The article refers to the research that was carried out about 25 years ago and focused on the life as well as the publishing and book-selling activity of Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz, a participant of the November Uprising who spent his whole adult life on emigration in Leipzig and Dresden. The author of the article refers to archival materials pertinent to Librairie étrangère used in the book titled: Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz polski wydawca i księgarz w Saksonii w czasach Wielkiej Emigracji (Jan Nepomucen Bobrowicz – Polish publisher and bookseller in Saxony in the time of the Great Emigration) and some unpublished facts that appeared in a PhD dissertation with the same title. The author draws attention to a publication by Jan Oberbek who has been promoting J. N. Bobrowicz in the music circles for years, being fascinated with his guitar compositions and virtuoso play thanks to which master Bobrowicz earned himself the name of a Chopin of the guitar. The article also points to the necessity of continuing the research in order to find answers to numerous questions posed in the author’s book that have been only scarcely answered by Jan Oberbek.
The article presents the problems connected with the meaning of information literacy education for a man functioning in the environment that is dominated by information and communications technologies. As information more and more often is seen as a tool for the manipulation of human attitudes and behaviour, there is a need to undertake preventive actions against various pathologies in this respect. It involves the necessity of developing information awareness, education for information, betterment of information skills and formation of the information culture of the people in the infosphere. The typology of educational tasks in the field of broadly defined information competences treated as information culture has been presented. The tasks were divided into three groups, in which the tasks resulting from the realization and the student’s participation in the information process have been shown, then those resulting from the youth’s functioning in different fields of information culture and finally, tasks connected with the cultural aspect of information literacy. It has been shown that developing information competences by means of traditional teaching methods is not very effective. The most useful methods are those based on the theories of constructionism and connectivism. The idea of connectivism transplanted to the school didactics is perfectly realized in the development of information competences, whose essence is the ability to connect with the specified nodes or information resources, finding knowledge, maintaining and reinforcing connections, making decisions. However, a radical change in the education system would be necessary, as well as the change of the relationship between teachers and students.
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