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The work presents a mobile web application that was developed to serve as assistant for people learning English, in particular - usage of idiomatic expressions. In the design and development of the application are followed principles and recommendations of the Mobile First approach to ensure best performance on mobile devices. At this stage, the application contains a minimum set of the most common idiomatic expressions, users are able to add idioms, and after approval by the editor-philologist they become part of the dictionary.
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Postmodernism creates conditions for the development of multifaceted trends and recognize the right to diversity, gives respect to various styles of being in the world, patterns of thought and behavior is different than the modernist sensibility. As part of pedagogy, as well as for most other disciplines diversity has become a reality. There are many directions, trends, trends, theories, practices that are independent forms of pedagogy, expressing his stance on education (training and education). Pedagogy should cherish this diversity, it should take any action intensifying sensitivity to others, diversity, difference and dialogue. If postmodernism is based on the idea of difference, diversity, individualism (as well as the responsibility for their own actions), are projects of pedagogical activities should find their base including the idea of local emancipation. This means opening up the educational space of all its participants, government and society on individual and collective articulation of subjective positions that would have the right to create and cultivate differences as essential elements of the learning environment, and thus to create a separate pedagogy aimed at specific areas of social differentiation.
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Changing the political system in Poland resulted in the need for mass training of staff trade union, prepared to function in the new political conditions. In the years 1945–1948 were trained union activity to the tasks typical of the trade union movement and tried to come to the assistance for working people by organizing vocational training, and others, raising the level of education of members of trade unions. After 1948 the dominant theme of trade union training, ideological, subordinated to the interests of the Communist Party. Implemented leftist idea of building 1 million federal asset, which was to perform each task of the Communist Party and was intended to accomplish this task through massive training. In finals proved to be a utopian task that caused the issue of unproductive union contributions to the utopian goals without the interests of the toiling masses.
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Part of the “urban revolution” underlying the long and complex processcalled modernity, our contemporaneous consumption-of-goods type of society saw theforeshadowing of its success in Classic Modernity, aka the Enlightenment. That wasa time when the public sphere emerged as a public of private subjects, pre-eminentlyin big cities, where sociability became the saving grace of urban and urbane protocolssubsumed to the catchy concept of civility. It was the time of definitory spatial(re)negotiations like the public-private one in institutions like the coffee-house, theliterary society or the circulating library.Starting from the reading of the 1781 drawing of a Lady coming from a CirculatingLibrary and the 1782 one of Beauty in Search of Knowledge, this paper proposes ananalysis of baubles and books, of fashionable and intellectual manoeuvres intertwinedin the space of the capital city – London, in this particular case. It assesses thecirculating library as a utopia or paradise on earth for the expanding femalereadership legitimating themselves by books, as well as a eutopia, a microcosm offashionable items capable of promoting social repute. After interpreting another fewillustrations of the time, it focuses on the 1776 Vis a Vis Bisected, or the Ladies Coop,in which a closed fan and an open billet-doux hold the same symbolic dialogue ofbaubles and books. The amorous imbroglios implied in these visual representationsconfirm the early century’s Rape of the Lock, in which Pope provides a paradigmaticdefinition of the prosperous capital as the centre of domestic consumption of colonialgoods.
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Technology is rapidly developing and new generations easily adopt technological innovations. The education system is beginning to realize the increasing importance of adapting its education style to suit the specific characteristics of the new generations. Generation Z represents students who are born and raised in the highly progressed digital environment.Therefore, using the survey method, an analysis within the current Generation Z was made, focused on their digital literacy as well as perception and attitudes towards ICT learning, knowledge and skills.
