Kultura-Społeczeństwo-Edukacja
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The paper describes the nature of media education, its main domains and aims of education in this matter, the state of research and practical solutions in Poland and the world as well as the di culties related to the student and shaping the media competences.
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The narrative used in the article refers to the interpretational complexity of the phenomenon of contemporary society. Globalization ful lls a wide spectrum of the global world phenomena in the situation of unobviousness, diversity, ambivalence and ambiguity, which in uence the new quality of sociocultural life. Trying to understand the content given to the distinguished de nitions of society, intellectuals...
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The narration of this article is focused on showing various ways of capturing the phenomenon of career from a subjective perspective. The subject of an analysis will be the reconstruction of chosen theoretical perspectives, where one emphasizes changes in quality attitude to the career phenomenon and showing the “career making” meaning of people’s activities. The content presented in this article...
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The concept of race seems to be, despite the e orts of various political movements of 1960’s still present in the public life and education in the Unites States. Contemporary educational debates in America in most cases tackle this problem through the lenses of a speci c research approach which takes the concept of race as granted, when examining social relations in the American society. This approach,...
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In the last three years there had been conducted several researches in Poland, which were related to competences and consciousness of parents in the eld of children safety in the Internet, including the research conducted in 2010 in all European Union countries (the EU Kids Online research). In this paper the author focuses mainly on the comparison and synthesis of the result of these researches on...
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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 signi cance, regarding the...
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The article deals with the analysis of the phenomenon of simulating motherhood and fatherhood by playing reborns – realistic baby-like dolls, it describes the process of reborns creation, the intentions of artists who create them and the motives of people who use ‘arti cial children’. The article gives a threefold analysis of the phenomenon: the striving for living in perfect reality that is simulated...
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The article deals with the development of students’ information pro ciency in the Polish Republic and Ukraine. The article is devoted to the implications brought into the process of teachers training by the impact of key competencies and information technologies. Special attention is paid to information pro ciency and future teachers’ skills that are the most important for their training and perspective...
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The article concerns the phenomenon of commercialization of the modern university, and especially its two primary functions: research and teaching. On one hand, the author analyzes such phenomena as the marketisation of academic knowledge, which becomes a “commodity for sale”, and scientists, because of the dependence of the big bussines are forced to give up their passion for seeking truth. On the...
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The article in its introduction does present an attempt of facing the di culties in de ning alternativity and innovation in education, taking as the basis opinions of Polish and Czech pedagogists and theoreticians. Second part of the paper is made by a description of examples of alternative and innovative educational activities undertaken in contemporary Czech Republic.
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The educational reality is nowadays increasingly associated with the philosophy of postmodernity. The new orientation leads researchers to explore new paths – one of them may be the inclusion of popular culture with all its potential, not excluding popular arts, to the educational canon. This text is an attempt to approximate the popular arts as having signi cant educational potential in reference...
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A rmative action was introduced to the American universities in the 1960s. The aim of this policy was to bene t the underrepresented groups, especially African Americans both in the higher education and the job market. The a rmative action was introduced to ensure equal opportunities as well as cultural diversity. The policy of Harvard University towards African Americans, Asian Americans and the...
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There do exist two basic approaches towards the term ‘freedom’. The rst one, is a general approach, related to an universal meaning of the term. The second one, is a particular approach, based on taking/heading for understanding of freedom in plural terms. Both approaches might, but not necessary do, exclude each other. An alternative takes an interpretation of particular freedoms, which simultaneously...
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Since the 1990s organized groups have begun to appear in the Czech Republic called „football hooligans”. These groups have drawn the attention of the media, security forces, o cials of the Czech Republic Football Association, and the broader public. This text focuses on selected topics associated with the phenomenon of football hooliganism. After a brief history of football hooliganism abroad, especially...
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The author, drawing on the metaphor of the paradise, looks at the situation of socio-cultural changes in the world. In the context of the changing reality, she especially examines the condition of a contemporary man, who participates in the world of changeable axiology. Thereby, she addresses the universalistic ethics, as a remedy for regaining the paradise.
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The long-awaited handbook by the special pedagogy educators issued by the Committee on Terminology and Classi cation of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (Schalock et al, 2010) appeared nally in 2010. This article discusses the way of understanding the prevention of intellectual disability represented in the aforementioned handbook which is an expression of the...
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Living in XXI century, experiencing personally technological and psycho – social changes that modern world provides us with, usually we cannot see many phenomena. One of them is undoubtedly the impact of TV commercials on children’s personality development process. – Yet, it has become one of the most important factors a ecting the child in the process of the social – economic development that exerts...
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The paper gives an ironic and short, both empirical and normative analysis of current Polish home education intertwined with a metaanalysis of the role of metaphors in the language of the educational sciences. Entomological metaphor of subimago helps here in revealing the social status quo of the mentioned „home education” in Poland. One can describe socioeducational reality using di erent forms of...
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The article is devoted to the analysis of the dominant ideal of beauty in the Victorian period. The author defi nes mechanisms of repression and symbolic violence over the body of the Victorian upper-class woman, connected with the phenomenon of social control over the woman’s body and identity. The author assumes that the desire to achieve physical beauty has always been a source of a biographical...
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The presented study aims at the identi cation of these mechanisms in the area of integrated education as well as at showing possible consequences for educational practice and the development of disabled learners. The rst is related to the biological model of disability, which is determined by the notion of physiological norm and for which organism impairment is a constitutive feature. What ranks as...
