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Being fraught with risks, postmodernity forces social actors not only to rationalize their activities and search for fleeting opportunities but also resort to means of influence that help achieve their targets in the minimal amount of time. The field of advertising is not an exception, as copywriters are in constant search for tools that could help them in maximizing the impact of their advertisements and targeting their potential addressees. The paper aims to analyse the provocative aspects of advertising; its ai...

Our article focuses on the teacher`s individual concept aimed at the cooperation with pupil`s family. It analyses the individual concept of teachers as part of their professional competence which influences the way teachers teach and it also determines the teaching process. To a certain degree, it also has an impact on their communication and cooperation with families of their pupils. The article clarifies the understanding of the family-school relationship. It explains how to include parents into the teaching pro...

One of the most important challenges today is to support student?s critical thinking and soft skills development. Many researches point to a deficit of these skills among graduates. The article is focused on the presentation of the research of the impact of the selected teaching method, namely project teaching (project-based learning), on the student access, development of their soft skills and ability of critical thinking. The article compares the results of final testing. In the first part, the focus is on a bri...

Currently, you can find many social processes that are not well explained from the position of sociological theory. These include the growth of practices of symbolic consumption, an increase in the level of deviation and crime, the spread of social and mental stress in society. Sociologists offer many explanations for these phenomena, but they are explanations of symptoms and effects, not causes. The most striking confirmation of the inability of the theory to exhaustively explain the processes taking place is the...

The article focuses on the applicability of transformational leadership in the educational field. It analyses the evolution of the concept and its relationship with transactional leadership, as well as a series of related concepts, such as charismatic leadership. The effects of transformational leadership on aspects with direct implications on the success of school institutions, such as the psychological well-being of the teaching staff, are considered. Given the role of the human resource in education, the influe...

Relationships between principal and teachers in the school require communication skills through partnership and collaboration. The quality of this cooperation is very important, which consists in the increasing involvement and creativity of teachers. In order for the potential inherent in the teachers to be fully utilized, a person who will manage them properly is necessary - manager, supervisor, less often referred to as a leader. The role of the leader is to motivate attitudes aimed at achieving goals and to hel...

This paper aimed to understand how fashion design higher education programs are approaching fashion 'eco-design' initiatives and how or if this could influence the diffusion and adoption by the whole sector. Furthermore, this paper argued that online education, sustained by a lifelong learning perspective, would present a valid way to deliver and disseminate the knowledge about sustainable principles in business, technological, social and environmental practices, making them quickly available for professionals and...

By creating the right conditions for developing creative potential and creative activity of children we should eliminate various blockades that inhibit this development, share knowledge about the work and practice cognitive skills, necessary for creative thinking. To make this possible, it is important that teachers were able to accurately identify and then develop and stimulate the creative potential of each student. It is important, whether they have professional knowledge or base on current knowledge and their ...

Burnout syndrome is a state of emotional, mental and physical exhaustion caused by situations affecting an individual in the long-term, which are extremely difficult and demanding. This study focuses on the social structure of the key causes of burnout syndrome in the context of social work. The aim is to establish the burnout syndrome measure from the aspect of the physical, emotional and mental exhaustion of social workers at facilities providing social services. It focuses on social workers working for public a...

Background: One of the most important predispositions of successful treatment is the patient?s collaboration. The article is focused on problematical patient?s collaboration with healthcare professionals; the most frequent reasons of the patient?s lack of collaboration during the disorder period are described, and the possibility of the improvement of patient collaboration based on high quality and well planned education implementation is mentioned. The goal was to identify to what degree chronically ill patients ...

The present paper focuses on the importance of developing health literacy among future teachers, i.e. students of teacher training courses, who can in the framework of ISCED 0 to ISCED 3 induce a positive approach to their health and lifestyle and at the same time increase the level of health literacy among the upcoming generation in the Czech Republic. The requirement to develop health literacy among the young generation is based on the fact that 60% of the current adult population in the Czech Republic shows low...

The theory of intercultural citizenship in language education developed by M. Byram plays a very important role as a basis for developing competences for democratic culture. The first goal of this intercultural investigation was to compare Russian university students' self-assessment and peer assessment of the competences of intercultural citizenship. The second goal was to find out whether the results of self-assessment and peer assessment were different among male and female students. The theoretical and empiric...

Nowadays, education is needed, more than ever, and this education cannot be done anyway. A nation is healthy, if the individuals, who compose it, are healthy. Starting from this undisputed reality, this work aims to address one of the most important issues, that of establishing and fulfilling managerial objectives in terms of public health and the Romanian health system. The transition and changes process in the Romanian society also its dynamics included the health system, in its attempt to adapt to the current r...

