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Background: On the basis of the theoretical and empirical analyses published in the scientific literature, it can be stated that the concept of successful ageing presented in educational discourses is understood differently by authors and it is focused primarily on three issues related to 1/ spirituality, 2/ fulfillment of oneВ’s own well-being, 3/ a sense of community. The article discusses research results aimed at comparing ways of understanding successful ageing in the scientific literature with ways of defini...

New approach to conceptualize social development and to measure its level is proposed for societies facing the paradoxical consequences of globalization. The economic and social divide between the group of the largest cities and the rest of the world supports the idea that globalization has resulted not in the В‘world societyВ’ or В‘worldwide socialityВ’ but rather in networked enclaves of globality. In the post-globalization age, the В‘coreВ’ of socioeconomic order is dispersed into networks of enclaves of global...

Increased mobility and international cooperation are crucial objectives for Latvia to foster integration to the European Higher Education Area and European Research Area, which builds the basis for Latvia to utilise its potential for education and research as well as serves as a means to build research capacity, strengthen the image of Latvian Higher Education Institutions (HEI) and promote the positive image of the country globally. The paper introduces the selected results of the study conducted in the framework...

The immaterial products of today environment is overpopulated with 'tools' for enter-taining, education, creativity, geographic orientation and so on. Everything is designed to create layer over layer of wich we name 'reality'. From a philosophical point of view, our world is becoming an 'opera aperta' of information for developers, companies, aca-demics and individuals. But is it so? Are transacted data part of an one piece of work? Could such data became artwork? As part of my doctoral approach of education and ...

Introduction: Tobacco smoke and second-hand smoking exposure, at home or in school during childhood and adolescence, increases the risk of respiratory illness. Youth smoking is mostly associated with parents, and their smoking behavior. Also, there are other influences: social environment, targeted advertising, easy access to cigarette products, no control over age limit in purchasing cigarettes, lack of knowledge about the effects of smoking. Material and method: To evaluate the influence of the environment, soci...

The article presents the mutual relations between art and technology from the Renaissance to the interactive art of today. It indicates important factors influencing the possibilities of imaging and interpreting reality by artists, ranging from the development of oil painting techniques, linear perspective, the invention of printing and photography, to achievements related to the development of information technologies (computers, interfaces), offering a range of tools to create and co-create a work of art by the ...

Technological needs of the modern economy significantly change the nature of engineering education. Today's engineers must be willing to work in the conditions of increasing technological processes and equipment complexity. The article discusses the main challenges and trends in Russian engineering educational development on example of Tobolsk Industrial Institute (branch) of "Tyumen Industrial University." The authors reveal the reasons for graduates' preparation quality declining in technical university training...

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

Tactical periodization is a training concept applied in the training of junior team A from “Gic? Popescu” Football Academy. As the main purpose of tactical periodization is to learn how to play, we have tried to build a complex model of training methods and means to increase team progress in terms of players’ individual quality and the quality of the team game as well. In all training sessions we have comprehensively prepared all the moments of the game, defending attack, offensive and defensive transitions, ...

In the last decades, there has been a discussion about teachersВ’ professional development in Slovakia but also in the European context. Researches show that Slovak teachers have lost their professional status in Slovakia. Their initial and continuing education is strongly theoretical and formal, the development of their practical skills and team working is not supported. As a research team, we have created a Model of professional development of teachers in schools which reflects actual problems of teachersВ’ prof...

The information age shifts focus in professional education from teaching to studying. Consequently University students are to organize their independent learning. One of the most productive ways of self-learning is making ample use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT)-aided education. In the Russian Federation the Federal Law “On Education in the Russian Federation” no 273-FZ introduced in December 2012 imposes an obligation of using various technologies including ICT. Vast application of Inter...

The theoretical study presents partial results of the project "Management of the discipline in the classroom at the primary school". The main objective of the project is to create, apply and evaluate an optimal model of discipline management in the classroom, which influences the effectiveness of teaching and leadership in the field of self-control and self-regulation. The positive learning climate in a classroom requires the teacher to focus on modifying but especially on preventing unwanted pupils' behaviour. Th...

