University versus the Academy

Authors

  • Margarita Karamihova Veliko Tarnovo University 'St. Cyril and St. Methodius”
  • Svetlana V Antova Institute of Ethnology and Folklore with the Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Science

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v10i2.501

Abstract

The article focuses on a conceptual difference between the institutes of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Bulgarian Universities. University lecturers must be internationally recognizable with their research results and constantly master modern teaching methods and technologies. Scientists in the academy make efforts to follow the scientific tendencies, but have virtually no opportunity to go beyond academic forums and to socialize their scientific results. In the example of research and teaching of Ethnology, the lack of opportunity for young scientists from the academy to be prepared for teaching at different university degrees isconsidered. The positive and negative aspects of the Erasmus academic exchange program (as an opportunity for getting some fractional lecturing experience) is discussed in the terms of teaching experience. We also present the first and only project, held few years ago in Bulgaria, aiming to prepare young scientists from the Academy to teach Ethnology at a university.

Author Biographies

Margarita Karamihova, Veliko Tarnovo University 'St. Cyril and St. Methodius”

Margarita Karamihova works as a full professor at the Veliko Tarnovo University of 'St Cyril and St Methodiusâ€. She holds a Master degree in Ethnology from Sofia University; a PhD degree from Ethnographic Institute and Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Habilitated Doctor in Veliko Tarnovo University. Her professional research and teaching interests comprise marriage and kinship, minority cultures, holy shrines and pilgrimages, contemporary migrations, borders and border zones, memories and memorial places. She is an author of five monographs and many publications in the listed scientific fields. She is a member of Bulgarian association of the university women, ICOM-Bulgaria, Islamic Perspective Journal of the Islamic Studies and Humanities, Center for Sociological Studies In Cooperation with London Academy of Iranian Studies, EastBoardNet and Border Crossing Network.

 

Svetlana V Antova, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore with the Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Science

Svetlana Antova is an Assistant professor PhD at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore with the Ethnographic Museum - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She holds a Master degree in Slavic Philology from the Sofia University and a PhD degree in Ethnology from IEFEM of BAS (former Ethnologic Institute with Museum of BAS). Her academic research interests include ethnocultural identity, Bulgarians abroad, socialism and post socialism in Central and Eastern Europe, migration and mobility, borders, border zones, border groups, urban culture, places of memory. Her recent publications include children of migrants and distant parenting, social and cultural transformations of borders, culture and social life in the border region of Northwest Bulgaria before and after 1989.

 

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Published

2021-12-15

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Vol. 10 No. 2 (2021): Special Issue: Teaching Anthropology in Southern Europe

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