The article discusses the problem of the Polish Diaspora's system of education, in the areas where they settled after the 1989 political transformation in Poland. The Polish system of education and its functioning was distinguished in the countries of Western Europe, allowing the development of a Polish minority system of education, even an incentive towards its creation. Meanwhile, the system of education has experienced difficulties in its development, since students during Sunday schools do not receive sufficient knowledge, especially in comparison with school, where they learn every day. For many of them, knowledge on their home country is of relatively little use in their careers, especially since a large amount of information can be obtained via the Internet. Poland is not an attractive country to Western countries in terms of economy and civilization. The fact that the Polish language is difficult to learn and is spoken by a relatively small proportion of Europeans also discourages young Poles in exile to make special effort to acquaint themselves with Polish materials apart from those they receive at school, where they are obliged to attend. Polish schools are thus in danger of becoming hermetically sealed, and symptoms of this are already visible. The situation of Poles in Eastern Europe is quite different. Here, the prestige of the Polish state is completely different. Poland is a country with a higher standard of living in relation to the Polish Diaspora's country of residence, Polish culture and civilization appear to be of a higher standard. Polish minority primary and secondary schools offer the opportunity to take the Polish certificate of secondary education. Attending Polish secondary school opens the door to Polish universities, a very attractive prospect to the Polish minority. In order to get access to the Polish system of education Ukrainians, Belarusians and even Russians also attempt to be educated in Polish minority schools. Hence, the condition of Polish education is positively assessed, despite the fact that the countries where the schools exist do not encourage their development, on the contrary, they intentionally hinder it. Attention is also drawn to the experience of the Polish minority activist, Full Professor Daniel Kadlubiec in Zaolzie, who said in an interview that the transfer of the same rights to a national minority as to the majority was not entirely fair, since in order for a minority to function at the same level in a society, it must be given specific privileges for which there is no social acquiescence.
In the 21st century, the education system is evaluated not only on the national or regional level, but also internationally. Globalisation is progressing in all areas of life, including the area of education, research and development, resulting in an increasing interdependence between countries around the world. These processes also apply to France. First, this country has more and more foreigners who are regularly involved in the national education system. In addition, France is actively involved in the process of European integration. This stimulates the movement of people between the Member States of the European Union and increases the need for absorption by the education system of successive generations of children and young people, often non-French speakers. Finally, France seeks to promote its culture and language, and one of the most effective tools in this regard is to educate foreigners, especially foreign students. Those who return to their countries of origin may become ambassadors of French values and culture. In a world that integrates regionally and globally, competitiveness and international attractiveness are key categories for each country that wants to ‘stand out’ in the system of international relations. As a result, the international comparisons and rankings in the field of higher education are becoming increasingly important. This paper refers to the part of the formal process of education in France under the current education system that includes French citizens, foreigners residing in France and persons temporarily studying in that country. The research effort focuses on the analysis and evaluation of selected aspects of the internationalisation of the French higher education system, as well as on its attractiveness and competitiveness on a global scale .
The secondary and post-secondary schools that provided essential education to just a small percentage of the male population in the first half of the 19th century played an irreplaceable role in the formation of the future elites in early modern society in the Czech lands. The Bishop's Seminary (founded in 1804), the Philosophy Lyceum (1803) and the Piaristicke Gymnasium (1762) became a strong attraction for young people from Ceske Budejovice, where the schools were located, and from all of Southern Bohemia and the surrounding areas, who were longing for a higher education. Between 1800 and 1848, 4909 boys studied at the gymnasium, most of whom were from families of tradesmen and architects, and there was also a large proportion of boys from families of teachers. Between 1803 and 1846, 2556 students of the Philosophy Lyceum enrolled in the first year of study, mainly from tradesmen and agricultural families. The lyceum's catchment area was very similar to that of the gymnasium. The social and territorial composition of the theology students (1618 in total) was very similar to that of the Philosophy Lyceum, which was also from where it received the most students.
