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Non-systemic, empirical observations on the last two generations of graduates in Preschool and Primary School Teacher Training bachelor's degree programs showed changes in students profile; also, it seems to be linked to changes in ability to succeed during educational tasks, the ability to succeed on different assessment categories of tasks (information processing) and individual capacity of systematic study. Research such as Coe and Aloisi (2014) [1], Gafoor and Babu (2013) [2], Ko, Sammons and Bakkum (2014) [3]...

A brain damage accidentally originated in the course of life may be caused by injury, brain tumour, intoxication, inflammation or brain stroke. Brain strokes are one of the most frequent causes of death and permanent disability both worldwide and in the Czech Republic. From the very acute phase of the disease, it is important to interconnect the individual rehabilitation components within coordinated rehabilitation and involvement of a multidisciplinary team. However, such interconnection and activities of the mul...

Pedagogical professionalism is analyzed from the position of the acmesynergetic self-realization methodology. Within the framework of this methodology, the article focuses on the importance of developing a nonlinear development of the creative subsystem of the personality that possesses the qualities of synergetic systems, which opens up new opportunities for self-improvement. Self-improvement is realized through the use of their internal capabilities, which is represented by a structural and functional model of t...

From the perspective of social constructivism, the cultural shock is one of the possible forms of individual experiencing a clash with an alien socio-cultural reality. Both the actualization of otherness, and the cultural shock, belong to the subjective reality. This is the result of the mental activity of a particular person, the product of his consciousness. It is important that these elements of subjective reality can be objectified by a person within the framework of social interactions in the form of verbaliz...

The article describes a multilingual educational-methodological complex, “Medical Russian”, which was proven to be the most efficient and intensive, methodically verified, relevant and consistent in conditions of strict time limitations and insufficiently formed competence in Russian as a foreign language. In this multilingual educational-methodological complex, where there is a common “Russian part” but other components are different, the author realizes the methodological strategy for developing professional and...

The article presents a development of innovative research in the field of high education and museum studies in context of Digital Humanities (DH) concept. Information and communication technologies implementation to educational activities of classical university and museums is analyzed as a factor for development of Russian Federation higher education system. Collaboration between university and museum is considered as a factor of efficient improvement for training professionals in Arts and Humanities and is exami...

Spatial orientation is one of the parts that are heavily affected by the visually impaired. The ability to orientation and move around is a key skill for visually impaired individuals and needs to be trained from a very early age. Modern times and the associated development of different technologies allow individuals to become increasingly self-sufficient. Both conventional rehabilitation and compensatory procedures and aids are used to compensate for loss of vision. We would like to focus on introducing the issue...

The article proposes a marketing approach to forecasting the needs of aging visitors and museum product development taking into consideration the results of the visitors studies. According to the recent research aging visitors became an active part of museum and other cultural institutions public. At the same time they have different needs which haven’t understood by these organizations’ management. Art and scientific museums aging visitors are not only grandmothers and grandfathers escorting their grandchildren. ...

The article is devoted to the topical issue of the struggle between China and Japan for political and economic influence over the Korean peninsula in the modern era. After the division of Korea into two hostile states in the middle of 1950-s, the struggle of world powers for influence over the peninsula has not ceased for nearly 70 years. In recent decades, in addition to the traditional actors as the United States and Russia China which is rapidly gaining power has joined the struggle. In response to the China’s ...

Courses of English for special purposes (ESP) tend to focus on fostering communication skills applied to future professional spheres. These skills are the backbone of soft and employability skills, being on the top target list of the university education at large. Although, soft skills alignment with university curricula throughout the world is the state of the art for now, in Russia, the shift towards soft skills is only at the outset. The literature review of soft skills prompted the authors to single out indisp...

The aim of this research is to determine the students physical fitness level by using Eurofit test battery. The research subjects are students (male) from the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, in a number of 18. The research was conducted in sports facilities of the Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava including: sports games hall, gym, swimming pool and outdoor artificial ground. The applied tests to the subjects are from the Eurofit test battery. Descriptive statist...

