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Within the framework of andragogical approach, the authors focus on the conceptual effects of coaching methods in lifelong education to help adult learners to shift their perspectives and thereby maximize their performance. The article gives insights into the essence of person-to-person coaching technique for discovering greater autonomy in adult learning as a means of developing and using their potential to achieve external goals. The authors chiefly draw on principles of Andragogy and Adult Learning and Coaching...

Cognitive ergonomics is considered with mental processes, such as perception, memory, reasoning, and motor response, as they affect interactions among humans and other elements of a system. The development of cognitive ergonomics discipline is a result of rapid technological advances, especially in the field where a machine is considered rather as an agent with which the human should cooperate than an assistant to the human operator. The increased complexity of technical means contributes the addition of informati...

The paper describes an empirical research aimed at setting up a model of such a communication scheme that will be potentially applicable in assessing the ability of people with cognitive impairment to communicate. In a wider sense, cognitive disorders can include, for example, disorders of the intellect or mild and severe neurocognitive disorders. Severe neurocognitive disorders are most common in seniors who experience memory problems, pathological changes in behavior, difficulties in understanding the language, ...

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

This article represents the result of research on the transformation of modern pilgrim practices. In a crisis of religious identity, defensive reactions on the level of social behavior and interaction of the various religious and pseudo-religious groups and communities become actual. According to the authors such reactions have both destructive and constructive potential that is proved by questionnaires and statistical analysis. The article states the emergence of new types of pilgrimage as a spiritual tourism, id...

Human development was permanently conditioned and obtained through physical motion. The physical state together with the cardiorespiratory fitness state highlight the development of the physical capacity of the human being. The explosive force (expansion/dГ©tente) is a basic parameter, which lays emphasis on the physical fitness level. This study aims to make a comparative analysis of the explosive force measurement on the inferior limbs using as measurement instrument two modern devices: the Myotest Pro and OptoJ...

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

The paper covers comparison of process making decision on shared care in the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic. It speaks about all elements of this chain including not only members present in the courtroom but also links having indirect influence on the final decision of the court about shared care. Almost a quarter of families with small children must deal with family breakdown, which can be described as potentially one of the most pressing social problems. Most of the children after a divorce is in a custody o...

The article is devoted to the study of the axiological sphere of students. The reflection of life plans and expectations, ideas of success in the sphere of professional self-realization, according to the authors is directly related to the realization of the value of self-development. The thematic justification of the professional and value orientations of young people within the framework of sociological and social-psychological approaches to the study of student youth is determined firstly by the importance of th...

Information and communication technologies now provide a wide range of opportunities for improvement of the educational process, but the constant evolution of information and communications technology, including its implementation in education, places new demands on teachers who have to be prepared to work with modern didactic tools and technologies, and at the same time create appropriate educational materials for such tuition. That is why new demands are placed on the teacher in this modern teaching paradigm and...

New technologies play a key role in the development of every sphere of the modern world, especially speaking of such technologies as robotics. Robots have the potential to be the next effective add-on to traditional education. The tangibility of robots and the excitement they bring into the classroom environment is considered conducive for learning. New training tools, mainly based on the use of information technologies, have appeared in the last 20 years, and the development continues, renewing the variety of edu...

Research-based learning becomes increasingly important in the era of knowledge-based society: Labor market requires that graduates could quickly and adequately navigate through diverse information landscape, search and process data, adapting it to the emerging tasks and contexts. To this end university-based educational process is supposed to laid particular emphasis on studentsВ’ research activities. Scholars agree that properly delivered training could develop the students' ability to conduct research by collect...

The article concerns the most important feature of В«social competenceВ» essence as country cultural and social value and environment. The problem of social competence studying as a modern phenomenon is relevant and useful, because it defines the criteria of the individualВ’s success in all social life spheres. In scientific discourse has found a clear interpretation of В«social competenceВ» phenomenon essence, as an integrative personality quality that combines axiological understanding of social reality, social ...

