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Statistics on overall satisfaction with work-life balance show an EU average of 79%. This figure is higher than average in more than half of the EU countries, including Estonia and Lithuania. In Latvia, this indicator is only 73%, thus Latvia is in the 6th place from the end among the EU countries, which confirms the need to find solutions to support a worklife balance. Objective of the paper is to characterise a work-life balance from theoretical aspect and to provide an assessment of influencing factors among st...

The socioeconomic development of a state is determined by the level of education and skills of a younger generation. Formation of students’ necessary professional competencies is the main task of a higher education system, which can be achieved by integrating two types of activities in learning process as scientific and educational. Currently, the importance of students’ research activity is increasing, it is becoming an integral element of the entire educational process in a higher education, an important com...

The concept of "learning task" is classic in the context of teaching and learning, including in geography. On the one hand, it is related to what is learned through the task, on the other - to what will be checked and evaluated. In this report, the classical conception is further developed from a geodidactic point of view. The idea is to show, firstly, that the discussions around the learning tasks are directly related to the changes in the educational policy of the state and are a consequence of them, and secondl...

Despite growing recognition of the importance of integrating sustainability in business education, there is evidence that accounting and finance curricula lag behind other disciplines in this regard. One reason offered for this is that accounting and finance modules are often based on the principles of neo-classical economics and shareholder value creation which may not be consistent with the principles of sustainability. Another reason offered is that there is a lack of guidance and suitable resources available t...

Interactive forms of teaching a foreign language include modern tools for the teacherstudent relationship within the global Internet. The purpose of this work was to identify these forms of communication, as well as to determine the possibilities of interactive forms of cooperation in the framework of learning the French language. The authors give an overview of the historical transformation of interactive means of teaching a foreign language. It is highlighted that interactive forms of language learning continue ...

Violence is an evil that surrounds today's society because Humana beings are violent by naturally due to their Needle to protection and defend themselves. Violence in the EDUCATION field is understood as the intentional harmful action or omission carried out between members of the EDUCATION community (students, teachers, parents, administrative staff, others EDUCATION actors) and which takes place in the physical premises of the Educational Unit (school infrastructures), or in other spaces directly related to the ...

Thinking and learning are a basic prerequisite for the formation of geographical knowledge and the solving of geographical problems in geography education. They are complex processes that are influenced by a number of factors. Thoroughly modern geodidactics pays attention to their key features and fundamental interrelationships from the point of view of pedagogical psychology, refracted through the prism of geography and its spatial dimensions, in the context of which student interests have an undeniable role in d...

Over the past decade, there has been significant progress in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), marking it as an emerging technology with potential significance in the realm of education. It is poised to assume a substantial role in both the processes of teaching and learning in the immediate future. This study aims to delineate the viewpoints of university students pertaining to the concept of artificial intelligence. To this end, an online survey was conducted among students enrolled at Partium Christian...

Engineering is a highly cognitive activity and as such has long been treated andeducated in solely cognitive domain. However, the role of emotions in engineering hasrecently been closely examined. Engineering is creating products, services and systemsfor people to use. In their use people engage emotionally as well as cognitively.Therefore in defining project requirements attention must be paid to emotional needs ofusers as well as their functional and cognitive needs. It is known that user’s mentalconcept of a ...

The homeroom teacher (HRT) is one of the main roles in the school. HRTs effective teaching and classroom management are central to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education. The main goal of this study was to examine Israeli upper secondary HRTs perceptions of the new multiple domain performance tool (USHRT-MDPT) to evaluate their work performance. The study applied a qualitative paradigm of data collection and analysis. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and were analyzed thematically. ...

A teacher must overcome many different obstacles during these changes when trying to improve the quality of his teaching. As part of the qualitative research, we focused both on the behavior of the pupils and on the behavior of the teacher, who, in order to improve the quality of his teaching, is trying to change his educational style, from a transmissive style to a constructivist style. In the framework of this article, we focused on the obstacles that a teacher changing his educational style must overcome. The r...