STUDENS’ ECLOGICAL AWARENESS DEVELOPMENT ON GEOGRAPHY LESSONS IN THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

Vyacheslav Alexeevich SITAROV

Ph.D., Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Head of Department of Pedagogy and psychology of higher education, Moscow University for the Humanities 5 Yunosti street, Moscow, Russia 111395

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Larissa  UREKESHOVA

Ph.D., the highest category teacher of geography, High school number 38, Aktobe, Kazakhstan

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Abstract

Relevance of the research: The research is relevant due to the total aloofness of the global environmental policy and the efforts of some states to resolve environmental problems from individuals. This actualizes the task of ecological consciousness and self-awareness development as the foundation of environmental activity of students. Objective: The aim of the study is to theoretically justify and carry out the pilot and field testing of pedagogical conditions for early teenagers’ ecological awareness development on geography lessons in secondary schools in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Methods: The main methods of the investigation were complex theoretical analysis, categorical synthesis and simulation, allowing to consider the problem of students’ ecological consciousness development during special courses. Results: The article presents the pedagogical conditions of early teenagers’ ecological awareness development at geography lessons in secondary schools in the Republic of Kazakhstan, and also discloses a pedagogical potential of ecologization of the school course “Geography” content and educational activities carried out in its framework. Practical implications: The article reflects experience of practical solutions to the problem of early teenagers’ ecological awareness development at Geography lessons in the 6th grade of the secondary school in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Keywords: environmental awareness, early teenagers’ awareness, Science teaching

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PECULIARITIES OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGIKAL AND ECONOMIC ADAPTATION OF PUPILS FROM THE MIGRANTE FAMILIES IN THE CITY OF KRASNOYARSK IN SIBERIAN REGION

Tatiana PETROVNA GRASS

Candidate of pedagogical science, an associate professor; Krasnoyarsk pedagogical university named after V.P. Astafiev – 89-Ada Lebedeva Str., Krasnoyarsk,660049

Vladimir INNOKENTIEVICH PETRISHCHEV

doctor of pedagogical sciences, professor; Krasnoyarsk pedagogical university named after V.P. Astafiev – 89-Ada Lebedeva Str., Krasnoyarsk, 660049

Natalia OLEGOVNA LEFLER

candidate of philological sciences, an associate professor; Krasnoyarsk pedagogical university named after V.P. Astafiev – 89-Ada Lebedeva Str., Krasnoyarsk, 660049

Abstract

The paper considers the peculiarities in social psychological and economic adaptation of pupils in Siberian region. Sociocultural and psychological adaptation of the migrant pupils is analyzed, the positive attitude of the aboriginal pupils and the authorities is identified. The most relevant results of the research connected with the migrant pupils integration into a new society being a complex comprehensive process with both the internal psychological mechanisms and child’s potential and external mechanisms connected with its interaction with a number of social institutes are described.

Keywords: migrant pupils, school, teacher, adaptation
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REGIONAL EMPLOYMENT IN PORTUGAL: DIFFERENCES AND CYCLICAL SYNCHRONISATION

Leonida CORREIA

Assistant Professor Department of Economy, Sociology and Management (DESG), Centre for Transdisciplinary Development Studies (CETRAD), University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD) Quinta de Prados, 5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal. Tel: +351 259 350699;

lcorreia@utad.pt

Marina ALVES

Master’s degree in Economic and Management Sciences in UTAD

alves2_marina@hotmail.com

Abstract

This paper analyses the specificities of employment in Portuguese regions at a disaggregated level of NUTS III, comparing the differences of several indicators between the last two censuses. It also examines the synchronisation of regional employment cycles over the 2000-2014 period, using the information provided for the new nomenclature of NUTS. The comparison of several employment’s characteristics (total and by sex, age group, sector of activity and main occupation) across the 7 regions and 25 sub-regions allowed us to conclude that Portugal is marked by substantial regional specificities. The analysis of the evolution of employment ‘cycles highlight the substantial reduction in the employment rate since the beginning of the 2000s, with particular intensity in the period of the recent crisis, and considerable differences across regions and at the intraregional level. The results from the synchronisation reveal a great heterogeneity in the degree of correlation between the sub-national cycles and the national cycle. Additionally, they suggest that, in general, the cyclical pattern of the sub-regions is more closely related to the regions that they belong to than that of the Portuguese cycle. The paper concludes that this heterogeneity should be addressed in the context of policy making, by means to construct appropriate responses to counteract the regional differences.

Keywords: employment, disparities, cycles, Portuguese regions

JEL classification: E32, J21, R11, R12

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