Scrutinising Elites And Schooling In Post Communist Poland

Author : Alexandra Margaret Dunwill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000952346

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Scrutinising Elites and Schooling in Post-Communist Poland by Alexandra Margaret Dunwill Pdf

This book offers new insights and methodological tools to improve our understandings of how prestigious schools in Poland navigate the major political, social and cultural crosscurrents. The range of choice for elite schooling in Poland has expanded during its post-communist transformation. However, while elite education in countries such as the US, Australia, the UK, France, and Switzerland has been extensively studied, post-communist countries have been largely neglected. This book explores the emergence of such schools within a context influenced by a range of different and often conflicting social forces. In doing so, the study elucidates how the socio-historical processes since 1989 diversified Poland’s egalitarian education system and facilitated the emergence of schools for elites. The book demonstrates that social and political changes in Poland triggered the emergence of new elites with different political and social outlooks, leading to a variety of types of elite schools that reflect and reproduce the elites’ positions and idiosyncrasies. A bespoke theoretical arrangement scrutinises extant and generated data from elite schools’ websites, online readers’ forums, and interviews with elite school principals. The book contributes new insights into elite schools in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, enriching the existing body of knowledge on elites and elite schools around the world. It will be of interest to researchers and postgraduate students investigating elite education, sociology of education, education policy, and education and international development.

Author : Kenneth Roberts,Bohdan Jung,Stan Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018421532

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Poland's First Post-communist Generation by Kenneth Roberts,Bohdan Jung,Stan Clark Pdf

This book identifies the immediate winners and losers, and compares the costs and benefits of Poland's transformation. The research was conducted by a team of British and Polish sociologists as part of the Economic and Social Research Council's East-West Programme.

Author : Georg Rißler,Andreas Köpfer,Tobias Buchner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003818632

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Space, Education, and Inclusion by Georg Rißler,Andreas Köpfer,Tobias Buchner Pdf

This timely, edited volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on space and spatiality in inclusive education discourses. With research from an international range of scholars, the book explores the intersections, boundaries, and intermediary spaces of inclusion and exclusion within educational contexts. It advances thinking in inclusive education research and links discourses of the spatial turn in inclusive education with a call for thinking spatially. Instead of defining one spatial approach as the overarching framework for analysis, it considers the potential of combining spatial approaches from diverse disciplines, including social sciences, educational science, and geography. The book systematically identifies and links the relations between a diversity of spatial theoretical perspectives and phenomena of inclusion/exclusion. This volume provides invaluable, transdisciplinary readings and reflections on space and spatiality in inclusive education, and will be highly relevant for academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of inclusive education, educational theory and the sociology of education.

Author : Amy Hanna
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000989229

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Children’s Right to Silence and Non-Participation in Education by Amy Hanna Pdf

This insightful book re-examines the concept of student voice through an exploration of children’s implicit rights to silence and non-participation. By considering what remains unspoken but is voiced through silence, this book theorises silence through the lens of power. Responding to calls for more critical approaches to children's participation under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, this unique exposition of silence ventures beyond traditional notions of voice as a defining term for justice and participation, and traditional understandings of silence as powerlessness. Instead, this book presents young people’s uses and understandings of silence at school as an instrument of power. Based on empirical research, the book reconceptualises children’s participation rights through silence. Addressing an important gap in the literature on student voice and children’s participation, this book is a valuable resource for academics, researchers, and postgraduate students in the fields of children’s human rights, childhood studies, and educational philosophy.

Author : Dan Cui
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000994759

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Identity and Belonging among Chinese Canadian Youth by Dan Cui Pdf

Identity and Belonging among Chinese Canadian Youth unveils how Chinese immigrant youth struggle as racialized minorities at school, in their family, and through their formative interactions with Canadian mainstream media. Utilizing rich interview data, the author explores how the contemporary forms of racism, multiculturalism, immigration, and transnationalism affect the identity construction of second-generation Chinese immigrant youth in Canada, as well as their negotiation of belonging at social institutions through schools and mainstream media in Canada. The text systematically examines the lived experiences and perceptions of Chinese immigrant youth in relation to race, ethnicity, and class. Uniquely extending Bourdieu’s concept of habitus to race and ethnicity, the author traces issues of racism and “model minority” discourses not only to systemic and institutional origins but also to internalized individual ways of thinking, doing, and being. This book will appeal to academics and scholars tracing racial inequality through the multiplicity of Asian diasporas in Western societies, as well as researchers seeking new understandings of modern-day school and media and with interests in multicultural education, sociology of education, and theories of race and ethnicity.

Author : Karl Christian Alvestad,Kari H. Nordberg,Hege Roll-Hansen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003814740

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New Perspectives on Educational Resources by Karl Christian Alvestad,Kari H. Nordberg,Hege Roll-Hansen Pdf

Bringing new perspectives on educational resources together, this book considers how a range of learning materials can be used to effectively highlight creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking in learning. Covering a broad scope of educational resources, the book examines the use of resources in Scandinavian education within language studies, literature, history, and social studies at all levels of education through empirically grounded research, including ethnographies and textual analysis. Written by practising experts in the field of education studies, chapters present examples of both cutting-edge digital media and more traditional artefacts and books, providing critical discussion and inspiration for how a range of resources can be used creatively within the classroom. This interdisciplinary book is a valuable addition to scholarly discussions around educational development and learning, and will be relevant for academics, researchers, and postgraduate students in the fields of teacher education, didactics, curriculum, and educational technology.

