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This paper focuses on the problem of reading pre-literacy, which is from the perspective of lifelong learning an extremely important area, since the preschool age lays the foundations for not only reading, but also a number of other pre-literacy skills, while it is also a period of the development of the child's personality, their motivation for their own learning. The aim of the study is to characterize the conception of the pre-literacy abilities in the Czech preschool education, the possibilities of further dev...

The article deals with a topic of education of pupils with special educational needs at primary schools of the main educational stream. A qualitative research, which we carried out, should contribute to a deeper description of a current conception of elementary reading and writing instruction which are two of the main subjects of primary education. The research was realized at chosen schools by a method of focus group. The aim of this research was to interpret the current situation in reading and writing instructi...

The article deals with the problem of the crisis in education in the face of global information fields. Currently, the civilization is going through the next information revolution leading to the emergence of a global information space, the possibilities are virtually instantaneous information transfer, high saturation of news and the emergence of new forms of communication. The traditional system of education is not ready yet to fully adapt to the changing conditions, although there is clearly a need to change th...

In the Czech Republic, the definition of the term Вґbehavioural problemsВґ is very broad and covers a variety of phenomena, some representing developmental norms, some temporary social maladaptation and some behaviour-breaking social norms. It is assumed that a certain number of children placed in special institutional education facilities display major behavioural problems, referred to as Вґbehavioural disordersВґ. Their placement is an extreme solution after all possibilities of preventive educational care have ...

The present study investigates the issue of professional development in the context of initial teacher education (ITE) for primary and preschool level. It tries to identify the influence that the process of professional identity formation has in relation to learning styles. The research was carried out with 130 students in Department of Teacher Education from the University of Bucharest. The methodological aproach aimed at discovering the way different learning styles are applied according to several analysis fact...

Minecraft is a computer game created by Mojang in 2011, which has gained popularity in a very strong community of players from all over the world in the recent years. Minecraft is the sandbox game that allows players to do basically anything - to build houses, grow plants, raise animals, mine minerals, build social relationships, etc. The game is very complex – it contains sophisticated physical environment, offers players a functioning ecosystems of fauna and flora, it allows to create simple and complex circui...

The reform of the education system in Kosovo, determines needs to change the system of preparation and training of teachers. To realize the objectives of this reform, should first to explore the potential of Kosovar teachers - their position and role, the opportunities for their preparation, to made clear responsibilities and their role that will have to implement the changes, well analyzed barriers to be overcome since the beginning. As part of school reform, to increase the quality of education, were planned tra...

In recent years there have been many hot debates in Macedonia in terms of systemic changes in the area of higher education. We can say that the Government has increased the standards for professors and research activities in general with the adoption of new law amendments concerning higher education regulations. The question is whether the government is more interested for changes rather than universities? But, the strengthening of normative standards does not necceseraly mean that the transition from a more conve...

The biggest determinant of quality of human life, is health. Health will provide the basis for comprehensive development of human. There are a big role to play an individual's life - the living environment, the neighborhood, the society, and also has a strong relationship with yourself [11]. The one of the cornerstones a well-functioning state is the good health and the quality of life of citizens, their`s preservation, which is ensured through the social and economic success. The Public Health Act [12] provides f...

Writing speed and verbal fluency of 55 students of Faculty of Education in Pristine, was researched. In this research are included students in the third year of studies, respectively 34 students who attend program of biology and 21 students of physics. In order to assess the writing speed were selected: test of writing Albanian letters, while for assessing verbal fluency: the test of writing words starting with letter “p” and the test of writing words starting with letter “s”. Results of the t-test prove t...

Our present research is based on Berkeley Language Centre's Teaching Romance languages Through Intercomprehension. Networking Hearts and Minds in the Language Classroom [1], the objectives of this article are to present the scenario, the activities and the results of our intercomprehension activities. We are going to start with a presentation of two international projects which are finished now, “Galapro” and “Redinter”, afterwards, we are going to refer to another project called “Miriadi” which contin...

This article is an analysis of possible relationships between the concept of 21st century skills and mobile learning, seeing these constructs as central to pedagogical innovation. The rationale for the claims we put forward draws on the idea that most children grow up culturally immersed in digital technology rich habitats, indirectly forcing teachers to use technology and thus to develop new skills. The skills to be developed by teachers should be analyzed under new learning theoretical perspectives that consider...

