Monographic Part. Developmental Directions of Pedagogical Ethic and Theory of Moral Education (edited by Alicja Żywczok): Educational Preparation for Ethical Action for Balanced Development

Część monograficzna. Kierunki rozwoju etyki pedagogicznej i teorii wychowania moralnego (pod redakcją Alicji Żywczok): Edukacyjne przygotowanie do etycznego działania na rzecz zrównoważonego rozwoju

Author(s): Ewa Szadzińska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 46 (1)/2016

Keywords: education for sustainable development; ability to evaluate; educational strategy; cooperation

The paper presents the idea of sustainable development which sets the direction for the development of education. Indicated the need for changes in the value of students in accordance with this idea. In educational practice the most importance is a valorization strategy because the result is the ability to evaluate. It is needed for decision-making and preparation of action in accordance with the principles of sustainable development.

Reviews, Announcements, Polemics: Barbara Ostafińska-Molik: „Postrzeganie siebie i własnego zachowania w kontekście zaburzeń adaptacyjnych młodzieży”. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2014, pp. 368, ISBN 978-83-233-3768-3

Recenzje, komunikaty, polemiki: Barbara Ostafińska-Molik: „Postrzeganie siebie i własnego zachowania w kontekście zaburzeń adaptacyjnych młodzieży”. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2014, 368 s., ISBN 978-83-233-3768-3

Author(s): Barbara Adamczyk / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 46 (1)/2016

University and Commercialization. Reconstruction of the Western Debate

Uniwersytet i komercjalizacja. Rekonstrukcja zachodniej debaty

Author(s): Zbyszko Melosik / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2012

Keywords: commercialization of the modern university; marketization of academic knowledge; “supermarketization”

The article concerns the phenomenon of commercialization of the modern university, and especially its two primary functions: research and teaching. On one hand, the author analyzes such phenomena as the marketisation of academic knowledge, which becomes a “commodity for sale”, and scientists, because of the dependence of the big bussines are forced to give up their passion for seeking truth. On the other hand, the learning process is shown in the context of the prevailing reductionist phenomenon of “supermarketization”, where the student becomes the client and the university is transformed into a big department store.

Monitoring Students’ Information Proficiency at Higher Pedagogical Educational Establishments of Poland and Ukraine

Monitoring Students’ Information Proficiency at Higher Pedagogical Educational Establishments of Poland and Ukraine

Author(s): Lesya Shevchuk / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2012

Keywords: competence; information proficiency; teachers’ information proficiency forming in the Polish Republic; standards and structure of future teachers’ information proficiency

The article deals with the development of students’ information proficiency in the Polish Republic and Ukraine. The article is devoted to the implications brought into the process of teachers training by the impact of key competencies and information technologies. Special attention is paid to information proficiency and future teachers’ skills that are the most important for their training and perspective career. Monitoring of future teachers’ information proficiency forming at Polish establishments of higher education has been carried out which resulted in developing methodology recommendations for raising the level of the students’ information pro ciency at Ukrainian pedagogical higher educational establishments. Level of scientifc development of the issue of future teachers’ information proficiency forming has been described. Competence approach to training teachers for information society has been paid attention to. Peculiarities and structure of future teachers’ information pro ciency have been characterized. Standards and criteria of Polish teachers have been systematized, contents of future teachers’ information pro ciency forming at Polish establishments of higher education have been analysed; projects and programmes as means for future teachers’ information proficiency forming have been characterized.

