“There is a Reason Why Children Should Be Taken To a Museum”

The Teachers’ Opinion about the Necessity of Museum Visits

Author(s): Judit Torgyik / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

This empirical research presents the relationship between museum visits and schools. This study intends to examine to what extent the teachers use the learning opportunities provided by museums, how they link teaching in the museums and the schools, and what was their attitudes toward these cultural institutions. The research was based on interviews. According to the results, teachers, in general, take their students to museums in connection with the curriculum and in order to help their students to gain experience, develop the class community, and increase students’ knowledge of their homeland. Museum visit has a significant role in talent management and further learning as well.

“They Are Sexual Objects”

Construction of Female Rape Victims in Selected Nigerian Newspapers

Author(s): AYO OSISANWO,RONKE Ojo / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2022

Following the assumption that there is a particular way newspapers often use language to represent female rape victims (FRVs) and the insufficiency of existing studies on the lin- guistic representation of FRVs in Nigerian newspapers, this study critically discusses the linguistic and discursive tools that are deployed by selected Nigerian newspapers to repre- sent FRVs in their reports. Aspects of Halliday’s transitivity system and Lazar’s notion of feminist critical discourse analysis served as framework. The framework was complemented with the use of Voyant tools to determine the preponderance of word choice in news reports. Rape reports published between January, 2020 and December, 2020 by The Punch, The Guardian, Vanguard and Daily Trust were purposively retrieved and constituted the data for this study. Data engagement revealed that FRVs were imbued with five representations: patriarchal preys, object of sexual gratification, anonymized and pseudonymized victims, objects of pity and victims of dual jeopardy. The social implications of these representations aligned with patriarchal practices such as androcentrism, incest, mental abuse and sexual assault while the gender biases implicated in the representation included the projection of female as inferior, powerless and emotional beings.

“Time Has Caught on Fire:” Eco-Anxiety and Anger in Selected Australian Poetry

Author(s): Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

This essay discusses fire as a significant factor shaping Australian social and cultural life. It focuses first on the climate-change induced emotions such as eco-anxiety and anger that can be tied with the Australian landscape, and then moves on to a discussion of the presence and function of fire in selected contemporary Australian poetry. The reflection on the poetics of trauma in the second part of the essay is accompanied by a discussion of solastalgia connected with land dispossession as an experience of the First Nations expressed in the Aboriginal literature in English.

„120 минути“ – Светослав Иванов – 02.06.2019 г.

Author(s): Borislava Georgieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2019

„120 минути“ със Светослав Иванов – 25.02.2019 г.

Author(s): Petya Daskalova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2019

„Centrum Prosvítilo Celou Fakultu“: Zpráva Z Konference Intersecting Feminisms: Theory, Politics And Activism

Author(s): Marcela Linková / Language(s): Czech Issue: 01/2013

„Curiosity and Serendipity – A Conference on Qualitative Methods in the Social Sciences“

Author(s): Kateřina Sidiropulu Janků / Language(s): Czech Issue: 05/2012

„Dialog mezi hluchými“? K problematice vztahu sociologie a historie

Author(s): Jiří Šubrt / Language(s): Czech Issue: 05/2008

The article discusses the relationship between sociology and history in three steps. The first part compares the opinions of researchers who believe that the dividing line between sociology and history should be transcended (Giddens, Abrams) and those who fundamentally disagree with this view (Goldthorpe). The second part looks back in time to show the reciprocal ties between history and sociology as they gradually grew apart and then drew closer again, leading to the emergence of historical (comparative) sociology. The third part deals with the subject of social change, which is viewed as a key problem in historical sociology, and is also seen as an area of research where sociology and history should join forces to address social issues.

„Dla mnie opowieść zawsze jest wszystkim naraz – istnieje tylko i wyłącznie w momencie jej opowiadania”. Rozmowa z Witoldem Vargasem

Author(s): Weronika Kostecka,Marta Niewieczerzał,Maciej Skowera,Karolina Stępień / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2021

This conversation with Witold Vargas explores his fascination with traditional stories, the various – Polish and Bolivian – sources of his literary and oral work, and his practice of storytelling.

