Aмериканската действителност в разказите на Светослав Минков от края на 20-те и началото на 30-те години на XX век

Author(s): Mariya Ruseva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

The paper is focused on the image of North America and the stereotypes about American reality that are represented and ironized in the short stories, written by the Bulgarian author Svetoslav Minkov and published in his books Shadow play (1928) Automatons (1932) and The lady with the X-Ray Eyes (1934)

За изнамерването на книгопечатанието: възрожденски ракурси

Author(s): Vladimir Ignatov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

This article suggests an attempt to analyze some texts from the Bulgarian National Revival Periodic Press that interpret a „marvelous discovery“ - the typography. Its role and significance for the radical changes in cultural and literary communication, but also the resistances against it as something new, unknown and affecting someone‘s interests, are also examined. Through some texts by K. Fotinov, P. R. Slaveikov, N. Kazanakli is defended the concept of the typography as discovering new worlds, removing certain boundaries - spatial, temporal - and facilitating the touch to the foreign experience and its more comprehensive absorption, which are of particular importance in the conditions of the Bulgarian 19th century.

Ролята на заниманията по изобразително изкуство като форма на превенция на отпадането от училище

Author(s): Ani Zlateva,Katya Tineva-Giurkovska,Petar Petrov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2018

Researches of the problem of the importance of Art activities of children at risk is shown in the context of the theoretical, analytical, and empirical aspects of the problem, and inferences and conclusions have been made accordingly. The report focuses its scientific interest on the role of extracurricular art activities for the personal development of the children, their ability to easily integrate to the social environment and to develop abilities and skills, which will help develop their emotional and social growth and keeping them in school. The contributions of this research can be divided into several main directions: collecting and systemizing literature and information directed towards existing models of prevention, showing the importance of art activities of children at risk, analyzing the results that have been achieved by art activities of the group of children endangered of being expelled of school, to define the appropriate models of social adaptation through activating the artistic abilities of the children. The purposes of the research are divided into several groups. On one hand is shown the importance of the introduction to the technical capacity of drawing in extracurricular form with different teachers, showing the analyzes made until the present moment achieved results of European, national and regional level, analyzes, summaries and conclusions of working with children from risky groups. In the analytical part, some of the methods of Rubinstein, Ulf and others, are applied. The results show that with active and regular art activities of children from risky groups, a durable interest is being shown to artistic activities and adaptation to the school environment is made quicker and more qualitative.

Читалищното образование в България през периода 1918 – 1944 г.

Author(s): Penka Tsoneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

The research is historical and pedagogical and aims to outline the main trends in the development of the library education in Bulgaria during the period 1918 – 1944. It is also a first attempt for a multilevel study of library education as a segment of Bulgarian education, in particular of non-formal education in Bulgaria.

Eтнографски източници в Научния архив на БАН – култура на паметта

Author(s): Gabriela Vaptzarova,Darina Ilieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2017

The Scientific Archives of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences began its work with the foundation of the Bulgarian Literary Society in Braila in September 1869. Its task is to find, process and offer for use all the materials on the history of the scientific thought in Bulgaria and the history of the BAS. The Scientific Archive preserves the archival documents of the institutes of the BAS as well as the personal collections of academicians, corresponding members and professors; it does scientific and technical processing, estimates the value of the archival documents and restores them. The archive organizes the use of the archival documents for scientific research, reference and other purposes, prepares documentary publications and exhibitions of documents.The cultural heritage preserved in the BAS is a national treasure and we are responsible for its protection.This article examines only archival collections with ethnographic materials and researches. It is an invitation to researchers for future studies.

Един живот между две религии

Author(s): Ani Kisyova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2017

The family and the relations in it have always been in the focus of the social sciences and humanities. They attract particular interest in cases of mixed marriages between individuals from different confessional communities. The present study will pay attention to mixed marriages between Orthodox Christians and Jews. It is based on the history of a family from the city of Sofia, the attitude of the spouses towards religion and the impact of these relations on the children in the family in the 20th century.

