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Active introduction of computer technologies which influence the improvement of students training quality within the training process of educational institutions is an inseparable part of modern education. The article considers the organization matter of the training process in Physics with the “Educon” helping as an electronic support. One of the most important factors significantly impact on the physics teaching effectiveness in high school is the students' willingness to cognitive activities, in-depth and detai...

The present study aims to study the relationship between emotional intelligence and satisfaction of using speech technology in the future specialists and experts in the field, students at master speech therapy. Participants were 60 subjects, 30 with speech expertise and 30 students preparing for work in this specialization. The methods used in this study were two questionnaires, including a questionnaire in order to investigate the level of emotional intelligence and a questionnaire regarding satisfaction of using...

The purpose of this study is to examine (on the basis of the analysis of regulatory support) and identify the models for implementation of educational programs, based on networked learning practices, in institutions of higher education. The study is based on a benchmark method that allowed to compare and analyze national (Russian) and foreign networked training and learning practices, as well as statutes, standards and other legal documents, related to regulation of the implementation process of networked learning...

Background: The education to the faculty of dental medicine has a special part, the clinical education that require the transfer of learned information into the practice. How learning and teaching take place in the clinical training for the preparation of dental students to progress and to be able to provide patient clinical care on one’s own is a fundamental attribute of dental clinical supervisors. The aim of this study was to assess the students’ and clinical teachers’ perceptions about effective clinical teach...

The aim of our paper is to carry out a two case comparative study comparing two social A two case comparative study applies the following methods: comparison, questionnaire method. The result at which we arrived rests in finding out with which facility of social services the clients are more satisfied. Our premise is that the respondents in the questionnaire express that they are more satisfied with the private facility of social services. The future research in the given area should make research into costs of pr...

Each stage in a man’s life is important, at each moment the individual grows up, develops, evolves, changes; yet, the preschool period is significant in this process, because now one lays the basis of the future personality, and the most important acquisitions take place, both physically and especially psychically. Called by some specialists the “golden age”, the period comprised between 3 and 6 years is characterized by a strong desire to know, to discover the world around and to master it; the child is curious, ...

Background Faculty of Dental Medicine is teaching facility that is the favorite option for comprehensive dental treatments due to their reputation, affordability and professional competence of the clinicians. The dental care delivered to the patients is primarily by the students under guidance of experienced faculty clinical educational staff. The need to teach students about providing good quality dental treatment to the patients is a major concern for clinical training faculty. Because the success of an oral hea...

Czech society has gradually formulated a number of requirements in its educational policy area especially in the last two years. Pre-primary school is associated with these 3 items: Pre-primary school 1) attendance became mandatory for children in their last year before entering primary school, 2) two-year old children get enrolled. 3) Pre-primary school was tasked with jointly educating all children within mainstream schooling. The research objective was to determine whether the requirements concerning the pre-pr...

Leisure time activities pursued by children are influenced by many factors, and a specific role is played by parents. The paper deals with the outcomes of the research of the relationship between leisure activities pursued by today’s children and leisure activities pursued by their parents in their childhood. The research was carried out in the Czech Republic in 2016 and 2017 and focused on children between the ages of 11 and 15. One of the key research questions was: In what way and to what extent the parents’ ex...

Contemporary architectural education consists in a repetitive trial and error learning model. First year students, with no previous architectural education, are expected to create and design by using their innate talent and previous knowledge, as well as their subjective opinions and instincts. Since such a model can scarcely encourage the development of independent and critical thinking, architectural education needs effective teaching strategies in order to improve learning efficiency and the development of crea...

Main theme of the paper is comparison of the educational trends in project management at School of economics and management in public administration in Bratislava and one of Metropolitan College, Boston University. Current situation in business area urgently requires readiness of university students to be able to apply their knowledge of project management in their professional career. Actual hiring trends in all sectors of labor market needs project management educated employees. Trends in demand of employers sho...

Second Language Learning is thought to be a fast developing sphere of applied linguistics. The increase in international contacts in all spheres of communication has provided an abundant practical material to analyze verbal communication and new approaches to teaching English as a foreign language. Contemporary studies in linguistics and psychology have proved that verbal communication should be considered an interaction of people with the intention to produce a motivated persuasive affect on the communication par...

The quality of life is at present estimated both on the grounds of material values determining the society’s standard of life and through non-material values, which affect the level of human satisfaction with life, such as good health, leisure time, a level of independence or social relations. Measuring the quality of life is a complex task, because it regards subjective aspects, which are difficult to express on a numerical scale. This article presents problems of constructing a universal meter describing the lev...

