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Citizen Kutz – the silesian gelender.

Obywatel Kutz – śląski gelender.

Author(s): Grażyna Stachówna / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 75-76/2011

Keywords: Stachówna; Grażyna; revierw of the book anthology on Kazimierz Kutz and his work –"Kutzowisko 2";

Stachówna reviews a book anthology on Kazimierz Kutz and his work –"Kutzowisko 2" edited by Andrzej Gwóźdź. This is a continuation of sorts of the first volume on the director. The reviewer notes the consistent structure of the book – the volume is divided into three parts. The first deals with the biography of the artist, the second presents an analysis of the artistic value of his work, and in the final part Kutz’s first novel (written over 40 years) is reviewed. The book is richly illustrated, and carefully designed. A DVD with three rarely shown documentaries by Kutz is attached.

The university „makes you think“

Uniwersytet „daje do myślenia”

Author(s): Jacek Zalewski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 05/2003

University of the accelerator class divisions

Uniwersytet to akcelerator podziałów klasowych

Author(s): Andrzej Nowak,Krystian Szadkowski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 01/2010

Autonomy, integrity, university

Autonomia, integralność, uniwersytet

Author(s): Tadeusz Sławek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 18-19/2012

Keywords: university; autonomy of the university; integrity of the university; responsibility for university

A paper brings up the autonomy of university and usefulness of higher education teaching. Thinking about the usefulness of the university should not lead to professional training, but to personal development. A value of education lies in preparing human to unknown. The author emphasizes that the university, which stays a social institution, should prepare individuals to constant, critical reflection on themselves and the world. To achieve this goal, university should be capable of autonomous thinking liberated from foreign influence. The autonomy of the university, understood also as negation of the scientific objectivity, is based on communication and openness to the other. It builds "being together" relation. In conclusion the author introduces the concept of integrity and finds its application to the university understood both as individuals (truthfulness, modesty, honesty) and institution ("pursuit of truth" with an emphasis on the "pursuit").

Master, Student, University

Mistrz, uczeń, uniwersytet

Author(s): Dominik Czapigo / Language(s): / Issue: 03 (1)/2007

In this paper I aim to describe the way of perceiving the student-master relationship within the modern university. My goal was to construct a pattern of the student-master relationship, incidentally providing an indirect insight into the desirable characteristics of both the student and the master. To this end I have used interviews with the undergraduates and faculty members of Warsaw University, as well as fragments of diverse texts. The gathering and analysis of material was aided by the techniques of grounded theory.

University: logos and logo

Uniwersytet: logos i logo

Author(s): Tadeusz Sławek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 03/2015

Keywords: university;management

Following the call of Kazimierz Twardowski, who in 1936 spoke of “the dignity of the university”, this essay is an attempt to examine the extent to which this idea is still valid. By distinguishing between “governance” (critical analysis of the situation and advocating adequate means not only for describing, but also for changing the world) and “management” (serving primarily not to renew or change the world, but to achieve quantifiable results in the application of well-known and thoroughly elaborated administrative and financial measures), we show that one of the main problems in the academy today is the lack of a proper critical distance to the accepted ways of organizing the world, recognized, too hastily, as uncontested. This is why universities have had imposed on them a discourse of economics as the only means of conducting and describing their activities. Without neglecting in any way economic factors, it is necessary to refuse to follow the techno-bureaucratic policies being applied in universities as a means of “forcing” results in research. The task and role of the university are rooted in a deep conviction that the problems of today's world cannot be solved solely through the belief they are purely economic in nature. The University has always demanded we recognize the moral causes of the difficulties that place a strain on our common existence. What is forgotten by the techno-bureaucracy currently “managing” science and education, is, as Leszek Kołakowski summed up perfectly, fact that: “(...) for at least some of the great problems facing mankind there are no purely technical or organizational solutions”, because they require, above all, a “spiritual transformation”.

UNIVERSITY IN THE SOCIAL SPACE

Uniwersytet w przestrzeni społecznej

Author(s): Piotr Sztompka / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 36/2016

Keywords: University; the humanities; general education; civic education

The author claims that universities, unlike vocational schools, have a mission to offer general knowledge totheir students, also in the domain of the humanities, and to form enlightened citizens rather than skilled workersonly. Emphasis on practical skills, narrow specialization, focus on professionalization in all higher educationestablishments brings about the crisis of the university and atrophy of civil society which is an indispensable elementof a well-functioning democracy.

