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TECHNOLOGY – VALUES – SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (Some Reflections on Changing Relations, Meanings and Social Practices)
Lech W. ZACHER
UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY – THEORIES AND INTERPRETATIONS
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016, Publication date: 12 May 2016
Abstract Narratives concerning technology and values relations requires an in-depth analysis of these two categories and also their contextualization. In social practice technology and values undergo significant changes, often revolutionary. They take systemic forms and they interact with each other. Since the [...] Read more.
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METHODOLOGICAL ANARCHISM AND ITS COGNITIVE VALUE
Magdalena SZPUNAR
Transformacje cywilizacyjne – między wiedzą, wrażliwością i wyobraźnią socjologiczną
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1 (112) 2022, Publication date: 30 March 2022
Abstract The aim of the article is to present the basic assumptions of Paul K. Feyerabend's epistemological anarchism. The article presents the value of methodological anarchism for the cognitive process, methodology and development of science, as well as the controversies associated with the application of [...] Read more.
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RECONFIGURATIONS IN THE WORLD SYSTEM – BETWEEN THE OLD DRIVING FORCES AND NEW NETWORKS
Lech W. ZACHER
Global Problems – Future – Politics – Values
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3-4 (78-79) 2013, Publication date: 13 November 2013
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OBSTACLES TO SUSTAINABILITY – IN PUBLIC DISCOURSE (the Case of a Transitional Economy – Poland)
Lech W. ZACHER
National Cases Augmented
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017, Publication date: 30 November 2017
Abstract Requirements for the sustainability in economy and society should be tailored to a given country or region. General models which often dominate in academic discourse are an important part of necessary social knowledge (of decision makers, media, NGOs etc.). They are formulated in universally relevant [...] Read more.
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PRACTICAL ROBOTICS AS A HANDS-ON TOOL IN TEACHING
Filipe WILTGEN
Culture of innovativeness
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 4 (115) 2022, Publication date: 28 December 2022
Abstract This paper presents real application practical robotics discipline in tree different teaching cases, two at university for undergraduate electrical engineering students and other teaching practical robotics discipline with extracurricular discipline for high school students and consequently results [...] Read more.
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ECONOMY, STATE AND SOCIETY AS THE ‘HARMONIC TRIAD’ OF INNOVATION CULTURE
Magdalena ZDUN
Culture of innovativeness
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 4 (115) 2022, Publication date: 28 December 2022
Abstract The aim of the article is to identify the relationship between economy, state and society, which is to lead to the establishment of an optimal system for the development of innovation in the modern world. The starting point in this analysis is the concept of innovation. Its conceptual diagnosis leads [...] Read more.
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THE TEACHER AND DISTANCE EDUCATION UNDER PANDEMIC CONDITIONS
Iwona BŁASZCZAK, Agnieszka ROWICKA
Paths of modern education
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 4 (115) 2022, Publication date: 28 December 2022
Abstract The article describes the problem of educational challenges in the work of a teacher in the face of unprecedented global pandemic reality. In these realities, the professional activity of the educator acquires a new dimension forcing the adoption of a completely different model of work with the student [...] Read more.
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DIGITAL COMPETENCES AND THEIR USE IN EDUCATION OF PRE-SERVICE AND IN-SERVICE TEACHERS USING THE MOOC: RASCH MEASUREMENT MODEL IN ASSESSING
Eugenia SMYRNOVA-TRYBULSKA, Nataliia MORZE, Iryna SEKRET, Elspeth MCKAY, Keven ASQUITH
Paths of modern education
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 4 (115) 2022, Publication date: 28 December 2022
Abstract This study discusses the results of developing teachers' digital competence by the MOOC "Contemporary ICT Tools and Innovative Methods of Creative Education", designed within the project "MOOCs for Sciences of Education" and hosted on the Polish MOOCs platform Navoica. More than 150 students attended [...] Read more.
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THE MUTUALITY OF JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE AND CURRENT JUDICIAL DIALOGUE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION. A FEW REMARKS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CASE OF THE POLISH JUDICIARY
Anna DRABARZ
Social changes within the legal framework
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3 (114) 2022, Publication date: 30 September 2022
Abstract Independence is essential to the functioning of the judiciary and its individual members in the EU Member States. The recent dialogue between the CJEU and Polish courts has raised a number of issues linked to the notion of judicial independence. The case gives a multi-faceted insight on how the independence [...] Read more.
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THE HIGHER EDUCATION TRANSFORMATION AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF THE RESEARCH-TEACHING RELATIONS IN THE POLISH HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM
Maciej PERKOWSKI, Izabela KRAŚNICKA, Anna DRABARZ, Wojciech ZOŃ, Maciej OKSZTULSKI, Małgorzata SKÓRZEWSKA-AMBERG, Ewa M. KWIATKOWSKA
Social changes within the legal framework
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3 (114) 2022, Publication date: 30 September 2022
Abstract The reform of higher education implemented several years ago introduced a number of structural, legislative changes that have been the subject of both scholarly and journalistic debate. The authors of the presented publication, examining the impact of legal basic research on legal education using the [...] Read more.
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CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN CYBERSECURITY. THE ANALYSIS OF THE SELECTED ACTIVITES OF THE POLISH POLICE
Mateusz JUREK
Avenues of developments
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3 (114) 2022, Publication date: 30 September 2022
Abstract The issue of cybersecurity is analised in different theoretical prospects by the author. Contemporary social problems are practical context of the discussion. In this article, chosen actions of the Police due to combat cyberthreat are written about. The author characterizes indoor structures of organizational [...] Read more.
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THE IMPACT OF NON-ECONOMIC COERCION ON THE ECONOMIC ACTIVITY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS IN THE LATE 1920S – EARLY 1930S IN UKRAINE
Katherine NIKOLAIETS, Yury UMANTSIV, Volodymyr HUMENIUK
Avenues of developments
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3 (114) 2022, Publication date: 30 September 2022
Abstract The nature of the formation of non-economic coercion in agricultural production during the 1920s - 1930s is analyzed. The conditions of application of non-economic coercion and the attitude of agricultural producers to its application are determined. The changes in the direction of economic activity [...] Read more.
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE MANAGEMENT OF HOME ECONOMICS. CASE STUDIES
Anna WACHOWIAK
Avenues of developments
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3 (114) 2022, Publication date: 30 September 2022
Abstract Home economics and the way it functions is currently a priority sphere of everyday life of all people running households. It is undergoing dynamic changes, at the microsocial level, which has an impact on global problems, including above all the ecological crisis and the resulting need to ensure sustainable [...] Read more.
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DATA ECOSYSTEM, TRANSHUMANISM AND UBICOMP. HUMAN IN SPACE — BETWEEN CYBORGISATION, BIOHYBRIDISATION AND LONGING FOR NATURE
Anna MAJ
Digital era: culture, economy, technology
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3 (114) 2022, Publication date: 30 September 2022
Abstract The ideas of transhumanists and designers of the so-called calm technologies, which lie at the heart of the ubicomp paradigm, converge in a common vision of the bio-technological ecosystem. Human (or rather post-human) operates there in space (physical, architectural, cognitive, cultural, informational [...] Read more.