The author describes, from the perspective of 40th anniversary of the Department of Social Pedagogy at the University of Silesia, the period of his leadership of this scientific department in the years 1980–2010. Moreover, the author tries to characterise the activities of the Department in the era of socialism and in later years, after 1989, in the period of post-communist social changes. He expects that comparative studies will enable to find the elements of continuity and change in the last decade, when the emphasis has been placed not only at the preservation, but also at the reinforcement of the tradition of social sciences in Poland.
The author’s considerations concern several relationships in the last period of fundamental changes in Poland. The influence of the press and other media agitation also expressed in a lot of opinions directed to the less educated part of the Polish society (~44%) by representatives of the govermental party “Low and Justice” recalls in human consciousness an emotional social resentiment. This is the process of social reception of many media transmissions in the category of electoral campaign’s agitation (interventional strategies) on the continuum: personality - perception - emotional susceptibility - political choice. The paper contains the fragment of sociolinguistic theory of Basil Bernstein of language and its influence on the individuum’s perception of the reality.
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Uwagi autora skupiają się i związane są z niektórymi fundamentalnymi zmianami społeczno-politycznymi ostatniego okresu w Polsce. Oddziaływanie prasy i innej medialnej agitacji, a także wypowiadanie wielu opinii skierowanych do mniej wyedukowanej części społeczeństwa polskiego (~44%) przez reprezentantów partii rządzącej „Prawo i Sprawiedliwość”, przywołuje w ludzkiej świadomości emocjonalne społeczne poczucie resentymentu. Jest to proces społecznego odbioru wielu przekazów medialnych w kategoriach kampanijnej agitacji (strategii interwencyjnych) na osi continuum: osobowość - percepcja - emocje - podatność - tradycja - wybór polityczny. W artykule zawarto fragmenty Basila Bernsteina socjolingwistycznej teorii na temat języka i jego wpływu na postrzeganie przez individuum rzeczywistości.
Bogusław Śliwerski, Turystyka habilitacyjna Polaków na Słowację w latach 2005-2016. Studium krytyczne, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2018, ss. 255
The article presents a new theoretical approach - against the background of all the papers included in this volume - to the development of local and regional systems. Contemporary ideas existing in the literature of social sciences should be, in the author’s opinion, collected and considered in the modern category of localism which becomes an important element of the organization of citizen’s life during the social change in post-communist Poland. The author tries to formulate his own position and the point of view in that approach. This concept is also compared with the traditional conceptualization of the vision of the development and activity in local civic communities.
Social paradigms exists, in the tradition of social sciences, as narrow theoretical and research fields, but they hope to expand beyond their original scope leading to scientific recognition. The author analyzes the nature of paradigms and their usefulness in the era of social change. In final part of the article, the author comes to the conclusion that social sciences researchers should use complimentary explanations instead of applying traditional paradigms.
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Społeczne paradygmaty egzystują – w tradycji nauk społecznych jako wąskie teoretyczne oraz badawcze pola, w nadziei i aspiracjami, iż rozszerzą/poszerzą własny pierwotny zasięg prowadzący ku naukowemu poznaniu. Autor w niniejszym artykule analizuje naturę paradygmatów oraz ich przydatność w okresie zmiany społecznej. W końcowej części, Autor dochodzi do przekonania, że w miejsce stosowania tradycyjnych paradygmatów badacze nauk społecznych powinni również używać wyjaśnień komplementarnych.
This paper attempts to explore the processes involved in the methodological, intellectual and cultural reproduction (valorization) of the traditional status of social sciences in the beginning of the 21st century, with specific references to commercial conditions. Compensation and reproduction is discussed as a study of universities experience in the period of numerous changes. Particularly the economic and cultural determinants of selected problems and the direction of the transformation which is still in the course in the Polish democratic and the normative order in the post-totalitarian society is criticized not only by the author, but also university professors, lectures and students. However, in the end of paper, the author shows optimism connected with the reproduction of the expected reforms in higher education in Poland and in the post-industrial world.
