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The report articulates an approach to identify and study various semantic contexts in humanitarian texts on the basis of full-text search on the respective databases. The expediency of application for this is based on a universal instrument: a multifunctional digital full-text library. The capabilities of such an approach are demonstrated by the example of the information system T-Libra (developed by «Constanta», Ltd., Arkhangelsk, Russia). As illustration we opted for an analysis of the theme “Explication of ...

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 t...

The main goal of this research is to determine the attitudes of academicians in terms of conflict, the types of conflicts they encountered and conflict management styles they applied. For this research, Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory was used to identify the academicians’ perceptions regarding conflict and conflict management styles. The sample data for this research is 186 academicians in Istanbul. In the research, participants emotional intelligence was assessed by the Emotional Competence Inventory (...

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 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 ...

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 value of the higher education, its availability and prospects of development is one of serious problems of modern society. A number of research works show that education stops being the channel of social mobility. In particular, the higher education in modern society gradually becomes the instrument of reproduction of a social inequality. Besides, this process is followed by transformation of system of values of people deprived of access to a quality higher education. This results in the growth of “ressentim...

In the paper the author deals with selected ways of language manipulation commonly used in media as well as in everyday communication, e.g. political correctness, euphemisms, euro-jargon, etc. Firstly, the author provides linguistic and contextual classification of the studied phenomenon along with examples. Subsequently, she follows with critical analysis and the possible way of their presentation at EFL classes as part of the curriculum for the university students of media studies, journalism, European studies a...

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...

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.

The paper follows-up the ongoing reform in the Slovak educational system and, accordingly, we emphasize the need for the dialogue within the educational process. We study education as a dialogue and exclude several of its important characteristics. We examine the conditions necessary to enable the dialogue to be implemented in classes, we focus on the preparation of the dialogue, including the actions that the preparation includes (gaining and processing of facts for the dialogue; detection and animation of former...

In this paper, the using of e-learning by 3D multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) in mother tongue teaching is analysed. The focus is on didactic aspects of using a MUVE which enables the participants to meet people from different places in the same virtual space. As in a virtual space there are no geographical boarders or time limitations, we consider this environment naturally suitable also for language learning including mother tongue education. The aim of our research, though, is finding out the appropriatene...

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...

The necessity of Education for Sustainable Society and Development (ESD) is caused by the escalation of the environmental and human situation in the world. Its aims to develop students‘ knowledge, competences and skills necessary for sustainable development, many of which have a close relationship to citizenship education and are essential to promote the integration of basic components of sustainable development - economic development, social development, cultural diversity protection and environmental protectio...

Ecologic education represents one of the new types of education, being focused on a formative content which is adjacent to the contemporary world problematic, as it aims the formation of human conscience regarding the environment amelioration and its protection. Ecologic education, whose contents and objectives have as main landmarks motivation, interdisciplinary, globalization, but also the local and regional actions and among other things, has influence in formation of collective ecological behaviors, a life sty...

Ecotechnology / ecological engineering as a „partnership with nature” idea based body of knowledge and methodology for ecosystem management represents itself a reasonable innovation for sustainable development education enhancement. An inspiring example of such an ecotechnological approach rooted educational experience has been discussed; namely, relevant analysis has been focused on cognitive achievements gained through development of Professional Master study program „Ecotechnologies” at Liepaja Universi...

In agreement with the vision of life in harmony with nature brings up new areas associated with the biophile focus in education. The author connects its characteristic with environmental access in intention of eco-social theories of education. She also suggests the possibility of its development. She presents the possibility of a gradual transition from the anti-environmental to the proenvironmental orientation in primary school. She draws attention to the influence of a teacher’s beliefs with regard to biophile...

The subject of this article is to compare the structure of the frame “Educational Activity” in the mental lexicons of teachers and students – the social groups where people are connected by the fulfillment of contradicting activities but interdependent social roles. The research method is a kind of associative chain test, namely the method of revealing the actual lexicon. The qualitative analysis of the experimental data is based on the semantic classification of responses and allows representing the structu...

