Values play a significant role in a human life. They motivate to action, help to make certain choices and decisions, and give meaning to human existence. The realization of desirable values shapes human character. As values are not inborn, upbringing towards values is needed. This process starts with birth and continues throughout all human life. It is realized through the contact with other people. Hence an important role in upbringing towards values is played by family, which is the fundamental environment for life and development. The article describes the process of transmitting values in family and its conditioning factors.
In the present cross-sectional study, counselor trainees (N=189) enrolled in a Turkish state university were surveyed regarding their values. Data was collected by using Profile Values Questionnaire developed by Schwartz. The results of two separate MANOVA revealed significant gender differences for value types among counselor trainees, indicating that females are more likely to espouse benevolence, universalism, and hedonism values, and males are more likely to espouse power values. In addition, there were significant differences between first and last year trainees in terms conformity and hedonism values. First year trainees attributed greater importance to conservation values than did fourth year counselor trainees.
The Picture-Based Value Survey for Children (PBVS-C; Döring et al., 2010) assesses children’s values through self-report and thereby depicts Schwartz’s theory of universal human values at an early age (approximately six to eleven years). Recently, the original German version has been adapted for application in Poland, Bulgaria, the Ukraine, France, Italy, Switzerland, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, the USA, Brazil, Turkey, Israel, and Estonia, and it is currently adapted for application in Ireland, Russia, and Portugal. In this manuscript, we accompany the PBVS-C on its journey around the world and systematically explore culture-specifics in the adaptation process with a particular focus on the meaning of the value pictures, as the PBVS-C’s core elements. Integrating findings from these adaptations of the PBVS-C, we aim to share best practice and draw a roadmap for future adaptations in other cultures. This article further serves as a resource to locate existing studies with the PBVS-C.
The United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD), which is coming to an end, will offer all kinds of summaries and reflections on this issue. The aim of this paper, strictly related with the goals of the DESD, is to answer the following questions: (1) Is the Polish school ready to provide values education?; (2) How are schools trying to involve values education into the school practice?; (3) To what extent do the adopted solutions regarding programmes, curricula and textbooks match the requirements of values education, which is one of the pillars of education for sustainable development? The author presents an analysis of the content of selected curricula for the early stage of education and the textbooks used at this stage, paying special attention to values education based on pupils' and teachers' activities and experiences. The results of the analysis provide an unequivocal answer to the extent to which we are prepared to provide or to implement values education at this stage of instruction.
Pojęcie wartości jest jądrem aksjologii – teorii wartości. Jest również bardzo ważne w dziedzinie edukacji, gdyż ukierunkowanie człowieka w świecie w ogólnym ujęciu zależy od jego orientacji i preferencji w świecie wartości. W niniejszym artykule rozpatrzone są czynniki mające wpływ na preferencje zawodowe studentów przy odwołaniach do badań ankietowych studentów wielu rosyjskich uniwersytetów.
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Up to now pedagogy has accumulated vast diagnostic material that allows to perform theoretical (synchronic and diachronic) analysis and to systematize data about students’ value orientations. Intensive study of value consciousness, value orientations and hierarchies in Russian axiology, sociology and ethics began in the middle of 1960s (V.A. Yadov, O.G. Drobnitskiy, etc.). Later certain efforts were made to achieve socio-psychological understanding of norm-value systems of the personality and the group (T.N. Malkovskaya, S.G. Vershlovskiy). Beginning with the end of the 1980s under the Academic Program “Man, science, society: complex research” theoretical and empirical research of general human value and value systems of the transitional period was performed (Bobneva, Sobkin). In our work we made use of data of sociologic research completed at Orenburg State University in 2000–2010. The first thing that attracts attention is that the respondents are not satisfied on the whole with their life, and with the material well-being, first of all. The respondents’ life is a constant complex process of survival. Work does not often bring even minimal means for supporting life and training. Besides, it is difficult to find work, which is paid regularly, even if the salary is not high. After a certain age it is practically impossible to find a job. Such life – “survival” – causes people’s extreme discontent. It is especially obvious in the fact that they do not want such life for their children. The faith that their children will be able to “break out” gives meaning to their existence. Nowadays it is clear that university teachers need up-to-date, concrete social and pedagogical information that is regularly updated. This information can be obtained with the help of a computer program “social support of the education process”. The database reflecting students’ learning activities and their social and professional development serves the basis of the computer program. The computer program was installed in classrooms of Orenburg State University. Every participant filled in the form (which took 10–15 minutes). On the whole 7500 participants were involved. The integrated database was sent to the rector, vice-rectors, deans and heads of departments. The research results are published in two sources: “Student 2010” and “Capacity to enhance education efficiency” (Orenburg, St. Petersburg 2010). The computer program is a powerful analytical tool. Users have access to information describing a multidimensional social and psychological portrait of the student in the form of tables and colourful diagrammes.
