Metodologiczne aspekty jakościowych badań par – synteza doświadczeń terenowych

Author(s): Magdalena Żadkowska,Marta Olcoń-Kubicka,Jacek Gądecki,Joanna Mizielińska,Agata Stasińska,Filip Schmidt,Mateusz Halawa / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2018

The aim of the article is to present the frameworks and findings of qualitative research focused on couples and various aspects of their functioning. The research has been conducted by several research teams in Poland over the last decade. Relying on the examples from the field, we point to a number of practical and situational aspects of research on couples. We argue that in exploring the relationship between two people and in understanding the dynamics of their life together, it is crucial to use different sets of research methods and tools. Drawing on the findings from several research projects, we propose an approach based on three pillars: using a dyadic interview, combining a dyadic interview with an individual interview, and conducting research on couples through repeated home visits stretched over long period of time. Being an outcome of the conducted projects, the methodological recommendations for the researchers planning the studies in this subject area are suggested.

Dylematy etyczne w badaniu pary intymnej. Doświadczenia z pracy badawczej

Author(s): Joanna Mizielińska,Agata Stasińska,Magdalena Żadkowska,Mateusz Halawa / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2018

Sociological studies of intimate couples are associated with a number of ethical dilemmas. Some of them are connected to studying private life, which implies the questions about why, how and under what conditions the research participants share their experiences with researchers, and what kind of research relationship is formed between these two parties. We consider such problems as: a symmetry of the researcher’s relationship with the couple, the problem of using knowledge acquired only from one person from the couple in such a way that does not harm the couple, and the specific dilemmas related to power relations between researchers and research participants as well as the roles that a couple assigns to researchers. We discuss these dilemmas using the examples from our own fieldwork carried out within three different research projects.

Kiedy zaczyna się para? Zamieszkanie, ślub i inne wspólne decyzje – debata podsumowująca projekt badaczy i badaczek par

Author(s): Magdalena Żadkowska,Joanna Jasińska,Jacek Gądecki,Joanna Mizielińska,Agata Stasińska,Filip Schmidt / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2018

The roundtable discussion revolves around the two key moments in a couple’s life: living together and marriage (and related practices). The participants of the discussion have agreed that although the relationship can last without these two moments, they are important turning points for the study of pairs. In the debate, the findings concerning the condition of couples in Poland have been presented, and particular attention has been paid to the differences and similarities between one and two-sex couples as well as between the couples of different age, education and origin, understood as both national and class background.

Medialna sfera publiczna we współczesnej Polsce – ocena z perspektywy modelu liberalno-przedstawicielskiego

Author(s): Anna Piechocka,Beata Królicka,Radosław Sojak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2018

Pluralistic access to media is widely recognized as one of the foundations of democracy. Drawing upon the data on the presence of politicians in the most influential television and radio political programmes as well as the data on viewership and listenership (from November 2015 to December 2017), the article examines the influence the parties have upon media public sphere in contemporary Poland. The article aims at the assessment of whether parties are over- or under-represented in the Polish media public sphere. The evaluation is achieved by setting the empirical data against the liberal-representative model of democratic public sphere described by Ferree, Gamson, Gerhards and Rucht (2002). The authors argue that the Polish public sphere meets the democratic standards laid down in the theoretical models discussed in the article, despite the fact both public and private media experience certain problems with the adequate representation of various parties.

Technologie ubieralne na tle późnego kapitalizmu

Author(s): Paulina Grajeta / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2018

The quest to digitalize and measure all phenomena has become the dominant motive of current phase of capitalism. It has considerable implications for the understanding of human body. With the development of wearable technologies, it becomes yet another site open for capitalist value-extraction. Apart from being potentially empowering for an individual, wearable technologies provide novel ways for exploitation and control. In this article, the tendency to avail oneself to measuring one’s life and body processes, accompanied by the idea that all life flows are susceptible to quantification, would be called the mining of the self. The paper aims to probe into the objectives and ideological underpinnings governing the use of wearable technologies and investigate how particular truths and regulative convictions become woven into the fabric of everyday life and naturalized.

Cygan czy Rom? Antropologiczna interpretacja sporu o słowa

Author(s): Ewa Nowicka,Maciej Witkowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2018

The authors who study Roma minorities analyse the dispute over the name of this group. In the Polish language there are two names: “Romowie” (Roma) and “Cyganie” (“Gypsies”). Many contemporary leaders of this community consider only the name “Romowie” appropriate and expect it to be used to refer to the group, arguing the name exists in the Romani language. They consider the notion “Cyganie” pejorative. There are, however, many opponents to the name “Romowie” among Roma, too. The dispute that unfolds within the community interlinks with the efforts Roma make to achieve the recognition of their globally scattered community as a nation. It is also an evidence of ethnic emancipation and transformations that the community experiences and that have been coined ‘Romanisation of “Cyganie”’ by Lech Mróz. The authors set out to interpret this situation using ethnographic material gathered among the Roma communities in Poland.

