Publisher: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Adama Mickiewicza

(Z)rozumieć czas wolny

Przeobrażenia, tożsamość, doświadczanie

Author(s): Dorota Mroczkowska / Language(s): Polish

The idea of the book: Understanding Leisure. Transformations, Identity, Experience is to attempt to understand leisure in its core dimensions related to change, identity, and experience. It is essential to create a comprehensive picture of leisure as a cognitive, interactive, symbolic and emotional category, rather than creating the fundamental definition and way of thinking about it. Taking inspiration from such theoretical orientations as symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, existentialism, sociology of everyday life (Berger, Luckman 1983; Kelly 1972, 1996, 2003, 2012; Kelly, Godbey 1992; Giddens 2001, 2003; de Certeau 2008, 2011; Kaufman 2013), inspiration from the psychology of experience (Csikszentmihalyi 2005), postmodernism (Rojek 1995, 2005, 2010), and also border theories (Nippert-Eng1996; Zerubavel1991), allows leisure to be thought of as a dynamic, socially and culturally variable category, located at the intersection of micro and macro social processes, and associated with the dynamics of individuals' experiences. At the same time, referring to the reflexive methodology enables us to maximize perception and understanding of leisure by using various research methods and techniques (Strauss 1993; Shaw 1997; Dupuis 1999; Freeman 2001; Giddens 2001; Fischer-Rosenthal 2005; Feighery 2006; Denzin, Lincoln 2010). The aim of the first part, Transformations, is to look at the historical and social processes of leisure. The following chapters of this part is related to essential processes that characterize and stimulate its development and transformations, such as industrialization, urbanization, mass media and technology, commercialization, globalization, and acceleration. These processes have contributed to the situation today where we are faced with several questions, problems, or challenges concerning the identity of leisure, which in turn will be discussed in the second part, entitled The identity. As the reader will notice, the aim of this section is not to revolutionize thinking about leisure. I also do not want to come down on the side of a crisis or outdated sociology of leisure. Above all, I want to refer to the key processes within the sub-discipline that, in connection with the evolution of the theory and practice of leisure, and the transformations taking place in contemporary reality, make it possible to reflect on its status. The third part of the book, Towards the Method, aims to present research assumptions based on a hermeneutical-interpretative perspective and a reflexive methodology. The fourth part entitled: Experience, is based on my longitudinal studies, and introduces the reader to the meanings, experiences and emotions of leisure performed in various situational contexts. In the subsequent chapters of the book, analyses of different types of research material are combined, and the methods and techniques used deepen the accumulated knowledge. I refer to existing data: the North American and the European surveys and time-budget studies, international comparative research, and smaller European research projects, as well as surveys and budget studies in Poland. On the other hand, I refer to my research projects, which were conducted in Poland and are based on qualitative methodologies, and explore the everyday understanding of leisure. The book is written from a local perspective, and the main points of reference are the two dominant traditions of leisure - the American and the European schools. It is worth emphasizing that the category of leisure is not universal, but is assigned to a particular cultural, geographical, and historical formation called modernity. Leisure becomes essential in a particular type of society and constitutes one of its essential aspects.

A History of the Herules

Author(s): Jan Prostko-Prostyński / Language(s): English

The book offers a critical study of Herulian history. This is the first modern monograph to present a comprehensive analysis of literary and epigraphic sources for the relatively short history of this Scandinavian people. The author eliminated the pseudo-history of the Herules and concentrating on the well-established events from the organized social life of the Herules, he reduced their share in the history of ancient and early medieval Europe, which had been uncritically expanded by some scholars in the past. Prosopography, produced for the first time, will guide the reader in the personal history of the Herules. The geographic extent of the tribe’s wanderings, invasions and campaigns (Scandinavia, Ukraine, Greece, Austria, Germany, France, Spain, Bohemia, the Balkans, Italy, Asia and Africa), and their direct participation in the overthrow of the Western Roman Empire in ad 476, make their past extremely fascinating.

