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The purpose of this study was to research the level of physical activity and to establish the correlation between physical activity and the quality of life in the elderly suffering from type 2 diabetes and the elderly not suffering from type 2 diabetes in the Republic of Croatia. The study population included 120 participants from 65 to 93 years of age divided into two groups. The study used a sociodemographic questionnaire for the examinees, WHOQOL-bref questionnaire for the evaluation of the quality of life and ...

The article contains a sociological analysis of Russian students’ position in relation to an important problem of science meddling into human reproduction sphere, to new scientific reproduction technologies that are supposed to meet the challenges of new generation reproduction and population control. The research covers the attitude of the young people to traditionally discussed technology of induced termination of pregnancy (abortion). The respondents included representatives of the most reproductively active pa...

Pervasive changes seem to bring about an increase in the social demand for talented and gifted individuals able to digest an overwhelming delug of information. Such individuals are characterised by a high degree of independence, openness to new experience as well as rational thinking. This state of things implies some educational practices. It might be said that schools, by virtue of their missions, are expected to teach students to effectively apply and make use of the knowledge and skills acquired during the lea...

The influence of media, in particular computer and Internet, has increased over the last several decades. They play now a significant role in everyone's life, independent of his or her age. The overwhelming influence of computer on the development of next generations is visible while observing behaviors of young people and listening to their talks. Computer and Internet have started to attract attention of the young users and, developing very dynamically, have forced their way into almost all fields of everyday li...

Technological needs of the modern economy significantly change the nature of engineering education. Today's engineers must be willing to work in the conditions of increasing technological processes and equipment complexity. The article discusses the main challenges and trends in Russian engineering educational development on example of Tobolsk Industrial Institute (branch) of "Tyumen Industrial University." The authors reveal the reasons for graduates' preparation quality declining in technical university training...

The article is devoted to the problem of the formation of educators’ willingness and capacities in situations of inclusive education for children with disabilities. The adoption of the Federal Law “About Education in the Russian Federation”, Russian Federal State Educational Standard for people with disabilities, Teacher Professional Standard represents a significant challenge for educators, who are bound to renovate not only learning environment, but also all educators’ attitude to children with special needs. Th...

This paper deals with the technology of Augmented Reality and other innovative e-learning tools for educational purposes. In the age of the development of modern technologies, it is necessary to include the usage of gadgets in educational processes together with modern e-learning technologies, to make the routine of school life interesting and memorable, so that students feel like active participants in the educational process. The authors have created a textbook that allows students to learn the sights of the stu...

This study seeks to improve the training process of the students in the representative football team of the University “Politehnica” of Bucharest. The paper aims at promoting a complex of methods and means for improving the strength of the lower limbs and at experimentally validating their efficacy. This scientific research purpose was to make a contribution to improving and assessing the level of development of the lower limbs muscles in the training lessons. This was due to the methodology applied in the trainin...

Creating good relations between teacher and their student determines the student's well-being at school. Many Polish researchers tried to identify the relations between students and teachers (?nie?y?ski 1990, Dylak 1995, ?cis?owska 2000, Brzezi?ska and Rycielska 2009, Szempruch 2012). The development of new technologies in recent years has contributed to the trend of moving communication to cyberspace. In this context, there is a positive impact of social networking in teacher contacts with students (Py?alski, 201...

The most effective means of teaching mathematics, based on information technology, dynamic geometry software (DGS) are internationally recognized. The purpose of this study is the theoretical grounding of methodological features, the development and pilot testing of the effectiveness of the methodology for teaching the geometry of students in basic school using DGS. The article formulated conceptual approaches to the teaching of geometry in the basic school with the use of DGS, defined the forms of organization of...

Introduction: In Europe the prevalence of Parkinson´s disease has been estimated between 65.6 per100 000 inhabitants and 12 500 per100 000 inhabitants. It is one of the most widespread diseases affecting, of course, the patients` quality of life. The aim of our research was to determine the level of quality of life and depression as well as their mutual relationship in patients with Parkinson`s disease, and further to compare the variables monitored with a control group. Method: We adopted the quantitative researc...

In this paper we present the results of an ongoing educational project which was started in the year 2016 in Samara State University of Economics, Russia. The purpose of this study was to monitor and assess the changes in the students’ Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) level attained through two different approaches: blended Learning approach and Traditional Classroom method. In Russia English for Specific Purposes (ESP) clearly dominates in tertiary educational institutions. Thus, the research was based on ESP course. T...