„I nie tylko w powiastkach drzemie ta historia” – „Młyn Bałtaragisa” Kazysa Boruty: literatura jako medium pamięci

Author(s): Marcin Niemojewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 14/2021

“Whitehorn’s Windmill” is considered to be the most outstanding work of KazysBoruta and one of the most important Lithuanian novels of the 20th century. Thebook was written during World War II when the Lithuanian state became theobject of aggression of two totalitarian powers and lost independence for a longtime, and it has grown from the writer’s anxiety about the fate of his country and the persistence of Lithuanian identity. Hence, Boruta reached for the richresources of the native folklore, to evoke the mythologized image of theLithuanian village, which in Lithuanian literature has the rank of chronotope,and at the same time, it is an important component of Lithuanian imaginationabout the sources of national culture. The story, the meaning and functions of the“Whitehorn’s Windmill,” its genesis and post-war fate, its literary and non-literarycontexts, as well as the history of its reception, allow us to interpret the workfrom the perspective of reflection on literature as a medium of cultural memory.

„Institutionelle Vollständigkeit“ als Dimension kultureller Sicherheit. Das Beispiel der Lausitzer Sorben

Author(s): Jean-Rémi Carbonneau / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2022

The notion of institutional completeness developed by French Canadian sociologist Raymond Breton is a conceptual tool devised to assess the institutional dimensions of the social integration of individuals belonging to minority ethno-linguistic groups. Using this notion as a basis, this article proposes a neo-institutional analysis of the Sorbs of Lusatia. It takes a closer look at Sorbian community-based institutions and organizations as well as formal and informal institutional constraints faced by this small Slavic people since the German unification of 1871.

„Je to jiné, než jak to vypadá v médiích.“ Nespokojenost s politikou a perspektiva poslanců a poslankyň

Author(s): Josef Kawulok / Language(s): Czech Issue: 3/2018

To understand the causes of political dissatisfaction is of great importance in the Czech Republic. Unlike in traditional democracies, it is satisfaction or dissatisfaction with politics that affects the degree of legitimacy of its democratic system. Existing knowledge offers several possible explanations of this phenomenon. The most universal among them is the public assessment of the quality of various aspects of politics and politicians. Following this, this article argues that these findings lack complexity, because they do not reflect the perspective of politicians. The article is based on the assumption that the political (dis)satisfaction and legitimacy of democracy are created in a cyclical process of mutual interaction between the public and politics. So, if the public formulates certain policy change requirements, politicians can potentially respond to them. The main problem is that they do not do that and existing research has no explanation for this. Based on an analysis of interviews with Czech MPs, this article argues that politicians do not respond adequately to public demands because their experience with politics is organised in a specific way. The public organises its experience with politics differently, because media news are the main source of its information about politics. In the form of the organisation of political experience of MPs, it is essential that they perceive political phenomena in a broader context, that they differentiate the degree of importance and relevance of their own experience with them in a specific way, and that they also transform the meaning of some of their aspects. In their perspective, it is, therefore, not the existing form of politics nor even the politicians themselves that should change, it is the public that should change.

„Jesteśmy ludźmi o dwóch sercach. Pierwsze zostało w Bośni, a drugie bije dla Polski”. Międzypokoleniowe konceptualizacje tożsamości w rodzinie dolnośląskiej – perspektywa biograficzna

Author(s): Rozalia Ligus / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2021

