The Trouble with Diversifying the Faculty

Author(s): Walter Benn Michaels / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2012

This article presents the problem of politics of di erence realized within the American educational system, with a special emphasis on higher education. This politics is according to the author based on putting in the center of all educational actions the idea of diversity, as well in creating academic institutions. This key idea becomes in the American context a special significance, regarding the fact that the American society is based on ideology that celebrates multiculturalism and diversity as such. This article presents also an important for the contemporary situation in the United States problem of combining cultural and ethnic diversity on the economical category of di erence between various classes. Furthermore, it seems to be more significant in the light of the economic crisis in recent years that affected also American education in the same extent.

"Athenae Gedanenses Ephraima Praetoriusa", oprac. Mariusz Brodnicki

Author(s): Alicja Zagrodzka / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2017

"AUSFÜHRLICHE THEORETISCH-PRAKTISCH ANWEISUNG ZUM PIANO-FORTE" J. N. НUMMEL IS IN ESTIMATES AND JUDGMENTS OF THE SCIENTISTS OF THE LATE 19TH CENTURY

Author(s): Olesia Stepanova / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Purpose of the research. The historical significance of J. N. Нummel’s heritage as the systemic integrity goes beyond the limits of its artistic epoch J. N. Нummel's "Guidance" for playing the piano-forte (1828) was highly praised for criticism of that time. Later, J. N. Нummel's work "fell out" from the musical and pedagogical context, it was ceased to interest pianists and teachers as a source of teaching methods of playing the piano. In the name of clarifying the essence of the historical situation, it seems necessary to form a modern assessment of the methodological work of J. N. Нummel as a possible precondition for the introduction of its provisions and principles in the context of modern piano pedagogy. Thus, the purpose of the study is to study the assessments and judgments of scientists of the late XIX century, concern- ing the theoretical and practical aspects of the "Guidance" for playing piano-forte by J. N. Нummel. Methodology. The methods of the research are determined by the task of comprehensive study of Нummel’s pedagogical work, so the research is based on the principle of historicism, axiological research method, as well as methods of systematization and generalization. The scientific novelty of the research is conditioned by the necessity, in the interests of the development of modern piano art, an objective study of J. N. Нummel's "Guidance" from the point of establishing its significance in the context of the first third of the XX century as well as the prospects for its introduction into piano pedagogy of our days. Сonclusions. In his "School" J. N. Нummel synthesized significant "events" of the half-century piano history and scientifically determined prediction (foresight) of the future instrument. Estimates of his contemporaries are contradictory, nevertheless, H. Riemann designated his work – "The Great Piano School", R. Genicka ascribes a prognostic function to his work. It allows putting forward a hypothesis, concerning the fact that J. N. Нummel's work has not lost relevance yet, and it is advisable to introduce its materials in the pedagogical practice of modernity.

"Communication Management" for Employees of Press-Service of State and Municipal Authorities (Case-Study of Distance Learning Organization)

Author(s): Elena MOREEVA,Julia SHESTUN / Language(s): English / Issue: 14/2018

The article describes the experience of distance learning of specialists of the press-services of government bodies. Distance course "communication management" is aimed at training of press for the under-secretaries of state and municipal authorities, departments, agencies, district administrations and other structures. Despite the fact that professional activity in the field of public relations (including public sector) provides Federal State educational standard of higher education with respect to the "Advertising and public relations", for many practitioners in this area the most relevant is short-term (up to 6 months) program for retraining and improvement of professional skill. In this connection, it became necessary to develop such a course. This article provides review of the implementation of course "Communication management" for employees of press services of state and municipal authorities. Training program, technical means, methodical and didactic technologies and techniques, indicators of satisfaction of trainees according to program results, self-assessment of effectiveness course by instructors and organizers of learning are considered. The experience of the implementation of the distance course "Communication Management" made it possible to analyze the strengths and weaknesses in the training of press officers of state authorities, revise and update its content, improve the technical and technological part, improve the learning process as a whole.

