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The article presents the application of compatibility analysis to assess the extent to which the main objective of the National Development Strategy (SRK) was realized (Raising the level and life quality of the Polish population in the provinces in 2010). The analysis uses a complex matrix of compliance tags created by comparing the indicator values of Polish provinces with their assumed value (standard) in SRK’2010. The proposed method also identified regions in which the goal was achieved, and those in which the objective has not been achieved. With the method the visualization of results was made in two-dimensional space. The study was based on data from the Central Statistical Office (GUS).
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The article presents the existing systems of monitoring and evaluation of the strategy of selected cities, as well as the author’s proposal for monitoring the extent to which urban development strategy is implemented (example – the Strategy of Szczecin). The monitoring the implementation of specific strategic objectives, as well as evaluating the selection of indicators have a high importance. The authors also pointed out assessment limitations for the extend of realisation of the Strategy specific goals due to difficulties to quantify as well as penetration of certain goals.
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This article presents the professor’s Józef Buzek comprehensive activity. This lawyer and politician was well-deserved for the rebirth of the Polish state after 1918, and the prominent statistician – the organizer of the CSO, the head of the Office until 1929. The paper discusses in detail the role of the professor, as the creator of the CSO, the organizer of Polish research statistics and initiator of the organized, for the first time in Warsaw, Session of the International Statistical Institute in 1929. The article, printed in the 94th anniversary of the appointment of Professor Józef Buzek as the first director of the CSO, discusses his scientific activity, and brings his broad interest in the field of economics and law.
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The article presents the biography of Zygmunt Peuker that within 50-year work in the CSO etched in the memory of statisticians by significant achievements. Mr. Peuker not only dealt with statistics, he held various posts in his career but he was also from 1949 an active member of the Polish Statistical Association. He published many popular scientific studies in the field of social statistics. He was also a professor of statistics in high schools. He was also the author of the manual statistics for young people, published a lot of articles in the “Statistical News” and other journals specialized in statistics, economics and history.
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With the Polish accession to the European Union regions and regional policy took on special significance. Preparation of a comprehensive strategy for the development of regions has become a permanent part of public management. Their development should be preceded by a diagnosis of the state of socio-economic development, and implementation subject to continuous monitoring. Making current decisions by local governments should also be held after the analysis of data about issues that are the subject of decision-making. The growing role of self-governments in policy development leads to an increase in demand for regional statistics data. The article attempts to identify possible use of regional statistics and information to determine deficiencies in this regard.
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The article attempts to identify factors that influence the length of time spent unemployed persons to 30 years of age. For this purpose, were used two econometric models: the binomial logit and multinomial logit-ordered. Authors made theoretical description of these models. Then, the results obtained from the estimation were presented. They allowed to extract variables having a significant impact on the amount of the unemployment duration. Among the important variables on the studied phenomenon, among others affect age, the situation of surveyed persons a year ago, the place of residence and professional experience.
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Sustainable development is one of the major challenges of the modern world. Its implementation should be monitored at every level of management, with particular emphasis on monitoring the implementation of this concept at the local level (gminas and powiats) and regional (voivodships). The basic assessing tool are indicators to provide a statistical picture of a given territorial unit. Within the Local Data Bank (BDL) a universal module was created, which is designed to monitor sustainable development at a level lower than the country. The reference point were indices developed by the Eurostat. Module developed in the BDL is not a set of monitoring a specific strategy development at local and regional level but is a basic set of indicators for analysis of sustainable development and allows to evaluate and compare local government units.
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Article relates to the author's paper "The interaction between the development of the theory and practice of sample surveys in Poland", delivered at the Congress. Consultation given to the Mathematical Commission by Professor Jerzy Neyman in the years 1950–1958 were especially widely discussed, as well as the activities of the body in the application of mathematical methods in CSO surveys. Conclusions of the Commission’s core activities and their impact for the development of official statistics are discussed, too.
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The paper analyzes the revenue and expenditure of the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) from 1999 to 2010. This period covers the first years of the reformed social security system and the time at which a number of regulatory change was introduced. In the analyzed period both revenue and expenditure of social insurance increased, while revenues grew faster than expenses. The higher revenue growth marked by subsidies from the state budget than revenues from social security premiums. Among the largest share of expenditure accounted for transfers to the population, which were paid primarily in the form of pensions. The analysis shows that the reform of social security system, despite the delays in the implementation of certain objectives, contributed to many positive changes. It affected the growth of insured persons, a drop in payments of inability to work, and the increase in the average age of persons who have been granted pension benefits.
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The task of statistics is to provide reliable information to different user groups, including recipients of statistics at different levels of decision-making. Providing information support in decision making and policy-making in socioeconomic development is an ambitious challenge and requires a lot of responsibility. The article presents the activities carried out by the Polish official statistics, which are used to improve the effectiveness of strategic management at national and European level. In particular, the role of statistics was presented in the development and monitoring of strategic documents and in the process of implementing new mechanisms to coordinate economic policy.