The aim of the work is to identify the actual contents and methods of training future music teachers for professional activities in a multicultural educational environment. Object of research: the bases, an entity of a method of culturological interpretation of spiritual traditions of music and results of its implementation in musical and educational process. The main form of introducing different layers of society to the traditions and values of the peoples of the world is intercultural dialogue and joint work cr...

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

The problems of crimes against families, which include domestic violence, have been present in society for many years. Nevertheless, with all changes in functioning of society and progress in the systems used to prevent violence and help both victims and offenders, it is worth analysing this topic further. On the one hand, the social awareness of the problem of violence and methods to react if it is observed are improving. On the other hand, violence is perceived as a problem concerning only women: it is often hea...

Values can be defined as general standards, as measures of goodness or desirability, as higher order norms (Carrow et.al., 1998). Social values are moral goals to which we commit ourselves. Sociological theories and those about collective deviation today speak about the risk society, moral panic (Thompson), moral breakdown, etc. Education plays a central role in the development and dissemination of basic values. Instances or international institutions implement certain social values that serve the building of a ha...

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

Financial literacy is a certain level of knowledge and skills in the financial sector, which in conditions of market economy enables the citizen to rationally assess the real situation and make the right life decisions. The problem of increasing the level of financial literacy in recent years and especially after the aggravation of the global financial crisis has become one of the priority tasks for governments in many countries, including the Russian Federation. The results of the conducted studies indicate that ...

The purpose of this article is to attempt of the authors which is based on an analysis of current theoretical approaches to develop a model for the professional identity of civil servants, which will contribute to the systemic and structural solvation of the problems of the public administration system. In the methodological plan, numerous studies do not give an unambiguous definition of the concept of professional identity, nor a single understanding of its essence. Special attention is paid to the acmeological a...

In this article the author analyzes the influence of amendments in the religious sphere of postsoviet society on strengthening anomie in it. Among factors, that influence anomie and characterizes the religious sphere state of the modern Russian society, he names the existence of many religious confessions due to missionery activities, traditional confession restoration (Orthodox, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Lutheranism), actualization of religious identity matter, phenomena of “out of confession heresy” and inte...

Background. The issues addressed in the article are of particular relevance, being in line with the main current trends in methodology of teaching foreign languages in Russia and abroad. The aim of the article is to present results of building a model of the development of autonomous learning skills among Yakut native students. Method. The research has revealed that there is a strong correlation between the content of the foreign language teaching in Russia and the development trends of the Russian society; the le...

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

Knowledge of foreign languages is very important, and its importance has been growing in recent years. The “Iron Curtain” was pulled back in the early nineties, and the Czech Republic joined the European Union, resulting in ever expanding opportunities to meet and communicate with foreigners in professional or private settings, to seek out and read foreign language texts on the internet or in printed form, to watch foreign TV channels and to listen to foreign radio stations, and, last but not least, to communi...

Background Our research aim was to emphasized different neurological patterns at athletes, by evaluating the parameters of somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) and compare the obtained results, in order to demonstrate the influence of specific professional training over the cortex. Methods The tested subjects were a group of 21 male athletes, with an average age of 19 years, which practiced fencing or handball, for at least 6 years, homogeneous regarding age, height, weight and training regime. We used the Nihon K...

The attitude towards disabled people and to disability is one of the most important indicators of the maturity of society and development of human rights. In the late seventies of the 20th century Europe comes to the historical stage, when attempts of integration of disabled people into normal public life, with full recognition of their civil rights, that fully coincide with the rights of citizens without disabilities, are made. Russia is now only on the way of transition to the fifth stage, when the biopsychosoci...

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

The paper is focused on the investigation of Dynamic Assessment approach as an alternative to standardized testing methods. Dating back to the Theory of Proximal Development developed by Vigotskiy, the methodology has been actively employed by the helping educationalists, mostly for students with special needs. Its potential is, however, undeservingly undervalued by subject teachers and methodologists, both those involved in schooling and higher education. The given article describes the results of the experiment ...

