384 research outputs found
Entrepreneurship, Economic Development and Public Policy in the Post-Pandemic World
No full textThe major topic of the book was linked to selected aspects of entrepreneurship,
economic development and public policy in the context of COVID-19 pandemic.1-20
Ryszard Marciniak (1939–2009) — bibliotekarz i historyk doskonały
No full textRyszard Marciniak (1939–2009) — a perfect librarian and historian A medievalist by profession, Ryszard Marciniak was associated with two research libraries in Wielkopolska: the Kórnik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences 1965–1980 and the Library of the Poznań Science Society 1980–2009 where he was director. He also took part in the teaching of librarians at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and was a distinguished manuscript expert, author of manuscript catalogues, historian of libraries and historian of the region. The authors of the article present the figure and achievements of Ryszard Marciniak set against the background of the situation of Polish libraries, referring to his own opinions. The article includes bibliography of Marciniak’s selected publications on book and library science.Ryszard Marciniak (1939–2009) — a perfect librarian and historian A medievalist by profession, Ryszard Marciniak was associated with two research libraries in Wielkopolska: the Kórnik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences 1965–1980 and the Library of the Poznań Science Society 1980–2009 where he was director. He also took part in the teaching of librarians at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and was a distinguished manuscript expert, author of manuscript catalogues, historian of libraries and historian of the region. The authors of the article present the figure and achievements of Ryszard Marciniak set against the background of the situation of Polish libraries, referring to his own opinions. The article includes bibliography of Marciniak’s selected publications on book and library science
45' Reception, Jacek Bocheński Divine Julius: Episode 10
No full text"Divine Julius" by Jacek Bocheński, the author of the "Roman Trilogy".
Video prepared by Olga Strycharczyk and Marta Pszczolińska.
"45 Seconds Reception" series was created as part of the European Research Council (ERC) funded project: Our Mythical Childhood... The Reception of Children's and Young Adults' Culture in Response to Regional and Global Challenges (Grant Agreement 681202; ERC Consolidator Grant led by Prof Katarzyna Marciniak).Information about "Our Mythical Childhood..." is available at http://omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl
The YouTube channel of the project is available at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zvu9EXsI0gK5rSvgnQse
All Is (Not) Lost: Myth in the Shadow of the Holocaust in "Bezsenność Jutki" [Jutka's Insomnia] by Dorota Combrzyńska-Nogala
No full textThe article is a case study of Bezsenność Jutki [Jutka’s Insomnia] by a Polish author Dorota Comrzyńska-Nogala (2012). The eponymous character is closed in the Łódź ghetto, where the only way to forget about the horror of the Holocaust is by listening to her grandfather’s bedtime stories, including the Cretan myth about the Daedalus, Minotaur, Theseus, and Ariadne. Drawing on bibliotherapy, I argue that these stories serve as therapeutical tools for Jutka and give her hope for a better future. Simultaneously, Bezsenność Jutki may be seen as a book granting the young readers hope, despite representing the Holocaust and atrocities of WWII.Book chapter in the volume: Katarzyna Marciniak, ed., Our Mythical Hope: The Ancient Myths as Medicine for Hardships of Life in Children's and Young Adults' Culture, in the series "Our Mythical Childhood", Warsaw: University of Warsaw Press, 2021, 836 pp.
Open Access https://www.wuw.pl/product-eng-16830-Our-Mythical-Hope-The-Ancient-Myths-as-Medicine-for-the-Hardships-of-Life-in-Childrens-and-Young-Adults-Culture-PDF.html
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 681202 (2016–2022), Our Mythical Childhood... The Reception of Classical Antiquity in Children's and Young Adults' Culture in Response to Regional and Global Challenges, ERC Consolidator Grant led by Katarzyna Marciniak.
Project's Website: www.omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl.
