Global issues and global values in foreign language education : selection and awareness-raising

The global education trend has recently been gaining in significance in education systems throughout the world. This paper discusses a number of issues regarding the possibility of incorporating a global perspective into foreign language education, and considering also some of the implications of this for language teacher education Firstly, I shall describe my former teaching context – a pre-service foreign language teacher training course at the Belarusian State Pedagogical University in Minsk, Belarus. Then, I shall briefly discuss the concept of global education and its particular relevance to foreign language teaching, focusing on global issues and values as ways of incorporating a global perspective into foreign language education. Next, I shall report on and discuss the findings of my 2001 study of EFL teachers’ attitudes to certain aspects of the incorporation of a global perspective into foreign language education

The ISCIP Analyst, Volume III, Issue 4

This repository item contains a single issue of The ISCIP Analyst, an analytical review journal published from 1996 to 2010 by the Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy

Minsk and Budapest, the two capital cities. Selected studies of post-socialist urban geography and ecological problems of urban areas

The official cooperation between the Hungarian and the Belarusian geography began to be outlined in a sunny afternoon of June 2010 in the Minsk building of the Geographic Faculty of the Belarusian State University, four years ago. Then we reviewed the potential frames of cooperation with Professor Ekaterina Antipova. It was supported by the academican Károly Kocsis, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, director of the Geographical Research Institute, and we could also win the support of the dean Ivan Pirozhnik and the academician Vladimir Loginov from the Belarusian State University and the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, respectively. This informal cooperation became official in the autumn of 2010 in the frame of the Academic Mobility Agreement Project between the Hungarian and the Belarusian academies of sciences. Since then several publications have appeared about Hungary and Belarus in the geographic journals of both countries, however, this is the first, long awaited, significant common publication. Besides the project-based co-operations like e. g. the EastMig (www.eastmig.mtafki.hu) and the ReSEP-CEE (www.mtafki.hu/ReSEP_CEE_Be.html) supported by the Visegrad Fund, a vivid student exchange program was also launched from the autumn of 2010 between the Geographic Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the Geographic Faculty of the Belarusian State University with the scholarship program of the Visegrad Fund. Later the Department of Economic Geography of the Corvinus University of Budapest, headed by István Tózsa became also an active partner of the cooperation. The publishing expenses of this book are also fully financed by the Department of Economic Geography

The complex binder based on Portland cement andash-and-slag wastes from thermal power stations

Increase in the balance of boiler and furnace fuel of the energy sector of the Republic of Belarus the proportion of own energy resources (milling peat and wood chips) places priority on resolving the issues of utilization of ash-and-slag wastes and reducing the area of ash-and-slag disposal sites, which cause irreparable damage to the environment. A considerable amount of research has been devoted to the utilization of ash-and-slag wastes. There are more than 300 technologies of their recycling and use. Ash and slag wastes are used in the production of concrete, mortars, ceramics, heat and water insulating materials, road construction. The world experience shows the potential of 70-80% utilization of ash and slag, as, for example, in some European countries. However, the cost of the recycling of ash-and-slag wastes with the production and simultaneous neutralization of wastes can be higher than the cost of the production. One of the directions of the use of ash and slag wastes is the production on their basis of new types of complex binder that have increased strength and low prime cost. The replacement of a part of cement with active mineral additive allows to achieve significant saving of binder. The existing methods of the production of complex binders include the stages of joint or separate grinding of cement clinker and mineral additive with following mixing. Significant energy costs for grinding increase the cost of binder. In this regard, the development of the effective complex binder with the use of ash-and-slag wastes of the Belarussian state district power station in Orekhovsk using resource-saving technology is the actual research objective

Creative educational environment of the university in hybrid reality

В информационном обществе для более эффективной реализации инновационных научно-ориентированных педагогических методик и образовательных технологий важно актуализировать духовно-нравственные ценности и традиции в процессе формирования креативной образовательной среды современного университета, существующего в гибридной реальности.In the information society, in order to more effectively implement innovative scientifically oriented pedagogical methods and educational technologies, it is important to update spiritual and moral values and traditions in the process of forming a creative educational environment of a modern university that exists in a hybrid reality

Дистанционное обучение теоретическим основам химии и неорганической химии с использованием системы MOODLE

В статье анализируются возможности эффективного применения элементов интерактивного обучения с помощью LMS MOODLE на кафедре общей и неорганической химии Белорусского государственного технологического университета. MOODLE является обучающей платформой, предназначенной для обеспечения педагогов, администраторов и учащихся надежной, безопасной и комплексной системой для создания персонализированной среды обучения. MOODLE построен по проекту MOODLE, который возглавляет и координирует австралийская компания MOODLE HQ при финансовой поддержке партнеров сети MOODLE по всему миру. Отмечено, что использование электронных материалов и средств обучения эффективно для достижения образовательных целей при изучении дисциплин «Теоретические основы химии» и «Неорганическая химия», которые реализуются с помощью компьютерных сетей. / The opportunities of effective application of interactive learning elements based on LMS MOODLE at the Belarusian State Technological University аt the Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry are analyzed. MOODLE is a learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and students with a reliable, secure and complex system to create personalized learning environment. MOODLE is built by the MOODLE project headed and coordinated by the MOODLE HQ Australian Company which is worldwide financially supported by a MOODLE partner companies’ network. The electronic material and teaching facilities employment is supposed to be effective for educational goals achievement in the study “Theoretical Foundations of Chemistry” and “Inorganic Chemistry”, that are realized through computer networks

The Belarusian Case of Transition: Whither Financial Repression?

The present paper examines the financial development of Belarus over the past decade with a particular focus on 1996-2002, when the financial sector was restrained through pervasive government controls in the form of interest rate ceilings, directed credit and preferential loans schemes, high reserve requirements, multiple exchange rates and capital controls. Belarus is of particular interest, as, despite no economic restructuring, the growth has averaged seven per cent per annum since 1997. While explanations of this ‘miracle’ abound, no empirical work has been done on the role of the financial system, particularly on the effects of pervasive government intervention. It has been argued that monetary stimulation of investment activity through interest rate ceilings and directed credit and preferential loans revived growth. This paper investigates whether financial policy led to financial deepening and increased the share of savings to be allocated to investment.

Research Institute for Physical Chemical Problems of the Belarusian State University

Edition contains information about the history of Research Institute for Physical Chemical Problems of the Belarusian State University, contact data and institute`s structure. The main developments of the institute are described also.Edition contains information about the history of Research Institute for Physical Chemical Problems of the Belarusian State University, contact data and institute`s structure. The main developments of the institute are described also