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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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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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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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TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE – TRANSITIONAL VIOLENCE
Karol CHROBAK
Varia
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 4 (115) 2022,  Publication date: 28 December 2022
Abstract The article’s subject is transitional violence, which is closely related to transitional justice. Transitional justice refers to strategies aimed at stabilising social relations, i.e., restoring conditions that enable their effective functioning in the new social order (restitution of the so-called “ [...] Read more.
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CIVIC ENGAGEMENTOF OLDER ADULTS IN POLAND AND IN FRANCE - EXAMPLE OF SENIOR-FRIENDLY CITIES
Ewa BOGALSKA - MARTIN, Anna WACHOWIAK
Human-friendly new technologies
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 4 (115) 2022,  Publication date: 28 December 2022
Abstract In all European societies, the median age is growing like never before, and this means an increasing percentage of the elderly and oldest in the total population. Combating age discrimination and age management are challenges that match these problems. In this regard, the public policies of various [...] Read more.
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PROTOTYPES ARE IMPORTANT
Filipe WILTGEN
Human-friendly new technologies
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 4 (115) 2022,  Publication date: 28 December 2022
Abstract Prototypes are a fundamental part of any development. There are many ways to perform a test for an trial. Some trials have several tests in their procedures. Without Tests & Trails, a new idea does not advance in its technological maturity (TRL - Technology Readiness Level) and thus lengthens path of [...] Read more.
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THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN THE LIFE OF SCHOOL-AGE YOUTH IN VIEW OF DYSFUNCTIONAL BEHAVIOR
Arkadiusz D. LEŚNIAK-MOCZUK, Eugeniusz MOCZUK
Research on religion
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 4 (115) 2022,  Publication date: 28 December 2022
Abstract In the postmodern society, the impact of religious faith on the process of socialization among young people has been diminishing. The youth that has been brought up with the rhetoric of independence, despite the pursuit for individuality, ought to remain under indirect influence of institutions, legal [...] 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
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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
Journal article
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
Journal article
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
Social changes within the legal framework
Publication language: English
Journal article
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.