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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...

Bullying is a common phenomenon in primary and secondary schools. In order to battle bullying, it can be important for students to have teachers whom they see as taking an active stand against bullying in terms of propagating antibullying norms and having an efficacious approach to decreasing bullying. The study realized in elementary schools in Kosovo. In these study include the 6 schools, from three city(Gjilan, Ferizaj and Prishtina). In these study participate 100 teachers. The investigation is realized in fou...

This article is an attempt at understanding the role and place of the ethical expertise in the search for competent and fair decisions on issues important from the standpoint of moral in the practice of the social work. Making decisions is an integral part in the social work practice. These decisions are often problematic due to different reasons: insufficient information, time constraints, pressure from various sources, uncertainty about the outcome of the various options and fear of prosecution. This study on th...

This article is devoted to the study of modern trends in the education of Russia, namely the question of integrating business technologies into the educational process, which at the present stage of economic development acquires special significance. As for the education sector this process is new and not adequately worked out by law and educational programs are facing many problems while including and implementing educational programs using modern business technologies. In this context, it is interesting to study...

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...

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 search of new sources for updating pedagogical interaction in higher education due to disturbing strain of spiritual and moral values in the youth ambit, it is necessary to develop creative educational tactics that would facilitate the successful socialization of future professionals and also help them obtain pragmatic communication competences in the course of foreign languages acquisition. From the authorsВ’ point of view, the staging method as a universal method meets perfectly the challenges of modern didac...

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 ...

The following text tries to approach the selected phenomena of theatrotherapy, as an expressive-formative approach which exactly stands on an imagined border between art and therapy. The aim is to establish this approach as an independent and unique system with its inter-disciplinal relations, especially with the field of special pedagogy and classic psychotherapeutic approaches. When comparing the text we are stemming from the research carried out by the author between the years 2006 and 2016 and also from his lo...

The purpose of the research is to study the issue of training highly skilled professionals in the sphere of international economic relations in nonlinguistic universities. The chosen methods of research are the method of studying the teaching techniques, as well as the comparative method. The study shows that it is essential to train professional language on early stages of the education programme. Early training of professional language contributes to the forming of professional cross-cultural communication compe...

The aim of the study is to clarify the specifics of individual media platforms operating in the Internet environment. At the same time, its goal is to point out the consequences of media convergence, as well as terminological chaos in the area of Internet media. The author of the study defines the causes of this situation. The first one is a relatively short history of media operating in the Internet environment and the second one is the absence of their exhaustive theoretical reflection. According to the author, ...

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...

Heritage is central to all humankind and to any community. Throughout millennia the distribution of cultural background, necessary skills were done by way of a tradition. In a tradition as well as in other developments of social life a historical link between new and old on-going process of continuum and consistency is true to take place. At present the subject of conservation and consolidation of the younger generation cultural values appears to be currently central more than ever. A young gentleman in a contempo...

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 womenВ’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...

The article deals with the statistical relationship between transformational leadership and initiation of interpersonal communication of senior school students. The article emphasises peculiarities of new generation school students. It is relevant to reveal the main traits of transformational leadership of new generation students and their relationship to interpersonal communication. The results of the research show that the most typical leadership of senior school students is the transformational one. The transfo...

The Western Balkan countries during the last three decades go through successive changes which sociologically are articulated as "social transition". The transition process represents a social change that is primarily political in nature, but that ultimately affects every pore of the society. This radical transformation brought up the debate over the new values against the old ones, about the nature and construction of the new society, etc. Macedonia as a country with mixed multicultural and multiethnic society ha...

This paper studies the trends in higher education and internationalization policies in context of Singapore and Russia. The main idea of this research is analysis and comparison of education system policies in Singapore and Russian Federation in order to discover the key differences and possibilities for future development and growth factors. Correlation analysis of the economical and educational statistical data reveals common principles responsible for the economic success. Problems and possible actions in the a...

In the area of complex issues of the Romanian education, the teachersВ’ initial training represents a modeling action of the student according to the societyВ’s requirements and the Romanian education systemВ’s priority, apparently slightly valorized, but in fact closely correlated with the other components of the education systemВ’s reform in Romania. The present studyВ’s orientation toward the initial issue of teacher education requires the approach of the theme not only from the initial training perspective but...

Background: Institutional trust is one of the fundamental issues in the Russian society. The crisis of trust towards the social institutions, which are responsible for the processes of vital importance, is becoming total. The use of such category as institutional trust is due to the necessity to react in an integrated and contextual way the processes, which are currently occurring in the system of higher education. The following study, which is based on the sociological research data, shows that strengthening of t...

