The Analysis of the Parametres of Motor Training of Senior Volleyball Players Nationally

The Analysis of the Parametres of Motor Training of Senior Volleyball Players Nationally

Author(s): Neculai Harabagiu,Alexandru Păcuraru / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Analysis; parameters; motor training; volleyball;

Nowadays, the volleyball game has become a very dynamic one. Its swiftness is given by the great speed of execution of the technical elements and game procedures. Therefore, the players must have an appropriate level of motor training. This thing, in particular, refers to the senior volleyball players, where the level of physical training is a determining one and it reflects in their performances within national and even international competitions. All of these make up an assessment criterion for the selection of players nationally, where the sportsmen activate both in the European competitions, as well as worldwide ones. The Romanian Federation of Volleyball places at the disposal of the participating teams in the National Championship of Romania several guiding tests, so as to highlight the level of motor training of players in all the training stages, including the competitional ones. In this context, we had the same objective in our research, where we tested the level of the motor training specific for the participating teams in the National Championship of Male Volleyball, while the collected results are to be used in an experimental study, oriented towards increasing the effort capacity of the sportsmen and implicitly, increasing the efficiency in the game of senior volleyball players by applying the “Data Volley” software of statistical assessment.

Experiment on Minivolleyball Training Optimization Through Technique-Correcting Systems

Experiment on Minivolleyball Training Optimization Through Technique-Correcting Systems

Author(s): Carmen Pârvu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Acquisition; correction; optimization acquisition; volleyball; corrective systems;

The present research deals with the importance of using correcting systems in sports training, also tackling some regulations that are sometimes inconsistent with the real potential of the players, or the game requirements for the next level.The paper evinces by means of an experiment the need to introduce 4 corrective systems for optimising the technique used in minivolleyball groups. The regulations on the obligatory 3 hits in the team’s own court raise many training problems both for coaches and young players who, in addition to consolidating technical elements and procedures, also have to work on accuracy as early as the minivolleyball level. The systems used are mechanical, easy to manufacture, are relatively inexpensive, but prove to be very helpful in the young players’ motor learning according to today’s requirements in this sporting field. The idea of conceiving such mechanical systems started from the study of the commonest technical mistakes found in practice. The subjects under study are athletes registered at the Arcada Sports Club Galați, where I work as a coach, who are boys between 7-10 years of age, and improved their executions by means of these technique-correcting systems during the training sessions. The results obtained in the final test allow us to believe that the use of these corrective systems in training may prepare the young players more effectively, making them more capable of facing the new regulations.

The Exercises and Memory in the Secondary Schoolchildren

The Exercises and Memory in the Secondary Schoolchildren

Author(s): Damian Petcu,Diana Victoria Gidu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: exercise fromphysical education class; mathematical and humanistic memory; secondary schoolchildren;

The purpose of the work was to study if the exercise from physical education classhave or not positive effects in the memory of the secondary schoolchildren. For that, 97 schoolchildren between 11 and 15 years old were tested. These tests aimed at determining the quality of memory by two types of tasks: a mathematical one, and a humanistic one. The tests were performed both, before and after the physical education class. In order to assess the level of the physical demand, the heart rate was recorded during the class.The effort from physical education class has no disruptive effect on the mathematical memory [p<0.05]. On the humanistic type of memory the effects were null in boys and girls over 13 years old, while in girls under 13 years old, the effects were negative [p<0.05].

Correlations between the Coordinating Capacities and the Technical Parameters at the Level of the Handball Teams (Junior III)

Correlations between the Coordinating Capacities and the Technical Parameters at the Level of the Handball Teams (Junior III)

Author(s): Madalina-Gabriela Postelnicu,Ion Mihaila / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: handball; coordinating capacities; technical training; correlation coefficient; junior III;

Nowadays, the characteristics of the modern handball game impose the part of the young practitioners the possession of a really rich motor-technical stock and the quickly adaptation to the encounter of unforeseen situations during the game in order to efficiently achieve the gaming tasks. The purpose of this study is to determinate the relationships between the coordinating capacities and the technical parameters of the handball players. In this regard, the research was carried out on a group of athletes aged between 13-14 years, within the Handball Sports Club-ART Galati. Athletes have been tested in terms of coordination skills and technical training. To evaluate the influence of the coordinating capabilities on the technique and vice versa, we chose the calculation of the Pearson correlation coefficient r. Based on the results obtained, r has values ​​between 30% and 89% in 20 calculated correlations, which proves the existence of a connection between the two variables. We can say that the development of coordination capacities at this age echelon is a priority factor in learning and strengthening the specific elements and techniques of handball. Thus, it is advisable to use various methodical procedures in the training process that lead to the development of this psychomotor quality. At the same time, in selecting the means of action for the development of coordination capacities, one has to take into account the particularities of the age, the level of training and the training period.

