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The learning process before, during and after the COVID-10 pandemic

Proces uczenia się przed, w trakcie i po pandemii COVID-19

Author(s): Sylwia Jaskulska,Barbara Jankowiak,Joanna Sikorska,Michał Klichowski,Hanna Krauze-Sikorska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: learning; distance learning; COVID-19 pandemic

Has the time of the COVID-19 pandemic and distance learning permanently changed Polish schools? After catching up with the backlog in curriculum content, will the school system seek to revert to the pre-pandemic status quo? Will the technological solutions forced by this situation and the new competences of teachers and students be utilised? These are the types of questions that occupy researchers and practitioners in education, and research conducted in this field brings us closer to the answers. With this research report, we join the discussion on the distance learning environment and predictions about its near and future consequences. This book comprises the final report of research on the learning process during the COVID-19 pandemic conducted in the 2020/2021 school year by a research team from the Faculty of Educational Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and the company VULCAN (the operator of one of the most popular electronic school logbooks, i.e. - UONET+). The research findings are presented against the backdrop of the theoretical framework concerning the situation in Poland during the pandemic, the dynamics of the digital world from the learner’s perspective, the theory of technology-assisted learning and the process of shaping digital competences. In this way, we attempt to determine how the experience of distance learning changes the ideas and expectations of pupils towards school, and especially their learning preferences.

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Shall This Nation Die?

Czy ten naród ma zginąć?

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: World War I; genocide; Assyrians; Turkey; Entente prisoner-of-war camps

The book, originally published in 1920 in the USA, is an eyewitness account of the events that took place during the First World War in the borderlands between Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran, enriched with the testimony of other eyewitnesses. The author describes his fate, the fates of his family and of his ethnic group, the population of which, as a result of the massacres, deportations and starvation, shrunk to a third of the original count. Having escaped from his hometown of Edessa (Urfa), he served as a priest in prisoner-of-war camps of the Entente countries on the territory of Turkey, describing the camps in detail. The book, of eight publishing sheets after the translation into Polish, was enhanced by the editor with critical scientific back matter, encompassing an introduction, footnotes, an afterword, bibliography and indexes, spanning a total of four sheets. The original text was enriched with photographs and maps as well.

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America

Ameryka

Author(s): Filip Lipiński / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: America; the United States; visual mythology; art; art history; visual culture; critical mythology

The book Ameryka. Rewizje wizualnej mitologii Stanów Zjednoczonych [America. Revisions of the Visual Mythology of the United States] is a critical analysis of the formation and the subsequent revisions of what the author describes as American visual myths. These myths are embedded in the vast field of visuality, models of vision, images, art and other objects of visual culture, such as film. Ameryka was written, first of all, from the perspective of an art historian, but also an Americanist, hence it offers an interdisciplinary scholarly proposition combining reflections in the fields of art history, visual culture studies and American studies. Following an extensive theoretical introduction, all the chapters are separate but correlated with the book as a whole: there are case studies of the creation of myth-images, particularly in the 19th century, in their diverse forms and media and, more importantly, of how they were revised in art and visual culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Throughout the book, the author draws an important distinction between the United States and America, which is understood as a symbolic-imaginary field or screen within which American mythology is formed, primarily to neutralize difference and unify the heterogenous American nation. The extensive analyses of artworks, popular images and films demonstrate the way American mythology was gradually deconstructed, especially from the mid-20th century, as a result of the awakening of political consciousness of the marginalized groups, the surge of civil rights struggle and changes within the broader social-cultural landscape of the United States. At the same time, despite these internal interventions and the subsiding economic and cultural hegemony of the USA on the global scene during recent decades, by referring to specific cases and issues of American visuality, the author claims that the basic coordinates of the myth continue to serve as a lasting frame of reference.

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Athos. The Sight of the Holy Mountain

Athos. Wzrok Świętej Góry

Author(s): Aleksander, Wojciech Mikołajczak,Rafał Dymczyk / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Holy Mount Athos; Orthodox; Hesychasm; Philokalia; sense of sight; Actor Theory Network

The inquiries presented in this monograph cover the entirety of the religious and cultural heritage created by the Orthodox monastic communities that have existed for a thousand years on the Holy Mount Athos in Greece. The research shows the scope and the way of using the sense of sight as a creator and at the same time a receptor of material and spiritual reality, which is manifested in the local liturgy, architecture, art and literature, as well as in mysticism, prayer and the way of everyday life of monks. The scale of the involvement of the sight in the creation and interpretation of Athos reality is determined by two existential factors – on the one hand, the usability of natural creations and works of human hands, and on the other hand, the influence of things on human consciousness in the physical and metaphysical dimension of being. As a result of the visual integration of these two processes, the objects used on the Holy Mount in sacred and secular activities gain their own agency, which manifests itself in their practical and symbolic functions. Due to the fact that these functions are performed in relations with their contractors, things, thus, become props with the help of which people express and interpret their faith and knowledge, experienced emotions, as well as their own attitude towards the world and fellow human beings. Using the sight in this process takes places in several ranges of vision: (1) mystical insight, (2) perception of light, (3) perception of shapes, (4) vision of colors, (5) motion detection.

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Institution of Taking a Position as a Form of Cooperation in the Adoption of Decisions and the Adoption of Legislative Acts of Law

Instytucja zajęcia stanowiska jako forma współdziałania w stanowieniu i stosowaniu prawa

Author(s): Lucyna Staniszewska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: administration cooperation; taking a position by an administrative body; multi-level administration; co-competence; joint administrative decision

The main aim of the book is to comprehensively examine the issue of cooperation between administrative bodies in the form of taking a position and responsibility for such administrative acts. While in the legal doctrine the issue of cooperation of local government units of a systemic nature has been the subject of numerous studies, substantive cooperation in applying administrative law and drafting administrative law are not discussed frequently. The last monographic study comes from the 1980s, but this issue is very significant with the prospect of the further development of cooperation between public administration bodies, because nowadays the administration conducts procedures that are increasingly complicated and require specialist knowledge. There is also a tendency for administrative bodies to develop informal modes of cooperation. If they have effects on third parties, parties to the proceedings, one might think about the guarantees of a fair administrative procedure in such a case. The need for cooperation between the authorities is inevitable due to the division of tasks, functions and competences between the authorities. Moreover, because of the globalization and cross-border nature of administrative proceedings, cooperation becomes an institution not only of intra-state but also of inter-state importance - within the authorities of the EU Member States and states and EU bodies. However, many adjudicating bodies are still wary of cooperation because they associate it with delegating their own competences to other bodies, for whose actions they are fully responsible. The Polish legal order still lacks a clear concept for the institution of taking a stand, and the inconsistency of the legislator assigning different meanings and character to identical forms of material cooperation causes serious problems in the application of this institution. This has a negative impact on its effectiveness, and thus on the reluctance of the authorities to take up a position, and likewise the parties to the proceedings, associating cooperation with proceedings becoming extended and less effective. The problems related to the act of undertaking cooperation are also important.

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Publisher: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Adama Mickiewicza

The learning process before, during and after the COVID-10 pandemic

Proces uczenia się przed, w trakcie i po pandemii COVID-19

Shall This Nation Die?

Czy ten naród ma zginąć?

America

Ameryka

Athos. The Sight of the Holy Mountain

Athos. Wzrok Świętej Góry

Institution of Taking a Position as a Form of Cooperation in the Adoption of Decisions and the Adoption of Legislative Acts of Law

Instytucja zajęcia stanowiska jako forma współdziałania w stanowieniu i stosowaniu prawa