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This study is anchored upon salient factors such as the perceptions of the students and student leaders on the effectiveness of performance of the Student Government of North Luzon Philippines State College. Student leaders could be benefited by the study for they shall be provided with a massive insight of how the Student Government operates. Since they are prospective leaders of the college, they may be able to determine which programs and projects could provide a better impact to students’ welfare. For the school administrators, personnel and faculty members, they shall be illuminated with the real scenario of how student leaders work for the welfare of their constituents. They shall get a deeper understanding of the situations prompted by the student leaders in the campus; thereby helping them in some aspects of their academic lives. For the students, this study would provide the needed information as to how effective the Student Government is in ushering programs and projects which redound to their welfare. Based on the foregoing findings, the following conclusions were formulated: The Student Government, as to some extent, is doing its role in the college in making the students aware of their political rights. It is just that they need to hold regular leadership training seminars so that the students, especially the student leaders, could adequately learn how to become more mature and effective leaders. It should play the role of a facilitator to the administration or to any other student organizations whenever necessary.
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Ostatnie ćwierćwiecze to czas istotnych przemian nie tylko społeczno-ekonomicznych, ale również dokonujących się zmian w szkolnictwie wyższym. Obserwowanym skutkiem tych przemian jest regres w kształceniu nauczycieli. W najbliższych latach ze szkolnictwa może odejść znacząca liczba nauczycieli, która prawdopodobnie przy obecnym systemie kształcenia nie zostanie zastąpiona przez nowe kadry.The last quarter of a century is a time of significant transformations not only of socio-economic but also of changes in higher education. The observed effect of these changes is the recession in teacher education. In the coming years there may be a significant number of teachers leaving the education system and probably will not be replaced by new staff in the present system
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Aktywność zawodową człowieka charakteryzuje przede wszystkim potencjał zawodowy i profesjonalizm. Kształtują te właściwości człowieka rozwój zawodowy, warunki w których przebiega ten rozwój oraz praca. Dopełnieniem sylwetki zawodowej człowieka jest jej przygotowanie w zakresie ergonomii i kultury bezpieczeństwa pracy.The professional activity of a person is characterized above all by professional potential and professionalism. They shape the human characteristics of professional development and the conditions in which this development and work takes place. Complementing the professional profile of a person is their preparation in the field of ergonomics and work safety culture.
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This article is a call for the academic debate on conspiracy theories to advance beyond general cultural analyses. To achieve that, we must make our conceptual tools more precise. I discuss the fundamental component of power difference to conspiracy theories and suggest an analytical typology based on their 'gradient of power'. Beyond that, I argue that we should work towards a theory for the structure of circulation of conspiratorial forms and logics. To this end, I introduce the notion of 'conspiracy narrative' as the basic element in such dynamics. I sketch out a model for the mechanics of interaction and exchange in webs of conspiracy narratives.
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The current paper situates the scare around the “Russian hacking of the US elections” in a historical line of utopias and dystopias of the digital age. By tracing the genealogy of beliefs about the Internet and democratization, I show how the initial euphoric embracement of cyber-space as revolutionizing politics has been inverted in more recent narratives about the Internet and the death of democracy. In the shadow of figures such as hackers, bots, and trolls spreading disinformation, both Democrats and Republicans have created their own conspiracy theories around the leaking of DNC emails. By analysing a Reddit thread that attempts to be “neutral” amidst an increasingly polarized political debate, I show how difficult it is to avoid relapsing in conspiracy theories considering the absence of publicly available decisive evidence, the diminished trust in institutions, and the amenability of technological trails to falsification and multiple interpretations. Thus, apart from laying a claim on the right to know and tell political truths, conspiracy theories point also to the impossibility of attaining, in a rational and categorical way, a truth that is passionately sought. Ultimately, I argue that interpreting the outcome of the US elections as the result of a secret technological intervention is a form of techno-fetishism that overlooks much more complex political and economic factors.
