(P)oszukiwanie tożsamości: cztery studia o angielskim Oświeceniu

Author(s): Paweł T. Dobrowolski / Language(s): Polish

The book consists of introduction and four chapters, each being an independent albeit interconnected study related to the issues of emerging English/British modern identity. Conclusion and full bibliography follow. The common motives of each study revolve around the practices of constructing modern cultural and social identity, by means of affirmation or impersonation. The first three chapters deal with the shifting British cultural patterns – the meaning of masquerades and gender-related issues - often viewed against contemporary Europen context. In the last essay, which is embedded in current historiography on penal deportation the statistically presented data and conclusions belong also to the domain of economic history.The choice of literature is comprehensive. The rich and perceptive choice of illustrations, which visualise the text allow the reader to imagine many of the dramatis personae.

A „mintha” színházi valósága

Author(s): Mónika Rancz / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 4/2020

In my thesis I will be making the theatrical “as if” a question of cognition, I investigate how stage work opens up to our perception. I define this particular reality’s inner workings as the essence of the work, play-opportunity, theatric experience. At the end of my research the “as-if” shows up as reality whose quest is to step in from behind the scenes upholding its own truth.

A Comparative Study of Attitudes towards Entrepreneurship between Polish and British Students

Author(s): Michał Chmielecki,Robert Seliga / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

Background Entrepreneurship continues to gain momentum as a significant and relevant field of research. Policy makers in the rush to stimulate entrepreneurship in various countries, often rely on the success stories and prescriptions documented in the entrepreneurship literature in which most studies are set in the United States. Research aims The article present exploratory study addresses the subject of cross-cultural differences in attitudes towards entrepreneurship by focusing attention on two particular types of cultures of entrepreneurship British and Polish. Method The quantitative research (survey) was conducted in May 2014 among 153 Polish and 94 British graduate and postgraduate management students. Key findings The findings have some distinctive implications for government, policy makers and educators through determining the attitudes towards entrepreneurship among students.

A Defining Moment - Transnational Nursing Education

Author(s): Nirmala Arunasalam / Language(s): English

A DEFINING MOMENT, Transnational Nursing Education by Dr Nirmala ARUNASALAM is a competent and accessible text focusing on nurse education. Recommended for teaching and learning as well as pedagogical courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It is a must have and a must read in a world of “pseudo factum knowledge” where social and human oriented professions and scientific disciplines such as nursing are getting little attention. The depth of the background for this study, and the intimate self-reflection Dr Arunasalam provides for this monograph greatly enhances the quality of the study. This book is an insightful exploration of an example of transnational higher education which identified some key questions that need to be asked about such programmes.

A kultúra közjó

Author(s): Virág Buka,Kristóf Nagy / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 27/2020

This article focuses on the emergence of the paradigm of solidarity economy and of the commons in the field of professional cultural production. We unfold the possible mutual cooperation of cultural producers and commoning social movements by examining the case studies of the Resonate music streaming co-op and of the Dutch Stad in de Maak housing-initiative. The case of the Resonate exemplifies how cultural producers can reorganize their industry in a cooperative way to hinder capitalist value extraction. Another type of encounter takes place between culture and commons when cultural producers utilize their knowledge and skills in various solidarity economy projects. We demonstrate this possibility through the case of the Rotterdam-based Stad in the Maak, where the artist-architect founders launched a long-term community housing initiative.

A Painting Exhibition as a Personal Multimodal Diary: Example of the Facebook Page “Guy De Montlaur”

Author(s): Marina Zagidullina / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

Technological facilitations of current communication exchange are considered as a basement of emerging media forms. For example, Facebook allows users to publish multimodal content and to organize it in long-lasting projects. In the “Guy de Montlaur” Facebook-page example, one can see how the classic format of a painting exhibition can be combined with a “personal diary”. Three aspects of such a form will be analyzed: (1) regularity (as a basement of periodicity); (2) principles of the choice of paintings (art-historian aspect); (3) principles of comment (art-critical aspect). In this example, the mechanisms of multilayered communication can be identified. The research approach can be fruitfully applied to other emerging forms and formats of user communication.

