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NATIONAL POLICIES FOR ROMA EDUCATION UNDER BULGARIAN CONDITIONS: A DYNAMIC PERSPECTIVE

Author(s): Valentina Milenkova,Svetlana Hristova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

The main objective of this paper is to identify the educational problems of the Roma which have led to their exclusion from the mainstream education. The methodology of this research is based on a desktop study and analysis of secondary data. The first part of the paper is focused on data, correlating unequal educational opportunities and the ethnicity factor. The text presents an insight into the widely argued Roma dropout phenomenon, different sets of reasons for dropping out from school are discussed in the paper, i.e. educational, ethnic and cultural, economic, and family reasons.In addition, the article reviews recent key policy measures for equal educational opportunities, targeting the Roma. Various aspects of adopted policy interventions for stimulating educational inclusion are illustrated, and supplemented by a critical consideration towards the reviewed strategic documents.The conclusion from the current analysis is that the required policy actions targeting educational equity for marginalized social groups, such as the Roma, have been indeed formulated by the stakeholders; yet, certain shortcomings could be noticed and these are primarily linked to practical implementation of the national policies into activities.

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THE FAMILY AND SCHOLASTIC SUCCESS OF YOUNG ROMANIAN IMMIGRANTS IN ITALY

Author(s): Antonio Panico,Riccardo Rossano / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

This article presents part of a wider research investigating the overall condition of young Romanian immigrants starting from their scholastic success, applying for the first time in Italy the SSP (School Success Profile) already tested in the USA and in Romania. 1500 questionnaires were distributed in four Italian regions: Piedmont, Marche, Abruzzo and Apulia: 1028 of these were returned, of which 881were held to be valid for the purposes of research. The high numbers enrolled at different scholastic (141,015 in 2011–2012) and in Universities (5,714) clearly suggests a good level of integration in Italian society on the part of young Romanians. The fact that so many young people complete their school careers and continue their education at university indicates that policies for their reception in Italy have been successful and that they have had effective support from their families of origin. The results presented below show how important it has been to be able to count on the family and the traditional values it offers in the gradual progress towards the integration of the young Romanians in the society which hosts them.

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ARE STUDENTS REALLY INCORPORATING SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES IN THEIR LEARNING?

Author(s): Diego Oswaldo Camacho Vega / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

The objective of this study was to determine if business administration students at the Autonomous University of Baja California in Mexico are using social networking sites for collaborative learning among students and between teachers and students. Participants included a random sample of 67 students between the ages 18 and 30. They were volunteers invited on line. A close-ended survey of 40 items was conducted. The survey was based on Khedo and collaborators’ survey for measuring collaborative learning through online social networking. For considering demographic information and main uses of the social networking sites, some items from the World Internet Project were adapted. It is worth mentioning that the surveyconsidered the collaborative learning theory in its construction.The results show that business administration students spend much time using social networking sites, mostly Facebook (75%) followed by YouTube (9.38%). They are using social networking sites for communicating with friends (37.50%) and communicating at school (28.13%). This communication seems to be helpful for creating team work (97%), to discuss class activities (68%) and exams (47%).Students considered that social networking sites provide tools for communicating (75%) and sharing photos, files or links with educational content (75%). Half of the students agreed that social networking sites have allowed be in contact with their teachers. This contact among teachers and students has basically been oriented to manage homework and assignments (45%).In conclusion this study suggests that business administration students at the Autonomous University of Baja California seem using social networking sites, and social media for a collaborative learning. However, teachers are using these social networking sites only for evaluation purposes and this does not permit academic feedback between students and teachers.

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THE ROLE OF EDUCATION IN THE MIDDLE CLASS PERSPECTIVE: THE BULGARIAN CASE

Author(s): Valentina Milenkova / Language(s): English Issue: 1-2/2014

The main idea of the article is to show the importance of education as a factor in identifying the middle class. The basic issues of the present paper are: 1) Prosperity in society depends on the increased share of the middle class in social context. 2) Education is a prerequisite for individual and social mobility and well-being. 3) Education involved in the reproduction of the middle class. The people with middle class status are involved in various structures of society and they have reached prestigious positions respectively which in turn affect the extent of their inclusion in society. Middle class representatives have complete and successful career realization, and they are significantly more influential from a social point of view in comparison to other individuals who are less integrated and less successful following the public indicators of personal success: education, income, prestige and power. The paper is primarily based on the results obtained through the European Social Survey (ESS) under the 2006, 2009 and 2013 carried out in Bulgaria. Findings of the present article are that quality education is not only a function of effort, ambition and persistence, but also of parental involvement, culture capital and family background. Educational achievements are stimulus for middle class expansion because they present investment in social contacts and competition on the labor market.

