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THE ISSUES OF CONTEXT AND CONTEXTUALITY IN ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH

Joanna Kłodkowska

Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses > 2007 > 8 > 187-194

The article presents the consideration about one of the criteria of status of ethnography as a science - the contextuality. The aim of this text is searching for the answer to the question: What is the contextuality for the ethnographic research and what is its function? The authoress analyzes the proposition of terminological definition concerning contextuality and context. They are being considered...

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'SEEMINGLY ADULT' - A STATE OF SUSPENSION BETWEEN ADOLESCENCE AND ADULTHOOD

Joanna Minta

Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses > 2007 > 8 > 29-43

In recent years many studies concerning young people, especially the studies focusing on early adulthood issues, were published in Europe, USA, Japan and also in Poland. The question of the postponed period of reaching adulthood noticeable in many contemporary societies is referred to by their authors. The problems connected with a sense of being an adult, which most often means the acquisition of...

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DILEMMAS OF ADULTS TEACHERS' PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY

Adrianna Nizińska

Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses > 2007 > 8 > 57-64

The topic of this paper concerns constructing and renegotiating adult teacher professional identity with taking into account all the tensions, making the whole process an open, dynamic and discursive activity. Its theoretical framework is Anthony Giddens' concept of identity's dilemma such as: unification versus fragmentation, helplessness versus control, authority versus uncertainty, personal experience...

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THE USE OF THE SEMANTIC FIELDS ANALYSIS IN 'SCHOOL MEMORY' RESEARCH

Hanna Świerczyńska

Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses > 2007 > 8 > 165-175

The article discusses the issues concerning the teaching profession. Referring to the results of his research, the author tries to depict the memory image of a teacher experienced by the students. This research can be qualified as a biographical one. The theoretical frames are made by the assumptions of interactionism and phenomenology. Taking into consideration the aim of this research and the fact...

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ADULT WOMEN IN PROSTITUTION - PROFESSION OR PATHOLOGY?

Joanna Dec

Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses > 2007 > 8 > 291-304

Prostitution, in addition to hunting, fishing and root collecting, is considered to be the oldest profession of the world. On one hand, prostitution undertaken by adults as a free choice, for satisfying the sexual and material needs is not harmful for social health. It might be assumed that prostitution is not pathology because as a social phenomenon it has been existing ever since and has been socially...

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BECOMING AN ANCESTOR. AGING AND MEMORY IN POSTSOCIALIST EASTERN EUROPE

Jessica C. Robbins

Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses > 2007 > 8 > 225-242

Experiences of those with Alzheimer's are central to the authoress broad concerns with the anthropology of aging, of which this essay is a part. This paper is an attempt to put together literatures on aging, personhood, and kinship in the context of postsocialist Eastern Europe. These considerations are part of her larger project to consider how problematic memory loss and Alzheimer's disease in particular...

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POSTPONEMENT OF ADULTHOOD. REFLECTIONS ON BECOMING AN ADULT

Małgorzata Malec

Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses > 2007 > 8 > 45-55

The article is inspired by data which the authoress got from her biografical research. It dealt with the adults who experienced the disability when they were adult already. The 'postponement of adulthood' is in her view an understanding of some kind of change; the redefinition of our person, of our identity. It is the redefinition of our adulthood. The ordered world of adult (dreams and plans) is...

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JP2 GENERATION. REALITY OR MASS MEDIA ARTEFACT? (in the light of University of Lódz student research project)

Joanna Stelmaszczyk

Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses > 2007 > 8 > 217-224

In the last few years the interest of social sciences in an individual human life has been growing. More and more qualitative researches of a biographical character have been published presenting the subjective perception and understanding of the world of values and experiences. The aim of this article is to present the outcome of research 'Global and personal events' conducted as a part of the international...

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THE CLIENT OF CAREER COUNSELING. WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT IT?