"CONTINUE THE STORY" – A SIMPLE GAME, PROFOUND IMPLICATIONS FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Author(s): Aharon Yadin / Language(s): Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050-1350) / Issue: 02/2013

In the modern information society, knowledge sharing and management contributes to the organizations' flexibility and its ability to respond to the market changing requirements. Due to the increased complexity of modern applications, Knowledge Management (KM) has become one of the critical success factors of software development projects. This paper describes a course structure that was designed to increase the students understanding about the importance of knowledge sharing and management. The Software Engineering (SE) course which is intended to familiarize the students with all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SLDC) was taught twice by the same lecturer and used team based assignments that followed the SDLC. In the first version each team was responsible for its own project and all the project's assignments were performed by the same team. However, due to the increased understanding, in recent years, about the importance of soft skills to the future graduates' vocation, the course was changed to address the issue of KM as well. In the second version, the course used "rolling" assignments like the "Continue the Story" game. Each project was divided among three teams and each team had to continue and enhance the assignment that was previously prepared by another team. Utilizing this mechanism, knowledge sharing plays an important role and each team is both influenced by other teams and influences other teams. This interconnected network of dependencies enhanced the students understanding about the importance of sharing information and knowledge, as was demonstrated by the assignments' grades (on average) that in spite the additional work needed, were very similar to the grades of a first version of the course.

"Detskí vojaci" na stránkach zahraničných učebníc dejepisu

Author(s): Adam Suchonski / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 1/2009

Despite the two great wars in the 20th century the world is still harassed by many war conflicts, mainly of regional character. In these conflicts, children soldiers are often involved. Owing to this fact we should attempt to answer a question whether this issue is given due emphasis in history course-books and how the issue is presented. The author examined a selection of foreign course-books, which was possible due to a collection assembled by the Georg Eckert Institute in Braunschweig. A selective analysis of them provides evidence that their authors often concentrate on this interesting issue. Presentation of children soldiers in history course-books has a positive impact upon sensitising young people, the future citizens of the world, to the tragic fate of their peers. Nevertheless, the adults still give guns to the juveniles and make them kill other people. Now it depends on them whether the term ‘children soldiers' will be sent to history.

"ELECTRONIC SHEET OF PRACTICE" USED IN ROMANIAN STUDENTS' INTERNSHIP ACTIVITIES

Author(s): Lumini?a POPA / Language(s): English / Issue: 01/2017

Practice in Romania universities is regulated by the Education Law, which stipulates the students' obligation to perform it. In the case of students' specialty professional practice at economic agents, the Labor Code has also provisions that apply to them. The Labor Code is completed by the other provisions of labor legislation in Romania, in harmony with EU norms and rules of international labor law. The orders of the Ministry of Education on professional practice stipulates that conducting internship in university programs is developed under the Framework Convention between the organizer of practice (university), practice partner (economic agent) and practitioner (student). The Electronic Sheet of Practice (ESP) requires also three different perspectives for student practitioner, faculty member (practice mentor) and economic agent. Using Electronic Sheet of Practic instrument, faculty members practice mentors can post their programs including students' practice results. The existence of such assessment tools and their use in accordance with the law governing the practice of students ensure professional assessment and uniformity of training, fostering their careers accessibility. Such tools, appropriate to each stage of specialty practice development, could be judiciously organized in the European Union countries. The need for such tools, which represent a support unit for the specialty practical training of students, is felt during this period in Romania, which, as its membership of the European Union, must find solutions to meet both commitments and to resolve social problems they face. The educational activities and products of the project, are evaluated favourably by the students who intend to continue their implementation, including in new projects development of the some aspects of the project developed.

"PESCO - PM2 - ESDC" COULD E-LEARNING BRING CLOSER TOGETHER EU's SUCCESS STORIES?

Author(s): Ilias KATSAGOUNOS,Jochen Rehrl / Language(s): English / Issue: 14/2018

The publication of the EU Global Strategy in 2016, led to the development of several new instruments one of them, being the permanent structured cooperation (PESCO), that had already existed for a decade but was waiting for the right moment to be implemented. PESCO can be considered the biggest project for European security to date, which brings together the EU Member States, the European Commission, the Council of the European Union and the European External Action Service, the main actors when it comes to the Union’s foreign and security policy. The authors argue that the Open PM2 methodology should be used to manage PESCO. The necessary education and training for project managers and team leaders should be offered by the European Security and Defence College (ESDC) and its 140 network partners, under the auspices of the Open PM2 Centre of Excellence by using the well-established and widely recognised e-learning management system of the number one CSDP training provider. The article provides concrete solutions and a detailed training needs analysis.