The paper focuses on the factors influencing the process of teaching students with hearing disability at university. A qualitative approach was used in this preresearch. It was realized through an interview with university teachers and with using a semi-structured questionnaire. The aim was to describe the factors influencing the communication between the university teachers and the student with hearing disability, to identify the forms of cooperation between the subjects and the form in which the students are mad...

The technology and its impact disturb life in a spectacular way both at social and professional levels, determining a new approach to the training and implicitly the selection of the human resources. New challenges appear on the horizon. As a result of technological developments and the growth of the knowledge society's role in areas beyond the classical labor market categories, the leaders of industry have introduced the "soft-skills" paradigm that is supposed to replace the old paradigm of "experience." This cha...

Internationalization at home is a term that appeared at the turn of the century largely describes the process of acquiring intercultural competence by students without leaving their native city/country. The article aims at conducting the experimental analysis of MOOCs used as a tool to promote and enhance internationalization at home. The MOOCs were used as part of law studentsВ’ independent learning of foreign (English) language, which is a compulsory subject for lawyers-to-be. To attain the set purpose we conduc...

In the development of modern pedagogy and other disciplines, we can note two main vectors. On the one hand, it focuses on the preservation of its traditional content (adherence to the principles of humanization, fundamentality, continuity and universality), on the other hand, tries to meet the challenges of the time, in particular, is focused on making creative character of educational process. In this article we consider the possibility of developing creative thinking in students, with the involvement of differen...

The research considers the efficiency of using the regional component with the aim of teaching tolerance to students. The aim of the study was to reveal that the intensive implementation of elements of the regional component involving region related data in English lessons allows teachers to apply the principle of multiculturalism, which is focused on a sociocultural group with its main components - religious, political, ethnical, class, language, professional, gen-der, age peculiarities. Enriching the content of ...

The issue of the organizational culture of geographic education nowadays is becoming more and more relevant as it relates to a number of problems in the geographical community. Such are, for example, the lack of organization of geography teachers, the poor activity of methodological unions in secondary schools, the limited opportunities for creative geography teachers, the discontinued printing of emblematic magazines, etc. Despite the fact that the activities of the Bulgarian Geographical Society were resumed, an...

The relevance of this study in the context of the intensification of integration processes occurring in the world community in all spheres of human activity, including the system of higher education, is determined by the need to manage the processes of enhancing international academic mobility of students. The process of developing the migration of academically oriented young people, whose pace is very significant, provides access to recognized centers of knowledge - the place for the formation of leading scientif...

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...

More than six decades ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Junior published in The Maroon Tiger, an article called The Purpose of Education in which he emphasized the need to “train one for quick, resolute and effective thinking[1]”, since “to think for one’s self is very difficult”. Could we say wholeheartedly that modern education fulfills nowadays the indispensable needs Dr. King was talking about in the nineteen-fifties? Are we able to say that the chief aims of education are being achieved, and long term vis...

Nowadays Russian economy needs competent workers who are able to be effective in international environment. It means there is an urgent need for training equal participants of cross cultural communication in professional context. One of the major instruments in educational process is a textbook that is sure to be helpful for attaining the said goal. In this research I have used a modeling method. Cross cultural component of a textbook is considered here as being coordinated with an open element of the developed mo...

Numerous researches have demonstrated the enormous role of teachers in achievements of students. Educated and motivated teacher that cares about the success of students devotes more effort to preparing the lesson and thus provides the students better conditions for achieving results. The problem occurs when teachers are not equally qualified, motivated and prepared so it is justified to ask why some people even opt for the teaching profession if they have no motivation for this noble profession. The purpose of thi...

We aim to present some of our research findings interpreting the education of Roma children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds in the Czech Republic. Namely, we employed Foucault’s (critical) discursive analysis, discursive psychology and conversational analysis. We focused primarily on authors of articles (on education of Roma) in journals for teachers. We aim to explain our research findings within the context of power discourse and blended institutional structures.

This paper provides a synopsis of the chapter “Leading and Managing Action Research for School Improvement: The Case of Bahraini Schools”, published recently by Nova Publishers in Gina Abbott’s (2015) edited work “Private and Public Schools: International Perspectives, Management and Educational Efficiency”. This chapter provides a contextualization of action research in the Kingdom of Bahrain, by providing a historical account and background information of it. It also presents a theoretical discussion o...

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

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

The turbulent global environment intensively is changing the paradigm of managing organizations. Changes initiated visionary and proactive corporate coding based on permanent organizational learning based on quality management talents, knowledge and change. The experience of developed economies in the world shows that the functioning of modern organizations is not effective without implementing the system of management of intellectual capital. If the organization prefers to become a learning organization, then it ...