The publication is licensed under (CC BY 3.0 PL) (full license available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/legalcode)
Kotick the Saviour: From Inferno to Paradise with Animals
No full textRudyard Kipling’s short story “The White Seal”, published in 1893 and incorporated into his Jungle Book a year later, is amenable to multiple interpretations. Today, the dominating approach to this story is influenced by criticism of postcolonial literature. The author offers a different insight by considering an underexploited layer of the text. He proposes to unravel the web of mythological/religious references and radical ecological demands – a web that determines the story’s originality and makes its animal protagonist, Kotick the White Seal, a bearer of hope for the readers also in our times.Book chapter in the volume: Katarzyna Marciniak, ed., Our Mythical Hope: The Ancient Myths as Medicine for Hardships of Life in Children's and Young Adults' Culture, in the series "Our Mythical Childhood", Warsaw: University of Warsaw Press, 2021, 836 pp.
Open Access https://www.wuw.pl/product-eng-16830-Our-Mythical-Hope-The-Ancient-Myths-as-Medicine-for-the-Hardships-of-Life-in-Childrens-and-Young-Adults-Culture-PDF.html
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 681202 (2016–2022), Our Mythical Childhood... The Reception of Classical Antiquity in Children's and Young Adults' Culture in Response to Regional and Global Challenges, ERC Consolidator Grant led by Katarzyna Marciniak.
Project's Website: www.omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl.
The publication is licensed under (CC BY 3.0 PL) (full license available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/legalcode)
When Is a Robot a Human? Hope, Myth, and Humanity in Bernard Beckett's "Genesis"
No full textThis chapter discusses the role of hope in Bernard Beckett’s New Zealand young adult novel Genesis (2006). It looks at how the author employs allusions to ancient myth and philosophy (Plato) to place the topic in a wider context, in particular to shed light on the notion of false hope. Mainly, this chapter focuses on the novel’s protagonist Anax’s (false) hope, as expressed in her uncritical belief in her state’s ideology. It also explores the crucial part which myth plays in creating this false hope and how hope, in combination with myth, is employed by the author to give readers the misleading impression that Anax is human, rather than a robot. Genesis’ allusions to ancient myths help its readers place Anax’s and Adam’s (a human character) views and actions into a wider context and understand how hope, as an emotion which is central to our humanity, has always been a decisive motivator for human decision-making (both on the personal and on the state level) and for cultural progress, and will still be in the future.Book chapter in the volume: Katarzyna Marciniak, ed., Our Mythical Hope: The Ancient Myths as Medicine for Hardships of Life in Children's and Young Adults' Culture, in the series "Our Mythical Childhood", Warsaw: University of Warsaw Press, 2021, 836 pp.
Open Access https://www.wuw.pl/product-eng-16830-Our-Mythical-Hope-The-Ancient-Myths-as-Medicine-for-the-Hardships-of-Life-in-Childrens-and-Young-Adults-Culture-PDF.html
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 681202 (2016–2022), Our Mythical Childhood... The Reception of Classical Antiquity in Children's and Young Adults' Culture in Response to Regional and Global Challenges, ERC Consolidator Grant led by Katarzyna Marciniak.
Project's Website: www.omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl.
