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Professor Jadwiga Nowak – multiple thoughts, multiple portraits
No full textW artykule, autor przypomniał sylwetkę Jadwigi Nowak, Profesora Wydziału Pedagogicznego Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, pierwszego kierownika Katedry Pedagogiki Dorosłych. Opisując sylwetkę uczonej wyeksponowano zwłaszcza te wątki, które w polskiej debacie andragogicznej zainicjowała Profesor Jadwiga Nowak m.in.; znaczenie twórczości, rolę pracy zawodowej w rozwoju osobistym dorosłego, czy miejsce jakie zajmuje w koncepcjach edukacji całożyciowej problematyka wartości. Przypomniano inicjatywy Pani Profesor promujące rozwój środowiska polskich andragogów oraz ważniejsze funkcje jakie pełniła podejmując różnorodne inicja-tywy wydawnicze. Podkreślono niepowtarzalność osobowości uczonej.The subject of this article is Jadwiga Nowak, a well known Polish professor from the University of Warsaw's Faculty of Pedagogy and the first Head of the Faculty of Adult Education. In describing this researcher, certain themes are highlighted, especially those initiated by prof. Jadwiga Nowak i.e. the value of creativity, the role of work in an adult's personal development and the meaning of values in lifelong learning. The author describes many initiatives which were inspired by Jadwiga Nowak, especially the significant value of creativity, the role of the workplace in personal development and the meaning of value in lifespan edu-cation. Jadwiga Nowak‟s promotion of Polish andragogues, her various publishing initia-tives and her unique personality are also recalled in the article
Juliusz Nowak-Dłużewski's School. Historical-Literary Connections
No full textJuliusz Nowak-Dłużewski (31.03.1893, Goszcza – 19.04.1972, Warszawa), a literary scholar and historian, a teacher in secondary schools in Kielce and Warszawa. He did Polish Studies and his PhD in 1932 at the Jagiellonian University in the care of his promoter, Professor Ignacy Chrzanowski. During World War II he lectured at Kielce branch of Polish Studies of University of Western Lands. After the war he habilitated in Toruń on the basis of his monograph dedicated to priest Stanisław Konarski, afterwards, he took a job as a substitute for a Professor at Catholic University of Lublin and as an associate professor at University of Warsaw. His teaching and pedagogic service bore fruit in 1938 in the form of the Gold Cross of Merits. Post-war frameworks of reconstruction and the effort of the preservation from destruction of post-courtly collections from the position of the director of the National Museum in Kielce resulted in the Order of Polonia Restituta (1963). Finally, Nowak-Dłużewski’s research and development works met with recognition from the jury of the Włodzimierz Pietrzak Literary Award two times (1964, 1967).
The memoir dedicated to Professor J. Nowak-Dłużewski develops from his student’s conviction about the perfection of his didactic and educational mission performed by him with devotion during the difficult times when Communism was on the rampage. We experienced Professor’s special care and foresight in the last decade of his life (1962-1972), when he resolved to “remake us into angels” by destining us for creative work in conditions close to monastic closure – in the team of a PhD seminary. A doubtless protagonist of the given text is our Master, Professor Juliusz Nowak-Dłużewski. For this reason, the references include only articles and utterances of particular people with the intention of underlining our interpersonal master-pupils bond. To my mind, this aspect appears to excuse the author in the eyes of Colleagues as well as Readers
Leszek Nowak – obituary
No full textOn 20th of October 2009 died Leszek Nowak, one of the most creative and original Polish philosophers. Born on 7th of January 1943, Nowak studied law (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) and philosophy (Warsaw University). He lived to philosophize. It is not a conventional phrase but the true description of his activities. He devoted his live to philosophy. He got professor’s title in 1976, at the age of 33. At that time he was the youngest professor in Poland and the author of the methodological conception – the idealizational theory of science. His theory was inspired by ideas he found in Marx’s writings. He made them explicit and precise by using the language of contemporary logical philosophy. The result was the theory that offered a new, detailed and systematic picture of science [10], [18]. Leszek Nowak admired Marx’s ideas and planned to reconstruct Marx’s entire philosophical system. It soon occurred to him that Marx’s social philosophy was unable to account for the functioning of the societies of so-called real socialism. Nowak retained Marx’s materialism but rejected the narrow, economic view of society. In 1977 he started to work on a new, generalized social theory, which he called the non-Marxian historical materialism [12]. In this theory real socialism occurs as the most oppressive system in the history of the hitherto known societies. One has to be bold or naïve to work on such a theory in the country of real socialism. Leszek Nowak was aware of the risk but he did not decide to accept