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This article investigates the problem of Polish and South Korean Millennials’ consumer behaviour on the e-commerce market. There were arguments about whether Generation Y members as Digital Natives are rather a coherent or diversifi ed cohort of consumers. They were raised in the culturally diversifi ed world, but the trend of globalization and the use of the Internet may influence their consumer behaviour in a similar way. The aim of this paper is to reveal particular patterns crucial to understanding their way of making an online purchase. An online survey was conducted among Polish and South Korean respondents from Generation Y in order to investigatethis issue. Besides being the representatives of culturally distant cultures, the two groups from the research sample revealed mostly convergent preferences and attitudes towards making an online purchase. Also, Polish and South Korean respondents revealed different attitudes online and offl ine, when compared to the cohort general analysis. In terms of making an online purchase via their mobile phones, Poles and Koreans remained coherent outside their national group and diversifi ed inside their national group in terms of e-commerce but patterns slightly differed. Since this research was limited by too general e-commerce context, the aspect of making m-purchase should be investigated in the future.
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Marketing is considered as responsible for increasing consumerism and overuse of limited resources. An endeavour to promote sustainable consumption is the need of the hour and an answer to growing concerns towards it is required. Marketing can be used as a tool to promote sustainability and increase responsible consumption. Many products which have energy saving potential can be successfully promoted through marketing activities. Increasingly, consumers are becoming aware about the issue and through constant marketing efforts green products and sustainable consumption can be taken to a high level. Contextual factors like value for money,features and selling point communication can play a crucial role in increasing the purchase of green products. Several studies are being conducted in this area but there is still a need for more research particularly in India. This paper will be a contribution to the existing area of knowledge and will focus on discovering the role which marketing can play in promoting sustainability among consumers in India. The factors which are responsible for sustainable consumption are explored and a conceptual model has been suggested which may help marketers in promoting green products and provide a platform for further research.
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The article proposes an explanation of the social conditions of and thepolitical effects from widespread conspiratorial discourses in Bulgaria today. The approach is based on a generalization of Moishe Postone’s use of Marx’s critiqueof political economy to articulate a critical theory of modern antisemitism. My main argument is that it is possible to deploy Postone’s thesis, regarding the personalization of abstract domination in modern capitalism, more generally, that is without limiting it to the analysis of strictly antisemitic conspiratorial discourses. What interests me in particular is how to adapt Postone’s theory of antisemitism to explain narratives about “the Backstage of the Transition” in Bulgaria today, understood as the secretive force, derailing the nation fromits “natural” historical course. The concrete empirical focus of the article is the parliamentary debates around the adoption of amendments to the Judicial System Act from 2016. The amendments’ stated goal was to limit influences of “secret societies” in the judicial system; during the debates the imagined “Backstage of Transition” was personalized in the figure of “the free masons”.
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Starting from an empirical and interactionist approach of both individualand collective trajectories of radicalization and professionalization of two citizen sleuth groups, the JFK's assassination “warrenologists” and the 9/11 “truthers”, this paper aims to study grassroots conspiracism. Faced with such a violent and unexpected event, windows of opportunity open and conspiracy theories flourish. From a weberian perspective, we are gradually assisting to the transition from amateur conspiracy theorists who investigate the tragic event they underwent as a kind of “hobby” to professional ones who live for and from conspiracism. Yet, from individual awareness to micromobilizations, a collective action dynamic takes shape. Step by step, carriers of radicalization develop with the emergence of a collective politically determined cause which contributes to the institutionalization of a relatively autonomous social field with its specific capitals and resources. Since then, professional citizen sleuths engage in a competitive process and a social division of conspiracist labor arises. Each of them specializeand self-proclaimed experts, without any legitimate competence or skills, emergein various fields such like legal medicine, structural engineering or ballistic analysis. And, with the contemporary rise of the Internet, this cyber echo-chambergives an opportunity for some social actors to acquire a genuine prestige, a social and political recognition and a dominating position in the conspiracist field and even beyond. Finally, professional conspiracy theorists become “rival-associates”; each one trying to improve his/her own position in the field but also, through heteronomy effects, in the economy field, and many other fields, where conspiracy theories and conspiracy merchandising generate highly lucrative incomes.