The paper deals with and analyzes the efficiency of certain body strength development procedures using weight training exercises on mesomorph subjects aged 19-21 from the University Politehnica of Bucharest. The purpose of the research is to determine which of the mesomorph subjects being situated in the three groups obtained superior results at the barbell squat exercise by using different body strength development procedures. The procedures used in the research are the following: the procedure of weight training...

The article examines the characteristics of behavior in a conflict of students of various nationality backgrounds. The research goal is to reveal potential possibility of studentsВ’ conflict prevention in a multinational institution. The research objective is to elicit specific conflict behavior types adhered to the students of different nationalities. The article represents the results of an empirical study of the characteristics of behavior in the conflict of the students. The two nationalities that were viewed ...

Contemporary process of general education shifts focus from teaching large groups of pupils to organize their independent learning. Teacher Training Universities are to prepare pre-service teachers for organizing pupils’ independent work in order to assist a better development of the child’s abilities. Application of tutoring support in primary, secondary and high school is one of the effective means to achieve these goals. This task is set in the Law “On Education in the Russian Federation” (2012), which st...

Background – Rapid development of interdisciplinary academic connections highlights the importance of written communication. The necessity of the latest data sharing, on the one hand, the scientific achievements promoting, on the other hand, make an ability of health care professionals to written speech activity salient. Materials and Methods – The study is aimed at professional written speech activity of health care professionals. Quantative and statistical methods were used. The progress of respondents was b...

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

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

The aim of the paper is to determine the level of the lower body explosive power of older school girls. Regular population as well as girls playing various sports such as football, volleyball and handball were tested. The measurements were made in November 2017. The monitored parameters were the vertical jump T-flight length and the height of the vertical jump in the three tests. Diagnosis was performed using the Optogait jump ergometer. Basic statistical characteristics were used for data processing. In the final...

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

This article aims at assessing the potential of the social orientation and Romanian language learning programmes to encourage mutual understanding and fight intolerance. A comprehensive analysis of the linguistic education and the social integration programmes identified in Romania was conducted, based on a common and coherent analytical framework for all the national contributions of the countries which are partners in the RACCOMBAT project. Starting from the generic description of the Romanian language courses a...

The paper publishes the results of the qualitative research that analysed the attitudes of the Slovak teachers towards the fundamental curriculum reform in primary and lower secondary education. The research was realized after 10 years from the curriculum reform that had been realized according to ISCED classification in 2008. The authors of the paper interpreted the research findings how Slovak teachers understood their role as creators of the framework of content learning. The paper clarifies and take measures t...

Background The aim of this paper is to study the role of kinetic rehabilitation treatment of idiopathic scoliosis with a Cobb angle less than 40Вє in junior football players. Cobb angle method was used to measure lateral curve severity in scoliosis so the main goal was to improve the scoliosis curvature and correct the associated hyperlordosis or khyphosis at the patients. Methods This study consist in a group of 10 patients, aged by 12 to 17, with lumbar scoliosis was performed in Bunavestire Rehabilitation Hospi...

Context. Nowadays an increasing number of students are heading to professional sports; at the same time, many students are not engaged in leisure physical activities, which is a serious alarm signal for the health of young populations and for sports. The aim of this study is to determine the bio-motric potential of secondary school students, rural and urban residents, on the assumption that Body Mass Index (BMI) is an indicator of health and it can also indicate the possibility that subjects with healthy weight ac...

The problematic of national identity and his affirmation is from a long time an open chapter in the definition of the concept of education from Romania. It had been discussed if the national identity can be defined outside the elements of religious identity and if this issue contradicts or not the perspective of unity on the characteristic of religious diversity. Overall, the national and religious identity is necessary insofar that generates commune values and omens new opportunities of social interaction. Theref...

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

The dental impression plays a very important role during the clinical and technical stages of prosthetic restoration. Impressing the prosthetic field can cause errors in producing the prosthetic item. The dental impression represents the negative copy of the prosthetic field that will generate the positive copy, respectively the working model/cast. If the assessor, the dentist and / or the dental technician, cannot notice these errors in a timely manner, the prosthetic piece is intended for failure. The objectives...

