Action Research in Higher Education Fostering Transition toward a Sustainable Economy: Trainings in Ecopreneurship at Three Bulgarian Universities

Author(s): Anna Varbanova / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

This paper discusses the possibilities for higher education (HE) policies to be strategically assured upon the triple helix between university, local authorities and businesses providing the proper social context as a resource for authentic educational content and learning environment. The study is based on the application of Action Re¬search methodology in the framework of the applied project of the Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, on the example of ecopreneurship training, supported by the German Federal Environmental Foundation, as an experiment regarding our central research question: How is it possible to foster the transition toward sustainable economy through education, on the example of such trans¬disciplinary course in higher education? In particular, we involve different stakeholders (university teachers, students, university administration and green businesses) in order to improve educational outcomes, and especially, to increase the level of competence of academic staff and students to teach, learn, explore, and transfer new fields of knowl¬edge, experience, and attitude toward sustainable economy. We operationalize that through competencies (with their nuclei – knowledge, skills, and attitudes) as a didacti¬cal instrument. During the process our cases reveal the need of transdisciplinary learn¬ing through especially designed close to ‘real-world’ settings. Thus, creating free space for experimentation and mutual learning we plan on achievable and product-oriented outcomes, which gives confidence and motivation for further learning and involvement in the field of sustainable economy.

Модерната политика на управление на човешките ресурси и компетентностният подход при обучението в администрацията

Author(s): Polya Katsamunska / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2016

The paper is focused on the policy of human resources management in the public sector, which aims to increase the professional skills and qualifications of civil servants through trainings in order to develop a modern, effective and citizen-oriented system of public administration. In brief, this policy gives priority to training because it is seen as a targeted investment to good governance.The first part of the paper deals with two separate but closely related issues – administrative system and reform of human resources management in public administration. The reason is that the principles and organizational model of the administrative system provide implications on the policy of human resources management in administration. The second part explains the relationship between the concept of competency and the model of excellence. This model could be used in any organization, which makes it a contemporary approach to public administration management. Finally, the paper outlines that the traditional model of training is outdated and the competency approach in training has become wide-spread in public and private sectors. The expected result for the Bulgarian administration is that using this training approach will significantly enhance civil servants’ professional competence and thus the impact on the quality of governance will be significant.

Проблемът за усвояването на педагогически компетенции чрез учене в електронна среда

Author(s): Nina Gerdzhikova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2016

The article develops the idea of absorption of pedagogical competences in the process of e-learning. It discusses the ability to form international pedagogical competence for that e-learning provides great opportunities. At the same time the difficulties in the theory of education in defining the category of “competence” are highlighted.

Рефлексивни проекции в доказателството като логически способ (на примера на обучението по биология)

Author(s): Isa Hadjiali,Nadezhda Raycheva,Nataliya Tzanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2016

The essence of logical demonstration and applications in biology education is presented in the article. Persistence of logical demonstration in learning skills is marked. Reflective implications are described in demonstration applied in solving biology learning tasks.

Рефлексивната самооценка като механизъм на личностното самоутвърждаване

Author(s): Boyan Vasilev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2016

In the report is presented and developed the idea of the role of the reflection of the mastery of self-affirmation; reflexive self-asessment allows it to be placed under personal control. Trough reflexive self-knowledge, personal self-affirmation is released from the psychological defenses, compensatory delusions and inadequate ways of its implementation. The mature degree of self-affirmation is characterized by the release of inefficient mechanisms of self-assessment and self assertion and targeted use of personal reflexive procedures.

Към въпроса за фотографския портрет на Васил Левски от 1870 г.

Author(s): Svetlana Muhova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

Оne of the most popular photos of Vasil Levski is claimed to have been taken in Koprivshtitsa. This opinion is based on the memorial testimony of Vasil Karaivanov – Levski’s cousin from Kalrovo and a participant in the revolutionary movement. This short article presents the result of an attempt some additional information to be found, which could confirm the credibility of Karaivanov’s opinion that one of the pictures of Levski was taken in Koprivshtitsa.

Европейската комисия за Източна Румелия: Един непознат фотодокумент в архивите на The Getty Research Institute

Author(s): Krasimir Krumov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

This paper presents an unknown photograph from the time immediately after the Liberation of Bulgaria. It depicts a collective portrait of the members of the European Commission for the organization of Eastern Roumelia. The photo document is created outside a studio in a natural environment and could be defined as one of the early examples of reportage photography on socio-political affairs that took place on the Bulgarian lands.