A human being is viewed from various perspectives. The individual is considered as a multidimensional being. The persons with visual impairment can be exposed to a number of stimuli that influence their biological nature (physiology of the organism), psychological nature (personality), social nature (socialization, inclusion) and spiritual nature (values, belief). We aimed at the different areas of the everyday life in the student with visual impairment. The main objective of the paper is to achieve a deeper under...

The paper touches upon problems of liguocultural adaptation of Chinese students to training at a Russian higher school in terms of learning Russian as a foreign language (RFL) at a preparatory stage. Chinese students are known as one of the most difficult contingents of Russian universities, which is largely explained by fact that they speak not only a different language, but also have other culture, other pedagogical tradition, family, school and university training. Against the background of an increase of the n...

The article deals with the process of applying heuristic methods of training in vocational education. For this purpose, the main features of heuristic technology were identified. It is noted that the student's work acquires efficiency in his ability to evaluate his actions, bring the solution to the end, while noting the importance of flexibility in thinking, the ability to update and organize information in the task at hand. The definitions of the concepts "heuristic rules", "heuristic task" are distinguished. Th...

Globalization is one of the major trends of today’s world, and at the same time a challenge, not only to the tourism industry, but also to tourism education. The modern civilization model is focused on overcoming intercultural barriers, national, language and cultural boundaries, on integration of the best national cultural achievements. The aim of this paper is to discuss the necessity of building intercultural competence for the effective performance of tourism employees in a multicultural environment. The fact ...

The theoretical study presents partial results of the project "Management of the discipline in the classroom at the primary school". The main objective of the project is to create, apply and evaluate an optimal model of discipline management in the classroom, which influences the effectiveness of teaching and leadership in the field of self-control and self-regulation. The positive learning climate in a classroom requires the teacher to focus on modifying but especially on preventing unwanted pupils' behaviour. Th...

The expectations of teachers and their professional activities are currently changing, and new professional standards are being implemented, including EC Supporting Teacher Competence Development, UK Teachers’ Standards, Transforming American Education, and Russian Teacher Professional Standard. An analysis of these standards reveals wide variations in their functions and application, but all of them define teachers’ competences in terms that are both country-specific and universal. One of these universal metrics ...

The main aim of the paper is through an analysis of selected documents to desribe and compare the possibilities of counselling in relation to support specifically focused on the area of completion of compulsory education for pupils with special education needs (SEN) and transition to the next stage of their lives. The first part of paper introduces the current system of counselling services in the Czech Republic (CZ) and the United Kingdom (UK). The author – based on a methodological approach consisting in a searc...

What used to be a rare and eccentric narrative technique in the Golden Age of Hollywood, where a protagonist would address the viewer or implicit audience directly, is now deployed more frequently in Cinematic VR. This paper aims to investigate whether such an inherent capacity of ‘you' to target a narratee, as it accommodates a variety of you's and a variety of I's, and the combination of both to blur the boundary between the discourse of virtual reality and the story, makes the second-person narration a natural ...

The article describes general trends in East Asian migration and analyzes the special characteristics and main directions of migration in the region. As the economies of the East Asian countries grow, alongside the growth of political influence and active engagement in international processes, the issues of migration in the region gain certain relevance and attention. The research is heavily based on the analysis of official migration statistics and includes description of migration stock growth in East Asia, the ...

This paper focuses on youth worker as the educator, who must prioritize and integrate lifelong learning ideas. Firstly, the youth worker is explained as adult learner and on the other side, as the promoter of non-formal education (NFE) in youth center (YC). The formation of a learning society has become a key issue and it is realized through the concept of lifelong learning, which requires the involvement of all parts and opportunities for implementation. European Union lifelong learning basics (the youth self-rea...

The present paper deals with marketing of educational services, while the focus is on the factors of designing and providing these services. The authors’ intention is to present partial outcomes from the research project KEGA ?. 014EU-4/2016. One of the issues explored in this project is also the analysing educational services and identifying efficient multi-professional and interdisciplinary approach to the provision of these services. The issue is discussed in three chapters, while the first two parts introduce ...

Teacher professionalization is an important challenge for education policies and systems in the European and national contexts. There is an Act of teachers’ development in Slovakia since 2009. One of the consequences of the Act is that teachers refer only formal educational activities. However, history shows that we also have (as teachers say) effective forms of non-formal educational activities, e.g. teachers days - teachers of the same subject from different schools or teachers of different subjects from one sch...

Educational aspect of human capital is the main value of the economy of the 21st century. The global competition between economically active people with professional competencies has not ever been as acute as it is now. The competitiveness is growing along with the technological development. The global educational objective is to create the economic growth model based on the cooperation of the state, business and society by developing human capital. A student’s awareness of his role in the national economy via edu...