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The article analyzes the problems of interpreting objects in a museum space from different contexts and perspectives. Particular attention is paid to the pedagogical aspects of the use of narrative in the museum. The author emphasizes that museum narrative is a form of museum work that a priori attracts the attention of museum educators, animators, mediators, gallery managers, exhibition curators and examines the museum object from the point of view of cultural heritage, active education of the young generation, development of general cultural competences, interdisciplinary, civic education system. The author focuses on the importance of the appearance of various intermediaries in the museum, which indicates important changes that have taken place in modern museum practice and in cultural and educational work with visitors. The author concludes that education and narrative practices at the museum take place in a special, aesthetic and informative environment in which man feels his commitment to culture and the possibility of dialogue with it.
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The paper presents the main marketing strategies and the implementation ofthe marketing mix in the libraries. It mentions the creation of a marketing mix in the USARBS Scientific Library, which improves the visibility and image of the Library, thus attract moreusers.
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In the social sphere in general and in the educational sphere in particular, there is more and more talk about the disinterest of the current generation of students or their tendency to spend more and more time in the virtual environment. We often see a blockage on the part of teachers in understanding the thinking of new generations. This article aims to provide some theoretical perspectives on understanding and approaching teacher-student communication from the digital culture paradigm. To this end, I will highlight the main characteristics of the new actors of contemporary teaching communication: digital immigrants (teachers) and digital natives (students), and then I will analyse the implications of the TPACK pedagogical model in the teacher-student relationship.
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The article presents Dr Bedřich Jenšovský’s activities in the State School for Archivists, a specialised educational institute that was founded in 1919, after the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic. An archivist with the Czech Lands Archives, Bedřich Jenšovský was not present at the start of the school, but he taught there from nearly the very beginning; first the history of administration and archival science from 1926 forward. He basically taught these two subjects till the end of his engagement at the school. In the early 1930s, as a member of the Czechoslovak Archives Association, he co-designed the school’s curriculum reform that became effective from 1934. In addition to his educational role, Bedřich Jenšovský was also the school’s secretary. In the second half of the 1930s, he fully represented the headmaster, Professor Gustav Friedrich, and he was appointed director in 1940, despite the difficult situation in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. For many years, Bedřich Jenšovský was also editor and contributor of the School for Archivists’ Periodical, strongly influencing its form and development, and he is also credited for the school’s development and operation in propitious and unpropitious times.
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The purpose of the article is to present a modern view of the transformation of library education in Ukraine through the prism of educational programmes of major 029 "Information, library and archival affairs" posted on the website of the Information System "Vstup.OSVITA.UA". The research methodology is based on the application of general scientific and special methods of cognition, in particular the system approach, analysis, synthesis, generalisation, logical and quantitative methods, and the method of visualisation of research results. Comparative and analytical monitoring of the "Vstup.OSVITA.UA" Information System was also used, which made it possible to identify educational programs of specialty 029 "Information, library, and archival affairs". The scientific novelty of the article lies in expanding ideas about the current state of library education in Ukraine, its transformation under the influence of digital technologies, and harmonisation with the International Standard Classification of Education. Conclusions. Some aspects of the implementation of the Library Development Strategy for the period up to 2025 "Qualitative changes in libraries to ensure the sustainable development of Ukraine" and the "Strategy for the Development of Higher Education in Ukraine for 2022-2032" were considered, which proved Ukraine's aspiration to global educational trends of the future. However, this process is quite slow. The information on the educational programmes of specialty 029 "Information, library and archival affairs" posted on the website of the Information System "Vstup.OSVITA.UA" was analysed and summarised. In addition, the transformation of library education takes place in the conditions of digitalisation of information activities and must correspond to real changes in the library and information complex. The creation of the Interagency Working Group on Reforming the National Classifier of Ukraine DK 003:2010 "Profession Classifier" will help to harmonise it with the International Standard Classification of Occupations ISCO-08. The national classifier DK 009:2010 "Classification of types of economic activity" needs revision, because it lacks the names of modern types of economic activity.
