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The fast progress in science and technology causes the global changes in teaching and learning process and requirements to qualification of a modern engineer. To meet the modern era requirements, the high engineering education system sets an objective to prepare competitive specialists and to establish conditions for professional qualities elaboration and personal enhancement. International cooperation extension and globalization processes that require high-level communication skills determine the need for lifelon...

In this study the emphasis of selecting a school and profession is put onto the family role in educational and professional guidance in order to help the students to obtain the necessary information for further education, by the help of their parents, more efficiently and more functionally. The study was conducted in Virovitica and Podravina County with two groups of subjects and included 1.063 children—555 of them were eighth grade students of elementary school and 508 were first grade students of secondary schoo...

The twenty-first century has brought about a new type of society, the information-based society. Although this type doubtless provides a lot of opportunities for development and self realization, which are the top needs, according to Maslow hierarchy, we cannot but notice the existing downside as well. What is being promoted as a life motto worldwide is the combination of pragmatism and hedonism, which especially appeals to the youth. Such a combination presupposes that young people faced with overload of availabl...

This article tackles assessment in the Business Communication class, looking at current practices in the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, in BA and MA programmes in International Business and Business Administration, and suggesting new ways of evaluating students’ so-called “soft” skills. The author argues for assessment as a learning tool, which engages students as individuals and as members of teams, and proposes that collaborative assessment can better prepare future graduates for the job market. Start...

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...

solution of deficiencies in anti-bias education and education towards respect for human rights in secondary education of students in the Slovak Republic. The project responds to the fact that in recent times, not only in Slovakia but also in Europe, we increasingly encounter, also among children and young people, intolerant behaviour towards others - with signs of hostility, fear of otherness stemming from the prejudices about people of another race, national origin, ancestry, of another religion, but also the dis...

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 structure of ...

The research is intended to prove the relevance of a writing for social media supplement to the ESL university-level course. Currently, the context in which language training is performed, features the stage of information society development where one has to generate, distribute and handle information efficiently in order to succeed in their professional activity. Progress in information technology as well as communication services and tools impacts the way people think, study, interact and collaborate. A variety...

Background: symbolic representation is a specific, uniquely human form of objectification of the real world, a powerful means of communication activity of its reflectivity. Understanding of the phenomenon of sign representation, its modeling and the definition of the sign and its meaning depends on the sign language system and aspects of the language to be interpreted – dynamic or statistical, functional or structural aspects are taken as a basis. This article is an attempt to review the main components of the sig...

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...

In inclusive education, pupil assessment is understood as one of the system elements which support inclusion. The concept of evaluation should therefore be consistent with the overall conception of a school, its values (mission, vision, goals) and principles. In this paper, we present the results of research aimed at mapping approaches to the assessment of pupils in "inclusive" primary schools within the context of inclusive education principles. The study also defines the characteristics of pupil assessment in an...

Universities in the 21st century feel the need, more than ever, to brand themselves and to assert their identity in the area of higher education, be this in the realm of their national context or on the international arena. A crucial element of the effort for branding resides in selecting or adopting a name which can single out a particular university and help it assess its unique features. The paper aims to highlight the main types of names used in labelling universities, contributing thus to studies dedicated to...

Purpose: the aim of this research is to perform an analysis of the level of strength for visually impaired pupils. This experimental study wishes to improve strength through the use of differentiated instruction. Methods: the study was realized during 2014 – 2015 scholar year, during the physical education lessons. The subjects of this research were pupils from the 6th grade (boys and girls) from the Gymnasium Special School for visually impaired pupil, Bucharest, Romania. For the experimental study, a number of 2...

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 article presents the results of research from 2015 to identify teaching style of teachers? of Accounting at vocational secondary schools in the Czech Republic in terms of the proper usage of methods to enhance thinking, the application of interdisciplinary relationships and the impact of teacher?s motivation. The comparison of the attitudes of students and teachers on the subject of Accounting is presented. The article is based on the empirical research conducted in 2014 on the basis of a survey method, the nu...

Introduction. Creative character of structures exercises promotes the continuous enrichment of contents, as confirmed by the dynamic development of sports in artistic gymnastics technique, but also branches of some contents that define new sports and new forms of gymnastics exercises practice for health. It can be remembered thus, aerobics, gymnastics on Kango-Jumps, trampoline, and jumping into the water, skating, fitness, ballroom dancing and all sports that require extreme performance movements rooted in mutual...

The requests which are imposed to handball players and teams at this moment are of the highest level in matter of technical-tactical content, related with a superior physical and psychological particularities of each player. Trends and characteristics of modern handball are shaped based on the handball played by best teams in the national, European or World championships. The aim of this research is to analyze the performance of the best 4 teams qualified in the final tournament organized by the European Federatio...

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 the ...

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...

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.

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...

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...