The paper is of a theoretical research nature and deals with the multiple case research design. The paper summarizes available information about the typology of case studies that can be used in various research studies of auxiliary professions including (special) education research. Practical application of this study design is illustrated on an authorial quality-based research study of lifestyle limitations in persons with chronic illnesses, where the research sample consisted of multiple sclerosis patients. The ...

Contemporary scientific, technological, societal, social, cultural and civilizational changes present new challenges for school and teaching to confront with, and systematically respond to with teaching contents and its specific didactic organization. Ecology as a synoptic, diffuse and interdisciplinary science, which dialectically connects the natural-scientific with the social-scientific area, is an ideal polygon for creating teaching contents that deal with the changes of the contemporary world. However, in the...

At present, educational technological resources as virtual instruments help teachers and learners to introduce different concepts, in order to develop students' scientific knowledge and to practice different experiments without risks. In this sense, virtual laboratories allow students to make connections between the theoretical background and practical issues, using computers and specific software applications equipped with simulation capacities, as those met in real laboratories. Virtual laboratories offer a seri...

Contemporary studies in linguistics and psychology have proved that verbal communication should be considered an interaction of people who are determined to cooperate. Life in society makes a person use words (of a native or foreign language) to communicate with other people in order to achieve his /her aims and satisfy his/ her needs. In short, a person handles his/her interlocutors, affecting their behavior, way of thinking, activity. On the other hand, social interaction obliges a person to correlate his/her sp...

The paper Assessment to Pupils with Specific Learning Difficulties in Russian Language Teaching in the Qualitative Educational Research brings the results of research study focusing on the issues of assessment in Russian language teaching to pupils with specific learning difficulties. The study was realized within the framework of the research centre Special Needs of Pupils in the Context of Framework Education Programmes (MSM 0021622443). The author analysed the issues of assessment of Russian language teaching i...

The present work tries to clear a multi-disciplinary approach involving not only the technology-oriented aspects but also the educational system, the economics, socio-organizational and legal issues. The study is conceived to build a comprehensive scenario, to find and clarify the strategic options and to indicate in terms of organizational development, in order to develop a model of centers for additive manufacturing in universities. The identification of the key variables for the structural analysis it was perfo...

Two Russian authors, Roerich Nikolay (1874-1947) and Eroshenko Vassily (1890-1952), left numerous works that considered a vivid portrait of the vanished colonial Asia, from one point, and as the first examples of the future globalization in this continent, from the other one. Both they lived in the period when Russia, China and India were involved in the political and economic collapse, but their works were free from any kind of panics and depression, that is why the contemporary reader can gain the knowledge of t...

Contemporary rapid development of technology, science, progress and changes that are taking place on a global scale as well as general knowledge in workplaces cause that each working person or intending to work, is forced to constantly expand their knowledge, skills and gain new qualifications. This is done usually through education at an appropriate level, learning and improving their skills and gaining new competence. This is possible thanks to so-called lifelong learning and the increasing level of education. A...

The problem of languages interaction is investigated in the context of different scientific paradigms, in particular, sociological, sociolinguistic, linguistic, and psycholinguistic and others. In this article languages interaction is examined at the level of individual consciousness, i.e., from the psycholinguistics point of view. Psycholinguistic approach to the study of languages interaction assumes a study of those changes, which occur in the consciousness of individual, who manages several languages or who st...

The development of reading literacy has been a very topical issue in recent years, not only in the Czech Republic, based both on the results of research of international surveys PISA and PIRLS, and the results of many other, less significant studies of reading literacy. Over a long period, Czech pupils have been showing decreasing reading comprehension level and demonstrate overall downward trend in international comparisons. We carried out a research that investigated how reading literacy has been developed in Cz...

This paper presents the preliminary results of a study developed under a PhD thesis in of a doctoral program in ICT and Education'. Among other objectives, this study aimed to analyze the practices and proficiency levels in digital technology usage presented by the Portuguese school principals. The study was organized according to the post-positivist research paradigm and is assumed as an exploratory and descriptive study. These preliminary results involved 133 participants of a universe of 831 principals of the P...

This article presents a model of teacher's essential competencies as a manager in education. A teacher is an important link in the organization of educational communication of students as adult learners and in the education process direction. Because the duties of a modern university teacher grow, his professional competencies should include those of manager in education. Today the teacher needs a knowledge on general theory of management, on educational management fundamentals and on peculiarities of organization...

The complexity of the educative action is noticeable not only at the structural level, as far as the normativity of education is concerned, but, mostly, at the level involving the factors of education determined in the context of pedagogical community. The content of education is presented on the form of common value and on the standards of human becoming. This context implies a permanent valorization of human's interaction and also the transfer of value from a generation to another, from a culture to another. The...

