126 research outputs found
Geografia wyborcza Litwy ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem Akcji Wyborczej Polaków na Litwie
No full textIgnacy Solarz (1891-1940) in Polish post-war educational literature. Conclusions for the contemporaries
No full textIn the article the author tries to analyze the place of Ignacy Solarz and his educational activity in the publishing output of the theoreticians and practitioners of Polish education/andragogics from the end of the Second World War until modern times. The author indicates three post-war waves of increased interest in the achievements of this remarkable education activitist working mostly in rural areas among Polish teachers/andragogues. Each of these waves resulted in an increased number of publications devoted to his educational ideas and practice: firstly in the 1940s, when the authors tried to refer directly to Solarz’s post-war activity, then between the 1960s and the 1980s, when Solarz was mainly presented as a promoter of people’s the People’s Republic of Poland, whose educational ideas could be used for education in the new – people’s – social reality, and lastly at the beginnings of the Third Republic of Poland, when the authors tried to focus on Solarz’s achievements in the context of the search for Polish models of civic education and democratization of rural education. The second part of the article presents a proposition of the author to read anew the educational/andragogic achievements of I. Solarz, emphasizing the common, socially universal educational values and practical educational actions. Only such an approach to Solarz’s legacy, as the author of the article believes, can help to integrate him in the general Polish educational legacy and to save the activist from gradual but clearly progressing sinking into oblivion
The economic history of North Korea against the background of geopolitical changes in East Asia
No full textVillage names as a source of knowledge of the past: toponyms in the Olszynka Valley in the Ciężkowickie Foothills
No full textThe Olszynka valley is located in the Ciężkowicke Foothills on the border of the Lesser Poland voivodeship (district of Tarnów) and Subcarpathian voivodeship (district of Jasło). In the early Middle Ages this area was located on the borders of the Kingdom of Poland and only since the mid-14th century with the seizure of Red Ruthenia by king Casimir the Great t became the subject of intense settlement colonization. In the Olszynka valley there are located several villages with names very meaningful in the context of the past of the local environment and local communities. The names of villages concentrated at the mouth of the valley are rather related to human activity and culture (Siepietnica, Święcany), while in the upper part of the valley they generally refer to the characteristics of the natural environment existing there in 14th century (Szerzyny, Ołpiny, Olszyny, Żurowa, Czermna). This situation could be explained by the chronology of the settlement processes. Especially intriguing in this area are such toponyms as Siepietnica (name derived from the profession performed by the local population in the days preceding the 14th-century colonization), Ołpiny and Żurowa (indicating certain features of the natural environment in the 14th century and at the same time presence of some German settlers) and Czermna (related not only to some features of the local environment but also to the Ruthenian origin of its owners in the 2nd half of the 14th century).Dolina Olszynki położona jest w granicach Pogórza Ciężkowickiego na pograniczu województwa małopolskiego (powiat tarnowski) i podkarpackiego (powiat jasielski). We wczesnym średniowieczu obszar ten znajdował się na rubieżach państwach polskiego i dopiero od połowy wieku XIV wraz z przyłączeniem do Królestwa Polskiego Rusi Czerwonej stał się miejscem intensywnej akcji osadniczej. W granicach doliny Olszynki (dopływ Ropy) znajduje się kilka wsi o nazwach wiele mówiących o przeszłości miejscowego środowiska przyrodniczego i społeczności lokalnych. Nazwy miejscowości w dolnym biegu rzeki związane są raczej z człowiekiem, z jego działalnością i kulturą (Siepietnica, Święcany), podczas gdy w średnim i górnym z reguły odwołują się do cech środowiska przyrodniczego istniejących w chwili lokacji osad (Szerzyny, Ołpiny, Olszyny, Żurowa, Czermna). Sytuację tę można tłumaczyć chronologią procesów osadniczych. Szczególnie intrygujące na tym obszarze są m.in. takie toponimy, jak Siepietnica (nazwa pochodząca od zawodu wykonywanego przez miejscową ludność w czasach poprzedzających XIV-wieczną kolonizację), Ołpiny i Żurowa (wskazujące na określone cechy środowiska przyrodniczego w XIV wieku i jednocześnie na osadnictwo z udziałem ludności niemieckiej) oraz Czermna (toponim wskazujący na motywację przyrodniczą nazwy i związki właścicieli wsi za Kazimierza Wielkiego z Rusią Czerwoną)
Political Geography in the Time of a New Hundred Years' War: 1914-2022 and Beyond
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Zofia Solarzowa, the one, who had inexhaustible strength for showing people their lives in a creative wa