"Tıp Öykücülüğü" Üzerine

Author(s): Hasan Erbay / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: Special/2017

Medicine is a discipline with its own rules and manner of operation. Literature is one of the dozens of kinds of art. The common point of both fields is that they touch human stories from within life. Human stories in the field of health are about the processes in which a person lives, may live or is able to live. With the definition of medical story, it is narrative which are written by medical staffs, especially physicians. Medical narratives are fictitious narratives connected with medical realities, interpreting the health environment from the perspective of a physician or health care provider. Such is the primary concern of the works in the literary concerns. The medical narratiation is a field with a limited number of examples in both Turkish literature and world literature. Due to the diversity of medical education models in recent years, there is a growing interest in the relationship of medicine with literature and social sciences. Both in terms of medical education and in the context of literary and medical literacy, “Medical Narratiation” as a product of “quest of beauty” is a new and distinctive area in Turkish literature.

"Переживання", "удавання" та "відчуження" в прийомах акторської гри театру ляльок

Author(s): Olga Evgenevna Buchma / Language(s): Ukrainian / Issue: 2/2009

he article describes the peculiarities of the psychophysical training of the modern puppet-show’s actor (puppeteer). There is the inner and outward dualism during the creation of the stage image at the Puppet Theatre and necessity of the synthesizing in the work of the modern puppeteer of the methods and moods of the actor’s playing (acting) according to different schools and directions using the patterns of Stanyslavskiy’s system, D. Didro’s theoretical works, B. Koklen’s works (the elder Koklen), the creative researches of B. Brecht. The article analyzes the unity of the "emotion’s art" ("experience"), "imagination’s art" and "effect of the rejection" ("estrangement methods").

"Я перш за все думав про українську культуру…": Володимир Олександрович Щепотьєв

Author(s): Lyudmila Babenko / Language(s): Ukrainian / Issue: 2/2015

The article reveals the lifespan and professional activity of a well-known poltavian, professor VolodymyrShchepotiev. He is highly acknowledged in history as a talented pedagogue, who experienced the growth from a teacher of the Ukrainian literature to the professor, rector of Poltava institution of Folk Education. Being a person with encyclopedic knowledge, as well as being keen on the history of the Ukrainian language and folklore V. O. Shchepotiev applied the folklore patterns and samples in his work. V. O. Shchepotiev was a talented scholar, researcher, and organizer of scientific lifestyle of the region. He wasthe first who initiated establishing of Poltava scientific society, was on good terms with Ukrainian Academy of Science in Kiev, as well as with scientific establishments in Kharkiv. He was the one who organized and subsequently maintained the regional archive while systematizing documents and ordering personal archives. Professor initiated the onset of local history investigations. He personally headed the department of folklore and language in regional museum and at that time he developed the structures of expositions, and systematized the museum collections. He would numerously visited the villages of Poltava to discover historical and cultural as well as ethnographical items and to convert them into museum display objects. V. O. Shchepotiev played an extremely significant role in establishing and developing the theatre and music arts in Poltava region. He was in charge of one of the part of Poltava drama theatre and was one of the talented stage director. He gave his educational lectures to people before the concert programs of the choir "Boyan" which were devoted to folklore and local history. The contemporaries would estimate V. O. Shchepotiev’s music talent, who wrote music compositions, played different music instruments. He, ultimately, was the first who started the scientific investigation of M.V. Lysenko’s biography and creative heritage. The translations of poetry and prose from French, Polish, in particular the poetry by Beranger, libretto for several operas composed an integral part of his literary heritage. His creative and scientific activity was broken down with political repression of the power of the Soviet Union. He was arrested and convicted to administrative exile according to a trial case of SVU and afterwards he was shot away in 1937.

(Bio)ethical Education for Young People in Macedonia

Author(s): Dejan Donev / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Since 1998, a campaign has been going on for including ethical and bioethical education in Macedonia. After years of struggle with the Ministry and the Bureau of Education, this process is finally completed. Bioethical education was introduced as part of ethical education, as a practical pedagogical activity in different schools and on different educational levels - from kindergarten to master and doctoral studies. Furthermore, the method used for the ethical-bioethical education of young people proved to be very interactive and, at the same time, it discovered the route for the contemporary ethical education of the youngest children.

