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DEVELOPMENT OF METACOGNITIVE SKILLS IN 11 – 14-YEAR-OLD STUDENTS IN А NON-FORMAL EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT

The purpose of this study was to determine and assess the impact of non-formal educational activities on the development of metacognitive skills in middle school students (11- to 14-year-old). The research was conducted with 48 students (N= 48) from 5th-grade...

metacognitive skills; von-formal education; strategies; tasks

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STUDY ON THE LEVEL OF SATISFACTION AND EXPECTATIONS OF TEACHERS TOWARDS THE USE OF SUPPORTING TEXTS AND STORYTELLING IN MORAL EDUCATION IN PRIMARY EDUCATION

The present study starts from the growing interest currently shown in moral education and aims to highlight the level of satisfaction and expectations of teachers towards the supporting texts and stories used to achieve the goals of this classical dimension of...

primary education; moral education; didactics; values; curriculum

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TRENDS IN SCIENCE EDUCATION FROM THE DIGITAL PERSPECTIVE: A STUDY SUPPORTED BY A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS

This study investigates the intersection of science education and digital technology integration through bibliometric analysis and trend identification. Utilizing multiple search approaches, including combining educational methodologies, the study analyses dat...

science education; educational approaches; digital technologies; Bibliometrix; bibliometric analysis

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CRITICAL REFLECTION TOWARDS ICT IN INITIAL TEACHER EDUCATION IN THE ERA OF ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

The article focuses on the current accelerated development of digital technologies and its impact on modern societies. In the current era, social and cultural structures and systems (including education) no longer follow the logic of technology evolution. As a...

technological acceleration; education; teacher qualification; technological sоluсionism; instrumental approach; reflexive-critical approach

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RESULTS OF AN INVESTIGATION OF VERB SEMANTICS IN CHILDREN THROUGH ONLINE LANGUAGE TASKS

The article presents the results of a study of the Bulgarian basic vocabulary of students in primary and preschool education. The observation of the acquisition of basic verbal vocabulary of children, planned in the previous stage of the work, was carried out...

Bulgarian language; primary stage of education; pre-school stage of education; verbs; basic vocabulary; semantics; lexicology; grammar

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IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATIONAL COMPETENCE IN TEACHERS NECESSARY? PERSPECTIVES OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS

The paper presents the results of a survey conducted by analysing the viewpoints expressed by 361 parents and teachers. The study aims to address the following research questions: 1) do parents and teachers consider that a nurturing process should also take pl...

educational process; educational competence of the teacher; educational interactions; educational process in a school environment; parents‘ and teachers‘ perspectives.

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PROJECT OF GAMES FROM MODULE “MATHEMATICS” AS A PART OF THE SPECIALIZED PLATFORM FOR EDUCATION OF STUDENTS IN 1ST – 4TH GRADE WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER IN PRIMARY SCHOOL

In this article, the idea for the development of educational software as an additional methodical tool for education of students from I-IV grade with autistic spectrum disorder in Mathematics. A project for realization of educational games in the subject was p...

educational software; mathematics; autism spectrum disorders; primary school

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METHODOLOGICAL BASICS OF THE EXPERIMENT IN PEDAGOGY

Pedagogy is a field of science in which some characteristics of both social studies and humanities intersect. This has the greatest impact on the philosophical and methodological basis on which various educational studies are carried out, particularly the ones...

educational experiment; methodology; methodological pluralism; positivism; hermeneutics

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HIGHER LEVEL THINKING SKILLS FORMATION THROUGH STEM LEARNING IN BIOLOGY AND HEALTH EDUCATION (7 TH GRADE)

The article presents the results of didactic tests that were conducted with 46 students from “Yane Sandanski” Primary School, Plovdiv, who underwent STEM training in biology and health education (7th grade) during the 2022/2023 school year. Some of the questio...

STEM learning; biology; health education