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Active teaching techniques are taught as a core element of University Teacher Training courses as applied to each subject of the curricula. Studying a subject in school requires active teaching and learning. But, often the methods used by teachers in the classroom are not differentiated and do not activate students sufficiently. There are cases where even in-service teachers/mentors avoid using active teaching techniques because it seems to be easier not to involve students in the teaching process. Our paper’s aim...

The paper follows-up the ongoing reform in the Slovak educational system and, accordingly, we emphasize the need for the dialogue within the educational process. We study education as a dialogue and exclude several of its important characteristics. We examine the conditions necessary to enable the dialogue to be implemented in classes, we focus on the preparation of the dialogue, including the actions that the preparation includes (gaining and processing of facts for the dialogue; detection and animation of former...

The necessity of Education for Sustainable Society and Development (ESD) is caused by the escalation of the environmental and human situation in the world. Its aims to develop students‘ knowledge, competences and skills necessary for sustainable development, many of which have a close relationship to citizenship education and are essential to promote the integration of basic components of sustainable development - economic development, social development, cultural diversity protection and environmental protection ...

Pragmatic orientation of the article was influenced by the fact that communication and rhetoric (as a skill) is not part of education programs at the Technical University. If it is present, then only as partial subpart of some subjects (more or less social sciences subjects). In terms of current theory and practice the communication skills are considered as a key factor of success in entering individual to the labor market. Article follows the issue of communication skills, partial results of self-assessment of co...

The fast progress in science and technology causes the global changes in teaching and learning process and requirements to qualification of a modern engineer. To meet the modern era requirements, the high engineering education system sets an objective to prepare competitive specialists and to establish conditions for professional qualities elaboration and personal enhancement. International cooperation extension and globalization processes that require high-level communication skills determine the need for lifelon...

In this study the emphasis of selecting a school and profession is put onto the family role in educational and professional guidance in order to help the students to obtain the necessary information for further education, by the help of their parents, more efficiently and more functionally. The study was conducted in Virovitica and Podravina County with two groups of subjects and included 1.063 children—555 of them were eighth grade students of elementary school and 508 were first grade students of secondary schoo...

The twenty-first century has brought about a new type of society, the information-based society. Although this type doubtless provides a lot of opportunities for development and self realization, which are the top needs, according to Maslow hierarchy, we cannot but notice the existing downside as well. What is being promoted as a life motto worldwide is the combination of pragmatism and hedonism, which especially appeals to the youth. Such a combination presupposes that young people faced with overload of availabl...

This article tackles assessment in the Business Communication class, looking at current practices in the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, in BA and MA programmes in International Business and Business Administration, and suggesting new ways of evaluating students’ so-called “soft” skills. The author argues for assessment as a learning tool, which engages students as individuals and as members of teams, and proposes that collaborative assessment can better prepare future graduates for the job market. Start...

Ecologic education represents one of the new types of education, being focused on a formative content which is adjacent to the contemporary world problematic, as it aims the formation of human conscience regarding the environment amelioration and its protection. Ecologic education, whose contents and objectives have as main landmarks motivation, interdisciplinary, globalization, but also the local and regional actions and among other things, has influence in formation of collective ecological behaviors, a life sty...

solution of deficiencies in anti-bias education and education towards respect for human rights in secondary education of students in the Slovak Republic. The project responds to the fact that in recent times, not only in Slovakia but also in Europe, we increasingly encounter, also among children and young people, intolerant behaviour towards others - with signs of hostility, fear of otherness stemming from the prejudices about people of another race, national origin, ancestry, of another religion, but also the dis...

The subject of this article is to compare the structure of the frame “Educational Activity” in the mental lexicons of teachers and students – the social groups where people are connected by the fulfillment of contradicting activities but interdependent social roles. The research method is a kind of associative chain test, namely the method of revealing the actual lexicon. The qualitative analysis of the experimental data is based on the semantic classification of responses and allows representing the structure of ...

The research is intended to prove the relevance of a writing for social media supplement to the ESL university-level course. Currently, the context in which language training is performed, features the stage of information society development where one has to generate, distribute and handle information efficiently in order to succeed in their professional activity. Progress in information technology as well as communication services and tools impacts the way people think, study, interact and collaborate. A variety...

Background: symbolic representation is a specific, uniquely human form of objectification of the real world, a powerful means of communication activity of its reflectivity. Understanding of the phenomenon of sign representation, its modeling and the definition of the sign and its meaning depends on the sign language system and aspects of the language to be interpreted – dynamic or statistical, functional or structural aspects are taken as a basis. This article is an attempt to review the main components of the sig...

