Year XCV, Issue 7, 2023<<Archive>>
In this issue:
Rеsеаrch Insights
DEVELOPMENT OF THE DIGITAL COMPETENCES OF PERSPECTIVE PRIMARY-SCHOOL TEACHERS
This paper examines the digital competences of current and perspective primary-school teachers the content that the ICT courses at the Educational faculty of Plovdiv university provide and their potential to develop the digital competences of the students duri...
digital competence; ICT courses; primary school teachers
TEACHER VALUE PROFILE IN A NATIONAL CONTEXT
The paper presents data from a study of Bulgarian teachers' value orientations towards their work based on a sample of 401 professionals who come from different locations and school types. The data obtained are contrasted and comperatively analysed with data c...
values; teachers; value orientations; teaching profession
THE INNOVATIVE SCHOOL: A VIEWPOINT FROM SOCIAL AXIOMS AND PROBLEM-SOLVING STYLES
Innovative schools already have a serious ground in our educational system. Initiated “from above", they raise the question of whether the subjective factor is ready for innovation. One way to get an answer is to comparatively examine the social axioms and pro...
innovative schools; social axioms; problem solving styles
STEM EDUCATION IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOL: ARE TEACHERS READY?
STEM is an increasingly high-priority educational field on a global and national scale, which aims to prepare young people from an early age for active participation in their own future. This is evident in various international and national programs and projec...
STEM education; primary school teachers; professional development
IMPLEMENTING THE COMPETENCE APPROACH INTO THE SCHOOL PROJECTS IN PRIMARY GRADES
The competence approach is one of the most effective in pedagogical practice in the world. It is dictated by the influence of the democratic educational paradigms, especially the person-oriented and constructivist ones. Through it, it is expected to form creat...
competence approach; learning project; teachers, students
THE STUDENTS’ SKILL TO CREATE A PEDAGOGICAL SITUATION IN BULGARIAN LANGUAGE IN THE KINDERGARTEN IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COMPETENCE APPROACH
The article examines students’ key skills necessary for an independent development of a pedagogical situation in Bulgarian in the kindergarten. It is indicated that the successful execution of this task largely depends on the ability of the students to get fam...
competence approach; expected results; educational goals; professional preparation
EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT WITH ACTIVE LEARNING METHODS IN PRIMARY GRADES
The current study presents the results of an experimental study implemented within the framework of a larger scientific work. The focus is on the dynamics in the knowledge and attitude of third and fourth grade students towards sustainable development within o...
education for sustainable development; primary school; active learning
Doctorаl Rеsеrch
„MISSION ON MARS” – INTEGRATED STEM LESSON
Integrated STEM teaching reflects the effort to combine some or all four disciplines of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics into one learning unit or lesson. The following work describes good practice for collaboration between teachers in differe...
STEM education; interdisciplinary learning; problem and projectbased learning; integrated STEM curriculum
ETHNO-PEDAGOGICAL BASIS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INNOVATIVE PROGRAM SYSTEMS IN THE CONDITIONS OF AN INTER-ETHNIC ENVIRONMENT (HISTORIOGRAPHICALANALYSIS)
In connection with the reforms that took place in Bulgarian education in 1991, the beginning of the implementation of conceptual projects, concepts, programs and program systems in the conditions of an inter-ethnic environment was set. A number of kindergarten...
innovative program systems; interethnic environment; historiographical analysis; organized preschool education