Quality and quantity. On mutual complementation and exclusion of empirical approaches

Jakość i ilość. O wzajemnym uzupełnianiu się i wykluczaniu podejść badawczych

Author(s): Sławomir Banaszak / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: methodology of social sciences; research methods in social sciences; qualitative research;quantitative research;

Qualitative and quantitative methods are very often opposed today. The demarcation line that separates them is becoming clearer. And that’s not how it was before, so it does not have to be like that today, because both approaches serve to the scientific cognition of social reality. The author argues that both the quality and quantity are not the most important concepts in social sciences, their methodology and research methods. He is in favour of combining scientific methods, the awareness of strengths and weaknesses and constant improvement. As of secondary importance he treats research declarations present in a part of contemporary research plans, especially those declarations that are rigid and even dogmatic. The article ends with a conclusion referring to the need for applying both approaches, methodological discussion and the development of theories.

Conditions for competence development On the need to combine research paradigms

Uwarunkowania rozwoju kompetencji O potrzebie łączenia paradygmatów badawczych

Author(s): Monika Wróblewska / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Internet as the research space in social sciences

Internet jako przestrzeń badawcza w naukach społecznych

Author(s): Stanisław Juszczyk / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Internet; virtual ethnography; visual anthropology; process of communication; social networks; virtual supporting groups; sharenting.

With the use of the hermeneutic analysis of academic texts and of critical theory the Internet has been presented as a social and cultural research space in social sciences. The most important eatures of global network have been characterized and such aspects have been discussed that are studied in the framework of ethnographical and anthropological research in our institute, namely communication process and its semiotic character, a creation of social networks, virtual groups of self-help for stigmatized people, sharenting and activity of children and youth on the Internet.

Problems with assessing social competences of pupils at early school age

Problemy diagnozowania kompetencji społecznych uczniów w młodszym wieku szkolnym

Author(s): Hewilia Hetmańczyk / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: social competences; assessment of social competences;pupil at early school age;

The article describes the difficulties related to assessment conduct within the scope of social competences. The author of the article presents her own proposal of a model of assessing social competences among pupils at early school age based on the assessment of the level of particular components from the external and internal perspective with the use of observation, grade scales, socio-metric techniques and questionnaire techniques.

Explication and system method and their use in positivist and neo-positivist research

Metoda eksplikacji i systemowa oraz ich wykorzystanie w badaniach pozytywistycznych i neopozytywistycznych

Author(s): Małgorzata Kabat / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: teacher – researcher; action; various types of research

The article focuses on presenting the systemic and explication methods, showing their theoretical and practical assumptions. Reference has been made to the study by T. Pawłowski and W.A. Ganziena aptly demonstrating the usefulness of methods that explain various concepts that can be and are used in positivist, neo-positivist and mixed researches.

Ethical aspects of pedagogical research

Etické aspekty pedagogického výskumu

Author(s): Bronislava Kasáčová / Language(s): Slovak / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: research; child; qualitative research; ethics in research

The study raises questions that arise in the context of research in the school and its wider context. School reality, processes and educational subjects take place in transparent environment of the school as an institution. Pedagogical research is a specific part of school life, which has several levels. Applied research on schools, pupils and teacher believes in? the conservation and protection of personal data. Action research is connected with schools’ daily life. The problems opened in this context are of ethical character: is the right to use research tools, use of research findings in accordance with ethics, or is it a threat? Research on children in a learning process is an unanswered ethical problem: teachers need and require a lot of information about children for their work, they have to obtain it via transparent manner. The aim is to find an optimal way for child´s support. Is it ethical to use these data also for research and generalisation? Who is responsible for conducting research in school,researcher, school, teachers or parents? On the other hand, science needs to work with real data to generalize knowledge 13

Media competences of the teacher as a condition for improving media education of pupils

Media competences of the teacher as a condition for improving media education of pupils

Author(s): Alojz Kostelanský / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: key competences; media competences; preparation in the area of media competences;media education;

The article deals with a topical issue of media education of pupils, which is conditioned upon greater understanding, broadening and deepening media competences of the teacher. Each teacher is required to develop the ability to evaluate media messages, uncover what is valuable, in order to manage his or her personal and professional growth in a positive way. Well-performed media education can make pupils more sensitive to quality media content. It can help them find their own balanced way in order to become more sensitive to quality media content, and, in the meantime, to be able to protect themselves in a more effective way against negative influences of media.