The widespread of info-communication technologies in all spheres of human activities gives rise to new threats that in some cases may lead to violation of the constitutional human rights, threaten the stability of the State and public life. Among the most pressing are the ethical problems associated with the digital disparity, violations of personal privacy; ethics conduct on the Internet; compliance of intellectual property rights; opposition to the ideas of violent extremism in the Internet etc. Thus, the proble...

In inclusive education, pupil assessment is understood as one of the system elements which support inclusion. The concept of evaluation should therefore be consistent with the overall conception of a school, its values (mission, vision, goals) and principles. In this paper, we present the results of research aimed at mapping approaches to the assessment of pupils in "inclusive" primary schools within the context of inclusive education principles. The study also defines the characteristics of pupil assessment in an...

Universities in the 21st century feel the need, more than ever, to brand themselves and to assert their identity in the area of higher education, be this in the realm of their national context or on the international arena. A crucial element of the effort for branding resides in selecting or adopting a name which can single out a particular university and help it assess its unique features. The paper aims to highlight the main types of names used in labelling universities, contributing thus to studies dedicated to...

Purpose: the aim of this research is to perform an analysis of the level of strength for visually impaired pupils. This experimental study wishes to improve strength through the use of differentiated instruction. Methods: the study was realized during 2014 – 2015 scholar year, during the physical education lessons. The subjects of this research were pupils from the 6th grade (boys and girls) from the Gymnasium Special School for visually impaired pupil, Bucharest, Romania. For the experimental study, a number of 2...

The main objective of this paper is to design and test metrics that are used to assess the managerial competencies of university students Master degree study and review of the theoretical approach and research on the problems of management competencies. By comparing the results of the evaluation of managerial competencies and recorded study examined the performance of the model design their own evaluation of study performance. The following section presents the results of research in which they are presented corre...

The article presents the results of research from 2015 to identify teaching style of teachers? of Accounting at vocational secondary schools in the Czech Republic in terms of the proper usage of methods to enhance thinking, the application of interdisciplinary relationships and the impact of teacher?s motivation. The comparison of the attitudes of students and teachers on the subject of Accounting is presented. The article is based on the empirical research conducted in 2014 on the basis of a survey method, the nu...

Introduction. Creative character of structures exercises promotes the continuous enrichment of contents, as confirmed by the dynamic development of sports in artistic gymnastics technique, but also branches of some contents that define new sports and new forms of gymnastics exercises practice for health. It can be remembered thus, aerobics, gymnastics on Kango-Jumps, trampoline, and jumping into the water, skating, fitness, ballroom dancing and all sports that require extreme performance movements rooted in mutual...

The requests which are imposed to handball players and teams at this moment are of the highest level in matter of technical-tactical content, related with a superior physical and psychological particularities of each player. Trends and characteristics of modern handball are shaped based on the handball played by best teams in the national, European or World championships. The aim of this research is to analyze the performance of the best 4 teams qualified in the final tournament organized by the European Federatio...

The report articulates an approach to identify and study various semantic contexts in humanitarian texts on the basis of full-text search on the respective databases. The expediency of application for this is based on a universal instrument: a multifunctional digital full-text library. The capabilities of such an approach are demonstrated by the example of the information system T-Libra (developed by «Constanta», Ltd., Arkhangelsk, Russia). As illustration we opted for an analysis of the theme “Explication of the ...

In the conditions of the transition from the industrial society to the post-industrial one, the issue of the transformation of the existing qualities and their adaptation to new historical conditions becomes more topical. The significance of those heterotopies specifying the quality of the future dominants which will determine the elite quality of the elite has been growing. The authors analyze the knowledge system in terms of the elite education problem, directed on the production of the meritocracy as a new type...

In this document, the authors summarise the results of a project implemented with the aim of determining the current condition of inclusive education in Czech schools in mainstream education. The authors analyse the opinions of educators, both based on their practical experience and in the context of the length of their experience as educators. The findings obtained during research are also complemented by valid legislation.

Since the date of admission into the European Union, the Slovak Republic has been facing an obvious problem of both positive and negative changes within the labour market reorganization and functioning. Long-lasting trend of both decreasing population and increasing migration of human resources do reflect the conflict between demand and supply on local labor market, concerning also the qualification needs. However, despite of all serious consequences of this trend, the undoubtedly reason must be seen in the qualit...

