Name:

ANGELOVA, Tanka Georgieva

Place and Date of Birth:

Nov 19, 1942, Radnevo

Address:

"Pre-school and primary school pedagogy" Department
Faculty of Pedagogy, Trakia University
9, Armeiska Str, Stara Zagora 6000
Tel #: +359 42 627 723; 646 045.

Education:

  • 1960 High School, Stara Zagora;
  • 1966 National Sports Academy, Sofia

Academic Degrees:

  • PhD, 1985
  • Dr.Sc. (Pedagogy), 2002

Academic Title(s):

  • 1988, Associate Professor "Theory and methodology of sports education and training (including sports for medical purposes)";
  • 2004  Full Professor "Theory and methodology of sports education and training (including sports for medical purposes)".
Professional Background:
  • 1966 - 1972 г. Sports teacher, Kavarna and Stara Zagora;
  • 1972 г. Tutor in heory and methodology of sports education and training" in the Institute for School Teacher Skill Training "Anastasia Tosheva", Stara Zagora 

Area of Study:

  • Innovative strategies in skill training and improvement of pedogogical personnel in sports;
  • Optimizing pedagogical technologies for knowledge and self-knowledge in sports education and training;
  • Creating virtues for healthy living by way of motional activities;
  • Functions and activities of games using motional drills under various conditions;
  • Integraive and environmental friendly approaches to sports education of children, university students and teachers.
Academic Contributions:
  • Creating own theory for active knowledge in pre-school sports education using game technologies, sustainability, creativity and perspective in personality development of children and teachers;
  • Integrating effective strategies and systems for sports education in pre-school and primary school age in skill training and improvment of pedagogical personnel; 
  • Upadate and enrichment of educational activities using contemporary innovative approaches, means and forms stimulating active knowledge, self-knowledge and self-improvment in sports;
  • Study and employment of traditional and contemporary factors for effective pedagogical influence and nature friendly living with motional activity;
  • Developing programmes, criteria and indicators fior stimulating the constant education process and realization with high sports virtues;
  • Collection, processing, study and intensive use of Bulgarian folklore games and other folklore pieces in sports education;
  • Revealing reasoning behind motivation, identification, and integration of children and adults in sports education under various conditions.
Articles and Publications: Author of 105 articles and publications, including two dissertations:
  • 21 books.
  • 7 monographies.
  • 2 textbooks.
Participation in academic and sports organizations
  • OMEP - International Pre-school Education Organization. 
  • EECERA - European Organization for Pre-School Education Research.
  • BSCRM (БСЗР) - Bulgarian Union for Protection of the Rhodopes (with international members).
  • CSDM (ЦУРП) - Centre for Sustainable Development of the Mountain (with international members).
  • СУ - Union of Scientists in Bulgaria
  • БТС - Bulgarian Tourist Union.
  • СЛРБ - Union Hunters and Fishermen in Bulgaria. 
  • ПЗСЗБ - Union for Nature Protection "Green Balkans".