Care for children deprived of properly functioning families represents an integral element of family-oriented social policy in Poland, which is based on the constitutional principle of subsidiarity. According to this principle, the state, through the system of legal guarantees and support structures, offers conditions for support at a local level while empowering families. The entities that are involved in tasks to support families include local social services institutions, non-governmental organizations, and the...

This paper presents a novel approach in training for orthopaedic surgeons, developed within the ERASMUS + research project 2015-1-RO01-KA202-015230, ERASMUS+ VET "Collaborative learning for enhancing practical skills for patient-focused interventions in gait rehabilitation after orthopaedic surgery”. Considering that classical education of orthopaedic surgeons, which is based on lectures, self-study, workshops and cadaver dissections, followed by supervised practical training within daily practice, quite often r...

Early literacy, as a foundation for future literacy skills and academic performance, is the actual research trend. This developmental face is a source for the results of formal literacy (Scarborough 2009) and a framework of academic performance (in tests like PISA, PIRLS and others). Besides the contribution to the academic success, the interest for early literacy stems also from the need to recognize children at risk for reading disability and dyslexia (Catts, Petscher, Schatschneider, Sittner Bridges & Mendoza, ...

The aim of this paper is to present an ongoing research project „Paradigm Change of Mental Health and Well-being in Lithuania: Towards Empirically Valid Model” (2015-2017) and part of its results (research project is granted by Research Council of Lithuania). This project is aimed to contribute to the paradigmatic change by scientific research and evaluation of efficacy of pharmaceutic and psychotherapeutic treatment to psychological and social functioning, and to estimate economic burden of treatment and menta...

By the year 1983, Slovakia was in mortality rating under the global average. After this year, mortality in Slovakia reached a level above the global average, which was affected by a stronger demographic aging process. Its impact is particularly evident in the increasing share of people over the age of 65 and the decrease in the proportion of people in pre-productive and productive age. In the coming years, Slovakia will have to cope with demographic aging issues and take action mainly in the area of health and soc...

Education is essential to the survival of any social group, since a community secures its continued existence and development only through the transmission of its accumulated knowledge, derived power, and ideological aims to the next generation. Education may be simply (and brief) defined as the process of teaching and learning, the imparting and acquisition of knowledge and skills. The need for education was no less true for the students included in „The Burning Altar” movement, who regularly attended Antim at...

The current state of education in Romania might be described as follows: Unhappy students, unhappy teachers and unhappy parents. There is a widespread feeling that corruption, moral degradation and inefficiency are suffocating the education system. There is also a widespread perception that after any attempt to ”reform” education the situation got worse. The purpose of this study is to explore ”The dysfunctional paradigms hypothesis”: It is possible that one or more dysfunctional paradigms may become domin...

The main objective of the paper was to find out what conceptualisation processes are evoked in children of older school age by the word “education”, and what meanings are attached to this word in Czech Radio's newcast programmes from 1970 and 2015. The individual goals of the research were to reveal a particular influence of school upon the education of children, and to spotlight the changes in education in relation to a particular ideology in society. The theoretical basis of the research were theses of cultu...

{{Background: }} The aim of the study was to find out the way of providing information preferred by patients after implantation of vascular prosthesis in lower extremities or abdominal aorta in order to develop a new educational material. {{Methods: }} The participants involved in the study had achieved at least 24 points of Mini Mental State Examination and had undertaken the surgery. The study was agreed by the institutions`s ethical committee and all the participants who had been informed about the study purpos...

The purpose of the article is to try to analyze the main online education technologies which are used today by the universities to identify their advantages and disadvantages in the educational system. The methodological approaches used by the author include the theory of synergetics and chaos, the theory of academic revolution, the concept of smart education, e-learning and open education. To achieve this goal, the methods of document analysis, statistical analysis, comparative analysis and content analysis have ...