The Contemporary Society, Changes in the Job World – Challenges for the Future

The Contemporary Society, Changes in the Job World – Challenges for the Future

Author(s): Agnieszka Cybal-Michalska / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2012

Keywords: contemporary society; globalizational processes; socio-cultural transformation; heterogeneity; orientations of society; job market; living to work

The narrative used in the article refers to the interpretational complexity of the phenomenon of contemporary society. Globalization ful lls a wide spectrum of the global world phenomena in the situation of unobviousness, diversity, ambivalence and ambiguity, which in uence the new quality of sociocultural life. Trying to understand the content given to the distinguished definitions of society, intellectuals refer to the theory of the social development and to the interpretation of the mechanisms of a social change, with a focus on the spheres of social life, which are the impulses for changes taking place in the society. Emphasizing heterogeneity and changeability of forms of postmodern social organization, one may point to the following orientations capturing subtleness of the contemporary society: orientation to a global change, orientation to a certain type of civilization ascription to risk, orientation to responsibility, orientation to anticipation, orientation to responsible participation and cooperation in a changing and interdependent global society, orientation to knowledge, orientation to experience borrowed from the media, orientation to the consumption ideology. Society faces the task of selfdetermination in the situation of non-obviousness, risk, fragmentation and ambiguity. By no accident then, were the the globalizational processes in the world and a critical and permanent thought and evaluation of the changes taking place in the modern global society, in the focus of the authoress. Paying attention to the quality of the global “cultural ecumene” (U. Hannerz) inclines re ection about global changes in lifestyles which is meaningful for the quality of changes in the job world and career planning and career management practices. The sequential development of an individual (which is integrally linked with the career development) constitutes the essence of the process, which is lifelong. The economy which is based on knowledge determines the orientation on knowledge of the contemporary society. The development of careers of members in such a society is its crucial element. Moreover, the quality of socio-cultural and economic changes will demand constant career management and modi cation of its individualized paths.

Critical Race Theory and the Presence of Concept of Race in the Past and Current Educational Debates in the United States

Krytyczna teoria rasy (Critical Race Theory) i obecność koncepcji rasy w kontekście przeszłych i bieżących amerykańskich dyskusji edukacyjnych

Author(s): Jarema Drozdowicz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2012

Keywords: race; racism; Critical Race Theory; Culture; education; American studies; Gates controversy; Brown vs. Board of Education; hate speech; difference; Williams-Bolar controversy

The concept of race seems to be, despite the e orts of various political movements of 1960’s still present in the public life and education in the Unites States. Contemporary educational debates in America in most cases tackle this problem through the lenses of a speci c research approach which takes the concept of race as granted, when examining social relations in the American society. This approach, generally called Critical Race Theory (CRT) had been established in the late 1980’s, but its theoretical, methodological and political roots go back to the decade of the Vietnam War and the assassination of Martin Luther King or even further. This paper makes an attempt to deliver a closer look at the CRT and to highlight its most important assumptions and forms of political actions undertaken within the common frame of the racial concept. The Boasian tradition in the American way of conceptualization of race is an important factor in this debate. The past and present educational debates in the USA prove the fact that the idea of race is undergoing nowadays an intensive shift from its biological basis towards economic and social di erences making the new con icts even more visible in the American political landscape today.

Affirmative Action at Harvard University

Działania afirmatywne na Uniwersytecie Harvarda

Author(s): Daria Hejwosz-Gromkowska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2012

Keywords: afirmative action; the United States; equal opportunity; cultural diversity; Harvard University

A rmative action was introduced to the American universities in the 1960s. The aim of this policy was to benefit the underrepresented groups, especially African Americans both in the higher education and the job market. The a rmative action was introduced to ensure equal opportunities as well as cultural diversity. The policy of Harvard University towards African Americans, Asian Americans and the other excluded groups was analyzed in this article. Moreover, the attempt to reconstruct the current debate about outcomes of the afirmative action was made. The article also tries to answer the following questions: did the a rmative action increase the number of the minority groups at Harvard University? Has the policy of equal opportunities eliminated inequalities or, on the contrary has it deepened them?