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Świat wartości w twórczości Klementyny z Tańskich Hoffmanowej adresowanej do dzieci i młodzieży (na wybranych przykładach)

Author(s): Elzbieta Stoch / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017

Clémentine Hoffmanowa (1798-1845), maiden name Tańska, a Polish prose writer, one of the first Polish writers for children, the creator of the first Polish children's magazine „Entertainment for Children”. The article aims at the description the values in the work of Clémentine Tańska-Hoffman addressed to children and adolescents. Article gives a view of values: piety, patriotism, love of parents and siblings, praises the use of their mother tongue etc. Based on various sources: literary texts of Reminders of the good mother – latest her advice for her daughter (1819), Moral novels for children (1820), Binging of Helen (1823). Cited texts characterized by didacticism and moralizing, which was related to the education model in the early nineteenth century. Tańska, when was writing about values in Moral novels for children, she recalled silhouette of Father Gregory Piramowicz (1735-1801) and prince Joseph Poniatowski (1763-1813). The article describes, that publications of Hoffman after the November Uprising, were controlled by the Russian censor. Shows the universality of Tańska books and their reception by posterity.

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Nieznani/ znani nauczyciele domowi w Królestwie Polskim w XIX i na początku XX wieku

Author(s): Monika Hajkowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017

Many well-known and respected educationalists, writers, publicists and scientists were gaining experience as home teachers at the beginning of their professional career. They were frequently undertaking this occupation while being middle school or university students. Only a few dedicated their entire lives to teaching. For some of them, this occupation was only a short episode. The home teaching profession constituted an important experience, due to which they were becoming acquainted with the job. They appreciated the effort and commitment of those who performed that occupation. Some of them, inter alia Aniela Szycówna, Henryk Wernic, Adolf Dygasiński and Bolesław Prus were undertaking in the press and in handbooks the issue of people working as home teachers. They knew perfectly all the problems and challenges awaiting those who wished to undertake that occupation.

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Młodzież gimnazjalna wobec wartości moralnych

Author(s): Ewelina Winiarczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017

The following article consists of two parts. In the first presented − in synthetic form − definition recognition of the moral and realizing value. Then shown the results of research on moral values implemented by young high school students.

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Rola pedagoga szkolnego w motywowaniu uczniów „bezdomnych duchowo” do aktywnego włączania się w tworzenie osobistej rzeczywistości

Author(s): Anna Agnieszka Tyburska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017

In the text of the article has been made to discuss the issue of the role of school teacher in motivating students “spiritually homeless” active involvement in the creation of personal reality. For the purposes of the text adopted the term “spiritual homelessness” which can be interpreted as a lack of own space and emptiness inside, which was founded in the student as a result of lack of proper conduct of education.The basis of the article are the theoretical considerations centered around issues: homelessness internal students, the mission school counselor, school counselor perception as a tutor and motivate the student being understood as the management of its thinking in order to channel it to take action for their own personal development.

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Jerzy Grotowski i pedagogika

Author(s): Aleksander Nalaskowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017

The article is an attempt to compare the structure of the two processes of change. One is the processes leading to the curvature of the ideas that it generated. The second is at the level of a certain meta-metaphor have been compiled together two almost incomparable. The first experimenter Jerzy Grotowski is famous in the world of theatre and the second is the Polish pedagogy. A transparent background of these considerations is the social situation and political world sketched for a better understanding of the intent of the author. In conclusion, is shown the trajectory, subsistence – fragmentation and atrophy (success−atomization−disintegration) of ideas changed into specific decisions and actions.

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Funkcje wartości w wychowaniu

Author(s): Jacek Siewiora / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2017

This article is dedicated for reflection on the function of values in the context of the dynamics of the process of education. Friction between various philosophical views about the value of human life creates specific, often divergent concepts in pedagogical approach. However, one have to remember that these considerations should always be centred on the good of the pupil. Therefore, there is no doubt that the stability of the system is a guarantee of the effectiveness of the process of the upbringing and maturation in humanity.

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Przestrzeń aksjologiczna nauczania przedmiotów matematyczno-przyrodniczych w nowej Podstawie Programowej dla klas IV-VIII szkoły podstawowej

Author(s): Krystyna Chałas / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2017

Structural reform, which started in 2016, involves the creation of Core Curriculum. It is an important documents, which states how the vision of the school and didactic processes will look like. Structure of the core curriculum contains: main aims, school tasks, aims of education – general requirements for every subjects and their teaching content in the form of specific requirements. So the question arises: What kind of values are in the axiological space of teaching mathematical and educational subjects? The answer to this question will allow to look for the way for the axiological education and upbringing towards values in the process of a lesson.

