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The article focuses on the impact of information and communication technologies on the students’ self-development, analysis of the degree of the development, and attempts to identify controversy in the system of higher education today. The results of experiment are shown in the paper. Self-development, in our understanding, is a purposeful activity of the individual aimed at improving the quality of their skills and abilities, that is, self-improvement.
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The contents of the given article reveals pedagogical basics of dialogization of student’s education due to informational educational technologies, development of heuristics student’s skills to realize the personal approach in education. The person-oriented sense of telecommunications in the educational process is the opportunity for the pupil to create “one’s own” in the dialogue with “other people’s”, to develop an individual educational path.
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This paper presents the analysis of female characters in leading roles and important supporting roles in films that have won the Oscar Best Picture Award from 1970 to 2013. It concentrates on the chosen female characters’ activity, goals, goal attainment and hierarchical relations with male characters and other female characters, in the private and public spheres. Looking into the women character’s perception of the border between their private and public spheres, I am interested in whether they experience the passing of this border as easy or difficult, as a one way possibility or as flexible, and how they reconcile their activities in the public and private spheres. A further question is which female characters occupy more favorable power positions and have better goal attainment: those who are active either in the public or in the private sphere, or those who take part in both. I conducted qualitative content analysis of the films based on a previously elaborated analysis schema and on narrative film analysis aspects.
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This paper presents a study of how a cohort of students respond when they encounter a single module delivered via a blended/flipped learning approach at a point when the rest of their learning occurs in more traditional face-to-face learning environments. The study is based on a case study at the School of Communications, Dublin City University where the author has pioneered online delivery of module content blended with F2F moderation of small-scale seminar sessions based on the online content. The paper introduces the practical difficulties – for both tutor and student – of “being first” in the sense of creating course content and learning to interpret/process content delivered in a non-traditional fashion.
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This article is about the journalist, literary researcher, and opposition activist Roman Zimand. The author tries to answer several questions about Zimand’s life and achievements. What were his specific achievements and his approach to academic work? What role did the political context of the Polish People’s Republic play? What was the relationship between Zimand and the academic community in which he operated? To what extent can he be considered a “total intellectual”? The article begins with a brief biographical outline. Then the author focuses on presenting Zimand’s output and the specifics of his approach to academic work. The next part concerns Zimand’s political writing and the combination of his political commitment with his scholarship. Then the author discusses the relations between Zimand, the academic community, and the authorities of the Polish People’s Republic. In the last part of the article, the author considers the possibility of viewing Zimand as a “total intellectual.”
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Journal “Obrazovanje odraslih/Adult Education” is the first and only journal in Bosnia and Herzegovina dealing with the topic of adult education. It is published twice a year, with a circulation of 300 copies, and is distributed free of charge throughout BiH and wider region. Until 2019 the journal has been published by PI “Bosnian Cultural Center of Canton Sarajevo” and the “Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association” (DVV International – Country Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina), with the financial support of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Since this year the Journal will be financed by the publisher “Bosnian Cultural Center of Canton Sarajevo”. In addition to original scientific and professional papers from the field of adult education and learning and the field of culture, other contents are also being published in the Journal, such as: diverse releases, critical reviews, documents and information on adult education practice, education policies and culture in BiH and the region, book reports, translations of articles on current topics from foreign journals, as well as information on significant events in the country, region, Europe and the world regarding culture, education and learning of adults and work of other organisations active in these areas. The Journal has been established in 2001 and exists for almost 18 years. “Adult Education”, as the first Journal treating adult education and culture in BiH, represents for the scientific community a significant step towards constitution and profiling of a new scientific discipline and its institutional establishment, and attracts promising scientists in the field who create a corpus of texts of essential importance for this science to become an academic discipline. It is particularly important that the Journal gathers scientific associates from the region, who on the one hand establish a necessary network of scientific researchers, which on the other hand increases the visibility of the Journal and strengthens its position in international context.
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"Scarabò. A city to educate" is an education festival, which takes place in the old city of Macerata (IT) every year. A complex field research activity is focused on the 2018 and 2019 editions. This research was motivated by the participation in the international Trans-Urban EU-China project, devoted to the study of the relationship between urban sustainability and social integration/inclusion. Only some results of the interviews given by 116 adults participating in the 2018 festival are reported on this occasion, pedagogically focusing on the topic of the educating city.
