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In the light of the social doctrine of the Church, local government is the source of dynamism of local community. It achieves the goal making the community more personal, autonomous and active. Creating this kind of vision of the community, the local government makes the people forming the community, more dynamic, active, autonomous, and conscious of their civil rights and duties.
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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.
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One point of similarity between education and pedagogy is that both have this same subject of interest: danger deal with social live, perceptible challenges and experiences, prospective chances for next generations. Furthermore, pedagogy should term the existing challenges of contemporary times. In that point of view, the main functions of education include the adapting of social changes and the passing of achievements and results of human knowledge. The configuration of human model, according to difficult challenges of contemporary times, depends on educations which have been reached a large number of social group. During the development of the informative society education should make a possibilities getting, accumulating, using, tiding the information. The most important assignment of educations is to permit a human being provide its own live. Education, accepting as a ground values of social development the responsible participation the member of society, should let a human being improve standard of living. This responsible Development depend on one condition: education have to give an ability to take part in social live to understand the other people, to give the hope that one change the world by capability and knowledge.
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This article delves into Bosnia-Herzegovina, and especially into the town of Bihać, to ethnographically examine the changing nature of the state and family, as visible through practices of elder care. I use my ethnographic data gathered at a nursing home Vitalis in Bihać, and especially the predicament of an elderly Bosnian woman whom I call Zemka, to argue that both the state and family in postwar and postsocialist Bosnia-Herzegovina materialize as semi-absent. In the process of unpacking these multiple semi-absences, I reveal the lived effects of changing postwar and postsocialist state, and altering kinship relations as they affect "ordinary" people.
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The essay gives a critical review of The Rituals of the Media by Lajos Császi. It seeks to showhow the Durkheimian sociology of religion can be applied to the modern communicationtheory and what perspectives such a combination can store for sociology. The mediahas a significant impact on the formation of public opinion; therefore, its rituals deservea special attention. However, the opinion forming power of the media depends on thesocial structure and the movement of the masses. Today even ordinary people can broadcastInternet TV-programmes and we have not even mentioned the technical possibilitiesoffered by the various social network sites. It is not only the technical competence, whichdetermines whether a given opinion will remain embedded in a narrow subculture or itsucceeds to move the masses, which was a well-loved catchword of the 20th century
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The aim of the project "Bridging three generations: Timeless Games And Toys", was to gather three generations (Grandparents – Parents and Kids), through games and toys of the oldest generation to help pre-school children learning and playing games and toys of his/her grandparents. In this digitized world, one of the most challenging problems is to establish ties, bonds and bridges between the oldest living generation and post-millennium generation.
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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.
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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.
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Public service broadcasters are adapting to today’s media eco-system and to the increasingfragmentation of audiences by shifting from aclassical broadcasting approach to cross-mediaproductions that exploit the synergy of different media and that, theoretically, invite differentforms of audience inclusion.Such ashift is, however, far from unproblematic, as it often challenges old paradigms, one ofwhich is the traditional, rather unidirectional relation that producers have with audiences.In this article, Ibuild on Umberto Eco’s concepts of meaningand interpretationto explorehow cross-media is conceptualised in relation to audiences and how producers position them-selves in their relationship with audiences. Working with three case studies from the publicservice media of Finland and Estonia, three sets of semi-structured interviews with key figuresof the three production teams (twenty interviews in total), Iattempt to demonstrate how therelation of cross-media producers with their audiences still faces the same challenges as in thepast, often related to hegemonic positioning that producers tend to take towards audiences.
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The grade is, in mosteducational systems, a key concept with a strong short-term echo, which influences the student's dynamics in school, but also with a long-term one, through the emergence of attitudes such as those related to competition and social hierarchy. The study analyses quantitatively and qualitatively the factors that stand behind the grade. The participants are 48 students in their first year of university studies. Their grades are examined through their level of interest for a particular subject and through the importance they attach to a certain course having in view their future career. Also, grades are linked to wellbeing factors. Results show that the interest and importance for courses can directly explain the increase and decrease of marks, and the quality of sleep is an essential wellbeing factor that effects school outcomes.
