BULGARIA – MY ANCIENT, YET YOUNG HOMELAND

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 426-432
Author(s):  
Boryana Mihailova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Civic Consciousness ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Constant Exchange

Every teacher knows that raising a pupil is a constant exchange of thoughts and feelings between the teacher and the children. Somewhere in the process of this exchange it happens that the teacher feels the spark of the national feeling in the pupils’ souls, so he must support it with the relevant knowledge in order to ignite and intensify the feeling. The education of a worthy citizen of his country is one of the leading tasks of the preschool education. Its essence consists of the creation and implementation of a well-thought-out system of pedagogical actions, aimed at the formation of a civic consciousness and feelings in the child. The main goals in my work with the children in the group „Flame“ of kindergarten „Brezichka“ in Vratsa was to get them acquainted with the concept of the Motherland in a suitable format, to instill in them a sense of pride for their country, a desire to actively participate in public life and last, but not least – in the preservation of the Bulgarian language.

God and Our Public Life: A Scriptural Wisdom

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-81
Author(s):  
David Ford
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Secular Society ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Scriptural Reasoning ◽  
Exemplary Practice

AbstractThis article recognises both the need for wisdom for the flourishing of public life and the value of the contribution that Christian wisdom, founded on Scripture, has to offer. However, this article also notes that the contemporary world is a complexly religious and secular environment, and hence if Christian wisdom is to realise its potential, there is a need for the creation and nurture of attitudes, groups and institutions within which fruitful dialogue between faiths and ideologies in public life can occur. The article observes that Britain currently has a particular opportunity to work towards this kind of wisdom-embracing religious and secular society, and the practice of scriptural reasoning is explored as an exemplary practice that promotes the kind of inter-faith collegiality, collaboration and friendships that enhance public life. Finally, the article offers some brief reflections on Job and the role of wisdom in an authentic and biblical Christian faith.

scholarly journals Information Technologies in Education: Forming the Competences of the Future

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.7) ◽  
pp. 276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey A. Averin ◽  
Evgenii A. Alisov ◽  
Natalia S. Murodhodjaeva ◽  
Igor A. Noskov ◽  
Olga V. Tsaplina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Educational Module ◽  
Software Products ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Imaginative Thinking

Specialists in the field of programming create a huge flow of software, which is mainly aimed at attracting children to specific software products that have a developing effect, rather, as a side effect. The developing effect is not diagnosed in such programs, but it is often declared by the developers. Scientific and methodological response of the pedagogical community to information challenges in the field of preschool education was the creation of the methodology of author's children's animation and the corresponding educational module. In the article two important competences of preschool children are considered, which are basic in relation to many other competences formed at an older age: developed imaginative thinking and developed research abilities. The development of these competences projects as a methodical waymark for the technical development of the methodology of author's children's animation.Thereby, the purpose of the article is to justify the creation of methods for author's children's animation that determines the development of imaginative  thinking and research abilities of preschool-age children, taking into account the requirements of the modern information society.To achieve this goal, the following methods were used: content analysis; method of contrastive-comparative analysis of scientific and methodical materials; method of system analysis; method of mathematical and statistical data processing; expert appraisement, generalization of research results.Based on the results of the study, the theoretical foundations of the preschool-age child's competence were determined, a pilot study of the development of preschoolers' competencies, the development and introduction of the educational module "Multstudio I CREATE THE WORLD" into the practice of pre-school pedagogy as a potentially effective means of developing imaginative thinking and research abilities of children, development of recommendations for software providing multstudios in kindergarten. 

scholarly journals The Game as a Zone of Immediate Development of Preschool Children

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.G. Kravtsov ◽  
E.E. Kravtsova
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Zone Of Proximal Development ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
Proximal Development ◽  
Learning Tool ◽  
Essential Characteristic ◽  
Game Activity ◽  
The Creation

