Харти за „Ново обществено здравеопазване“

Author(s): Klara Dokova,Petya Boncheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2021

Изследователското внимание е насочено към хартите поради факта, че в сферата на общественото здраве, глобалните стратегически политики през последните петдесет години се задават и развиват най-често чрез харти и декларации. Целта на статията е да разгледа обединяващите и специфични особености на две от основополагащите харти в сферата на oбщественото здраве: Отавската и Хартата от Оканаган, приета от Международната мрежа на университетите и колежи за промоция на здраве 2015 г. Направен е сравнителен исторически преглед на двата документа. Хартата от Оканаган утвърждава и адаптира принципите на промоция на здравето към институциите на висшето образование. Познаването и приемането й са първите необходими стъпки за присъединяване към глобалното университетско движение за промоция на здраве. Research attention is focused on charters due to the fact that in the public health sphere, global strategic policies over the past fifty years are looming and developing most often through charters and declarations. The purpose of the article is to examine the unifying and specific features of two of the founding charters in the field of public health: the Ottawа and the Okanagan Charter, the later adopted by the International Network of Universities and Colleges for Health Promotion 2015. А historical comparative analysis of the two documents is performed. The Okanagan Charter endorses and adapts the prin- ciples of health promotion to higher education institutions. Understanding and officially adopting it are the first steps needed for joining the global health promoting universities movement

Ролята на образованието и човешкия фактор в иновационната дейност.

Author(s): Viktoriya Kalaydzhieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2023

In this article is presented and justified the role of education, the human factor and retraining in the implementation of innovation activity. The main purpose is to analyze and conceptually outline the relationship between them. Directions for development of the human factor, education and some basic characteristics of the innovation manager such as necessary cognitive competences, professional skills and personal qualities are indicated. The author’s understanding of modern education, which should be implemented in Bulgarian secondary and higher schools, is presented in order to ensure the training of personnel with an affinity for innovation, creativity and research. The opportunity of using a constructivist approach to change the previous paradigm in education, in which the student is only an object in this process and teaching is reduced to knowledge transfer, and assessment is related to the possibilities of their reproduction, is considered.

Сравнителен анализ на eфектите на дуалната немска система и на традиционната българска система за професионално образование върху личността на юношите

Author(s): Ivanka Asenova,Maria Soleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2023

The article presents the results of a longitudinal study aiming to investigate the effects of the type of educational system on the personality of Bulgarian students in the period of late adolescence. Using the adapted Bulgarian versions of three self-assessment tests: the Heubeck и Neill psychological well - being scale, the Rosenberg self-esteem scale, and the the Eysenck mental states test, two groups of 32 adolescent students each, were examined at the beginning, at the middle of the second year and at the end of the third year of their education at two different vocational schools applying different educational systems: the German dual educational system, and the Bulgarian traditional vocational educational system, respectively. The results showed statistically significant between-group differences in the mean group scores on the studied personality characteristics. The results were analysed in the context of the impact of schooling on the personality development of young.

Предизвикателствата пред образованието по лични финанси на студентите

Author(s): Daniela Bobeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2023

The expansion of the financial intermediation and the diversification of the financial products for consumers generates enormous academic interest in the field of the financial education. The exponential development of the technology in the financial services also encourages the theory and policy to promote financial education. In this environment, consumers can hardly catch up with the expertise of the financial institutions. Thus, the information asymmetry widens, leading to significant adverse consequences for both consumers (indebtedness, financial exclusion, and financial losses) and financial intermediation (reduction of the client base, shocks on demand). The purpose of this study is, by analyzing the development of the personal finance theory, the regulatory framework and policy, to identify the issues and the risks in the context of the contemporary challenges. The article reveals the specifics of the students’ personal finances, which also defines the educational approaches and emphases to overcome the risks of low-quality education. Defined are the main guidelines of the training aimed at preventing excessive indebtedness at this early age, acquiring skills for choosing the most suitable financial products, diversifying personal income and promoting investment activity.