University - Liberty - Selflessness. The traditional ethos and contemporary changes in the identity of University

Uniwersytet – wolność – bezinteresowność. Tradycyjny etos i współczesne przemiany tożsamości uniwersytetu

Author(s): Marek Rembierz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 18/2015

Keywords: university; liberty; autonomy; selfl essness; transformations of university identity;

What currently becomes more and more vivid is the public debate on the transformations in the functioning of university and on their directions. In order to focus properly on the problems undertaken here, it is worth to refer to some remarks on academic liberty and the liberty of studying, which are formulated in the context of describing the secret university education in Poland under the Nazi occupation. It is this secret teaching, based on self-organization and free from an administrative institutional framework, which turns out to be the model of university liberty. This peculiar experience of academic freedom, showing the essence of academic learning and teaching, should be remembered and taken into account in all political and administrative (or even bureaucratic) attempts at regulating the functioning of autonomic university and other academic level schools.

University in poor times

Uniwersytet w czasach marnych

Author(s): Tadeusz Gadacz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2016

Keywords: university; education; humanitarianism; wisdom

In the article I show the link between the crisis of the contemporary university and the crisis of the European humanity. It is expressed by an imbalance between the material and the spiritual dimensions of life and the domination of the hedonic, utilitarian and vital value above the aesthetic, moral and intellectual values. However, in science it is expressed in the shaping for the 19th century domination of science over the humanities. Its effect is to displace the theory in Greek meaning, understood as the admiration for the truth, goodness and beauty, by the theory understood as a useful scientific hypothesis. Crowding out of education, understood as the acquisition of human competency, through the education understood as equipping entities of the work in practical competence. In the article I put a postulate that the university should again become a space of free thought, independent of the pressures of politics and the economy. It should free itself from the bureaucratic yoke and regain the confidence to be able to give a full, universal education.

The university under fire

Uniwersytet pod ostrzałem

Author(s): Urszula Zbrzeźniak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2016

Keywords: education; philosophy; instrumental reason; democracy

This essay discusses the main perspectives in the contemporary debate on university. In recent years the university became one of the most problematic institutions of our society. Debate on the future of the university began in the moment of transition from the industrial societies to the post-industrial societies. In the second half of the 20th century we witnessed a long process of replacing the old form of university by the institution of multiversity or a university governed by the rule of excellence. The process of transformation of university is still discussed within the academic milieu and we can observe a constant proliferation of critical approaches which tend to undermine conviction that the ongoing process of subjugation of the university to the economic rules is inevitable.

University at the Intersection of the World and Home. Towards the Admiration of Independent Thinking

Uniwersytet w przecięciu świata i domu. W stronę afirmacji myślenia osobnego

Author(s): Aleksnadra Kunce / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2016

Keywords: university; independent thinking; home; locality; difference;

This essay discusses the important question concerning the understanding of university. The author uses anthropological and philosophical approaches to develop the interpretation of the local-worldly university. Why shall we think about university at the intersection of the world and home? The main aim of the article is to describe and interpret problems of autonomy, location, and connection with regions. The author refers to Plato, Aristotle, Herder, Humboldt, Dilthey, Nietzsche, Ortega y Gasset, Heidegger, Merton, Lyotard, Derrida, and Esposito. The explanation of the idea of wonder leads to the consideration of an important role of university as an independent and autonomous place in our common space. Thinking about university as an independent entity is an act of retreating from the conception of university as a centre of innovation, yielding unified and standardized thought, yet deprived of roots. University is not a realm of “the same.” If we take care of “the difference,” in particular, if we think about the Derridean term “différance”, we should affirm “the difference” in the daily practice of our universities. University is obliged to strengthen independent thinking and engaged practice, to encourage dealing with inconvenient themes and producing unprecedented narratives. We thus need to affirm our right to independence. Local orientation of university brings about the common creation of the space, which involves not only pride in one’s identity, but also a sense of the infinite, the impossible, the incomprehensible, and the strange. The local-worldly university leads us to recognition university at the intersection of the world and home.

Profession. Derrida and the university

Profesja. Derrida i uniwersytet

Author(s): Krzysztof Hoffmann / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 25/2016

This paper is an attempt to recapitulate the main themes in Jacques Derrida’s thought on the uni- versity. The author focuses on The University without Condition (presented for the first time in 1998). The paper briefly recounts the philosopher’s involvement in educational institutions (GREPH, Collège International de Philosophie). Next, there is an analysis of the distinction between the future (futur) and the future-to-come (l’avenir), as well as the related opposition between profession (profession) and craft/trades (métier). The strategy of conceiving the university as the topolitical place of resistance is revealed using Derrida’s deconstruction of the repeater figure (agrégé-répétiteur). The paper ends by presenting an analogy between the condition of structural atheism and the obligation of the university to create a possibility for an event (beyond the constative/performative opposition).