The contribution focuses on homelessness as the current social problem of humanity in every stage of its development. In the Slovak Republic, after 1989, not only the political, but also the social and social situation changed significantly. The problem of homelessness has emerged and continues to the present, with dimensions growing. The theoretical part of the contribution defines a social group endangered by homelessness, presents approaches and legislation in the Slovak Republic, taking into account the intern...

The article delves into the problem of representation of various images (metaphors) of wellbeing which are constituted and reproduced in various academic disciplines. At the present time there are great numbers of scientific approaches and concepts of wellbeing which at times touch upon different aspects of man’s life. These approaches often do not agree with each other. This article presents an attempt to construct an integral matrix of wellbeing theories which will provide for the review of various wellbeing con...

The article analyzes, through the lens of linguistics, psychological problems faced by migrants trying to adapt in contemporary Russian society. The authors consider the “pain points” of people’s language disunity from the standpoint of the anthropological approach to ethnolinguistics and make a hypothesis that it is language that is the main problem of migrants’ adaptation and one of the main reasons for the polarization of society that divides it into two camps on the “friend or foe” principle. Most of the focus...

The paper is involved in the discussion on the educational meaning of rock narratives. It presents research results aimed at understanding pedagogy students’ approaches to rock narratives considered by them to be educationally meaningful. The qualitative research strategy, including both the hermeneutic method and descriptive-interpretive analyses, was employed to realise the aim of the paper. Essentially, the goal of the qualitative method is enable one to explore, extend and gain a deeper understanding of the mu...

Background: The improvement of e-learning is required for independent activity of students. One of the options of e-learning are educational web-quests on the basis of cloud computing. Information resources of the Internet are used in educational web quests. Methods: With e-learning in two groups of problems have to be solved: methodical and technical ones. Web-quest, using information resources of the Internet and integrating them into educational process, helps to effectively solve a number of practical problems...

Until September 2017, only children who had a diagnosis were entitled to help and support in education in the Czech Republic. Whether the amendment to the Education Act is criticized by experts, it has mainly brought comprehension to Czech education. Not only in its theoretical level, it should offer and, of course, provide support and training aid to all who need it. One of the groups that did not apply to the original section 16 on special educational care was also a group of children living in substitute family...

Background: Renal disorders during pregnancy are variable, ranging from asymptomatic bacteriuria to end stage renal disease. Pregnancy increases the risk of urinary tract infections (UTIs), especially due to the hormonal and mechanical changes, that are predisposing to renal and urinary stasis. UTIs in pregnancy are associated with high risks, both to the fetus and the mother, so adequate management is required. Aim of study was to monitor the incidence and prevalence of lower and upper UTI during pregnancy, as we...

The aim of the present study is to bring problems of treatment and rehabilitation of addicted people in Poland closer to the reader. The paper was aimed to indicate changes that have occurred in the last year and those which are possible to be implemented. Due to the increasing tendency for people becoming involved in drug abuse, the study was focused mainly on this social problem. It should be emphasized that the problem of addiction affects both women and men, whereas 'market' saturation in cities has led to a d...

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...

The purpose of this article is to determine and present complex information regarding the technical aspects of housing for seniors, both from the theoretical angle and from the angle of subjective viewpoints of the seniors, with a specific focus on the Czech Republic. Firstly, we deal with the technical requirements for housing buildings in general, and secondly, we characterize the specificities regarding housing places for the elderly. Our emphasis on the group of seniors, i.e. those aged 65 and more, is derived...

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...

The current system of higher education is undergoing significant changes. The ongoing changes are not only a requirement of the time, but also an opportunity to reach a qualitatively new level of development. Ensuring the continuity and stability of the education system, preventing distortions and imbalances of the current system, requires today administrative methods of influence on homogeneous groups of universities. With the help of the modified correlation coefficient in the article, an attempt is made to make...

Authors describe the collaborative learning strategies and basic procedures before and during the realization of the Good Behavior Game program in the second classes of primary school in Slovakia. The article was funded by the project VEGA No. 1/0223/16 The discipline management in the classroom at primary school. The research team, in the first stage, was studying teachers’ opinions on unwanted pupil behaviour. Following the partial project results, the second stage of the project was focused on the selection of ...

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...