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Extract from the study:In order to explain the diplomatic complexity made simple and legally elegant in the form of the agreement of Prespa/Prespes, i.e., the document settling the decades long “name dispute” between (now) North Macedonia and Greece, one has to look at the multiple and sensitive identity related stakes involved in the solution. The Agreement was signed in June 2018, by the Syriza led government of Greece and the Social-Democratic ruling coalition of what was then the Republic of Macedonia. In spite of the decades long mantra of the so-called international community, including the UN, EU and NATO, that the dispute and its solution would not affect any questions concerning the identity of the ethnic majorities of either of the nations, as they are non-negotiable rights to self-determination, it has always been clear that the dispute existed because of Greece’s concerns over its cultural and historical heritage being appropriated. It was an unequivocally declared position on the part of the Greek government displayed on the website of the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs prior to the signing of the agreement (titled “FYROM Name Issue”). Macedonia – after the agreement renamed “Republic of North Macedonia” – had been worried, at least a sizable part of its public, that its national identity would be effaced through the name change. Thus, the embarrassing truth was not to be avowed, at least not by the respectable leadership of the developed world. However, the truth about identity concerns was intimated through the fact that the longest serving UN envoy, assigned with the task of solving the issue, Matthew Nimetz, habitually proposed not only a new name for the state (of the “Republic of Macedonia”, its constitutional name until 12 February 2019), but also solutions to the adjectives that concerned the nationality and the language. The adjectives were to be derived either from the name of the state or to be avoided entirely, something along the lines of “citizen of….” or “the official language of…” followed by the possible new name of the country. The novelty of the solution stems from the fact that both countries and their leaders decided to acknowledge, instead of disavow, the fact that the stakes were identitary: Greece was worried that its Hellenic heritage is being appropriated by the “Macedonian” identity of its northern neighbors, whereas the Macedonian public and its politicians were worried that the identity “Macedonian,” in its contemporary sense, would cease to exist. These not easily solved concerns were tackled in a nuanced fashion by both parties, resulting in the Prespa Agreement. Let us take a look at a several years old study conveying the identity perception of the Macedonians in 2013, and how it may have been affected by the Agreement.
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Governance bodies formulated the universal ideals of algorithmic decision-making. But,the role of data experts acting as pioneers in developing, resisting, and implementing theseideals is not known. This study relies on in-depth interviews (n=24) conducted with Estonian data experts to explore data pioneers’ understandings of algorithmic governance ideals. The results reveal dual transformations in the social datafication process where datapioneers develop technologies and intermediate their ideals towards algorithmic solutions.The study highlighted new sectorial ‘algorithmic divides’, in both data accessibility as wellas ideals among data pioneers in public and private institutions. The resulting force majeurein datafication, which prevents private and public sector experts from forming a uniformcommunity, can create a vicious circle of unforeseen negative consequences. Resolving thedivides in algorithmic communities and advancing cross-sector cooperation is the basis forforming transparency, accountability and social good as the main ideals in algorithmicdecision-making.
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Európa šedivie. Staroba a starnutie sa tak stále častejšie stávajú predmetom mediálneho, sociálno-politického i výskumníckeho záujmu. Subjektívne prežívanie tejto životnej etapy i starnutia ako procesu je však v stredoeurópskom prostredí v sociálnych vedách skúmané málo. Ľubicu Voľanskú zaujímali motivácie správania sa a činností starých ľudí, ich postoje k vlastnému správaniu a konaniu a k správaniu a konaniu iných, ako sú zobrazené v ich autobiografických textoch. V monografii sleduje ambivalentné vnímanie staroby vo verejnom a odbornom diskurze prepojené s vnímaním starými ľuďmi v súvislosti s hranicami staroby. Bežne kladené otázky: Kto je starý? Ako možno stanoviť časovú alebo inú hranicu, odkedy je človek starý? necháva zodpovedať svojich partnerov a partnerky vo výskume. Ich výpovede dáva do kontextu širokej odbornej literatúry, ktorá sa hranicou staroby a prežívaním staroby zaoberá.
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The article traces a range of performances staging Gogol’s play Marriage in Bulgaria with a special emphasis on the respective translations into Bulgarian. The theory features translation and adaptation mechanisms specifically applied to cultural realia. The staging in the Sofia Theatre is highlighted. The methodology applied belongs to the framework of cross-cultural communication studies and employs cultural-historic and reception approaches.
