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In paper attempts to analyze the differential stress stability of the schoolboys by mean of the Russian company "Ramen" instrument. As an indicator of stability are considered a heart rate variability of the circulatory system. The observed incomplete development of the autonomic system schoolboys linked to their small physical activity, in particular, improper organization of school and sectional sessions of physical education and poor organization of work and rest of students. The correlation in health schoolboy...

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 his...

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 brainstorm...

Our undergoing research in action started half a year ago and focuses on pupils as well as teachers. The proposed article focuses on the teacher (author), whose main goal is to transform from transmissive education style to a constructivist one – specifically, the scheme-oriented education developed by M. Hejny and his team. We focus on the changes that take place in the pedagogical views of the teacher; their behavior patterns, teaching preparation, execution and evaluation, and in their relationship to mathemati...

Multicultural education represents a tool for positive utilization of cultural differences in the overall educational process. In this process, classrooms and schools become models of democracy and equality among people in society. In order to achieve such results, a large number of factors is required, starting with the teaching cadres that will act in accordance with the following rules: -Put the student in the focus, i.e. in the center of the overall teaching/learning process; -Promote human rights and show res...

The importance of education and training in the area of first aid in helping professions reveals its significance in our research sample, conducted with the students of secondary and higher education, who study medical, social and pedagogical training bound with their future profession. The aim of our research was the area of competences in the context of providing the first aid by the persons preparing for contact work with people and where the professional dispositional factors for its application exist. At the ...

The paper is based on the author’s experience of organizing intellectual quiz competitions, held in English, German and French among high-school students and university students since 2009 in Novosibirsk (Russia). The research is based on the analysis of the impact of the intellectual quiz competitions on the development of students’ socio-cultural competence as well as proficiency in a foreign language. For this purpose a questionnaire was constructed and distributed among the participants of the contest includin...

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...

The debate concerning the constitutional wright of freedom and religious education reached maximum level in Romania at the start of this year. In this debate has employed both estate authority and also the public opinion: social structures, cultural institution, mass-media, the NGO’s and so on. The reason was the act of contestation at the Constitutional Court of the default enrollment of the Romanian scholars at the classes of religious education. The debate was centered on the legal write of individual liberty o...

Purpose: the aim of this research is to fulfill a comprehensive analysis of the static balance of visually impaired people. This experimental study wishes to improve balance by applying some differentiated operational modules, created in accordance with the results obtained in the initial evaluation. Methods: in this study we used as method the differentiated instruction. In special schools, because of the low number of the pupils from each class, the differentiated instruction becomes a prime element for orientin...

The contemporary education-cooperation process around the world enables every researcher to join various international projects that investigate different problems or create a product that could be used by different communities. The number of projects is so huge that they could be classified according to some criteria as a research material. They could even become cultural ambassadors that promote the cultural identity and uniqueness. The question was if the project platform was used effectively and how it could b...

The description of a vineyard in the Hebrew Scripture gives us an accurate picture of a vineyard in Old Israel but also of a vineyard as metaphor. Grapes and wine are metaphors for the relationship between God and Israel, the Torah as Word of God, instruction and Covenant and their implications. Yavne, a Hebrew centre for instruction and rabbinic authority, is mentioned in the Babylonian Talmud most often referring to rabbis who taught in the „vineyard of Yavne". Moreover, the space intended for scholars meetings ...

In Macedonian, the process of zero derivation is prototypical, inflectional or marginal depending on the presence or absence of changes in the corresponding lexemes, respectively. In the prototypical type of the process, which is subject of this research, when nothing changes in the source and in the target lexeme and, in morphological terms, they are absolutely identical, of all directions; the most productive one is the zero derivation of nouns from verbs. This is due to the fact that Macedonian is a ‘verbal’ la...

Process oriented quality management systems are applied by successful business enterprises. With the process approach these organisations can manage their operations effectively. The defining of organisational processes is useful to understand what organisation really does, the measurement of these processes helps to identify development opportunities or necessity. So the organisations can use quality improvement projects based on data and indicators which provide increasing organizational performance greatly. The...

The article considers the various aspects of the potential capacities of school information–educational environment and especially its educational and developmental functions for the solution preventing pupils addiction to Internet.

Discourse markers are elements of the language that have grammatical-syntactic, conversational-pragmatic and cognitive function. The first function is evident in the different parts of speech used as discourse markers and their position in the context, the second one explains that these elements aim to start and sustain conversation as one of their basic roles, and the last function requires the markers to fill in slots that naturally exist in language, by using the cognitive abilities about which elements would s...

Our paper investigates the education of Roma children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds. The issue is well covered in research, education scholarship and the policy level. Nevertheless, we ask whether Roma themselves participate in the education policy or whether they are an object of an interest and institutional power of decision makers in the Czech education system. We focus on the construction of the education of a Roma pupil from the point of view of Roma parents and Roma children. We collected the data...