Introduction: Dental caries is a disease that affects all age groups, most commonly children. Dental caries in preschool represents a health and a social problem, especially when the the provision of preventive measures and the treatment rate are very low. A severe category of dental caries that is very common among children of preschool age is known as early childhood caries (ECC). In an earlier study, the prevalence of ECC in preschool children of Kosovo was 17.4%, while the mean dmft in children with ECC was 11...

{{Introduction: }} Reducing lipid levels in blood plasma is one of the ways of preventing cardiovascular disease. The purpose of this work is to present the changes found in the plasma lipid concentrations of Indian students who had engaged in the yoga practice known as Dynamic Suryanamaskar (DSN) for a period of 2 weeks. {{Methods: }} 105 randomly selected Indian male students aged 17.15В±1.42 years participated in the study. The subjects were divided into 4 groups, according to the Solomon Four Group Design. Gro...

Mechanical systems for producing mechanical vibrations gained more and more the role of training equipment and the vibrations obtained have an effect on muscles, facilitating the contraction or relaxation reflex depending on the possibilities of adjusting their parameters. Vibration platform training generates a tonic stretch reflex in all the muscles involved in the effort. During this reflex, the muscles contract and relax at very high speeds and the amount of active fibers reach 95% of muscle fibers involved in...

The article deals with the process of improving competences and work performance through the provision of a wide range of opportunities for personal and professional growth in knowledge and skills. The purpose was to integrate learning maintenance of the individual learning plan with daily activities. The article brings forward the mechanism for a strategic planning of educational steps, based on the analysis of searching ways. Strategic planning is based on a code of regulation and procedures containing a series ...

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

The main purpose of this research is to reveal the financial events which, in unfavorable economic conditions, emotionally arouse in students either a negative or a positive reaction. The research is based on the hypothesis that there is a difference in the psychological perception of events relating to the objective economic life conditions of a student and to events connected with his personal economic activity. Students of the Humanities Departments of the Ural Federal University underwent the survey. The infor...

Debt is a commitment to do something, to give something or refrain from doing anything. Debt itself is not harmful, like fire or knife is no harmful itself. Social work focuses on the debt when the indebtedness of individuals or of the entire population grows so much that it is a barrier to further individual, social or economic development. The Czech Republic is fighting over-indebtedness both by education ie by increasing financial literacy (the subjective side) and by regulating the conditions under which banks...

Future social and health workers will be implemented in a complex, multifaceted, difficult activity that needs professionals prepared to work flexibly and effectively with people who have social and health problems. ?hey are responsible for performing different social roles: provider of information /related to documents on social policy and practice/ generator of new ideas / in connection with problem solving/, partner in the process of communication, organizer, assistant in the performance of various practical ta...

In the context of a need for lifelong learning as a factor determining success of a modern qualified specialist in the international labor market, assertiveness and creativity of an individual throughout the process of self-education are of a top priority. Formation of the latter is in the stage of a significant progress during the period of study at university, since by this very moment students have formed a conscious attitude towards such activities, connected with vision of their future professional growth. Th...

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

This article describes topical issues of ethno-cultural methods of teaching Tatar language in the system of higher education. Tatar language as the state language of the Republic of Tatarstan in the Russian Federation is studied in higher education institutions and for this purpose textbooks of communicative and ethno-cultural orientation have been developed. In the process of studying Tatar language, foreign-language (including Russian-speaking) students almost master both the speech and socio-cultural competence...

The purpose of the article is to demonstrate the efficiency of the ethnomethodical model of teaching Russian as a foreign language (RFL) on various aspects of language and types of speech activity. The article analyzes various approaches to teaching Russian as a foreign language. An intensive approach based on ethno-oriented methodology seems to be the most promising. Taking into account the results of the analysis, the authors created an ethnomethodical model of intensive teaching of Russian as a foreign language...