Educational Policy, Specialised Staff, Innovations and Recreational Industry

Author(s): Bistra Dimitrova / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2023

Niche tourism in Bulgaria is facing a shortage of specialised staff. The quality of services in the Recreational industry depends on the integration of scientific findings into Wellness & Spa therapies. This study summarises the specifics of the newly accredited Wellness & Spa programs at the National Sports Academy “V. Levski”. The innovations are financially supported by the Bulgarian Heritage BG Centre of Excellence. Under the priority axis 1 “Research and Technological Development”, a scientific bridge was established to implement the European policy “healthy lifestyle for everyone”. Through the education of specialised personnel, our team gained insights on how Bulgarian Niche tourism can improve the quality of services in the Wellness & Spa sector. By identifying the specific professional competencies, the scientific team at NSA “V. Levski” developed innovative educational programs for new jobs to meet the needs of the Niche tourism business. The analysis of the development of professional knowledge and skills led to improved higher quality services and interdisciplinary education. By accrediting new scientific and educational programs in two professional fields, health care and sports, NSA “V. Levski” has become an educational and scientific leader at the National, Balkan, and European level in the field of Niche tourism, specifically in the Wellness & Spa sector.

Усъвършенстване на туристическата дейност чрез иновации, водещи до подобряване качеството на туристическия продукт

Author(s): Mincho Polimenov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2023

The article is aimed at the modern development of the tourist activity and the possibility of innovation of a number of factors seeking to improve the quality of the tourist product. The aspiration of the modern tourist is to create social contacts, actively aiming to get to know natural attractions as well as searching for an ecological, natural and healthy way of life. The emphasis is on analysis and detailing of the factor operations in tourism and above all on their practical application side in the various organizations that are targeting the new category – Wellness tourist. The trends in the tourism industry are towards restoring the confidence of tourists and increasing travel from 2020 levels. where it falls below 70%. The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) treats levels where up to 2.5 years or 4 years travel can be recovered. The multitude of surveys and measurements are to increase competitiveness based on research and updating of the tourist product. The aim of the dynamics is aimed at the quality of the tourist product, its energy intensity and the level of tourist service related to its efficiency. It is also a question of a rational economic advantage related to the costs and, respectively, the price, as well as an axiological advantage related to the value (that is, the quality) of the tourist product and its competitive advantage (Ribov 2018).

A Wellness Tооl to Perform Healthy Lifestyle Practices in the Bulgarian School System

Author(s): Irina Nesheva / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2023

The number оf children with diabetes is growing alarmingly. The age limit оf patients has also decreased significantly. This material presents recreational physical activity through cheerleading. Methоds: The research aims to attract the attention оf educators (current and future) to the essence оf the functional effects оf cheerleading practice. The diagnostic оf the functional indicators were with the asset оf an innovative tооl for diagnosing functional changes, providing a personal QR code on the effects оf cheerleading practice. Results: The specific changes in dynamics inside the indicators that register the metabolic age, were studied. This detailed diagnosis is to develop wellness tооls in Bulgarian schооls as health prevention оf childhооd diabetes. Conclusions: According to the results of our study, functional indicator changes are related to the effectiveness of cheerleading programs. In order to diagnose functional changes, intelligent (smart) tools have been used to ensure high objectivity and personalisation of the data.

В НОВИТЕ БРОЕВЕ НА СПИСАНИЯТА НА ,,АЗ-БУКИ“ ЧЕТЕТЕ

Author(s): Not Specified Author / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2023

Здраве и здравеопазване – видими приоритети, невидими проблеми

Author(s): Anelia Kassabova,Kristina Popova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2023

Уникалността на духовното наследство в културно-религиозната матрица на Древния изток

Author(s): Ivaylo Lazarov / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 2/2023

The article starts from the thesis that the ancient East is a unique space, time and donor of the cultural beginning in a world that has lost the humane sense of authentic culture and exists without clarity about the relationship of tension between culture and civilization. The ancient East is an example of quality, and not so much of quantity, of its cultural and religious heritage. Nowhere has the religious managed to dominate everyday experience as it is demonstrated by Eastern teachings. The sense of existentiality of the experience and unity with everything while maintaining a sacred attitude towards the pure springs of spirituality is a great merit of the East. Unique are the rituals, meanings and methods we have available to develop our knowledge in the most profound way – as self-knowledge. Rediscovering the East through a critical and reflexive methodology, today we again have the lost productive potential of the religious and the authentic cultural.

