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Journal: Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne

Cultural heritage as a key notion of regional education. Terminological considerations

Grzegorz Odoj

Language: PL | Published: 20-02-2012 | Abstract | pp. 44-55

 It is impossible not to see consequences deriving from the lack of precision of the meaning of cultural heritage and notions connected to it in view of education called regional. It is easy to notice that cultural heritage both in ministry acts, publications on regional education and teachers’ and regionalists’ discourses is fairly freely used or even put in the form of imprecise generalities. An excessive inclination for differentiating between meanings ascribed to cultural heritage makes it very fluid and ambiguous. A characteristic of this phenomenon is a constant appearance of its new social and cultural features, which makes it difficult to predict its potential future specificity. If no significant processes of the destabilization of social life take place, we will witness the birth of a new content constituting cultural heritage. In this context, regional education is given a special role, whose one of the key tasks should be preparing the young for making a national evaluation of the cultural heritage content (yet it contains both the resources of the good and the evil), and making conscious choices therein in order to make them transform and adjust cultural heritage to the current needs in the future in a rational and reasonable way.

2012-02-20



Journal: Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne

Cultural heritage as a key notion of regional education. Terminological considerations

Grzegorz Odoj

Language: PL | Published: 20-02-2012 | Abstract | pp. 44-55

 It is impossible not to see consequences deriving from the lack of precision of the meaning of cultural heritage and notions connected to it in view of education called regional. It is easy to notice that cultural heritage both in ministry acts, publications on regional education and teachers’ and regionalists’ discourses is fairly freely used or even put in the form of imprecise generalities. An excessive inclination for differentiating between meanings ascribed to cultural heritage makes it very fluid and ambiguous. A characteristic of this phenomenon is a constant appearance of its new social and cultural features, which makes it difficult to predict its potential future specificity. If no significant processes of the destabilization of social life take place, we will witness the birth of a new content constituting cultural heritage. In this context, regional education is given a special role, whose one of the key tasks should be preparing the young for making a national evaluation of the cultural heritage content (yet it contains both the resources of the good and the evil), and making conscious choices therein in order to make them transform and adjust cultural heritage to the current needs in the future in a rational and reasonable way.

2012-02-20



Journal: Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne

The system of natural science education and IBSE (inquiry-based science education)

Magda Żołubak

Language: PL | Published: 20-02-2017 | Abstract | pp. 161-174

 In the context of globalization, ecology has become an important issue, not only in science and everyday life but also in education. IBSE, recommended by the European Union, is one of the current trends in children’s education. The education system in Poland assumes that students themselves should be able to ask questions and seek answers, while the teacher is to direct their educational development on the basis of the program. It is not only school that should educate and teach—everywhere children should encounter good pedagogical practices that shape their appropriate social attitudes, develop interests, and teach to think independently.

2017-02-20



Journal: Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne

Media Web 2.0 and education “towards the media”

Bogdan Zeler

Language: PL | Published: 29-06-2021 | Abstract | pp. 1-9

Bogdan Zeler’s aim in this article is to indicate the most important issues that should be addressed within the framework of contemporary media education. As his point of departure, Zeler has chosen the reflections of the American media expert and communication theoretician Paul Levinson on the phenomenon of the new new media and the communication shifts caused by them and necessitating significant changes in all areas of human activity. Zeler draws attention to the role of the experience acquired when performing the new activities and during the immersion in the online world. He also draws attention to the special place assigned in this process to young people, whose way of seeing the world becomes dominant both through and in the internet. Zeler refers to the insights of researchers concerning the user of the new new media, the characteristics of Man 2.0 and of Democracy 2.0. After Tadeusz Miczka, Zeler regards education “towards the media” as the most essential task of contemporary education, its aim being the shaping of optimal (appropriate) communication behaviors related to the responsible use of new new media.

