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This publication is an uneven book. You can see the emotions that appeared during her writing. This can be treated as an objection or, on the contrary, a positive phenomenon, involving the reader in a discussion with the author, but it must be a reader who is well-read and rather well versed in the issues raised at work. Otherwise, he will not gain much from this reading. This is not a classic academic argument or classic scientific work. The presence of numerous examples and the multiplicity (sometimes even crowding) of information make the work look like a compendium of knowledge about the multiplicity of existing capitals. This is a critical work. The phenomena of commodification and privatization of many areas of life described in it have already been described earlier, including by K. Polanyi, to whom the author, moreover, relies. In the Great Transformation, K. Polanyi warned that the consolidation of the market mechanism "means nothing less than the permission to transform society into an addition to the market, an addition such that the social framework is shaped by economic means, allowing the latter to function according to their own rules ".
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The political discourse in Poland in the final years before the fall of communism in 1989, was based on a strong opposition between the authorities and the rest of society. Even then, however, support for the opposition was not unanimous, and it was even less so in previous years. Most Poles considered the communist system forced, exogenous, oppressive, unacceptable, and supported by the Soviet threat. Still, individual reactions were varied: there were different paths to be taken through communism. The authors of the paper discuss how these paths contributed to differing recollections of the period. They focus on the collective memory of political parties and politicians, particularly on the controversial question of collaborating with the communist regime and the rights to veteran status among the former opposition members. It is a story of two types of memory: the one stressing reconciliation and the other pushing the distinction between former regime representatives and democratic opposition members.
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The political events that took place at the end of 2003 in Georgia, in 2004 in Ukraine and in 2005 in Kyrgyzstan are popularly called the Rose, Orange and Tulip Revolution or collectively: the Colour Revolutions in the post-Soviet space. At first glance the term "revolution" may seem appropriate. The Colour Revolutions have resulted in the regime change in all the three states. However, from a decade-long perspective one may notice that the revolutionary changes in the political systems of Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan did not actually take place. The post-revolutionary reality: the Russian-Georgian war and criminal charges against the revolutionary Georgian President Micheil Saakashvili, the infamous ending to the political career of the revolutionary leader Victor Yushchenko just four year after the Orange Revolution and the spectacular collapse of the Victor Yanukovych regime, which led to a hybrid warfare with Russia, or Kyrgyzstan's permanent political instability following the revolutionary events of 2005 require yet another insight into what has happened in Tbilisi, Kiev, and Bishkek. Without an in-depth analysis of the events, it is impossible to understand the fundamental social and political dynamics of the ongoing and future changes in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus or Central Asia. The re-evaluation of the Colour Revolutions is not only of historical importance, though. It is also a universal lesson concerning the most important challenge that all the democratic social movements active in the authoritarian or post-authoritarian states have to face: how to manage large-scale civil disobedience protests of a disappointed society while the ruling governments do not follow democratic rules and the international community does not fully comprehend the significance of the ongoing changes.
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The article aims to observe the purpose and subject of "public policy sciences" from the perspective of living space. The role of housing policy and settlement in this respect is at the core of the paper reasoning. It requires reflection on the relationships of social, housing and settlement policies, and their location on the background of other elements and disciplines of social sciences in the context of living. Public policy relations of a systemic, political, economic and social character, as well as of natural and ecological one, which complement the concept of sustainable development, are also discussed. This concept focused more than ever on a fair and decent habitation of successive generations, by substantially increasing the role of housing and settlement policy, highlights that the aim and subject of "the public policy sciences' is the living space.
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The author of the article poses a few questions and proposes some answers concerning cultural applicability of the partnership and dialogue institutions. The core of the mentioned problem revolves around the ability of cultural adaptation of the formal EU norms. The theory and method used in the analysis is aim-functional which is oriented on the research into concrete cultural enclosing of formal institutions. The empirical thread of the argument is the Polish case of partnership and dialogue institutions in the European structural and investment funds. The text presents an attempt to supplement a discussion about the direction and shape of the public policy with significant threads which are often being pushed to the margin of analytical attention and public practice. On one hand, the goal, method and style of narration refers to the patterns of the participatory models of public policy known from the publications of Western authors. On the other, to the Polish empirical analyses and theoretical generalizations. The main thesis is simple as repercussion of day and night, but still seems not well understood: the predominance of cultural institutions over formal ones. It brings result in requirement of modifying the mutual relations towards more partnership and deliberative.