In the article, developing preschool education is considered in the logic of game activity. The authors followed L.S. Vygotsky is considered an imaginary situation as the criterion for the game and distinguishes two-positional nature as its essential characteristic. The article proves that the game in cultural-historical psychology has characteristics similar to the zone of proximal development. Developing preschool education is considered from the point of view of creating conditions for the formation and development of bi-subjectivity. According to the authors, developing preschool education should solve three problems - the task of forming psychological readiness for playing activity, the task of learning the game, and the task of using the game as a learning tool. There are two patterns that determine the developmental nature of learning at preschool age - this is the creation of situations in which the child should realize a strong-willed effort and purposeful development of a central psychological neoplasm.

scholarly journals CURRENT PEDAGOGICAL TECHNOLOGIES OF FORMATION NATURE AND ECOLOGICAL COMPETENCE OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nataliia Оshurkevych
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
The Creation

The current ecological state of the environment determines the relevance of environmental education for the younger generation. The problem of ecological upbringing of children of preschool age is considered in the researches of many scholars and teachers. Based on the study of scientific works, we identified three structural components of the formation of natural and ecological competence of preschool children: cognitive, activity and value-motivational. American scientists, studying the problem of children's attitude to nature, offer the concept of «biofilia» and «biophobia». The scientific approaches to the interpretation of the concept of «pedagogical technology» are generalized and formulated as the creation of an optimally organized educational process, developed on the basis of a systematic approach and aimed at the planned result. It is proved that for the formation of natural and ecological competence of preschool children, it is necessary to use traditional and non-traditional pedagogical technologies in order to implement systematic and targeted educational impact on children, using current methods. Studying the peculiarities of the formation of the ecological and natural competence of preschool children, the necessity of creation and proper use of developing ecological environment in pre-school establishments, organization of children's activities in nature, as well as systematic work with children was clarified. The experience of using pedagogical technologies for the ecological upbringing of preschool children, in particular the creation of an ecological footprint, the technology of regional studies and tourism activities, the experimental research activity of preschoolers in nature and the technology of using the author's fairy tale, which allows raising the level of ecological upbringing of preschoolers and forming the natural and ecological competence of a preschool child, is briefly highlighted. The analysis of the experience of using environmental technologies from different countries proves that the main task of preschool education is to promote environmental education and awareness of preschool children.

Passage to Europe: Dostoevskii in the St. Petersburg Arcade

Slavic Review ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katia Dianina
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Popular Entertainment ◽  
Civic Consciousness ◽  
Imperial Russia ◽  
Daily Press ◽  
Social Concerns ◽  
Amateur Theater ◽  
Mass Circulation ◽  
Great Reforms

The St. Petersburg Passage—a shopping arcade and recreation complex, comprising restaurants, exhibitions, amateur theater, and the Literary Fund—was a remarkable center of public life in imperial Russia. Contemporary journalists wrote incessantly about the Passage, celebrating the various forms of popular entertainment that it offered. In his strange unfinished story “The Crocodile,” which also takes place in the Russian arcade, Fedor Dostoevskii parodies this trivial discourse of the daily press. Urban spectacles and their refraction in the mass-circulation media are the main targets of his caricature of westernized popular culture in Russia. The writer's response to Russian modernity, as it was taking shape in the age of the Great Reforms, is expressly negative. Dostoevskii believed that in a decade defined by the rise of civic consciousness, the Russian press should address vital social concerns at home instead of celebrating ephemeral cultural imports, such as the arcade and the newspaper feuilleton.

scholarly journals Children’s graphic representation as a language and its role in preschool education under a whole-child approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Paula Cristiane Strina Juliasz
Keyword(s):  
Motor Development ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Graphic Representation ◽  
Spatial Thinking ◽  
Whole Child ◽  
Mental Functions ◽  
Volume Translation ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Higher Mental Functions