Methodology and content structure of communication and learning issues associated with an implementation of the European Strategy Development Document EUROPE 2020 and Framework Programme HORIZON 2020 are designed within this paper. The focus is on study programs oriented in the field of economics and management created within the study field of Economics and Management according to the European structure of fields of study. The designed concept of educational and communication model is based on the state-of-art of...

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 ...

Based on Law no. 245/2008 Coll. on education and training (The School Law) it is necessary to realize the importance of emphasizing the development of key competences in the educational process. According to Millenium, one of the key powers are said to be communication skills and personal and interpersonal skills. At the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts of Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, bachelor and master studies are realised in the field of Citizenship Education. Students of the ...

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 organ...

In the conditions of the transition from the industrial society to the post-industrial one, the issue of the transformation of the existing qualities and their adaptation to new historical conditions becomes more topical. The significance of those heterotopies specifying the quality of the future dominants which will determine the elite quality of the elite has been growing. The authors analyze the knowledge system in terms of the elite education problem, directed on the production of the meritocracy as a new type...

Inspired by our experience as an associate assistant of English with the 2nd year students at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology Dumitru Staniloae, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania, this paper purports to account for the gaps that need filling in a less developed branch of English for Specific Purposes (ESP), namely theological English. After overviewing the status of the discipline, we intend to make suggestions towards the improvement of the Orthodox content for the purpose of developing students’...

The paper aims at presenting a systematic and comprehensive overview of the language of the European Union. It defines the most frequent traits on the level of morphology, lexicology, syntax and stylistics. When characterizing the individual language levels we especially aim at those features that have a particular relevance in terms of interlingual transfer. Then, we point out at the status and use of individual EU’s official languages and at the end, we describe in brief the situation in foreign language educa...

The main objective of this paper is to design and test metrics that are used to assess the managerial competencies of university students Master degree study and review of the theoretical approach and research on the problems of management competencies. By comparing the results of the evaluation of managerial competencies and recorded study examined the performance of the model design their own evaluation of study performance. The following section presents the results of research in which they are presented corre...

The paper explores the application of corpus linguistics in language teaching and introduces the results of a pilot educational research project aimed at the evaluation of Russian university students’ attitudes to the use of a corpus-based set of classroom activities to study English pronunciation. The corpus-based approach exemplifies data driven learning, it generates learner autonomy by training students to draw their own conclusions about language use. Two of the most challenging topics in practical phonetic...

The purpose of the article is to give the reader some information on the topic of В«classification of shortened wordsВ». In this paper we have analyzed the research of shortened words in Germanic languages, defined similarities and described differences. The variety of taxonomic approaches give us an opportunity to investigate shortened words in English and German languages in a true sense. In this article, we will show the difference of various classifications in Germanic languages. Many scientists investigated t...

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.

Initial teacher education is the foundation of good job performance. Its practical component allows students to apply the acquired professional training in real school conditions. It activates and motivates students for future teaching positions; it develops their pedagogical thinking and teaches them to apply the principles of pedagogical and psychological knowledge when working with pupils in the classroom. These competencies are created through activity and it is not possible to create and transmit these compet...

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 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 ...

Higher Education in Kosovo has been through difficult periods and has undergone a long transition period. There have been many changes from its beginnings of educating Kosovo society, always focusing on adapting itself from the old system to that of the Bologna System. From the 1990s the Education System functioned under extreme conditions, because Serbia’s Government did not allow Albanians to study in the Albanian language. Between1999-2005 when Kosovo was governed by the UN mission, there was not much improve...

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...

A teacher is a highly valued personality in a society and teaching is considered to be the most sacred and distinctive profession. History is full of evidence about the nations where education has distinguished progress. The major focus of the research was to study the impact of additional duties of government school teachers on teaching learning process in Pakistan. The main objectives of the study were: (a) to study the importance of professional duties of teachers; (b) to identify the issues related to addition...

Active teaching techniques are taught as a core element of University Teacher Training courses as applied to each subject of the curricula. Studying a subject in school requires active teaching and learning. But, often the methods used by teachers in the classroom are not differentiated and do not activate students sufficiently. There are cases where even in-service teachers/mentors avoid using active teaching techniques because it seems to be easier not to involve students in the teaching process. Our paper’s a...

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 ...