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The contribution deals with history of archival studies at the Historical Faculty (at present the Faculty of History – Wydzial Historii) of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, the founder of which was a renowned archivist and historian from Poznań Professor Franciszek Paprocki. The authoress introduced development of these studies in the context of their names, programmes and models of education. She stressed specifics of Poznań archival education based on the narrow scientific and didactic cooperation with the local archives and Offices. The article does not only refer to an offer of didactic study which has been practised both in the past and at present but also to the scientific contribution of Poznań archivists who may be proud of a considerable number of textbooks and manuals for archival studies as well as historical works and together with the State Archives of issuing of archival journal.
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In the interwar period in Poland keeping of records was perceived as a collection of practical skills of historians employed in the archives. After the war this view changed into the meaning that it was an auxiliary science of history. In the sixties of 20th century the idea prevailed that keeping of records is an independent science with its own topics for research, with its own terminology and research structures. Now, the same view prevails among Polish researchers dealing with theoretical problems of archival science. No one has yet dealt with the consequences of such interpretation especially with separation of a new scientific discipline from history which brings a lot of problems. Thus keeping of records loses its historical identity and face. Problems connected with the use of IT come to the fore. The coherent activities, though understand-able and necessary, divert archivists from more important tasks, e. g. working with archival fonds and gradual enhancing of the quality of archival aids. Separation from historical context can endanger archival science in a way that it may narrow problems and stress a descriptive view before analytic one in spite of the historical context. The weakening of linkage with history opens the way for the archivists to seek inspiration in the works of representatives of various modern philosophical trends including postmodernism, the contribution of these is inconsistent for human subjects. Another consequence of separation archival science consists in the risk of unfavorable changes in educational programmes at universities, as the classes of history of individual periods have been restricted the same applies for auxiliary sciences of history. There prevail subjects broadening knowledge in procedural processes in offices and archives, and in information technologies, it weakens historical and human scope of these studies. The fundamentals of historic character of archival science, though being reduced in the last few years, form necessity of functioning archives as the institutions for accepting documents, preserving them and making them accessible to meet the needs of broad group of historians.
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Three universities have been in the area of two Silesian Voivodeships i. e. Sile-sian and Opole: the oldest of them being Silesian University and younger ones being in Opole and Częstochowa, the latter one lying in the historical territory of Lesser Poland. The specialization of archival science is possible to study at all three universities at the departments of history, at present under the name of Archival Science and Record Management. A new situation, i. e. the reform of university studies and introducing of so called Bologna Process as well as a growing amount of archival documents and revolution in the IT area, have forced changes in educational programmes and archival specialization. These changes brought quite a few new challenges and thus introduced new programmes for education of future archivists. The main task remains – a satisfactory preparation for future profession of qualified and modern-thinking archivists who may also be more and more state officials working in the archives and in the offices. The study programmes of this specialization at the three universities, which are based on the generally accepted principles, have been a bit different though their “canon” remains the same. There is still the problem that most of the graduates from archival specialization cannot find a job in their field of work. The territory of Upper Silesia does not offer many archival materials from older periods. Besides that, the preserved written documents have been scattered and not satisfactorily examined. Even before World War II, the necessity of editing local archival sources had been stressed. Nevertheless, editing of these sources, though partially successful, has been more or less a matter for older archivists.
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The contribution is devoted to a significant personality of the Czech archival science and pedagogue of the Archival School professor Václav Vojtíšek. Owing to the fact that he lived to the age of ninety-one and was active in his field of work till the end of his life, he is an ideal person reflecting development in the academic sphere. At the beginning of his career he swore an official oath to the hands of Emperor Franz Joseph I, and at the end of it there was his workplace in ČSAV (Czech Academy of Sciences) confronted with armed intervention of the Warsaw Pact. In such a context I will try to find an answer to the question how Václav Vojtíšek managed to adapt himself to all regimes, except the Nazi occupation, in spite of the fact that his personality was stubborn and he himself did not subordinate all to prosperity chances. For a number of historians and archivists, Václav Vojtíšek has been just one name from many other of Czech historiography and archival science. It is a pity considering the colourfulness of his life. In this contribution I would like to present a few chosen entries of Václav Vojtíšek to “great history” and try to draw his image in historical memory in more details besides answers to the outlined questions.