Culture as a very complex phenomenon of multiple meanings is an integral part of the educational reality. In this article we highlight the different contexts of culture and education and their relationship. We analyse culture as a part of the learning environment and one of the external determinants influencing the educational process. Given the anthropological background of culture and education we raise the question of "educated man" and the need to educate.
The paper is aimed at demonstrating the importance of entrepreneurship education in economic terms. The author defines several concepts from the field of entrepreneurship. The main focus is on ways to successfully foster entrepreneurial attitudes and skills essential for economic development. Also analysed are the steps taken in Poland and the European Union to stimulate education for entrepreneurship, and the major trends in this area are presented.
Author describes the process of introduction of modern written Arabic language in education, administration and mass media in the Kingdom of Morocco after achieving independence in 1956. He describes the linguistic situation, which is far from the condition presented in official declarations announcing the success of arabisation. It has direct influence on the shape of the modern Moroccan culture which derives from the heritage of the civilization of Islam and by means of the French language, from European culture.
This study analyses the perception of school elitism criteria among working adults, students and pupils from Zielona Góra. These researches are the first stage of a project leading to a comparison of teaching results of elite schools and ordinary schools. Respondents were questioned about elite school features they could name in order to find the existing social criteria of school elitism and compare them to the criteria used in the official school ranking. There are presented four groups of features which can be indicators of an elite school. The study also reveals that pupils, students and working adults have different attitudes to school elitism.
The main traget of this article is introduction and the analysis of tasks of Polish education in context of integration with European Union. Investing in education contributes to creating of new reality and human capital, which in consequence leads to better functioning of social groups in integrated Europe. The understanding of need of educational development in Poland, both in theoretical aspect, connected with legal solutions, as also in practical aspect, relating projecting of workings on that kind of education, her efficiency conditions, and by this also the way of being and the functioning the yound generation in united Europe. In this article was also important the meaning of essential changes, which should step out in Polish education, and challenges, which stand before the young man, pupil of Polish school. Necessary becomes special thought over education, as it could really prepare to finding in civilization of constant changes.
This article takes up the issue of deteriorating standards in scholarly and teaching work as prevailing in the present-day university, or academic milieu. The topic is analysed against the background of the transformations taking place in Polish tertiary schooling - commencing with the adoption of the Tertiary Education Act (Ustawa o szkolnictwie wyzszym) dated 12th September 1990, as an important caesura separating the era of what was the 'People's Republic of Poland' and the time of an emerging Third Republic.The rapid transition, also observable in the tertiary education sphere, had to exert, and has indeed exerted, a destructive impact on the standards governing the university life, in its various aspects (a trend which has coexisted with threads of positive influence). These various aspects encompass academic promotions, teaching standards, impacts exerted by masters modelling their students' and young university teachers' personalities, or, good customs and habits in university life. The author has pointed out to several sources of the disturbing phenomenon in question. No deeply thought-over scientific and educational policies of the State, along with the imperfect legislation which is full of gaps, and, scarce funds being chronically offered to both spheres, are among the main, albeit external, sources of the milieu's observable irregularities. No uniform law on science and tertiary education has as yet been enacted in Poland to regulate the operation of the sphere of sciences (the latter being created in three sectors: tertiary schools - both public and non-public, Polish Academy of Sciences institutes, and research and development units). The author also enumerates the disturbing phenomenon's internal sources. Those relate to: (a) progressing depreciation of educating standards; (b) abuses (such as frauds or plagiarisms) committed by researchers in the area of science; (c) attempts made by certain PhD holders to qualify themselves as an assistant professor in the former USSR countries (basing on the so-called Prague Convention which remained valid in Poland until 2004). As to the latter case, the degrees obtained in certain sociological/humanities disciplines, such as e.g. pedagogics or psychology, represented a standard clearly lower than that offered in Poland, the promotion procedure itself being much facilitated; (d) scholars having their works published in local journals or collections, thus avoiding an opportunity to submit themselves to a severer scientific criticism; (e) too-easy conditions of getting promoted as a scientist, particularly to a PhD degree; (f) retarding scientists' promotions, due to a too-high average age at which one can be promoted to become a doctor, assistant professor or professor; (g) the context of teaching being separated from the one of making scientific research.