Reviews, Announcements, Polemics: „Jedzenie jako sytuacja edukacyjna i społeczna”. Red. naukowa Barbara Juraś-Krawczyk, Elżbieta Woźnicka. Łódź: Wydawnictwo Akademii Humanistyczno-Ekonomicznej w Łodzi, 2015, pp. 196, ISBN 978-83-7405-630-4

Recenzje, komunikaty, polemiki: „Jedzenie jako sytuacja edukacyjna i społeczna”. Red. naukowa Barbara Juraś-Krawczyk, Elżbieta Woźnicka. Łódź: Wydawnictwo Akademii Humanistyczno-Ekonomicznej w Łodzi, 2015, 196 s., ISBN 978-83-7405-630-4

Author(s): Monika Sulik / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 46 (1)/2016

Reviews, Announcements, Polemics: Gregory Bateson in Poland. The Account of the First Batesonian Symposium Entitled “The Invisible Environment: Ecology as a Discourse in Humanities” (Dąbrowa Górnicza, 13–15 May 2016)

Recenzje, komunikaty, polemiki: Gregory Bateson w Polsce. Sprawozdanie z I Sympozjum Batesonowskiego pt. „Niewidzialne środowisko: ekologia jako dyskurs w humanistyce” (Dąbrowa Górnicza, 13–15 maja 2016 r.)

Author(s): Sławomir Pasikowski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 46 (1)/2016

Chronicle: Grief and Remorse. A Farewell to my Friend

Kronika: Smutek i żal. Pożegnanie z moim Przyjacielem

Author(s): Andrzej Radziewicz-Winnicki / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 46 (1)/2016

Alternative and Innovative Approach in Modern Education – on the Example of Czech Republic

Alternatywność i innowacyjność w edukacji współczesnej – na przykładzie Czech

Author(s): Eva Zamojska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2012

Keywords: educational alternatives; educational innovations; education in Czech Republic

The article in its introduction does present an attempt of facing the dificulties in defining alternativity and innovation in education, taking as the basis opinions of Polish and Czech pedagogists and theoreticians. Second part of the paper is made by a description of examples of alternative and innovative educational activities undertaken in contemporary Czech Republic.

The Use of the Term ‘Freedom’ and Its Theoretical Connotations

Pojęcie wolności i jego teoretyczne konotacje

Author(s): Violeta Kopińska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2012

Keywords: freedom; responsibility; tolerance; auto-creation; self-realization

There do exist two basic approaches towards the term ‘freedom’. The first one, is a general approach, related to an universal meaning of the term. The second one, is a particular approach, based on taking/heading for understanding of freedom in plural terms. Both approaches might, but not necessary do, exclude each other. An alternative takes an interpretation of particular freedoms, which simultaneously excludes the existence of a universal freedom (and the other way around). On the other hand, conjunction, i.e. the examination of a universal freedom on the basis of analysis of particular freedoms and/or reconstruction of the term “freedom” on the basis of interpretations and meanings given to particular freedoms. As a follower of the idea of conjunction of both approaches, I’m analyzing in this paper the theoretical connotations of this term such as: the feeling of freedom, its limitations, responsibility, tolerance, auto-creation and self-realization. This is being done for the reason to stress out the depth and the vastness of freedom, as well to let the potential reader reconstruct it.

An Analysis of Parents’ Competences in Children Safety in the Internet

Analiza kompetencji rodziców w zakresie bezpieczeństwa dzieci w Internecie

Author(s): Anna Bartkowiak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2012

Keywords: threats in the Internet; children’s safety in the Internet; children in the Web; parents of children in the Web; Internet competences of parents; Internet competences of children

In the last three years there had been conducted several researches in Poland, which were related to competences and consciousness of parents in the field of children safety in the Internet, including the research conducted in 2010 in all European Union countries (the EU Kids Online research). In this paper the author focuses mainly on the comparison and synthesis of the result of these researches on safety of children in the Internet and parent’s competences in that matter as well on presentation of conclusions drawn from these results. The paper also presents brie y types and classi cation of Internet threats, as well the analysis of activities and competences of children in the Web.

