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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 re...

Kazimierz Twardowski (1866–1938) – a Polish philosopher and psychologist – was a founder of the internationally famous Lviv-Warsaw School. Having studied under the supervision of Franz Brentano, he both improved the level of Lviv University and educated many well known philosophers and psychologists of both sexes at that university. The three main factors of private nature decided on his pro-women attitude; first, his friendships with women in the early age; second, the happy marriage he created with Kazimie...

This paper takes up the topic of the literature’s communicative dimension and it aims at describing and analyzing the communication patterns involved by the act of reading. The main target of our enterprise is the analysis of the literature’s basic conventions regarding its social-communicative scales. These conventions are settled on three different interactive levels: the rapport between reader and author (which duplicates, on a different scale, the interactive play specific to interpersonal communication), ...

A swift acceleration of global processes nowadays, intensification of new tendencies in world development call for setting new priorities in dynamically changing world. Providing security is a fundamental priority of international safety. So, all efforts must be concentrated on achieving the following basic aims: - Providing national safety, keeping and strengthening sovereignty and territorial integrity. - Building favorable conditions for steady and dynamic growth, raising the standard of life. - Consolidating w...

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...

Kosovo, facing sustainability challenges that are challenging the global ecosystem, is moving towards broader inclusion of the education for sustainable development in its curriculum. This approach followed intensive curricular developments in the post-war Kosovo, especially in the new national curriculum adopted in 2011, a competency based curriculum and with many innovation in the educational system. This paper has been prepared by analyzing and comparing the inclusion of education for sustainable development in...

Higher education of the 21st century is aimed at getting students prepared for living and working in a changing global environment as responsible citizens, creative persons and efficient professionals possessing both general and special competencies. In Russian Federation the structure and content of professional competences is determined by state standards for each industry serving as benchmarks for creating study programmes and specified in descriptors as expected learning outcomes. Communicative competence deve...

Topic: A study of current literature focusing on modern ways of remedying visual perception loss from the perspective of a special education teacher. In recent years, the number of new devices that use individual parts implanted in the eyes or brain of a human with a visual impairment and which restore visual perception has been rapidly increasing. These people then need comprehensive rehabilitation to know how to use these devices properly and follow the principles of working with them. With the change of clients...

The article presents the possible impact of populism on the two basic dimensions of education: moral education and religious education. The current society is characterized by a decline in moral and religious values on the personality formation of the trainee and on the metaphysical- religious conception of the world and man. This phenomenon causes a vulnerability of the educational system and the Church to the aggressiveness of the manifestations of the populist phenomenon, a phenomenon on the rise in Eastern Eur...

In the article authors confirm and prove the suitability of using videoconference system in the education. Based on the obtained results the authors state that teachers have a tendency to use the information and communication systems in teaching and they also show an interest in education focused on multimedia technologies, especially videoconference systems. Based on the research conclusions, an opinion regarding suitability of videoconference systems in education as the alternative for pedagogical practice of st...

The linear assumption among globalization, international competitiveness, human capital and higher education makes many countries to undertake the expansion of higher education. However, this mission is mainly reliant upon the private sector because neo-liberalism, a core philosophy of globalization, has become a predominant ideology viewing a free market as the best model to improve efficiency and ensure service quality. Its advocates argue that public services cannot meet the diversified needs of people and the ...

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...

We live in a century where we are often assisted by a technique. Therefore less the work which need the physical efforts or force. People spent less time in the wild and children forgot outdoors or moving games. Many doctors believe that the most common diseases of our time are deficiency of movement [7]. The population of Estonia is the lack of physical activity: only about 10% of women and 15% of men aged 15-74 regularly engaged in active movement. It is known that a number of physically inactive people is incre...

In this article author investigates significant problems and contradictions of institutionalization of the master’s degree in Russia. The author concluded that there are four main problems of that process: the insufficient level of preparedness of those who change their field of education by entering the master’s degree program, the contradiction between the content of master’s degree education and the requirements of employer, the problems of academy mobility, absence of regulations to the professional acti...