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The reviewed publication shows the Polish labor market from the perspectives of employees rarely present in publications as well as the unemployed. He talks about everyday life of employment services and clients in the labor market. By the way, he points to mechanisms that affect the effectiveness of labor market instruments, and more broadly on the reasons for the discrepancies between the declared and implemented public policy objectives.
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The aim of our discussion is to look at the socio-economic analysis. It should be assumed that this is the basic resource of various types of knowledge (policy knowledge), which - in principle - is to provide the basis for making public decisions. As a result, these decisions are to be optimal or better than those decisions that are based only on intuition, belief, etc. This is, therefore, an analysis that is to be a resource of rationalized, verifiable knowledge from reliable sources.
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The aim of the article is to show some trends in contemporary transformation of the public domain, and draw attention to certain analogies that occur between changes in the urban space and social modernization processes taking place at a wider, nationwide scale. In addition to the introduction and the conclusion, the text consists of two main parts: dedicated to theoretical considerations and empirical findings. The first part presents more general issues concerning the nature and significance of the urban public spaceand ways of interfering in its shape, taking into account in particular the phenomena referred to as revitalization (urban renewal) and gentrification. In the second part, for illustrative exemplification, three specific cases of modernizing impacts of various nature and effects that took place in recent years in Warsaw were briefly discussed.
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Professor Anna Żorska was born on July 14, 1947 in Dęblin. He has two children - a daughter of Paulina and son Witold. She has tied her entire adult life with the Warsaw School of Economics (previous name - Central School of Planning and Statistics), where in the second half of the 1960s she started studying, and at the beginning of the next decade, scientific and research work (1972-2017). The professional title of master of economics, Anna Żorska, obtained in 1970 after graduating from the University of Economics at the Foreign Trade Department of the Central School of Planning and Statistics in Warsaw. Already in this period, her scientific interests began to develop, inspired by master's seminars on the analysis of foreign markets. Changes and economic and technological trends taking place both on the international market and in the global economy have become - in the later period of didactic and scientific work - the main area of interest and research.
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The article is classifying and presenting the art market indexes, thus supplementing the knowledge about indexes and considering different measuring methods of return of investment on this market. It is also organising the knowledge about methods of measurement, such as indexes, which can be regarded as benchmarks. Due to the universal usage of indexes the benefits could be used both by individual and institutional investors, as well as the art collectors or analysts. Thanks to the provided ranking and indexes, conclusions on the advantages and disadvantages of each benchmark are presented and so are questions constituting the basis for future empirical research. Indexes are determined as one of the key measurement tools for testing investments, risks, volume of trade and market trends on the new, but still little known art market in Poland.
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The subject of this paper is vocational education in vocational high schools in Poland and its aim is to argue that presently vocational high schools fai l at providing their students with qualifications necessary to work in their profession of choice. The problem is important as the unemployment rate among young people is high while the employers claim there is a deficit of qualified workforce on the labour market. The paper presents the results of a survey carried out among vocational high school students which showed that 95 % of students believe that 4 weeks of apprenticeships is insufficient. Given the opinions of the employers and the results of the survey among the vocational high school students, it seems surprising that the changes made to the vocational core curriculum were not more substantial.
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This paper is devoted to the presentation of the significance of the historical divisions in Europe for the formation of the socio-economic conditions for the development of the banking sector in Poland. The paper presents four main divisions related to the functioning of the Roman Empire and Barbaricum, Latin and Byzantine Europe, the dualism of the economic development of Europe from the sixteenth century and the creation of the capitalist and socialist blocks after the Second World War, and their relations to the position of Poland. Historical overview is juxtaposed with the current shape of the Polish banking sector, and especially the dominance of banks controlled by foreign capital. This confrontation is primarily intended to indicate the importance of cultural factors for the development of the banking sector.
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Innovations make it possible to accelerate economic growth and overtaking in global competition, they are a cornerstone in building a competitive advantage. We can say that innovative solutions to decide nowadays about the visibility and success of your business. The main thesis concerning the article says that the design is a tool of innovation. Under this role, design can be a primary determinant of innovative strategy development, it may be at the center of a comprehensive vision of the objectives, asses available resources and possibilities for their use or can be the basis of specific methods and sequence of actions to achieve progress and solve key problems of the company. Against this background, a crucial questions arises, how to generate innovative solutions based on design? The purpose of this paper is to present two innovative methodologies in the area of design management: radical innovation and co-creation and present their implications for innovations.