Methodological critique as a practice of knowledge creation (problem areas – an attempt of reconstruction)

Krytyka metodologiczna jako praktyka tworzenia wiedzy (dziedziny problemowe – próba rekonstrukcji)

Author(s): Jacek Piekarski / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: methodology;critique;methodological critique;practice;patterns of practicing scientific critique

The aim of the study is to reconstruct various ways of understanding methodological critique as a practice of knowledge creation and to indicate, revealed in connection with the reconstruction, the possibility of identifying cognitive obstacles that arise in this practice. Methodological critique is understood as a kind of practice – the field of thinking and acting – related to the experience and rationalization of the gap between the obviousness (faith) and the uncertainty of beliefs about reality. Various ways of formulating critique, related to the treatment of critique as the value underlying the ideal of rationality of science as well as a communication strategy, are discussed. Different ways of understanding critique legitimated under the distinguished concepts of methodology (as the theory of the application of laws of logic in various areas of research and a specialized discipline concerning the place of science in the system of human knowledge), are also discussed. On this basis, the possibilities of practicing a "critical methodology", designed as a study of methods for criticizing scientific practice in the changing cultural framework, are considered. In connection with the identified processes of their change (institutionalization of science, corporatization and networking of research), patterns of practicing critique justified by methodological premises (dogmatism, conventionalism and tactical discretion) were reconstructed and confronted with the cultural patterns of critique formed on their basis (inhibition, tolerantism and presentism).

Theoria – praxis – poiesis as a challenge and perspective of methodological critique in pedagogy

Theoria – praxis – poiesis jako wyzwanie i perspektywy krytyki metodologicznej w pedagogice

Author(s): Marian Nowak / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: critical analysis;methodological critique;theory;practice;theoretical cognition (theoria);practical cognition (praxis);poetic understanding (poiesis);truth;good;beauty

Considering the theme of the 7th Seminar on Pedagogical Methodology, the chapter focuses on issues related to three categories (theoria, praxis, and poiesis) and the values appropriately assigned to them (truth, goodness, and beauty). By characterizing the role of these categories as the criteria of critical analysis applied to pedagogical knowledge outcomes, this chapter points to their continuing relevance and the special meaning of the value of truth. Truth is an important criterion for critical analysis, as well as the goal of human cognition, an initial and fundamental value, checking the value of all other human personal activities. It constitutes a human individuality composed of three types of truths 1 / the truth, which exists (TRUTH); 2 / the truth, which becomes (GOOD); and 3 / the truth, which is to be (BEAUTY). These are the three spheres of human existence in which the types occur and, at the same time, they can be a criterion of methodological critique used in creating and analysing pedagogical knowledge, indicating human potentialities, which are understood as the things possible to lift humans to the highest possible level ( the optimum potentiae) as the top capabilities of a human being. In the Christian context, one can think of some state of a perfect virtue that "makes both the having person and his work good" (Krąpiec, 1990, p. 41).

Methodology of pedagogical research between “normativity” and “descriptivity”

Metodologia badań pedagogicznych między normatywnością a opisowością

Author(s): Dariusz Kubinowski / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: methodology of pedagogical research;normativity;descriptivity;methodological research;global;methodological and methodical emergences

The author tries to identify, present and explain permanent controversies concerning three key methodological categories used in the methodology of pedagogical research in Poland: “pedagogical dimension” of scientific research; scope of pedagogical research; and methodology in pedagogical research. The author describes the nature of the controversy and emphasizes his own approach to it. The main aim of the chapter is to propose the author’s own concept of understanding the methodology of pedagogical research as philosophical-empirical science that is built and being constantly rebuilt in diachronic and dialectic relationships between normative and descriptive methodologies, as an emergent reaction to radical and dynamic changes of a social reality. The author emphasizes the important role of methodological research (“research on research”) in constructing new scientific knowledge in the field of methodology of pedagogical research.

Qualitative research in the face of the postulate of knowledge’s theoreticality

Badania jakościowe wobec postulatu teoretyczności wiedzy

Author(s): Mieczysław Malewski / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: qualitative research;knowledge’s theoreticality;product theory;process theory;autobiography

An explosion of qualitative research in social sciences is accompanied by doubts as to its theorizing potential. Some voices claim that this type of research is "from the nature" idiographic. The main thesis of this study is that change in the way of seeing scientific theory began in the 1960s, with the move from the sociocentric perspective to the anthropocentric perspective. This had important methodological consequences. The prevailing perspective of methodological holism began to be replaced by methodological individualism. As a result, social researchers abandoned the product theory that had been in force to that point. The concept of process theory took its place.