intellectual compromise and in 1979 disseminated the typescript of his book on real socialism. During the time of Solidarność movement he spent all energy to educate union members and to reveal the oppressive nature of socialism. He was interned on 13th of December 1981 and spent a year in jail. In 1985 he was expelled from the university and in 1989 his professorship was reinstated. Extremely hard work, engagement in the Solidarność movement, and protests during internment seriously undermined his health. In the last years Leszek Nowak was not able to teach but he painstakingly worked on his new love – metaphysics. Results of his research were published in Polish in three volumes [16], [19], [20]. In our view his conception represents a non-standard approach to metaphysical problems. In Polish philosophy Nowak’s metaphysics can be only confronted with Roman Ingarden’s The controversy over the existence of the world. It is our firm conviction that Leszek Nowak’s place in Polish philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century is defined by the following qualities: a bold search for new and original idea, laborious work to present it in a systematic way, readiness to defend it against petrifying tendencies be they scientific, political, religious or ideological
Juliusz Nowak-Dłużewski's School. Historical-Literary Connections
No full textJuliusz Nowak-Dłużewski (31 III 1893 - 19 IV 1972), historyk literatury, absolwent filologii polskiej Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, uczeń i doktorant prof. Ignacego Chrzanowskiego, nauczyciel Gimnazjum Jana Zamoyskiego w Warszawie, a podczas II wojny światowej organizator i wykładowca filii kieleckiej Tajnego Uniwersytetu Ziem Zachodnich – po pięknych zasługach w powojennym ratowaniu bibliotek dworskich i dzieł sztuki współtworzył Muzeum Świętokrzyskie i Bibliotekę Wojewódzką w Kielcach. W 1951 r. habilitował się u prof. Konrada Górskiego w Toruniu, obejmując stanowisko zastępcy profesora KUL, a następnie od roku akad. 1956/57 – profesora nadzwyczajnego Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. W stolicy witali go bardzo serdecznie dawni jego uczniowie. „Kochał bardzo młodzież i dobrze ją rozumiał” – napisze potem z oddali emigracyjnej prof. Wiesław Strzałkowski, żołnierz PSZ na Zachodzie, lecz przede wszystkim poeta, z nabożeństwem dedykujący Profesorowi własne wiersze. W 1962 roku, gdy Nowak-Dłużewski, powołując seminarium doktoranckie, podjął „świętą wojnę” z ostracyzmem komunistycznym, garnęli się doń przybysze z całego kraju. Gdyby nie przyjął pomocy Instytutu Wydawniczego „PAX” ze strony przedwojennych uczniów, byłby jako badacz narażony na intelektualny niebyt. Dwukrotnie wzmocniły go Nagrody im. Włodzimierza Pietrzaka (1964, 1967). Czytelnikom dał się poznać odkrywczym opus vitae, 6-tomową syntezą „Okolicznościowa poezja polityczna w Polsce” (1963-1980). Wychował grono doktorów, ucząc ich wiary i nadziei, a także odporności na ciśnienie obcej ideologii. O tych niełatwych latach – i o wspólnym zwycięstwie – pisze jeden z nich.Juliusz Nowak-Dłużewski (31.03.1893, Goszcza – 19.04.1972, Warszawa), a literary scholar and historian, a teacher in secondary schools in Kielce and Warszawa. He did Polish Studies and his PhD in 1932 at the Jagiellonian University in the care of his promoter, Professor Ignacy Chrzanowski. During World War II he lectured at Kielce branch of Polish Studies of University of Western Lands. After the war he habilitated in Toruń on the basis of his monograph dedicated to priest Stanisław Konarski, afterwards, he took a job as a substitute for a Professor at Catholic University of Lublin and as an associate professor at University of Warsaw. His teaching and pedagogic service bore fruit in 1938 in the form of the Gold Cross of Merits. Post-war frameworks of reconstruction and the effort of the preservation from destruction of post-courtly collections from the position of the director of the National Museum in Kielce resulted in the Order of Polonia Restituta (1963). Finally, Nowak-Dłużewski’s research and development works met with recognition from the jury of the Włodzimierz Pietrzak Literary Award two times (1964, 1967). The memoir dedicated to Professor J. Nowak-Dłużewski develops from his student’s conviction about the perfection of his didactic and educational mission performed by him with devotion during the difficult times when Communism was on the rampage. We experienced Professor’s special care and foresight in the last decade of his life (1962-1972), when he resolved to “remake us into angels” by destining us for creative work in conditions close to monastic closure – in the team of a PhD seminary. A doubtless protagonist of the given text is our Master, Professor Juliusz Nowak-Dłużewski. For this reason, the references include only articles and utterances of particular people with the intention of underlining our interpersonal master-pupils bond. To my mind, this aspect appears to excuse the author in the eyes of Colleagues as well as Readers
Nonzero-sum Stochastic Games