Higher education in the post-industrial world is striving with the task to prepare young people to undertake professional activity. It plays an important role as a factor conditioning the prosperity of professional careers. As higher education has became more and more widespread, there appeared problems connected with the profusion of well-educated people in the labour market which results in the increased number of unemployed people who completed higher education especially the second-cycle studies or the doctoral studies. Treating this situation as a waste of the effects of studies, it is advisable to look for more effective ways of using the professional potential of graduates. However, it is not an easy task, as employers rarely plan long-term employment, therefore it is difficult to carry out the academic education as the reply to the demand for specific type of professionals in Poland. The reduction of the problem is connected with the necessity to introduce tighter and on-going cooperation between the employers and the academic circles. As there are still little chances to employ graduates at the universities, such a cooperation may contribute to the idea of creating workplaces for the best graduates, even during their studies, in the national economy. The lack of cooperation forces the graduates, irrespective of their particular disposition and professional competences, talents and abilities, to find themselves in the labour market as anonymous people. Their chances to reveal their real possibilities are usually inconsiderable.
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Szkolnictwo wyższe w świecie poprzemysłowym boryka się z zadaniem przygotowania młodzieży do aktywności zawodowej. Odgrywa ważną rolę jako czynnik warunkujący pomyślność karier zawodowych. Wraz z jego upowszechnieniem pojawiły się jednak problemy związane z nadmiarem osób starannie wykształconych na rynku pracy, co skutkuje zwiększoną liczbą osób bezrobotnych mających ukończone studia wyższe, szczególnie drugiego i trzeciego stopnia. Traktując tę sytuację jako marnowanie rezultatów studiów wskazane jest poszukiwanie sposobów efektywniejszego wykorzystania potencjału zawodowego absolwentów. Nie jest to jednak zadanie proste, bowiem pracodawcy rzadko planują zatrudnienie długofalowo, stąd edukacja akademicka na zapotrzebowanie gospodarki zawodowej jest w polskich warunkach trudna do zrealizowania. Zredukowanie problemu wiąże się z potrzebą ściślejszej i bieżącej współpracy pracodawców ze środowiskiem naukowym. Przy wciąż małych możliwościach zatrudniania absolwentów w uczelniach może się to przyczynić do stwarzania najlepszym z nich pracy w gospodarce narodowej, często już w trakcie studiów. Brak współdziałania sprawia, że absolwenci, niezależnie od swoich szczególnych dyspozycji i kompetencji profesjonalnych, od talentu i zdolności muszą sobie radzić na rynku pracy jako osoby anonimowe. Ich szanse na ujawnienie rzeczywistych możliwości są bowiem zazwyczaj niewielkie.
In the past decade, the inventory of concepts from the sphere of educational, social and political writings has been enriched with the new concept of the role of education in the post-communist transformation in Poland and other countries of Middle and Eastern Europe. Polish membership in the European Union has contained a long list of various social, cultural, education and/or political problems related to Polish accession to the European Community. In recent years after the events of 1989, until the Polish accession to the EU, a mismatch between the system of education and the system of market economy has become a universal phenomenon in Poland. Unfortunately, there are also signs indicating that the educational expansion does not mean a superior role of the human factor in the socio-economic development of society. As a result, the young generation manifest dissatisfaction and very often frustration generated by their difficulties in fulfilling their social and professional aspirations. This paper discusses selected social aspects and consequences of increased possibilities of transforming educational and economic reality in Post-communist Poland, at the time of the global asymmetry. Constant search for solutions to the problem of young people’s successful preparation for work and life in the market economy of the 21st century, as well as for their proficiency in maintaining contacts with financial institutions constitutes focal interest of this draft. It includes analyses of the possible development of social infrastructure, which is bound to shape ‘the education for tomorrow’.
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