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

Providing the psychological assistance is a complex process that depends largely on the inner well-being of psychologists themselves and their assessment of the social situation in which the assistance is provided. In this regard, the purpose of our study was to assess the aggression and violence in different spheres of life of modern Russian man. As the main method we used the survey. The study involved 118 future psychologists. The interviewed respondents believe that they live in an aggressive world full of vio...

The issue of effective and efficient foreign language teaching is relevant in today’s global world. More and more frequently specialized computer programs for foreign vocabulary training are used. They are not expensive and simple to create and use in comparison with published analogues and not less efficient. The paper considers systemic aspects of information base development for multilingual adaptive training technology, specifically the process of information collection of latent lexical relations and its em...

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

Social media have created zones for information sharing, collaboration, community formation and development, but despite their widespread use, little is known about the benefits or challenges of social media technology (SMT) use for academic purposes. Some publications declare that social media can make a good tool to blend pedagogy and technology in education, thus enhancing involvement of students who regard social networks as an inseparable part of their life. Furthermore, SMT is regarded useful to add to the r...

Modality in scientific texts has been investigated from various angles and has been found to be indicative of stance and dependent on various factors, such as discipline, culture and context. Cross disciplinary studies point out that, in English, the epistemic use of modals in scientific texts exceeds the deontic use, given the communicative purposes of such texts, i.e. the production and transfer of knowledge. The present paper explores the use of modal verbs in a corpus of scientific texts on Economics written i...

The article aims to evaluate the benefits of the trainings offered in the market after identifying the circumstances of increasing the competence in small and medium enterprises. The findings on how those who organise trainings can achieve a higher return on investments allocated to human resource development are presented in the article. Organizations must create a fair environment of sharing of the newly acquired knowledge between the employees and organize feedback after training, which would allow evaluating t...

This paper presents a case study realized at the “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, with the purpose of improving the educational process. The purpose of this case study is to present a project based on solving the existing problem using the six sigma methodology. The most obvious problem facing the organization is related to the absenteeism of the students. Using 6 Sigma methodologies, an analysis of the educational process and a problem-solving project was realized. In order to identify the causes, a brains...

The purpose of the research is to identify the parts of speech categories common for the blocks of the texts under investigation, to characterize their functioning and semantic meaning. The methodology of the paper: English magazine advertisements of decorative cosmetics and skincare products for women have been picked out with the help of continuous sampling method from the magazines Cosmopolitan, In Style, and Glamour. The method of structural-semantic analysis was used to reveal the structural-semantic blocks o...

The famous contemporary girl-oriented fiction, manga and anime production, the so-called culture of mini-komi (small informal communication networks) has their own origin - in mass media and Japanese literary works of the first part of the twentieth century. The tanka poet, writer and feminist leader Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) wrote some children stories whose heroines, little girls, differed from the mainstream of the young adult fiction. There are such stories like "One year from the life of Tamaki" ("Tamaki no ic...

capacity of technological communication, we witness the show of a social life jammed with contradictions, in which community civilisation are unable to find communication bridges. Knowledge and respect of heritage values of a community, lead to a deeper understanding of the complexity of the world we live in, of the mutual influences and conditioning in the social, economic, political and cultural life. Choir singing is one of the most straightforward and accessible methods of human and social communication, due t...

Puberty is a phase in which complete reproduction ability is attained. This phase can be described as a substantial hormonal process of physical changes related to changes of psyche in full realization of one’s own personality [6],[14]. Puberty is an important element of sex education [8][9] as well as a significant part of complex education of children in 21st century [8][9][10][15]. Puberty is a normal display of human development. The many changes in this phase of life influence not only the individual, but h...

The paper aims to reveal the pedagogical potential of cognitive-oriented teaching of the mother tongue. We started out from the theoretical premises provided by cognitive linguistics, both its American branch, emphasizing the body anchoring of meaning, and from the Polish orientation, concentrated on the theory of linguistic picture of the world and semantic profiling. The theories mentioned were modified in accord with the educational goals of mother tongue teaching and applied namely to the sphere of lexicology....

The research is related to the search for new forms, methods and tools for effective planning of scientific activities, primarily those that would be based on the state of the information space, formed in a separate subject area at different levels of its representation: the level of scientific team publications, the level of projects supported by Science Foundations and others. The purpose of the study is to develop cognitive-information models of scientific subject areas, developed by research teams, which refle...

The paper argues that communicative competence and reflective skills are necessary attributes of future managers and expected learning outcomes of university graduates with Master degrees. Though believed seemingly opposite, these core competences can complement each other being developed concurrently and ultimately benefit students’ professional competence. The methodology used as the base for elective course design is the theory of step-by-step development of mental actions, the Multiple Intеlligеnсе Thеo...