The purpose of the present study was to test context predictability of words in norm and schizophrenia and to reveal whether the context factor influences on discourse perception and comprehension. The hypothesis of a loss of context predictability in schizophrenic speech is upheld by the analysis of modified cloze test data. Two text types were used: a static text (descriptive sentences) and a dynamic text (sequence of events following swiftly on one another). The results showed that: 1) context predictability of...

The article highlights effective ways of using drama activities in an ELT classroom. Why are those activities useful? Who are they intended for? What goals are to be set and results obtained? What hidden obstacles prevent a performance from being a success? How to overcome the barrier of incomprehension? What kind of plays to choose? How to facilitate the task of staging them? A number of other issues relating to the role of drama activities in ELT are addressed. The approach offered is based on the author's conce...

The paper deals with the curricular reform in elementary school that was implemented in 2008. The paper analyzes current requirements in (not only) student assessment in primary education. The paper interprets partial research results about teachers' beliefs about assessment in primary education. This part of research was conceived through Q-methodology with 12 primary teachers. It mentions teachers' professional needs to develop their assessment competence in the 21st century.

The importance of tolerance is increasing in the globalised and multicultural world. Tolerance, like any other virtue, requires the correct understanding and the correct extent. Poorly perceived tolerance ceases to be a virtue. In this paper, the author addresses the definition of tolerance and methods for developing tolerance in ethics education lessons, mainly in relation to other ethnics, cultures and religions.

In modern Russia there has been a situation when less young people choose career of statisticians. In this regard Moscow state university of economics, statistics and informatics (MESI) with Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) support since 2010 started carrying the national student statistical competition. The main goals of carrying the national student statistical competition are: п‚·promote statistics, increase of statistical literacy and general statistical culture; п‚·identification of talented youth a...

The key factor of modern National Research University development is its international activity. With the aim to integrate into international research and educational community, and enhance their global competitiveness, Russian universities have started to make substantial changes in the requirements for faculty and staff. Among such requirements is a high level of language proficiency. Priority is given to English because of its international importance. However, the majority of research and teaching staff in Rus...

The article is devoted to the results of an empirical research of peculiarities and dynamic of ecological good breeding of the students – ecologists being at different grade levels (I, III, V courses). As concrete diagnostic techniques were used questionnaires of S. Deryabo and V. Yasvin: technique of diagnostics of intensity of the subjective relation to the nature "Naturephile" and verbal associative technique of "EZOP". It is revealed that in the conditions of existing practice of training in higher education...

The paper examines the effectiveness of the primary prevention in the field of stress management and use of alcohol by students second and third years of secondary school. The research was relized in cooperation with center of primary prevention. In generation the paper describes theoretical points devoted to this subject. For this work, we chose a quantitative research, which works with two research-non prevented and prevented pupils of high school. Both of these research files are further divided by gender. Ther...

It is a well-known fact that the problem of information support is one of the urgent issues in didactic linguistics. It is thus obviously necessary to provide the process of education with modern means of e-support in different knowledge domains. The terminological tools play an essential role in various application fields of term representation, and thesaurus is one of the most effective tools. The research group at the Department of Applied Linguistics (Kazan Federal University) is creating a number of electroni...

E-learning technologies have become very important nowadays. It is stated that e-learning is a step to an available and qualitative education. The main purpose of writing this paper was to research and analyze the problems with the e-learning in Russia and establish the development prospective. While writing this paper different methods were employed. The descriptive methods were used to describe the situation with the development of e-learning in Russia. The method of statistical analysis was employed to show the...

The purpose of this paper was to explore Erasmus incoming students' expectations and core competences development during their period of stay abroad. Competences were analysed regarding European framework on key competences for lifelong learning. Using qualitative and quantitative methodologies, the exploratory research was carried out in two stages, namely at the beginning of the semester (to analyse expectations) and at the end of the semester (to analyse core competences development). Our main findings were tha...

Life-long education is really important nowadays, this idea is probably also linked with establishing of the Universities of the Third Age. It has been proved that study activities have a positive impact on seniors – an active life style helps to lengthen the period preceding that time when elderly citizens´ health complications grow and worsen. The text focuses on the comparison of the organizing principles of U3As, and deals with seniors´ opinions concerning their studying in the U3A courses in foreign langu...

Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts of Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovak Republic, prepares its students in the study program of Citizenship Education, graduates will be teachers of civics. The intention of an article is to give a picture about changes in the education of citizens since the second half of 19thcentury, as well as on the nature of the current training of future teachers, with an emphasis on the need for sociability. Changes in organization of school system reflect t...

It is difficult to recommend general pedagogical principles, strategies and methods in a variety of learning situations that have a different character at higher levels than at lower levels of education. There is an urgent need to develop pedagogy of higher education at the most of higher education institutions. Even more important is pedagogical and psychological knowledge for university teachers- engineers with no previous teacher education. There are also various barriers and adverse circumstances of economic o...

The study identifies ICT and new media impact on Arabic acquisition as a supplement to traditional face-to-face learning within the framework of formal education system. For the last three years more than one hundred teachers of Arabic from seven Russian institutions have participated in the study under the advanced distance training program “The Arabic language and innovative education” (hereinafter – the Program). The one-month-long Program was developed and implemented by the authors of the present study....

Currently the Russian Federation is getting through higher education modernization process as a part and acceleration factor of innovative country development. One of the aspects of this modernization is updating approaches for measuring the professors work efficiency. The results of professors work have to measured by evaluating students and then graduates competences. Today there isn't any method to deter dependence of professors work results and competence level of students and graduates competences. This fact ...

The aim of this paper is to provide an objective overview of the impact of teacher salaries on the educational achievements of students. It is often debated about teacher salaries and improvement or jeopardizing their standard, but educational consequences that may ensue as a result of these intentions are rarely addressed. Teacher's role in student's achievement outcomes is unquestionable. There are many factors that have an impact on student achievement, but this paper will analyze only the impact of teacher's i...

In the 1990s in the Anglo-Saxon world legitimacy of the discipline history of education as well as historical-educational research was largely discussed, e.g. D. Hargreaves [5], Ch. Woodhead [22], J. Tooley – D. Darby [19]. The discussion was held in terms of a doubt whether we still need history of education (e.g. R. Lowe: We Still Need History of Education? [13]). This, on the other hand, led some of the historians of education to re-evaluation of the substance of the discipline history of education and its re...

In this paper we analyze the evolution of Higher Education in the last three decades and the effects of the recent Portuguese economic crisis, officially started at 2011 with the intervention of International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and European Commission. Based on the statistical data produced by national and international organizations we show that the process of “massification” of higher education in Portugal is late compared with other European countries – it only started in the middle eigh...

This article is result of the research done in a special direction for solving problems of methods of teaching mathematics by using geometric dynamical systems: the formation of geometric concepts. Any DGS have own tools, with which you can quickly construct models of geometric concepts and explore their properties. DGS allows users of these programs create new tools concepts the learners. The article presents examples of problems that can be solved at different stages of formation of concepts based on design tool...

In the introduction of the paper the authors characterize current education reform in the Czech Republic based on the analysis of curricula documents and concept of education in primary and lower secondary school. Among its key principles we include communication education and integration of knowledge. In the next part of the paper we therefore offer the possibilities of integration of selected educational areas and focus on music education and language teaching (Czech language). They use examples from the works o...

In the recent 10 years, the effort for inclusion of people with specific needs has become a significant all-society phenomenon across the globe. Etymologically, the term inclusion is derived from the Latin “inclusio”, which marks a process of acceptance and involvement into a whole or a unit. In case of people with specific needs, inclusion is especially associated with the area of education, possibly also with the processes of socialization, i.e. social inclusion. Our text focuses on the specifics of people w...

Background: this article focuses on the analytical presentation of the main components of the concept of postmodern discourse, still insufficiently studied by modern linguistics or comparative discourse study, as terminological distinction between linguistic concepts of text and discourse in modern philology and linguistics is one of the most sophisticated issues. Discourse is interpreted as a semiotic process, realized in various types of discursive practices. Accentuation of this article is posed for considerati...

Education, competences and learning outcomes are the key topics of curriculum policy in most countries of the European Union, striving to become the most competitive and dynamic economy in the world in terms of knowledge. One of the main components of this approach is the promotion of key competences and the new culture of learning, supported by integrative processes. In this context, many educational, but also employment theorists and analysts, alongside professional competences, emphasize the importance of gener...

The purpose of this article was to identify which are the most important values of youths, which is their hierarchy and how they contribute to fixing aspirations and, hence, to the crystallization of professional options, in order to an efficient insertion on the labour market. The article's purpose was to verify the applicability of certain theories, such as, for example, that of P. Bourdieu and JC Passeron on the factors that are influencing young people's aspirations and professional guidelines or the theory of...