RESEARCH INSIGHTS
Methodological Training Methods That Encourage Student’s Critical Thinking
Absract. The new educational situation requires students to learn how to think, to develop critical thinking skills, which support the key competencies addressed in the concepts of European and national regulations. In accordance with the new strategies of the educational paradigm based on the ideas of constructivism, the contemporary teacher encourages students to analyze and transform the information by learning to ask the right questions, make decisions and draw appropriate conclusions.
In the educational strategy of the Program for Developing Critical Thinking through Reading and Writing (RWCT), the challenge is to use methodologies that support different learning styles; the introduction and modeling of different learning standards for teaching, enabling the overall development of the student's personality.
In this context, the emphasis is on outlining methodological tools (Program Standards (RWCT) that encourage students' critical thinking and independent learning.
Keywords: standards; critical thinking; teaching; learning; teacher; students
Prof. Antoniya Krasteva
St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo
Motivation And Free Choice In The Preparation And Implementation Of Diploma Works By Students Pedagoges
Absract. The choice of diploma work as a study-research format for graduating higher education is a deep motivational personal act.
With it the student expresses his/her personal positions, level of competences and skills in the research field in his/her chosen field. In this article, this choice is directly related to the free choice and development of motivation for learning. The article reviews the characteristics of this personal and academic choice as a relation to the quality of higher education. Empirical data from a survey conducted among students in pedagogical specialties is presented. Conclusions and projections are being made aimed at transforming and optimizing the procedures related to the preparation of diploma theses in higher education.
Keywords: diploma work; higher education; quality; motivation
Dr. Rumyana Neminska, Assoc. Prof.
Trakia University -Stara Zagora
Models Of Supervision And Implementation Opportunities In Practical Training Of Social Work Students
Absract. The article presents a research aiming to identify social work students’ attitudes towards application of a co-supervision model in social work practical training. The content and organizational-technological specifics of different models of social work supervision with students are analysed, and their main characteristics are outlined. The methodology used corresponds to the purpose and the specificity of the research. The results of the analysis of empirical data reveal a sustainable tendency to express the positive attitudes of the respondents towards applying a co-supervision model. The contribution of the developed technological construction for improving the quality and effectiveness of the social work practical training, the acquisition of competences in the professional field and the development of the students is highlight. The organizational, technological and practical-applied dignities of the model and the opportunities for its development in the modern dynamic educational, professional and social context are presenting.
Keywords: supervision; supervision of social work student; models of student supervision; attitudes towards model of supervision; model of co-supervision; quality and effectiveness of social work practical training
Assoc. Prof. Sasho Nunev
"Angel Kanchev", University of Ruse (Bulgaria)
Basic Learning Activities In The Lesson For Review And Evaluation Of The Mathematical Competencies Of The Students
Absract. The article examines the main learning activities of the teacher and students in the individual structural components of the lesson to check and assess the knowledge, skills and habits of math students. The concepts of verification and assessment are defined as structural components of the learning activity. The essence of the metrics on which the mathematical knowledge, skills and habits of the pupils in the first grades are evaluated is revealed. The peculiarities of this type of lesson require that activities are used that guarantee to the maximum extend both the successful absorption and the correct verification and evaluation of the mathematical competencies of pupils from the initial stage of primary education.
Keywords: basic learning activities; check and evaluation; lesson in mathematics for checking and assessing students' knowledge; knowledge absorption indicators; primary school
Dr. Yanka Stoimenova, Assoc. Prof.,
South-West University “Neofit Rilski”
MODERN EDUCATIONAL PROCESSES
Balance In The Pedagogical Relationships
Absract. The report presents an analysis of pedagogical formulations and trends in the pedagogical practice (including non-professional and educational) provoked by the current social situation in a global and national aspect. This article is an attempt to focus attention on the positives and risks of different interpretations of the human and personal centred approach in pedagogical regulation and practice.
Keywords: pedagogical relationships; respect; humaneness; exactingness; balance
Ivanka Shivacheva-Pineda
Trakia University -Stara Zagora
Career Planning And Career Development In Higher Education
Absract. The dynamic changes in the society and in the labor market as well as the new technologies require new attitudes towards the career development, the informed career planning and the development of skills for managing it. This article presents an analysis of the state of the career development problem in higher education in our country. There are presented methods and tools for career development and career planning, experimented and applied with different target groups of students and pedagogical specialists for the duration of more than ten years.
Keywords: higher education; сareer development; students; pedagogical specialists; methods and tools
Dr. Valentina Sharlanova, Assoc. Prof.
Trakia University -Stara Zagora
Development Of Communicative-Speaking Competence By The Montessori Method In Children Raised In The Conditions Of A Social Home
Absract. The obsessing of communicative-speaking competence assures the individual full participation in communication. As a major aspect in the mental and personal development of children, it has the status of a species concept with respect to the generic concept ’communicative competence’. The article is dedicated to research focused on one of the most current problems of special pedagogy – the formation of communicative-speaking competence in preschool age children raised in a social home setting, using alternative teaching methods. The comparative approach in the analysis of the empirical data from the two research corps allows them to be compared against pre-formulated criteria and indicators. The results show that the Montessori method provides more effective development of communicative-speaking skills and habits in the children raised in a social home setting compared to the traditional methods of education and communication.