University versus time challenges

Uniwersytet wobec wyzwań czasu

Author(s): Andrzej Piotr Perzyński / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/1998

Keywords: university; higher education; time challenges;

Bardzo często słyszy się stwierdzenie, że uniwersytet przechodzi kryzys, że wstrząsają nim wielkie i poważne problemy. Prawdą jest, iż te problemy istnieją i że to one w wielu przypadkach stanowią poważne przeszkody w rozwoju działalności uniwersyteckiej. Wystarczyłoby wymienić niektóre z nich: umasowienie, niedostatek środków ekonomicznych, brak bodźców ze strony wielu profesorów i studentów, niewystarczające relacje między uniwersytetem a społeczeństwem, nasilona specjalizacja itd. Nie sposób negować doniosłości tych argumentów w strukturze i rozwoju jakiejkolwiek instytucji uniwersyteckiej. Biorąc to pod rozwagę, należałoby nie zapominać o powinności otwarcia się na wszystkie inne aspekty życia oraz o poczuciu realizmu.

University and the Culture of the Person

UNIWERSYTET I KULTURA OSOBY

Author(s): Adrian J. Reimers / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2018

Keywords: education; university; truth; intellect; culture; freedom; John Paul II; Aristotle

This article examines Pope John Paul II’s claim in an address to the Catholic University of Lublin (1987) that to serve the truth is to serve the liberation of both the human being and the nation. Drawing on Aristotle’s principle that the mind “is, in a way, all things,” the article argues that education is deeply personal, as the learning of the truth is ineluctably transformative of the person himself. This principle redounds not only to the person who learns but the nation’s culture. Citing John Paul II’s address to UNESCO (1980), we argue that by forming the culture, education serves to develop the nation’s relation to truth. Knowledge of its own culture enables the nation to transcend purely materialistic concerns and collectively to embrace its proper freedom.

Silesian choir of sailors

Śląski chór żeglarzy

Author(s): Zbigniew Kadłubek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2018

Chór to osoba z wielu osób. To jeden głos z wielu głosów. Górnośląskie chóry to symbole wspólnotowe. Chór śpiewa – jako jeden organizm, jako jedna istota. A zatem zabiera głos jako wspólnota.

A UNIVERSITY MUST BE DISTINCTIVE

UNIWERSYTET MUSI SIĘ WYRÓŻNIAĆ

Author(s): Sławomir Nowosad / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2019

Keywords: Book-Review; University; review of M.W. Roche’s Realizing the Distinctive University; Vision and Values; Strategy and Culture;

Sławomir Nowosad – A University Must Be Distinctive (review of M.W. Roche’s Realizing the Distinctive University: Vision and Values, Strategy and Culture, Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2017)

Silesian Science-Fiction & Fantasy Club

Śląski Klub Fantastyki

Author(s): Piotr Cholewa / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1 (13)/2019

Keywords: fiction; fandom; science-fiction and fantasy clubs; history; non-governmental organizations;

The text gives concise account of an outline history of Silesian ScienceFiction & Fantasy Club (Śląski Klub Fantastyki – Polish noun fantastyka encompasses both science-fiction and fantasy works), which is the oldest of its kind established by the fantastyka aficionados in Poland. It has been in operation since 1981, and it is registered as a public benefit institution.

Utopian university for realists

Utopijny uniwersytet dla realistów

Author(s): Andrzej Bliekle / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2021

Keywords: teal management; motivation systems; stick and carrot; university as the organization

It is known that parametric measures such as the Journal Index Factor or Hirsh Index provoke negative consequences in academic communities, significantly lowering job satisfaction and quality. A 'game with algorithms' replaces researchers and academic teacher ethos, frequently leading to frustration and scientific misconduct. This situation is analyzed and compared with similar phenomena in business caused by so-called "motivations systems" colloquially called "stick and carrot." Since about 1980, several experts in management like E. Demming, A. Kohn, P. Senge, or M. Kossewski, point out a highly destructive role of these methods. Also, more and more organizations implement new management styles known as well-being, holacracy, participatory management, or teal self-organization. The main message of the paper is that it is worth considering similar approaches in academic communities. The author hopes that his voice will at least provoke a discussion on that matter.

University in the Pandemics

Uniwersytet w czasach zarazy

Author(s): Tomasz Goban-Klas / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2022

University in the Anthropocene

Uniwersytet w epoce antropocenu

Author(s): Ewa Bińczyk / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: university studies; the Anthropocene; the normative mission of experts; the Capitalocene

The context of the article is the alarming results of empirical scientific research regardingthe risk of exceeding the so-called planetary boundaries. For two decades, these havebeen highlighted in the interdisciplinary discussion on the Anthropocene. In light of this,the author asks about the role of the university and the axiological mission of experts.Based on selected postulates from the field of so-called critical university studies, the textindicates ways of “tactically using the university space.” Alongside signaling the disaster,these include: (1) nurturing a community of dissent on the ruins of the academia; (2)assuming the role of a sector criticizing capitalism in the Capitalocene and that of thelaboratory of alternatives; 3) simultaneously combating climate fatalism and confrontinghumanity with the problem of extinction; as well as 4) locating catalysts of change onthe path of humanity toward green orders.