Ciągłość zamiast zmiany: z historii reformowania systemu szkolnictwa wyższego w Polsce

Author(s): Andrzej Turkowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2018

Uwikłani w sieć

Author(s): Beatrice Malengo Miernik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2018

Jak nauczyciele wykorzystują technologie komunikacyjne w pracy szkoły? Cyfrowe projektowanie dydaktyczne i teoria Pierra Rabardela w badaniach dydaktycznego potencjału urządzeń mobilnych

Author(s): Lucyna Kopciewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2 (41)/2018

This article presents and discusses results of empirical research conducted during 2 school semesters at primary school in Poland. This study, using a qualitative approach, aims at the tracing of the process of the implementation of tablets and robots to the didactic design at primary school, the tracing of progressive changes in the area of teaching and learning practices. The results show the dominating technological schemes developed by teachers: a) technologies function in a “closed” form – they are used for displaying ready content and structures to be identified or memorised and b) technologies are used by teacher as “open structures” constituting a collection of various tools subordinated to the intentions of the child as an active creator.

Szkoła jako przestrzeń inkubacji aktywności cyfrowej nauczycieli edukacji wczesnoszkolnej

Author(s): Natalia Walter / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2 (41)/2018

In the paper we argue that school is a space for growing and developing digital activity of early education teachers. Based on an observational study and a literature review, we identified factors affecting such activity, i.e., individual features of teachers (competences, motivation, attitude towards self-development, lowliness, and willingness for change), their competence in handling electronic devices, technical equipment available at school, support from the school community along with clearly stated expectations (that the use of digital media is a must, not an option) and availability of trainings and places for exchanging experience and good practices.

Mobile devices as support for students with special educational needs

Author(s): Sylwia Galanciak,Anna Weiss,Marek Siwicki / Language(s): English Issue: 2 (41)/2018

The article presents partial results of research conducted among forty eight teachers from four European countries, using tablets to work with students with special educational needs (SENs). The aim of the research was to recognize the scope of application of mobile technologies by teachers and also their opinions on the usefulness of these technologies as support in the process of education and rehabilitation. Despite a small group of respondents, the method of a survey (questionnaire) was used due to the ease of obtaining a precise translation of the questionnaire and the results of the research. The image of teachers emerging from the research is that of pedagogues who realistically assess the advantages and disadvantages of tablets as assisting and training technologies and who try to strengthen the educational opportunities of their pupils without systemic support.

Portal Scholaris jako platforma cyfrowej edukacji wczesnoszkolnej – zmiana czy cementowanie utartych ścieżek dydaktycznych?

Author(s): Marzenna Nowicka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2 (41)/2018

Scholaris is a portal of MEN agenda with educational electronic resources designated for teachers of all stages of education. The aim of the research was to identify the promoted model of digital early childhood education. An analysis of the content of portal showed a focus on technology being used to illustrate the content covered by the teaching program, limitation of openness to other communities and places on the internet, negligence of the communication between education entities and the hegemony of digital content for the teacher to reproduce. The digitality on the portal is seen as a visualsound enhancement of classes and the technical facilitation of the teacher’s work. In spite of the current innovative trends, the general model promoted on the website is seen as functional-behavioral.

Cyfrowy świat w podręczniku dla klasy pierwszej szkoły podstawowej – analiza treści

Author(s): Beata Adrjan,Alina Kalinowska-Iżykowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2 (41)/2018

The digital world is becoming accessible to ever younger children, who are increasingly looking for and building their presence in it. The school seems to be a place that should respond to these trends by incorporating digitality into its educational proposals. Research into the content of textbooks for the first year of primary school shows infantile character and inadequacy in time and cognition of content related to the digital world. First-grade students are unlikely to encounter (in the currently offered school’s curriculum) a reflection on the dangers it poses or proposals to use digital skills. The contents of the textbooks constitute a world existing alongside the digital natives.

Growing up online, czyli wiedzieć i działać w świetle internetowych poradników nie tylko dla nauczycieli

Author(s): Małgorzata Dagiel,Małgorzata Kowalik-Olubińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2 (41)/2018

The aim of the article is to compare selected Internet guides for teachers and parents. The results of a comparative analysis made by the authors are as follows: institutional senders prevail in terms of a category of a guide’s sender; a creation of a reality shared by its sender and receiver takes place in the guides; the language of the guides is used mainly in the informative and persuasive functions; there is a clear tendency to exaggerate threats posed by the participation in the digital world at the cost of recognizing opportunities for development. The authors of the article conclude with the statement that the discourse of the analysed guides supports traditional approach to perceiving and upbringing of children and young people.