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In the fall of 2011, one of the working groups of #Occupy Wall Street discussed the idea to endorse the concepts of the Zeitgeist films as an official ideology of the movement. The idea was ultimately dismissed, but since the Zeitgeist films were heavily influenced by Alex Jones, in order to do that, the working group needed to draw a dividing line between conspiracy theories and the rebellious knowledge about the injustice of the 1%, which had inspired #Occupy. As the dividing line was to be drawn in discussion, which foreclosed any argument founded on authority, in fact, any argument that implied asymmetrical distribution of knowledge, the theories of conspiracy theories turned out to be useless. Therefore the working group developed a concept of conspiracy theory suitable for its practical purposes,and shaped by what the participants perceived as strategic vulnerabilities. The concept claimed that conspiracy theory was any theory that could be accused of being one, and as this concept could be extended to any theory of injustice, the working group ultimately decided to recommend that #Occupy should not have any ideology. Later, the lack of ideology was widely criticized as a crucial vulnerability of the movement. Of course, the paper does not attribute this vulnerability to the rejection of the Zeitgeist films. Yet I will claim that the discussion of the films exemplifies a risk brought about by the concept of conspiracy theory, the risk of making anydissent vulnerable to accusations of irrationality.
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In re-igniting a familiar debate about the balance between state securityand individual privacy, the revelations of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden have stalled on matters of regulation and reform, which treat secrecy, securitization and surveillance largely in procedural terms. This article seeks to interrupt the containment strategies of communicative capitalism/democracy evident in these debates by configuring secrets as subject to and the subject of radical politics rather than regulation. Its premise is that we might be better able to form a radical political response to the ‘Snowden event’ by situating the secret within a distributive regime and imagining what collectivities and subjectivities the secret makes available. Through a consideration of artworks by Trevor Paglen and Jill Magid - which help us to stay with the secret assecret, rather than foregrounding the more individualistic notion of privacy or moving too quickly towards revelation and reform - the article turns from a hermeneutics of the secret towards aesthetics of the secret. Considered as a Rancièrean ‘distribution of the sensible’, a delimitation of space, time, the visible, the sayable, the audible, and political experience, this aesthetics can help us to imagine a politics of the secret not bound to policy and legalities.
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Outlining the articles in this number, Nasiłowska remarks that while the range of questions is diverse, touching on a variety of themes and using different methods, the qualities they share characteristic of the humanities and of the self-reflexive subject. A tendency to be self-critical, to problematize rather than to describe and the constant care to broaden the cultural field to be tackled in a scholarly manner – these are key to Teksty Drugie and the humanities today.
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If the guidelines of nutrition education are followed, they will ensure a good health and a high level of comfort in life. Creating healthy eating habits and involvement in sports has a positive impact on children. This article presents a qualitative research regarding the specificity of nutritional education in preschool. The study contains an analysis of the Romanian preschool curriculum from the above-mentioned perspective. The results of the collected data are discussed by taking into account the educational objectives and behaviors as they are listed in the Romanian curriculum, and the nutritional education contents from the angle of the structured activities that take place in kindergarten.
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Schools – along with all the other institutions which operate in a community – are directly influenced by the community’s level of development of the community. Basically, the main purpose in the development of a community is the community’s progress – which is a living process that sets in motion a multitude of elements, that involves carefully planned actions and requires constant control, and a perpetual reorganisation of subsystems – which are, in turn, in a permanent state of evolution.The main purpose of community development is securing the wellbeing of the population. Community development aims to form and crystallise, in the members of a community, a feeling of belonging to the respective community they are part of and the desire to play an active social role in the community. Such results can only be achieved by getting people involved in social activities, by enhancing participatory mind-set and their desire to get involved in social matters. In this respect, it becomes natural for schools, families, and the community as a whole to cooperate with each other, to be open to dialogue and communication, and to be willing act. All stakeholders can benefit from partnerships between schools, families, and local communities and these partnerships become a good way to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the means through which each of the stakeholders involved can contribute to the greater good.
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Modern approaches in education have pointed out that, though neglected for a long time, early intervention is increasingly necessary in children’s development. As a key component of early intervention, parent training responds to the need for explicit training with a view to reach effective education. The experiment presented here showing the efficiency of some programmes and methods in the development of communication and language in autistic children and difficulties of communication aimed at implementing the Hanen programme in parents’ activities with children. The three groups of children involved in research got parental help after a training programme run by a specialist in communication and language and certified Hanen for three months. The approach, the results of this implementing together with its limits, blockage, and success, as well as the project of continuing the programme is the topic of this paper.
More...Podstawa przekładu: J. Czekanowski, „Forschungen im Nil-Kongo-Zwischengebiet”, t. II, „Ethnographie. Uele / Ituri / Nil-Lander”, Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1924, s. 554–574 (rozdz. XIX: „Zusammenfassende Bemerkungen”)
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