Keywords: Work; Unemployment; Employment Policies; Youth; France; BElgium; Macedonia
Analysis of effectivnes of employment strategies for youth employment in France, Belgium and Macedonia
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Keywords: pragmatism; hermeneutics; Martin Heidegger; things as pragmata; phenomenology of work.
In his book Body, Community, Language, World, Jan Patočka questions whether Martin Heidegger takes interest in the world as such, or rather only in a special kind of world, viz., the world of human work. This enquiry is based on two main ideas that Heidegger puts forth: (1) that being cannot be predicated of, but only “understood practically,” and (2) that things should not be conceived of as objects, as opposed to subjects, but as pragmata, so as to better account for the intimate ontological relation between them and the life of human beings. While agreeing with Patočka’s hypothesis that the world as manipulative practice (the “world of work”) is itself underlain by a primordial “harmony” between human beings and world, our paper demonstrates that the latter is not only in accordance with Heidegger’s phenomenology, but also supported by it in many instances, the difference being that Patočka sees it as a perceptual and corporeal harmony, while Heidegger as an ontological one. The paper concludes that reducing the consequences of pragmata to a “world of work” is, thus, the result of an inaccurate interpretation which does not fully take into account man’s attunement to the world in Heidegger’s philosophy.
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Keywords: undercover work; police investigation; legal regulation; ethical issues.
Undercover investigators can be used to collect data on the existence of the crime and to identify persons alleged to have commited an offense. It was argued that preceding acts performed by undercover investigators represent a “special investigation procedure, derogatory in several respects from the common law”. We discuss, beyond these legal issues, the reasons that led to the the regulation of this institution in the Romanian Criminal Procedural Law and other ethical issues facing undercover police officers. A delicate problem remains that of the commission of offenses by undercover investigators in the exercise and also the question if it is justified to break the law to enforce it.
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Keywords: alumni giving/participation; alumni engagement; University ranking; UniversityIndustry collaboration; selectivity on the entrance; constituency-based not-for-profit organizations.
Alumni networks have become of key importance to University competitiveness in the last decades. Investment of human capital and financial resources in alumni relations equips Universities with more opportunities for joint scholarships, research projects, laboratories, libraries, newprograms, pro-bono services, endowments and venture capital. As a result we argue that alumni networks have direct positive impact on University ranking. This paper reviews the most prominent University ranking systems and achievements of most prominent alumni relation offices. The goal of the study is 1) to prove that former students are remarkable resource for Universities, and 2) identify key quality indicators for efficient performance of an alumni office in the current economic context. Findings of this paper can be used for strategic planning of alumni engagement. Review of related literature from Europe, North America and Asia has been done, using deductive and inductive methods of analysis. A broader definition of alumni engagement has been suggested based on five years of empirical data
More...Keywords: Intellectual Capital; Knowledge; Intangible Assets; Continuous Education; Company Market Value;
The rapid pace of technological innovation, globalisation and the subsequent intensified market competition have promoted the growth in the demand for, and supply of, competent workforce. Knowledge and innovation are perhaps more important than the tangible assets of a company. Every organisation has intangible assets which they do not report on their balance sheet. The rise of knowledge economy signals the growing importance of intangible assets, namely intellectual capital. For some businesses, intellectual capital is probably the key driver of value creation. Thus, knowledge constitutes the dominating resource in knowledge-oriented companies. This paper focuses on the theme of continuous education and its repercussion on the intellectual capital of companies as well as on its market value. Thus it aims to analyse the existing correlations between these variables.
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Fiona Duguid, Karsten Mündel & David Schugurensky (Eds.): Volunteer Work, Informal Learning and Social Action. Sense Publishers. 2013. pp. 258.
More...Keywords: Monetary policy; GDP; Price level; Exchange rate; Credit; Lending rate; Policy rate; Stock price
The paper examines the effectiveness of monetary policy transmission in the post reform period of Bangladesh using quarterly data from fiscal year 1999 to 2013. A caveat on standard VAR model is used in assessing the strength of alternative channels of monetary policy transmission. The paper finds that, monetary policy works in the desired direction in affecting both output and price level. Credit channel and exchange rate channel of monetary policy transmission seem to be quite strong. Asset price channel also works, but it is less robust. Interest rate channel of MPT works in desired direction, but it is relatively weak.
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Keywords: evaluation of teachers;faculty;teacher;student;model;
Evaluation of teachers’ work is faced with critics by teachers and students. It is a common impression that evaluation of teachers’ work at faculties is not a good process. The aim of this research is to use responses from the questionnaire developed for this purpose in order to determine the quality of evaluation of teachers’ work procedure at faculties. There was an effort to develop a model which would response regarding the quality of evaluation process at faculties. ta used for development of model were collected via Google Forms, where 427 teachers from all universities in Serbia were involved. Research results indicated that presented model is able to differ approval and disapproval of evaluation work procedures at faculties. Obtained model encouraged clear and scientific explanation of evaluation of teachers’ work. Further researches should include variables which can be effective for further development of a model.