The publication is licensed under (CC BY 3.0 PL) (full license available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/legalcode)
Methodological proposal for the application of international benchmarking in order to assess the quality of virtual higher education
No full textL'objectiu d'aquest treball consisteix a proporcionar una metodologia de benchmarking que permeti a les universitats que ofereixin educació virtual comparar-se amb les millors universitats en l’àmbit internacional a fi de millorar la qualitat de la seva educació virtual. Per tal de comprovar la idoneïtat de la metodologia proposada, aquesta s'aplica a la Universitat Virtual de Polònia (PUW). Com a universitat sòcia (líder) es tria la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). El benchmarking que s’ha fet ha permès obtenir uns resultats sòlids per a l'elaboració i posterior implantació d'un complet pla d'acció de millora que permetrà millorar a curt i mitjà termini la qualitat de l'educació virtual de la Universitat Virtual de Polònia. Per això, es conclou que la metodologia de benchmarking proposada és adequada per a avaluar i millorar la qualitat de l'educació superior virtual.This research focuses on providing a benchmarking methodology that allows any university offering virtual education (e-learning or b-learning) to compare itself to the best international universities in order to improve the quality of the virtual education offered. In order to verify the adequacy of the proposed methodology, it has been applied to the Polish Virtual University (PUW). On the other hand, the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) was chosen as the leading partner university. The benchmarking performed has allowed the author to obtain solid results in order to draw up and implement a complete action plan for improvement, which will make it possible to increase, in the short and medium terms, the quality of the virtual education offered by PUW. It is therefore concluded that the proposed benchmarking methodology is adequate in order to assess and improve the quality of virtual higher education.El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en proporcionar una metodología de benchmarking que permita a las universidades que ofrezcan educación virtual compararse con las mejores universidades a nivel internacional al objeto de mejorar la calidad de su educación virtual. Para comprobar la idoneidad de la metodología propuesta, esta se aplica a la Universidad Virtual de Polonia (PUW). Como universidad socia (líder) se elige la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). El benchmarking realizado ha permitido obtener unos resultados sólidos para la elaboración y posterior implantación de un completo plan de acción de mejora que permitirá mejorar a corto y medio plazo la calidad de la educación virtual de la Universidad Virtual de Polonia. Por ello, se concluye que la metodología de benchmarking propuesta es adecuada para evaluar y mejorar la calidad de la educación superior virtual
The petrology and geochemistry of the Montagna Grande-Monte Gibele trachytic shield volcano (Pantelleria, Italy)
No full textThe 45.7 ± 1.0 ka (2σ) eruption of the compositionally zoned (comenditic trachyte to pantellerite) Green Tuff ignimbrite on the volcanic island of Pantelleria, Italy, was followed by the extrusion of a series of post-caldera metaluminous to mildly peralkaline trachyte lavas between 26.2 ± 2.0 and 22.3 ± 2.9 ka (2σ). This study uses whole-rock major- and trace-element compositions, mineral compositions, geothermobarometry, and petrogenetic models to examine the role of trachytes in the evolution of the Pantelleria magma system. Although previous studies have suggested that all of these units are consanguineous and form a liquid line of descent (LLOD) from metaluminous trachyte to peralkaline trachyte and pantellerite, mineralogical and geochemical evidence, as well as the results of modelling, suggest a much more complex origin. The crystallization of alkali feldspar from metaluminous trachyte liquids (descended from alkali to transitional basaltic magma via fractional crystallization) drives the composition of the residual melt to increasingly peralkaline compositions: pantelleritc trachyte first and then, after >65 % crystallization, to pantellerite. This also results in the formation of a syenitic cumulate. Later intrusion of new mafic melt into the cumulate initiates partial melting, which produces comenditic trachyte melts characterized by low concentrations of incompatible trace elements (Rb, Zr, Nb, Th), high concentrations of Ba and Sr, and strong positive Eu anomalies. Entrainment of trachytic alkali feldspars into these melts as antecrysts further enhances these characteristics in whole-rock compositions. The origin of compositional zoning in the Green Tuff can be attributed to fractional crystallization from metaluminous trachyte within the lower pantelleritic portion and to partial melting of the syenitic cumulate for the upper comenditic trachyte portion
Metamorphoses of Mythological Education: Ovid and his Metamorphoses as Subjects of Secondary Education in Germany
No full textThe paper presents a case study in a country where the classical tradition has deep roots. In Germany, education was steeped in Classics in the early modern period, as modern educational systems evolved, and this is reflected in Markus Janka and Michael Stierstorfer’s paper. Rather than raising questions about the place of mythology within education it takes its position for granted, honing in on the use of one particular author, Ovid, within the German gymnasium curriculum. Janka and Stierstorfer demonstrate that whereas in the first half of the twentieth century Ovid was overshadowed by Virgil and Horace, with the mythical narratives of the Metamorphoses relegated to the middle level of higher education, in recent decades, and especially in the new millennium, Ovid has had something of a rebirth.