Akt transnarodowy prawa europejskiego

Author(s): Maciej Kruś / Language(s): Polish

The book distinguishes and describes a particular form of activity of public administration bodies, namely issuing transnational administrative acts of European law. These acts are issued by the authorities of the Member States of the European Union. They are acts of application and are issued in specific circumstances. They have direct effect in the territory of the Member States of the European Union. These acts play a crucial role in the integration of the Single Market, and the free movement of people, services and goods. The author presents difficult and complex issues in an accessible form, adducing important aspects of the issuance of administrative decisions under European law. He provides numerous examples relating to practical areas of the economy and private life. The book will be of great use in all classes on European law or the functioning of the European administration. It is addressed to students of law, administration, European law and European studies. Moreover, the book will undoubtedly be of interest to lawyers from various professions, who might make use of it to determine the nature of an authority's action in a given area of private life (obtaining a visa) or economy (e.g. approval of medicines, biocides, decisions on financial investments). This in turn impacts on the question of whether the appropriate legal protection instruments should be adopted, i.e. in the country of origin of a legal act or in the country where the activity is carried out? The book can also be recommended to participants of training in public administration.

Constitutional Barriers to the Applicability of Private Law in the Public Sector

A Comparative Study with Particular Emphasis on Polish and German Law

Author(s): Rafał Szczepaniak,Katarzyna Kokocińska,Marcin Krzymuski / Language(s): English

The underlying assumption of this book is that in the special environment that is the public sector, certain features of what we call civil law manifest themselves with particular force through contrast. An analysis of the application of civil law in the public sector is somewhat akin to an intellectual journey to the source of the Amazon. If one seeks a new, fresher view on civil law institutions and the civil law method of regulation, then this possible precisely through observing how they are applied in this particular environment. Observation of the application of the institutions of civil law provenance in the public sector actually prompts one to conduct a detailed analysis, which can be described as a kind of anatomy of civil law. It involves analyzing individual civil law institutions and arrangements, discovering their nature and the fundamental elements they consist of, as well as identifying the axiological and praxeological foundations that contributed to their development. The analysis carried out in the monograph indicates multiple relationships between civil law and constitutional law. The authors hope that this monograph will contribute to clarifying the relationship between these two branches of law. In this monograph, the authors raise the question whether, in the light of the provisions of the current Constitution, there are barriers standing in the way of using private law in the public sector. The authors respond in the affirmative to the question formulated in this way. In their opinion, due to the specific nature of the State and other public entities, some of the institutions of civil law lose their raison d'être in the public sector, and the nature of others undergoes change to a lesser or greater extent. This phenomenon can be observed, for example, in the sphere of exercising subjective rights by public entities, in the sphere of their tort liability, in their legal capacity and freedom of contract, as well as in relation to such institutions of law as unjust enrichment. The legislator and the public bodies applying these laws, in particular the courts, should take this phenomenon into account. Otherwise, there may be violations of the standards of the democratic state of law, including the constitutional rights and freedoms of citizens. In conclusion, the authors consider the need for developing a sub-branch of civil law which would find its application in the public sector.

Czytanie informacyjne

Infografiki w procesach poznawczych

Author(s): Mateusz Leszkowicz / Language(s): Polish

Contemporary media messages are becoming visually fragmented. This is noticeable in the graphic design of many textbooks, magazines, web interfaces or infographics. These media are particularly strong in exposing small portions of text and image. In this sense, they are deprived of the sequential and linear reception typical for the reception of a work of fiction or film. Thus, the question arises as to how the recipients search for starting points for reading and according to which criteria they create their own cognitive paths during the reception, e.g. of infographics. In this work, the answer to the question of whether a diverse graphic layout (design) influences teenagers' visual attention and understanding of content. For this purpose, a method of measuring eyeball movements (oculography) was used during exposure of different types of infographics. The results of this research are widely used in graphic design of printed materials and electronic texts.