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The professional profile of the archivist and historian Miloslav Volf (1902–1982) is connected primarily with the Archive of the Czech Lands, resp. The State Central Archive in Prague, where he worked in the years 1930–1959, but his personality was multi-layered. Miloslav Volf worked as a journalist for several years, and was significantly publicly involved in the interwar leftist movement. He is also the author of a number of scientific publications (he dealt with the issue of land books, he was a long-term inspector for municipal archives, etc.), he was also very active in the professional community (among others as the secretary of the State Archival School, a long-term committee-member of the Czech Archival Society). A kind of culmination of his archival-theoretical work is an extensive archival handbook, which he prepared in the early 1950s. This handbook was to cover the field of archiving in a comprehensive way, including its historical aspect. The study presents the genesis of the manuscript, an analysis of its content and the reasons why it was not finally published.
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The article describes the history of archival studies at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. It traces the origins of the archival specialization, which was initiated by Professor Józef Paczkowski in the interwar period, and developed by Professor Franciszek Paprocki and his successors since 1972. The article describes the evolution of the curriculum, the scientific achievements, and the cooperation with other archival institutions. It also discusses the challenges and opportunities of the Bologna process and the model of professional competencies for archivists and document managers. The article highlights the traditions and innovations of the Poznań archival school, which has trained hundreds of archivists for over four decades.
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The YouTube website offers its users an option of sharing their content in form of videos for free. One of the groups of creators who take advantage of such possibility are science popularisers. This paper investigates characteristics and comparative analysis in terms of quantity and quality of three selected channels that popularize science in the field of astronomy: Astrofaza, PBS Space Time and NASA. The research was carried out using the media content analysis method and statistical analysis. The subject of the study were videos and records of completed live broadcasts published on mentioned channels in the period from March 1 to March 31, 2023). As part of the analysis, similarities and differences regarding the selected YouTube channels were identified.
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Modern education demands innovative approaches to engage students effectively and enhance learning outcomes. This article explores the implementation of an innovative pedagogical approach, namely Project-Based Learning (PjBL), in the context of the Visual Programming course. The study aims to investigate the impact of this approach on students’ participation and learning achievements. Using a Classroom Action Research (CAR) design, the research was conducted in two cycles. The participants were 30 students enrolled in the Educational Technology Informatics program at Universitas Negeri Padang. The study used a descriptive comparative method to assess the outcomes, comparing pre-cycle to Cycle II results. The findings reveal remarkable improvements in student’s cognitive growth (53.33%), affective development (46.66%), and psychomotor skills (56.66%) following the application of the PjBL approach. Furthermore, there was a noticeable increase of 43.44% in the active participation of students during the learning process after incorporating the PjBL approach. In conclusion, this study underscores the effectiveness of PjBL in fostering active participation and elevating learning achievements in the Visual Programming course. The article contributes to the discourse on innovative pedagogical strategies. It highlights the potential of PjBL to revolutionize traditional educational methods, equipping students with skills engagingly and effectively.
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Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) utilizing meta-learning (M-L) has gained prominence in the scientific community. Current M-L methods necessitate substantial data and computational resources for extracting meta-features encoding data properties. However, the time needed for meta-feature extraction exceeds that for predictions in M-L systems. This article proposes a domain-specific M-L paradigm tailored to social science, aiming to identify universally applicable meta-features in social science data. Investigating domain-specific properties, the study discerned common meta-features across social science domains, facilitating an efficient AutoML strategy with reduced data requirements. Ninety meta-features, clustered into eight groups characterizing social science data, were employed, focusing on education and business domains. An analysis of 46 datasets revealed domain-specific variations in meta-feature values, confirmed by Wilcoxon tests. Notably, certain meta-features exhibited consistency across social science domains, demonstrating potential for cross-domain AutoML adoption. This research introduces a targeted M-L approach, optimizing AutoML efficiency for social science applications by identifying common meta-features across diverse domains.
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