The complete volume "Our Mythical Education: The Reception of Classical Myth Worldwide in Formal Education, 1900–2020", edited by Lisa Maurice, focuses on school education including a wide geographical and chronological range. The volume covers Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas (including Canada, the USA, and South America), Australia and New Zealand.
Published in the series “Our Mythical Childhood”, edited by Prof. Katarzyna Marciniak (University of Warsaw, Poland).
The complete volume is available at https://www.wuw.pl/product-eng-14887-Our-Mythical-Education-The-Reception-of-Classical-Myth-Worldwide-in-Formal-Education-1900-2020-PDF.htmlThis project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 681202 (2016–2022), "Our Mythical Childhood... The Reception of Classical Antiquity in Children's and Young Adults' Culture in Response to Regional and Global Challenges", ERC Consolidator Grant led by Katarzyna Marciniak. Project's Website: www.omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl.
The publication is licensed under (CC BY 3.0 PL) (full license available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/legalcode)
Digitalizacja procesu realizacji jakościowych badań marketingowych – szanse i zagrożenia
No full textNieustanne zmiany zachodzące w technologicznym i społeczno-kulturowym otoczeniu nie pozostają bez wpływu na sferę badań marketingowych. Powszechność dostępu do Internetu i rosnąca swoboda korzystania z tego narzędzia komunikacji powoduje stałe zainteresowanie wśród przedsiębiorstw realizacją badań marketingowych w przestrzeni wirtualnej. Zjawisko to nie omija naturalnie także metod jakościowych. Potencjalna możliwość uzyskania jakościowych danych pierwotnych w krótkim czasie i przy relatywnie niskich nakładach finansowych stanowi dla praktyków życia gospodarczego kluczowy argument przemawiający za poszukiwaniem nowych rozwiązań metodycznych angażujących nowoczesne rozwiązania technologiczne i Internet do realizacji badań także w tym eksploracyjnym nurcie metodycznym. Zmiany wydają się nieuniknione. Warto jednak przyglądać się wpływowi owych zmian na zakres możliwych do pozyskania danych i ich wiarygodności. Wybór Internetu jako miejsca realizacji badań jakościowych niesie ze sobą bez wątpienia wiele możliwości, stwarza jednak określone ograniczenia zarówno dla przebiegu procesu realizacji badań oraz jakości pozyskiwanych danych. Przedmiotem pracy badawczej uczyniono analizę porównawczą dwóch jakościowych technik badawczych – zogniskowanego wywiadu grupowego (klasyczny FGI – focus group interview), realizowanego w oparciu o bezpo-średni kontakt moderatora z osobami badanymi oraz wywiadu grupowego realizowanego za pośrednictwem Internetu (FGI-online). Celem opracowania jest dokonanie porównania mocnych i słabych stron obu jakościowych technik realizacyjnych z perspektywy kluczowych etapów procesu badawczego. Opracowanie oparte zostało o studia literatury przedmiotu z zakresu metodyki badań społecznych, badań marketingowych oraz psychologiiOngoing changes in technological and socio-cultural settings influence not only marketing activity of companies, but also market research domain. The potential of the Internet is increasing-ly being recognised by market research users, market researchers, as well as academics. The new digital settings have been providing strong impact to the development of new market research approaches, also in field of qualitative research methods.
This paper contributes to the debate surrounding the value of qualitative online research in comparison to standard methodology. The main objective of the paper is to compare two of qualitative techniques: standard face-to-face focus groups as well as online focus groups via communicator (chat).
The cyberspace generate a lot of methodological challenges for qualitative market research.
Going through particular stages of the qualitative research process this paper discusses the opportunities, as well as limitations of standard and online qualitative market research techniques
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