This paper reports on empirical survey data conducted with 437 Croatian adolescent participants in 2017. A total of 194 male (44,4%) and 243 female (55,6%) adolescents in the age from 15 to 19 years old were examined. The research is aimed at studying the relation between risky behaviour and adolescent beliefs and value orientations, with special emphasis on the most important risk and protective factors. Results show multiple significant statistical differences based on gender, with boys reporting significantly h...

The current educational system and market economy orientation, in the context of the European Union’s educational policy, create an interconnected and complex relation. Therefore, the integral topic of the European educational system is to flexibly react to socio-political changes and increase a nation’s productivity. Thus, pressures from the economy significantly influence not only educational policy, but also pedagogical theory and practice. Schools and universities increasingly adopt the new public management p...

Backgrounds: A long-term, as well as acute, exposure to stress and the specific demands of working as a helping professional increase the amount of subjective distress and may trigger the symptoms of psychological and physical disorders. The screening survey analyses psychological outcomes of working as a social worker and verifies the role of salutoprotective lifestyle factors during one’s exposure to distress. Methods: The following standardised questionnaires were used: the Symptom checklist-90 (SCL 90; Derogat...

The aim of the paper is to analyse the historical perspective of changing the social status, role and position of the woman and to focus on the women’s self-realization in the public sphere and the labour market. Statistical data not only from the Czech Republic, or more precisely, from the EU, but also from other developed and developing regions in the world reflect the unequal position of women in the labour market, access to education, their limited representation in positions and posts connected with decision-...

This paper focuses on communication skills and methods in the context of crisis intervention, the aims of the paper are to detect and identify what procedures, methods and principles of work with the client are the most used by the staff of the crisis intervention in Slovakia and to analyse communication skills during crisis intervention. A quantitative research strategy has been chosen; we carried out research of procedures, methods, principles of work with the client and communication skills of professionals wor...

The paper presents a brief summary of the research on the educational principles of national public broadcasting systems the new media environment. Background: the purpose of the study is to provide versatile and objective examination, comparison and analysis of foreign experience of public television educational programs and to identify general principles of its functioning. Methods: for the purpose of verifying the theoretical ideas the analysis of foreign web-publications on the establishment and development of...

A plethora of indices and indicators is used in modern social sciences to evaluate the general trends and specific aspects of society. Alongside with core social and economic measurables, such as inflation and compensation, unemployment, and technical indicators, many generalized indices reflect the state and dynamics of social climate. While easily accessible, such indices, however, are often limited to fragmentary reflections of social climate, are subjective, and lack standard interpretation scales. The notion ...

21st century is characterized by rapid changes in economy, science, education and social life. The necessity for the development of new competence for everybody is growing day by day to be able to compete in the labour market. In order to make the students - future podologist’s training and their professional competence development successful, it is necessary to introduce systematic changes in the content of the program, in the use of modern teaching and learning methods and evaluation of the study process of the ...

The paper focuses on joint education of students with autism spectrum disorder in elementary schools. The paper presents the results of a research study, the principle objective of which was to assess the attitudes of teachers to the process of integration of students with autism spectrum disorder. The purpose of the research study was also to determine whether there was an association between the teachers’ attitudes to the integration of a student with ASD in the context of the teachers’ experience with educating...

In this empirical research we have treated the correlation between external and internal motivation of teachers and their competencies for work with students in school. In this empirical research we have treated the correlation between external and internal motivation of teachers and their competencies for work with students in school. In this empirical research we have treated the correlation between external and internal motivation of teachers and their competencies for work with students in school. The above wr...

Background. Rate of early miscarriages is about 10-15% worldwide, and immune causes can play an important role in their pathogenesis. Normally Th2 lymphocytes is predominant subpopulation during early stages of pregnancy, while Th1 lymphocytes, which provide activation of cell immunity, are decreased. Regulatory T-lymphocytes (Treg, Th3) maintain tolerance to self-antigens and suppress excessive inflammatory response and also may be involved in pathogenesis of miscarriages. Th17 lymphocytes (Th17) play an importan...

Our living in the dramatically globalizing world makes us admit that individuals need new abilities to survive and succeed in the societies with a high level of interdependence and integration. As a response to these current challenges global competence appears to play a very important role in bringing up a globally competent person who can work and communicate effectively with people from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds which is especially urgent for Russia as it is actively participating in solving...

