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Intonation and Children with Emotional and Behavioral Problems

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Intonation and Children with Emotional and Behavioral Problems

Author(s): Katerina Zlatkova-Doncheva,Vladislav Marinov / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2023

Keywords: prosody; intonation; emotional disorders; behavioral disorders; communication

The study analyzes the role of intonation in communication with children with emotional and behavioral problems. Usually the intonation is identified with one of its elements – the tone of the speech. It is considered how the change in the volume of the tone (intonation) affects the perception of information and how intonation can be used to achieve different goals in communication. The possibility for realization of the communicative intention through the use of different tone (volume) of the verbal message for children with behavioral and emotional disorders has been traced. An individual case study of a child with emotional and conduct disorders has been developed within intervention experiencing anxiety and aggression by using four strategies of interaction: normal tone of voice/positive message; increased tone of voice/positive message; normal tone of voice/negative message and increased tone of voice/negative message. Results reaffirm the inadequate interpretation of language messages among children with emotional and behavioral disorders and outline the influence of intonation on the behavior of children as phrases uttered with increased tone raise the aggression and anxiety of children with emotional and behavioral disorders.

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Special Education Teacher Profession in the Czech Republic

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Special Education Teacher Profession in the Czech Republic

Author(s): Lukáš Stárek / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2023

Keywords: assumptions; Czech Republic; profession; special education teacher

The expert contribution brings knowledge not only about the special education profession itself, but also describes important competencies that are crucial for the performance of the special education profession in the Czech Republic. The mentioned profession is included in the system of helping professions, which have their specificity not only in the context of the demanding performance of the given profession. As part of the presentation of the legislation related to professional requirements, we also discuss the level of personal assumptions, which is based on the personal setting of each special education teacher. The special pedagogue is a key actor in the integratively inclusive process and, thanks to his competences, abilities and personality, he works to shape the next generations and social thinking.

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Advantages of Using GeoGebra Software when Examining the Flow and Drawing a Graph of a Function

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Advantages of Using GeoGebra Software when Examining the Flow and Drawing a Graph of a Function

Author(s): University “Goce Delcev” Gelova,Mirjana Vitanova / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2023

Keywords: GeoGebra; function; graph; results

For a long time, the term function has been treated as a mandatory topic in mathematics curricula around the world. It aims to emphasize the importance of this topic of mathematics in higher education, at technical faculties. In addition to the classic way of learning blackboard and chalk, today all over the world a variety of interactive mathematical software is often used in the study of the topic functions. The software helps students to learn how to recognize functions, to examine their properties, and draw them accurately. In this paper, the importance of the mathematical term function in higher education at technical faculties is stated. It also lists the ambiguities that students face when mastering the topic of functions. Then, software for drawing graphs of functions (material that is taught in the subject Mathematics 1 at technical faculties) is listed to help students master that material more easily. Finally, a comparison is made in the results of the final exams in Mathematics 1, before students are recommended to use GeoGebra and after using the software. A conclusion is drawn from the results and the advantages of using the mathematical software are presented.

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To be or not to be online?

Author(s): Raluca-Mihaela Levonian,Diana Victoria Gidu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: online education; pandemic; headlines; Romanian; Italian;

This paper investigates how virtual learning during the pandemic has been depicted in the mainstream media, focusing on news headlines, as headlines frame events and attract readers, besides informing and raising awareness about specific topics. The corpus includes news headlines published by three Romanian and Italian newspapers on the topic of remote learning in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis adopts a mixed-methods approach, taking into account word frequency and lexical and syntactic patterns. The findings indicate that Romanian media tended to frame negatively the topics connected with the system of education in general, while the news in the Italian media adopted a more positive tone.