The paper aims at presenting the realities and factors that allow efficiency in educational communication starting with the inextricable relationship that is being established between communication and education and that enhances its complexity getting new values. In research methodology we have used methods and techniques of qualitative and quantitative research and data processing was done by bibliographic study, research in the field and discussions with the interviewees. The steps in the research on the polls ...

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...

Romania and Hungary, two former dictatorships in Central and Eastern Europe, have started on their post-communist project having pretty many similarities. At least, in the beginning they adopted the same soviet model of social organization and similar institutional framework. Although, until the end of the regime they matured following divergent paths, some societal subsystems evolved in quite similar ways in both countries. On the one side of the border Hungary was boiling its “goulash communism” while living in ...

Authors of the paper consider writing as a process of activation and further development of students’ thinking. They introduce fundaments based on unsatisfactory state of a written expression of present young generation. It is often characterized by no concept, chaos, incoherence, shallow-thinking, illogicality or inaccuracy in language expression. Stated defections also point out problems in cognitive and metacognitive area. During the creation of the mentioned conception the authors focus mainly on pubescent stu...

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...

Both teachers and parents aim obtaining educational success, but the perspectives and the meanings assigned to it by each of these two parts are different. The ideal state is achieved when the both parties work together for the benefit of the student, when both have the same objective, namely: achieving the educational success. This paper presents an applied research study, focused on primary school pupils’ educational success, pupils that are attending courses in mass education schools. The purpose of this study ...

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...

The aim of the paper is to describe the attitudes to identifying and developing talents in Slovak enterprises. The research in developing talents in the business environment is based on two research questions: 1. We assume every business pays attention to their key employees and organizes all activities to promote their development. 2. Businesses pay attention to succession planning, the aim of which is to ensure the continuity of talents for key positions defined. For purposes of statistical processing, we used m...

Tibetan writing was invented in the 7th century A.D., based on the contemporaneous Indian Gupta script. Because of its intensive usage by the state bureaucracy and Buddhist monastic community, it gradually produced a series of cursive styles. Its original form was used almost exclusively for writing sutras that were considered sacred as the representation of the Word of the Buddha. As a result, a famous calligrapher of the 11th century Khyung bo g.Yu khri wrote a treatise describing letters’ forms, shapes, proport...

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 of the main...

Verbal and non-verbal communication elements are widely studied especially in political discourses. This is predetermined by the fact that the political evidences or truth very often could be deciphered only after analyzing the non-verbal elements. The presupposition that political TV talk shows could be an excellent media revealing the possible incoherence between the verbal and non-verbal communication (body language) fostered this research. The format of these shows often provokes politicians to reveal or hide ...

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...

The article is devoted to the issues of mastering project and research competencies as the main result of university education. The article contains the description of the experiment, the main experiment results are presented, the meta-subject orientation of university education is justified. The authors present the specific education tools aimed at the stated goal achievement, the ways of educational assignment design, the types of tasks for students’ self-study work, the techniques of student involvement into th...

One of the important sources of knowledge of the student teacher is not only the theoretical knowledge acquired in the theoretical preparation, but also the practical experience gained during practices. This practical student experience is used when educating without realizing it. Part of the knowledge has a hidden, tacit character. The definition of tacit knowledge is "tacit knowledge is capable of developing, initially not realised or less realised prerequisite to structuring the experience of the students or te...

The paper discusses effective forms of in-class and out-of-class work from the students’ and teacher’s perspectives. The research is based on the author’s 9 years personal experience of teaching literature at the Faculty of Foreign Languages (Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Russia). Methods of research include personal observation, quantitative and qualitative analyses as well as chi-square test employed to interpret questionnaire survey of students’ needs and opinions on effective forms of organizing in...

The curriculum of training interpreters for special settings at a higher education institution includes primarily the development of foreign language skills and competences. As such interpreting is realized in such domains as medicine, law, education etc. interpreters-to-be should be aware and study the peculiar features of the setting implied for interpreting. Content and language integrated learning approach should be realized. Court interpreters are supposed to know different aspects of law domain and specific ...

The paper deals with the issue of the contribution of the education system in Slovakia in terms of its functioning and financing. Slovak Republic has undergone since 1989 a complex process of transformation that has touched almost every component of society. Important role in this regard has played a topic of education, which took place several changes. First, the central management has been translated into the creation of authorities in the system, but which is struggling with several problems. The aim of our pap...