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Keywords: Dissidence in Czechoslovakia; Philip Roth; Dominik Tatarka; Eva Štolbová; Gender in Slovak literature;
The Czech dissident movement that began in the late 1970s was a network in which women played a key role, but the Czech writers who gained fame in the West were invariably men. In Philip Roth’s 1985 novella The Prague Orgy, his alter ego Nathan Zuckerman meets a woman writer named Olga, whose pursuit of the American writer owes more to erotic fantasy than to the milieu Roth recreates in otherwise faithful detail. This portrayal of the Czech female as both sexualized and “other” can be traced back to twentieth century Prague-German writers,but Roth both politicizes and intellectualizes this archetype by making the desiring (rather than desired) woman a writer and dissident. A real-life perspective on the Czech disidentka (female dissident) appears in the work of Dominik Tatarka, one of the few Slovak writers tobe closely associated with the dissident movement. The last work Tatarka published in hislifetime was a memoir based on tape-recorded interviews with Eva Štolbová, who became Tatarka’s connection to Prague dissident circles. In 1988, these Navrávačky (Tapings) were published in edited book form in Germany, and it was not until more than a decade later that the full transcripts were published in Slovakia. While the female Czech dissident is eroticized in this text as well, Štolbová is not a mere object of desire; she portrays her side of the story inher own memoir, Lamento (1994). The gender dynamic between Štolbová and Tatarka subverts the cultural assumption in which the Czech language was constructed as “masculine”and Slovak as “feminine.” Thus both Roth and Tatarka illustrate the interplay between “otherness”and gender in the production of dissident culture, and its reception by domestic (both Czech and Slovak) as well as international readers.
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Keywords: Soviet Visual Culture; Raul Rajangu; Soviet Midnight;
This paper will look at the Estonian artist Raul Rajangu’s early series Soviet Midnight (Nõukogude öö, 1981–1982) as an Estonian version of Eastern European sots art. It will argue that Rajangu in the early 1980s, just like Russian sots art artists in the 1970s and 1980s, developed a keen interest in one of the highly ideological domains of the Soviet Union: the visual sphere. This interest was manifested in his playful appropriation of the iconic images of Soviet visual culture, such as reproductions of Lenin, party members reviewing a parade, the Soviet governmental car Chaika and the vacuum cleaner Raketa. Together with certain early works of the group SOUP 69 artists Andres Tolts and Leonhard Lapin, these images allow us to talk about Estonian sots art. However, some differences between political art practices in the centre and on the periphery of the Soviet Union will also be outlined under late socialism.
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Keywords: Mircea Eliade; super‑consciousness; the sub‑conscious; psychology of religion; yoga; metapsychics
This paper offers an overview of the way in which Mircea Eliade used psychological language in his early work on religion, and places this early contribution in the context of the history of the psychology of religion. The first two sections comment on Eliade’s earliest mentions of psychological concepts, while the following two go into a more in‑depth analysis of the history of the concept of higher consciousness in psychology and into the history of the psychology of yoga in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Building on these two sections, I analyse the uses of psychology in an unpublished manuscript from 1929 and in Eliade’s Ph.D. thesis.
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Keywords: performance; performativeness; artwork–event; processuality
An exceptionally interesting case of performance in contemporary art are artworks, in which artists do not present a performance itself but rather its effects. For these artists a performance is somehow included in the tissue of the artwork; it was indispensable for the artwork to be created, yet it is hidden so the viewer needs to make an effort to reconstruct this performative character of the artwork and understand (become aware of) the resulting consequences. The text analyses works by Akira Komoto (the Seeing series), the realization by Lech Twardowski (Generator Bez Maszyn), three series of works by Urszula Wilk (Niewysłane listy) as well as selected sculptures by Shen Shaomin (the Bonsai series). Although in these works we deal with various forms of performativeness, their joint feature is the fact that in each of them the viewer must discover and reconstruct the hidden performance in his/her memory.
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Keywords: Review; Latvia – A Work in Progress; 100 Years of State; Nation-Building; Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society;
Review of: Latvia – A Work in Progress? 100 Years of State- and Nation-Building. Hrsg. von David J. S m i t h . (Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, Bd. 142.) ibidem-Verlag. Stuttgart 2017. 320 S., Ill. ISBN 978-3-8382-0648-6. (€ 34,90.). Reviewed by Ivars Ʈjabs.
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Keywords: International Research Network IRNet; research results; dissemination; ICT; e-learning; intercultural competences;
This article, prepared by an international team of researchers from different scientific areas connected with ICT, e-learning, pedagogy, and other related disciplines, focuses on the objectives and some results of the international project IRNet (www.irnet.us.edu.pl). In particular, the article describes research tools, methods, and a procedure of the Work Package 7 “Dissemination of the Project Results,” that is, objectives, tasks, deliverables, publications, and implementation of research trips in the context of the next stages and Work Packages of IRNet project – International Research Network.