Transitioning towards Sustainable Economic Development: Examining the Evolution of Social-Economic Structure, Industrial Upgrading, and Labor Market Dynamics in Sichuan Province

Author(s): Ying Yan Yang / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

This research paper examines the transition towards sustainable economic development in Sichuan Province, China, with a focus on the evolution of social-economic structure, industrial upgrading, and labor market dynamics. Sichuan’s journey from an agrarian-based economy to one driven by industrialization and innovation provides a compelling case study for understanding the interplay between economic development and sustainability. The paper reviews relevant theoretical frameworks, such as sustainable development theory and environmental economics, to provide a solid foundation for the analysis. It also explores the broader context of China’s economic transformation and its implications for sustainable development. The research highlights how Sichuan’s social-economic structure has evolved, the relationship between industrial upgrading and sustainable development, and the impact of labor market dynamics on sustainable development. The findings of this study contribute to our understanding of the complexities and opportunities associated with transition towards a more sustainable economy.

The Songs of the Lost Land: Re-envisioning the Turkish Folk Songs from Adakele through Previous Compilations and Research Studies

Author(s): Cenk Güray,Duygu Günever / Language(s): Turkish,English Issue: 1/2021

Adakale, a center of Turkish culture in the Balkans since the 15th century, has witnessed the establishment of cultural communication between the Balkan people sharing the multicultural life symbolized by the River Danube. After the “loss” of Adakale by being submerged in 1970, music and literature were the only media reflecting this memory. The past studies of Turkish folk poetry and music compiled from the Adakale region will be evaluated within this work. Possible methods of re-envisioning the melodies of the compiled lyrics whose melodies are lost will be discussed by utilizing compilations made from other regions of the Balkan Peninsula and using the folk melodies in Turkey that originated from the Balkan lands.

Западните Балкани между балканизацията и интеграцията. Съвременни проблеми на региона

Author(s): Martin Doykov / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2021

At the beginning of the 21st century, two parallel and opposing processes took place – integration into the Euro-Atlantic structures and Balkanization. They are the result of the desire of the countries in the region to improve their socio-economic development and the ambition of some of them to strengthen their recently found identity. Along with this, a number of typical regional problems will determine the future of the countries in the long term. The lost identity of the people leads to internal weakness, the influence of external factors, unemployment, decreasing birth rate, quality of education, and emigration – these are some of the problems which have their specifics in the region and are of interest to the present research.

Turks and Tatars in Romania in the Bilingual Edition of the 𝐷𝑜𝑏𝑟𝑢𝑗𝑎 / 𝐷𝑜𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑎 Newspaper

Author(s): Metin Omer / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

This article analyzes the content of the bilingual edition of the Dobruja newspaper, which was published between 1919 and 1924 in Bazargic (present-day Dobrich). Until 1921, it was published in Romanian and Ottoman Turkish, and later only in the latter. Dobruja is important because it was the first bilingual newspaper of the Muslim community in interwar Romania that existed for a long time. Also, the main authors of the articles published in this newspaper were important figures of the community, such as Halil Fehim (the mufti of Caliacra County), Mehmet Niyazi (the national poet of the Tatars and a Turkish language teacher at the Muslim Seminary in Medgidia), and Ibrahim Themo who had an Albanian background and was an important leader of the Young Turks. After presenting the context in which the Dobruja newspaper came out, the article analyzes the content of bilingual editions from three perspectives: the demands that the Turks and Tatars made before the Romanian authorities, the organization of the community, and international developments. The author points out that the main idea encountered in the articles published in the newspaper is that the Turkish and Tatar minority was a safe one for the Romanian state because it had no territorial claims. This message was important, given that Southern Dobruja had an ethnic composition in which the Romanian ethnicity was a minority, and that the territory was claimed by Bulgaria. Thus, the reiteration of this by the elites of the Turks and Tatars was necessary for the attempts to obtain the satisfaction of some demands and support in the initiatives to improve the situation of the community. The Dobruja newspaper was the means by which this message was conveyed.

Обучението по български език и литература в Република Молдова

Author(s): Nadezhda Dimitrova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

The article presents the process of teaching Bulgarian language and literature. It identifies the main objectives, approaches and problems in teaching this subject at the contemporary stage in the Republic of Moldova. In the process of teaching Bulgarian language and literature, the linguistic approach is a priority, as it is one of the most effective approaches aimed at developing and improving the abilities and skills for the realization of intercultural communication by studying language as a cultural phenomenon.