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The non-traditional student in the context of the first-year transition to university

Author(s): Magda-Elena Samoila / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: non-traditional students; first year seminar; transitional pedagogy; lifelong learning;

In recent years, universities have undertaken an important social role in promoting lifelong learning by opening their doors to adult learners and tailoring training programmes to best suit their needs. A series o statistical indicators point to the fact that by 2030, students aged over 25 will represent the growing population involved in higher education, al European level, whereas the number of students aged between 18 and 25 will record a constant decline. This study aims at identifying the challenges non-traditional students face during their transition towards upper education, with a focus on the first year a study. A second aims is to examine the role of first year seminars organised by universities in facilitating the students’ adaptation to the university environment and in stimulating their participation in studies. A good understanding of the characteristics and vulnerabilities faced by non-traditional students is an important prerequisite for providing an adequate response to their needs and planning specific interventions focused on retention and persistence in studies.

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From individual wellbeing to collective resilience: a cultural approach to higher education

Author(s): Alina Turculeţ / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: wellbeing; cultural imprint of resilience; resilience in higher education;

Wellbeing has been defined in relation to the quality of personal life and social relationships. The contexts in that people live, study and work may promote or undermine the subjective wellbeing due to potential opportunities or challenges. Higher education settings are academically stimulating and career-focused and, therefore, highly competitive. Nevertheless, higher education area is also a socially rich environment that provides constructive human interactions as a medium to enrich learning. A positive attitude contributes not only to personal wellbeing and deep learning, but also to individual and collective resilience in an era of dynamic changes and crisis. The psychological resilience is the ability to overcome the adversities of life, while the collective resilience is the ability of a group or a community to face challenges and internal or external tensions, arising as a result of political, economic, social or environmental changes. In these conditions, the educational relationships serve as a catalyst for resilience. Our study aims at investigating the perception of Romanian students, framed by the specific cultural context, regarding positive emotions, optimism and wellbeing, and collective resilience. The questionnaire-based inquiry has collected the responses of the participants. The key-themes identified from the answers to the open questions have been interpreted in a grounded theory approach. Our findings show that all participants declare positive experiences regarding emotions and that the reasons for which they are grateful are the learning acquisitions and personal achievements.

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Education in the post COVID period

Author(s): Anca Andreea Ștefănescu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: education; COVID-19 pandemic; military education;

The Coronavirus pandemic has caused a global economic slowdown and forced teachers, students and educators at all levels of education to adapt quickly to the use of e-learning. Online and distance learning also took place before the COVID-19 pandemic, both during regional crises such as earthquakes, floods and other natural disasters in order to maintain continuity in education, and as a method of adapting education to the development of technology and the limitations of today's society dominated by a frantic economy. The magnitude of the current crisis is unprecedented and the lasting effects of this will be found in the education process, too. Thus, for some experts, a return to traditional physical education is necessary immediately, while for others, this forced transition to online education is a time to change and reinvent the way in which education could take place in the future. The conceptual solutions to these crises reflect a profound change in policy-making, and this article highlights the need for a trans-disciplinary approach to education policy-making so that the current approach to education leads to a permanent change in the way future education is delivered. We also include military education with its specific disciplines and in complementarity with its own organizational rules.

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Integrity in public institutions: An overview of drivers and enablers

Author(s): Aura Codreanu,Daniela Nagy,Maria Dorina Paşca / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: integrity; culture; organizational behavior; change; ethics;

Much like any analysis of intangible aspects underlying organizational fabric like leadership or culture, to mention just few, the discussion on integrity in public institutions tends to focus on tangible tell-tale signs like corruption and its various forms, while obscuring the real drivers and enablers of breaches in this so much sought organizational virtue. Therefore, the current article aims at providing an overview of the main causes leading to the loss or compromise of integrity in public institutions from an organizational behavior perspective. The aforementioned discipline allows a multi-layered approach anchored in General System’s Theory to account for the macro-organizational influence on integrity, Group Dynamics Theory, namely Richard Beckhard’s GRPI model, to explain the role played by groups and teams in upholding or undermining organizational values, and last but not the least Social Cognitive Theory of Morality to account for the reasons leading individuals to form or change existing moral standards.

