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The aim of the article was to analyze the results of a survey conducted among students. The survey concerned the assessment of contemporary education by young people between 12 and 17 years of age. Detailed answers of the respondents to twenty-eight questions made it possible to establish the attitude of students to science, teachers, school, and to create the image of the student and the teacher.
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The aim of the article is to raise the issue of educational coaching and its use during Polish language lessons in a secondary school. The author explains the concept of coaching and presents its genesis. It lists the characteristics of a good coach, paying attention to the competences of a modern teacher. It also presents exemplary coaching methods and techniques that he uses in the work of a Polish language teacher.
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The article will delineate the characteristics of Generation Alpha (Post-Gen-Z); children who were born after 2010, students at Polish schools today. The author will try to answer several questions related to Generation Alpha teaching environment – what the priorities and potential challenges there are, how they learn, what kind of school and teachers they need. In the article, issues such as new technologies and innovations in foreign language education as well as key competencies and XXI century skills of the Alpha students will be described.
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The contemporary world is characterized by dynamic changes and progress in almost every area of life, while education, which is the engine for all development, is still carried out in the Prussian model, with a history of two centuries. The necessity to undertake activities aiming at adapting education to the requirements of the 21st century reality seems indisputable. The article attempts to show how the reorganization of classroom space can mark the beginning of revolutionary changes in the functioning of primary schools. It highlights the need to transform the ‘old’ one-way teaching model into a „new” approach based on learning from each other. This is going to be achieved through the change of desk arrangement, which, in a way, forces the need to remodel both the role of the teacher and the student. An appropriate organization of classroom space allows teachers to implement the methods which break with the traditional pattern of knowledge transmission and enable the development of competences that are important today. The teacher then becomes the organizer of a learning process, and the students are its important subjecs – active participants. The article also contains a list of good teaching practices, which can be implemented in a modern public school in order to minimize the importance of frontal teaching.
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Although the Polish school continues the 19th-century model of Prussian education, there are alternative ideas appear on the educational map, e.g. in the form of free democratic schools which, apart from a pedagogical experiment, set new trends in the 21st century. The presented paper recalls the thoughts of the creators of alternative pedagogy: Maria Montessori, Rudolf Steiner and Kurt Hahn, but also shows the creative ferment of the pedagogy of hope – the Dutch school of peace and the grassroots movement of “Schule im Aufbruch” using the latest research from neurobiologists. The author of paper shares his experience and describes the pedagogical innovation that functioned for six years in the middle school. The interdisciplinary hybrid connected the formal education with non-formal activities and block teaching with the high autonomy of students in terms of class self-governance. The context for considering school is the analysis of the results of the Report on mental and physical well-being of young people (UNICEF).
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Janusz Korczak understood the role of the educator as a process of searching and wandering. He compared the actions of an educator to the medical profession. Although his pedagogical writings and books were written almost a century ago, they are still relevant today. Korczak’s timeliness is manifested primarily in the equality of the child and the educator. The constant question “why?” contains the element of an explorer of the child’s personality, but above all it is the quintessence of being human in building interpersonal relations. His philosophy of education still inspires many educators today. The world of VUCA poses countless challenges to contemporary educators. What would Korczak advise them?
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The growing number of mental disorders among children and teenagers, resulting from fear or distress, but very often also from a traumatic experience, poses yet another challenge a contemporary teacher has to take up. Teaching a child after a traumatic event requires specialistic knowledge and respecting certain rules that provide a guidance in the trauma zone. This article presents basic characteristics of trauma and some dos and don’ts when encountering this phenomenon in the classroom. Additionally, certain therapeutic solutions that can be implemented in the course of the lesson are presented. The article shows that the traumatized children very often have a limited access to psychologists or psychotherapists, therefore they seek help at school where the person they turn to is a teacher, who, despite the lack of professional education in the field of psychology, has tools to offer such children the feeling of safety and the possibility to return to normal functioning or even to post-traumatic growth.
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The aim of the article is to defend the thesis that the worked through failure affects the development of a person through getting to know oneself and exploring the knowledge in the area where it is insufficient. The article states that failure is unavoidable, therefore from childhood a person should be taught to perceive it as a natural phenomenon. It is worth teaching children to see failure as a positive phenomenon as well, not just a negative one. When teaching children and young people, one should ensure the child’s development by adapting the methods of work to the student’s abilities and talents. A teacher, teaching children and youth to accept failure, should implement various educational methods. The contemporary model of working with children and youth offered by professional literature, presents a way of working with gifted students and students with educational problems. Methods of working with an average student are not developed. Besides, the model of working with a student is designed to result in his/her success. These studies suggest that failure is only a negative phenomenon, and that success is a positive one. The article also highlights learning from failure, which teaches coping skills for adult life.
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Working with young children, we must bear in mind their multilateral development needs. Currently, in kindergartens there are a lot of pupils with various disorders. Recently, there is a significant increase of those who need sensory integration therapy. In the following study, I present the process of conducting the aforementioned therapy and present practical solutions aimed at developing communication skills.