In the paper the author deals with selected ways of language manipulation commonly used in media as well as in everyday communication, e.g. political correctness, euphemisms, euro-jargon, etc. Firstly, the author provides linguistic and contextual classification of the studied phenomenon along with examples. Subsequently, she follows with critical analysis and the possible way of their presentation at EFL classes as part of the curriculum for the university students of media studies, journalism, European studies a...

Preschoolers’ (N = 537) social competence, coping skills and peer-perceived likeability was assessed in Hungarian kindergarten groups belonging to the Romanian Educational System. We obtained measures both from parents and teachers in Social Competence Screening. A Coping Mechanism Questionnaire was answered by children and teachers as well. Sociometric peer nominations of acceptance, rejection and indifference were investigated to strengthen the findings of effective social behavior in the peer-group. As expected...

The main goal of this research is to determine the attitudes of academicians in terms of conflict, the types of conflicts they encountered and conflict management styles they applied. For this research, Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory was used to identify the academicians’ perceptions regarding conflict and conflict management styles. The sample data for this research is 186 academicians in Istanbul. In the research, participants emotional intelligence was assessed by the Emotional Competence Inventory (EC...

Benchmarking is one of the managerial methods used in many industries, but it could be applied with success in the educational system as well. In the introductory part of the paper, we present some features of modern benchmarking. Unfortunately, Romanian managers have strong reservations toward applying benchmarking in their organizations. In order to show their poor knowledge about benchmarking, we developed a research based on a questionnaire. The respondents were managers in small, medium or big organizations, ...

The aim of this paper is to introduce and evaluate selected determinants of e-Accessibility from the point of view of university students with visual impairment. In the years 2014 and 2015 we have evaluated the level of satisfaction with e-Accessibility of universities in Czech and Slovak Republic through the questionnaire completed by 54 university students with visual impairment with various degree of severity. Simultaneously we were investigating the preferences and most frequent practices of visually impaired ...

This paper discusses the possibilities and limitations of the use of publication databases such as Web of Science and Scopus to determine the research capabilities and prospective areas of research and development of universities. It also analyses major problems related with the analysis of universities' publication activities in Scopus and Web of Science databases such as author surname variations, identification of author profile among authors with the same surname, author and organization profile merging, ident...

Engagement of students in the learning process seems to be a crucial element of a successful teaching/learning process. Practising and reinforcing language skills belong to the most essential and important parts in foreign language education. Carefully prepared study materials play a very important role in the teaching/learning process. Special attention must be paid when teachers consider and choose study materials for adult learners, whose memory mechanisms are not so reliable and fail more often than at early a...

The submitted survey was focused on the analysis of opinions and attitudes expressed by the teachers participating in the national project called ?Education Process Modernization at Elementary and Secondary Schools? performed in selected training centres on the territory of Slovakia in years 2008 – 2013. The main objective of the project was innovation and modernization of teaching procedures, methods, and education forms, supported by a suitable and didactically well-prepared application of available digital tech...

Education is not just simple information acquisition. It represents a set of knowledge, skills, habits, cognitive abilities, interests, attitudes and values of a person. Nowadays especially issues relating to humanization of the educational process rise to prominence. Humanism puts emphasis on the overall dignity and value of human beings and their ability of self-realization. The basic condition of humanisation in education is a new defining of teacher-student relations. A teacher is expected to be humanistic and...

One of urgent problems on the way to society humanization is the society tolerance to various groups of population. The article deals with the point of the school community tolerance towards the children with disabilities. The authors carried out the sociological research in the school community of Krasnoyarsk. The research purpose was to identify the school community attitude to the joint teaching of the ordinary children and children with disabilities. The research was done by on-line questioning as well as inte...

The paper describes the main trends in leadership development based on changing world environment. There are summarized trends of world development that will be projected into the new needs of leadership development, so that the future leaders will be able to lead companies sustainable successfully. The main challenges for the future are globalization, development of technologies, especially IT, innovation and flexibility, turbulent environment and demographical changes. Globalization brings new approach to the ma...

The text deals with mutual relationship of the language and culture; with the influence of culture on the language and structure of its discourse in cases when Arabic is the target language and English is the language of teaching and communication in the class. It starts with a brief explanation of the main notions (language, culture); points at the differences between individualistic and collectivist cultures and their impact on the language. These differences can be observed in discrepancies that appear when we ...