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Szanse integralnego rozwoju i wychowania dziecka w wieku wczesnoszkolnym w świetle nowej Podstawy Programowej

Author(s): Marta Buk-Cegiełka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2017

According to Ostrowska, integral development is the holistic, internal and external development of a person and adaptation to life according to the pattern.As Chałas writes, this integral development becomes the priority target of all educational actions. By integral development we understand the development of every layer of human being, integrated with each other and penetrating each other, leading to the fullness of humanity in the project of life.Integral education should dynamize the development of all of the layers of human life and functions, mutual penetration through realization of values, which naturally are connected to particular layers: biological, psychic, social-moral, cultural, worldview layer.So the question arises: How Core Curriculum for the first educational stage gives chances of integral development and education? The answer to this question comes down to the establishment of structures of values included in school's aims in the area of early-school education and in the content of teaching. In the article there will be shown the outcome of the analysis.

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The Relationship Between Knowledge Dissemination And Organisational Performance In The Construction Industry

Author(s): CE Eresia-Eke,S. Makore / Language(s): English Issue: 8/2015

Transferring knowledge within an organisation is essential for the future success of the company. The ability of an organisation to harness knowledge and produce value from it partly defines an organisation’s road towards success. Currently, organisations employ a diverse stratum of individuals who represent various generational cohorts. Increased mobility of employees in today’s workplace has become a reality that may present benefits but equally pose huge challenges. If mechanisms are not put in place to manage the knowledge resident in the mobile workforce population, it would inadvertently result in substantial corporate memory loss. Certainly this will not augur well for the overall performance of the organisation. Knowledge management has therefore become an important ingredient of the success of organisations as it allows for knowledge to be retained within the organisation rather than be resident only among employees. The transfer of invaluable knowledge from the individual into corporate memory has therefore become a concern. Knowledge dissemination as a notion has emerged as a panacea for expensive corporate memory loss as it enables the sharing of information among employees eventually transforming all individual knowledge into organisational competencies.This empirical study used a respondent population of employees from companies in the construction and engineering industry in South Africa and factually revealed an association between knowledge dissemination and organisational performance. Part of the practical implication of the study’s findings relates to the urgent need for construction firms to begin to find ways to enhance socialisation at project sites given that knowledge dissemination is in part interpreted through the social perspective.

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The Significance Of Entrepreneurship Education In Gabonese Schools: Justifications For A New Curriculum Design

Author(s): Jenny Pambault Enombo,Chux Gervase Iwu,Salochana Lorraine Hassan / Language(s): English Issue: 8/2015

The apparent struggle to find employment by Gabonese graduates has confirmed the necessity for a new school curriculum. It is believed that entrepreneurship education is one of the solutions to the problem. However, with the introduction of entrepreneurship education in the Gabonese education system, a change of curriculum will definitely be required. This paper therefore discusses the importance of curriculum change to adapt to the teaching of entrepreneurship education. Participants in this study included learners, teachers and a government official representing the Ministry of Education. The study adopted a mixed method for data collection. Therefore, face-to-face interviews and self-administered questionnaires were used to collect in-depth information as well as achieve a larger representation of population. Results confirm that there is a necessity for entrepreneurship education thus suggesting the need for a new curriculum which should include some specific subjects. According to the results, these subjects could also be used for teacher training purposes as well; the adoption of the new curriculum would be challenging if teachers are not properly trained. Therefore, though a new curriculum (incorporating entrepreneurship education) is perceived as favorable to the education system in Gabon, teacher training is also viewed as ancillary to the effort. If a new curriculum is to be designed, teacher training must be considered as well to facilitate learner identification with entrepreneurship education.

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High School Learners’ Perception Of The Efficacy Of Entrepreneurship Education: The Case Of Selected High Schools In The Western Cape, South Africa

Author(s): Rylyne M. Nchu,Robertson Khan Tengeh,Salochana Hassan / Language(s): English Issue: 8/2015

Proactive educational institutions have introduced entrepreneurship education in their curricula to improve the employability of their learners. Using learners as the lens, the aim of this paper was to assess the efficacy of such programs in the context of South African high schools and taking into consideration the ethnic and income dynamics of such schools. We argue in this paper that entrepreneurial intention should be complemented with other measures such as frequent enterprise visits and school business projects especially in the context of junior learners. Purposive sampling method was used to select the schools for the case study. Learners (N=403) were drawn from high, medium and low income schools for the study. Quantifying and non-quantifying data analysis methods were used to interpret the data. Descriptive and inferential statistical techniques were implored to analyse the survey data. Thus, the data set was subjected to chi square test and multivariate analysis using SPSS software. It was revealed that an overwhelming majority (62%) of the respondents would want to start up a business after their studies. Of these numbers, the overwhelming majority (81%) were black learners. It is also worth noting that a significant proportion (73%) of those that want to become entrepreneurs actually came from the middle income schools.