Docenić szkołę

Dydaktyczna teoria i metodyczna praktyka

Author(s): Maria Kwiatkowska-Ratajczak / Language(s): Polish

The book derives from the conviction about the unfairness of common criticism aimed at education. The author implies that appreciation of school may inspire further attempts to change the process of educating for the better. What disapprobation does is conserve long-time habits rather than promote the search for novel solutions. The researcher argues that, in the course of successive reforms, we have suffered the consequences of one-sided and thus dangerous judgements. She explores trends of changes in the most recent Polish language textbooks and juxtaposes them with the comments made as far back as in the 1990s. She presents materials originating straight from practice. She compares education in Poland to that in an international school. She describes the actions inspired by a historian, an art teacher and a business studies teacher, as well as the effects of Polish lessons and the subject called the facets of contemporary culture. Many of the proposals under examination occurred in 2018/2019 and 2019/2020. The protagonists of most texts are schoolgirls and schoolboys, and their written assignments occupy the centre of attention. Not only does the methodological nitty-gritty give an insight into the educational reality, but it also facilitates decidedly more panoramic imaging and placing of the said reality against the background of historical and contemporary methodological thought. This is documented by the cited papers concerning various didactic options. The differences between them open up the sphere of freedom for school, providing teachers with the choice of concepts that appeal to them most.

Dyskurs historii nauki

Author(s): Tomasz Falkowski / Language(s): Polish

The monograph can be regarded as an attempt to answer the following question: How is the history of science written? By putting French-language works produced from the eighteenth to the beginning of the twenty-first century (within such fields as historical epistemology, hermeneutics, studies of science and technology, archaeology of knowledge, history of mentality, ecology of practices, structuralism, historical anthropology, etc.), the author presents the most significant and nodal points in which the discourse on the history of scientific ideas and achievements faced numerous specific difficulties, problems, aporias or challenges. The analyses presented in the book show: how historians are confronted with the various visions that scientists themselves have had and still have of the historicity of science; that historians are faced with scientific disputes whose image was later imposed by their ‘winners’; that the same method used to describe both early and modern science appreciates scientific achievements and yet denigrates them; that historians writing about science and its history are never in a distant (neutral) position, for they are themselves part of a crucial event, the emergence of modern science; and that not every historical description of scientific phenomena corresponds to that of those who shape science.

Dyskurs historii nauki

Author(s): Tomasz Falkowski / Language(s): Polish

The monograph can be regarded as an attempt to answer the following question: How is the history of science written? By putting French-language works produced from the eighteenth to the beginning of the twenty-first century (within such fields as historical epistemology, hermeneutics, studies of science and technology, archaeology of knowledge, history of mentality, ecology of practices, structuralism, historical anthropology, etc.), the author presents the most significant and nodal points in which the discourse on the history of scientific ideas and achievements faced numerous specific difficulties, problems, aporias or challenges. The analyses presented in the book show: how historians are confronted with the various visions that scientists themselves have had and still have of the historicity of science; that historians are faced with scientific disputes whose image was later imposed by their ‘winners’; that the same method used to describe both early and modern science appreciates scientific achievements and yet denigrates them; that historians writing about science and its history are never in a distant (neutral) position, for they are themselves part of a crucial event, the emergence of modern science; and that not every historical description of scientific phenomena corresponds to that of those who shape science.