A SZABADKAI JOGI KAR MAGYAR HALLGATÓINAK SZÁMA, DEMOGRÁFIAI JELLEMZŐI ÉS TANULMÁNYI EREDMÉNYEI

Author(s): Zoltán Mészáros / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 3/2020

This study was written after I found new sources among the archival material in the Historical Archive of Subotica, more precisely 9 boxes with documents. Their length is slightly larger than a continuous meter (1.08 m ). In them I found the enrollment forms of 106 new Hungarian students, and their personal files were added too. Based on that fact we can conclude that approximately 447 Hungarian students studied at the Faculty of Law in Subotica, of which, according to our previous knowledge, 71 graduated, or 15.9% of the enrolled Hungarian students. The oldest student was born in 1879, and the youngest in 1922. In Zagreb, the percentage of graduates was much more favorable, which was probably the reason for the attractiveness of Zagreb among the inhabitants of Vojvodina. Unfortunately, I noticed the boxes with the archive material only after the publication of the book edited by academician Tibor Várady, so I changed the numbers in the light of the new data. When examining the documents of the Faculty of Law in Subotica I first reviewed the enrollment forms from 65 boxes, to which I later added data from 9 subsequently discovered boxes. Unfortunately, I had no choice but to recalculate the statistics after the manuscript was completed, since the number of 341 students originally found was modified after 106 students were subsequently discovered, although all this did not greatly change the overall picture. In addition, it is important that there is a trace of that modification somewhere, if for objective reasons a corrected study could not be found in the book. Unfortunately, our past is not sufficiently protected, few people research it, so it is especially important to continue with repeated attempts and to correct mistakes and omissions. This study was also written in that spirit.

Accounting challenges for sustainability and innovations

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

The aim of this e-book is to present the most important aspects related to sustainability, corporate social responsibility and innovation from an accounting perspective. The book contains parts that deal with accounting aspects of sustainability and innovations. The book consists of ten chapters devoted to relevant and topical issues of sustainability and innovations. Chapter 1 'Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility in accounting' is an introduction to further considerations and deals with the essence of sustainable development, corporate social responsibility and their recognition in accounting. Chapter 2 'Social responsibility reporting standards' presents the most important reporting guidance such as GRI, OECD, United Nations Global Compact, International Organization for Standardization. Chapter 3 'Narrative reporting' focuses on descriptions and explanations in accounting reports. The chapter presents the links between accounting and language, the development of accounting narratives and the factors determining the use of narratives. Chapter 4 'Integrated reporting' discusses the motivations, objectives and the process of preparing an integrated report. Integrated reporting can prove to be an effective tool for businesses looking to shift their reporting focus from annual financial performance to long-term shareholder value creation. Chapter 5 'Non-financial reporting' in selected European countries presents the experience of Croatia, the Czech Republic and Poland in the field of preparing non-financial reports. A significant contribution to promoting the importance of sustainability reporting was made by the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (2014/95/EU). Chapter 6 'Socially responsible investments' discusses the essence of socially responsible investing and socially responsible investment. Socially responsible investing (SRI) is a decision making process concerning the allocation of free financial resources, where the investor aims at maximization of profit and minimization of risk on one part and includes the socio-ethical and environmental-ecological considerations on the other. Chapter 7 'External costs – accounting perspective' describes costs connected with using goods such as air, soil, water, silence or the aesthetics of the surroundings. One of the biggest problems for accounting in the future will be measuring the volume of using these goods or measuring the size of reduction in the quality of public goods suffered and assigning the decrease to particular companies. Chapter 8 'Derivatives in accounting' is devoted to financial instruments and presents two different approaches to accounting of derivatives: general model and hedge accounting. Derivatives are used to protect the enterprise against financial risk related to changes in prices on the markets, changes in the exchange rate or changes in interest rates, as well as for commercial purposes. Chapter 9 'Costs of research and development' shows the company's activity in the field of research and development and the related costs. R&D constitute an increasingly important element of the functioning of enterprises. Chapter 10 'Cryptoassets – nature, valuation and disclosures in accounting' focuses on cryptocurrencies (e.g. Bitcoin, Ethereum etc.) and digital tokens which are specific rights or values representatives. As a result of the transformation on the financial market, we are currently dealing with cryptoassets, which are a creation of blockchain technologies and the changing habits of the digital society. One of areas that there are a lot of doubts regarding these new technological solutions is accounting.