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Id, ego and superego deficit in a psychological image of the protagonists of ″Jealousy and Medicine″ by Michał Choromański Jealousy and Medicine – a novel by Michał Choromański, published in 1933, evidently breaks out of the convention of psychological realism thriving on the achievements of behavioural psychology, dominant in the interwar period. Choromański’s work is an innovatory experiment on composition and thought; the world shown in the novel resembles a psychotic maligna or oneiric vision. The whole novel prompts interdisciplinary research using psychoanalysis of Sigismund Freud, Charles Mauron’s psychocritical method, being a transformation of classical Freudian psychoanalysis (with Otto Rank’s modifications), contemporary psychology of a creative process and the methodologies of psychological research which are accepted and occasionally used by contemporary literary studies. Choromański’s novel is deemed the most discerning studium of jealousy in interwar literature.
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This article undertakes a reciprocally informed analysis of Michel Foucault's concept of heterotopia and the temporary exhibition Aufgehobene Dinge: Ein Frauenleben in Ost-Berlin (Kept Things: A Woman's Life in East Berlin), on display in Eisenhuettenstadt, Germany, from March 28, 2010, until May 5, 2011.
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Le discours public roumain d’après la Révolution de '89 a gardé des anciennes habitudes langagières communistes dont "la langue de bois". D’autre côté, il a emprunté, comme une conséquence de la synchronisation trop rapide à la modernité, des clichés langagiers qui continuent les tendances agressives et autoritaires héritées du totalitarisme communiste. Notre analyse imbrique la sémantique du discours, la sémiotique, la pragmatique linguistique et la psycholinguistique, se concentrant sur des corpus tirés des discours publics des dernières dix années.
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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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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.
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The article presents the postcards as a source of knowledge about the social reality for a sociologist. The first part contains a description of postcards, the discussion of visual studies and the theoretical justification of postcards’ status as a data. The analyzed object consists of two parties: the iconic recto and verbal verso. What we see on the postcards and then read – explains the second part of the article in which I empirically examine the usefulness of this type of sources, analyzing the photographic presentation of the city on one hand, and contents appearing on greeting postcards on the other. Keywords: Postcards; Visual data; Verbal data; Photography; Old center; New center; Image of the city.
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The contribution is focused on the research of recent forms of religious and spiritual identities in Slovakia after the revolution in 1989. The core of the study is devoted to the distinction of rural (local) and urban (translocal) religious /spiritual identities. The author further pays attention to the process of „local privatization“ of transcendendal stories in the process of so called local approximation (1. topographic, 2. chronological or 3. personal). The author mention also process of „local deprivatization“, or local deproximation as manipulated process of locally neglected stories/events/narratives. The next part of the study is devoted to the translocal and transtemporal character of urban spiritual identities. Following the various forms of conversions and institutional/private forms of religiosity/spirituality she designs a new typology. At the very end of the contribution she challenges the thesis of modernity of A. Giddens.
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The paper presents a case study of visits to World War I battlefield sites (monuments, sacred zones, cemeteries) on the Soča/Isonzo front. The focus is on acknowledging the motivations related to the construction of monuments and the role and interest of the Italian authorities when influencing and encouraging these visits. The paper will also attempt to determine the importance of this practice in the case of memorial sites at the Soča/Isonzo front. Additional issues addressed in the paper include how common visits to these sites were in the interwar period, who the primary visitors were and if and how this activity resonated in the tourism sector, and how tourism reflected the Italian national narrative in the contested border region.
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This article is an attempt to link the attributes of "Solidarity" with the movement's place in the theory of social movements. The evolutionary paradigm has left a gap with respect to selection and systematisation of these movements. The historical approach must be adopted in order to fill in this gap. It is therefore necessary to focus on "Solidarity" as a special case in the context of the history of nation, within the framework of the totalitarian macro-formation produced by the solutions adopted after World War II. "Solidarity's" contribution was not limited to one country only. It also helped to trigger more general transformation and globalisation processes. The rationality of "Solidarity" is rooted in systemic contingencies which required the development of an effectivemethod-sit-in strikes-but also negotiations with the regime. However, the democratic culture rooted in national tradition was the decisive factor. In the West, the state was already being viewed as an obsolete form, whereas the lesson which was learned from the Polish experience was that the sovereign state is essential for reform and modernisation. The validity of this lesson was confirmed in practice. The author argues that "Solidarity" did not fit into the schematic distinction between "old" and "new" movements. Class interests were not a priority, neither were the interests of minorities, as they are in the West.
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