Preschoolers’ (N = 537) social competence, coping skills and peer-perceived likeability was assessed in Hungarian kindergarten groups belonging to the Romanian Educational System. We obtained measures both from parents and teachers in Social Competence Screening. A Coping Mechanism Questionnaire was answered by children and teachers as well. Sociometric peer nominations of acceptance, rejection and indifference were investigated to strengthen the findings of effective social behavior in the peer-group. As expected...

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 (EC...

Benchmarking is one of the managerial methods used in many industries, but it could be applied with success in the educational system as well. In the introductory part of the paper, we present some features of modern benchmarking. Unfortunately, Romanian managers have strong reservations toward applying benchmarking in their organizations. In order to show their poor knowledge about benchmarking, we developed a research based on a questionnaire. The respondents were managers in small, medium or big organizations, ...

The question about prospects of saving lifestyle, culture and languages of the Russian northern peoples becomes relevant in connection with the Arctic and Russian northern areas industrial development. Main results of ethnosociological research conducted within the project "Sakha (Yakutia) Republic Foresight – 2050" are presented in the article: a) analysis and forecast of changes in Sakha people identity, language and culture transmission considering urbanization process and generational dynamics; b) basis for ...

This study is a comparative analysis of the specific features of traditional culture in China, Korea, and Japan, which were based on literary games and included ritual wine drinking. The games and rituals of the “wine order” existed for over 2000 years in East Asia as a form of entertainment for the elite. In the East Asia region the special wine culture had played not a minor role along with intellectual game traditions and practices of the poetized attitude to wine drinking have engrained in the representati...

Settlement of socio-economic problems generated by industrialization and globalization requires collaboration and effective cooperation between institutions as well as between socio-professional categories involved in economic activities. The Church's mission is not political, economic or social one, but an essentially religious mission, which is to proclaim the Gospel, to the fulfilment of redemption accomplished by Christ. The duty of the Church is to appeal to those responsible of civil life, so they work in or...

The aim of the study is to identify the value orientations of modern Russian youth which are fundamental in the process of family self-determination. The main task is to identify those values, which determine the process of constructing the family image and comprehension of axiological essence of marriage and childbirth. The identification is based on the analysis of structural and informative interpretations of the “happy family” concept perceived by the today's youth. The analysis of the processes associated...

A reality of an undeniable evidence, that does not require any argument, springs from an exhaustive, philosophical, psychological or sociological research, is certainly the love. This human phenomenon, impregnated with a specific complexity, it is felt, experienced and lived by every human being both on a personal level, in its uniqueness, as well as on the interpersonal level, in the society. Due to its complexity, human love can be perceived and lived, by a certain part of society, as a blind and irresistible pa...

The family of first people, as it is recognized by all developed cultures of human society, the one which consists of Adam and Eve is, naturally, the prototype of the natural family. This natural family, consisting of a man and a woman, has received, along the history of human civilization, the traditional family name. There are currently some anthropological current which refuses to be used this expression about the family. These tendencies want to discredit the traditional family and to promote other types of fa...

Without a doubt, culture is one of the most important characteristics of humans. Technology affects all societies, past and present, to a significant extent and the world of post-humans can only be shaped with the assistance of new technologies. In this article, I will discuss the formation of artificial cultures and try to outline the main features of a society with an artificial culture. The main premise is the recognition of the importance of technology in the formation of post-humans and their cultures. The di...

The aim of the research is investigation of a new phenomenon taking place in mass and information discourse called genre constellation. It is a new term for studies of text, genre and discourse. In linguistics it was used first by Danish scientist L. Hjelmslev. He introduced it to describe correlations in language structure, when two elements are compatible but one doesn't suppose presence of the other. In our work we use the term “genre constellation” to denote a special type of interaction between genres whe...

The ideatic formulations of Helmut Lachenmann (b. 1935) consecrate specific connotations to the perception/ grasping of linguistic and social-cultural determinants, driving away any poetic fiction (or false sound-paraphrase) from around aesthetics and music. Conceived as a polyphony of syntactic and semantic organisations, Consolation II (for 16 mixed voices) redefines music as a social-cultural phenomenon. Studying his vision in a critical manner, the polarities are perhaps the most important heritage assimilated...

In today's global world, people living in cities have become more disconnected in terms of social interaction and socio-economic status. The consumerist way of city formation can easily be read in the formation and location preferences of residential settlements. The city formation through housing developments forces people not only to separate different socio-economic groups from each other but also to move in the city by the way of changing their homes at regular intervals. In other words, firstly the income gro...

The contents of this article are an exposition on architecture, both as in itself as well as a scenic object. This reflection is based on the relationship between the signifier and the signified that constitutes the architectural symbol. Methodologically, this reflection begins with a clarification of some concepts which belong to the analysis structure. So we begin by clarifying the concept of symbol; of scenario (space as a manifestation of support and development of an ideal); of the beautiful and the sublime; ...