2021-06-29



Journal: Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne

Science and knowledge in a ludic performance in the spaces of a contemporary city

Ryszard Kantor

Language: PL | Published: 20-02-2010 | Abstract | pp. 191-206

A contemporary consumption society has become the society of fun, which means that fun and entertainment are playing a more and more important role in its culture. A social range and availability of forms of fun broaden. A number of its forms and places of realization grows. Fun is given more and more time, especially in city conglomerations. Among the areas of a socio cultural life one can also find the ones that, as some researchers believe, are strongly placed in the sphere of seriousness. These cover science and knowledge. According to the author, also these spheres of life are not free from the ludic pressure. Innumerable festivals, fairs, science fairs and days, taking place in closed spaces, but also in the open air of a contemporary university city, compete with one another in a ludic presentation of science and knowledge. A symbiosis of fun, science and knowledge seems to be a perfect realization of the idea: to teach entertaining, to entertain teaching. However, it raises certain doubts. The author of the article quotes the warnings, among others, by Neil Postman, who believes that such a light, easy and pleasurable ludic education does not give a reliable and deep knowledge. The education, and knowledge gain should not be an entertainment, but also a hard work. A belief becoming more and more common in the society that everything that is worth familiarising with may or even should take on the form of entertainment, is disastrous and typical of the times when the sphere of seriousness and fun intermingled almost completely.

2010-02-20



Journal: Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne

“Do not give me cows, give me education!”. Herding life in the context of literacy practices among pastoral Buradiga (Datoga)

Emília Bihariová

Language: EN | Published: 20-02-2017 | Abstract | pp. 197-215

This paper charts the past and the present lifestyle of cattle herders with regard to education among the Nilotic Buradiga, with emphasis on the changes in the perception of the relationship of livestock inheritance and its substitution by formal Western education. An attempt will be made to observe the connection between the herding life and the schooling process, and how the transmission of wealth among the Datoga is changing due to the missing livestock and the growing awareness of the benefit of formal education. Moreover, the article attempts to answer the question whether formal education could constitute a suitable replacement for the missing livestock.

2017-02-20



Journal: Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne

Ethnic tourism and the experience of cultural otherness

Beata Hoffmann

Language: PL | Published: 20-02-2012 | Abstract | pp. 153-166

Relocation in space has accompanied people for ages. Searching for food, new possibilities of the settlement, work, education or religious cult places have become the aim of first excursions and journeys. It is difficult, though, to regard the communities at that time as travel and their activity as the development of tourism. There exist many definitions of tourism, and the majority of them underlines the importance of a free, and spacious mobility of people connected with changing places of residence, environment or the rhythm of life. Irrespective of definitional propositions, tourism is without a doubt a complex psychological, social, economic, spacious and cultural phenomenon. Special attention is to be paid to connections between tourism and culture. Tourism protects, enriches and popularizes cultural goods while culture inspires the development of tourism. Enabling culture meetings, tourism is becoming a more important factor of cultural changes. A revival of locality, growing criticism of mass civilization, and technizational idealism observed in recent years, formed a type of nostalgia for the past, and influenced a significant growth of interest in cultural, or put it more precisely, ethnic tourism. Ethnic tourisms is identified with alternative, rural, folklore, adventurous or sentimental tourism. Its present shape, however, has become yet another example of cultural non-transparency of modern reality. On the one hand, we observe a clear demand for typical ethnically-foreign tourist elements and a valorization of our own traditions, and a conscious development of a native group identity on the other.

2012-02-20



Journal: Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne

Organised activeness or on the evidence of the activity of the retired and pensioners in the urban environment

