Magdalena of Tarło Lubomirska (d. 1728). attempt to construct the biography

Construction of a woman’s biography, which preserved the memory of a per­son, is an arduous task because of lack of sources and it is never completed work. Biography of Magdalena Lubomirska could be based only on her written will, and not numerous correspondence of her mother Teresa Tarło and brother Jan Tarło. We even don't know the date of Magdalena's birth or the exact date of her death. The only document, the author of which is Magdalena, is her last will.

The attitude of parents influences formation of children’s attitude to life. It is even more noticeable when speaking about media. The proposed contribution shows partial results of research carried out as a part of VEGA project No. 1/0913/15: Media literacy of young school-age children in the context of family and school cooperation. The character of the empirical research was diagnostic and quantitative-qualitative. The aim of the research was to examine media education performed in formal and non-formal ways among young schoolaged children in Slovakia. 28 schools from all over Slovakia were examined in the presented research. The contribution focuses mainly on findings from questionnaires given to parents and other focus groups, i.e. pupils.

The specificity of guanxi – positive or negative social capital?

The text presents the problem of a Chinese-specific phenomenon known as guanxi. Their features and their connection with Confucianism were discussed. They emphasized their permanence and continuous presence in Chinese society, emphasizing their evolution after China adopted the principles of market economy. Also tried to look at guanxi in terms of social capital, showing elements connecting both phenomena. It has been noted that some researchers have a tendency to perceive guanxi in terms of negative social capital. This approach was considered as unauthorized as a result of Western ethnocentrism and pointed to the need to respect the cultural distinctiveness of the East and West. It has also been pointed out, that the interest in China and the role that guanxi play, especially in the sphere of economy, may be due to fears of Chinese domination, as well as the lack of understanding by the West that effective modernization based on other patterns is possible than those preferred in the Euro-Atlantic cultural circle.

Artykuł przedstawia wybrane wartości chrześcijańskie, odgrywające zasadniczą rolę w wychowaniu i kształtowaniu osobowości człowieka – miłość bliźniego, prawda, rodzina. Ponadto mawia rolę środowisk wychowawczych – rodziny, szkoły, Kościoła – w procesie wychowywania i budowania tożsamości kulturowej.

This paper discusses issues related to the participation in culture of adults with moderate intellectual disabilities. The aim of this paper is to present the findings of a study interpreting and constructing participation in culture by members of this group. I was interested in how such people experience culture and how they interpret it and what significance they attach to its various manifestations. This piece of research was located in the current of constructivist and interpretative studies, which has enabled the application of the biographical method. The research project used four individual, in-depth and partially structured interviews and narrative analysis.
The narratives told by the interviewees reveal the subjective sense and meaning imparted by people with intellectual disabilities to their own participation in culture. The narratives have shown the difficult adulthood and the resulting problems of everyday life. The biographies of adults with intellectual disabilities living with their parents show the complexity of adulthood and the resulting attributes. Due to the difficulties of everyday life, the reality constructed by the narrators is filled with regret, anger, disappointment, sadness and longing for normality. Negative emotions do not allow them to develop, to open up to people, to build relations with them. This results in a limited participation of adults with intellectual disabilities in culture in a broad sense of the word.

The aim of the article was to present the main problems related to the functioning of a child with a rare disease at school and to show the forms of support for the child and his family offered by the school. In the text, I present the results of research carried out using the method of narrative interview among parents of children with a rare genetic disease. Respondents present difficult choices related to the choice of school and frequent changes of educational facilities for their children. They also show positive examples of support provided to the child by the school and educators. Parents appreciate that the teachers establish a subjective relationship with the child and parents, provide the child with proper care during classes, innovate in teaching and the attitude of openness that is passed on to the school community.

Creativity is an important element of adaptation to the constantly changing world. Family environment is a natural place for creative development of young children. There are differences in the creativity of children and adults both in terms of its form and content. They result from mental differences related to the developmental period. The creative potential of the family is influenced by the psychological diversity of family members. The article presents some activities of everyday life with family environment, which can be used to develop creativity in pre-school children. These include: observing adults, joint household chores performed by children with their parents, solving everyday problems together and playing together. The text also discusses some issues related to conditions conducive to successful support of children’s creativity.