In the last decades the focus of linguistic research has been significantly moved from the study of the language as the so-called “self-contained” system to applying it as a tool of investigating the whole world. Understanding the real meanings of certain linguistic phenomena often leads to gaining the insights of what speakers’ attitudes, connections and associations stand behind them. In this paper, we focus on applying the cognitive linguistics notions to allusive epithets in literary discourse based on the nov...

The paper describes the results of a research study focusing on the perception of personal computer by university students in the Czech Republic and Poland. The objective was to find out whether they use it more as a learning instrument or leisure instrument and how often and how long they use it for these individual activities. The research methods were questionnaire and an optimised version of the ATER semantic differential. The research study was performed in autumn of 2014 and involved students from the Facult...

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.

Youth and old age are very important stages of human life, which are different but which should be perceived to be of equal value. The research conducted in the Czech Republic indicates that the largest intergenerational gap lies between the young generation and the older population. This gap has continuously been widening, especially in connection with the entirely different ways of life of these two generations. The Czech society has not yet desisted from various negative prejudices and claims concerning seniors...

Children’s education, and, by extension, the education of the young, represents a permanently topical problem in an age of conflicts and overturning of the value axis. For this reason, old pedagogical principles and elements are being made actual again, preserving their content, verified through the experience of many generations. Such an element is also the inner silence, acquired through prayer, and which represents a spiritual state specific of the Christian way of living and, consequently, an element specific ...

This paper draws on our work as associate assistant with the 2nd year students at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania and its extension in Balti, The Republic of Moldova. During the Business English seminars, among other activities, we integrated translation exercises from English to Romanian and vice versa to develop our intermediate students’ productive and receptive skills in a communicative language teaching environment. Our main aim was to dist...

cational space carry out the research of continuous training of teachers. To this end, a number of directions of experimental work are implemented: formation of psychologi-cal and psychodiagnostic culture of the teacher, formation of the creative person of the teacher, formation of teacher's professionalism. The article presents experimental data on the implementation of the system of formation of professionalism at the stage of university training and in the work with the teachers at school. Experimental data pro...

The issue of health and safety at work and methods of risk prevention is one of the teaching subjects in schools preparing students for the job and further education of adults. The main aim of discipline Dangerous materials and processes is to obtain information about the hazardous substances and protection and prevention requirements necessary to achieve while handling them. Purpose of this paper is to emphasize the importance of occupational health and safety education as a form of prevention against accidents a...

The article considers the role of expert activity in modern society. It shows that the expert activity becomes significant form of social activity, and in this context the process of its institutionalization, that is gathering pace now and involving the formation of normative, institutional and professional forms of its implementation is studied in detail. This process is very similar to the process of institutionalization of scientific activity, which had a place at the end of the 19th century.

The article is concerned with the problem of adult people education where the behavioral habits transformation is involved. It produces participants’ resistance and may lead to low efficiency of education especially in some time after the educational course was finished. The mediation training course is an adequate object for survey of such problem, because of mediator’ need in neutrality and non-coercive approach to dealing with disputing parties’ disagreements content. Such model of behavior is very different of...

Cyber extremism takes a special place among all asocial acts in the virtual environment. The young adults are sensitive and defenseless to forcible and violent ideas and notions of extremism, xenophobia, intolerance and terroristic radicalization. Preventive measures of keeping/saving young adults from cyber extremism must be taken even in secondary schools. Thus, teachers should be competent in cyber extremism preventive measures, they should be instructed how to resist and stop the spreading of this violent ideo...

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...

This study is part of a complex research about the quality of life and aims to obtain information about most preferred activities in their spare time, on how much time students allocate for practicing physical activities and what motivates them chose to have an active life-style instead of a sedentary one. The methodology used in this study is an instrument we’ve developed, a 21 item questionnaire with 6 questions with open answers and 15 questions with closed answers (having 4 response options). The results obtai...

Motivation is a thing that can increase students’ determination and interest in language learning. Working in non-native environment, but bearing in mind that our task is teaching a foreign language, we see some important goals of motivation in: • Fulfilling university requirements • Improving one’s education • Improving critical and creative thinking skills • Increasing job opportunities and salary potential • Increasing global understanding, etc. A teacher should put a strong focus on the student’s motives to be...

Application of modern information and computer technologies in the educational activity has become in the standard practice. Many educational institutions have developed and apply in the learning process electronic libraries. International educational platforms are established and functioning. Knowledge of students is checked with the help of computer-based testing. But despite achievements of technological character, we can point to some serious problems, that are produced by a wide spread of e-learning systems i...

The link between American accredited universities in non-English speaking contexts and the creation of traditionally staffed writing centers is examined in relation to enhancing student engagement. Although writing centers have become fairly commonplace as any other ‘academic’ subject at many universities in the US, there seems to be a deficit in writing center provision at universities outside of the Anglophone context. Research suggests that students are unaware of their need for writing assistance at universiti...