Dorota Świtała-Trybek

Language: PL | Published: 20-02-2010 | Abstract | pp. 268-284

The subject of analysis constitutes organised activeness, reflecting itself in intentional forms of the activity related to a given group of people (the retired and pensioners) and selected centres where the very activeness is visible. In the local communities of the Silesian Voivodship (on the basis of the field studies conducted between 2003 and 2007) four characteristic types of organised activeness were distinguished. The first one is composed of the university of the third age. The second comprises circles (clubs) associating former workers of e.g. mines, steelworks, power stations functioning nearby the factories in question. The third group constitutes senior groups functioning nearby different institutions, e.g. a community centre, social welfare house, parishes. The fourth one (referred to as the “union” one) is connected with people’s affiliation to different unions and organizations involving hobbysts, e.g. stamp collectors, pigeon breeders, bee keepers, skaters, beer label collectors, etc. Differentiated reflections of organised activeness among the retired and pensioners show how it is possible to still effectively function in the society, perform certain roles in spite of having gone into the professional retirement. The need of affiliation, formerly satisfied by workmates is now satisfied by different groups related with different people and institutions (community centres, assosiations, clubs, unions, etc). It is thanks to these two factors that the elederly people have a chance to find themelves among other seniors having similar interests, develop their passions, complete gaps in their education, jointly realize tasks, struggle with life difficulties, experience success and failure. In other words, flee from idleness, thus finding the confirmation of their self value and life aim. One can estimate that organised activeness among the retired and pensioners is most efficiently realised in the local environment. Undoubtedly, it is the urban space that facilitates different forms of activeness thanks to the cultural educational institutions, unions, and clubs nearby the work places functioning in it. In this space, consisting in many social groups, life styles, man can choose from and decide him/herself on a given form of his/her own activeness.

2010-02-20



Journal: Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne

The Realities of Learning Foreign Languages by High School Students in United Europe

Aleksandra Wojciechowska

Language: PL | Published: 20-02-2014 | Abstract | pp. 162-172

Currently, development of language and cultural competencies is of fundamental importance. Cultural education (including multiculturalism) enriches and models one’s own culture, prepares for dialogue, creates identity based on the strong sense of national values and roots while respecting and understanding others. The goal of language learning is clear: education should lead to language competence, make cultural intertwining easier and implement the basis for tolerance and openness. Cultural (multicultural) competence is a result of gaining experience (also linguistic experience) which is an ongoing process involving analysis and discovering rules rather than being a skill that one can learn.

2014-02-20



Journal: Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne

Cultural and Regional Education as an Instrument of Upholding Tradition and the Notion of Rooting in a Global Reality

Irena Kotowicz-Borowy

Language: PL | Published: 20-02-2014 | Abstract | pp. 109-117

Unstable currently communication between generations, migrations and life globalization makes that determining of own identity becomes more difficult.Simultaneously commercialization of cultural heritage along with the development of merket economy may result in a threat to existence of native or regional culture. All the more, regional and cultural education, gaining greater importance, playing the essential role in the „small homelands”, as in the educational environment.Their aim is to restore post-memory, promotion of cultural heritage and using of cultural resources of local communities for the promotion and development of social capital in the region.

2014-02-20



Journal: Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne

Around the idea of acoustic ecology. Concepts and practices

Robert Losiak

Language: PL | Published: 20-02-2017 | Abstract | pp. 115-126

The idea of acoustic ecology emerged in the sixties of the twentieth century with the work of Raymond Murray Schafer and his school of soundscape studies. The starting point was the concern for the sound environment resulting from the sense of threat from progressive civilization changes and the increase of noise. In his project work, Schafer gave emphasis to education as well as to the development of ecological acoustic design. What was another important element of the program was the research activity aimed at, among others, documenting and analysing contemporary landscapes. The ecological importance of this research arises from increasing social awareness about the cultural value of the sound environment.

2017-02-20



Journal: Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne

Fanfiction, coping mechanisms, and shifting the realities

Kaja Rokicka

Language: EN | Published: 22-06-2023 | Abstract | pp. 1-15

The development and popularization of social media have increased social anomie, as exemplified by dissemination of fake news, stereotypes, hate, ostracism, social isolation, and ubiquitous fear of missing out. As a result, members of society are more exposed to witnessing and reading of tragedies than previously. The youth of today try to find some methods to “drown out” the reality, even if the methods they use were to be effective only temporarily. That is how, in some cases, people become addicted to and dependent on any form of mass media: social media and fiction (such as video games, books, TV shows, movies or cartoons, etc.). The present article attempts to answer the question of why the young people seek closure aided by fiction, and to provide examples to illustrate it.