Advances in Contemplative Social Research

Author(s): Krzysztof T. Konecki / Language(s): English

This book is unique and audacious, and fits very well with current tendencies within qualitative research. It introduces new, fresh threads to questions and concerns that are highly significant for contemporary social sciences. The formulated conclusions go beyond directly methodological issues, posing key philosophical questions to the whole project of Western sociology.Grażyna WoronieckaFrom the review of the bookDeep contemplation of the situation could be the epistemological choice for social scientists. It is a fundamentally different approach to the research, where the investigator is researching the object but also the situation of research and her-self/him-self. Contemplating is a dual way of the approaching the truth. It does not mean that the researcher is mentally divided; just the opposite, she/he wants to be complete and achieve the unity of being as a researcher-human being and an element of the situation (psycho-social and historical). Contemplating enables researchers to see how the mind works and creates the images and reports from the field – what is available for the mind and what is silent or repressed because of the dominating rhetoric of description and rhetoric of feeling?... Contemplation is not only analysis, it is also an ethical choice of stopping here and now to see the situation clearly and reporting it with the all reservations that could be the result of the mindfully-observed interaction of mind, self, and situation at one historical moment.From the Introduction

Affective Well-Being of Private Sector Employees in Slovakia

Author(s): Miriam Martinkovičová,Miroslava Knapíková,Alena Kaščáková / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2020

Affective Well-Being of Private Sector Employees in Slovakia. The primary aim of the paper is to present selected results of an original representative survey of the use of time in Slovak households, in which one of the methods of determining the affective component of subjective well-being was used for the first time in Slovakia. Based on the recommendations of the harmonized research on the use of time, we identified extremely positive emotion (happiness) by the means of 24-hour monitoring of the allocation and use of time for paid work, unpaid work and leisure time during the working day and free day. For this contribution, we selected those respondents who are private sector employees. We evaluated and processed the perception of the affective component of subjective well-being (SWB) in terms of age categories of employees, gender, and household category. The research has shown that the hedonic component of SWB, meaning an extremely positive emotion, is the most common among employees in the 25-49 age group at performing unpaid work activities during the working day. Employed women perform more unpaid work and they feel more positive emotions during its performance than working men. Employees living in households with children up to 15 years of age feel more positive emotions at performing unpaid work activities than employees without young children. On the other hand, employees living in households without children (up to 15 years of age) experience more positive emotions during leisure time activities.

Akademska čestitost studenata – preduvjet gospodarskog razvoja

Author(s): Rudolf Kiralj / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 14/2020

Students’ honesty is a key element in the context of academic honesty, when taking into consideration that the share of academically educated persons is in permanent increase. Students are the future moving power of the society; they are the part of the population that will significantly influence the society on the whole and its socio-economic development, including the younger generations. The paper analyses eight groups of data on the constant growth of students’ dishonesty in the world, and particularly in the USA, the United Kingdom and Sweden. Over the last two decades, a significant increase has been recorded. The situation in Croatia has been compared with these trends on the basis of the data gained by studying various sources from literature and the internet, as well as several estimates. As a result, the following students’ dishonesty indices have been defined: average (IC0) and maximal (IC1) cheating at exams, and average (IP0) and maximal (IP1) plagiarism. The indices mainly follow global trends, whilst over the last two decades, the average percentage of students engaging in dishonest activities has been alarmingly high: 64 % (IC0); 76 % (IC1); 33 % (IP0) and 77 % (IP1). Data according to five socio-economic indices have been collected and estimated: GDP (gross domestic product per capita), HDI (human development index), GII (global innovation index), CPI (corruption perception index), and EI (education index). By the means of weighing correlation and regression, it has been determined that IC0, IC1, IP0 and IP1 are different indices; that IP0 and IP1 do not correlate well with time and the socio-economic variables due to an insufficient quantity of data on students’ plagiarism; that IC0 and IC1 correlate well with time, GDP, HDI and EI. Furthermore, IC0 and IC1 have modestly decreased over the last several years; and IP0 and IP1 have demonstrated no decrease at all. The dependence of IC0 and IC1 on GDP, HDI and EI has been presented by two sigmoid curves, with a minor increase around 1980, and a major around 2010. Since students’ dishonesty and its growth have been socially determined, the culture itself ought to be changed – from the culture of profit, competition and success to the culture of knowledge and responsibility, with pronounced social and moral components of the socio-economic development.