Cel badań. Celem projektu badawczego Migrujące Biografie – potomkowie reemigrantów z Bośni w procesie rekonstruowania tożsamości – pedagogiczne atrybuty przekazu międzygeneracyjnego w świetle historii życia realizowanego w latach 2018–2019 jest zanalizowanie i skategoryzowanie zasobów znaczeniowych zgromadzonych w autobiograficznych narracjach przedstawicieli kilku pokoleń rodzin reemigrantów z Bośni, które w 1946 roku osiedliły się na Dolnym Śląsku. Celem niniejszego artykułu jest analiza wybranych fragmentów narracji przedstawicieli dwóch kolejnych pokoleń ze wskazaniem dylematów w identyfikacji ich tożsamości. Materiały i metody. Analizie poddano 25 wywiadów narracyjnych przeprowadzonych wśród dolnośląskich rodzin po-jugosłowiańskich. Ponadto posłużono się strategią jakościową, paradygmatem konstruktywistyczno-interpretatywnym i krytycznym, metodą biograficzną, w tym autobiograficznym wywiadem narracyjnym Fritza Schützego oraz historią mówioną (oral history). Wyniki i wnioski. Wyniki badań ukazują transformacje narratorów w identyfikacjach tożsamościowych w zależności od kontekstu społeczno-kulturowego oraz biograficznych doświadczeń osobistych i rodzinnych przekazywanych pokoleniowo. Wiedza na temat różnorodności sposobów rekonstruowania tożsamości osobowej ma znaczenie dla władz lokalnych w kontekście projektowania rozwoju regionu. Dla pedagogów wiedza ta może mieć kluczowe znaczenie dla wizualizacji i implementacji integracyjnych programów prorozwojowych, uwzględniających różne potrzeby grup kulturowych i wiekowych.

„Kirendelődtem” – Az orvos-és egészségtudományi hallgatók részvétele a COVID-19 járvány elleni küzdelemben

Author(s): Anna Mária Bartal,Ágnes Lukács J. / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2022

The response to the COVID-19 pandemic has severely overwhelmed the healthcare systems all around the world. In Hungary, the public health department has adopted an unprecedented two-tiered approach to engage medical and health science students in the fight against the pandemic through a combination of volunteering and mandatory secondment. The main objective of our study is to examine the mandatory participation of Hungarian medical and health science students and their secondments (activity, preparation, safety, and areas of activity) and to analyse and summarise their experiences. We also describe the latent factors of the secondment process and its impact on the training process. Our online survey respondents (N=408) and interviewees (N=13) were selected from those general practitioner, dentist, pharmacist, and health science students who had participated in at least one secondment. The following two factors shaped the students’ secondment experiences: how far advanced were the students in their studies and what was the operation they became involved in. The students' feedback indicated organisational problems and information asymmetry as the negative and gaining experience and professional development as the positive outcome of the secondments. Our analysis indicates that the secondment, as a system, was possible to improve, but the process was accompanied by a multi-level information deficit. Medical and health science students are a valuable resource in the fight against the pandemic, even though their experiences during the secondment highlight the crucial role of professional preparation and psychological support, as well as the need to encourage volunteering.

„Kontexty transformace sociální a zdravotní péče“ — speciální číslo

Author(s): Eva Dragomirecká / Language(s): Czech Issue: Special/2021

„Kwartalnik Pedagogiczny” (1956–2021) – czasopismo Wydziału Pedagogicznego Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

Author(s): Janina Kamińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2022

Kwartalnik Pedagogiczny (“Education Research Quarterly”) has been published by the University of Warsaw since 1956. The journal was established by Prof. Bogdan Suchodolski, who also became its first editor-in-chief. In 1970, the duties were taken over by Prof. Łukasz Kurdybacha, and in 1974 by Prof. Wincenty Okoń. In the years 1985–1992 the journal was led by Prof. Czesław Kupisiewicz, in 1992–2012 by Prof. Andrea Folkierska, in 2012–2013 by Prof. Mirosław S. Szymański, and in 2013–2021 by Prof. Adam Fijałkowski. Currently, Prof. Joanna Madalińska-Michalak is the journal’s editor-in-chief. Since the very beginning, the journal has published the latest research results and articles presenting different approaches to pedagogical and educational issues in Poland, and in the world. They are published in the “Articles”, “Colloquia” and “Research Materials and Reports” sections. The journal publishes review articles and texts in foreign languages as well. The authors of the texts are scientists from various fields of research: educators, psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, creators of culture, social activists, as well as young adepts of science – graduates of pedagogical faculties and doctoral students. This article presents an outline of the history of the journal in the years 1956–2021. The basis for the preparation of the text was an analysis of the content of the journal published over the course of 65 years, and the literature on the subject. Kwartalnik Pedagogiczny is one of the leading Polish scientific journals. For 65 years, it has been a journal of the Warsaw pedagogical community, which involved Polish and foreign authors representing different views on pedagogical issues, who understand the need for interdisciplinarity and research openness. The history of the journal is worth undertaking more extensive research and preparing a monograph.

