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The intent of this paper is to highlight the topical problems of relationship between families and schools within the Czech environment due to deliberate action on targeted socialization of young people. In accordance with the objectives of the grant project no. IGA_PdF_2015_007 called Puberty - part of the sex educational system in the Czech and Chinese education we introduce to input information about the problems of relationship between family and school. We see that as fundamental building part for making the ...

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 University (Latv...

The research into structural changes in national languages has been conducted on the basis of three languages (German, French and Russian). The results demonstrate that the expansion of anglicisms in the system of each language under consideration has been proved in all spheres of speech activity of national communities: from elementary verbal means to complex speech structures. While the English language penetrates the German and French languages more or less smoothly due to their common origin, the process of in...

The paper deals with one of the current problems of the Czech education – the development of literacy skills of primary and lower secondary basic school students. It draws attention to the persistent underperformance of Czech young students in international surveys of literacy, analyses representation of these issues in the existing curriculum documents and presents the results of a preliminary research focused on the role of public libraries in the development of children’s reading.

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...

Education currently serves as a significant vehicle for socialization and acculturation based upon mutual interaction between teachers and students justified in terms of the teaching process. The education process comprises a number of factors. The research focuses on the issue of adaptation, education and integration of Russian-speaking pupils-foreigners studying at a Czech school and examines specific cultural, social and communication barriers that have arisen in including individuals from a different language ...

The purpose of the research is to identify the parts of speech categories common for the blocks of the texts under investigation, to characterize their functioning and semantic meaning. The methodology of the paper: English magazine advertisements of decorative cosmetics and skincare products for women have been picked out with the help of continuous sampling method from the magazines Cosmopolitan, In Style, and Glamour. The method of structural-semantic analysis was used to reveal the structural-semantic blocks o...

Social media have created zones for information sharing, collaboration, community formation and development, but despite their widespread use, little is known about the benefits or challenges of social media technology (SMT) use for academic purposes. Some publications declare that social media can make a good tool to blend pedagogy and technology in education, thus enhancing involvement of students who regard social networks as an inseparable part of their life. Furthermore, SMT is regarded useful to add to the r...

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 “L...

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...

Universities are considered as a social institution that provides knowledge production and intelligence renewal. "Universities crisis" is discussed in the context of necessary transition to cognitive university as new its type. Prospects for the universities’ development are associated with formation of "cognitive society". The work is based on the cultural and historical analysis of the universities’ existence and transformation; universities are understood as a social form of intellectuals’ self-organization in ...

I would like to present the biography and thought of Anna Tenenbaum (born 22nd of December 1900). Anna Tenenbaum was one of the first women students at the Jagiellonian University who were officially allowed to study. Although, as a Jewish women, she was discriminated, she successfully finished her studies and made PhD. in philosophy in 1926 and even started to work at the university. She did a PhD in strict philosophy and the topic of her dissertation was devoted to Descartes – ‘Psychologia zwierzeca u Descartesa...

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 purpose of the article is to give the reader some information on the topic of «classification of shortened words». 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 the...

The objective of the paper is to analyze the current situation of the non-formal education in Macedonia with a comparative overview of practices in the Kingdom of Sweden in which non-formal education has a long tradition, and its impact on the youth population in the Republic of Macedonia. One of the main topics of the discussions today is the role of formal education in the process of the development of the society. In the new millennium in many countries the question is how much classical formal education system...

The European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 notes that one in six of the European working age population, approximately 80 million people, are classified as disabled. The rate of poverty for this group is 70% higher than the average and this is partly due to limited access to employment. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities underlines the importance of inclusive education as a means of enabling disabled people "to participate effectively in a free society". The Education and Training 2020 St...

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 «Science 2.0», «escience», «e-Learning» 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 a meta...

Improving the quality of education, especially in the area of engineering, is a priority for almost all countries. This is owing to the rapid changes in technology and constant demand to prepare students, as engineers of the future, capable of providing solutions to problems and innovations. Therefore, in this context, we should look into the ways of achieving this goal. Educational technologies can benefit both teachers as well as students, in promoting change and in encouraging the development of skills for the ...

Education is considered to be a life-long process. Successful managers in the hotel industry cannot do without involving in an effective company training, constant gaining new information and, above all, without its correct use in practice. Global market environment in which they work has been becoming more variable, demanding and critical to possible mistakes. Thus, managers are constantly forced to broaden their knowledge and improve their professional skills. In order to secure further development, hotels and h...

The primary objectives of this paper are as follows: 1) to analyze the challenges, priorities and modern trends in training vocational educators in Russia; 2) to describe the experience of implementing innovative teaching methods in the educational process at Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University while training vocational educators; 3)to assess the efficacy of the pedagogy through qualitative and quantitative students’outcomes; 4) to discuss our experience and give recommendations for organizing trainee-s...

Background Assessment is an element appearing in any training-educational process. It enables to measure the level of reach of the educational process goals, as well as to adopt decisions leading to the increase of the effectiveness of the relevant activity. Assessment of the child with Down syndrome requires more focus from the assessor because such child has several disabilities at psychic-motor level which directly affect anything the child does, including the level of acquiring the elements taught and time spe...

During the last ten years, Slovakia has been undergoing a very significant reform of its school system. The basic social condition for meeting the goals of the reform lies in the attitude of teachers towards the implementation of the reform and the curriculum. The authors present some of their research findings proving that the teachers in Slovakia did not fully understood the real goals of the reform, mainly in the area of implementing the dual-level curriculum.

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 aim...

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...

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 protection ...

Pragmatic orientation of the article was influenced by the fact that communication and rhetoric (as a skill) is not part of education programs at the Technical University. If it is present, then only as partial subpart of some subjects (more or less social sciences subjects). In terms of current theory and practice the communication skills are considered as a key factor of success in entering individual to the labor market. Article follows the issue of communication skills, partial results of self-assessment of co...

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...