The issue of propaganda and its challenges goes hand in hand with development of new patterns for information consumption within society. Via digital media information cannot be filtrated, authorised or double-checked as in traditional media, but can be delivered directly to population, more than this, across the borders and even ignoring national legislation. In these circumstances propaganda has reshaped its outfit and widely used both for aggressive purposes (like hybrid-warfare tool - s.c.hard propaganda); and...

In today's football, there are no referees who never made any error. But the frequency of such errors depends on how well-prepared is the referee. The goal of this article is to analyze how do occur the errors of referees in futsal. For this purpose, the authors identified and analyzed the errors and factors of their occurrence based on the reports by inspectors of futsal matches. In order to identify the most common errors and conditions for their occurrence, the authors have studied 32 reports made by 8 inspecto...

Higher education institutions are accountable for recalibrating education systems to enhance social cohesion and entrepreneurial skills which generate value creation for economy, culture and society. The paper attempts to model the processes needed to transform the teacher-centred learning (TCL) into student-centered learning (SCL) based on the well-known SIPOC (Supplier-Inputs-Process-Outputs-Customers) technique from the quality management domain. The research methodology was built on two objectives: i) qualitat...

The article discusses the role of art in the city, particularly its transformative role in merging the processes of public participation and the regeneration of public spaces. It discusses the practical aspects of citizen engagement in the artistic projects in public city space. The process of promoting social participation in creating public space and public art, involving a variety of artists and forms of expression leads to experimentation in the public sphere. This experimentation results in an improved qualit...

We live in a time of intense turmoil, doctrinal reevaluations of all sociological systems and philosophical concepts, which attempt to encompass within one unit the three fundamental dimensions of existence: God, man and the world. Under the avalanche of destructive theories, all the "strong" foundations of philosophical theories and traditional religions lose their firmness. We are witnessing a conceptual dissolution of the contemporary world that tends to melt in an ocean of relativism regardless of any effort t...

The voice of every child is individual and depends on its anatomic and psychical qualities. Therefore, the aim of teacher is to show the direction for correct formation of the voice and to disclose individual vocal abilities of every child. The aim of the research is to reveal peculiarities of teaching singing to junior school children in the context of various musical activities. The methods of the research include semi-structured interview with teachers, qualitative content analysis and educational project. On t...

The world is continually changing, and one of the determining factors is technological progress, which has also led to the formulation of a specific ideology. Yet, it is precisely the ideology of technological progress that has thrown humanity into a moral crisis and has led to the emergence of new phenomena, such as resource diminution, environmental pollution, forest destruction, acid rains, greenhouse effects, ozone depletion, massive garbage accumulation, mass unemployment, excessive armament storage etc., rep...

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...

Job satisfaction (JS) can be more difficult to measure in the health field in view of the complexity of roles, duties and responsibilities. Objectives: To determine the psychometric properties of Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) for the medical field, with different job levels. Materials and Methods: A 20-item five-option Likerttype draft questionnaire on MSQ was distributed for anonymous self-reporting by medical and paramedical staff of two hospitals in the Arad County region of Romania (n=307). The ou...

The aim of this work was to obtain and analyze information concerning the perception of the landscape by children from one of the Kenyan slums. The paper presents the results of research carried out at the MCEDO school located in the Mathare slum (Nairobi, Kenya). Research was carried out in January 2015. The preparation stage consisted in making contact with the school management, preparing the materials needed to carry out the workshops, selecting respondents and conducting the library query. The research consis...

The article presents the concept of anticipatory management of career development of graduates of higher educational institution. It is an important element of university strategic management system and providing its competitiveness in the regional, national and international educational services market. It is proved that forming of skills of planning of professional career and effective employment at early stages of training, development and their enhancement throughout all term of training, carrying out various ...

Falls constitute a serious problem primarily in elderly persons. The highest prevalence of falls can be expected in hospitalized persons and falls are considered undesirable and hazardous incidents that may have serious impact on the expected therapeutic outcomes. The assessment of risk of falls provides basic information to determine the right interventions efficient for preventions. The nursing activities of care for patients endangered by fall include: identification of risk of fall in the admitted patient, its...