Adult Girls and Their Little Dolls – Reborns in the Postmodern Culture

O dużych dziewczynkach i ich małych lalkach – reborn w kulturze ponowoczesnej

Author(s): Dorota Zaworska-Nikoniuk / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2012

Keywords: reborn; simulating motherhood; realistic baby like dools; postmodern culture

The article deals with the analysis of the phenomenon of simulating motherhood and fatherhood by playing reborns – realistic baby-like dolls, it describes the process of reborns creation, the intentions of artists who create them and the motives of people who use ‘arti cial children’. The article gives a threefold analysis of the phenomenon: the striving for living in perfect reality that is simulated (based on the concept by J. Baudrillard), acting the play of family life in the magic world of consumption (based on the concept by G. Ritzer) and aiming at collecting experiences, impressions and emotions (based on the concept by Z. Bauman). As an educationalist I am considering the following: may using reborns have a therapeutical and educational aspect and what is their role in the postmodern world.

“What Are You Laughing At?”, Sketch Comedies in the Perspective of Education

„Z czego się śmiejecie?”, czyli sztuka kabaretowa w perspektywie edukacyjnej

Author(s): Kamila Osip / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2012

Keywords: critical pedagogy; deconstruction of culture; resistance; dialogue; cabaret; popular arts; game; entertainment

The educational reality is nowadays increasingly associated with the philosophy of postmodernity. The new orientation leads researchers to explore new paths – one of them may be the inclusion of popular culture with all its potential, not excluding popular arts, to the educational canon. This text is an attempt to approximate the popular arts as having signi cant educational potential in reference to the critical pedagogy. I will try to prove that even purely entertaining aspects of culture may have educational content. First of all, I would like to describe a critical orientation in pedagogy; I will present its practical side in relation to the deconstruction of cultural meanings and  nally, I will show some consequent implications for relations between culture and education. The next part of my considerations will concern the popular culture as an educational area, with particular emphasis on a game as the source of culture and as an inherent element of popular arts. I will present in detail associations between popular arts and education based on Polish cabaret which I acknowledged as a place, where basic tasks and functions of critical pedagogy can be seen and realized. Finally, I will present some parts of interviews which had been conducted as my researches – these are the respondents’ opinions about cabaret and its interpretation. This part seems to be showing cabaret as a place of discourse, where a critical dialogue between the sender, the content and the recipient of cabaret transmission takes place.

Eva Zamojska, Equality in Polish and Czech Schoolbooks, Poznań 2010

Eva Zamojska, Równość w kontekstach edukacyjnych. Wybrane aspekty równości w polskich i czeskich podręcznikach szkolnych, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznań 2010, 336 s.

Author(s): Ewa Karmolińska-Jagodzik / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2012

Daria Hejwosz, Education and the creting of Social Elites, Kraków 2010

Daria Hejwosz, Edukacja uniwersytecka i kreowanie elit społecznych, Oficyna Wydawnicza „Impuls”, Kraków 2010, 332 s.

Author(s): Michał Klichowski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2012

Sylwia jaskulska, The note on behavior in the experience of gymnasium pupils, Poznań 2009

Sylwia Jaskulska, Ocena zachowania w doświadczeniach gimnazjalistów, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznań 2009, 192 s.

Author(s): Patrycja Miśko / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2012

The youth and success in life, Dobrochna Hildebrandt-Wypych, Katarzyna Kabacińska, (eds.), Kraków 2010

Młodzież a sukces życiowy, red. nauk. Dobrochna Hildebrandt-Wypych, Katarzyna Kabacińska, Oficyna Wydawnicza „Impuls”, Kraków 2010, 468 s.

Author(s): Paulina Wierzba / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2012

Report on the conference "Between traditional ethos and commercialization" held in Gułtowy 2011

Sprawozdanie z konferencji pt. „Pedagogika jako kierunek kształcenia i dyscyplina naukowa. Między tradycyjnym etosem a komercjalizacją” Gułtowy, 23–24 maja 2011 roku

Author(s): Karolina Kuryś / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2012