The paper deals with important shifts in the postnonclassical paradigm of the education. The author underlines the necessity of the compliance of the modern system of education to the requirements of the society (consider, generation Z and Alpha). New technologies of ICT, multidisciplinary researches and magic methods of teaching should be effectively applied in classroom and extracurricular work of students. The author analyses the main reasons of the popularity of the sequel of Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling from ...

The paper presents the most important aspects of the defensive positioning of football players according to the possible ways of approaching offensively the opponent. The study focuses on general principles, which are valid in all ways of positioning, as well as on some specific principles that are required to be used according to the characteristics of the own players in the direct relationship with their opponents. There are described ways of behavior of the players who are positioned in different defense system...

The pharmaceutical field in Romania, although, at first glance, seems to be well-organized, in practice faces a number of problems, many of them being the consequence of a failure to apply a good management, but also of a sometimes confusing or contradictory legislation. The pharmacist, is responsible of a pharmacy, as manager, faced with a multitude of issues requiring immediate solution, which makes the spectrum of managerial activities more extensive and complex. There are often situations in which such a manag...

It is assumed that the content of the broad concept of educational interaction consists of many related components and competences that determine the quality of vocational education and training. In order to understand the educational interaction, the vocational teachers' experience in communicating with modern students, their behaviors and insights better, the qualitative research was conducted. The research design was based on five group interviews with 48 vocational teachers from vocational education and traini...

With the changing socio-economic conditions in the 21st century schools and teachers as the organizers of the educational process should perform new tasks. Teachers' didactic activities alone are not sufficient in current conditions of the educational process. Teachers are faced with a new challenge, i.e. the need to create positive social climate in the classroom. In the contribution we describe optimal interpersonal relationships among teachers and school leaders, among the teaching staff, but also between teach...

The medical support is a really important part of all armies. High quality medical service is a extremely necessary for all military activities. Army of the Czech Republic has a great tradition with medical support. All soldiers in Czech Republic are professionals, and many members of Czech armed forces have experiences with foreign missions. The same situation is in the Military healthcare service. All personnel have to be professional soldiers and we can find these people in all types of military units. We have ...

Introduction: The development of professional burnout is influenced by numerous intrapersonal and situational factors, such as length of practice or satisfaction with health and private life. The results of some studies suggest that coping style may be another such factor. The aim of the present study was to assess the scale of professional burnout among midwives and to determine the relationships between coping styles and burnout symptoms. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with the research sample, w...

Observing the growing diffusion of personal quantification devices, the research aims to deepen an area within which it is possible to derive real added value through the acquisition of data. Starting from a theoretical approach regarding the analysis of the emotional state of an adult in an automatic way, the paper comes to the definition of a system grounded on a theoretical knowledge using a tangible prototype in order to increase the emotional skills of a child in the age of development (social emotional learn...

Competency-based learning is currently the basis of the European qualifications system; however, in Latvian professional medical education its implementation requires changes in the design of education programmes, in the use of innovative learning methods and forms in order to create a set of competencies that meets the requirements of modern healthcare, individuals and society. The importance of the research is determined by several problems in the medical field and in professional medical education: lack of mid-...

Occupational safety is a key condition of any work activity, especially in the sphere of education. The occupational safety aspect is a part of teaching technical subjects, including in a wider context (environmental, medical, aesthetic, economic, energy, and others), and constitutes the basis of the modern vocational training concept. According to J. Pechar and J. Pehe [9], occupational safety is a set of work conditions which limits the influence of hazardous factors in the work process. The goal is to handle th...

The popularity of smart mobile devices is growing fast. These digital devices represent a new generation of technological tools that offer remarkable access to content as well as opportunities for creative use even by young children. Most of the best-selling apps in the education category are targeted towards younger children. At the same time, the educational value of those applications is difficult to determine. Parents and educators in Poland, who are turning to those devices for the potential educational benef...

The primary aim of this article is to create biofeedback using surface electromyography, which can devote audio and visual stimuli. For this purpose, the simple robot from Lego EV3 was created, which can be controlled by muscle tension. This proposal of biofeedback includes the connection between Arduino Uno and Lego EV3. In the first part of the paper, the methods and devices, which was used in this article, were described. There were used the robotic kit Lego EV3 for creation of a simple robot. The Arduino UNO w...