Nowadays, due to the fact that the industry has evolved considerably the engineer has to perform measurement and control operations, both in the product design stage and in the consumption process. In order to be able to accomplish these activities easily and in the shortest possible time, an engineer must possess a range of cognitive, psychomotor, sensory and physical skills. Through the physical education and sports lesson in the technical higher education, it is possible to have the positive transfer of the stu...

The article considers the criteria of instructional materials selection, the use of technological means of multimedia presentations for the content development of English for Special Purposes at Peter the Great St. Polytechnic University. In the article the authors focuses on Corpus software application for the analysis of structure-teaching material in engineering is described in order to assess its lexical content from the point of view of information, efficiency and relevance of professional vocabulary used wit...

Glass in architecture, on the one hand, is an extraordinary, colourful detail ranging from the stained glass in Saint Chapelle to the door of the Church of the Sacred Heart in Munich. On the other hand, it is also a timeless vision of the new art connected strongly with architecture, which reflected and still reflects the avant-garde aesthetics, like the Crystal Palace. A series of prophetic visions of architects links "glass" as a synonym of progress in the technology and understanding of architectural detail as ...

From the analysis of the demographic situation and social changes at European and Romanian level, it is necessary to train professionals in assisting the elderly at home [6, 9]. Aim of research: The purpose of the present research is to carry out a professional training course for a new profession, codified in the Romanian Catalog of Occupations (R.C.O), namely: home caregiver for elderly [9]. Research methodology: The research was conducted on a sample of 27 trainees. An analysis of the training needs was carried...

Background: The purpose of the article is to consider the motivation of the teaching of adolescents as a mobile structure that can undergo a change under the influence of a changing subject- spatial environment as a factor of external influence. This age has some psychological and pedagogical features. And the main task of education is the formation of a motivational-value attitude to learning. Methods: The authors used theoretical methods to study the formation of motivation through the subject-spatial environmen...

Background: Smoking during pregnancy is the leading cause of prenatal morbidity. Women who smoke during pregnancy do not only increase the risks to develop serious adverse health events but also put their child at considerable risk. The purpose of this study was to assess the demographic factors and to evaluate smoking behavior in a group of pregnant women, contributing to the existing literature in order to improve maternal and child health care. Methods: A questionnaire conceived by a pulmonologist that assessed...

The legal framework for courses, social integration programmes for foreign citizens consists of a series of normative acts representing primary legislation and respectively, secondary legislation. Romania has been having a legislation in the field of integration since 2004. Certain ministries and the local authorities are the main attributions in this area. The legislation is in the process of changing. We try to adapt to the existing situation, to the new needs, to the new requirements at European level. In this ...

Business ethics is a wide subject that can be applied to all moral or ethical issues that arise in a business environment. Recent business ethics scandals have created a moral minefield of shifting expectations and growing uncertainty about the responsibilities of business. Economies fare better thriving in environments free of scandals, in morally cleaner firms. Firms often start out making good, ethical decisions, but the line separating right from wrong can be easy to cross. The article aptly illustrates that 1...

Supporting a gifted student in the conditions of early school education is associated with any problems concerning, above all, economic and organizational possibilities and traditions of the Polish school and finally - teacher's preparation. The article will analyze these last conditions. The aim of the research was to show the state of preparing teachers for the individual recognizing and supporting the ability of students from the first to the third grade. Research questions were formulated regarding to teachers...

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 ...

Our article analyzes the stylistic characteristics of Stabat Mater in the history of music, for the last four hundred years. The Stabat Mater is a XIII th-century Catholic hymn to Virgin Mary, which portrays her suffering as Jesus Christ's mother during His crucifixion. Stabat Mater Dolorosa is considered one of the seven greatest Latin hymns of all time. The hymn is sung at the liturgy on the memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows. The Stabat Mater has been set to music by many Western composers, most famously by Palest...

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...

Introduction: Significant post-training adaptation factors of the powerlifting players are the increase in muscle mass and strength, depending on the volume, intensity and time used in specialized training, with an ambiguous effect on cardiovascular and respiratory fitness. The aim of this study is to present the state of physical fitness, cardiovascular and respiratory systems in two group of powerlifters. Methods: In order to verify the hypothesis, 15 advanced (SEA) and 15 less advanced (LEA) powerliftwers were ...