Феномен бала в зеркале обучения русскому языку и русской культуре

Author(s): Nadya Cherneva / Language(s): Russian Issue: 4/2018

The article aims to analyze the functional load of Russian ball dance that represents fragments of XIII – XIX century sociocultural history and life in their correlation with modern reception and practice of teaching Russian as a foreign language. The author’s vision of the place and significant role of the ball dance in Russian culture, especially literature and art, is revealed. The focus is put on the phenomenon of ball dance etiquette and ceremony, suggesting a great variety of topics and different methods of exploring this outstanding cultural emblem, described from the point of view of synergy, imagology and innovative technologies, used in the process of teaching foreign languages.

Встъпление

Author(s): Nikolai Vukov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2018

Ролята на учителските нагласи в приобщаването на различните деца. Преглед и анализ на основни социално-психологически теории за наг­ласите, тяхното естествено и нарочно формиране

Author(s): Iva Boneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 8/2018

The author discusses the role of teachers’ attitudes in the inclusive education and makes an analysis of the most prominent social-psychological theories that explain forming of people’s attitudes. She divides them in four groups – consistency theories, learning theories, theory of social judgement and functional theories.

Грижата за подобряване на психоемоционалния климат в екипа – насоки за ръководството и учителите на едно училище

Author(s): Stefka Chincheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 8/2018

This article reflects part of the experience and development of the Centre for Inclusive Education‘s ideas on how the care of improving the psycho-emotional climate in the school team can be more adequately put into effect, in terms of school setup.  The article presents a part of a methodology for improving the psycho-emotional climate in the school team, which was developed in the process of creating and approving the Model for Organization of  School Processes for Building Inclusive School Environment (Center for Inclusive Education, 2017) of Center for Inclusive Education within One School for All Programme. The methodology is designed for the leadership team of each school in Bulgaria and its pedagogical specialists who believe that the climate and teamwork contribute to their work and have an impact on how each of them feel at their workplace. It is also intended to focus on the mental health care of teachers, which is often mistaken with suggestions for mental health assessments, qualifications to improve their pedagogical competencies, or conducting leisure and rest events.

Закрила на децата в България (исторически аспекти)

Author(s): Albena Chavdarova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 9/2018

The paper presents the child protection in Bulgaria from the Liberation Period (1878) to 1944. The role of private charity organizations and the state policy for child care and welfare are analyzed.

Правото на живот на детето: помощ и спасителна дейност по време на Втората световна война (1939 – 1945) (скициране на проблема)

Author(s): Wiesław Theiss / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 9/2018

The paper presents the problem of the rights of the child from socially-pedagogical perspective and in connection with the threats of the World War II. Some perspectives are outlined in the foreground: “military complex” and “zone of the social solidarity”. With the first term, the totality of the negative psychical, physical and social consequences that children endured in the result of the military actions are marked. With the second term, different forms of help and actions for children`s protection in case of threat for their life and existence are marked.

Правата на децата и гражданското образование

Author(s): Liliana Strakova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 9/2018

The topics of civic education and children's rights are being discussed more and more frequently in the past 11 years after Bulgaria joined the EU. Civil education is expected to familiarize children with their "equal and inalienable rights, the most important of which are freedom, justice and peace in the world". The outcome of civic education cannot be just “simple voters”, but rather personalities concerned about the public good. Through the civic education, the moral basis of children's rights is internalized.

България и полската външна политика (1918 – 1939). Геополитика и дип­ломация

Author(s): Marek Kornat / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2018

The study is devoted to Bulgaria’s role in the principal conceptions of Polish foreign policy between thetwo great wars. Both states functioned in a radically different geopolitical constellation of powers, however they had one similarity. Poland belonged to the major European beneficiaries of the World War I, because due to this conflict itregainedits independence after along period of partitions. Bulgaria lost the First World War. The country had to conclude a very uncomfortable peace treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine. But both states were in conflict with themajority of their neighbors. A unique perspective for Polish-Bulgarian cooperation was possible in the framework of thePolish conception of “Intermarium” Bloc. Unfortunately, this vision appeared only as a theory.