Filologia wobec wyzwań komunikacji specjalistycznej

Od współpracy z biznesem po kształcenie nauczycieli

Author(s): Elżbieta Gajewska,Magdalena Sowa,Joanna Kic-Drgas / Language(s): Polish

The publication is a three-author monograph prepared in cooperation with the Pedagogical University in Kraków (KEN), Maria Skłodowska-Curie University in Lublin and Adam Mickiewicz University. The study programmes of philology studies at Polish universities are subject to constant evolution in order to adapt to the expectations of the changing labour market and boost their graduates' employability. Changes in the profile of education of philologists are sometimes very important. This publication analyses three areas in which it is particularly visible how philology studies open up possibilities for their graduates' professional careers in a company, which is understood here in broad terms: these areas are cooperation between the university and the business environment, preparing students to communicate in a foreign language in specialist contexts, and training teachers of specialist languages who can respond to the expectations of specific audiences. The study programmes of six popular philologies at 22 Polish universities were analysed, i.e. English, German, Romance languages, Hispanism, Italian and Russian studies. The authors have sought to describe the forms and methods of university education on neophilology degree courses through the prism of the main assumptions of specialist glottodidactics. Therefore, this monograph is, on the one hand, a record of the real state of affairs, which can be observed in terms of the curricula offered on neophilology degree courses in Poland. On the other, it is also an illustration of how and to what extent the theoretical and methodological assumptions of specialist glottodidactics impact on the shape of each training programme preparing for the profession. The rich research material forming the basis of this study makes it possible to discern the changes that have affected the education of philologists in Poland, and to show the place specialist language teaching has in current neophilology education. The results of the analysis indicate the directions for developing the teaching on offer, and may also act as an inspiration for potential modifications.

Geneza i palingeneza życia w dziewiętnastowiecznej nauce i literaturze francuskiej

Author(s): Juliette Azoulai,Carmen Husti,Marta Sukiennicka / Language(s): Polish

In the nineteenth century, scientists' discoveries resonated not only within the closed walls of laboratories and academies but also in literary and social space. They changed the way life and humans were presented in literature: since then, it has been possible to reflect on the origins of life, distant human ancestors, and species that will replace humans in the course of biological evolution. This book aims to help introduce the Polish reader to these unobvious links between literature and natural science in nineteenth-century France.

Grammatical Number in Psycholinguistic Research

Author(s): Piotr Gulgowski / Language(s): English

The category of grammatical number is common in natural languages. Attested number systems rangę from a simple choice between singular and plural forms to morę complex number value arrangements involving, for example, dual and trial numbers. Grammatical number has an impact on almost every major part of language organization from morphosyniax through semantics to pragmatic reasoning. Mastering number forms is also a major step in language acąuisition. For these reasons, grammatical number can be of great interest to researchers inrestigating the psychology of language. This monograph discusses the findings of studies from several areas of experimental psycholinguistics. The discussed studies include seminal works in each area spanning multiple decades of research and illustrating the major investigation directions. The selection of works is also intended to familiarize the reader with the experimental techniąues employed to study different aspects of grammatical number processing, which encompass behavioral methods (number judgments, word recall, lexical decision, picture naming) as well as techniąues for monitoring the brain activity (EEG, fMRl). In addition to the overview of the literaturę dedicated to investigating grammatical number processing, the paper also offers a brief śummary of the typology of grammatical number systems in world languages and discusses the most important findings of the research on numerical cognition

Granice wolności związkowych w polskim systemie prawnym

Author(s): Jakub Gołaś / Language(s): Polish

The issue of the limits of trade unions freedoms functioning in the Polish legal system is the scientific problem of the monograph. Trade unions freedoms should be seen as a fundamental guarantees of solidarity, dialogue and cooperation between social partners in shaping realities of domestic model of the social market economy. The research undertaken and presented in the publication allowed me to conduct a comprehensive characteristic and evaluation of the manner in which the national legislator formalises and restricts free functioning of social partners. The results of the study are also helpful in identifying specific deficiencies of the Polish legal system that should be recognised as major barriers to effective functioning and desired development of the union movement. The overall scientific goal of the monograph is to identify, systemise, characterise and evaluate limits of trade union freedoms in the context of the Polish legal system. In other words, the study presented in the publication aims at answering the question about how the national legislator restricts trade union freedoms and how such limitations should be formed in accordance with standards coming from biding international agreements. In order to reach the defined scientific objective it was necessary to analyse current legal system in terms of existing legal acts, actual judicature, literature and chosen statistical data regarding European and worldwide labour movements.

