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Understanding, mastering and applying new ideas in geography didactics is the most proper way to achieve a high professionalism in geography education in Bulgaria. Such professionalism implies three prerequisites: a scientifically based (and not only intuitive) professional activity, high and sustainable results and a clear positive attitude towards it. The high professionalism is the required basis...
Jednym z podstawowych celów edukacji, w tym edukacji geograficznej, było i jest nadal stworzenie uczniowi takich warunków, by mógł osiągać sukces na miarę swoich zdolności. By cele te zostały spełnione należy prawidłowo interpretować role i funkcje oceny. Ocenianie jest kompetencją trudną i złożoną. Jej wielowymiarowość jest związana z umiejętnościami nauczyciela oraz jego znajomością celów i zasad...
This paper presents the development of the didactics of geography at the Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana from its beginnings in the 19th century up to the present day. Important milestones are discussed and the present situation described. The author first discusses how different approaches were developed over the years, then focuses on the current situation through...
Measuring association, or the lack of it, between variables plays an important role in a variety of research areas, including education,which is of our primary interest in this paper. Given, for example, student marks on several study subjects, we may for a number of reasons be interested in measuring the lack of comonotonicity (LOC) between the marks, which rarely follow monotone, let alone linear,...
Subadditivity is the key property which distinguishes the popular risk measures Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall (ES). In this paper we offer seven proofs of the subadditivity of ES, some found in the literature and some not. One of the main objectives of this paper is to provide a general guideline for instructors to teach the subadditivity of ES in a course. We discuss the merits and suggest...
Obrazy posiadają szerokie zastosowanie w edukacji. Ma to swoje uzasadnienie zarówno psychologiczne, jak i dydaktyczne. W toku nauczania–uczenia się spostrzeganie wzrokowe z reguły jest procesem zamierzonym, planowanym, podjętym w określonym celu. Prowadzi do kształtowania umiejętności obserwacji, a ta jest jedną z podstawowych metod badania oraz zrozumienia zjawisk i procesów przyrodniczych. Postępy,...
Warto podjąć próbę zmierzenia się z rzeczywistością w kontekście realiów przyjętych norm etycznych i ekologicznych biorąc pod uwagę wyposażenie nauczyciela w nowy profil kwalifikacji zawodowych. Obecne wyzwania, które zostają skutecznie wdrażane w edukację, budzą obawy przed potencjalnym zagrożeniem, ale też wyzwalają pewne nadzieje. Daje się zaobserwować, że ówczesna praca pedagogiczna instrumentalizuje...
Kształcenie studentów kierunków nauczycielskich z zakresu technologii informacyjnej odgrywa istotną rolę we współczesnym świecie. Zdobyta wiedza i umiejętności z zakresu technologii informacyjnej, oprócz wzbogacenia efektywności lekcji, przede wszystkim wspomaga proces edukacyjny uczniów. Przedmiot ten ma szczególne znaczenie na studiach o kierunkach nauczycielskich, ponieważ umiejętności nauczyciela...
In the article, the terms of the public interest in Russia are discussed, among which are the natural resources and the humanitarian component, including the geographic entity, the state plays an important role.
Urban games and other forms of field games, such as Questing, are innovative ideas for presentation, disclosure and interpretation of natural and cultural heritage. The results of the survey presented in the study show that soon urban games can become an alternative to a traditional guided sightseeing of an urban area. There may be several reasons for such a choice: an interesting way of exploring...
Although Poland has gone through a period of many various trials regarding the introduction of different changes in the educational system (involving everything from types of schools, through levels of teaching, changes in curricula for each school subject, syllabuses and textbooks, to the modification of teaching aims and content for each subject), very little, in fact, has been done to promote the...
The article is inspired by Wacław Nałkowski’s writings and is a reflection on the nature of geography and its place in the system of knowledge. Moreover, the author considers the status of geography and its social relevance. The article seeks to justify the thesis that the low prestige of geography in social consciousness is an outcome of the attitudes of scholars and teachers of geography themselves,...
The author reveals previously unknown details of the Nałkowskis’ family life which affected the development of Wacław’s character and his interests. These details were also decisive as factors which influenced his scientific and social commitment. Social relationships of his parents and their affinities were also analyzed in order to explain the origins of his worldview. Wacław’s combative nature...
Although the very term “constructivism” appeared rather recently, its concept was knownin science long before now. According to modern cognitive psychology, the reality is created individually in person’s mind. An individual transforms and interprets the flow of information which he receives in his own way, depending on cultural, social, biological or situational context. Nałkowski’s statements concerning...
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