(Dia)logiczny horyzont doświadczenia edukacyjnego, społecznego i kulturowego

Author(s): Jaroslaw Gara / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2 (23)/2018

The category of educational, social and cultural experience is inseparably linked to the spaces of interpersonal contact. Such experience always finally finds its actual frame of reference in a space that is public (open). Public space, as the reverse of private space, implies direct contact between what is known and close and what is unknown and foreign. Thus the open character of public space by very definition requires recognition of what is expressed by the notions of inter-subjectivity and transparency of thought and action. In this context, the author discusses the dialogical attitudes through the category of Unquantifiability, while in turn the categories of intersubjectivity and transparency are considered from the perspective of Non-obviousness. Kategoria doświadczenia edukacyjnego, społecznego i kulturowego odsyła nas do międzyludzkiej przestrzeni styczności. Doświadczenie takie zawsze ostatecznie odnajduje swe rzeczywiste ramy odniesienia w przestrzeni, która ma charakter publiczny (otwarty). Przestrzeń publiczna jako odwrotność przestrzeni prywatnej zakłada zaś bezpośrednią styczność tego, co znane i bliskie z tym, co nieznane i obce. Otwarty charakter przestrzeni publicznej z założenia wymaga więc uznania tego, co wyraża się w racjach intersubiektywności i transparentności myślenia i działania. W tym też kontekście nastawienia dialogiczne rozpatruję przez pryzmat kategorii Niewymierności, z kolei samą intersubiektywność i transparentność rozpatruję przez pryzmat kategorii Nieoczywistości.

(E)LEARNING CITIZENSHIP AND PARTICIPATION: INTERACTIVE PLATFORM TO SUPPORT ACTIVE LEARNING AND PRACTICE OF CIVIC COMPETENCIES

Author(s): Oana Mosoiu,Doru Stefanescu / Language(s): English / Issue: 01/2013

In the past decade, there has been a continuous increase of educational activities using technology to support the active process of learning. Either in form of social media, communication groups or elearning platforms, the technology and internet helps learning processes by making virtual space a meeting point for interactive activities connected with learning: communication, project development, implementation and dissemination, reflection and post-project/follow up innitiatives. The de-monopolisation of virtual space with the 2.0 era and use the current 3.0 generation allows more and more users to become contributors to the content available online, with a double facet issue: increase of quantity of content and number of contributors vs problematic quality of content, sources of documentation and validity of information provided. Still, the learning triggered by the means of internet is a valuable way to keep learners interested and active in the process. The last Ericsson ConsumerLab report - Learning and Education in the Networked Society announces the end of education era and start of the true learning era in a networked society - more individualized learning process, more personal-oriented and self-managed. The present study presents how an interactive platform to support the project of learning active citizenship and participation though the pupils’ council within schools at national level can be the tool for the process and the result of technology mediated learning.

(IN)FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES IN BLENDED AND E-LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS

Author(s): Luiza Caraivan / Language(s): English / Issue: 01/2012

taking into account the teaching-learning process in the context of the blended and elearning environments. It also considers the strong relationship between universities and the competitive job market due to the fact that all the beneficiaries of the education system need to be aware of what skills and competences are built and evaluated in higher education and how assessment is conducted in order to obtain relevant results. In this respect, assessment is viewed both as formative and informative. The case study presents some formative techniques that have been applied in a Business Communication course to assess students’ skills when communicating for business purposes.

(Nie)moce kształcenia historycznego w Polsce. Głos w dyskusji

Author(s): Arnold Klonczynski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2015

There is an ongoing discussion on the crisis of humanistic education at universities. The causes of this phenomenon are considered to be the Bologna system introduced several years ago, the low qualifications of candidates, the introduction of the educational effects described by the National Qualifications Frameworks as well as the system of financing higher education institutions. One should remember in this discussion about the arguments for the maintenance of the Bologna system, which gives an opportunity to extend the offers of universities and to modify them. The academic community protests against the attempt to surrender the education to the discipline of the labour market. The commercialization of education is clearly visible in the presently used dehumanised terminology, in which universities ‘render educational services’ and education has become a service (production). The proposed solutions, e.g. the establishment of so-called ‘flagship universities’, may divide the academic community and lead to the crisis that will overshadow the present one.

(Nie)przygotowani. Metafora szkoły w polskiej poezji współczesnej

Author(s): Kamila Czaja / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2018

