Children’s rights in poland and russia in the context of janusz korczak’s in heritage

© 2016 by iSER, International Society of Educational Research.The urgency of the problem under investigation is due to the fact that children’s rights are equally important and binding than those of adults. Even more important, because children need special protection of the state and the international community. The aim of the article is to study the situation with realizing children’s rights in Poland and in Russia in the context of Janusz Korczak’s inheritage. The main methods of the research are systematization, classification, comparative analysis, which allowed to determine the main objectives and results of the historical development of children’s rights; as well as analysis and generalization of Janusz Korczak’s ideas on children’s rights. The implementation of the Convention on Children’s rights in Poland is described on the example of child-refugees. The Russian experience of realization of the named Convention is also described in the article. The results of the research will be useful for the teachers and principals of the educational institutions in realizing children’s rights

Study of educational psychologists’ emotional competence development

© 2015 by the authors. The article presents the essential characteristics of the concept “emotional competence” as a component of the educational psychologist’s professional competence. The article explains the importance of the emotional abilities (empathy, reflection, self-regulation and control feelings and emotions of other people) in the personal structure of the educational psychologist. Specificity of educational psychologist’s professional activity is that he must confront his professional challenges and manage his emotional state. The foreign analogue of the concept “emotional competence” is “emotional intelligence”. Based on the analysis of conjugate concepts of “emotional ability”, “emotional intelligence” there is provided a definition of “emotional competence”. The article reveals various scientific approaches to this concept, highlighting their structural components. As part of emotional competence there are four basic components and their functions: self-regulation (impulse control and management of emotions, expression of emotions, blocking negative emotional states); regulation of relationships (social skills, ability to build relationships with others); reflection (self-awareness, rational understanding of emotions, and identifying one’s own motivation); empathy (emotional and cognitive decentering). The article presents the results of ascertaining and controlling stages of research in experimental and control groups. The qualitative interpretation of the results obtained with the use of statistical methods of data processing is given

Low-cost microprocessed instrument for evaluating soil temperature profile

Este artigo descreve um instrumento microprocessado de baixo custo para avaliação in situ da temperatura em perfil de solo na faixa de -20,0°C a 99,9°C com armazenagem de dados de até oito profundidades, de 2 a 128 centímetros. A temperatura do solo é de grande importância para o crescimento de plantas, absorção de nutrientes, fluxo de gases e estrutura. O instrumento desenvolvido encontra várias aplicações na área da ciência do solo, onde o monitoramento de temperatura do solo é requerido. Resultados mostram que a caracterização do instrumento e seus sensores individuais garantem uma acurácia de ±0,25°C e uma resolução de 1,0°C. Também proporciona a produtores ou pesquisadores a oportunidade do manejo localizado para sistemas de tomada de decisão. O instrumento é baseado em dispositivos semicondutores com tecnologia de óxido metálico complementar e termopares. E pode operar tanto no modo manual quanto no modo automático.This paper describes a low-cost microprocessed instrument for in situ evaluating soil temperature profile ranging from -20.0°C to 99.9°C, and recording soil temperature data at eight depths from 2 to 128 cm. Of great importance in agriculture, soil temperature affects plant growth directly, and nutrient uptake as well as indirectly in soil water and gas flow, soil structure and nutrient availability. The developed instrument has potential applications in the soil science, when temperature monitoring is required. Results show that the instrument with its individual sensors guarantees ±0.25°C accuracy and 0.1°C resolution, making possible localized management changes within decision support systems. The instrument, based on complementary metal oxide semiconductor devices as well as thermocouples, operates in either automatic or non-automatic mode

Education for persons with special needs: Polish and Russian experience

© Author(s).The beginning of the 21st century is marked by systemic, economic and social transformations in Poland and Russia, that significantly affected the education system, including the education for persons with special needs. This paper is an attempt to present synthetically the changes relating to persons with disabilities. The current state of the education for children and youth with special needs will be considered due to the new education system, legal regulations, the school population, type of disability of pupils and the kinds of schools they attend. Compulsory education, which includes the level of primary and lower secondary schools, will be subject to a separate analysis. The article presents significant systemic changes in Polish and Russian education and the state development strategy in the sphere of social policy towards persons with disabilities. The new documents are analyzed that have led to important changes in policy direction with serious consequences in terms of the structure and curriculum of inclusive education in both countries. The paper introduces a review of the changes in policy direction with serious consequences in terms of the structure and curriculum of education for persons with special needs. A key objective of the paper will be to examine the new approaches to education of disabled persons in Russia and Poland and the subsequent changes in it