The paper deals with development of the Inventory for teachers’ self-assessment in classroom management styles (ITSCMS). The starting standpoint was model which distinguishes three classroom management styles: interventionist, interactionist and non-interventionist. The initial content of Inventory consisted of 36 items in the form of Likert scales (ranged from 1 to 5), describing each style by 12 items. Inventory was given to the sample of 169 teachers from Serbia. Results showed that the instrument has good reli...

With the rapid growth of user generated content on blogs, forums, social networking and microblogging sites, social media analytics has become popular research topic in many different domains in order to shape marketing activities, management strategies, forecast trends, and for better understanding of consumers. Information spreads rapidly through social media sites and has a big impact on shaping public opinion. Negative comments about company, brand or a product/service can have drastic effects on the companys ...

The education modernization is impossible without the information and communication technologies usage. They are one of the most important tools of the improvement and development of the existing higher education methods. In particular, training in geometry of the future teachers of mathematics is impossible without the computer technologies advantages usage, the ready teaching programs usage. In the period from 2008 to 2013, authors carried out monitoring of level of knowledge of geometry of the first-year studen...

Today, smart phones represent one of the most modern tools used in business, especially in the relationship with customers. In many situations, the learning environment is included in a business environment. Starting from this idea, we consider that mobile application development has to become a habit in educational activities. In this paper we emphasize the importance of mobile apps in distance learning. If we have a business on learning, besides the use of websites, we can improve our relationship with the learn...

Higher education is an extremely fast growing service industry and it is exposed to the globalization processes every day more and more. Highly educated population have been thought as a key comparative advantage of the region in receiving long-term economic benefits through the knowledge effect, refferring to the knowledge production and technology transfer function of universities. Main purpose of this paper is to investigate has the perceptions of the main stakeholders of educational process, academic (teaching...

Background: In the article the process of forming holistic world outlook in education space of modern university through the synthesis of both cultures: scientific and humanitarian. Methods: The authors focus on the evolutionary-synergetic approach where transdisciplinary links, relations and interactions are integrated. The differences between disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary education structures are denoted. Results: The function of interdisciplinary synthesis in overwhelming cultures aliena...

This article deals with the term "transdisciplinarity" and its types; with the prospects and some advantages of the transdisciplinary approach in the higher school educational process. According to the concept of activity training the model of the future expert impacts on the appropriate model of his/her training. Presented as the system of professional problems, tasks and functions, the complete content of professional work is expressed in a system of educational problems, tasks and situations coming more closely...

The article is devoted to the requirements to information competence of future Russian teachers of the humanities. Today, the Russian Federation is going through the process of reforming of the higher education. The Federal state educational standard of higher education is built on the base of competence approach. There is a problem of definition of information competence which will be necessary for future teachers. This article sets out to give a general overview of such requirements. The future humanities teache...

The paper describes the lexicographic system developed under cooperative project of the Mathematical Linguistics Department of Saint Saint-Petersburg State University, Institute for Linguistic Studies of the R ussian Academy of Sciences, and Saint Saint-Petersburg Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO UniversityUniversity). The various possibilities of developed software are described, such as text storage, the parameterized search systemsystem, integration with external elect...

This article is theoretically-professional studies dealing with the issue of school experimental work and its prospects in the context of the modern methods of teaching. The article discusses creating a complex educational environment in the constructivist concepts, such as the environment, which affects the fundamental level of competence of educator and makes his professional prowess.

Modern society requires specialists ready to develop and implement innovative, unconventional ideas, but the problem is the complexity of e-learning developmental plan. There are several perspective solutions in terms of e learning. The authors self-reflective technology (self-examination development) was substantiated as a set of methods, tools and techniques that intensify the process of self-discovery and self-development in a media environment. Main features and structural composition of modular multimedia com...

Lifelong learning has been advocated for the following three reasonreasons: 1. to acquir e new knowledge and technology 2. to mak e life rich 3 . to reconnect with the communitycommunity. Lifelong music learning is useful particularly in making life rich, and reconnecting with the community. I selected Yokohama, as an example of one city that is providing lifelong learning opportunities. I plan to research and report in detail the various aims, rules and activities that pertain to Yokohama. By doing this research,...

This paper draws on our work as an ESP teacher with the 2nd year students from The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania and its branch in Bal?i, The Republic of Moldova. Since one of the topics discussed during the English seminars is corporate social responsibility, we will present our students’ perception of the matter based on the activities and exercises that were chosen to develop their active/ productive (speaking and writing) and passive/ recept...