The article discusses the processes taking place in the system of higher education in Russia. The purpose of the article is to identify the key differences between basic undergraduate and graduate educational programs. The article discusses the conditions and mechanisms required to ensure the continuity between bachelorВ’s and masterВ’s degree programs as a basis for quality higher education. The article contains a comprehensive evaluation of basic undergraduate and graduate education programs offered by the Russi...

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

Given the ever-emerging trends in teaching, deriving from the constructivist theory of teaching and learning and promoting the active role of learners in the learning approach, future teachers at all levels of education need to be trained appropriately. At the Faculty of Education in Maribor students of elementary education are offered the course Environmental and Social Studies lessons outside the classroom, which aims to acquaint students with the basic characteristics of teaching and active learning outside the...

The study was supported from the grant project VEGA 1/0625/16 “The effect of physical activities on the development of motor abilities in integrated children with behavior disorders”. We have extended knowledge about motor coordination of 7 and 8 years old children by determining correlations between somatic parameters and total motor coordination expressed as the converted MQ scores. The somatic parameters measured included body weight, body height, and BMI. To determine the levels of motor coordination, chil...

Monitoring SpO2% during bodybuilding workouts could offer information about effort intensity and gives the opportunity to better understand what happens in this kind of physical activity. The aim of the research is to monitor the oxygen level during bodybuilding workouts with students for 10 weeks. If we monitor the students oxygen level during bodybuilding workouts, we will be able to establish physiological patterns (oxygen level) of the activity at noncompetitive youth bodybuilders. Applied workout methodology ...

The role of basic education in reducing and combating poverty has been a topic of interest for many researchers in the field, becoming obvious that there is a strong relationship between basic education and poverty reduction. Incontestably, we could say, if this is true, the relationship between higher education and poverty reduction should be positive and much stronger, all the more so at the theoretical and empirical level we can speak of a consent on the fact that higher education is a key factor for generating...

The paper deals with and analyzes the efficiency of certain body strength development procedures using weight training exercises on mesomorph subjects aged 19-21 from the University Politehnica of Bucharest. The purpose of the research is to determine which of the mesomorph subjects being situated in the three groups obtained superior results at the barbell squat exercise by using different body strength development procedures. The procedures used in the research are the following: the procedure of weight training...

Background: The question of safe use of the Internet by school students is one of the questions actively discussed in recent years. There is a particular concern about the entry of children into informal groups, sometimes of terrorist orientation, children's dependence on on-line-games, the treatment of the children to the sites, the content of which causes harm to physical and psychological health of children. Governments around the world have taken measures to ensure the safety of young Internet users at the leg...

Nowadays, there is an increase in the requirements with regard to the training of the future social workers in university considering the socio-economic processes in Bulgaria which are radically changing the social sphere and resulting in a more complicated professional interaction with the society.This triggers the need of finding innovative methods and forms whose inclusion in the educational process would lead to its intensification and better quality. In this respect, at university level there is an increasing...

A human being is viewed from various perspectives. The individual is considered as a multidimensional being. The persons with visual impairment can be exposed to a number of stimuli that influence their biological nature (physiology of the organism), psychological nature (personality), social nature (socialization, inclusion) and spiritual nature (values, belief). We aimed at the different areas of the everyday life in the student with visual impairment. The main objective of the paper is to achieve a deeper under...

During all the times of destruction of social institutions and socio-cultural norms, there is a split in common social values and those which are reflected in social networks and electronic media. There are few meaningful values for modern women that could be identified: the value of kinship, the value of marriage, the value of motherhood, the value of career and self-made behavior, the value of leisure and hedonistic values. In the article the authors propose models (variants) of the images of mothers with many c...

Globalization, information technologies and presence of media in everyday life have shaped modern society. Not only does media content and information become available to everyone, but also everyone gets the opportunity to create media content. Due to the presence of media and vast amount of information in the 21st century, it is necessary to acquire specific skills considered as media literacy. Media literacy considers ability to access media and media content, to analyse media content and to communicate in a var...