Aktyvios įtraukties apribojimai ir socialinių paslaugų vaidmuo: Lietuvos atvejis

Author(s): Boguslavas Gruževskis,Sandra Krutulienė,Rasa Miežienė / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 2/2021

The use of active inclusion (AI) policies is steadily growing worldwide, especially among developed (OECD) countries. This concept is most consistently applied in EU countries, with some countries spending more than 1% of their GDP on the activation policies. This concept is also well-known in the countries of the American continent, where it stands as the basis of the workfare model. The concept of AI is linked to the promotion of social inclusion and participation in the labour market for people of working age experiencing poverty or social exclusion. This article is the second work of the authors analysing the concept of AI and its implementation in Lithuania. The article analyses the content of AI concept, placing more emphasis on the limitations of AI and criticism from the right-wing and the left-wing politicians. The article also examines the issue of social services and their place in the concept of AI. The empirical part of the article analyses different dimensions of social services in Lithuania during the period from 2009 to 2018(9). On the basis of the performed analysis, it is concluded that the availability of enabling services in Lithuania is insufficient, despite the fact that positive changes in the availability and coverage of the above-mentioned services have been observed since 2009.

AMI ÁTALAKUL...

Author(s): Imre Hallgató / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2020

In our fast-paced world, it often happens to us that we pass by a building or a work of art day by day without even noticing it. We may have never even addressed the question of why the building was built or since when it has been located there. In the last year we have been hearing more and more about the reconstruction and modernization of the Belgrade‒Budapest railway. The railroad built in the 19th century is now "obsolete". It is part of one of the most important railways in Europe.

AN ADAPTIVE SOLUTION FOR MANAGING THE MODULE OF AUTOMATIC ALLOCATION OF OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENTS IN THE EASY-LEARNING ONLINE EDUCATION PLATFORM

Author(s): Radu Rădescu,Mihai Ureche,Valentin PUPEZESCU / Language(s): English / Issue: 01/2016

This paper aims to present the steps, methods and technologies used to create the new management module of the automatic allocation of students' optional assignments for mid-term projects, homework and graduation thesis, using a virtual education system. The Easy-Learning platform provides a framework for any type of on-line or off-line activity in distance/virtual learning, which is useful for tutors and students at any level of education and training. To achieve this new integrated module within the platform, PHP5, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 technologies, MariaDB database and REST, Android, Apache (web server) services were used, as well as a number of methodologies for securing communication between a server application and a client application. The paper presents in detail the new proposed procedure and emphasizes the achieved benefits and progress, with numerous examples to illustrate the methodology of design, implementation and use of this module. The Easy-Learning platform is a complex e-learning system running on a web server (local or remote) and was created with dynamic web pages using Symfony framework, based on the objectoriented side of the PHP web programming language. Among other features, the platform uses MariaDB as a database management system for storing and retrieving information. The main reason to choose the development environment is given by the minimum requirements needed for the applications (running on the server).

An Analysis on the Trust in Media Politics

Author(s): Ibrahim Fevzioglu,Fevzi Kasap / Language(s): English / Issue: 70/2020

Debates over trust in media politics have constantly engaged developed or developing countries over the years. As a result of misleading and/or biased attitude of most of the media politics organisations, audience trust in media politics is affected negatively. This study investigates the trust in media politics according to the educational level of adults living in Northern Cyprus (TRNC). The scope of the study focuses on several questions such as which mass communication media politics or what type of news in addition to remarks on audience trust in Northern Cyprus based media politics news. The study discusses the degree of audience trust depending on the media politics organisations and type of news they follow.

Analele Universității din Craiova, seria Psihologie-Pedagogie

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Romania

Analele Universității din Craiova, seria Psihologie-Pedagogie (The Annals of the University of Craiova, the Psychology-Pedagogy series), is an international academic publication with interdisciplinary characteristics that aims to promote education and educational research, to provide an expression opportunity to all the experienced specialists in the field, but also to the young researchers, facilitating the exchange of ideas and interactions at the level of the scientific community.

Analele Universității din Craiova, seria Psihologie-Pedagogie (The Annals of the University of Craiova, the Psychology-Pedagogy series) aims to publish original research articles and review articles in the field of education sciences and psychology, in some important areas: pre-service and in-service teacher training; theory and practice of training; theory and practice of the assessment; management and educational leadership; management of the educational programs; sociology of education; psychology of education; university pedagogy; adult pedagogy; history of pedagogy and alternative pedagogies; comparative pedagogy; education of children with special educational needs; inclusive education; educational counselling; special didactics etc.

