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This article examines the role of higher education institutions and businesses in creating and disseminating innovation. The dynamics and the relationship between innovation and key macroeconomic indicators for economic growth, the labor market and income inequality in Bulgaria and the EU have been empirically examined. The results show that the perceived direction of development of the EU and Bulgaria, in the context of innovations – science, scientific achievements and public innovative approaches and policies – has a positive impact on economic growth and the labor market.
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The subjective perception of quality of the educational product offered by the higher schools (HS) invariably has a decisive importance and plays a significant role in the process of forming/changing a certain public image for the educational institutions. The goal of the current paper is to present results from a pilot research conducted among students at the University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski” as part of a project on the subject of “Strategy for building the public image for the University of Plovdiv”. Particular emphasis is placed on the relation components of the educational product – perception for the public image of the HS.
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The introduction of distance learning in the educational system of Republic of Bulgaria is a process that has emerged as a result of the development of educational technologies around the world. In some sectors of education, the formal transfer of existed experience would not achieve the expected result. In maritime education and training, attempts have been made to replace some traditional forms of teaching with modern online methods. A number of researchers have expressed a positive attitude towards web-based courses, on-board training using animation tools and more. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced educational institutions involved in primary maritime education to accelerate the application of new methods. The present study aims to establish the attitudes and perceptions of students and professors from Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy for the quality of the conducted three-month online training in specialized subjects for deck officers. The summarized results are taken into account when planning the new steading year.
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There is a growing use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in all areas of social and economic life. Proof of this is the introduction of innovative technologies in various production processes, the effective electronic services offered to businesses and citizens, management using cloud computing, Big Data and artificial intelligence, the implementation of distance learning, and networking of people. This article examines the importance of digital skills and the need of basic digital skills. Digital technologies have a perceptible impact on innovations, economic growth, the labor market and the type of digital skills for citizens that are necessary not only for successful professional realization but also for participation in public life and maintaining social contacts. The text presents data from an empirical study which focuses on operational and information digital skills (according to classification of Van Dijk) as a main prerequisite for successful professional realization of students in the higher education system. The method used for data collection is a questionnaire constructed in accordance with the European Digital Competence Framework for Citizens (DigComp 2.1).The authors present analysis of current students' digital communication skills including interaction through technology, sharing information and content, using online resources for educational purpose, and the level of digital skills acquired through various educational activities. The need for improvement of digital skills is outlined, development guidelines are given to help adapt the educational process to the new requirements of the digital economy.
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The current article raises questions about the ways in which medical ethics is taught in medical schools. The aim is to prove the advantage of a multidisciplinary approach that integrates theory and practice, philosophical and scientific knowledge. Following an analysis of the experience of countries such as the US, UK, Canada, etc. regarding the different ways of teaching the discipline, the advantages of this method are evident. Regulations in Bulgaria are also taken into account. Based on this analysis, it is concluded that ethics training must begin as a theoretical preparation at the beginning of the course, develop as part of clinical practice, and continue as postgraduate training of practicing medical professionals.
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In this article are based some thoughts giving a significance to the concept of discourse approach. The purpose is this rationalization to become a base for creation of school content in Bulgarian language for the aims of a course of textbooks designed for the junior high school and the both high school degrees. The special features of the communicatively orientated training in Bulgarian language are presented which needs a new “generation” of textbooks and school aids. They must reflect the characteristics of the discourse approach and be at the most adequate to the requirements of the modern socio-cultural and educational context.
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This presentation offers a methodological solution for the development of communicative competence of students in 8-12. class in a vocational high school, related to the implementation of an interdisciplinary project involving interaction with institutions, companies, organizations and people outside the educational institution. Its potential for supporting the teaching of Bulgarian language (and other academic disciplines) is analyzed; for the development of the student's personality in psychological, behavioral and value plan; for its socialization; to improve communicative, social and linguistic competence. The conclusions are based on project-oriented activities conducted in natural conditions of authentic communication, and observations made in the process of its implementation.
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This study aims at exploring the omission/expression of subjects in written and oral texts of students who study Bulgarian as a foreign language in Lisbon University, Portugal. The language combination (Bulgarian and Portuguese) is especially interesting as both languages share the null subject property, therefore, a positive transfer of this structure was expected. The results obtained indicate that positive transfer of null subject is observed only partially compared with corpus data. Hypotheses are proposed as an explanation of this phenomenon. They are based on following principles: linguistic – sentence prototypicality; interface hypothesis; psychological – hesitation; psycholinguistic, psychological and language teaching – overdifferentiation; interference from one nonnative to another nonnative language.
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The report presents the persistent interference errors in the speech of foreign students in Bulgarian with attention to the acquisition and developing of the forms of the Bulgarian auxiliary verb “to be” The problem is dealt theoretically and from Applied Linguistics point of view. We analyze linguistic output of respondents in whose native (first) language there is not a structural equivalent of “to be” compared with the output of speakers with a first language including “to be”. On the basis of our results we make some conclusions in Psycholinguistics and Applied Linguistics path.