Полша и Украинската народна република в периода 1919 – 1920

Author(s): Mirosław Szumiło / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2018

The common enemy of the reborn Poland and the Ukrainian People’s Republic was Bolshevik Russia. On the initiative of the leaders of both countries: Józef Piłsudski and Symon Petlura, an alliance agreement was signed between Poland and the Ukrainian People’s Republic on 22 April 1920. Piłsudski treated cooperation with Ukraine as a key element of his broader plan to rebuild eastern Europe. The result of the concluded alliance was the participation of the Ukrainian army in defense of Poland against the Bolshevik invasion in the summer of 1920. However, the great military victory was largely wasted politically because no Ukrainian state was established. The Treaty of Riga, signed on March 18, 1921, signified de facto defeat of Piłsudski’s plans.

‘The International of the Conquered’– The Promethean Movement and Polish Authorities during 1926 – 1939

Author(s): Paweł Libera / Language(s): English Issue: 6/2018

“Prometheanism” meant the political cooperation of interwar Poland with non-Russian peoples and nations in Russia directed against the tsarist, and later the Soviet empire. The Promethean movement included representatives of Ukraine (Ukrainian People’s Republic – UNR), Caucasus (Georgia, Azerbaijan, Mountaineers of the Northern Caucasus), Crimean and Volga Tatars, Turkestan and nations inhabiting Finland (Ingria, Komi, Karelia), as well as a part of the Don, Kuban and Terek Cossacks. This article focuses on the relations between the Polish side and individual nations and structures of the Promethean front, on those turning moments in its development, as well as on the political and organisational evolution of the Promethean movement.

Проблемът свое – чуждо и моделът на българския книжовен език през Възраждането

Author(s): Tatyana Aleksandrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 6/2018

The article focuses on the relationship between the model in which the Bulgarian literary language is formed during the Revival period and the own - foreign opposition. It analyzes those cultural and historical prerequisites, which determine the specifics of the own – foreign opposition in the field of the literary language and explain the tolerance towards the foreign influences related to the orientation of our society towards European cultural models. The character of Bulgarian Purification is analyzed.

Reclamation of the Disabled Body: A Textual Analysis of Browning’s Freaks (1932) vs Modern Media’s Sideshow Generation

Author(s): Sasha Dilan Krugman / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2018

This article introduces Tod Browning’s 1932 film Freaks, in conversation with nineteenth century carnival and fair practices and further explains the creation and development of the freakshow. In tandem with theoretical work by authors such as Judith Butler, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Adrianna Cavarero and Lennard Davis, the article positions the freakshow within disability and trauma through the notions of ‘staring’, ‘normal’ and ‘horrorism’. Using two contemporary texts such as American Horror Story: Freakshow and the reality television series Freakshow, this article firstly introduces these texts thematically before analysing all three in conversation with one another as a means of further contextualizing the role of the freakshow in contemporary cultural products, then connecting these texts to the notion of violence and the use of disability as a tool for horror. The article concludes that although the freakshow has been dismantled in the literal sense, the obvious bodily difference that predicates it still remains present in today’s cultural sphere.

Градинарството в едно планинско село през 40-те и 50-те години на ХХ век: социални аспекти

Author(s): Yana Yancheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2018

The paper deals with practices of vegetable gardening in the village of Mezdreya, Northwestern Bulgaria, before collectivization in 1958. The main question is how gardening affects social relations and, conversely, how getting into particular social relationships “makes” the garden. The interrelation between the plant world in gardens, the gardening practices, the economic interests of families, the social relations within and between families, people’s lifestyle, etc. have been studied. The article presents the interactions between families in the process of growing vegetables in irrigated gardens and in seed exchange, the association between neighbours and collective work in common benefit, the distribution of labour activities in the family by sex and age.

Биоградината в училище – образователни, възпитателни, здравословни ефекти

Author(s): Albena Nakova-Manolova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2018

The article analyzes the specific urban agriculture practice of bio-gardening in schools, which continues the tradition of experimental and teaching plots in schools and combines the basic effects of urban agriculture: social, health-related, economic and ecological. Above all, this tradition illustrates the combined social benefits of urban agriculture related to education, upbringing, and social integration. The data presented in the article are drawn from the findings of research (in-depth interviews and focus groups) conducted in the framework of the project Urban Agriculture as a Strategy for Improving the Quality of Life of Urban Communities, financed by the National Research Fund. The data refer to bio-gardens in schools on the territory of Sofia Municipality.