„Mentální retardace“ a afektivní politiky zřeknutí se

Author(s): Kateřina Kolářová / Language(s): English,Czech Issue: 2/2017

This text explores the affective politics of race and disability that underpin the post-socialist developments in the Czech Republic. Firstly, I interrogate “mental retardation”, as a discursive and material practice of differentiating human life according to presumed value. To make the argument, the text follows practices of “mental retardation” through several discursive and material locations: cultural imaginations of “ferality”, controversy spiked by the use of “protective”/“cage” beds in institutional care and the concept of lege artis, i.e. the principle of necessary and (medically) possible care. Travelling through these locations, I argue, secondly, that racialised and ableist notions of worthy human life have been central to the post-socialist affective politics of abandonment. In other words, the text shows how the politics of re-negotiated belonging and attachment to liberal democracy in the post-socialist Czech Republic were predicated upon structures of abandonment and the de/valuation of disabled and racialised lives. And lastly, the text lays out the legacies of colonial domination even in the contemporary intersectional comminglings of race and disability as it is echoed in the current practices of “mental retardation”.

„Mersul pe sârmă”: provocări întâlnite de profesorii debutanţi în practica didactică

Author(s): Miruna Luana Miulescu / Language(s): English,Romanian Issue: 1/2020

The first years of teaching experience are crucial for beginning teachers as they face numerous challenges. Moreover, the way novices succeed in handling challenges during their first year of field work is a key determinant of their decision to continue working in the system or not. In this respect, a notable theme within the literature considers the experiences and challenges of beginning professionals, as more and more researchers talk about the “praxis shock”, “reality shock” or “transition shock” to better depict the process through which new teachers pass in order to get accustomed to their new professional context. Our study seeks to investigate the challenging experiences that novice kindergarten teachers encounter, as well as the strategies they adopt in order to overcome them. The participants of the present study are beginning teachers (n=16) with a maximum of three years’ teaching experience from six public inner-city kindergartens. By making use of a phenomenological qualitative inquiry, data was collected through participating at semi-structured interviews, focus groups and by filling in logbooks. After the data was recorded and transcribed, five main themes were identified. The key findings indicate that a new professional context can often lead to uncertainty and discomfort. Moreover, beginning teachers’ “challenging moments” descriptions generally emphasize their struggles concerning their own professional development, the school organizational aspects, as well as their relationships with students, colleagues, principals and parents. The results of the study show the need to restructure the collaboration process between novices and kindergartens, in order to improve collaborative relationships and provide the appropriate context for the professional development of kindergarten teachers at the beginning of their careers.

„Mi ide születtünk, mi itt nevelkedtünk fel, itt a rokonság, a gyerekek, minden… itt a faluban”

Hetelők egy tiszaháti faluban

Author(s): Éva Molnár / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2021

The study present the weekly commuting in a small village of 1600 resident in Tiszahát. The economic situation of the settlement, employment and income opportunities are lower than national average, which also has an extremely strong impact on the livability of the village. The local primary labor market can employ few workers, other employees can work in public employment or they can work as a seasonal worker in agriculture buti it does not provide an income that can be calculated all year. There are few opportunities in the region, so they can not work in the nearby settlements. Many locals have to go to remote settlement for work. We prepared interviews to examine: how weekly commuting became popular in the village and how it affected local families and the local community.

„Mindenről csak tud, de nem éli át!” – Döntés a heti ingázás mellett iskolai végzettség alapján

Author(s): Judit Kerülő / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2021

This paper presents the group of domestic commuters who can only go home and meet their families – in the best case – once a week. It is based on a survey conducted in 2019 in which 24 commuters together with their family members at home were interviewed about why they had decided on working far away from home. Looking for similar and different characteristic features, we have analyzed the interviews in terms of the respondents’ educational qualifications. Our results prove undoubtedly that the lower qualifications the respondents have, the fewer job options they will have; moreover, they are also in vulnerable position concerning getting accommodation, spending free time or finding suitable means of transport to go home.