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Language teacher educators train pre-service teachers in numerous theories and pedagogical practices of language learning and language teaching. They expect that their student teachers will translate this conceptual and practical knowledge into action during their practicum. However, in the process of determining pre-service teachers’ readiness for the field experience and the profession in general, methods classes measure only their conceptual knowledge and omit looking at their student teachers’ belief system about language teaching and learning. This belief system is a strong indicator of how the students organize their knowledge for application (Borg, 2003) and may help teacher educators gauge students’ read ness in the use of new pedagogies that these pre-service teachers may not have experienced before. Using two reflective essays and a piece of authentic assessment as instruments to gather data, as well as Jürgen Habermas’s theory on cognitive interests as a framework to explore the espoused beliefs of nine pre-service language teachers at the end of a methods course, this qualitative study addressed the following questions: What levels of cognitive interests do the nine pre-service world language and ESL teachers exhibit prior to student teaching? To what extent do the students’ levels of cognitive interests change during the methods course called Teaching a Second Language? What are the most common cognitive interests regarding such areas of teaching performance, such as methodology and assessment among the participants? The results show that the nine pre-service teachers held mostly technical and some practical cognitive interests at the beginning of the semester. In the end, most of the participants held practical interests, and three out of the nine pre-service teachers held elementary emancipatory beliefs. One pedagogical recommendation is to include experiences in the training of pre-service teachers that promote emancipatory beliefs that could support teachers in their pursuit of transforming challenging social conditions while examining and adopting new pedagogies.
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In the current issue of the journal „Ars inter Culturas”, scholarly articles have been gathered and arranged into several thematic groups. Most of the issue is devoted to music, its analysis and to musical education, both conceptual and historical studies, as well as research into its e ects. The articles in the rst section are arranged chronologically, covering musical space from ancient Egypt to contemporary times. The second section includes historical research on music education, from the perspective of both Eastern European and Polish experiences. The third section maintains a multicultural pro le, showing the interpenetration of various musical concepts between countries and their national adaptations.Traditionally, space is set aside in „Ars inter Culturas” for elds that round out the theore- tical area of other aspects of multiculturalism. This time, these were texts o ering theological analysis as well as in teaching religious education for young people. The last part of this issue are references to other arts – ballet, design, as well as historical and contemporary interpreta- tion of literature, and sport.
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This article introduces some of the key aspects of gender equality in employment. The legislative framework for achieving equality between women and men in employment has been outlined. Employment rate indicators and gender pay gap in the European Union are examined. Based on the analysis, some key conclusions and recommendations have been made to achieve equality between women and men.
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An argument about Poland emerges from the work and statements of the poets Czesław Miłosz and Zbigniew Herbert. This was not a black-and-white antagonism; it cannot be reduced to the opposition of a “Jagiellonian Poland” (imagined by the Piłsudski camp, for instance, or the liberal-democratic Poland) and the National Democracy’s vision of Poland. What we have is multiple threads, and besides the differences we also find essential – often surprising – similarities in the two poets’ thought or style of thinking. Herbert’s notion of Poland was not as National Democratic as Miłosz wanted to believe, nor was Miłosz’s idea of Poland as radically anti-right as it seemed at first sight.
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Kolarzowa explores the construction of Polish collective identity before the foundation of the Second Polish Republic in 1918. Elucidating why non-discursive means were essential in this formational work she relates some of these means – which were based on practices of anti-Semitic violence – to Pierre Bourdieu’s notion that the most significant elements of cultural capital must be embodied while their proper manifestation becomes a reflexaction. Kolarzowa also presents the effects of this strategy and its repercussions today.
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Olaszek outlines the development of the political engagement of RomanZimand, a journalist, sociologist and literary scholar. Zimand, a communist at first, became a revisionist and later an oppositionist with starkly anto-Communist views. Olaszek provides a rationale for Zimand’s decision and his later stance on his own past, arguingthat Zimand was remarkably radical compared to people with comparable biographies and highly critical of his own life choices. This article is a contribution to the debate on the Polish intelligentsia’s attitude towards communism.
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Budzik examines two texts representing divergent Israeli world-view trends, namely neo-Zionism and post-Zionism. These trends, which assess the assumptions of the Zionist movement, are critical of Zionism while the mechanisms of their actions are atthe same time based on that movement’s assumptions. The texts analysed here – Yair Chasdiel’s novel Tel Aviv (Tel Aviv, 2013) and the film trilogy …and Europe Will Be Stunned by Yael Bartana (2009–11) – reflect on the consequences of Zionism by drawing on the convention of alternative history and by highlighting the unique potential that Polishspaces have in this context. Budzik demonstrates that the use of this convention derivesnot only from the possibilities it offers but above all from the very nature of the Zionist narrative, which is rooted in the radical vision of the act of constructing an alternative reality.
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At its best education is dangerous because it offers young people and other actors the promise of racial and economic justice, a future in which democracy becomes inclusive and a dream in which all lives matter. In a healthy society universities should be subversive; they should go against the grain, and give voice to the voiceless, the unmentionable and the whispers of truth that haunt the apostles of unchecked power and wealth. Pedagogy should be disruptive and unsettling and push hard against the common sense vocabularies of neoliberalism and its regime of affective management.
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This study focuses on the women policies of the Turkish government and the female humour that is created in response to these policies. A humour magazine is used as the main source since this specific magazine, which is named Bayan Yanı (The Seat Next to a Lady), has the privilege of being the only humour magazine created solely by female caricaturists and writers in Turkey. Six samples of female humour related to intimate matters are selected purposefully from 16 issues of this magazine published between January 2015 and June 2016 and analysed in content, tone, and function. The aim is to develop an understanding on female humour, especially the humour of the intimate, created to lead the public to question the effectiveness of political decisions and practices related to women policies.
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