Author : Karen Charman,Mary Dixon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003805359

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Theorising Public Pedagogy by Karen Charman,Mary Dixon Pdf

Drawing on the ideas of Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault, this book extends the theoretical understanding of public pedagogy and brings into sharp focus the elements that constitute the public realm; the site of public pedagogy. Karen Charman and Mary Dixon offer a new theorisation of the public, a term at the heart of debate in the field, heightened in this post-truth era by the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of fake news and the technological reconfigurations of public life. The new theorization addresses the ‘public’, ‘pedagogy’ and their confluence in ‘public pedagogy’. The book explores a deep engagement with the architecture and dynamics of pedagogy and argues for the positioning of pedagogy with the public. The authors contribute to a theorisation that re-considers the individual and their capacity for agency within the public realm. The book presents knowledge and pedagogical encounters as key elements of public pedagogy and most significantly, the educative agent as a means of critically rethinking social life and learning in public spaces. Presenting an innovative theoretical approach, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of public and critical pedagogy and postgraduate students in education, cultural studies and politics.

Author : Elżbieta Górnikowska-Zwolak,Danuta Krystyna Marzec,Andrzej Radziewicz-Winnicki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073315074

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Dilemmas of Education by Elżbieta Górnikowska-Zwolak,Danuta Krystyna Marzec,Andrzej Radziewicz-Winnicki Pdf

Author : Leszek Koczanowicz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857450456

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Politics of Time by Leszek Koczanowicz Pdf

What has really happened in Poland since the election of 2005? After such spectacular events as the practice of lustration and the questioning of solidarity with the European Union, one has to ask: what is the nature of this newly emerging society? As with many of the recent developments in former communist countries that seem to be mysterious and irrational, the situation and ensuing problems are complex and the answers neither trivial nor easy. This book, by the distinguished Polish philosopher, addresses these complexities through the role of the communist past in post-communist Poland. It describes the events that led to the collapse of the Solidarity program and the growing influence of the nationalistic and religious parties in the government. The author investigates the nature of social and political temporality and develops a theoretical framework that allows him to apply his conclusions not only to Poland but also to other formerly communist countries.

Author : Tom Junes
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739180310

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Student Politics in Communist Poland by Tom Junes Pdf

Student Politics in Communist Poland tackles the topic of student political activity under a communist regime during the Cold War. It discusses both the communist student organizations as well as oppositional, independent, and apolitical student activism during the forty-five-year period of Poland's existence as a Soviet satellite state. The book focuses on consecutive generations of students who felt compelled to act on behalf of their milieu or for what they saw as the greater national good. The dynamics between moderates and radicals, between conformists and non-conformists are analyzed from the points of view of the protagonists themselves. The book traces ideological evolutions, but also counter-cultural trends and transnational influences in Poland's student community as they emerged, developed, and disappeared over more than four decades. It elaborates on the importance of the Catholic Church and its role in politicizing students. The regime's higher education policies are discussed in relation to its attempts to control the student body, which in effect constituted an ever growing group of young people who were destined to become the regime's future elite in the political, economic, social, and cultural spheres and thus provide it with the necessary legitimacy for its survival. The pivotal crises in the history of Communist Poland, those of 1956, 1968, 1980-1981, are treated with a special emphasis on the students and their respective role in these upheavals. The book shows that student activism played its part in the political trajectory of the country, at times challenging the legitimacy of the regime, and contributed in no small degree to the demise of communism in Poland in 1989. Student Politics in Communist Poland not only presents a chronological narrative of student activism, but it sheds light on lesser known aspects of modern Polish history while telling part of the life stories of prominent figures in Poland's communist establishment as well as its dissident and opposition milieux. Ultimately, it also provides insights into modern-day Poland and its elite, many of whose members laid the groundwork for their later careers as student activists during the communist period.

Author : Miroslawa Grabowska
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3631832141

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The Post-Communist Cleavage by Miroslawa Grabowska Pdf

The discussion of Lipset-Rokkan's theory of cleavages leads to the conclusion that communism left behind the post-communist cleavage. The cleavage manifested itself in electoral behavior, the party system, and the attitudes of party elites. The author considers whether the post-communist cleavage will survive in Poland.

Author : Jacqueline Hayden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317760962

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Poles Apart by Jacqueline Hayden Pdf

First published in 1994. This book offers the reader a first-hand account of the people who have been central to Poland’s transformation since the early 1980s. With interviews of main actors: Lech Walesa, Wojciech Jaruzelski and leaders of Solidarity. Also observed and covered are the Gdansk shipyard strikes, martial law, a move towards democracy from Communism and the Round Table talks of 1989.

Author : Jacques Coenen-Huther,Brunon Synak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015032739495

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Post-communist Poland by Jacques Coenen-Huther,Brunon Synak Pdf

Author : Ewa Ochman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 0415658748

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Post-communist Poland by Ewa Ochman Pdf

This book explores the reinterpretations of Poland's past which have been undertaken by Polish national and local elites since the fall of communism. It focuses on commemoration, memorials, monuments and the creation of ideologies, identities and myths - and on the de-commemorating of communism.

Author : David S. Mason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Elite (Social sciences)
ISBN : OCLC:10970441

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Elite Change and Policy in Communist Poland by David S. Mason Pdf