Marcin Szumigraj

Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses > 2007 > 8 > 127-137

The article presents research results on clients of vocational and career counseling in Poland over last 15 years. It presents an attempt of systematization of knowledge concerning client counseling. The author invokes statistic data, and conclusions from qualitative research. They concern persons, who sought counceling of advisors from job office, pedagogical and psychologically bureau and other...

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BETWEEN 'CURING HOMOSEXUALITY' AND SUPPORT IN ACHIEVING THE ACCEPTANCE OF OWN PSYCHOSEXUAL ORIENTATION. TOWARDS COUNSELING FOR LESBIANS

Alina Łysak

Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses > 2007 > 8 > 149-162

Covert, implicit discrimination of lesbians takes place on different levels. The first is the very negation that lesbians exist. Next, it is believed that there are so few of them that it is a waste of time to take notice of them. In another one, it is accepted that there are lesbians in Poland but they are not discriminated against in any way. Yet another discrimination strategy assigns all negative...

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'GOOD ADVICE STALL' - AN ETHNOGRAPHIC ACCOUNT

Elżbieta Siarkiewicz

Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses > 2007 > 8 > 95-109

The Festival of Science and Arts was organized in Zielona Góra by the University of Zielona Góra in May 2006. The Section of Counseling at the Institute of Social Pedagogy (both the teachers and students) prepared 'The Stall of Good Advise'. The stall was a kind of provocation to generate and continue a free discussion on counseling. It was a chance to find out what people thought about counseling,...

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ANDRAGOGICAL APPROACH TO IN-SERVICE TRAINING FOR TEACHERS OF ADULT EDUCATION - PRACTITIONER'S REFLECTIONS

Anna Frąckowiak

Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses > 2007 > 8 > 87-92

The paper presents the author's experience gained during andragogical courses for teachers and principals of schools for adults. The courses were conducted in 2004 and 2005 in the Center for Lifelong Education in Torun. About 70 persons working in schools for adults in the area of northern Poland attended both courses. The main problem concerning teachers of adult education in Poland is the lack of...

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REVEAL TABOO. THE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE WROCLAW CALENDAR OF AMAZONS ASSOCIATION

Izabela Kowalczyk, Edyta Zierkiewicz

Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses > 2007 > 8 > 281-290

Two years ago the Association of Breast Cancer Survivors from Wroclaw ('Femina Fenix') together with the photographer Izabela Moczarna-Pasiek published a controversial wall-calendar showing nude acts of women after mastectomy. In a sense this calendar was an accurate blow against agreement of silence, the nonmemory accompanying death, sickness, disability, pain, tragedy, ugliness - overcoming the...

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ON TEACHING POLISH IN SIBERIA

Pavel Stolyarov

Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses > 2007 > 8 > 257-262

The paper deals with the current situation of the Siberia 'Polonia' mainly from the perspective of the activities undertaken by the cultural organizations of the Polish community in trems of teaching Polish, traditions and national culture. The paper is the result of a several year long research done in the most active community centers - Abakan and Tomsk. The author describes in details the scope...

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ORGANIZATION CULTURE AS A LEARNING PLACE

Magdalena Czubak

Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses > 2007 > 8 > 77-86

The aim of this article is to look at the work environment as a place of learning. Organization culture is a term referring to the system of informal patterns of behavior and thinking that become established in a given organization, and which may have effect on the organizational aims of that company. Learning within the workplace is described in andragogy as situational learning. It is learning that...

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SCHOOL PRINCIPAL - TEACHER OF TEACHERS?

Małgorzata Rosalska

Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses > 2007 > 8 > 6576

The goal of this text is to analyze the role, which the school principal can play in the educational management. This role is analyzed, both in the context of established legislations and the challenges connected with educational facilities managing. The principal is a person who is subject to a double supervision system in Poland - on one hand, a pedagogical supervision conducted by school inspectors,...