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The following article offers a different perspective on the Bulgarian dialectological researches from the late 19th century. Its main aria of interest focuses not just on the importance they have for exploring and learning the diversity of the vernacular from the above-mentioned time period, but also deals with their practical application in the educational process from the late 19th century. The article addresses the first attempts on implying dialectological methods as a component of mother tongue education and Bulgarian language teaching, as well on the first known initiatives to organize extracurricular language practices together with senior-class students by collecting dialect material in accordance with the educational content. It highly praises the merit of mother tongue teachers from the late 19th century regarding the description and collection of the then Bulgarian dialects.
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Regional headlines: Belarusian borders closed; Syrians in the Karabakh war; Gulenist fights extradition from Albania; Three Seas summit; and a rule of law institute.
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The article presents an analysis of morals of three fairy tales by Charles Perrault, as translated or adapted by Hanna Januszewska, Barbara Grzegorzewska, and Milena Kusztelska. It attempts to identify and explain the difficulties with the Polish reception of the morals within the context of different linguistic and cultural realities, as well as of varying opinions on the fairy tales’ relation to morality and didacticism in the 17th-century France and present-day Poland.
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The author of the article presents three tales by the Grimm brothers – Herr Fix und Fertig [Herr Fix-It-Up], Die wunderliche Gasterei [The Strange Feast], and Die lange Nase [The Long Nose] – from the original edition of the Kinder- und Hausmärchen [Children’s and Household Tales] collection (1812–1815), which were removed from the subsequent editions and thus were not translated into Polish yet. The texts of the tales, translated by the author of the paper, are each time preceded by an introduction that considers the biographies and characteristics of the storytellers. This is in accordance with the trend in the research on the Grimms’ informers, summarized in the article’s introduction.
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The aim of the article is to analyse Tim Burton’s film Alice in Wonderland (2010) as exploiting Joseph Campbell’s model of the hero’s journey. Burton, as well as the screenwriter, Linda Wolvertoon, treated the original works by Lewis Carroll (1865, 1871) only as a starting point to present their own vision. In the presented considerations, the authors propose the interpretation of the film incarnation of Alice as a mythical heroine who must gain self-awareness and undergo an internal metamorphosis – a transgression from a lost girl into a brave warrior for her own autonomy.
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A brutal narrative of child abandonment, murder, and cannibalism may not seem the conventional stuff of fairy tales to those trained for a Disney-eyed view. Yet that is exactly what “Hansel and Gretel” offers. Film versions across genres, including drama, noir, horror, slasher, thriller, comedy, and adventure, deal seriously with crimes against and harms to children. Many practices and behaviours that endanger and damage people of various ages in all kinds of contexts, including environmental degradation, economic exploitation, and many forms of discrimination, are not proscribed in the formal criminal justice system, and/or are beyond the jurisdiction of public institutions. Many actions and inactions that affect and/or pertain to children’s wellbeing are found as recurring themes and ideas in “Hansel and Gretel” films. In this paper, the authors focus on non-supernatural, live-action films available in English for adult viewers that include child main characters, that is, those whose Hansels and Gretels are clearly below the age of puberty. These films, the authors contend, offer distinctive perspectives on harms to children as individuals and as groups, especially with relation to institutions implicating justice.
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The article offers an analysis of Poltergeist (1982) by Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper. The author retraces the topographic model of the film Freelings’ house. The building, its separate rooms, and domestic devices become the ‘open cuboids’ through which the demonic forces enter the family’s estate. The presence of human protagonists in the haunted house manifests itself in heterogenous ways, and is divided mostly according to generational and functional criteria. In the author’s reading of the film, the spaces of the living room and interiors of the children’s bedroom function as a senseful representation of parental frustrations and children’s fascinations and anxieties. The analysis is accompanied by contextual references to the horror cinema of the 1980s and to other cultural texts using similar motifs and plots.
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The Balkan Wars put an end to the Bulgarian presence in Salonica, but not to the Bulgarian imagination relative to the city. Almost until the second decade of the 20th c. Ottoman Salonica used to be a bigger, richer and more modern city than the Bulgarian capital. It evoked much feeling and interest among Bulgarians, who saw in it many economic, political and cultural opportunities. For Bulgarians, however, Salonica was primarily linked with their freedom fighting, so its image is dominated by themes of death and self-sacrifice, of fear and courage, of prisons and concentration camps. To them it is simultaneously a city of prisons and a city of light, a city of youth and nostalgia, of education and pogrom, of economic opportunity and wasted effort.
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Golus, A. (2019). Dzieciństwo w cieniu rózgi. Historia i oblicza przemocy wobec dzieci. Gliwice: Helion. The review article discusses a monograph by Anna Golus, Dzieciństwo w cieniu rózgi. Historia i oblicza przemocy wobec dzieci [Childhood in the Shadow of a Rod: The History and Faces of Violence against Children] (2019). Its purpose is to outline the history, cultural context of violence towards children and young people, as well as its current state, both in relation to applicable legal regulations in this area and social discussions related to the presented issues. In the final part of the article, those fragments of the book by Golus are analysed in which the author reveals her affective attitude towards the topic of violence against children. Despite the legal ban, some forms of seemingly innocent punishments, such as a smack or time-out, are sometimes propagated in Poland in the 21st century.
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