The urgent medicine is very young and dynamic discipline of health sciences. Work at department, called Emergency or Departments of urgent medicine has to be very quick and arduous. The main aim of management of this department is continuous increase of quality of health care. Very important parts of medics’ teams there are nurses. The nurses’ work is essential component of full system of care. We would like to know; what is the impact of this work on the nurses employed at department. The identification of proble...

A number of serious consequences for the person, his organism and its safety has resulted from transition from post-industrial to information society. One of such consequences are information overloads. Information overload is only a factor that is somehow connected in the future with negative consequences for a person. The problem of information stress as a form of psychological stress was revealed today. Information overload, first of all, affect the emotional component of stress that acts as a kind of trigger f...

ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) presents challenges that affect everyday life and learning for pupils as well as their teachers and parents. Much has been written and researched when it comes to the disorder, with some conclusions resulting in great debate and controversy. Experts on ADHD offer a number of suggestions to help pupils with reading and writing. Paper presents some ways to provide pupils with secondary “fidget” activities, ones that don’t distract pupils from the task at hand but actua...

The represented article is devoted to the investigation of conditions for the developing of the pedagogical experience of newcomers to the university teachers in the process of intercultural interaction and improvement of the training of newcomers to the university teachers for intercultural interaction. The analysis of the scientific literature declares that named issue has not yet obtained the sufficient theoretical substantiation in pedagogical literature and viable practical fulfilment. As a result, the proble...

The article suggests solutions to the problems that may arise in the practical implementation of a new approach to the distribution of state-funded places among the universities, subordinated to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and the competition among the applicants. These problems include the excess of educational organization material resources with a sharp increase in the number of applicants recommended for enrollment; the mechanisms for taking into account additional creative ...

This paper deals with the concept of the social area of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Directed interviews conducted in a few large chemical enterprises in the Czech Republic discovered an interesting fact concerning perception of social activities within corporate social responsibility. What is surprising is the fact how often statutory employee care is confused or identified with above-standard care in corporate practice. It is also obvious that employees take a number of above-standard employee benefits...

In working life occupational health and safety is an important issue. The factory workers who feel sick may not have high performance at work. The feeling of illness will lead the worker to depression. Some of the problems of worker’s health and safety arise from the individual some of them are from the workplace. With this study it has been aimed to build a model revealing the relations among the individual variants such as perceived pain, The Cornell Musculoskeletal Discomfort Questionnaire. The aim of this rese...

The paper is devoted to the problem of youth workers´ professional growth. The European Commission notes of the European Union (EU) youth work directions currently in growing professionalisation and the rise of the proportion professional education youth workers and expected the increasing demand for youth work by society. However, it was noted that state support can be decreased with the pressure of the sector and can discourage youth work, thus contributing to staff turnover (2014). During the period 2005-2015 v...

The basis of the paradigms Environmental Sociology uses roots in the 19th-century social thought. It is possible to elucidate the conceptions of the Classical Sociology theoreticians which constitute the basis for “Environmental Sociology”. Although ideas directly in relation to the environment were not included in the studies of Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, and Max Weber, it is possible to apply their paradigms to “Environmental Sociology”. Since Classical Sociology Theories take an important place in the basis of ...

The purpose of the article is the investigation of the different types of the professional stratification of public servants. The main methodological approaches were system, activity and institutional ones. The base methods which authors have used are the analysis of the documents, including laws and other normative papers, massive questionnaire survey of different groups of servants and an expert survey of their managers. Indicators for the analysis of the characteristics of professional stratification of servant...

This article looks into natural science problems. Although a lot is being done in the country in the improvement of natural science education in schools, however, as international research data show, students’ natural science competence is insufficient. The present day student as well as schoolchildren is a technology generation person. His attitude to natural sciences, motivation to develop natural science competence is similar to schoolchildren’s. In this article it is discussed, how pre-service primary school t...

In recent times volunteering became more diverse. Its various types and manifestations can increasingly be reflected in different spheres of modern society’s life. The importance of the study of child volunteering is determined by the social meaning of this activity and its educational potential. The study of children and adolescent volunteering is also useful in the context of understanding volunteerism as a broad social phenomenon. The purpose of the article is to examine the child-teen volunteering as local pra...

Pituitary tumors often manifest through their local extension, involving the optic chiasm or the optic nerve and producing subsequent visual field alterations. Bitemporal hemi-anopsia is the most common visual field (VF) lesion in pituitary adenomas. According to tumor size and the degree of involvement of the optic chiasm, a variety of field modifications can occur. In the non-secreting pituitary adenomas patients, these alterations may very well predate the clinical features. The aim of this study was to report ...