2023-06-22



Journal: Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne

Contemporary self-identificatons of Zaolzie residents

Katarzyna Marcol

Language: PL | Published: 20-02-2015 | Abstract | pp. 240-250

For the residents of Cieszyn Silesia, especially Czech, the establishment of national boundaries along the course of the Olza River in 1920, meant that they had to form a new picture of the world and determine their own place in the community, which also had to be redefined. For Zaolzie residents, the process of constructing their own identity depends on mechanisms of competition, negotiation and power (media, education and administration). It also is a consequence of the recognition of the boundary as something natural and “ever” existent. The clash of different self-identifications is seen on the symbolic level, especially linguistic.

2015-02-20



Journal: Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne

In between order and chaos. Omdurman street in the eyes of ethnographer

Maciej Kurcz

Language: PL | Published: 20-02-2015 | Abstract | pp. 154-166

This paper focuses on an African street experienced as profoundly contradictory. It departs from Adeline Masquelier`s observation that this landscape is an object of both fascination and terror, and a space of both fear and desire. The street offers jobs, goods and economic opportunities, but it can also lead to isolation, marginalization and fatalities. The paper is based on field research undertook in Omdurman in 2013 and granted by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

2015-02-20



Journal: Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne

Practicing Story(-Telling) – from experiences of Ośrodek “Pogranicze – sztuk, kultur, narodów” [the Center “Borderland of Arts, Cultures, Nations”] in Sejny

Dorota Sieroń

Language: PL | Published: 18-07-2019 | Abstract | pp. 158-170

Using biographical method, the author carries out research on the phenomenon of cultural education in a culturally diverse environment located in the Polish-Lithuanian borderland. In the present article the subject of observation and analyses have become the activities performed/conducted by socio-cultural animators affiliated with Ośrodek “Pogranicze – sztuk, kultur, narodów” in Sejny, who operate among adults. The author investigated a project that has been implemented for several years, which researches the myth of Medea as instrumental in tackling the issue of difficult memory, the latter to be utilised in building good neighbourly relations in multicultural environment.

2019-07-18



Journal: Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne

Endogamy and Marriage Customs in Kashubia and the Question of the So-Called Kashubian Gene

Anna Kwaśniewska

Language: PL | Published: 18-07-2019 | Abstract | pp. 138-157

One of the genetic disorders is LCHAD deficiency. It occurs relatively often in Kashubian population, which is among others attributed to endogamy. Before the second half of the 20th century the Kashubs majorly married within a single parish or a town, village. Also in this day and age, in Kashubia people most of all wed someone living in the neighbouring area. It stems from powerful family and group (ethnic) ties, the traditional family model, low level of education. The Kashubs’ close adherence to family values is best expressed in robust wedding ceremonies along with commonly celebrated Polterabend. This social gathering exhibiting some analogies with potlatch, serves as a kind of status marker for a particular family’s popularity; it confers prestige and indicates position within local community. Despite some anxiety brought about by the promulgation of knowledge about “Kashubian gene,” there is no visible tendency in Kashubian community to change the model of spouse selection.

2019-07-18



Journal: Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne

Cultural heritage — in politics, practice, and education (the example of Slovakia)

Katarína Koštialová , Jolana Darulová

Language: ##locale.name.sk_SK## | Published: 20-02-2012 | Abstract | pp. 229-2470

 Cultural and art heritage of Slovakia has been since 2007 one of the priorities in research and development. As a consequence of growing globalization and acculturation there is a real danger of the loss of traditional cultural values. That is why it is crucial to pay special attention to the research of cultural and art heritage. Application of knowledge on cultural heritage in the educational process is highly important because the level of national and ethnic identity and pride of young generation is not connected with cultural and art traditions of Slovakia.

2012-02-20