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This paper discusses the impact of the Chinese migrants on the economy of the People's Republic of China and the hypothesis that the Chinese diaspora is a fundamental source of social capital instrumental in the economic development of the country has also been formulated. China's economy has been developing both dynamically and steadily since the opening of the country's borders in 1978. The specific kind of social capital in the form of the diaspora is one of the factors contributing to the development. The role of the Chinese diaspora has also been changing. Additional issues covered in the paper discuss the definition and geographical range of the diaspora, its characteristics and the PRC's policy toward the migrants.
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Throughout the relatively brief history of IT, undergraduate teaching programs in the IT disciplines have had to cope with the traditional antipathy of universities towards vocationally-based education. This resistance towards vocationally-oriented education has been a common feature of universities since their origins as educational institutions.The earliest universities followed the example of the ancient Greek academies, in favouring disciplines which focused on pure knowledge, independent of its application in practice. Consequently, throughout most of the history of the university, studies in the fields of engineering and technology were excluded on the grounds that they were too ‘utilitarian’, lacking in the theoretical foundations deemed appropriate to a university academic discipline.It was not until the late 19th and early 20th century that the disciplines associated with technology and the applied sciences began to earn widespread acceptance as suitable fields of study for universities.The overview of the history of IT education in the Victorian higher education sector, presented here, has highlighted a number of important features about the way in which has developed:• Disciplinary legitimacy and recognition: Of the ACM’s five core disciplines, only CS and CE can claim to have been universally accepted from the beginning as legitimate academic disciplines in the institutions covered in the study; the other disciplines did not achieve that status until the reforms to the higher education system broke down the barriers between ‘academic’ and vocationally-based IT. Interestingly, the vocationally-based generalist applied computing program which has been the most commonly offered type of program over the study period was the last type of program to earn disciplinary recognition from the ACM.• Disciplinary diversity: The rapid rate of technological change and the changing demands of the student market have led to higher education institutions offering an extremely diverse range of IT-based academic programs. The programs in the disciplinary areas recognised by the ACM have been far out-numbered by programs addressing specific specialist aspects of IT and its applications.• Volatility: There has been an extraordinarily high rate of turnover in IT program offerings, particularly in the changing student market place of the last 15-20 years. The speed with which institutions have been willing to dispense with IT programs suggests that the ‘hold’ which IT has on its place in the academic hierarchy is at best uncertain, and at worst tenuous.• Vocational emphasis: After providing the dominant rationale for IT programs up until the abolition of the CAEs in 1990, the influence of vocational requirements has been significantly reduced and replaced by student demand as a key driver of IT program offerings.• Influence of external factors: ‘Non-academic’ factors such as the structure of the higher education system, government funding policies and market forces have played major roles in influencing the shape of IT education.
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The education system of the Republic of Ireland has undergone fundamental and significant changes over the past 25 years. There have been major alterations to the curriculum at both primary and post-primary levels. At a strategic and policy level several other issues have begun to make a deep impact. These issues include social inclusion, early identification of children with learning difficulties, multiculturalism, partnership with parents, rights, language learning and identity and, significantly, ICT all becoming central to the planning of quality educational provision. New technologies have emerged which play a central role in the way young people communicate and learn and teachers have been required to adapt their teaching to reflect the new reality. An increasingly diverse society, changing family structures and the emergence of new social problems have added to the complexity of teachers’ role. Specialized teacher-training colleges have been operated along traditional lines and are operated exclusively by the religious denominations. This paper examines a recent innovative initiative by the Church of Ireland College of Education (CICE) in Rathmines in Dublin on ICT and its role in the formation of teachers in their training and development. CICE has implemented an e-supported portfolio system of learning scaffolding for its teacher-training program. This project – Spéis (School Placement e-Integrated Scaffolding) – was designed by a consortium of Finnish and Irish educationalists and e learning experts to provide the first teacher placement e-support and portfolio system in Ireland. The project deployed advanced technologies to enable creation of a platform where academic staff, student teachers and administrative personnel could design, implement and review an ICT supported learning architecture.The Spéis project supplements and complements recent developments in Irish curriculum reform and is seen as a template for future e-learning supported initiatives in the wider field of teacher training and support. This paper also investigates the kinds of teacher-training support implemented and cross-references these to the changed primary curriculum, the Irish government’s E-learning Road Map and the move towards competence based learning and the utilization of e-portfolios in the wider Irish educational and learning contexts. Spéis is an innovative e-supported project and program, among the first in Ireland. In 2012, the teaching placement was extended to 10 weeks and was expected to require substantially more supervision, follow-up and monitoring. It is in this context that the College decided to move to a virtual learning, mentoring, supervision and communication system. This e-support system was designed to achieve a number of outcomes: supervision and contact for trainee teachers and supervisory tutors in CICE; on-line engagement with trainee teachers; an e-forum and seminar framework for group learning and exchange; integration of pedagogical processes and technology solutions to meet CICE requirements; a creative and dynamic mechanism to supervise and support the placement process over 10 weeks in various and remote locations.