From the universality to the particularity of the research method

Od uniwersalności do partykularności metody badawczej

Author(s): Danuta Urbaniak-Zając / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: scientific method;research method;normative methodology;ethics in research

The aim of the chapter is to discuss the conditions for changing the status of the research method and consequences of the change. In the traditional approach, the research method is a refinement of the scientific method, which is an emanation of the ideal of modern science. So, the rules that govern the research method follow the science ideal. As long as one pattern of science existed, the method of natural sciences was considered commonly obligatory and did not require separate justifications. In the chapter, the author signals the genesis of the special position of the method in modern science and draws attention to the consequences of W. Dilthey's exclusion of humanistic sciences (including contemporary social sciences) from empirical knowledge, then focuses on conditions that impaired the autonomy of the research method. She discusses the consequences of this change for the practice of qualitative empirical research. In conclusion, the author refers to the links between the research method, the research subject and the assumptions referring to it; and signals the change of function and position of the method (it does not reflect reality in a realistic way, but shows how it can be understood; and thus it becomes a part of the problem being studied by means of the method). The task of methodological critique is reflection on research practice, reconstruction of contexts and assumptions adopted as parts of various research projects, which may serve to weaken the "methodological separatisms".

Conditions of methodological critique in research

Warunki krytyki metodologicznej prac badawczych

Author(s): Sławomir Pasikowski / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: critique;legitimization;rigor;methodological rigor;methodological failures;trustworthiness of empirical research

The chapter presents a model of research critique using the idea of deviations from the pattern of methodological correctness. The author introduces the concept of two categories of such deviations: from the local standard and from the generalized criterion. Both refer to the concept of visibility, which co-determines the scope of the response on the side of the sender as well as of the receiver of the empirical report. As a consequence, the author proposed a model of methodological critique that refers to the awareness of failures, defining the conditions of visibility of deviations, and methodological rigor in the discipline, which determines the scope of environmental legitimacy of these deviations. The model makes it possible to predict the behaviour of the creator, the recipient and the disciplinary community in which the report is presented, as well as to characterize the persuasiveness of scientific communication by the empirical reports.

Political aspects of practicing methodological critique

Polityczne aspekty uprawiania krytyki metodologicznej

Author(s): Sławomir Banaszak / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: general methodology of science;methodological critique;ideologies in science;derivations;critique and apologetics

The author focuses on the political nature of scientific critique. The author’s theses are inspired by the once-well-known text of Michał Kalecki, one of the most influential Polish economists in the history of the discipline, in which he argued that ideological premises often overcame objective, scientific thinking. Similarly, the classic of modern social sciences, Vilfredo Pareto, calls these false justifications, which replace theses based on real premises, derivations. Sławomir Banaszak attempts to show examples of ideology in social sciences, the necessity of undertaking discussions with adversaries, and the apparent and non-obvious nature of the review of scientific achievements. He asks questions, including those about methodological specialization in the social sciences and the methodology of scientific work. In his opinion, critique, including methodological critique, is in retreat and disappearing. For this reason, he proposes indicators of the "criticality" of the discipline that may show off dominant attitudes in a particular field of science.

Political aspects of qualitative methodology in a critical perspective: towards participatory research-activities (Participatory Action Research)

Polityczne aspekty metodologii jakościowej w perspektywie krytycznej. W stronę partycypacyjnych badań-działań

Author(s): Mariusz Granosik / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: public discourse;governmentality;middle class;exclusion;knowledge-based society;interpretative research

By adopting the basic assumptions of a "knowledge-based society", the methodology of scientific research can be considered as a kind of political system. It provides procedures for determining who (sampling) and to what extent (the method of data interpretation) has the right to co-create knowledge and therefore society. In this perspective, all research activities, and in particular social research, have a political character. In the text, methodological assumptions and qualitative research procedures are discussed from the perspective of their political consequences. This issue seems to be so important that, as a result, there is an uneven participation in the production of knowledge of representatives of various social classes. The chapter ends with a proposal for a change in the paradigm of qualitative research towards their “full participation”.

Mode preference hypothesis in the context of mixed-mode survey design

Zjawisko preferencji techniki sondażu w kontekście badań reprezentatywnych w schemacie mieszania technik

Author(s): Adam Rybak / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: mixed-mode survey;representative research;survey mode preference;survey research methodology

The aim of this chapter is to show the state of knowledge in the field of mixed-mode survey design methodology, the known theoretical and practical issues in its use, and to highlight knowledge gaps on this subject. Inclusion of survey mode preference hypothesis in this context is particularly interesting because of possible positive effects of its proper implementation on increasing response rates and measurement quality and lowering survey costs. However, this phenomenon is still not deeply understood and lacks a well-developed theoretical context. This chapter connects it with a wider range of theories of survey participation and gathers the elements of possible future theory. In conclusion, it presents a possible strategy for the utilization of knowledge about participants’ preferences concerning a mode in survey research.