Българско царство

Author(s): Ivayla Popova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

Notes in Greek and Phrygian Etymology

Author(s): Vladimir Orel / Language(s): English Issue: 6/1996

Callimachus, Hesyehius and Two Thracian Glosses (Notes on One Transmissional Way of Thracian Vocabulary)

Author(s): Elwira Kaczyńska / Language(s): English Issue: 6/1996

Invariant and Transformations in the Palaeo-Balkan Mysterial Myth about the Wedding Death

Author(s): Svetlana Yanakieva / Language(s): English Issue: 6/1996

Sprachbund und Oralität

Author(s): Armin Hetzer / Language(s): German Issue: 6/1996

А. И . Иванчик Киммерийцы. Древневосточные цивилизации и степные кочевники в VIII – VII веках до н. э. Москва, 1996, 324 с.

Author(s): Maya Vassileva / Language(s): English Issue: 6/1996

Thesaurus Linguae Thracicae 1. Herodotus and the Logographs

Author(s): Svetlana Janakieva,Peter A. Dimitrov / Language(s): English,Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Issue: 6/1996

Tangun and Tangra, and their role in the construction of the Korean and the Bulgarian National Consciousness

Author(s): Irina Sotirova / Language(s): English Issue: 1-2/2018

Today, Bulgaria is both a political and a cultural member of Europe, while Korea forms a common areal with its neighbours, China and Japan. Throughout the centuries, however, both countries, located geographically on the road of intensive commercial and cultural exchange, experienced the impact of nomad peoples, like the Mongols and the Turks. This is why today we can find many similar elements in the culture of Korea and that of Bulgaria, which are the result of the centuries-long thread connecting Koreans, Mongols, Turks and Bulgarians. One of these elements worthy of academic research is the deified Heaven known as tengri, which most probably lies at the core of the names Tangra in Bulgaria and Tangun in Korea. The Korean Tangun is only mentioned once in the work of the Buddhist monk Iryeon from the 13th century as a celestial son, founder of the first Korean kingdom – Ancient Joseon. The name Tangra was deciphered by some scholars in Bulgaria from a Turkish manuscript which did not survive to this day and a somewhat illegible writing on a stone pillar. Throughout the centuries, there have been no traces in either country of people worshipping Tangun or Tangra. There is no historical, archaeological or ritual evidence supporting the existence of a religious cult of the two deities. However, in modern times, in both Korea and Bulgaria, Tangun and Tangra have been brought to public attention as the symbols of an ancient proto-Korean and proto-Bulgarian religion, respectively. For patriotic reasons, the two peoples have brought Tangun and Tangra to the foreground in opposition to the official religion. The aim is to derive a monotheistic religion from one main proto-deity to equate (and why not to precede) the official religions (Christianity in Bulgaria, and Confucianism and Buddhism in Korea). This study investigates the construction of the image of Tangun as a supreme national symbol in Korea and draws a parallel with Bulgarian Tangrism. It focuses on the transformation of the image of Tangun in Korea from a deified mythological hero into a historical figure, through a large-scale, well-coordinated and well-funded state policy. While the cult of Tangra in Bulgaria is a source of national pride for some Bulgarians, it has not received the strong state support the cult of Tangun in Korea has.

Language Safety in the Context of National Security

Author(s): Jived Jafarov / Language(s): English Issue: 1-2/2018

The article is dedicated to the study of language safety issues, determination and analysis of implementation level of linguistic provision of national security in the context of global information security. The author made scientific and terminological comments of “language safety” concept, looked through language safety provision in Azerbaijan and other countries from language tolerance viewpoint.

Demeter, Gábor. Agrarian Transformations in Southeastern Europe: from the Late 18th Century to World War II. Series Publications of the Bulgarian-Hungarian History Commission. Vol. 3. Sofia, 2017. 316 p.

Author(s): Penka Peykovska / Language(s): English Issue: 1-2/2018

Book Review

Реакциите на българските младежи към три „извънредни“ събития за 80-те години на XX век. Архиви

Author(s): Mihaela Samardzhieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

In the following text we will present the reaction of the Bulgarian youths from the 1980s to three extraordinary and practically „new“ events for this period in our country, according to the archives of the Information and Sociological Center of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party. We are examining the reaction of Bulgarian youths to the Revival Process, the Chernobyl accident and the AIDS virus, and our aim is to follow both youth’s views on current events and the behavior of the media and institutions – as a rule they function differently in one closed and authoritarian political system.

Българското радио през социализма. Професионалните медийни издания (1944 — 1989)

Author(s): Vyara Angelova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

The text presents the results from a research of professional periodicals dedicated to radio and radio journalism during the socialism period in Bulgaria. The research has following aims: to track the topics discussed by the professional community; to search the correlation between ideological and professional content; to ascertain to what extent the foreign experience penetrates into the radio related periodicals.

Рецензия на книгата „Управление на бедността“ на Вероника Димитрова

Author(s): Zhana Popova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

Review of the book 'Governmentality of poverty. Hygiene and medicine in interwar years'. Sofia: Iztok-Zapad of Veronika Dimitrova (2018)