This article proposes a critical analysis of the situation of art today in respect of its key concepts: sense, meaning and value. The author, a well-known figure in the world of performance art, argues from the standpoint of a creative artist actively seeking both to shape and to properly grasp that which is conveyed bythe ethos of avant-garde art.
In this paper the author shows that not each kind of work belong to the social -work. Only when people service the people its service work to poverty, sick people, or too old er. Or perhaps victims who are lost their sensible of human life. In such situation the social workers can help all of them. Doctor Jasinski finds out that such kind of work became more and more wideworld it maeans all over the World. The author hac been stressed that such kind of work is usually very important on the medicine area where people are waiting for each helping. According to doctor Jasinski such kind of work has moral – and ethic aspects and it is made only by honest people, like social – workers.
The aim of this article is to provide an introduction into the ethics of values developed by Józef Tischner. In his analyses, the philosopher from Cracow departs from the ethics of norms and presents the reality of choices as a way of realizing values. In the encounter with the Other, a drama takes place – one that reveals the truth about the human condition. An indispensable element of this drama is freedom, which, although it may be the cause of mistakes, is, above all, a way of the existence of good and a condition of personal growth.
An attempt at reconstruction of the New Journalism model results from the observation of the crisis symptoms of journalism as a profession and mission (social responsibility). On the grounds of journalists’ and theoreticians’ statements, it is possible to establish a hierarchy of values of the serious journalism, which a social demand is growing for. The New Journalism is most frequently described as the conscious journalism, which provides spectrum of needs and views of recipients. This type of journalism is committed, independent, functioning in the public sphere, credible, realizing educational role. These attributes pertain to journalism. The paper includes standpoints, for example, of S. Michalczyk, B. Hennessy, P. Mancini, S. Russ–Mohl, S. Bratkowski, R. Kapuściński.
In the midst of debates on possible causes and solutions to the current unrest in international markets, political and economic decision makers tend to primarily focus on the role of economic and financial measures and oversee the fact that the economic instability is also the result of negative occurrences beyond the economic sphere, i.e. in the area of values and culture. With reference to the findings in the 2010 World Economic Forum report and other relevant publications on the role of culture and values in economic development, the paper seeks to answer the question to what extent the present economic crisis is rooted in the crisis of some fundamental values critical not only to a sound economy but also society and what are the possible ways of dealing with it.
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W dyskusjach na temat możliwych przyczyn i rozwiązań obecnej niepewnej sytuacji gospodarczej na międzynarodowych rynkach, decydenci – zarówno polityczni, jak i ekonomiczni – mają tendencję do koncentrowania się na roli instrumentów gospodarczych i finansowych, pomijając tym samym fakt, że niestabilność ekonomiczna jest również rezultatem negatywnych zjawisk występujących poza sferą gospodarczą, tj. w sferze wartości i kultury. Przyjmując za punkt wyjścia wyniki raportu opublikowanego w 2010 roku przez Światowe Forum Ekonomiczne oraz odnosząc się do innych istotnych publikacji na temat roli kultury i wartości w rozwoju ekonomicznym, artykuł poszukuje odpowiedzi, do jakiego stopnia obecny kryzys ekonomiczny jest również kryzysem fundamentalnych wartości warunkujących istnienie nie tylko silnej gospodarki, ale również i zdrowego społeczeństwa. Artykuł przedstawia również postulaty zmian, które mogłyby uzdrowić sytuację.
The report is devoted to the linguoaxiological description of types of speech acts. The author comes to the conclusion that direct and indirect linguistic signals of verbali- zation of perceptions of values and attitudes can be allocated among the types of speech acts. Such speech acts as representatives, commissives, directives, declaratives can transfer value meanings with varying degrees of certainty. The materials are a corpus of conversations of citizens of the Urals – vernacular speakers. It is possible to identify some of the core national and regional values based on the analysis of the material.