Digitalization is rapidly evolving worldwide and today information exchange and electronic products have become an important part of life. Transformations caused by digitalization are seen as an economic, technological and social development phenomenon. Since higher education plays a key role in preparing future generations, it is essential to enhance the opportunities of higher education institutions offered by digitalization both in internal communication and marketing, thus improving their day-to-day work and a...

Wine is one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world, promoting a more relaxed lifestyle in current society. However, wine has been used from the ancient times for medical purposes such as antiseptic and analgesic, dermatological diseases and digestive disorders treatments. In the last decades, the studies shown that a moderate wine consumption might have a positive impact on human health due to high content of antioxidant compounds released from skin and seed grapes during winemaking process. The antiox...

The objective of the research was to test the dictation of capital letters and comprehension to sentences in a sample of first grade pupils at a speech-therapy-type primary school (STPS) and a primary school (PS). The author investigated 46 pupils, of whom 13 from the speech-therapy-type primary school, 12 from primary schools for pupils with specific learning disorders and 21 pupils with typical development from a primary school. Results: Pupils from STPS (N=25) achieved an average score of 20.52 out of 34 points...

The article deals with the problem of foreign language textbook analysis as a way of reconstructing teaching methodology. Modern textbook analysis schemes reflect requirements of modern language pedagogy and are not applicable to textbooks of the 19th century. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a scheme that would match peculiarities of language pedagogy of that time. The purpose of the study is to develop a scheme for analyzing foreign language textbooks of the 19th century and carry out its approbation. Resea...

Once Romania became a European Union member state, the dream for going abroad in order to get a better life, without a constant worrying about tomorrow got into reaching distance for people willing to leave the country. As a result, a part of the country`s population decided to take the necessary steps in order to seize the opportunities available to those interested in starting a new career, a new life outside the country or to leave just temporarily in order to save enough money to improve family life in home co...

Nowadays, the Slovak education system is in the process of transformation, which is orientated on a total qualitative change including the organizational, content and didactic aspect. Teacher's personality, teaching activity and positive influence on the development of the pupil's personalities and key competencies are the prerequisites for the expected change. To fulfil current social needs, it is necessary to pay more attention to the university teacher training. The paper is oriented on university preparation o...

In the most general understanding it is possible to say that service is a tool, manner, method of policy and practical application of the interests of the society towards the people that are dependent on certain type of care or assistance. The dignity of personal identity means that every person with reduced self-sufficiency has the right to choose your own way of life. Social services play an important role in human life. Social services are one of the following options for helping people in adverse social situat...

The basis of this research related to student burnout is the psychosocial approach of Ch. Maslach - American psychologist of Polish origin. According to the author of this concept, one of the indicators of personal and professional successes is the interpersonal functioning of a human being. A lot of research has been done about the burnout. Most often, they concerned professional burnout among employees representing social professions [1], [9], [3], [4]. Unfortunately, little is known about pupils' school burnout...

The paper presents a comparative analysis of arts therapies in the Czech Republic with a focus on dramatherapy. The aim of the introduction is to offer an overview of arts therapies in the Czech Republic and their historical development. This is followed by two literature reviews with the aim to compare published results about arts therapies and to analyse more thoroughly the scientific results about types of published research in dramatherapy. The first review was carried out in the National library of the Czech ...

The article is dedicated to the current issues of self-development of teachers and is aimed to identify the main reasons for their poor social and personal self-development. The issues addressed in the article are of particular relevance due to the growing role of teachers of higher education institutions in the modern society. The most important research method used by the authors was the pedagogic experiment, including such particular empirical methods as monitoring, tests, surveys, questionnaires, interviews, s...

Everyone has their own individual way of understanding the world, explaining various positive and negative events that they experience in their lives. Striving to achieve their goals sets certain expectations with them. During adolescence, a man plays the role of a student. In this role person sometimes experiences negative emotions. It is increasingly noticed that the requirements set for students are too high in relation to their resources and competences. As a consequence, these situations disturb the students'...

Hospice care is a specialized, integrated form of health, social and psychological care provided to patients of all indication, diagnostic and age groups for which a reasonable life expectancy is judged to be less than six months based on reasonable medical judgment and for which active treatment has been discontinued. It is essential to treat pain and care for other symptoms of the terminal stage of the disease, as well as to address the psychological, social and spiritual needs and problems of the sick and conse...

Effectiveness in cooperation with a group is a kind of special social competences that should be educated from an early age. The high level of self-efficacy in cooperation with the group not only allows the individual to get involved in the tasks longer and work harder to achieve the set goals [1], but also allows to notice the opportunities that can contribute to success. People with a high sense of self-efficacy in cooperation with a group are more ready to take on new challenges, flexible, engaged, persistent, ...