Как алгоритмите за дългосрочно запаметяване биха могли да бъдат приложени в една съвременна образователна стратегия

Author(s): Nikolay Shindarov / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

The paper reviews and analyzes various memorization algorithms. The advantages and disadvantages of the different methodologies are discussed and the characteristics of the successful ones are pointed out. The conclusions of the analysis are that the dynamic optimization of personalized intervals between repetitions, the maximum extension of the time intervals, as well as the repetitions within the first day after the teaching of the learning material contribute to the efficiency of memorization. In conclusion it is emphasized the role of software learning applications, with the help of which memorization algorithms can be successfully implemented as a contemporary educational strategy in the Balkan countries.

Географски обзор на промишлеността в страните от Централна и Източна Европа (1990–2020 г.)

Author(s): Polya Yordanova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

Industry remains a catalyst for progress and a driving force for our future. Today, it provides 50 million jobs in Europe, or 20% of the workforce, accounting for more than half of exports. The last quarter of the twentieth century was characterized by colossal qualitative changes in the development of productive forces, affecting the entire world economy. The leading industrial powers entered a new post-industrial stage of their development, also known as the “knowledge-based economy.” Entrepreneurial activity in the border regions of the most economically developed CEE countries contributes to the development of integration processes and to the integration activity of cross-border territorial production complexes.

Translating Linguistic Theories into Practical Solutions for ESP Materials Design: from Discourse Analysis to Teaching Political Discourse

Author(s): Boryana Kostova / Language(s): English Issue: 6/2023

Linguistics plays a key role in foreign language education both in relation to the teaching/learning process and to materials development. As a point of departure the article examines the implications of linguistic paradigms for foreign language teaching methods and follows the evolution of the concept discourse competence. Together with Discourse Analysis it is identified as central to updating contemporary teaching methods and instructional materials. The major objective is to show how research within linguistics informs and gives new impetus to FLT which is illustrated by a model of ESP instructional material designed for teaching political discourse to university students. The main conclusion is that such a form of mediation between theory and practice can broaden the focus on authenticity to encompass not only exposure to real language but also to genuinely analytical and critical thinking experiences typical for the academia.

Стихосбирката „Пролетен вятър“ от Никола Фурнаджиев – авангард и „родно“

Author(s): Bilyana Borisova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2023

The article offers an insight into the entanglement between the avantgarde modernist principles of image and the Bulgarian aesthetic-ideological idea of the “native” from the 20s of the 20th century, realized by Nikola Furnadzhiev in the collection of poems “Spring Wind” from 1925. The reasoning is based on correspondences between the imagery in the paintings of the period and that in the poetic works from the poetry collection. The artistic suggestion achieved on their basis in “Spring Wind” illustrates an important aspect of Bulgarian avant-garde modernism as an aesthetic phenomenon, in which, although not yet fully described, European avant-garde aesthetic ideas and worldview attitudes are connected with the native ideological and aesthetic tradition. As a result of this relationship, in the entire literary field of the period, specific artistic modernist manifestations are obtained, through which Bulgarian literature in the years between the two world wars fits into the general European artistic process of intense search for an existential perspective before the post-war man and the corresponding aesthetic paths for achievement set through the creative efforts of a new post-war generation of artists. The inclusion of Furnadzhiev‘s poetry collection in this artistic practice has a decisive contribution to the expansion of pictorial experimentation and establishes its literary-aesthetic importance.

Ассоциативные представления о памяти в русской и китайской лингвокультурах

Author(s): Ol’ga Barabash,Li Shutian / Language(s): Russian Issue: 6/2023

The article examines the features of conceptualization of the phenomenon of memory in the Russian and Chinese languages. By comparing the linguistic representations of memory in two cultures, similar and nationally specific images and connotations are revealed. The authors come to the conclusion that the ideas of Russians and Chinese about the connection between memory and thinking, past and future, about the dialectical nature of the phenomenon of memory are universal. However, associative interpretations of the properties of memory are realized in Russian and Chinese linguistic cultures in different images