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Teaching and learning chemistry is a demanding process because it includes abstract concepts and notions which cannot be seen or touched. The use of modern technologies offers assistance in overcoming this kind of difficulties since it enables visualisation of science phenomena which are too small (atoms), fast (electrons), abstract (forces) or immense (solar systems) for direct observation. Many studies show that the use of visualisation materials (physical models, analogies, animations, simulations, sub-micro presentations) enhances the understanding of chemical concepts. Chemical contents can be visualized by using a virtual laboratory which also enables the visualisation of the sub-microscopic world. Slovenian primary and high school teachers are well aware of the importance of ICT use in their classes also due to the project Computer Literacy which brought computers much closer to students and teachers. However, the actual execution of ICT supported classes and their efficiency have not been studied jet.A conceptual approach to teaching chemistry combines experimental work, problem oriented teaching methods and the use of the information communication technology with the goal to facilitate efficient learning and students’ motivation on all levels of the learning and teaching processes. Visualisation of abstract concepts and a safe experimental environment are only two reasons which points in favour of the use of a virtual laboratory in chemistry classes.Information technology, multimedia and interactive elements of virtual simulation offer new forms of education. A virtual laboratory is a tool that enables independent learning, improved individualisation, differentiation and acquisition of generic and specific competences of subjects. The use of a virtual laboratory as an additional teaching and learning method allows for better acquisition of some education goals like (1) understanding of science concepts and phenomena, (2) derivation of logical conclusions based on the results of experimentation and (3) explanation of conclusions by connecting the experimental results with theory and integrating the three levels of science concepts. The primary aim of the research was to determine the extent of the use of a virtual laboratory as an additional modern teaching strategy among Slovenian primary school chemistry teachers and which factors limited their use of a virtual laboratory. Online survey revealed that only one-third of teachers who participated in our survey used a virtual laboratory for instruction. However, when it was not possible to carry out real experiments, only a few teachers decided to use virtual experiments instead of real experiments. In this case, teachers preferred online videos of experiments. We discovered that there are mostly two reasons for the lack of use of a virtual laboratory as an additional modern teaching strategy in chemistry instruction; firstly, the unavailability of free experimental software in Slovenian language (only a few teachers did not have hardware at their disposal) and secondly, according to teachers that were included in our survey, the lack of knowledge of virtual laboratories. Teachers feel they are not familiarised enough with virtual laboratories to be able to use them. Therefore we conclude that chemistry teachers still lack subject-related didactical knowledge for the use of virtual reality technology.Teachers that participated in our survey are well aware of the fact that the use of a virtual laboratory brings new capabilities and capacities for chemistry instruction. They expressed interest and desire to use virtual laboratories. A successful instruction depends on teachers’ personal willingness to use virtual laboratories; however, it will take time to achieve the level of the use of a virtual laboratory as an additional tool for everyday chemistry instruction comparable to the use of smart phones, tablets and similar technology by students. Students are more capable to use the IT then teachers; therefore, it is important to enable teachers to use the IT and allow them to acquire, upgrade and develop the required subject-related didactical knowledge.
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Book-Review: Andrej Studen, ur., Mimohod blaga. Materialna kultura potrošniške družbe na Slovenskem. Ljubljana: Založba Inštituta za novejšo zgodovino / Zbirka Vpogledi; 22, 2019. Reviewed by Petra Kavrečič.
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