Yearbook of the Faculty of Education

11-43

Authors: Mariya Slavova Teneva

The study presents the problems of vocational training and the continuing qualification of Bulgarian teachers. Higher education institutions preparing pedagogical staff need effective interaction and evaluation of their activities by the users of the educational services, such as kindergarten and school directors.The article presents the results of an empirical study conducted with 50 kindergarten and school principals from 8 regions in the Republic of Bulgaria. The object of the study is the managerial reflection on the quality of the training of the newly appointed teachers. The subject of the study is the possibilities for improving their professional qualification. The results indicate that principals are partially satisfied with the quality of the theoretical and practical training of the teachers they hire. To the greatest extent they stimulate the enhancement of the professional competence of the teaching staff by financing their participation in continuing education courses.

60-86

Authors: Desislava Ilcheva Siderova

The present study considers the sound-letter analysis of the word as a representative procedure in the formation of linguistic the methodological competence of students with professional qualification “primary teacher”. The aim is to derive an appropriate algorithm for the application of this type of analysis in university education in accordance with the current curriculum at the initial stage of basic education. The study included 309 students at Trakia University – Stara Zagora. Through testing with a criterion-oriented test and the subsequent application of descriptive statistics, the typical difficulties in mastering the sound-letter analysis of the word in the perspective of students’ success in the cognitive field of phonetics of modern Bulgarian language are considered. On the basis of the conducted research an algorithm is offered for carrying out the sound-letter analysis of the word according to the derived priorities in the linguistic-methodical preparation of the students in view of their future professional realization as teachers.

102-116

Authors: Tsveta Apostolova Delcheva

The article presents the organization and implementation of the training practice and pre-graduation training for Social Pedagogy students at the Trakia University in Stara Zagora. The state of emergency declared due to the COVID-19 pandemic imposed the research, development and implementation of new forms of training that were never before employed for educating the future specialists. It also defines new problems in the organization, tracking, and assessment of the training and demonstrates solutions that include the active participation of all representatives – academic tutors, mentors from the institutions, students from both forms of education (full-time and part-time). The article presents the results from an on-line survey, carried out among the students and draws conclusions about the effectiveness of the alternative organization of the training. The author also shares ideas about the inclusion of new elements in the organization an implementation of the practical training of future students.

142-153

Authors: Ivanka Nikolaeva Shivacheva-Pineda

The article focuses on several main points. First of all, it is health as a concept, as a phenomenon in our lives. The second focus is the health education. The third focus is the situation of the pandemic, in which the whole world has been since the beginning of 2020 and its impact on the health education and health culture, both for children and for the elderly people. An analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health education process has been made. The possible conclusions and lessons from the difficult situation and as a consequence – results in the health education of adolescents and the health culture of adults were sought. The created complex circumstances in the life of people in the conditions of emergency and quarantine, which are a barrier for the health education of children and the healthy lifestyle of adults, are also analysed. Options have been sought for overcoming them and consolidating healthy habits in children.

162-175

Authors: Galena Todorova Terzieva

The aim of the study is to analyze the attitudes and self-efficacy of current and future preschool and primary teachers for the inclusion of children with various disabilities in general physical education classes. This article presents the results related to children with visual impairments. The study covers a contingent of 723 people – 240 preschool teachers, 143 primary teachers and 340 students graduating in “Preschool and primary school pedagogy”. The main method of research is the questionnaire. Participants filled in modified and adapted versions of two questionnaires: “Attitudes toward Teaching Individuals with Physical Disabilities in Physical Education – ATIPDPE” by Kudlachek and “Self-Efficacy Scale for Physical Education of Teacher Education Majors toward Inclusion – SE-PETE-D” by Blok. The results show that the respondents have relatively positive inclusive attitudes and are rather confident in their ability to include a child with a visual impairment in inclusive physical education.

201-209

Authors: Maria Petrova Temnikova

The development of knowledge, skills and competences related to values and their measuring units represents an important part of the overall education in mathematics for primary school students in Grades 1-4. The research studies different theoretical concepts related to the competences and the approaches in the primary school education. Based on the analysis of the respective legislation the researcher presents interconnections between the specific mathematical competences and the term “mass” from the competency cluster “Measurement”. The newly developed methodology system of work for learning the term “Mass” is applied during both the mandatory and the additional mathematics classes in Grades 1-4. Different approaches for education are simultaneously applied but priority is given to the system-acting approach with the idea to achieve unification between the act of teaching and the control of the cognitive and practical productive activities of the students. As a result of applying the newly developed methodology system of work the students actively participate in the pedagogy interrelations and co-operation with the rest of the students, they have the opportunity to express their own intellectual and emotional potential. When the students make mistakes, during the practical individual, team and group activities they get the opportunity to correct these mistakes and to develop their own logical thinking.

220-228

Authors: Plamen Penev Penev

The text is a synthesized literary-historical touch, introducing into the nature of one of the most contributing contemporary Bulgarian poets. Which is a humanism-apology of the human and the complete man, and the poetic language in the books for children and for the “adults” is two sides of the indivisible creative development. With the lyrical subject of the “big world” the real entry into the poetic essence, reached in the children’s books, is prepared. And what cannot be called by the voice of the “big man” is already possible by the voice of the “child/ characteristic of the child.” There the achieved peace was achieved, the existential, tragic loss was overcome. The ideological and aesthetic creative integrity has been achieved simultaneously with the rounded double-headedness of this dualistic lyrical duet.