The practice of extremism and terrorism is an actual threat in the modern world. The national security of Russia is no exception in this sense. In the context of negative statistics of extremism, the methods of scientifically based prevention of intolerance in all its forms acquire great importance. The scientific task of this research is monitoring of political tolerance of the population of the Russian Arctic region (Murmansk region) as well as the diagnosis of the risk groups of intolerant behavior. The paper p...

Parents are the first and most important educators of their children. In order for children to succeed in school and later in life, parent- school cooperation is vital. Parent-school co-operation is also an indicator of the quality of school and teacher’s work. In high quality relationship between parents and school, co-operation is seen in socialization and respect for cultural differences among families, and therefore it offers different perspectives for creating positive school culture. All abovementioned requi...

The article reveals the essence of the use of interactive technologies in teaching students. The definitions of the concept of "dialogue learning" were established. Dialogue training is a specially organized process of joint search for knowledge, in our case, when considering vocational training, this is a process of joint search for a solution to the task. The article emphasizes the advantage of interactive technologies, which consists in the fact that such forms of studies maximize the motivational component in ...

The article presents the conceptualization of the process of pedagogical influence on the student’s self-development, the existential approach as the basis of this influence, the essence of self-development, the criteria of readiness for self-development and classification of needs in self-development. The essential spheres of the human being – intellectual, emotional, motivational, spheres of self-correction, volition, self-realization, existential - are discussed. The content of socio-pedagogical support of self...

Background: The number of foreigners living in the Czech Republic amounts to about 4-5% of the population (i.e. 493 000 persons by 31. 12. 2016, Czech Statistical Office, 2018). The largest numbers consist of persons from Poland, Ukraine, Vietnam, Slovakia, Germany and Russia. The generation of immigrants above 50 years of age is an interesting and diverse group of persons who are often perceived as seniors and face ageism in different areas of life. The generation of foreigners of that age constitutes a group of ...

Requirements to the quality of training and retraining specialists increases the role of continuous education during the entire employment period of the individual. In the article the diversification of professional education we considered as a principle of development of continuing vocational education and alternative to the classic process of formation of professional knowledge. Diversification of education can be realized in two forms: extensive and intensive (horizontal and vertical). Extensive form – creation...

The article is focused on social work with persons after brain damage. A brain damage caused both by a disease or by an injury constitutes a problem in the whole society. The coverage of follow-up care for persons after brain damage and for their families, provided by social service organizations, is often difficult particularly from the perspective of availability, quality of financial demandingness of such services. The motive to research this issue consisted in the assumption that people after acquired brain da...

Persons with severe visual impairment are trained by a large number of professionals, from doctors, special educators, social workers to lawyers or finance specialists. In the framework of our contribution, we would like to present a comprehensive overview of the complex services provided to individuals with severe visual impairment within the Czech Republic and then focus on visual therapists as professionals from the field of visual therapy. Visual therapy in the Czech Republic is relatively new field, where the...

In this paper we present the part of results of wider research which are focused on finding the dependence of leisure time activities on philosophical, values and religion attitudes of respondents. Our intention is to present the results of research which was carried out in the form of a questionnaire survey in 2016. For this research the data from over 2300 respondents among The Czech Republic were collected. For the measurement of leisure activities has been the Catalogue of Leisure Activities used and the hypot...

Today we live in complexity and uncertainty about our future; the technological advancement is changing the role of human and decay the disciplines, we are living the rise of the leisure and post-work society. Therefore there is a growing need to find new ways of living and working. In the latest research, different scholars have described a series of advanced thinking principles (e.g., Design Thinking; Future Thinking) which ought to be the ones that enable people to activate themselves on creating today’s-fit so...

Since the political changes supported in December 1989, the Romanian social protection system had underwent through various stages of evolution, development and restructuring. During the same time, sets of laws, that supported the reform of the system, and minimum quality standards were set up to ensure that services were provided, indifferent of the nature of the supplier - public or private - with the same quality. However, aside from the prerequisites that need to be fulfilled by the contractor in order to be a...

The article studies the different aspects of the person’s integration into culture and the society. Namely there is a characteristic of the Internet society represented by some leisure groups or clubs united by the shared interests that contribute to the integration of the personality into the leisure space. There are given the pedagogical possibilities of Internet communities as a communicative-integration space of Internet. The author shares the view that the Internet communities function according to the commun...

In the present paper the author discuss architecture as an art and its language which is architectural drawing, the oldest and most efficient system of its representation. Although drawings such as sectional views or projections are expressed by means of unequivocal symbols that are generally understood and leave no margin for interpretation, there exists a whole sphere of more abstract notions which includes sketches as records of individual ideas that often only remain on paper but sometimes create a new reality...

