Edukacja Ustawiczna Dorosłych / Polish Journal of Continuing Education

29-40

Authors: Beata Czuba

Among the numerous functions of popular culture, the educational function has great potential to be used in various contexts of education and upbringing. The attractiveness of series, such as, for example, Game of Thrones (based on G.R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire saga) is not only due to their effective advertising, but also to the way they tell about the world. At the center of these stories are interesting characters and their complex motives and personalities. The perception of these stories is accompanied by the recipient’s pleasure, which affects cognitive processes - attention, memory, motivation to learn. Stories of popular culture can be an inexhaustible source of inspiration and ideas for the educator. If the essence of education is to expand the semantic field of students, works of popular culture are a good tool that enables the implementation of this intention. The aim of the considerations contained in the article is to answer the question: “To what extent can works of popular culture be used as an educational space?”. The subject of the analysis are selected heroes of the A Song of Ice and Fire series and the series entitled Game of Thrones.

55-67

Authors: Joanna Kubińska, Anna Pańczuk, Zofia Kubińska

According to the Reports of the Polish Supreme Audit Office (NIK) and Polish Academy of Science (PAN), education and prevention play a key role in promoting healthy lifestyle and in building health competences. Those documents are the basis for the development of a modern, national strategy aimed at promoting pro-health physical activity. The purpose of the study is to present physical activity and health as a value in modern culture and as a moral-ethical act. The theoretical point of reference is the analysis of selected literature from the philosophical anthropology of John Paul II, the theory and sociology of physical culture and health sciences. In addition, the article presents current research showing the attitudes of adults toward physical activity and health as a value. The authors attempt to show health as a value from the perspective of a positive, ethical and moral understanding.

81-94

Authors: Grzegorz Sudoł

The article presents the issue of social security in the context of seignior policy in the area of a commune and multi-sector partnership. It takes up the challenge of diagnosing the needs, defining and presenting the goals, functions and tasks of the Seigniorial Services Centers. Moreover, the possibilities of cooperation and the use of personal, material and financial resources in the implementation of programs and projects supporting the elderly in their holistic development are presented in the paper. The influence of the local environment on the functioning of some Centers has also been analysed.

107-120

Authors: Marcin Rojek

The article presents the second part of the results of the pilot study conducted as part of the research project ‘Adult learning in a hybrid work model’. It concerns the assessment of the reliability of a research tool in the form of a questionnaire. The questionnaire thus developed will be used to conduct the main study, which will provide new knowledge about the educational aspects of hybrid work. The research will expand and update scientific knowledge, mainly in the areas of work pedagogy, andragogy and social pedagogy. The study represents a new framing of the problem, as the educational significance of work is explained on the example of its hybrid model and not, as in previous research, on the example of the stationary model, which only incorporates modern communication technologies

133-145

Authors: Małgorzata Kowalska, Magdalena Stusińska-Krywalska, Mateusz Stachura

WeRskills Project Recommendations include different aspects of vocational education and focus on five areas of expertise. They are a result of the project entitled WeRskills – informational and consulting platform supporting the process of acquiring talents to participate in skills competitions at national and European level. The project was run in the international partnership of Polish, Hungarian and Cyprian institutions which advocated that skills competitions are instruments to innovate vocational education programs in order to meet the European needs of today. WeRskills Project proposed an enhancement strategy to support the process of acquiring talents to participate in skills competitions at the national and European level and raise the attractiveness of VET. With this publication we would like to inspire vocational teachers and trainers as well as training providers and employers to use skills competitions as a means to boost the structural development of talents and excellence in VET. The first part of the WeRskills recommendations was published in “Journal of Continuing Education” (3/2022), while the following articledemonstrates that vocational skills competitions have a number of benefits, including financial one.

157-166

Authors: Jolanta Religa

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the education process, including the education and vocational training sector, where readiness to switch to remote learning was not common and obvious. In this exceptional situation, the need to digitize both didactic and organizational processes in institutions of continuing education and vocational training and the need to ensure the quality of these processes has become even more evident. The article presents a proposal to support institutions in digitization processes, developed as part of an international cooperation project of institutions from Polish, Greece, Cyprus and Italy: Quality for digital education readiness in VET (Q4EDU). The proposed methodology for assessing the readiness of education and vocational training institutions to digitize their activities is a comprehensive solution, offering, among other things, the possibility of monitoring and developing the level of digitization of institutions through the use of an IT tool based on the European DigCompOrg framework and the opportunity to acquire and confirm the competences of a digital education expert.

181-190

Authors: Paweł Religa

A large number of people in a limited space, a wide range of activities are the factors that are the precursors of onerous and even harmful noise at school. The work of a teacher, which requires high and constant concentration, performed in conditions of exposure to noise, can lead to both distraction and annoyance, as well as to various types of ailments. In such a situation, it is necessary to take all kinds of activities to minimize the impact of noise on the teacher. The effectiveness of these activities largely depends on the awareness of the threat and its effects by the teachers themselves. However, are teachers aware of noise exposure at school and its effects? Is this awareness sufficient to take actions limiting and eliminating this threat in this occupational group? The work, based on the analysis of the results of the survey conducted among teachers of primary schools in Radom, attempts to answer the above questions in the context of the teacher’s work experience.