sustainability that arises for organizations with different social missions. An international research project will be presented, dealing with sustainability management and green controlling in the social economy. Th...

Experience from practice with the diagnosis and subsequent therapy of seriously ill children shows that one of the key aspects of successful treatment is an informed, cooperating and supportive person (most often the child's parent). After the announcement of an unfavorable and serious health iagnosis of a child, each member of the family copes with the new situation differently, individually. Even so, usual and to some extent legitimate rocesses can be observed in this difficult period. Parents of children with d...

the present article is a research that draws attention to a widespread social phenomenon among young people in Romania, preadolescents and adolescents who developed anxiety-depressive symptoms during pandemic isolation, as a result of restrictions that changed the relationship dynamics of all, especially those mentioned above, in a transformative stage of life, with personalities being structured, without sufficient resources to regain a psycho-emotional balance necessary to adapt to significant global situations,...

Teachers should be proud of their students for their resilience, patience, and successes during this unique challenging learning environment. Teaching quality varied substantially and adaptations for remote learning were inconsistent. There were different forms of inequality in access and opportunity for students of disadvantaged and/or marginalized groups (e.g. internet connectivity, parent support, different time zones). How could this context influence the proportion of students who could be classified as under...

education systems in a very short time by organising remote learning for students in general education schools. This change affected the working conditions of all participants in the learning process and presumably the learning outcomes of students. This paper examines the learning outcomes of students of Grades 5-12 during the COVID-19 lockdown. The research was carried out using the data from the electronic school diary “Mano Dienynas” of 22 schools: 11 schools from the favourable (high) SES municipal contex...

Humor in the school space is not a phenomenon ignored in specialized studies, but also cannot be considered a topic that has generated a generous scientific production. In the pedagogical discourse, most dedicated studies captured the multiple ways of expressing the teacher's humor operationalized in styles and tools, as well as its impact on heterogeneous curricular variables: motivation for learning, students' anxiety level, teaching efficiency, creating a classroom environment relaxing etc. The aim of the study...

The teaching assistant has been used very often in the Czech education system in recent years, and we find his presence in almost all types of schools. In the future, we can expect an ever-increasing quality and quantity of these workers. The teaching assistant meets in his practice and will very likely continue to meet with social and health tasks. According to current legislation in the Czech Republic, acts of a social nature are part of the profession of teaching assistant. However, we can still (not very rarel...

Historical, architectural, and environmental values preserving specific atmospheres of the cities enhance the sense of cultural continuity and diversity over time, being resources of identity, inspiration, and hope. As the patrimony becomes active in the public consciousness, it enhances the citizens’ sense of identity and functions as a psychological anchor over time, connecting generations around common values and roots. The current paper describes the results and impact of the activities for children and yout...

The article deals with the impact of advertising communication on the consumers' mind. The article presents the results of a study focused on the features of constructing the image of the family in advertising. Advertising has a strong impact on large seg

The objective of the paper was to present the perception of teachers in schools for pupils with disability concerning the pandemic, the requirements of the educational process as well as the impact on pupils’ families. The research is an observational-descriptive cross-sectional study. Given the nature of the study, there was no need to establish and include a control group. The design of the study was selected in order to obtain research data as soon as possible given the topicality of the social and educationa...

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 ...