Education is one of the most important social activities in the life of human beings. The need for broad and varied learning opportunities to cope with social, economic and technological changes is increasing. The aim of this article is to show the importance of the lifelong learning for professional development of managers of different levels as perceived by them, concerning the field of learning English, aimed at managers from various companies in Tomsk. This work is based on the implementation of the project вЂ...

In this document, the authors summarise the results of a project implemented with the aim of determining the current condition of inclusive education in Czech schools in mainstream education. The authors analyse the opinions of educators, both based on their practical experience and in the context of the length of their experience as educators. The findings obtained during research are also complemented by valid legislation.

The widespread of info-communication technologies in all spheres of human activities gives rise to new threats that in some cases may lead to violation of the constitutional human rights, threaten the stability of the State and public life. Among the most pressing are the ethical problems associated with the digital disparity, violations of personal privacy; ethics conduct on the Internet; compliance of intellectual property rights; opposition to the ideas of violent extremism in the Internet etc. Thus, the proble...

Higher education takes on an increasingly international dimension, as more and more higher education institutions enroll students from third countries, create the opportunities for the exchange of students, staff, projects and knowledge, as well as get involved in international academic and research cooperation. In rising globalization, Lithuania is being increasingly involved in international networks and experiences influence of supranational powers of education. Lithuanian higher education and its legal regulat...

The purpose of this study was experimental testing and adaptation to Russian conditions of innovative methods of correction and rehabilitation work with modern media resources (photos, audio and video) to develop the skills of social adaptation of children and adolescents with disabilities of any etiology. The study was conducted in the framework of the German-Russian project "Navigator of the Future" in partnership of Ryazan State University (Ryazan, Russia) with an international educational center "Bennohaus Bur...

The current development of information technologies is changing the world dramatically. Paper and book printing are rapidly passing away. Information technologies started to form the new culture for scientific and educational publications. The focus of this article is on the historic, philosophic and practical aspects of this process, and definition of the main challenges facing the new culture of publications: namely dynamic nature of information, improvement of visualization of the humanities. The authors presen...

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 incl...

The interaction between the integrated management of the issues regarding the policy of urban architecture and the development of the design of a material environment is a topic important to be explored in order to attain environmental, economic and social sustainability. To achieve coexistence and harmony, innovative teaching methods have become an important instrument. The problem-based teaching/learning method (PBT/LM) is one of the techniques analysed for understanding its peculiarities and applications. The g...

Modern information technologies influence significantly on various aspects of social life. The boundaries of this influence include the discussion of questions related with the trends development of science and education. Terms such as В«Science 2.0В», В«escienceВ», В«e-LearningВ» is currently fast established in discourses on the problems of research and educational practices. Sometimes the content of these and other similar concepts has constructive characteristics. But more often application of these terms has ...

The paper is a part of a broader research aimed at identifying and evaluating key knowledge and competences in the European and international business law of graduates in International Business in the Slovak Republic. In Slovakia, several studies have been carried out in the field of university graduates success on the labour market. The common finding of these studies was that graduates in economic disciplines acquire, during their study, a solid theoretical knowledge, however, lower than expected level of practi...

Background: modern linguists, who study language features of media, fix significant increase in irony and language games in headlines and heading complexes. Authors of media messages abundantly use the puns based on a polysemy of words, use different kinds of metaphors, precedent texts and names. Specificity of mainstreaming precedent phenomena in the media headlines is the fact that the headline is a complex linguistic phenomenon, possessing cognitive performance. Heading complex, as well as media discourse as a ...

This paper focuses on the subject of learning patterns in higher education. In a traditional way, learning patterns, styles, strategies, and regulation mechanisms are regarded as stable across time and contexts. Recent research argue the flexibility of learning patterns across contexts, persons, and time. The article proposes the analysis of both approaches based on the results of a study conducted on undergraduate students in regular universities. The research was based on a qualitative approach, blending photovo...

Since the date of admission into the European Union, the Slovak Republic has been facing an obvious problem of both positive and negative changes within the labour market reorganization and functioning. Long-lasting trend of both decreasing population and increasing migration of human resources do reflect the conflict between demand and supply on local labor market, concerning also the qualification needs. However, despite of all serious consequences of this trend, the undoubtedly reason must be seen in the qualit...