Teaching of Asian languages

The article presents the main stages and directions of East education and science establishment and development in Kazan during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They showed the role of the Kazan Gymnasium in the environment development for the training of experts in Eastern languages and their relevance in the academic environment of Russia during the 18th - 19th centuries. An important reason for the authority of the Kazan school on Oriental studies was the attention to the classical component and the priority of Oriental language practical study. The activities of the First Kazan Men's Gymnasium, opened in 1758, became the most important for the training of oriental personnel for the needs of the Ministry of Education, the Asian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other Russian educational and scientific centers of the empire. The origins of Russian oriental studies were represented by the educational programs of the First Kazan Gymnasium associated with the Eastern languages, which became the basis for the research and humanistic traditions of Russian Oriental studies.peer-reviewe

Pragmatic aspect of switching of codes in texts of an advertizing discourse

The article deals with the pragmatic analysis of code switching on the basis of comparative study of advertising discourse texts in English, French and Russian in order to find out current trends in the use of the dominant foreign pragmonyms in advertising texts. In determining a communicative intention of the sender of advertising messages the pragmalinguistic analysis allowed to establish basic and extended switching functions. By applying the methods of generalization and comparison, the component and contextual analysis of the language units as part of the context in different matrix languages, the selection of the advertising text, often subjected to code switching, have been identified. Thus, systematization of structural features of code switching in advertising discourse in different languages presented in the study contributes to developing translation aspects of advertising messaging, as well as issues of multilingualism in sociolinguistics. In addition, the analysis of pragmatic functions of switching and structural models and linguistic appearance of pragmonyms allows to more competently create and edit advertising texts for specific target audiences. In general, the technology of the study of the advertising text for linguistic code switching opens further prospects for comparative analysis in this area based on the material of other genres and discourses to more accurately identify pragmatic functions of present code changes

Excitatory effects of GABA during ontogeny

Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is the main inhibitory transmitter in the central nervous system. However, at the early stages of development, GABA has excitatory influences on immature neurons. This review presents contemporary views on the mechanisms of GABAergic excitation and the physiological role of excitatory GABA in generating patterns of network activity in the developing brain. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media New York

Gender aspects in the victim behavior of adolescents

This research has been necessitated by the current situation in our society where victim behaviour is developing amongst children and adolescents relating to their changing gender roles. An identification of the causes of the formation of victim behaviour is based on an analysis of the gender characteristics of adolescents. The main research methods used are the Bass-Perry questionnaire and the modified Freiburg Personality Inventory/Form B (FPI-B). This uses a technique of personal orientation study for the identification of the typical forms of respondents' aggressive behaviour and some personality traits. This involves the allocation of four major types of personality orientation (humanistic, egocentric, sociocentric, negativistic). The deformation of gender stereotypes in modern society is reflected in the manifestation of victim behaviour. Level of aggression, as one of the signs of victimisation, is quite high both amongst boys and girls. Adolescents with a negativist personality orientation do not accept themselves or others and they prevail among this category. The research resulted in identifying some features of victim behaviour amongst adolescents of differing genders. No clear gendered features were identified that could be explained as the result of changing gender roles in contemporary society or of masculinisation phenomenon affecting females in particular

Assessment and zoning of the urban area according to the level of heavy metal pollution

Urban area ranking according to the level of heavy metal pollution with identification of four areas in the territory of the city of Kazan was carried out: the 1st - Derbyshki; the 2 nd - Teplocontrol; the 3 rd - Gorki; the 4th - the Kirovsky district. Pollution of snow cover in the city territory was determined by pollution coefficients calculated with application of Maximum Permissible Concentration (MPC) of chemical substances in ambient waters for household and amenity water use. The entire territory of the city of Kazan is mildly polluted by Mn, as far as other metals (Cd, Pb, Cu, Zn, Co, Ni, Cr) are concerned, the soil pollution category varies with areas. Metal content in the hair of the children living in these areas is an informative additional method to assess the present ecological situation in certain territories

Interdisciplinary role of the course of soil study in realization of environment education in higher education

© SGEM2017. All Rights Reserved. Currently, the system of higher education is based on interdisciplinary relations established between the scientific disciplines of the natural sciences. The article covers issues related to improving the quality of environmental learning through the study of disciplines associated with pedology, ecology and geography of soils. The article justifies the significance of the courses dealing with pedology in teaching students to creative professional activities for solution of global and regional ecological problem which are in some way connected with land management and the state of soil cover. Besides, the availability of interdisciplinary research, the significance of soils in providing stable biosphere, and the awareness of its role in the development of society and a man from the educational point of view is considered to be an important aspect of modern pedology. The article presents the analysis of inderdisciplinary role of courses of pedology in shaping ecological competences of students of Kazan (Volga region) federal university studying the following aspects of science as ecology, biology, geography, pedology, meteorology, land management and cadaster, pedagogics (in the field of geography and in the field of biology). The types of cognitive activities of students-bachelors and the organization of educational process, contributing to the development and implementation of environmental education are covered in the following article