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Economic development and digitization in the context of pandemic crisis

Author(s): Florian Coldea / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: pandemic; infodemic; digitalization; administration; security;

The current paper sets to explore the hypothesis that the COVID-19 pandemic is a strong incentive for accelerated digitalization and a significant shift in economy. The other hypothesis is that developments in those sector sunder the novel pressures of a worldwide sanitary crisis also come with significant risks, which require increased attention from the national security establishment. In order to explore those hypotheses, the author has documented the overall highlights of the technological context – including the concept of SMART administration, some security developments during the pandemic – with a stress on the health system, but also on the infodemic that completely altered the course of recent events, while also providing some practical examples pertaining to the Romanian social reality.

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The cognitive warfare in designing the international society (and the security environment)

Author(s): Ioana LEUCEA / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: cognitive warfare; constructivism; culture; international security environment;

The constructivist approach of international relations informs us about the deep structures of the global political organization, which is culture: the intersubjective meanings and perspectives people have in common and share. Our minds, our thoughts, our perceptions are in part the result of specific educational curricula, up to now designed to follow independent national educational programs. The language and the words we use play a very important role in configuring the cultural lens which intermediates our communication with reality, placing us in the middle of things and seldom obscuring the distinction between the subject and the object of our observation. The social construction of reality and a social world of our making are no longer philosophical ideas but the evidence to study. The need to theorize the theorization process, perceived as a base for social constructions, indicates us to question our educated identities and our educated mind frames as scientific objects to study.. ”A world of our making” (Onuf, 1989) means that culture, as an invisible mind frame, should be the object to study in order to better understand and anticipate the systemic challenges and to assess the risks that might arise in the future. McLuhan(1970) once said that culture is our business – war equals education, violence is the quest for identity and having his ideas in mind we intend to discuss the cultural infrastructure we presume is at stake in contemporary systemic cognitive warfare.

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The battle of strategic narratives: Vladimir Putin versus Volodymyr Zelensky

Author(s): Ruxandra BULUC,Ioan DEAC / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: strategic narratives; actors; events; setting;

Our research analyzes the narratives employed by the Russian president Vladimir Putin and the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in their speeches regarding the military actions in Ukraine from the 19th of February to the10th of March 2022. The battle on the ground between Russia and Ukraine is doubled by the two presidents’ discursive confrontation. They both address their own audiences, opposing audiences and the international audience affected by this confrontation. They express powerful ideas that are the building blocks for strategic narratives through which they justify their action, they highlight the role they play in the conflict and set expectations for the future. Our narrative analysis identifies the major frames and topics of these narrative strategies as they unfolded at the beginning of the war and the results of these discursive confrontations.

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Security illiteracy

Author(s): Corneliu Mugurel Cozmanciuc,Adrian Lesenciuc / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: security; security culture; intelligence; cooperation;

This article sets to offer a comprehensive perspective on the continuous and flexible adapting of security and intelligence studies in Romania where, through notable efforts, there is an ongoing progress to integrate national practices into the Euro-Atlantic landscape. Even if we are not speaking of an innovative topic-as throughout time the efforts of theorists and practitioners focused on diverse theories and taxonomies related to security and intelligence studies- it has to be noted that our efforts have the purpose of rather consolidating and developing the subfields of education and security culture. From this perspective, we are perfectly aware that the process of identification, shaping, developing, and implementing of a security education and culture is undoubtedly laborious. For reasons concerned more or less with patriotism, education (in general), critical thinking, various interests, each of us has a security education, but the basis is only empirical. Starting from this reality, the objective of this article is to build a scientifically-based instrument that would export security education and culture to a scientifical level. This article is based on pragmatic research methods, thus being more solution-oriented towards a sociological issue, namely the implementation of security education and culture at the societal level. More so, the analysis conducted is both descriptive- the establishment of the societal status-quo, and exploratory- constructing an argument for the application of security education and culture through various programs. The topic could be reviewed from the pragmatism paradigm point of view, more specifically through a deep analysis of cause-effect relations, as means for grasping the present-day context properly. This is the rationale supporting the aim of finding a valid solution to a pressing problem: the absence of a security education and culture at national level.