New Families in English and Italian Children’s Literature: An Analysis of the Contemporary Publishing Industry

This article aims to offer an overview of non-traditional families in contemporary children’s literature. The most influential works about divorce, adoption, and same-sex families will be presented, considering both Italian authors and translations from English into Italian. These contemporary themes are developed in picture books for a pre-scholar audience, but also in youngadult novels, covering an extremely wide range of readers. The aim of this essay is to observe how the Italian publishing industry is reacting to these new tendencies that are now very common in many countries of the world but cannot emerge completely in others. Nevertheless, according to recent studies, children’s picture books or novels in which different kinds of families are shown are a particularly important tool to teach diversity and tolerance and to promote modern values.

CONSIDERATIONS OF THE LEGAL AND CULTURAL SITUATION OF FAMILIES IN SELECTED COUNTRIES OF THE ORIENT

Residents of the area known as the Orient are characterized through the prism of stereotypes operating for years. Researchers’ works focus mainly on the traditions, yet omit from the analyses the legal and cultural conditions. Primarily of interest and analysis are the Muslim minorities living in Europe, instability in the Middle East and North Africa, and economic issues. Often the subject touched upon is the position of women in Islam, and the studies begin the discussion on both the West and the Arab World. The text is intended to outline situation of family and rights of each member of family, which are contained in the constitutions of the individual states, or the ones that stem from the Muslim law. For the purposes of this text, various Arab countries has been selected where the system has a different shape.

This article looks into the process of socialization and upbringing in contemporary families. First, it describes the contemporary family, which has gone through a major transformation, just like the whole society. The contemporary family is characterized by destabilization, democratization, and disintegration, and all these problems affect the upbringing of children and the process of socialization.

Focusing on identity formation amongst child migrants, this paper reflects on the experiences of unaccompanied minors sent from Britain to Australia in the 20th Century. Between 1947-1967 3170 children are understood to have been exported to Australia, making Britain the only country in the world known to have exported children during peace time. Most of these children came from British care homes to which they had been entrusted by their families or social workers. The majority of exported children were from working class backgrounds and many still had living parents, or other close family, in the UK. Children as young as four were sent to train as farm labourers and domestic staff, simultaneously relieving the burden of providing for these children from the British Government, and increasing the white population in ‘underpopulated’ Australia. The paper presents thematic analysis of four published sources produced for a wide readership: two published memoirs and two young adult novels. The paper seeks to reflect on the impact of forced transnational migration on the children’s identity formation as new Australians.

The modern family faces a  variety of ever-changing circumstances which greatly inhibit the selection of clearly defined roles or behaviours that might bring about the good of the whole family. The article describes three models which regulate the roles adopted by individuals within the family. The text defines the optimal method of role creation and selection as one which allows for the simultaneous consideration of not only the variety of possibilities, but also the needs of all family members.

This article presents the shape of the contemporary family in Poland and Spain which is based on developments that have taken place in these countries in relation to family formation and dissolution through an analysis of indicators such as: marriage, divorce, fertility, births outside marriage during the last three decades. The shape of the contemporary family keeps changing in both these countries, but the speed of changes is different. In Poland, changes in family formation have occurred much more slowly than in Spain, where the family is not only heterosexual marriage, but also homosexual marriage.

W artykule prezentuję wybrane koncepcje z zakresu socjologii medycyny, które są, moim zdaniem, przydatne w pedagogicznej refleksji nad osobami z niepełnosprawnością i ich rodzinami oraz szeroko pojmowanej pedagogice międzykulturowej. Dotyczą one zagadnień związanych z rolą chorego w przestrzeni społecznej, psychospołecznych konsekwencji choroby, m.in. stygmatyzowania osób chorych/z niepełnosprawnością oraz relacji tych osób i ich rodzin ze środowiskiem medycznym (lekarzami, personelem medycznym).