Introduction. Psychological training is one of the factors that can make the difference between opponents in a sport competition. The paper aimed to identify the level of psychological abilities of the volleyball player and to compare the results between male and female players. Method. To determine the volleyball player's mental training level, a questionnaire has been applied, to measure the level of stress and other athletesВ’ psychological abilities. Thus, the subjects of the research were 18 male volleyball p...

The article is devoted to the problem of the formation of educators’ willingness and capacities in situations of inclusive education for children with disabilities. The adoption of the Federal Law “About Education in the Russian Federation”, Russian Federal State Educational Standard for people with disabilities, Teacher Professional Standard represents a significant challenge for educators, who are bound to renovate not only learning environment, but also all educators’ attitude to children with special nee...

Poverty and social exclusion, as prominent phenomena in Romania, generate the necessity to study the elements of risk that determine a) the institutional factors and b) the personal factors that lead to university abandonment in the first year of studies, at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, of the University of Oradea. At the same time, these factors may be regarded as an opportunity to create the tools that would reduce the risk of abandonment in the case of students from the vuln...

The study is an analysis of the subject literature and qualitative research in the area of the importance of work in raising a young person. At present, the education to a job which determines the functioning of a person in a given environment seems very important. It is also essential to emphasize the work process in the process of raising a young person. Education consists in preparing a man for “social participation” in the present times is not only extremely important, but also difficult. However, omission...

Family as the primary socializing factor represents the space in which a child adopts the basic standards and rules of functioning in society. How successful he can be in the social environment is largely influenced by patterns of behaviour and their compatibility with corporate norms and behaviours. The aim of our study was to find out how parenting influences the occurrence of risk behaviours in young people. A quantitative research strategy has been chosen. The standardized Alabama Parenting Questionnaire (APQ)...

Teacher professionalization is an important challenge for education policies and systems in the European and national contexts. There is an Act of teachersВ’ development in Slovakia since 2009. One of the consequences of the Act is that teachers refer only formal educational activities. However, history shows that we also have (as teachers say) effective forms of non-formal educational activities, e.g. teachers days - teachers of the same subject from different schools or teachers of different subjects from one sc...

Due to the existing disproportions in the current ecological and economic condition of the territories within the Arctic zone, high supply of natural resources in the continental and off-shore Arctic areas, ecological fragility of Arctic ecosystems, as well as the need to respect the rights of indigenous peoples, it is necessary to implement differentiated approach when selecting scenarios for strategic development and management. This study examines the economic and mathematical models for the development of the ...

The precondition for the well-functioning society and the economic success is a highly skilled labour force. Improving the level of education helps to increase the competitiveness of people on the labour market and at the same time, reduces labour shortages and increases employment in society. The objective of our case-study was to determine the contributory and hindering circumstances of continuing education. Content analysis was used as a quantitative research method, which helps to measure texts by quantitative...

A child with disabilities means for the family confrontation with new problems. The presence of the child changes the functioning of the family, the quality of life of all its members, and also modifies the needs of the family. The contribution is focused on the detection of needs within the family system. The method of data collection was the standard Bailey and Simeonsson Family Questionnaire (1988) which focuses on 6 areas of need - the need for family support, the need for information, the need to explain to o...

The inclusion of the elderly in the community as equal members and providing opportunities for the elderly to participate in work related activities is one of the main tasks of modern society. The goal of the study was to estimate the participation of elderly people in activities related to the work or volunteer activities. 120 examinees from 65 to 93 years of age who are users of centers and homes for the care of the elderly participated in the study. The study used a sociodemographic questionnaire and selected p...

The Church received from Christ the mission not only to preach the gospel of salvation, but also to feed the hungry, to give water to the thirsty, to provide a traveler's shelter and hospitality to the stranger, to dress the naked, take care of the sick and care for orphans and widows. The Orthodox Church fulfilled its social mission and sought to ease the lives of the less favored, by setting up hospitals, philanthropic homes, homes for the elderly, orphanages and other charitable institutions. In the Byzantine E...