Telefony i komputery w codziennym życiu uczniów w młodszym wieku szkolnym

Author(s): Agnieszka Lewicka-Zelent,Agnieszka Pytka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2 (41)/2018

The daily use of multimedia brings a number of advantages and threats, especially for the development of school-age children, who more and more frequently move their real life to the virtual world. Hence, the aim of the research was to determine the importance of telephones and computers for children. The research was conducted among pupils from Class III and IV in two primary schools in the Lubelskie Voivodeship. The results of the research indicate the need to carry out preventive actions in the field of preventing cyber-dependences, with particular emphasis on the function of family relationships in the process of shaping the proper development of children.

Zostań MovieStarPlanet! – czyli o partycypacji kultury dziecięcej w kulturze cyfrowej

Author(s): Joanna Dziekońska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2 (41)/2018

This article reflects on the specificity of contemporary children’s participation in digital culture. It comprises study results, whose aim was the reconstruction of children’s culture created by children during internet communication in the MovieStarPlanet service. The communication in the service has been treated as an example of a new dimension of children’s culture and, as such, it is the subject of the present study. The adopted study procedure mainly comprised the netnographic method and revealed many original examples of children’s culture. Among the creations published by children in the service, the following were distinguished, among others, multimedia images (ArtBooks, arts), several short audio-visual pieces, animated photos, stylings (looks) as well as text thematic games published on the forum. The analysis of children’s e-folklore allowed formulating conclusions on the communal and creative functioning of children in a selected web place, a rich variety of themes and types of undertaken communication initiatives and the existence of specific features of children’s language suggesting the existence of the internet aspect of children’s culture.

Portale społecznościowe w doświadczeniach ośmiolatków

Author(s): Małgorzata Dankowska-Kosman,Iwona Staszkiewicz-Grabarczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2 (41)/2018

The subject of considerations are social media in the experience of children aged 8. The methodology selected was the method of focus groups. Focus participants were recruited from forty thirdgrade students from two selected primary schools. The results of the research presented in the text indicate a great interest on the part of the youngest generation in social networking sites. At the same time, they signal that children, despite the systematic use of these portals, are aware of the dangers resulting from applying these tools. Keeping watch of the education of their children, parents very often do not permit their offspring to use online resources unconsciously. Students recognize the risk of making inappropriate acquaintances, the consequences of self-presentation on the Internet, while being curious about the world of young citizens who will join active recipients of social networking sites in the near future.

Szkoła dla dziecka – cyfrowego tubylca. Postrzeganie szkoły przez uczniów edukacji wczesnoszkolnej – uczestników projektu „Wychować człowieka mądrego”

Author(s): Adrianna Sarnat-Ciastko / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2 (41)/2018

The main goal of this article is to show how early education pupils see school as a place of their development. This presentation is built upon two resources used by the contemporary Polish school – information and communication technologies and personalization of education. The presented image is based on data collected through on-line questionnaires from 1,772 pupils from Classes I–III at primary schools taking part in the project of implementing the method of tutoring “Raise a wise man”. As a result of the analysis, it can be stated that the group of the youngest students rates the school best, and the growing need to contact tutors who build with them individual relationships based on trust may indicate room for modeling the proper use of information and communication technologies.

„Tubylec tubylcowi nierówny”. Przyszli nauczyciele o uczeniu się w epoce cyfrowej

Author(s): Cezary Kurkowski,Monika Maciejewska,Lidia Bielinis / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2 (41)/2018

In the study we present results of two research projects conducted simultaneously at the Faculty of Social Sciences, UWM in Olsztyn referring to the place digital technologies have in the learning processes in the opinions of Early Education students. The results show that the group of surveyed students might be situated on the borderline of digital natives and digital immigrants’ worlds. The conducted survey demonstrated limited trust to digital sources of knowledge amongst students and discrepancy between their personal experiences with using new technology, on a daily basis, and traditional ways of learning proposed by the University. The analysis of the case study indicated that for preparing future teachers to work with children (digital natives), it is important to organize a learning environment in which both worlds – digital and analogue – are connected.

ArtApki w edukacji plastycznej uczniów w wieku wczesnoszkolnym

Author(s): Dorota Sobierańska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2 (41)/2018

An important problem of the present is the preparation of young people to live among an increasing number of visual messages that come from the world of traditional and modern art and among visual messages from the media environment. In this situation, it is necessary to change early school art education from the traditional transfer of knowledge into educational settings through which students actively develop visual literacy. The artistic applications presented in the text, available on the websites of American museums, are one of the means leading to this goal. However, it should be emphasized that these applications should be a supplement rather than an alternative to school activities, and their selection and use must be carefully thought over.