The Journal gives all readers the possibility to view and download articles for free. The studies are published in English and French, international languages and relevant for the field of education sciences.

Around the Bloc: Russian Officials Deny Burning ‘Undesirable’ Books

Author(s): TOL TOL / Language(s): English / Issue: 01/19/2016

Mining college says it removed Soros Foundation books from its library but none were burned.

ART TERAPIJA KAO PSIHOTERAPIJA U RADU SA DJECOM I MALOLJETNICIMA U SUKOBU SA ZAKONOM

Author(s): Vildana Pleh,Vahida Djedović / Language(s): Bosnian,Croatian,Serbian / Issue: 6/2021

The paper discusses the importance of literary directions, literary genres and psychotherapy. Here it is shown how one bibliotherapy technique can help people who have a problem, ie. targeted reading of fairy tales through literary-theoretical directions is shown, which significantly contribute to the solution of the problem as well as help in self-discovery. Also, a way is shown to help people overcome their troubles by using characters or situations in fairy tales. The intention of comparing literary theory and psychotherapy is to emphasize the importance of cooperation of different disciplines in approaching the topic - analysis and usefulness of fairy tales based on different literary theory approaches, with special emphasis on therapeutic effects achieved by such reading. Art therapy is a form of work with children and minors who are in conflict with the law. Art therapy as prevention, as an intervention during the application or execution of an alternative measure, alternative sanction or criminal sanction of an institutional character. Carried by the idea of applying restorative justice programs is a large number of therapeutic programs that have entered into work with children and minors who are in a certain way in conflict with the law. One of them is bibliotherapy, whose "time is yet to come" because its promotion and application is expected. Modern methods that use a fairy tale for therapeutic purposes open up new aspects of the therapeutic effect of reading / listening. In these aspects, it is important to understand knowledge from the theory and practice of psychotherapy as well as literary theories and look at what happens in the psychotherapeutic process between clients and the content offered by the fairy tale, ie listeners and text in the reading / listening process. Just as literary genres in therapeutic practice have been neglected by the domestic professional population, the encounter between the practice of reading / listening and the practice of psychotherapy has been neglected within the national aspects of the social sciences and humanities. And it is precisely this space of insufficiently recognized and unexplored connection that opens up reception and interpretive possibilities for this work for the possible and real fruitful effects of their encounter.

Artyści modernistyczni jako mniejszość

Author(s): Gabriela Matuszek / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

In the text Modernist artists as a minority G. Matuszek tries to apply the category of minorities to artistic groups, focusing primarily on the situation of artists of early modernism captured in broader contexts. The author shows that artistic environments are often in a “minority situation”, although this minority fulfills only some elements of the ‘hard’ definitions. Psychological dimension plays a significant role here — the subjective feeling of ‘being a minority’ and the expression of distinctiveness, and the linking factors include recognizing the world in the state of crisis, alienation and (self)exclusion, anthropological similarity (theories of higher evolutionary development) etc

ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF LEARNING ACTIVITIES THROUGH BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TYPE TOOLS

Author(s): Mihai Andronie / Language(s): English / Issue: 01/2016

Business intelligence techniques and tools are used more and more in all the domains of human activity, being able to bring to light new information from the volumes of data that are gathered from the activities carried on. In the educational domain, as in other fields of activity, business intelligence tools can be employed with success. The current paper aims to analyze the impact of learning activities, based on data available related to a number of courses that were carried on over a period of three years (October 2010 - September 2013). The large majority of the courses was carried on through a European funded project and was aimed to develop the entrepreneurship competences of the participants through relatively short term trainings (24 hours spread over several days - 20 hours theoretical activities and 4 hours practical activities). Related to these courses, the available database consists of information related to the participant's background and the courses followed by them, with the outcomes of the courses (for example businesses started after graduation). Among the analysis that can be performed based on the available database are: participants starting a business by age; participants starting a business by field of study / level of education; participants starting a business by region / county of residence/ place of residence; participants starting a business by status on the labour market. The conclusions of the study can be useful to different learning organizations that carry on entrepreneurship and other training courses in order to optimize their activities and better select the participants to maximize the impact of the learning programs they are offering.