Introduction: Tobacco smoke and second-hand smoking exposure, at home or in school during childhood and adolescence, increases the risk of respiratory illness. Youth smoking is mostly associated with parents, and their smoking behavior. Also, there are other influences: social environment, targeted advertising, easy access to cigarette products, no control over age limit in purchasing cigarettes, lack of knowledge about the effects of smoking. Material and method: To evaluate the influence of the environment, soci...

Dynamically changing contemporary world, full of new technological developments, turned out to be also a world of numerous threats for the basic means of communication that the humankind was familiar with “for millennia’’, i.e. for speech. The issues of the importance of language communication in a social worker’s profession are discusses in the article. Communication is are of the most important categories of human life being both the expression and condition of social life. With the increasing participation of a...

The article brings findings on using psychoactive substances by Slovakian children and youth. The aim of this research was to analyze the trends of abuse of psychoactive substances. Research sample consisted of 2 407 pupils aged 12 to 16 years from two big cities in Slovakia. Data were collected by questionnaire ISRD 3 which was developed within the project International Self-Reported Delinquency. Research findings show the preference for the quantity and blending of alcoholic beverages in one go. This is a way to...

The article considers the history of the development of the leading university of the Ural region in the context of modernization of the country's higher education. One of the most important tasks facing the Russian state was the development of higher education and, above all, engineering. The authors, using the example of the largest regional university in Russia, traced the main stages of its creation, development and modernization in accordance with socio-economic realities in the twentieth and early twenty-fir...

Spatial orientation and separate movement is one of the most affected areas in individuals with severe visual impairment. We would like to introduce the development of independent movement and spatial orientation within the Czech Republic as well as the possibility of facilitating the integration of the individual into society through modern aids - maps, orientation elements, etc. In the paper we present both theoretical and empirical studies, which are currently solved in our locality. Both will be linked on the ...

Approximately from the beginning of the 21st Century China has changed its approach towards UN peacekeeping missions, and has become more active, especially in Africa. This process has been accompanied by sharp rise of Sino-African trade. These two parallel processes created the need or better to say a suitable environment for establishment of the first permanent Chinese military base on African soil. The need for this base has been further increased by Chinese experience from operation of evacuation of Chinese ci...

1) Background: Inclusive education in the Czech Republic has been officially in practice since September 2016, when the new School Act was approved. Available Czech literature associated with this topic usually focuses on legislative support, qualification of educators, opinions of teachers or parents, but the pupils themselves rarely become a subject of qualitative research. The aim of this literature review is to analyse foreign sources to find important research materials gained in environments with longer trad...

This article is devoted to the actual problem of forming a system of independent evaluation and self-assessment of basic and professional competences in mathematics (with the mastery of programs of secondary general education and vocational education) on the basis of fuzzy modeling in the digital economy. The methodological basis for solving this problem was a synergetic approach. In the context of improving the methods of pedagogical diagnostics, this approach determines the interrelation between the diagnostic a...

The relevance of the research. The fourth decade of the educational system of Russia undergoes continuous changes at various levels: from the preschool education to the highest one. Respectively, the process of teaching pupils a foreign language including linguistically gifted ones is modernized. There are new state educational standards, which assume to strengthen the role of practical training school students for foreign-language activity considerably. In this regard there is a relevant search of the balance bet...

A high priority task nowadays is to improve the quality and effectiveness of education. Systematic education on, consequent acquisition of and active identification with the philosophy of reducing waste production plays a crucial role as early as primary and lower secondary levels of education. One of the specific objectives of the project is to emphasize the interdisciplinary nature and the deep interconnection of sciences integrated into traditional school subjects. This paper aims to give information about the ...

In our paper we have examined in what way Czech elementary schools implement dialogic communication in teaching. The basis for our research was the finding that teaching is no longer dominated by frontal methods, but that dialogic form of teaching is increasingly growing in significance. Therefore, we have not observed the teaching dialogue from a quantitative viewpoint but we have focused on its quality. In particular we have been trying to discover whether the cognitive potential of dialogue is utilized, which e...

The paper reports the results of an exploratory research aiming to investigate to what extent teachers and students in secondary education use Facebook to interact. Two related samples were selected based on availability and convenience criteria. Thus, 178 teachers and 136 students participated in the research study and completed a self-administered questionnaire. The questionnaire comprised three parts: the first included socio-demographic items; the second consisted in the multidimensional Facebook intensity sca...