Historia, manipulacja i trauma

Przypadek Katalonii

Author(s): Filip Kubiaczyk / Language(s): Polish

The author undertakes an analysis of the narrative of Catalonia’s past, in particular where it concerns its relations with Spain which, in the Catalan discourse, happen to be presented in a way that moulds historical awareness of Catalans in terms of injustices the nation has suffered. Focusing on “victimhood” makes it possible to forge a sense of community by celebrating historical trauma. Consequently, we are dealing not so much with history as critical reflection on the past, but with a history of memory. This book sets out to show how the landmarks of Catalan history – the defeat of 1714 in particular – became a salient interpretive trope which, having assumed the shape of a spectre of the past that haunts the Catalan community, dictates how that past should be remembered and perceived.

Jednostka zdolna w przestrzeniach edukacyjnych

Author(s): Maria Porzucek-Miśkiewicz / Language(s): Polish

The demand for talented people, who taking up the challenges of the modern world in a creative way, remains as relevant as ever. This raises a number of questions related to gifted individuals – the size of expectations, creating opportunities, the existence of barriers, taking into account the educational needs (and not only these needs) and creating the conditions for such individuals' harmonious development. The discussions presented in this publication revolve around the issue of education for gifted persons, educational conditions and challenges. These discussions are the result of many years of the author's research and reflections on the situation of gifted individuals in the educational environment. The book is addressed to students of education faculties at universities, as material to be used in academic teaching, as well as to future and practising teachers. to get to know and better understand the situation of gifted individuals.

Kanonistyczne uzasadnienie swobody umów w zachodniej tradycji prawnej

Author(s): Piotr Alexandrowicz / Language(s): Polish

This monograph provides a historical overview of the justifications for freedom of contract, which was developed in the Medieval study of canon law, its impact in the modern era and its relevance for present-day discussions on the freedom of contract. Canonists were the first in the Western legal tradition to put forward solutions for private law that reflect the contemporary model of freedom of contract. To support their concept they used three arguments: the first was rooted in the authority of the sources of law available to them at the time; the second imposed an obligation to abide by the rules of the contract stemming from the concept of a sin of breaking one’s promise; the third was related to the importance of the concluded agreements for strengthening social order. The argumentation used in the Medieval teaching of canon law has met with various receptions in the modern era. Some movements took it on board (the canonists, the second scholasticism), some others rejected it (legal humanism), while for others it served merely as a useful example (Dutch jurisprudence, usus modernus Pandectarum), and ultimately it was functionally similar to some (the school of natural law). As a result of the establishment of a general theory of contracts at the turn of the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, which presumed the freedom of contracting, the question of the binding power of the concluded agreements lost its relevance. The answers to this question can be found by referring to the forgotten Medieval canonist tradition or the English theory of contract. Both these sources provide similar arguments, which can be useful in the discussion on the limits of the freedom of contracts alongside legal dogmatics.

Literatura – społeczeństwo – system

Studia wokół niemieckojęzycznych autorów przełomu XX i XXI wieku (Peter Handke, Siegfried Lenz, Botho Strauß, Dietrich Schwanitz i Peter Turrini)