This article is devoted to the conception of ethics in Slovakia. Main attention is dedicated to the issue of value education within this subject. It emphasizes the importance of explicit as well as implicit dimensions of value education which represents an important component in the moral development of pupils
The aim of this paper is to assess the functioning of spatial planning in Poland in the context of public management objectives. Drawing on the concepts of New Public Management, we use the category of stakeholders and public value generated for stakeholders. Two groups of stakeholders in spatial planning are distinguished, namely public (national and local government) entities, and private entities (including individuals and businesses). We describe the mechanisms of stakeholders’ influence on spatial planning and the effects of this influence on the development of space. We found that the actual spatial planning mechanisms in Poland are aberrational from the perspective of public management. The ubiquity of these aberrations (in diverse municipalities) allows us to rule out the most obvious types of causes, particularly the incompetence or corruption of local authorities or administrative apparatus. Therefore, it is postulated that the causes of the aberrations are structural and inherent to the legal system that impacts spatial planning both directly and indirectly. We propose solutions to improve the situation through the appropriate management of relations with stakeholders in processes implemented by a public entity. The article presents a model of such management. A change in the legal context – above all an amendment of the law regulating spatial planning procedures – provides an opportunity to balance the impact of various stakeholders on spatial planning arrangements.
Sport presents itself as a social configuration that enhances social inclusion by promoting tolerance, respect for others, cooperation, loyalty and friendship, and values associated with fair play, the most important ethical principles of sport. However, intolerance and exclusion can also be expressed in sport, certainly even more so the bigger the social inequalities and the ethnic, religious, gender, disability, and sexual orientation prejudices are in society. The processes of social exclusion, integration, and inclusion are research areas in the social sciences with consolidated knowledge, namely in the study of the problems of poverty, social inequalities, racial and ethnic discrimination, disability, and education. However, it is necessary to discuss the existing theoretical approaches and conceptions seen as explanatory principles of the reality of these fields of analysis, look at how they can frame the reality on the sports field, and then confirm them through empirical research in order to produce knowledge based on the reality of social facts. Despite the broad consensus on the potential of sport in promoting social inclusion, in this paper I stress that this potential can only become real if the orientation of sport includes strategies aimed at achieving these goals. I intend to show how the –social issue‖ in the field of sports has gained relevance in the institutional context, and thereby a new field of research for the social science of sport has been opened and needs to be deepened.
This article is devoted to the linguistic research of journalistic essays devoted to Old Believers published in the newspaper Nizhny Novgorod Diocesan Gazette in 1865-1868. The culture of Old Believers in the middle of the 19th century in the Nizhny Novgorod land was very developed, which is why for several years the newspaper published essays about the history of this movement. The publication formulated its goal as informing and educating the reader, while the target audience of the newspaper was primarily considered to be rural priests. It is interesting that in the pursuit of an objective presentation of historical facts, the newspaper's journalists represent the system of values of dissenters in a peculiar way. The article analyzes the representation of such concepts as "sacrament", "sin" and "crime", and identifies the main value oppositions that express the conflict between the perception of the world by Old Believers and the authors of newspaper essays: "external – internal", "civil – spiritual".
The articles justifies the need for constant care for the axiological dimension of education. The habitus of the modern teacher was analyzed in the perspective of axiological dispositions. The author’s reconstructions of the respondents’ views concerning their preferences regarding observable and repetitive teachers’ behavior were categorized. These behaviors were indicators of the values which guided teachers in their work with students. An attempt was made to determine which axiological properties of teachers, expressed in the praxiological dimension, are particularly valued by today’s youth. Analysis of the frequency of indications of the preferred teachers’ behaviors helped to establish the hierarchy of these properties. The results of the diagnosis carried out on a sample of 903 respondents showed that teachers’ pedagogical tactfulness, subject knowledge and good organization of work are mostly appreciated and expected by young people. In addition, attempts were made to identify differences in the respondents’ preferences due to their interest profile, expressed in the choice of a specific field of academic studies. It has been established that it is the factor which differentiates students’ preferences in relation to the teacher’s axiological attributes. Significant relationships have been observed and the conclusions made valuable implications for pedeutology.
In 2013, the International Game Theory Review published two special issues on open problems in cooperative games: the first regarding theory and the second applications. In this paper, our aim is to present some problems currently “on our table” that were not included in the two issues mentioned above, either because the topics were too specific or they arose after publication. The problems are divided into theoretical problems, general models that may be applied to different fields and applicative problems.
The article is an attempt at establishing a way of understanding the term Food in the systems of values in the language awareness of Poles, Russians and Germans. The author analyses the results of a Free Word Association Test.
This article tackles one of the most burning issues discussed by adherents of the dynamically developing movement in ethics which bears on political and legal philosophy, that is value-pluralism. In particular, the article is devoted to an investigation into the highly controversial issue of the relationship between pluralism and liberalism, based upon the three crucial, divergent approaches represented by Isaiah Berlin and his two main opponents, John Gray and George Crowder. The analysis leads to the conclusion that the two concepts in question are neither mutually exclusive nor logically connected, but actually overlapping, which signifies the existence of a loose, de facto connection between them. Such a final thesis proves to be consistent with the position of Isaiah Berlin, and contrary to the final statements endorsed by his critics, John Gray and George Crowder.
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