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Mapping the propaganda and activity of "The Trinity of Terror" in the European context

Author(s): Andreea Stoian Karadeli / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: terrorism; "trinity of terror"; propaganda; radicalization; Europe;

The “trinity of terror" – salafi-jihadism, right-wing and left-wing terrorism - have been feeding on each other’s propaganda, strategy and means, in a symbiotic relationship. Strategical enemies at surface, the three become rhetorical allies through a mutually reinforcing hate speech, using fear to divide communities and gain new members. The current terrorist threat in Europe has evolved beyond the general ideological classification, creating the need to use a different set of spectacles to understand the generic and context-specific dynamics of the violent radicalization among individuals and groups. The traditional perspective of analysis based on radicalization causes and patterns, multiple trajectories, effects, and consequences should be adapted to a new understanding of terrorism as a transcending phenomenon. The currentre search proposal aims to map, underline, and explain the evolution of the relation between the three ideologies’ speech and their symbiotic relation in and beyond the European geographical, social, political, and cultural context.

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Brief analysis on Hammas's recent spread of terror across Israel

Brief analysis on Hamas's recent spread of terror across Israel

Author(s): Andrei-Cristian Moraru,Ammar El Benni / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: Hamas; bombardment; Israeli airstrikes; Islamic jihad; conflict;

Nearly 85 Palestinians and 7 Israelis were killed in a reciprocal bombardment, and nearly 1,500 different missiles were fired at the state of Israel. It is the fiercest conflict from the two sides in recent years. A 13-storey residential building has collapsed in Gaza, and another has been severely damaged by hundreds of Israeli airstrikes in May 2021,while Hamas and Palestinian factions have shot down a dam in Tel Aviv and Beersheba. The resurgence of the conflict between the Jewish state and Hamas is proving to have worse consequences than the last war in 2014, gaining international concern, for fear that this situation will spiral out of control. The regional instability has only largened the gap between third-world countries and global power-states, which aim to provide a solid democratic reset for the society in those areas. Hamas, as an international terrorist organization, aims not only to regain part of the lost territory, but also to punish the Jewish community as a whole, by provoking suffering on the civilian and military society of Israel.

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Weaponized information and democratic resilience

Author(s): Dan Roman / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: weaponized information; democratic resilience; hybrid war; social medial;

The virtual environment, represented mainly by social media, is being used more and more frequently and aggressively as a space for a new type of war, which uses information as a weapon. This essential change in the way war is conducted poses a considerable challenge to a democratic society, which must develop appropriate responses to the threats it faces, usually generated by an undeclared and especially invisible enemy.

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How the fake news and disinformation impact national security

Author(s): Vlad Dumitrache,Brîndușa Maria Popa / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: fake news; social media; decision making; national security; misinformation; disinformation;

s defense planning evolves and main defense planning documents are developed on the basis of emerging and new threats, the role of Media on both the internal and external environment rises. Innovative technology has meant the creation of social media, which in itself has become a distributer of shared information. This unprecedented flow of information has created an environment where real news and fake news are very difficult to tell apart. For security decision makers these is problematic as social pressure has to be mitigated if certain decisions necessary for achieving security goals and objectives are contested because of the spread of fake news. It is the aim of this paper to analyze by using the descriptive method how fake news have contributed to the impeding/ the implementation of decisions and assuring security measure in times of crisis. The case study that will be presented in the paper is that of the Covid-19 Pandemic and how measures to fight the pandemic have been affected by the spread of fake news. In the second part of the paper we will address means and ways by which the negative impact that media has on security and defense measures can be reduced and mitigated.

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Solving and managing moral dilemmas.