No full textThis paper treats of stochastic games. We focus on nonzero-sum games and provide a detailed survey of selected recent results. In Section 1, we consider stochastic Markov games. A correlation of strategies of the players, involving ``public signals'', is described, and a correlated equilibrium theorem proved recently by Nowak and Raghavan for discounted stochastic games with general state space is presented. We also report an extension of this result to a class of undiscounted stochastic games, satisfying some uniform ergodicity condition. Stopping games are related to stochastic Markov games. In Section 2, we describe a version of Dynkin's game related to observation of a Markov process with random assignment mechanism of states to the players. Some recent contributions of the second author in this area are reported. The paper also contains a brief overview of the theory of nonzero-sum stochastic games and stopping games which is very far from being complete.average payoff stochastic games, correlated stationary equilibria, nonzero-sum games, stopping time, stopping games
The Stone Age Man in the Caves of the Tatra Mountains - pictures
No full text"This research was funded in whole or in part by National Science Center UMO-2021/41/B/HS3/03217. For the purpose of Open Access, the author has applied a CC-BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) version arising from this submission.” The dataset is the result of activities related to the implementation of the project. It presents photos documenting the archaeological excavation in the Obłazkowa cave in the Tatra Mountains, as well as illustrations of Paleolithic stone artifacts from the Huciva cave in the Tatra Mountains in Slovakia
On measurable minimax selectors
No full textAbstractIn this note we consider the upper value of a zero-sum game with payoff function depending on a state variable. We provide a new and much simpler proof of a measurable minimax selection theorem established 25 years ago by the author in Nowak (1985) [19]. A discussion of the basic assumptions and relations with the literature on stochastic games and (minimax) control models is also included
Social entrepreneurship : theory and practice / Ryszard Praszkier, Andrzej Nowak.
No full texteconomic&political bookfair2015Includes bibliographical references and index.xx, 228 pages :"There are certain kinds of people who garner enormous satisfaction from successfully taking on a "mission impossible" and, by so doing, actually manage to change the world, sometimes in surprising ways. Such individuals are rare, and when we become aware of them and their astonishing achievements, we observe that they cannot easily be pigeonholed or defined by their own circumstances, that is to say, they are the products of rural as well as urban areas; of developing as well as developed countries; of large cities as well as remote areas; they may be Gurkhas from the Himalayan Mountains or Maasais from East Africa. They may be well-known figures, such as Mohammad Yunus recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, or anonymous, unrecognized teachers from small villages. The question then becomes: If they are such a diverse group, what characteristics do they have in common, which allow us to identify them under one unifying rubric? And which of these shared attributes distinguish them from other social activists? These are the underlying questions that inform the book"-- Provided by publisher
Torture: An Expert’s Confrontation with an Everyday Evil, by Manfred Nowak
No full textManfred Nowak, the author of this book, is an expert with outstanding experience in the fight against torture. Among many international commitments, he was the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (SRT) for six years from 2004 and the book is predominately based on this experience. Nowak aims to make the unfathomable more comprehensible and to clarify the causes and dynamics of the routine nature of torture; to enhance empathy for the forgotten detainees; and to point to ways of preventing torture. Putting existing knowledge into practice will, however, only work if enough people become outraged and place moral and political pressure on authorities to end torture. This book review reflects upon this important contribution. 
What Is Moral Competence and Why Promote It?
No full textThis short review paper focuses on Georg Lind's approach to the moral competence as described in his recent book (2016) How To Teach Morality? Promoting Deliberation and Discussion, Reducing Violence and Deceit. Berlin: Logos Verlag. Lind's dual-aspect approach is discussed as one of the leading conceptions of personal moral competence and moral cognition today. Intuitionist approach and "embodied cognition" are not enough, the author (E. Nowak) claims. As participants of social contexts and institutions, we need manifest, discoursively articulated reflection, self-reflection, and conversation. However, Lind's hypothesis of two leyers of morality, i.e., a conscious and unconscious finds evidence in cognitive sciences too. Lind's approach is not as reductionist as that of radical cognitivists. On the contrary, it combines all relevant aspects of moral cognition discussed right now, worldwide – when cognitive sciences flourish and the challenges for moral mind grow up dramatically.732233321Ethics in Progres
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