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Keywords: borderland;neighbourhood;Hungary;Chronografia;Andrzej Komoniecki;Żywiec;
This article analyses the question of Polish-Hungarian borderland in the Early Modern Age. On the basis of the work Chronografia albo Dziejopis Żywiecki by Andrzej Komoniecki, it discusses various problems related to the political, economic and social history of the Żywiec border-land region. In addition, Komoniecki’s attitude towards members of neighbouring communities across the borders is presented, as the chronicle includes many references to the day-to-day lives of the burghers and peasants from Żywiec and the surrounding area. Komoniecki describes their customs, rituals and mentality, and devotes much space to descriptions of robberies and executions of criminals. It is suggested, moreover, that Komoniecki was particularly interested in natural disasters and other unusual events.
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Keywords: inclusive education beliefs; teaching practices; students with ADHD; predominantly inattentive type;
This study aims to analyze and compare teaching practices in an inclusive setting. The study focuses on teachers’ self-evaluated teaching practices with students with seven or more predominantly inattentive symptoms associated with ADHD, depending on their beliefs about the values of inclusive education and some demographic factors. The results are situated in the context of current literature on inclusive education practices, teacher attitudes towards students with predominantly inattentive symptoms associated with ADHD and teaching practices/classroom strategies for work with them. The questionnaire was administered to 660 teachers from 13 Croatian counties. The participating teachers were asked to complete a standardized questionnaire, including a demographic questionnaire and two scales: Teaching practices self-evaluation scale – TPSE (Vlah & Grbić, 2017) and Teachers’ beliefs about the values of inclusive education scale – TBIES (Skočić Mihić, Gabrić & Bošković, 2016). In an attempt to answer the research question on the relation between teachers’ self-reported teaching practices used in work with students with some inattentive symptoms associated with ADHD, place of residence, and school size, classroom versus subject teaching, teacher education level, work experience and beliefs about the values of inclusive education, we used both a correlation and a hierarchical regression analysis. The results indicated a correlation between teachers’ self-evaluated teaching practices described by three indices (student praise and supportive communication; adjustments to assessment for students; and comprehensive approach to inclusion of students with special needs), teacher education level, and classroom/subject teaching, which also related to teachers’ value of inclusive education. Next, we explored the relationships among the investigated variables in more detail using a hierarchical regression analysis in which different indices of teachers’ self-evaluated teaching practices served as the criterion. In the proposed model inclusive beliefs were revealed as significant predictors of teaching practices. These results extend previous research. Implications for teacher education are discussed and suggestions are made for future research.
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Keywords: Dragoljub Jovanović;agricultural policy;village and peasant;cooperatives;agriculture in Serbia
The problem of agriculture was one of the central issues in the scientific and, later, in the political activities of Dragoljub Jovanović. His understanding of the importance of agriculture, as well as diagnosing the problems that the village, as a territorial unit of agriculture, and the peasant, as a basic economic entity, face in agriculture, is an important basis for analyzing both past and present problems of Serbian agriculture. The answer to the dilemma about Serbian agriculture as its development opportunity, or as a kind of myth that has lasted for more than a century, can be found in Jovanović’s most important conclusions. In this paper, we will present his concept of agricultural policy by analyzing two key categories: the village (and the peasant) and cooperatives. Relying on the established conclusions, we will offer some useful guidelines for the future development of agriculture in Serbia.
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Keywords: work inequalities; Romanian women; COVID-19 pandemics; gender differences; Romanian educational system
Inequalities between women and men in the labor market intensified during the pandemic, wiping out at least two years of progress over the past decade, accordingly to recent reports (European Commission, World Bank, etc.). The existing analyses estimate a "COVID-19 gap" that compares job losses with the increase in employment expected before the pandemic, finding that there are 5.1 million more women unemployed and 5.2 million fewer women working now, compared to what would have happened if the pandemic did not occur. According to Global Gender Gap Report 202," Romania was placed in the 88th position in The Global Gender Gap Index 2021 rankings, with the most significant decrease in Eastern Europe, as compared with the previous year. Our article is focused on the situation of Romanian gender inequalities. As methods of research, we used secondary analysis of data and focus groups. Our study's results discuss the situation of women's inequalities in the Romanian workforce market, particularly in the educational system. Our conclusions point out the necessity of solutions for Romanian women to ease their work's existing double and triple burdens.
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Keywords: cemetery; graveyard; Biecz; the Church of St. James; Order of Friars Minor; physical anthropology;
In 2017 the sewers and water mains in Biecz at the crossroads of 3 Maja and Kolejowa Street underwent modernisation and the work was subject to archaeological supervision. This led to the discovery of several burials, concentrations of human bones, and parts of buildings. Analysis of the findings plus examination of historical records points to these belonging to the graveyard of the now defunct St. James’ Church and a police station from the late 19th century. The results of the supervision were expanded upon by anthropological examination of the human remains and radiocarbon dating, both of which broadened the scope for interpreting the finds. The former helped identify the sex and age of the deceased as well as any pathological changes they may have undergone. Carbon dating confirmed that the burials took place in the 17–18th centuries. The above findings represent a major step in identifying where St. James’ Church in Biecz was located.
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