Author(s): Ella Magdalena Ciupercă,Victor Adrian VEVERA / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: hacktivism; ethical hacking; cyber battlefield;

The way individuals make choices when faced with moral dilemmas defines them, gives them coherence, authenticity, and contributes to their self-image. When they are attracted to opposite and incompatible directions, people make choices that are predominantly dependent on irrational elements and, very rarely, rationality becomes a working criterion. Morality, principles of conduct, truth, fairness can take on different connotations depending on the pressures of the situation. Traditional examples of professions that often face moral dilemmas are soldiers or intelligence officers. In this paper, we aim to detail the specifics of a new profession, which puts skills of the future in the service of crime or of the community good, weather in time of peace or war, analyzing the dyad hacking/ethical hacking. We will use the Anonymous Group as a case study, an ideology with a specific specificity, which in the context of the Russian - Ukrainian war can turn into a community resource or may turn hacktivism into a source of future anarchism in society.

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Digital governance in national security threat management

Author(s): Claudia Lascateu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: digital policy; national security threat management; digital strategy; digital standards;

Digital public policy and national security threat management are shifting at a pace that is hardly ever synchronized. Both areas of expertise require different sets of incentives to move in one direction, nonetheless for implementing successful digital transformation strategies it is required to adapt to a common responsible approach of the toolkit that new technology offers in national security threat prevention. This study is set to outline that digital governance in an intelligence service that also assumes a digital presence is mainly represented by the framework of responsibility where role definition and decision-making are put into action. Therefore, digital governance in a national security structure means it is invested with powers by the law but also can delegate specific executive authority given the plethora of scenarios that can occur in order to efficiently prevent incidents that can potentially disrupt the status quo. Hence, it will firstly be outlined what security stands for today in a syncretic analysis that binds the principles of good governance and human rights using the filter of innovation in technology. Secondly, the paper will navigate through digital strategy, digital policy and digital standards in order to build the importance of the role of managing security disruptions that are considered possible threats to national security. A digital maturity may have been reached in national security organizationally-wise, but threats developed in the processes of future technologies must be the subject of the discussion to strengthen the wellbeing of our society.

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Recruitement of women for military institutions

Author(s): Daniela-Felicia Roman,Doina Mureşan / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: participation; women; military system; recruitment;

This article was finished at the end of January 2022, with no idea of what was to come. We are faced with an unforeseeable war with no rules, with a deep impact on civilians. We are dealing with refugees escaping from war, women, girls, boys and elderly people, in their most vulnerable period of life. It is important to recognize that men and women are affected differently by the crises and we need to learn how to offer help according to their needs. Once more, these crises show us the importance of women in military environment and their presence in the peace negotiation process. I observed the complete absence of women from the negotiation table. Neither Russia nor Ukraine has any in their negotiation teams. Both teams are discussing issues with tremendous importance for women’s lives, but they are not present there. I want to give you an example: I volunteer in this crisis at the Bucharest North Railway. We offered food, drinks and hygienic products to the Ukrainian refugees. We try our best to provide them with the goods they need. The need for the participation of women with full rights and obligations in the military system was a topic that gave birth to passions, in the debate of which energy was consumed and which is still contested. The subject is still very topical because the factors that were taken into account in its debate have changed. Nowadays we no longer face a classical war, in which there is a front line or the relief of the rear. There have been studies that have proven the different influence of armed conflicts on women and girls. In this article, I will look at how the military institution is prepared to address women for recruitment.

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Interculturality in a globalized world

Author(s): Mariselda Tessarolo / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: interculturality; globalization; pluralism; intermediarity, multiethnicity;

Touraine (2012) observes that development is no longer a stage that follows tradition: in the globalized society space and time, private and public life are compressed. With networked communication systems, billions of individuals do the same things, wear the same clothes, watch the same films, drink the same cola and use the same language. International concerns revolve around the same problems: environmental pollution, the greenhouse effect and the pandemic (financial flows and technologies). Nevertheless, the things we share that allow us to affirm we belong to the same culture are not these. Each society and social group has a culture of its own and “globalization” certainly means world distribution, but there is a separation between the circulation of goods and services and the bond with a particular culture or society. The term “multiculturality” implies multiethnicity and these two words often coexist within one country or big city. Communication between different cultures may take place at the level of interpersonal communication, but also at the level of formal written messages, on the Internet or in the press.

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