Pedagogical Almanac

151-160

Authors: Veselina Petrova

The author dedicates the article to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Prof. D.Sc. Elka Petrova- Katova – a Bulgarian and world scientist in the field of pre-school education. The presentation includes: highlights from the biography of Prof. D.Sc. Elka Petrova-Katova; leading areas in her academic and community life; a brief chronological overview of her work; memories of her wisdom and creative longevity.

172-177

Authors: Edmond Bicoku, Nuredin Ceci, Marjeta Ceci

Education – a fundamental method for social progress and its reformation. The social problems that the Albanian society is facing recently are diverse. Problems such as the fragile economy, the lack of implementation of legality, the development of a weak institutional structure and above all a transitional society are exerting their direct influence on the development of our society. In addition to these, as ever, Albanian society is facing a very frightening phenomenon, extreme aggression in the family, school institutions, actions that in some cases have had fatal conclusions, such as injury and killing. Unfortunately, nowadays, in our society, the fatalities caused by human life from violence and crime are so widespread that they are exceeding the fatalities that come from the most general and most problematic diseases that humanity today has. Indeed, every day we are facing more chaotic educational perceptions, even with voluntary and antieducational concepts, often deformed to the limits of anarchy and social anomie. Such devious behaviors such as crime, murder, theft, violence, public social tension are indicative of the fact that many people’s anarchist perceptions of freedom and social groups in our society have created an ambiguous situation to determine what are the values that need our civilization. Many young high school students, university students, but not only, have really come out of the allowed limits of personal freedom and are becoming a real social concern. Because the whole society is in the attack on money, welfare, survival, luxury, consumption, sex, etc., people’s education is neglected.

188-194

Authors: Miroslava Petkova, Pavlina Pavlova

Kickboxing is one of the most attractive and dynamic modern sports. It combines the most effective techniques with legs and hands from karate and classic boxing. This symbiosis between the two sports makes it an exciting spectacle attracting numerous admirers. Kickboxing is not a demonstration game designed solely for audiences and entertainment. It is a sport discipline and, as such, is subject to the general methodological foundations and norms of sports training. The application of the general principles and laws in the kickbox training process is hampered by the lack of a scientifically based, in-depth research on this sport (Lefterov 2006: 27, Kaikov, Yonov 2001, Zlatev 2010: 122, Pavlova, Petkova 2017: 79). This is a sport with a complex motoring activity that manifests itself in constantly changing and extreme conditions of training and competition. Kickboxing practitioners are subjected to great physical and mental stresses.They have to master and apply a great arsenal of complex dynamic stereotypes in the ring, in the context of an acute conflict with an opponent who actively counters them. The time deficiency in which an exchange takes place shows that, in addition to physical qualities, the kickboxer must also possess a specific sport intelligence to realize in the conditions of the training and the race. The technical arsenal that every kickboxer has to master is diverse and coordinated. It can be divided into two parts: technique of attack and defense technique (Lefterov 2006: 27, Kaikov,,Yonov 2001, Zlatev 2010: 122, Pavlova, Petkova 2017: 79).

203-207

Authors: Emil Avramov

The modern effective management of the training process in the handball game requires the knowledge of age characteristics and the interrelationships between the physical development and the physical capacity of adolescents.One of the main figures in the team is the pivot. Its game contributes to the full realization of the other players. This has led us to research the game of the pivot, in order to reveal some regularities in his style of play and hence to clarify of approaches in the training process, in improving mainly individual actions and group interactions.The aim of the study is to establish the level of some anthropometric indicators in order to optimize the selection of the game post pivot. Our objective assessment of the state of anthropometric status is an important condition for an adequate correction and improvement of the handball hand selection.

214-217

Authors: Milena Avramova

The development of physical capacity determines the degree of adaptation of the organism to the environment, which in turn means that it depends on the condition of all other qualities of personality. In the lesson of physical education and sport, the motor activity manifests itself in the form of different motorized and structured actions. Their successful realization in practical activity depends on the level of knowledge of different technical techniques as well as on the special physical qualities which in their essence manifest themselves as exercises performed with different power In this report we have examined the question of physical capacity in students.The purpose of the development is to determine the variability of some physical fitness tests at 15–16 years from SU “D. Debelianov” in the town of Bourgas. Our objective assessment of the physical fitness of students at this age is an important prerequisite for an adequate correction of the scale for the control and assessment of adolescents at this age limit.