Introduction. A series of studies presented in the paper indicate that people with motor experience are better mentally prepared to prevent and combat stress, negative emotional states due to the fact that psychic states influence the physiological state of the body which in turn has a repercussion on the psyche. Objective. This research seeks to identify the impact of physical activity on the personality of future lawyers, the echo of the research results, which we expect to be positive, reaching other students o...

Currently, in Russia, introduced a system of inclusive education aimed at reducing social discrimination against children with disabilities. Nevertheless, many children who study on an equal basis with healthy children face with the problem of motor adaptation, which subsequently becomes the reason for the reduction of psychological and social adaptation in general. For improving the motor adaptation, it is necessary to study the physiological and biomechanical foundations of the movement, based on which it will b...

Modern educational system needs a communicative and self-organized teacher capable to think flexibly. In our opinion, teachers’ professional development consists not only in subject and professional-pedagogical knowledge improvement, but also in motivation for professional -personal development. Nowadays labour optimization depends on many factors, one of which is organization competence. To learn to manage yourself effectively and by own opportunities is not a simple task, however, by means of specific technologi...

The article is devoted to the problem of student’s cultural self-determination by means of humanitarianly oriented teaching a foreign language. A person’s cultural self-determination is the formation of the student as a subject and an object of the public relations, the establishment of the stable relations with the world around us caused by the valuable and semantic contents. The development of the students’ cultural self-determination in the course of humanitarianly oriented teaching a foreign language represent...

The paper deals with analyses of sports activities in pubescent (12 – 15 years old) pupils in the Czech Republic and some EU countries. The aim of the study is to analyse, to verify and to identify the status quo of children’s interest in locomotive activities at basic schools and their attitude to these activities including determinants that shape the attitude. The study is done with help of kinatropological research. We chose a method based on questionnaire survey and following analyses and syntheses of gained d...

The risk of having a musculoskeletal injury or work-related disorder may be high in dental practice. Sit-down dentistry is not without potential harm to the dentist or if equipment or other constraints create postural problems. Surveys of musculoskeletal disorders of dentists are few, and lower limbs pathology is sometimes neglected. {{The aim}} of this paper is to investigate occupational health problems involving lower limbs in Romanian dentists who work in Constanta city. {{Method}}. A pre-tested, self-administ...

The authors analyse the current situation related to methodological and practical aspects of preparation of pedagogical profile bachelors specialising in education for children with disabilities. Integration of inclusive education at schools and universities of the country. Based on the experience of various universities, systemised and created special educational programs of additional education. An important condition of training is the professional self-determination. Methods: the authors of this article to exp...

Visual impairment has a very important psychosocial dimension - it determines the development of an individual's personality, his socialization process, social integration and inclusion into society, his psychological and social well-being too. In the following, we will attempt to outline the basic character of the psychosocial dimension of visual impairment, with an emphasis on the social specifics of a visually impaired individual in the situation of inclusion in educational process in elementary school. As Bakk...

Teaching a foreign language for specific purposes is one of the goals of the curriculum at a non-linguistic higher education institution. Various lingo-didactic technologies are used to realize this goal. Gamification approach i.e. the use of educational games including computer games is of crucial importance. Different aspects of using games in teaching English for specific purposes were already examined by one of the authors (Belenkova N. Computer Games: Leisure or Stimulus to Learning. International Conference ...

Social work has a negative image in public opinion. It determines important barriers for quality social work education and social work practice. The main goal of the research has discovered opinions students and social workers toward main ideas about social work importance and professional development. The research is based on sociological questionnaire of 445 students, social workers and other social groups (Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2015-2016). In result we have described students and social workers perceptions of ...

Decision-making about new products is crucial for the growth and prosperity of any company, especially in the rapidly changing medical device market. In recent years the issue of evaluation of investment effectiveness into medical devices has been intensively solved both at private and national level. The most common methods can be divided into three groups: 1. strategic and financial valuation of projects (e.g., NPV, IRR, DCF), 2. weighting and scoring of products and product criteria (e.g., analytic hierarchy pr...

In our research, we dealt with the phenomenon of teacher burnout in Hungary. It is a great issue, due to the parliamentary regulations of the public education in Hungary, where the teachers are working in a volatile environment, in which the challenge for them is to provide value by educating the younger generation. This increased pressure from the society increase the level of frustration, and teachers’ mental health may decline, while burnout syndrome may develop. Our future purpose is to create an intervention ...