The phenomenon of addiction to psychoactive substances is a global social problem. The problem concerns people of all ages, regardless of social status, gender or origin, with too many populations experimenting with intoxicants. The spreading phenomenon is increasingly affecting adolescents who, in the age of development and accessibility, are becoming a frequent consumer of consciousness-changing agents. The aim of the article is to approximate preventive measures that will reduce and eliminate the phenomenon of consumption of psychoactive substances by young people. The publication also addresses the issue of contemporary problems and threats that young people face in everyday life, as well as helps to find out the reasons for the use of toxic substances by adolescents. A significant part of the article is devoted to the role of the family, which plays a preventive role in eliminating the phenomenon. Not without significance is the school environment in which young people spend a significant amount of time. Preventive programs are also presented, which reduce the consumption of narcotic substances by adolescents.

Zagadnienie współuczestnictwa rodziców i nauczycieli w realizacji założeń edukacji wielo- i międzykulturowej nie należy do mocno wyeksponowanych w literaturze przedmiotu. Autorka artykułu podejmuje próbę przybliżenia typów partycypacji obu stron we wskazany obszar edukacyjny, korzysta z koncepcji rodzajów uczestnictwa rodziców i nauczycieli we wspólnym kształceniu i wychowaniu Volkera Krumma. Koncepcja ta stanowi podstawę do przedstawienia w analogiczny sposób czynnej i biernej partycypacji rodziców i nauczycieli w realizację wytycznych z zakresu edukacji wielo- i międzykulturowej, z jednoczesnym określeniem, które z tych typów, z jakich względów, mogą być podejmowane z większym/mniejszym powodzeniem.

Rozwód jest jednym z tragicznych wydarzeń w życiu rodziny. W obecnych czasach jest coraz większe przyzwolenie na rozwody i łatwiej jest się rozstać niż podjąć próbę wspólnego ratowania związku. Rozwód poważnie zaburza funkcjonowanie rodziny i w dużym stopniu oddziałuje na osobowość dziecka. Konflikt między rodzicami przeżywany jest przez dziecko bardzo silnie, głównie jako zagrożenie własnego bezpieczeństwa. Kryzys małżeństwa odsłania dramat dzieci, którym rodzice podejmując decyzję o rozstaniu, pozbawiają bezpiecznego domu. Rozwód powoduje negatywne skutki w psychice dziecka, wpływa poważnie na jego teraźniejszość i przyszłość.

Psychoactive substances that change consciousness have been accompanying man since time immemorial. They cause loss of control, disturbance of perception, change in perception of the world and the fall of one’s own humanity. The danger of addiction increasingly affects young people. Transformation of the family model, secularization, depression, stress and decline in value cause the phenomenon is gaining momentum. The potential that lies in the younger generation expires with every media information on drug gangs and alcohol robberies. The awakening of consciousness in the young generation seems crucial, so that they can refuse assertively and with full awareness. The content presented in the article shows an analysis of adolescents’ responses to the consumption of psychoactive substances by adolescents. The conclusions resulting from the article indicate the need for preventive measures on the part of the school and, above all, the family environment. The ability to work on one’s own weaknesses and finding a constructive alternative for spending free time are also key

In this article, I present the topic of work on the feelings undertaken by doctors and medical staff towards a child with a rare disease and its immediate family. I refer to the sociological concept of the trajectory of the disease. I used the method of the narrative interview in terms of Frütz Schitze. In the last part of the article, I present the results of research carried out with the mother of the sick person. The respondent presents cooperation with specialists in a negative light. Both doctors and nurses do not undertake interactional work of the patient and his relatives, nor do they trustt work in them and biographical work. Such work is of great importance in the treatment of the child and in the process of supporting his relatives. Actions taken by specialists affect the life of the patient and his family not only in terms of physical health. They are also about the well-being of the family, its emotional resources. The result of evident mistakes in these actions is the fact that the mother of the sick child does not work through a difficult biographical experience.