The effective continuing professional development (CPD) of vocational teachers is an important factor for reforming the vocational education and training system. While Lithuanian vocational teachers are inclined to professional development, the process provides no appreciable results. However, analysis and evaluation of CPD practice and impact is complex. In seeking to understand some of the complexities, a framework of eight CPD models was applied and surveyed with a stratified sample of 346 vocational teachers. ...

The effectiveness of school pupils' functioning is conditioned by many factors. One of them is the involvement of students referring to active participation in lessons and knowledge preoccupation. The positive attitude of a student to school, participation in school and class life as well as identification with the class prevents various forms of socially unacceptable behavior. Involvement causes students to have such traits as perseverance, creativity and effectiveness in achieving goals. The condition of commitm...

In Romania, the physical education lesson goes through a stage of reforming in line with student requirements, adapting exercises to video and computer games. Thus, for six months, 40 students (aged 8-10 years) participated twice a week in work programs that had interactive games in their structure. Subjects were tested before and after the application of work schedules, following their progress in some components of motor capacity. The tests performed referred to the coordination, balance and speed. The statistic...

The present study is based on the fact that nowadays the sphere of education is constantly developing. The clear majority of universities all over the world tend to provide their students with higher education that will be recognised globally. There is a wide range of universities in Russia that follow this trend. Institutions of higher education are designed for students with diverse language backgrounds among them there are universities that focus on teaching students with a different ethnic and linguistic origi...

The research is devoted to the analysis of social entrepreneurship in the sphere of social service and problems of its development in Russia. Social entrepreneurship is one of the tools of modernization of the Russian social sphere and a source of additional resources, as well as innovative technologies. At the same time, its formation as a social institution in Russia is hampered by a number of barriers and difficulties. On the basis of empirical research the features of social entrepreneurship development in Rus...

Contemporary society creates the premises of individual training through different educational processes. Nowadays, the possibilities of accessing these oportunities enable each individual/student to broaden his own horizons and, therefore, to capitalize on the educational and professional training period. In addition to the activities they can perform at national level, the opportunities offered by international activities are also multiple, and students can come in contact with them through various types of info...

Nutrigenomics (NGx) is an emerging area of study focusing on the interaction between nutrients and genotype which is useful in understanding and preventing chronic diseases. It is also called personalised nutrition, an approach that uses individual information to develop dietary advice, products and services that are beneficial for human health. The success of the introduction of NGx depends heavily on public acceptance. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to determine Malaysian stakeholders’ intention to adopt NG...

In this paper computer and mathematical modeling with synergetic effects present one of the «problem zones» in mathematics concerned with the surface area of three-dimensional bodies. The main activity of students is to construct the multifaceted surfaces (for example, Schwartz cylinder (or "boot")) using computer and mathematical and adapt the most important generalized constructions of surface area to the actual positions of mathematical knowledge and fractal parameters. The computer design and mathematical mode...

The article describes a role-playing game for sociology majors who study English as a foreign language. Drawing on the experience of American and Spanish authors we have developed a game that is instrumental in checking students’ knowledge of sociological terminology, translation skills and factual material. The rules of the game are easy to master even for people who have never played board games and its mechanics can be easily adapted to fields other than sociology. Anecdotal evidence from students reveals that ...

In the life of a child, a pupil, student, the authority is fundamental and is of key importance for its further social experience. As a dynamic element, it is subject to a number of changes especially between childhood and adolescence. We cannot separate the authority from the educational process, as the constitutive element of the teaching profession it manifests itself in the social relationship between the teacher and the learner. The teacher plays an important role in this process, as the pupils are reliant on...

Òhe article deals with reading treated as representation of belles-lettres embedded in the modern culture of performance; offers a review and analysis of fancy-dress forms of presenting fiction in diachrony and synchrony. The article also presents an analysis of existing aids on Russian as a foreign language and as a mother tongue, which learning guides use the forms of handling the literary text that are close to those proposed in the present article. As a result, this engenders a concept of reading belles-lettre...

According to the requirements to in-service teachers in the Russian Federation pedagogical forecasting is considered one of the educator's professional functions. Pedagogical students are to be taught acquisition of forecasting skills in undergraduate and postgraduate teacher training programs. The difficulties of forecasting lie in the accuracy of predictions. One of the means to teach forecasting accuracy to pedagogical students is to train them to predict their academic success early and late in the academic ye...