The main purpose of the study was to define the level of education efficiency in state agricultural universities in 2001-2005 by using the DEA method. The authors attempted to explain the inefficiency by employing the super DEA method and DEA-based Malmquist productivity index measures. In the paper the following detailed targets were set: - to analyse technical efficiency level of education; - to define production gap; - to establish a ranking of universities, - to calculate DEA-based Malmquist productivity total index measure. The sample covers 8 State universities: University of Technology and Agriculture in Bydgoszcz, Krakow Agricultural University, University of Agriculture in Lublin, University of Agriculture in Poznan, University of Agriculture in Siedlce (Podlaski University of Agriculture), University of Agriculture in Szczecin, University of Agriculture in Wroclaw, and Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW). The value of relative efficiency ranged from 0.950 and 0.991 while the scale efficiency ranged from 0.943 to 0.968 in 2001-2005. Analysis shows that in the case of inefficient agricultural universities it is possible to combine analysed inputs more effectively and - consequently - to allocate public funding in education in a better way.
The present time is associated with the time and place, from which we try to notice pedagogical universalities. The ways of seeking generality - universality - particularity of pedagogical meanings formed in the European humanistic thinking are not sufficient and require critical remarks concerning the present problems of 'pedagogy being free from pedagogy' as an outcome of the 'hegemony of economy and market trends'.
This article includes a letter written by an older history teacher at a high school in Szawli /nowadays Siauliai in Lithuania/. It is a document written in 1865, kept in archives of the Vilnius library. The author of the letter - a Russian by birth, educated in an Orthodox seminary and a graduate from the Pedagogical Institute of Petersburg - was delegated to work in so called West Districts of the Russian Empire, inhabited by citizens who spoke no Russian and were mostly Roman Catholics. Teachers of Russian origin, like the author of the quoted letter, considered themselves missionaries, 'sheperds and harvesters', the 'harvest' being russification of the Polish and Lithuanian nation, eradication of Polish and Lithuanian languages and providing Russian publications. The letter also contains formal complaints and reports about people circulating books in Polish and Lithuanian languages. Such work in the time free from lessons at school was mentioned in the letter from an average teacher to his councellor - curator in Vilnius District. So this is not a letter as such, but the report.
In the article were presented main conceptualistic assumptions propagated by 'West - Russism' school - an intellectual trend in historiography, publicism, and political thought - that originated on Ukrainian, Belarussian and Lithuanian territories in the half of the 19th century, and laid emphasis on the issues connected with education. A fundamental assumption for the idea's believers was not only the statement saying that the Belarussians and Ukrainians are part of the Russian nation, but also the hostile attitude, which was assumed towards the Polish movement. A periodical 'Vestnik zapadnoi Rossii' (Messenger of Western Russia), originally entitled 'Vestnik yugo- zapadnoi i zapadnoi Rossii' (Messenger of Southwestern and Western Russia), which was published in the years 1862-1871, was the main medium of propagation of ideas of the West - Russism. Education, especially on the elementary level, and women's education played a significant role in the columns of the magazine. Editorial staff called for setting up the elementary schools' net, which would be managed by the Orthodox priesthood only. Moreover, the clergy would teach in Russian, and would eliminate teaching children in Ukrainian, Polish and Belarussian. As the reading public consisted of the Orthodox priesthood, editorial staff used to support its interests (among others, editors backed up the idea of founding special schools for girls descending from the clergy). A conception of 'West - Russism' that was backed up by the priesthood, should have also become, in its believers' opinion, a predominant idea held by the peasantry. Also in this instance the idea would eliminate Polish influences and 'Ukrainian and Belarussian separatism' on the Western borderland of the Russian Empire.