The purpose of this paper is to provide some insights about entrepreneurship education in Russia and to explore Russian student’s entrepreneurial intentions. Understanding Russian youth’s attitude towards entrepreneurship and factors hindering young people from creating their own business are highlighted. The study is based on data collected in Sverdlovsk region (one of the regions of Russia). The research is based on information received during a survey of 347 people from Sverdlovsk region and 1164 students f...

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 ...

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...

Human society is characterized by upbringing, education, organization? of work and life as a basic human activity from the very beginning and throughout its future development. We must be honest and reasonable that education, training and organization de facto benchmark for the existence of society as a whole, and each individual human individual, and we are free to conclude that their absence means dysfunctional society. They are aware of the actions of every individual - a person, but in the community as a whole...

In the period of globalization, the question of effective communication between people of different nations is essential to ensure that all parties emerge with the same understanding. Without the right approach, cultural differences can greatly affect governments, businesses, organisations and individuals. Intercultural communication is no longer an option, but a necessity; therefore there is a need to integrate intercultural communication in the university programmes and to give students the opportunity to develo...

The present paper is radiography of the rights of the students in Romania, like a UE country, concerning the University Chart, the Education National Law nr1/2011, the internal university Regulations and the principle of the autonomy in the University in front with the quality management responsibility. The responsibility of legislation, the analyses of the terms social responsibility and the right definition of the Deming model PDCA for the demands of the social responsibility standard SA800 are good priorities. ...

The paper presents the criteria for assessing primary scientific genres written by master’s students. The criteria and scoring developed in accordance with students’ needs, curricular goals, level of EFL students’ proficiency and genre variety are adapted to the scale of assessment used at Novosibirsk State Technical University, Russia. The notions of primary scientific genre and subgenre are defined. The model of primary scientific genres are proposed.

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,...

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...

The education of the social work and the recent history of the profession are approaching the 25th anniversary in Romania. The aim of the present paper is to offer a comprehensive review of the social worker profession in Romania. Although it describes the major milestones of the profession, it also points out the different problems the profession is confronting. The analysis incorporates three areas: educational, legal and societal. The paper concludes that despite of the experience accumulated, the education of ...

The development of modern education is a necessity for the development and modernization of the assessment system, and not just in terms of assessing student achievement, but also in relation to monitoring their development needs and specifying their progress. In this respect, descriptive assessment plays an important role because it allows evaluation of a large scale of student opportunities, abilities and accomplishments and gives recommendations for further progress of students. The question of descriptive asse...

Since 2010, ethical education has been included in the official Framework Education Programme for Elementary Education in the Czech Republic as a cross-curricular subject. Currently, there are no certified teachers of ethical education, though there is a high demand for them at Czech schools. The number of lecturers who specialize in ethical education should increase soon, as in 2012 the University of Hradec Kralove introduced ethical education as a subject of study within the Specialization in Pedagogy programme....

The year 2011 represents a major milestone in the history of the Romanian education mainly due to the appearance of the new law on education no. 1/2011. From the following educational year a new generation of pupils has started their studies in the school: the preparatory class or so called “zero grade” was introduced by the new law. The context represented a challenge for every actor in the field: from the minister’s stuff and local representative personnel to the teachers and parents. The present paper off...

In the 21st century Romanian school teachers are more and more faced with the fact that pedagogical tools having stood the test of time now seem to fail in the context of continuous change of laws and standards in the educational field. Writing the program for the optional discipline means a challenge for them each year; they need competences in many areas of knowledge to fulfill the regulations of the new Law of Education (nr. 1/2011). The article presents the situation of the optional disciplines in urban area a...

During the years 1921-1925 in Moscow, as a consequence of the deep political and social changes brought by the October revolution, an original experiment took place thanks to Vera Schmidt, a pedagogist trained in psychoanalysis who intended to search for new educational ways for small children, based on recent findings and knowledge of S. Freud’s psychoanalytical theory . The purpose of this contribution is to provide a brief report about the development of psychoanalysis in Russia and about the foundation of th...

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 initial training for teaching in Romania is provided during university studies for those students who are attending an optional psycho-pedagogical module, including the teaching practice as an important discipline. Through this article we want to demonstrate that teaching practice is the discipline that mostly provides the training for the students` teaching skills. The research methodology used for this survey is based on analysis of work products, including lesson plans and the apprentice students` essays ab...

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...