Keywords: communicative-speaking competence; Montessori method; children raised in a social home setting
Diyana Georgieva
Trakia University -Stara Zagora
Developing Integrated Design Based Pedagogical And Art Skills In An Informal Environment
Absract. This paper includes tracing and analysing the dynamics of integrated design based pedagogical and art skills of children placed in an informal educational environment. In the conceptual frame of the research are included theoretical and empiric pedagogical models that provoke childrens’ thinking and develop their creativity, knowledge and skills for creative experiments. Art techniques that are attractive to children are preferred (paper application, drawing with wax and watercolour, tampon painting, template printing). Interactive processes are being tracked in the report, and some integrated connections with different scientific subjects – pedagogy, art, history, archaeology, semiotics, combinatorics of the shape-forming etc., are made, brought out on a theoretical and analytical level. The interdisciplinary and analytical approach when researching the processes connected with childrens’ free creative choice when communicating with historical artefacts takes an important part of the project. Children are given the opportunity to form visual culture and the capability to perceive and understand the sculptural achievements of the ancient Balkan civilisations and cultures in a fun and interactive way.
In order to fulfil and scientifically develop the project we chose artefacts from the rich historical heritage of the region of Stara Zagora – collection of prehistory and early mid-centuries of the Historical museum. For children acquiring a different type of visual-plastic skills and techniques helps achieve an integrated innovative design thinking, which is very fundamental for achieving main pedagogical purposes and methods aimed entirely at the contemporary needs of the social environment. For the analysis of the received data we used standard methods for pedagogical researches which include: empirical – pedagogical experiment, praximetric – observation, analysis of childrens’ creativity, content analysis, quantity and quality analysis of the received empiric data, expert evaluation. The conclusions made could help the development of the future pedagogical practice in a museum environment not only in the fine arts educational area but also in all educational fields.
Keywords: art education; design thinking; integrated design; informal environment
Ani Zlateva, Katya Tineva-Giurkovska
Trakia University – Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
Music-Computer Technologies In The Context Of The Academic Education Of Students From Pedagogical Specialties
Absract. The formation of digital competences is one of the current issues facing contemporary education. In the context of reforms and innovation, applying specific innovative pedagogical teaching techniques, technology builds an adequate modernized learning environment in which computers and technologies are permanently needed. The general problems of digital competences find various projections into the specific sciences where they are used to achieve diverse and particular goals. In the musical training of students from pedagogical specialties they present information (educational) territory in which each trainee can expand his or her musical knowledge, and also can gain the necessary reasons and solutions to certain musical tasks in specific pedagogical situations.
Keywords: music-computer technologies; academic preparation; music
Dr. Milen Dimitrov, Assist. Prof.
Trakia University -Stara Zagora
Self-Efficacy Of Preschool And Primary School Teachers For Inclusion Of Children With Special Educational Needs In Motor Education
Absract. The purpose of this article is to explore the confidence of preschool and primary school teachers in their ability to include children with special educational needs in physical education activities. The study involved 120 preschool teachers and 100 primary school teachers. They complete a modified and adapted version of the Block “Self-Efficacy Scale for Physical Education Teacher Education Majors toward Inclusion – SE-PETE-D” questionnaire. The results show that respondents have a moderate level of inclusive self-efficacy and, despite their hesitation, are more confident in their ability to include children with special educational needs in motor education. Also, teachers who have personal contact with people with disabilities, experience in inclusive physical education or feel prepared show a higher degree of inclusive self-efficacy.
Keywords: adapted physical education; inclusive education; children with disabilities
Dr. Galena Terzieva, Assist.Prof.
Trakia University -Stara Zagora
NEW BOOKS
Preparation Of Pedagogical Human Resources For Preschool Education In The Period 1944 – 1991
Vacheva, S. (2019). Preparation of Pedagogical Human Resources
for Preschool Education in the Period
1944 – 1991. Shumen:
Bishop Konstantin Preslavsky University Publishing House, ISBN 978-619-201-316-5
Prof. Dr. Natalia Vitanova
Episkop Konstantin Preslavski Shumen University
Focus On The Higher Economic Education In Varna (1920 – 1945)
Roussev, Iv. (2020). The Higher School of Commerce – Varna (1920 – 1945) and the Beginnings of Higher Education in Economics in Bulgaria. Varna: Nauka i ikonomika, р. 1 – 261. ISBN 978-954-21-1026-2
Dr. Asen Kozhukharov, Assoc. Prof.
Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy Varna, Bulgaria
Market Mechanisms In School Education. Theoretical And Practical Implications
Parvanova, Y. (2020). Market mechanisms in school education. Theoretical and practical implications. Sofia: Kolbis, ISBN 978-619-7284-35-5
Dr. Bozhidara Kriviradeva, Assoc. Prof.
Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
IN MEMORIAM
For Prof. Dr. Fidana Daskalova (15.01.1941 – 02.06.2020) – With Adhesion And Thanksgiving
Prof. Dr. Мargarita Коleva
South-West University “Neofit Rilski”