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In all the deliberations concerning the conditioning of the teacher’s life, it is essential to pay attention to the organisational factors. Among those we can distninguish the external conditions of the teacher’s work in the context of which their activity takes place. Every single conditioning aspect can be the subject of a separate qualitative analysis. Therefore, in this author’s further considerations only certain organisational factors of career shall be presented – those that have been deemed essential and having influence on the degree of mutual interpersonal relations in teams in which the teachers of early education operate. This author arrived at the conclusion that it would be of value to analyse the very issue of interpersonal relations in the teachers’ environment. For the school’s activity is the more effective the more its teachers are able to cooperate smoothly, the better they understand one another and are able – with concentrated joint effort – to refine and improve the style of their respective individual work.
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The aim of the article is to discuss methodological and didactic issues related to the foreign language classes conducted remotely and to show the potential that lies in the use of Internet tools in online foreign language teaching. The main question that guides the considerations here relates to the effectiveness of learning through online platforms and applications. The author analyses the specifics of online classes and points out what to pay special attention to while conducting them.
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Polish nationality was dominant among the inhabitants of Poznań during the interwar period. Moreover, the German, Jewish and Ukrainian populations belonged to the national minorities. Research has shown that the share of suicides of national minorities in Poznań amounted to 7.7 percent. 40 people of German nationality, 13 people of Jewish nationality and 10 people of Ukrainian nationality committed suicide. The research obtained information on gender, age, marital status, profession and methods of committing suicide by representatives of national minorities in Poznań.
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This article investigates the issue of high suicide rates among females in the Middle East. The paper explains the specificity of the region mainly on the example of Turkey, which is the best described and researched country of the Middle East. The work describes the influence of various cultural and social factors, as well as the role of traditional values, in the context of self-destructive behaviour. The article additionally analyses films and works of literature, which endeavour to discuss the issues of women living in an oppressive, patriarchal society. Finally, the author describes the causes, methods of suicide and ways of preventing them.
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The subject of the article is contemporary curses/swear words in the form of schematic formulas, which in fact are also self-destructive desires (e.g. niech mnie drzwi ścisną). The aim of the considerations is to present the results of observations of contemporary linguistic customs in the use of wishful self-destructive formulas and to discuss the most important changes within the Polish custom of cursing oneself, taking into account the original, magical function of curses and the sphere of the sacred.
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Adopting a suicidological perspective, the author analyses one of the recent Polish pop-culture phenomena – “Ranczo” – a comedy series directed by Wojciech Adamczyk. He describes the ways of presenting several types of self-destructive behaviors, but focuses on the scenes of suicidal attempts and their classification and comparison. Taking historical context into account enables the author to explain particular esthetic and fabular choices. Finally, he explores ethical implications of creating a specific image of suicide in “Ranczo”.
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Mata is one of the most popular rappers in Poland and a voice of young Polish upper classes. This article describes his history and characterizes his work, analyzing his songs in order to find the main self-destructive behaviours and reasons for them in Mata’s discourse. The author lists two main types of behaviour – suicide ideation with suicide attempts and extensive use of psychoactive substances – and two main reasons, which are the family relations and the hegemonic pressure to be productive. He also interprets Mata’s works as a proposal to form of a social class alternative to the contemporary intelligentsia, that is: patointelligentsia, which, by its critical approach towards contemporary cultural-political hegemony would be able to lead to the dialogue and improvement of the situation of the youth.
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The author analyses the problem of suicide death among homeless people in Poland. Since there is little research concerning this particular problem in Poland, she focuses on the case of Grzegorz Laskowski, a homeless man who committed suicide in 2014. By analysing his blog entries, she tries to find the reasons which could have pushed him to the decision to commit suicide. This particular case is only a starting point for further considerations regarding possible risk factors in homelessness. Laskowski’s blog provides us with a unique insight into a homeless man’s perspective on suicide.
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The article’s aim is to inquire whether the halny wind affects suicidal behaviours in Tatra County. It analyses the region’s literature on the wind and its influence on the community; documentary and feature films depicting life in Zakopane; research on the correlation between the foehn winds and suicides; a survey conducted for this purpose; and interviews conducted with the people of Zakopane. The outcome of this analysis is an observation of reconceptualization of the halny and its legend as a pretext for avoidance of both further discourse about it and design of preventive programs.
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With the growing interest in the suicide phenomenon, more and more information on intervention and social education has emerged over the past decades. A fuller understanding of the topic of self-destruction along with helping people in a suicidal crisis and their relatives may contribute to reducing the number of sudden deaths. Through a review of research and specialist literature, the work explains the phenomenon of suicide survivors and presents how suicide affects people in the suicide’s environment. Moreover, it distinguishes needs of suicide-bereaved families. It also emphasizes what forms of help may be effective for people who come into contact with suicide and deal with grief as a result of it.
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