223-238

Authors: Petya Marcheva-Yoshovska

One of the main goals in the education of visually impaired children and pupils in Bulgaria is their preparation for independent life, which is accomplished through a curriculum of special subjects. The leading place among them takes the useful skills program.The report provides a brief overview of the scientific literature on the issue in question, and revealing opportunities to support the overall development of visually impaired learners. In this connection, the results of assessing the social skills of visually impaired children are presented using the checklist of Sasks and Siberman.

262-266

Authors: Petya Konakchieva

The paper presents the chronicle of a good tradition kept by the Faculty of Pedagogy at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, namely My First Pedagogical Experiences student contest. In the context of the democratic and humane values in education as well as on the basis of the modern concepts, models, and technologies, the capacity of the forum to activate personality’s synergic self-organizational potential by changing student participation in the educational process is demonstrated. From the point of view of the young people, the developmental effects of the awakening education – realized through the conceptual model of the contest – are studied and systematized. The emphasis is put on encouraging the individual activity and creativity of the future teachers through their active participation in their own professional and practical training. A successful academic tradition is being promoted to stimulate students of Pedagogy to set the vector for their future professional development.

273-278

Authors: Mariana Borukova, Vladimir Kotev

Education is an activity requiring lengthy efforts and perseverance, as well as skills for acquiring information and its creative usage. All this is based on prolonged motivation, directly related to the improvement of the educational development and the consecutive professional realization. Long-term objectives serve as coordinating terms leading to particular goals in the everyday life and thus, behaviour could be rationalized and directed in a longer prospective towards both the past and the future. The aim of the present study is to survey the opinion and personal assessment of the long-term motivation of students from NSA “Vassil Levski”, Sofia and students from Nish, Serbia. The research was conducted from November 2016 to May 2017. It was done among 96 students (45 fourth-year students at NSA and 51 students from the University in Nish). The students had to fill out a test consisting of 10 questions related to their personal assessment of their long-term motivation. The results of the study were processed mathematically and statistically by: variation analysis, relative share, comparative analysis of two independent samples and comparative analysis of the frequency distributions with χ² – the Pearson criterion.According to the generalized conclusions, a higher percentage of the Bulgarian students is directed towards long-term objectives and prospects than the percentage of the Serbian students. Women are more motivated in their long-term development than men but there are not statistically significant differences along all the questions. Athletes’ motivation is higher than the average one for the whole population. We believe, however, that the motivation changes in the course of the studies and we assume it is higher for the students who are about to graduate.

286-292

Authors: Milena Aleksieva,Miroslava Petkova

Before the European Championships, the Bulgarian National Wheelchair Basketball Team hold three friendly meetings in the town of Gabrovo in “Orlovets” hall against the teams of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Romania.The purpose of the study is to analyze the performance of the players from the Bulgarian Wheelchair Basketball Team. Information is collected on the playing activities of nine athletes on 14 indicators during the two friendly meetings with the Bosnia and Herzegovina team.The analysis shows that the average values of eight of the studied indicators are better at the first controlmatch of our national team against the team of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in the second match the remaining six of the indicators shows up.

299-302

Authors: Editorial board

Editorial board

12-20

Authors: Veselina Petrova

The author dedicates the article to an important anniversary – 200 years since the birth of the teacher Ivan Nikolov Momchilov (1819–1869). He is among the most highly educated Bulgarians. He had encyclopedic knowledge as well as native-language and foreign-language gifting. He writes and speaks Bulgarian, Turkish, Greek, Latin, German, Russian. His merits to the development of Slavicism are exceptional. Historical contributions of Momchilov to the Bulgarian education are also in use in present-day professional and practical training of students in pedagogical specialties. The young reformer created the first Bulgarian class school in Elena in 1843. It replaces the mutual learning method with a class-less system. He distributes pupils by class, creates a curriculum, introduces courses, conducts weekly lessons. He also furnishes the classrooms with desks, teacher’s table, blackboard. Momchilov equips the yard of the school with facilities for physical education. Following his ideas pupils organize themselves and obey the requirements of the chief duty teacher and his assistants – students on duty. He forbids corporal punishment and implements a humane, democratic approach in the relationship between teachers and pupils. He strengthens the psychological atmosphere: every class starts and ends with a bell; there is a break between classes; after the end of the classes, students leave school in order; supervisors monitor the behaviour of each student; students show their respect to Elena’s citizens and are obliged to congratulate others. Ivan Momchilov and Nikola Mihaylovski, the first Bulgarian scholar who defended a doctorate in Moscow, founded the first Bulgarian higher education institution for teachers – Elena Daskalolivnica. Teacher Momchilov has written textbooks and teaching aids on Bulgarian language, history, geography, arithmetic and others. He has created a generation of educated Bulgarians and talented Bulgarian teachers. Ivan Momchilov’s pupils founded Bulgarian schools in many towns and villages. They set the foundations of the school network on the Bulgarian lands.