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The publication analyses and assesses the legal framework on countering organised crime and examines the problems, which arise in its practical application. On this basis, recommendations are made to improve the legislation and bring it into conformity with international standards and the existing good practices, as well as to overcome the weaknesses in the application of law which impede the detection and punishment of organised criminal activity or infringe fundamental principles of criminal procedure and the rights of the participants in it.
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The phenomena of radicalisation today develop and change at high speed, with their extreme forms manifested globally. The destructive dimensions of (violent) Islamist or right-wing radicalisation have become dramatically visible in Europe posing serious challenges to European societies at large. This report aims to address a knowledge gap with regard to how and to what extent internationally observed radicalisation processes are manifested in Bulgaria. Four different forms of radicalisation are investigated, including Islamist radicalisation, right-wing and left-wing radicalisation, as well as football hooliganism. The report provides policy makers and the expert community with a systematic overview of the main risks to which the Bulgarian society is exposed, as well as of the main actors and ideas, the repertoire of actions and the groups at risk associated with radicalisation. The report outlines recommendations for improvement of the policy and institutional response with regard to radicalisation by way of monitoring and prevention measures as well as multi agency collaboration and community engagement.
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The paper seeks to explore recent shifts within the popular culture with regard to oppression involving gender, class, race, and ethnicity that can be traced back to the #MeToo movement which was revived as a social media hashtag in October 2017 and has since spread all over the world. The paper starts with a brief overview of Western popular culture that “has recently been seen as a champion for feminism . . . with many high-profile female musicians and actresses visibly promoting the movement in their work” (Woodacre 2018, 21). Next, the paper discusses the origins of the Me Too Movement and the way it approaches the meaning of gendered oppressions as well as individualized and collective experiences of survivors of sexual abuse. This is later explored in the examination of the impact of the hashtag-led movement on three works of popular culture: Amazon’s TV series Lorena (2019), Nancy Schwartzman’s documentary Roll Red Roll (2019), and We Believe: the Best Men Can Be (2019) advertisement by Gillette. The entire case study is informed primarily by feminist theory understood as inseparable from feminist activism, following bell hooks’ Feminist theory from margin to center (1984).
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For several years in the social space, we have been observing the interpenetration of various phenomena in the government–family–child relationship. There has been a significant decline in the impact of traditional socialization centers on alternative entities. The circumstances described in the text make it possible to understand different contexts of contemporary transformations in the perception of parenthood, the family and its relations with the government. In the text I analyze a map of the problems of the modern family, which is still particularly important for the child’s social development and shaping his/her attitudes and behaviour.
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The paper draws a picture of a wider social context of functioning of sociology in Poland. Authors rely primarily on the methodology of Pierre Bourdieu to achieve this aim. In particular they reconstruct the general position of the sociological field in relation to the wider field of power and the specific characteristic of the later. They include, as the authors see them, domination of the cultural capital over the economic capital and the resulting hegemony of the intelligentsia in the field of power. Another important characteristic of the Polish field of power, which seems typical for most peripheral societies, is its division on to one part orientated towards the integration with the global core and its other part challenging the global domination, though, mostly in the cultural sphere. This division is also clearly transmitted into the structure of the sociological field, given its relatively restricted autonomy and results in a strong superiority of public sociology over the weakly developed critical sociology. Abstrakt Artykuł rysuje szerszy kontekst społeczny funkcjonowania socjologii w Polsce. Autorzy odwołują się w tym celu w pierwszej kolejności do metodologii Pierre’a Bourdieu, rekonstruując w ogólnych zarysach pozycję pola socjologicznego w szerszym polu władzy, a także specyficzne cechy tego ostatniego. Należy do nich w ich przekonaniu dominacja kapitału kulturowego nad ekonomicznym i związana z tym hegemonia szeroko rozumianej inteligencji. Ważną cechą polskiego pola władzy jest też jego charakterystyczny dla krajów peryferyjnych podział na część zorientowaną na integrację z globalnym centrum i część stawiającą mu względny, głównie kulturowy, opór. Podział ten przenosi się również wyraźnie na pole socjologiczne, co jest związane z ograniczoną autonomią tego ostatniego i owocuje między innymi znaczącą w Polsce przewagą nurtu socjologii publicznej nad nurtem socjologii krytycznej.
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