Even though at the first sight the representation and presentation seems to be almost the same thing, from the architectural point of view, there is a very important difference in between them, which has to be highlighted if a designer wants to create a unique brand new design and also wants to somehow introduce and †sell' it, too. By a quick search through the mostly known trustable dictionaries it can be said that the representation is an artistic likeness or image; a statement or account made to influence opi...

Nowadays it has become really difficult to separate the frontiers between the „real” and the „virtual”. We live in a world where millions of images are in the middle between vision and perception. Often we are caught by images built with perspective effects and even better on the anamorphosis. Starting the geometric-projecting bases of anamorphosis in all its aspects, the research studies and analyzes its applications in modern art, presenting all the possible techniques, traditional and innovative. But es...

As the main users of a teaching building, the teachers and students have a relatively fixed behavior pattern, with which we should take as a start point to make a research on the building's space design. Taking the Building of Academy of Art and Design, Tsinghua University as an example, this article first discussed about the behavior patterns of the students and teachers working in this building, such as studying, communication and short relaxation, which will generate different space demands. Based on such point...

History of letters in typography is the history of establishing form for each letter. First books printed by Johannes Gutenberg had different forms for each letter imitating the manuscripts, but each letter tried to find out one form for itself, so movable type had one form for each letter in decades. Nowadays digital typefaces also use one form for each letter. This paper discusses opportunities that randomness can give to typography for creating more vivid forms, imitating imperfectness of first books and giving...

Is it possible to design near zero energy buildings without the use of technologically advanced but costly solutions? Or – the other way around - is the use of expensive technical solutions effective from the point of view of the energy balance of the building? Can the overall environmental costs of a home, meeting the tightening up standards of energy consumption in buildings, be higher than anticipated savings? The paper answers these questions, basing on an analysis of the results of measurements of thermal p...

The evolution of urban parks relates both to the evolution of a city itself and to the changing needs of its residents. The process dates back to the late eighteenth century, when private parks and hunting grounds came to be used for public purposes. Initially they served mainly as sites for walks and leisure but new functions have gained in importance as time went by. They inspired development of city's new green spaces, such as folk parks and less common forest parks. Currently, the turn towards landscape ecolog...

The aim of the research is to improve the quality of education in the field of sustainable design at the Faculty of Architecture of Wroclaw University of Technology. The paper describes subjects and courses on sustainability and the effects of evolving the learning process on the example of the course “Designing Sustainable Living Environment” in the years 2011-2015. The study involved three groups of 30 students enrolled in classes taking place at the 2nd degree studies. In subsequent years, output parameters...

A significant amount of structural mechanics' problems is associated with structures working under dynamic loading conditions; however the majority of the existing methods of the solution of dynamic tasks simplifies slightly parameters of model which describes a real building structure. As a rule, a uniform damping model is selected or internal friction is not considered. Number of degrees of freedom is limited; dimensions of the distributed masses are often neglected. External actions are simulated simplistically...

In view of the major social and environmental problems, with which we are faced nowadays, we noticed a certain absence of values in society, where man draws many more resources than nature can replace in the short or medium term. Within the framework of fashion emerges the ethical fashion as a movement in this direction, intending to change this current paradigm. Ethical fashion encompasses different concepts such as fair trade, sustainability, working conditions, raw materials, social responsibility and the prote...

Alfonz Torma belongs to the first generation of Czechoslovak landscape and garden architects, working since the sixties of the 20th century in the Slovak part of the Czechoslovak republic. His work during the fifty years of his creative activity represents a wide range of garden and landscape design projects – from private gardens, through exposition design for garden exhibitions, design of greenery for new parks, public spaces and historic gardens, to urban and landscape greenery planning. The paper presents th...

There have to date been many researches focusing on social sustainability; although there are only a limited number examining the relationship between social sustainability and gated communities. In this study, a case study is made of Ankara (the capital city of Turkey) analyzing the rapid increase in the number of gated communities in the city. These communities promise residents a comfortable lifestyle with strictly controlled entrances; however the social and physical barriers that are formed between the reside...

Within the scope of the study, how much interaction between educational programs of close disciplines contributes to design education is analyzed over the workshop organized jointly by two state universities in Turkey. As a result of the workshop carried out with the students from architecture, interior architecture and landscape architecture departments which give education in the area of design, the survey study and the findings obtained through these activities have been analyzed within this framework. In this ...

This study aims to make a research on how political power and ideology terms got involved in architecture field. In the study, the issue “how the government and ideology terms come together” will be discussed on the basis of various literature definitions of ideology term. What kind of symbol can a government be with the changing architectural understanding over changing frame of mind will be narrated, and examples from historical process will be given. Determinations will be made in respect of to what extent ...

Innovation activity of companies, like nothing else, determined and largely determines the development of the market of products, services and works. Increased competition in the market, the availability of products to consumers anywhere in the world, including in the implementation of the purchase through online stores makes us choose the goods under the strategy fit each individual buyer. But such a strategic vision that promotes the development of innovative solutions, innovative products, and leads to a variet...