Author(s): Andrzej Denka / Language(s): Polish

This monograph provides selected studies on writers of German and Austrian literature. These studies draw from particular aspects of Niklas Luhmann's Systems Theory, which, although developed within sociology, can be applied to other research fields, such as economics, law, political science, and finally, literary studies. The author of this monograph explains the possible applications of this theory to the issues of conflict, literary scandal, controversial engagements of writers, and also the variety of possible interpretations of literary texts. The conflict around last year’s Literary Nobel Prize winner, Peter Handke, which arose due to his engagement in support of the Serbian case, is presented here as a clash of opinions, as well as their adjustment to a particular line of argument, which, thanks to the media, aims at processing social irritation. In the case of Siegfried Lenz, the aim of the study is to prove the connection between his political views and purely literary activity in the light of substantial system distinctions. Such writers as Botho Strauß and Dietrich Schwanitz are presented here as ones who consciously adapt various theoretical systemic concepts to construct their own literary texts (essays, prose). When interpreting Peter Turrini’s play, on the other hand, the category of 'framing' has been applied along with the relationship between the internal and external references. These analyses are complemented by two theoretical chapters that provide an overview of the most important concepts of the systemic literary studies, which are relatively unfamiliar in Poland, by presenting them against the background of the scholarly tradition.

Literatura, biologia, społeczeństwo między wiekiem XIX a XX

Trzy studia

Author(s): Patrycja Tomczak,Michael A Soubbotnik,Wojciech Sawala / Language(s): Polish

The publication comprises three literary studies on the relationship between literature and the modern discourse of life sciences: from botany to evolutionary biology to biochemistry. The authors' analysis and reflections concern texts written in different parts of Europe from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, on the one hand, incorporating the cultural impact of the achievements of such scholars and thinkers as Peter Kropotkin, Elisée Reclus, Charles Darwin, Ernst Haeckel, Louis Pasteur and Henri Bergson, and on the other, modernist narrative prose, represented here by Virginia Woolf and Bruno Schulz.

Marząc wielki, śniąc potężny…

Aspekty narracyjne współczesnej rosyjskiej polityki językowej

Author(s): Bartosz Hordecki / Language(s): Polish

The work attempts to analyse and interpret narrative aspects of language policy created and promoted by the Russian federal authorities since 1991. It exposes views on the Russian language, its status, condition, and relation to other languages, shared by the Russian key national representatives, especially by the Russian Federation president. Studying and characterising these views, the author seeks to answer what kind of world-view they include and what type of collective activity they suggest. He also focuses on how the current federal ideological schemes remain anchored in certain traditions of perceiving, defining, displaying, and managing language issues by the Russian state.

Na rozstajnych drogach, około północy

Doświadczenia graniczne we wschodniosłowiańskich i polskich pieśniach ludowych

Author(s): Piotr Braszak / Language(s): Polish

This publication is devoted to border experiences in East Slavic and Polish folk songs. The introduction presents the specific nature of the subject matter and outlines the basic definitions and problems faced by researchers of folk songs. At the beginning of the analytical part of the work, the research material is described, then presented in a comparative form, with quotations from source texts and comments based on academic studies. The conclusion emphasises the importance of several images that have been preserved in the functional memory of traditional communities, and that have emerged as a result of analysing the material collected. Further research perspectives on the issues raised are also suggested. The book closes with an appendix with the translation of the quoted East Slavic works into Polish and a bibliography.

Nauczyciel-wychowawca (nie)wspierający ucznia – o znaczeniu nauczycielskich kompetencji społecznych

Author(s): Magdalena Piorunek / Language(s): Polish

The monograph considers a particular role for form teachers that extends beyond strictly didactic activities and involves their relationships with students, in which teachers support their students and help them handle stressful and difficult situations, and also facilitate decision-making processes. To be able to meet these requirements, teachers should be mindful and know their students' needs, whether educational or related to their lives; they should be ready to act and apply varied and relevant support strategies based on effective communication with children and adolescents, which requires well developed social competencies that can be used to provide support to students. The research findings presented in the monograph (and obtained using various research paradigms) have numerous research “approaches” as their background. These results show the (non)supportive roles performed by form teachers, taking account of their social competencies, as seen from the perspectives of students and teachers alike. The major objective of this discussion is to present the help and support processes developed by a form teacher for students in the school environment. This publication was written for both theorists in the field of education, in such subdisciplines of educational studies as counselling, school pedagogy, pedeutology, and also for practitioners who decide on how the form schooling takes and how it developes, but first and foremost, it was written for all teachers themselves.