The COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost all aspects of societies across the world. However, its impact on volunteering and people's motivations to volunteer is still a relatively unexplored area. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it became evident that volunteers can contribute to a well-functioning society in a variety of ways. Volunteers around the world have helped others by activities such as sewing masks or shopping for the elderly, or by encouraging fellow citizens to follow anti-pandemic measures. Many surveys have shown the importance of the involvement of community volunteers and organizations as a support to the community in times of humanitarian crisis or disaster. And although research on volunteering in Slovak ethnology has been of interest, the question of the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on volunteering in Slovakia has not yet received much systematic attention. Based on the results from ethnographic research, the text aims to outline how volunteers from the I'm Here for You program, operating in the Slovak capital Bratislava, reflected the changes brought about by the pandemic concerning volunteering, while attention is also given to the impact of pandemic-related constraints on motivations to volunteer.
In Poland, private tutoring becomes more and more widespread phenomenon and it is an unnoticed problem. It may indicate a failure in the didactical function of school. It may also increase social inequalities. However, social acceptance of private tutoring is apparent. The paper presents the results of research on this phenomenon among high school students.
Tutoring phenomenon was differently perceived and interpreted through the years by the society. Tutoring is the undeclared part of the labour market. Undeclared work is wage labor, performed without a work relationship, that is, without an employment contract or other written agreement between the employee and the employer. The employee does not receive social security income, taxes on personal income are not paid from undeclared work, and the employer does not deposit on account of the Department of Social Security and Employment Fund sums by virtue of the paid salary. The purpose of this article is to analyze the tutoring as one of the forms of undeclared work.
(Polish title: Dialog, autentycznosc, spotkanie i zaangazowanie w programie wychowawczym autorskich liceów artystycznych i akademickich ALA). The political transformation, which took place in Poland in 1989, commenced the process of change of the existing education and teaching system which had been associated with quantity, large-scale, objectivity and institutionalism. The demands appeared to appreciate the quality of education from the perspective of a democratic and pluralistic society, but also to pay attention to the subjectivity of both a pupil and a teacher. It was assumed that there should have been a return to personalism in schools. Have these objectives been accomplished after twenty years since the beginning of change? The author of the hereof discussions decided to answer this question in the selective way. Because in literature there are many texts devoted to effects of the education reform in public schools, the alternative Artistic and Academic Secondary Schools with the special 'ALA' program have been brought into focus. Presentation of this particular school is not accidental since in its concept and basic documents there are specific references to Christian and existential personalism and the pedagogy of dialogue where the idea of education is based on four cornerstones: dialogue, authenticity, meeting and commitment.
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