No full textThis article is dedicated to the life and work of Zofia Solarz, the pioneer of Polish folk education and andragogy, an enthusiast and creator of folk theatre. The reader is given an opportunity to learn about her education and life, full of family intricacies. Also presented is her evolution as an education activist and cooperation with her husband, Ignacy Solarz. The author provides the genesis and mode of operation of folk high schools, which resulted from the Solarz couple's joint work reflecting their great devotion to folk issuesArtykuł poświęcony został życiu i działalności Zofii Solarzowej, pionierce polskiej oświaty ludowej, pionierce andragogiki, miłośniczce i twórczyni teatru ludowego. Czytelnik ma możliwość poznania usianej licznymi rodzinnymi meandrami drogi edukacyjnej i życiowej bohaterki, jej stawania się działaczką oświatową, ale i współpracy z mężem, Ignacym Solarzem. Autorka przedstawia genezę powstania i funkcjonowanie uniwersytetów ludowych, ich wspólnego dzieła, będącego wyrazem ich wielkiego oddania sprawie ludowej
Contrasting patterns in the invasions of European terrestrial and freshwater habitats by alien plants, insects and vertebrates
No full textAim To provide the first comparative overview on the current numbers of alien species that invade representative European terrestrial and freshwater habitats for a range of taxonomic groups. Location Europe. Methods Numbers of naturalized alien species of plants, insects, herptiles, birds and mammals occurring in 10 habitats defined according to the European Nature Information System (EUNIS) were obtained from 115 regional data sets. Only species introduced after ad 1500 were considered. Data were analysed by ANCOVA and regression trees to assess whether differences exist among taxonomic groups in terms of their habitat affinity, and whether the pattern of occurrence of alien species in European habitats interacts with macroecological factors such as insularity, latitude or area. Results The highest numbers of alien plant and insect species were found in human-made, urban or cultivated habitats; if controlled for habitat area in the region, wetland and riparian habitats appeared to support relatively high numbers of alien plant species too. Invasions by vertebrates were more evenly distributed among habitats, with aquatic and riparian, woodland and cultivated land most invaded. Mires, bogs and fens, grassland, heathland and scrub were generally less invaded. Habitat and taxonomic group explained most variation in the proportions of alien species occurring in individual habitats related to the total number of alien species in a region, and the basic pattern determined by these factors was fine-tuned by geographical variables, namely by the mainland–island contrast and latitude, and differed among taxonomic groups. Main conclusions There are two ecologically distinct groups of alien species (plants and insects versus vertebrates) with strikingly different habitat affinities. Invasions by these two contrasting groups are complementary in terms of habitat use, which makes an overall assessment of habitat invasions in Europe possible. Since numbers of naturalized species in habitats are correlated among taxa within these two groups, the data collected for one group of vertebrates, for example, could be used to estimate the habitat-specific numbers of alien species for other vertebrate groups with reasonable precision, and the same holds true for insects and plants
Poland - a few remarks on the development of its borders, territorial consistency and changes in its geopolitical position between 1667 and 2014
No full textThe article analyzes Polish borders, territory and geopolitical position during the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Republics, including communist period. It argues that the most coherent territorially is Poland in the post-war borders. From a political-geographical perspective it assesses the contemporary western Polish border positively, and the eastern border negatively. It draws attention to the importance of the degree of integration of the international environment around Poland for its security and sovereignty, arguing that so far it has been better for Poland to have more neighbors than less.W artykule przeprowadzono analizę kształtu polskich granic i terytorium państwa dla
okresów Rzeczpospolitej szlacheckej, II RP z okresu międzywojenego, Polski ludowej
oraz współczesnej, a także ocenę położenia geopolitycznego. Wykazano, że terytorialnie
największą spójnością cechuje się Polska w granicach powojennych. Z polityczno-geograficznego punktu widzenia autor obecną zachodnią granicę Polski ocenia pozytywnie,
natomiast granicę wschodnią negatywnie. Zwraca uwagę na znaczenie stopnia
konsolidacji międzynarodowego otoczenia Polski dla jej bezpieczeństwa i suwerenności,
argumentując, że do tej pory sytuacja była korzystniejsza dla Polski, kiedy miała
większą liczbę sąsiadów
The communist world from dawn till dusk. A political geography perspective
No full textThe article presents the territorial evolution of the communist world from its beginning up until the present day. It argues that the communist world was created in 1917 and that it has survived the end of the Cold War. It shows various ways of understanding its nature in the past as well as in present times and shows the variability and ambiguity of the communist world, including its territorial dimension, thereby encouraging reflection and discussion
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