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STAVOVI UČENIKA OSNOVNE ŠKOLE O INKLUZIVNOM CILJU

Author(s): Rasim Tobudić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 17/2004

Since recently there has been a widespread assertion that the children with special needs should be included in regular elementary schooling. With this in mind, the author of the following article: - Demonstrates how societal attitudes toward those children started to evolve in the 1960s, and continue to change through the time; - Attempts to seek the answers to the following four questions: Who has difficulties learning? What sorts of obstacles those children face? What to do to reduce those obstacles to a minimum?

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ISKUSTVO SA SKOLSKOM VJERONAUKOM UBIH

Author(s): Nedžad Grabus / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 16/2003

This article analyses the content of the Islamic elementary school textbooks in the context of discourse about "the others': The purpose of these textbooks is to educate children in accordance with Islamic values, religious practice and social application of religion. These textbooks do not contain a serious consideration of the religious phenomena itself or the historic overview of development of the religious idea. Only certain aspects of monotheistic religions (Judaism and Christianity) are studied, in the context of historic development of Islamic teaching and the historic periods as set out by the Qur' an, while studying "the others" is fragmentary and casual. There is no systematic and sufficient overview of the beliefs, religious practice, culture or identity of "the others".

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FARD 'AIN i FARD KIFAYAH

Author(s): Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 15/2003

Al-Attas uporno podržava značaj tačnog razumijevanja i primjene fard 'aina i f ard kifayaha. To je još jedna karakteristična značajka al-Attasove filozofije obrazovanja, a koja potcrtava njegovu trajnu predanost oživljavanju univer-zalnih (kulli) elemenata ranih islamskih intele-ktualnih i duhovnih principa. Njegovo naglaša-vanje navedene kategorizacije možda je također u vezi s al-Attasovim zanimanjem za prirodu ljudske obaveze prema stjecanju znanja i usva-janju adaba. To proizlazi iz beskonačne prirode znanja i konačnosti čovjekovog biološkog života.1 Kao što je već rečeno u prethodnom poglavlju, al-Attas na znanje gleda kao na nešto neograničeno.

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KAKO ODABRATI ŠKOLU ZA UPIS SVOGA DJETETA

Author(s): Smajo Halilović / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 13/2003

The school is not a building, benches, chairs, library or even computers. The school is in fact a teacher, a student, principal and staff. The teaching should and can be one of the most rewarding and most exciting professions. However, it is not so for many teachers. What can be done about this? One teacher recently said the following: “When I started to teach, I saw myself as the leader of the happy group of students with a desire to learn, research and explore. However, that is not how it turned out to be. I am not looking forward to my work. I am scared of every new class, of every new day. And so are the students. I feel like slave driver who is waiving a whip above the heads of bunch of lazy and disinterested careless people, who are only interested in how to get away from doing the work. They lie, cheat, complain and seem to only be interested in completing the class with as little as effort as possible. The worst of all is that my work is evaluated based on their achievements.”

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Determining The Nexus Between Social Entrepreneurship And The Employability Of Graduates

Author(s): Bulelwa Mandyoli,Chux Gervase Iwu,Zinzi Magoda / Language(s): English Issue: 10/2016

Social entrepreneurs have, in several ways, been regarded as engines of intense socioeconomic development. They are also famous for intervening with projects for society’s problems that are often, either inadvertently ignored or inadequately managed by mainstream society. The issue of graduate employability has gained increased tension around the world especially in emerging markets such as South Africa. Currently, suggestions are that considering the avowed contribution of social entrepreneurs, it may be worthwhile to start examining how they can assist with graduate employability in South Africa. This paper therefore takes an exploratory, yet focused scrutiny of the social entrepreneurship ecosystem to find out the likelihood of social entrepreneurs participating in programmes that prepare students for the workplace thereby reducing graduate unemployability. This is a conceptual paper that has benefitted from an extensive review of literature. Conclusions are drawn therefrom to suggest that opportunities exist for social entrepreneurs to provide practical, project-based learning opportunities for college and university students so that by the time they graduate they have attained reasonable work-readiness levels that stand them in good stead for employment. While the authors propose an intensive empirical study of the subject matter, we are equally positive that this paper may be used to advance the current platforms of engagement of the role of social entrepreneurs or grow innovative methods that provide graduates with a better chance to be successful in the working environment. In short, this paper calls for sustained discussions on how social entrepreneurs can improve graduate employability.

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