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Responsibilities

 

  • Lecturer

 

Interests

 

  • Prevention and Correction of Deviant Behaviour
  • Legislation and Social Policy for Working with Children and Families
  • Methodology of Bulgarian Language and Literature Teaching in Primary School
  • Intercultural Education

 

Teaching

 

Bachelor’s Degree

  • Preventive Pedagogy
  • Systems for Preventive and Corrective Activity
  • Practicum in Specialised Institutions for Working with Children
  • Social Work with Children in Boarding-type Institutions
  • Penitentiary and Post-penitentiary Social Work
  • Social Work with People with Deviant and Delinquent Behaviour
  • Social Work on Protection and Prevention of Children from Violence
  • Methods for Working with Children and Young People with Deviant and Delinquent Behaviour

 

Master’s Degree

  • Pedagogy of Resocialisation
  • Legislation and Social Policy for Working with Children and Families
  • Work in Specialised Institutions for Children (Practicum)
  • Socio-pedagogical Work with Sentenced to Probation
  • Penitentiary Pedagogy

 

Research

 

  • Project "Social and Pedagogical Aspects of the Problem of the Use of Psychoactive Substances", specifically financed under the state budget of the Sofia University "St. Cl. Ohridski" for scientific research for 2021 and 2022 – project manager.
  • Project "Formation of socio-pedagogical and legal concepts among students for work in the field of prevention and correction of deviant and delinquent behaviour", financed under the NP "Young scientists and postdoctoral researchers" – 2022.
  • Project №BG05M2ОP001-2.011-0001 "Support for success" - phase 1, funded by the Operational Program "Science and Education for Smart Growth" 2014-2020 – Application of a toolkit for early identification of students at risk of early leaving the education system and for a differentiated approach in determining their individual support needs
  • Project №BGLD-2.002-0001-C01 "Capacity building for educational and social inclusion of representatives of vulnerable groups", financed under the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area, 2021-2022 – Development of Methodology and curriculum for training/ for specialised training of pedagogical specialists in kindergarten to work with vulnerable groups in the conditions of a multi-ethnic and multicultural educational environment
  • Project "Functions of contemporary Bulgarian literature for the formation of assessment abilities in adolescents about deviations in behaviour", financed under the NP "Young scientists and postdoctoral researchers" – 2021.
  • Project "Prevention and correction of deviant and delinquent behaviour reflected in art", financed under the NP "Young scientists and postdoctoral researchers" – 2020.

Research students

 

 

Selected publications

 

  • Polihronov, D. (2022). Aspects of the Use of Psychoactive Substances in the Conditions of an Emergency Pandemic Situation, – In: Applied Criminology in Bulgaria (Collection of reports from a scientific conference of the New Bulgarian University (Department "National and International Security") and Bulgarian Association of Criminology, 2022, pp. 134-145.
  • Polihronov, D. (2021). Pedagogical Technologies for Stimulating Literacy in Multicultural Preschool, School and Family Environments, ISBN:978-954-07-5248-8, University Publishing House "St. Kliment Ohridski", Sofia.
  • Polihronov, D. (2021). Prevention and Correction of Deviant and Delinquent Behaviour Reflected in Art: Evaluation of an Algorithmic Analysis, – In: Pedagogy, v. 93, no. 6, 2021, pp. 746-760, ISSN (print):0861–3982, ISSN (online):1314–8540.
  • Polihronov, D. (2021). Contemporary Bulgarian Literature as a Means of Forming Evaluation Abilities in Adolescents about Deviations in Behaviour, – In: Bulgarian Language and Literature, vol. 6, 2021, pp. 682-694, ISSN (print):0323–9519, ISSN (online):1314–8516.
  • Polihronov, D. (2021). Preventive Functions of Literature for Children in the Conditions of Multilingualism (on the Example of Patriotic and Intercultural Dialogue), – In: Annual of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Education, no. 114, 2021, pp. 19-31, ISSN (print):2367-4644.
  • Polihronov, D. (2020). Deviations and Delicts Reflected in Art and New Forms of Communication in the Conditions of a Pandemic, – In: Teacher – Student Interaction in the Conditions of University Education: Current Problems, Contemporary Research, Experience. Collection of scientific reports /Fourth book/, editor: E. Rangelova et al., publishing house: EX-PRESS, 2020, p. 274-278, ISBN:978-954-490-676-4.
  • Polihronov, D. (2019). Formation of Reading and Comprehension Skills in a Multicultural Environment: the Viewpoint of Contemporary Authors of Children’s Literature. – In: Bulgarian Language and Literature, issue 5, volume 61.

 

Languages

 

  • English, Russian

 

Contacts

 

  • d.polihronov@fp.uni-sofia.bg
  • Phone: (+359 2) 9308 568