The author presents questions and problems characteristic of the field of Philosophy of Teaching Philosophy. One of the problems is the situation of the Philosophy as the subject within a system of education. The specific context for rising this issue is Polish Education System. We confront main goal of this system and specific goals teacher of Philosophy is supposed to adopt within this system with some philosophical tradition and its specific goals of teaching Philosophy. The thesis we propose here is that Philosophy as much is structurally incompatible with this system.
The article describes a variety of factors determining taxpayers willingness to pay taxes. External, referred to economic variables (e.g. tax rates, income), and internal, related to psychological features (e.g. knowledge, motivational postures), factors are distinguished. Particularly, the relation between the level of economic knowledge and attitudes toward taxation is discussed.
In the article, we model education and human capital as major endogenous growth elements in a small open economy general equilibrium framework and consider several policy scenarios for Slovenia. Decrease of the personal income tax rate and increase of government spending on education turned out to be the most effective policy measures. It is important, though, to understand its transitory dynamic. Namely, as education expenditure is increased, certain amount of labour is temporarily withdrawn from its productive use and put into the educational system. Higher skill upgrade of labour requires longer and higher short-term labour force decrease, but also provides us with higher long-term growth. The households that would gain more utility from such policy scenarios are those with more skilled labour and thus higher income level.
Museums and galleries need visitors. One of the objectives of the cultural institution is making available its collections and education. School groups, from pre- primary to high school are the largest percentage of visitors. There needs to be cooperation between the museum / gallery and the school offers programs. Museums and art galleries therefore need to be involved in the education of children from the earliest age to cultivate in them future visitors and thus art lovers and culturally educated individuals in general.
An important form of State control of the churches and their repression under Communist rule was the education of young clergymen at the faculties of theology. After 1953, the only officially permitted Roman Catholic faculty of theology was in the Bohemian town of Litomerice. The author, an important journalist and novelist in the period following the Changes of late 1989, studied there from 1984 to 1989. In the form of personal memoirs he describes the faculty in those days. It was not academically strong, and seminary life served more to control future clergymen (since graduating from the faculty was a necessary condition for subsequent work with the Church) than it was to provide space for spiritual development. Though the students had to be screened by the secret police, which had tried to lure them into collaboration even at the entrance exams, they were definitely not pro-regime. That is particularly true of members of the secret religious Orders. In the second half of the 1980s no one even bothered anymore to persuade students of the necessity of changing one's anti-Communist attitude. As long as one did not make this attitude clear, the system worked. Theologians themselves could thus not be certain whether they were part of the 'visible', collaborating Church, or were part of the opposition, because simply by having entered the faculty they had made it clear what they thought about the establishment's Marxist ideology. The situation at the Roman Catholic faculty of theology (which by its subservience to the State authorities brought to mind the general seminaries of the eighteenth century in the reign of Joseph II) thus basically resembled the situation throughout the 'official' Church in the Bohemian Lands and throughout Czech society as well. Consequently, its transformation after the Changes of late 1989 is taking a long time.
Constructivist learning theories bring benefits to the practice of museum education. They perceive learners as active agents of the learning process, building new knowledge and experience on earlier ones. In addition to knowledge, they also focus on developing a range of skills and competencies, such as the development of critical thinking, communication skills, or social skills. Therefore, they form an appropriate pedagogical background for the educational activities of the museum. The question for museum educators remains, however, how to use them in practice. In the study, possibilities of using them will be presented by introducing the research results to the reader. The realized video study was aimed to find out whether the analysed educational program of the Silesian Museum in Opava applied elements of constructivist learning theories and, if so, by what means they did so.
For a long time women were hidden in curriculum of history subject that focused mainly on the public domain. Undoubtedly women have played an important role in history. This article examines women’s history and a narrative in history textbooks currently used in the Slovak Republic and introduces some examples from other countries.
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