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IN SEARCH FOR ADULTHOOD

Magdalena Wnuk

Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses > 2007 > 8 > 21-27

The author tries to define the adulthood. After reviewing the available definitions he has paid attention to the new phenomenon of 'postponing the adulthood'. Searching for the definition the author asked his students to define maturity and can distinguish three categories of their answers: adulthood concerning myself, adulthood concerning myself and others, adulthood concerning myself, others and...

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THE RESISTANCE OF THE CLIENT AND THE COUNSELOR IN THE COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE RELATIONSHIP

Alicja Czerkawska

Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses > 2007 > 8 > 139-148

In the psychological literature the problem of the resistance presents too one-sided perspective. Usually the work with the client who makes some difficulties is analyzed, the conception how to overcome his resistance is presented and the guidelines how to cope with concrete situations are formulated. Seldom can we find the descriptions relating to the difficult counselor and his resistance. In fact...

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AROUND CONCEPTIONS: DEATH AND DYING

Marcin Muszyński

Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses > 2007 > 8 > 243-255

Dying is a phase of living, and death is the outcome. This obvious distinction is not always preserved in language. Speaking of the good death, people sometimes think of the dying process, sometimes of death as an event that concludes the process, and sometimes of the status of being dead. Dying and death are often associated with the very end of human life, the final stage of his earthly activity...

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THE USEFULNESS OF THE SITUATED LEARNING THEORY IN ANALYZING EDUCATIONAL BIOGRAPHY OF AN ADULT

Katarzyna Druczak

Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses > 2007 > 8 > 177-185

The article discusses the usefulness of the theory of situated learning in biographical research. The authoress presents the theory of situated learning as a key to analyze the educational biographies of adults. The aim of the paper is to explain the terms - critical event and educational biography; to present the theory of situated learning and its usefulness in analyzing critical events and running...

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Dyskursy Młodych Andragogów / Adult Education Discourses

THE ISSUES OF CONTEXT AND CONTEXTUALITY IN ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH

'SEEMINGLY ADULT' - A STATE OF SUSPENSION BETWEEN ADOLESCENCE AND ADULTHOOD

DILEMMAS OF ADULTS TEACHERS' PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY

THE USE OF THE SEMANTIC FIELDS ANALYSIS IN 'SCHOOL MEMORY' RESEARCH

ADULT WOMEN IN PROSTITUTION - PROFESSION OR PATHOLOGY?

BECOMING AN ANCESTOR. AGING AND MEMORY IN POSTSOCIALIST EASTERN EUROPE

POSTPONEMENT OF ADULTHOOD. REFLECTIONS ON BECOMING AN ADULT

JP2 GENERATION. REALITY OR MASS MEDIA ARTEFACT? (in the light of University of Lódz student research project)

THE CLIENT OF CAREER COUNSELING. WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT IT?

BETWEEN 'CURING HOMOSEXUALITY' AND SUPPORT IN ACHIEVING THE ACCEPTANCE OF OWN PSYCHOSEXUAL ORIENTATION. TOWARDS COUNSELING FOR LESBIANS

'GOOD ADVICE STALL' - AN ETHNOGRAPHIC ACCOUNT

ANDRAGOGICAL APPROACH TO IN-SERVICE TRAINING FOR TEACHERS OF ADULT EDUCATION - PRACTITIONER'S REFLECTIONS

REVEAL TABOO. THE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE WROCLAW CALENDAR OF AMAZONS ASSOCIATION

ON TEACHING POLISH IN SIBERIA

ORGANIZATION CULTURE AS A LEARNING PLACE

SCHOOL PRINCIPAL - TEACHER OF TEACHERS?

IN SEARCH FOR ADULTHOOD

THE RESISTANCE OF THE CLIENT AND THE COUNSELOR IN THE COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE RELATIONSHIP

AROUND CONCEPTIONS: DEATH AND DYING

THE USEFULNESS OF THE SITUATED LEARNING THEORY IN ANALYZING EDUCATIONAL BIOGRAPHY OF AN ADULT

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