The dissertation focuses on the – underrepresented in the state of research – subject of metaphor of school in the contemporary Polish poetry. The inspirations drawn from the works on the subject of the cognitive metaphor (Lakoff and Johnson) and the development of this theory on the poetic matter (Lakoff and Turner), from the papers written in the field of anthropology of education, from the partial analyses of the works by poets using the school scenes and terminology and, at last, from philosophical, psychological, pedagogical and sociological studies on mutual connections between education and non-school world allow to see the multifaceted application of the large metaphor LIFE IS A SCHOOL in the poetry. To show this large-scale subject (both in the aspect of the time-frame and poetic diction or genre) in a systematic way, the thesis consists of two parts, which are the result of two complementary approaches. The first part of the dissertation, Stages, is dedicated to the metaphor of school existing in the Polish poetry of two different periods – the years 1945–1989 (the escape from politics into the universal metaphors of school versus the use of school language as the way to beat the Polish People’s Republic system at its own game) and the new Polish poetry (the last works by the Old Masters, the transformation of the anti-system poetry after 1989, the poems forerunningthe latest poetic strategy, the anti-school statements by the authors who emerged after 1989 and their inclination to use the metaphor of school). This chronological conceptualization of the subject allows to present the intergenerational similarities and differences in including the school scenes, characters, objects and terms in the poetry, but at the same time it shows that the metaphor of school is formed partly under the influence of external (historical, political, social) factors, so this figure can be used not only as the universal large metaphor, but also as the instrument of verbalization of the experiences and changes associated with the specific events.The second part of the thesis, Topics, serves as the examination of those elements of school reality that build the metaphors connected with education. The school accessories, the educational institutions and stages, the teachers and the students, the timetable (lessons, tutoring, truancy, summer breaks), as well as the methods of evaluation of the educational performance appear in the contemporary Polish poetry in various forms and turn out to be the way to verbalize a wide range of existential experiences.The timelessness of school as the large metaphor of life and the specific strategies of metaphorization that change with time both contribute to versatility of this kind of poetic practices – the practices that are able to express different aspects of life metaphorically by the means connected with school. Love and death, past, present and future, self-recognition and the knowledge of the Other become more accessible and understandable when they are presented as the elements of “education” – even if the findings drawn from those “lessons”on the human condition can be really disheartening.

(Nie)zdolność gimnazjalistów do owocnego przyjęcia bierzmowania

Author(s): Janusz Mastalski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 24/2017

The author of the article answers the question: What do we mean by one’s inability to receive fruitfully the sacrament of Confirmation? It is a lack of the conditions necessary to multiply graces associated with a particular sacrament. It is a kind of resistance to the use of all the gifts that are connected with the reception of the sacrament. This inability causes one to become a person who wastes the power given by the Lord. The author then discusses the reasons for this inability and simultaneously shows the factors which can enhance a human being’s fruitful reception of the sacraments, especially of the sacrament of Confirmation. Among the factors of inability, the author includes: netoholism, phonoholism (addiction to the internet and the cell phone), defamilization (the undoing of the family), “irresponsibilism”, epidermal (superficial) religiosity, psychocide and spiritocide (the killing of the psyche and the spirit), intrusiveness of global trends and the lack of pastoral creativity for today’s youth. The author also reveals factors which can promote the ability of teenagers to make the sacrament of Confirmation effectively: the multiplicity of methods of evangelization, modern affirmation of integral development, “plasticity” of personality, the desire for community resulting from development, the longing for the sacred and the search for a way to live.

(Saha Türklerinin Destanı) Nurgun Batır Destanı

Author(s): Erdogan Altinkaynak,Aygül Bolotova Altinkaynak / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 25/2015

(Self) Evaluation of Knowledge in Students’ Population in Higher Education in Macedonia

Author(s): Lupco Kevereski / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

Students’ assessment, in general, observed through a socio-historical prism, has always beentreatedas an extremely sensitive, current, significant, indicative and continuously present phenomenon. In that respect, what is especially relevant is that for a very long time docimological procedures and their effects have been focused on following only the primary and secondary schools’ student population and they were expected to be an integral part of the teachers’ professional practice. But, when the first book on evaluation in higher education appeared in the UK some 30 years ago, there were some fierce reactions to it. Thus, Hounsell (2003) points out that this topic has become so controversial, frightening and even offensive for many university professors. However, today it is considered that a good practitioner is the one who reviews his own practice and who evaluates the teaching process from the learners’ perspective (Brown, Fry & Marshall, 2003). Therefore, the underlying motivation for conducting this research was the fundamental issue of students’ self-evaluation of their achievements.The main objective of this study is to determine whether there is compatibility of the students’ self-assessment of their achievements with the professors’ evaluation of students’ achievements. To that end, we applied a transparent procedure for collecting information involving a self-evaluation sheet and an interview technique in the context of the following university courses: general psychology, developmental psychology and social psychology. The preliminary results point to a high percentage of correspondence betweenthe students and professor’s evaluation. The expected outcome of this research is to promote this type of evaluation approach and to turn it into a common practice in higher education as it can contribute greatly to amplifying the quality of students’ self-assessment on the one hand, and the teachers’ interest in bettering the existing modes of students’ evaluation on the other hand.