Abstract. The objective of the present study is to analyze the drawings of the space by children as a representation system involving spatial thinking and higher mental functions such as memory and imagination. Our analysis is based on the historical-cultural theory on human development and on studies about the relation between spatial thinking and the graphic representation of space. Drawing is a language, the first written production by children and is characterized by elements associated with the cognition, culture, motor development and affectivity. Three elements were considered in our analysis: a) the creation of graphic equivalents; b) volume translation; c) perspective. We understand that the topological and projective notions must be based on the development of higher mental functions that mobilize the creation activity, such as memory and imagination, since such these functions constitute instruments to access systematized knowledge.

scholarly journals THE BEHAVIOURS AND JOB POSITIONS OF CITIZENS IN SMART CITIES’ DEVELOPMENT

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sengboon Lim ◽  
Jalaluddin Abdul Malek ◽  
Mohd Yusof Hussain ◽  
Zurinah Tahir
Keyword(s):  
Decision Maker ◽  
General Public ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Public Values ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Government

Of the three major actors in smart cities, citizens have the most ambiguous roles, unlike the government which is the clear decision-maker, and the private technological players which are obviously supposed to provide state-of-the-art technologies to smart cities. Evidently, the possession of ambiguous characteristics or vague roles can result in the manipulation and subjugation of the general public by the power-holders. Thus, the objective of this paper is toidentify the desirable characteristics – including the behaviours and job positions – of the citizens who participate in the development of smart cities. Following the conduction of semi-structured interviews on the stakeholders of smart cities, it was found that citizens can actually be (1) active and independent volunteers in public life, (2) local champions or co-producers of public values, as well as (3) aware and educated-intention human sensors who drive changes, instead of being passive users of data or beneficiaries of services. It has been argued that the creation of smart cities is reliant on a deeper understanding of the citizens’ characteristics, apart from the implementation of policies which generate aware and civic-minded citizens.

To Trust in Strange Habits and Last Calls

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hunter Hargraves
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Smartphone Use ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Good Wife ◽  
Media Narratives ◽  
Mobile Smartphone ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the impact of mobile smartphone culture on TV narrative through an examination of the network series The Good Wife ( TGW; CBS, 2009–2016). Ubiquitous smartphone use proffers a managerial relationship between subject and device, such that smartphone culture becomes necessary for navigating between different spheres of life. Furthermore, as smartphones occupy a greater role in public life, they have also begun to shape the creation of story in media narratives. I argue that smartphones have become a tool of narrative management for network drama not unlike the ways in which they govern everyday life. TGW’s narrative form and genre—a unique negotiation between episodic procedural and serial melodrama—successfully mirror the management of routine informational and emotional flows, structuring narrative and spectatorial habits while also accommodating for technology’s glitches.

scholarly journals Human rights during the mass introduction of artificial intelligence and robotic systems into public life

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (71) ◽  
pp. 609-620
Author(s):  
Dmitry Kuteynikov ◽  
Osman Izhaev ◽  
Valerian Lebedev ◽  
Sergey Zenin
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Robotic Systems ◽  
Social Credit ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Uk ◽  
National Systems ◽  
The Eu

Purpose: This article considers legal approaches to implementing human rights during the mass exploitation of artificial intelligence and robotic systems in public life. Methods: Within the framework of this study, an emphasis is placed on the legal regulation of artificial intelligence systems and robotics used for remote biometric identification of a person and the creation of social credit systems. This study analyzes different models of legal regulation that are typical of certain countries and regions, including the UK, USA, China, and the EU. Results: In the UK, it is allowed to use real-time face recognition systems in public spaces but the set of scenarios and situations for their use is significantly limited by legislation and law enforcement. The legal regulation of these systems in each state is based on a constant dialogue between state and civil society. The use of artificial intelligence and robotic systems to create social credit systems is tested in some countries. Modern states have formed several approaches to the creation of such systems: some of them completely prohibit these systems, while others develop a technological and regulatory framework for the creation of national systems.

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