41-48

Authors: Daniela Yordanova

The article presents possibilities for studying fiction text in 1.– 4. grade through groups of interactive methods: for games and presentations, for collecting information, situational, for generation and creative aggregation of ideas, for discussions. These methods are directed to develop cognitive reading and understanding skills, oriented to search and extract specific information; to make direct statements; to interpretate and aggregate facts and ideas; to analyze and evaluate the content, language and structure of the text. I support the understanding that every kind of understanding in reading fiction text has its own manifestations associated with both genre differentiation and general genre elements such as theme, idea, story, composition, problems, literary hero, artistic language.

54-63

Authors: Ivanka Georgieva Mincheva

The concept of numeric expression is a basic one in teaching mathematics. It is introduced and assimilated in primary school. This concept is a component of many other concepts and problems in school course of mathematics. That is why discussing and analyzing the process of understanding and assimilating the notion of numeric expression is of great importance both to the teachers and pupils. The present study focuses on some key activities and groups of problems aiming at mastering pupils’ abilities to solve various mathematical problems, to overcome some difficulties and prevent from making mistakes in finding the ways of solving different problems and doing so to enrich their knowledge in mathematics.

71-91

Authors: Milena Aleksieva, Danail Kirov

he training and competition activity determines the requirements for the mental adaptation in the specific type of sport related to the person’s ability for dynamic self-regulation. The purpose of this survey is to explore and compare the ego-orientation and the collective orientation of basketball players and its main task is to outline the differences in orientation among participants in 3 x 3 Basketball tournaments and professional basketball players. The object of the study is the basketball game. The subject of the study is the signs characterizing ego-orientation and collective orientation in basketball players. Contingent of the study are 45 participants in 3 x 3 Basketball tournaments and 46 competitors from professional basketball clubs from Yambol BC – Yambol, Shoumen – Shoumen and Beroe – St. Zagora, BC Lokomotiv – St. Zagora Based on this study are defined the profiles of the basketball players 3x3 and the professional players 5x5, as well as defining their characteristics.

97-102

Authors: Mariana Borukova, Yavor Asparuhov

The continuous young basketball players’ sports preparation undergoes several stages, featuring their own specific methodological and organizational characteristics. Young players’ development is related to the dynamics of training influences and their planning in the course of sports preparation. Each stage of sports preparation requires a proper distribution of the number of hours aimed at development of motor qualities (general and special), of technical and tactical skills and habits, as well as play preparation (the play during training, control and calendar games). Their distribution is subjected to certain regularities such as age, stage of preparation, qualification of the players. The aim of the present study is to survey the opinion of sports specialists in the field of basketball about planning the training process and the proportion of the different parts of the preparation when working with young basketball players. The results were processed with analysis of frequencies. According to the general conclusions drawn, in the majority of the responses the coaches’ opinions coincide. There are certain dubieties and differences regarding their knowledge about the percentage distribution and proportion of the different parts of the sports preparation during each stage. However, we believe that every coach’s responses were based on the age group they are working with and this is the reason for the differences in the obtained results.

118-122

Authors: Marina Teofilova

The city as a dynamic and multi-layered image of our immersive cultural and social environment, with all the flaws and problems of modern society, has the advantage to form and educate today. It is a truism that the referent environment of friendly circles largely dictates the behavior and tastes of the new generation, and this impact is difficult to be resisted by the family and institutions. And the circle of peers, thanks to its new, readily available technology and communication channels, has expanded monstrously, surpassing all limitations, including geographical and moral ones. The virtual Internet space and the new technologies have completely replaced the real space, schoolyard, street and park bench. Doesn’t the City as a continually growing, living organism reconcile in its dichotomous flesh the contradictions of past and future, of ugly and beautiful, of what we define as a historical and cultural heritage and art and what we condemn as subculture and kitsch?

129-131

Authors: Veselina Petrova

The author presents a round table on the topic: “Play and Communicate”. It shares some highlights. The department of Pre-School Pedagogy annually holds this scientific forum on March 6 – the World Day of Speech Therapy. Students from all the “Pre-school Pedagogy and Speech Therapy” degree courses present their scientific achievements. Students, lecturers, and basic speech therapists discuss important issues in oral speech development at pre-school age.

135-137

Authors: Editorial board

Authors in this issue (in English )