In Search of Academic Excellence

Social Sciences and Humanities in Focus (Vol. I)

Agnieszka Gromkowska-Melosik, Bartosz Hordecki, Tomasz R. Szymczynski, Agnieszka Gromkowska-Melosik, Bartosz Hordecki, Tomasz R. Szymczynski

• Publisher: Peter Lang Group
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9783631864777
• eBook ISBN: 9783631869581
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Didattica
• Subtopic: Didattica generale

All texts in this volume give an opportunity to reflect in-depth on the opportunities, challenges and difficulties associated with the continuous transformation of higher education and scientific activities. In this context, the concept of "scientific excellence" has been perceived as a guiding idea in the scholars' efforts. At the same time, it can be seen as an ideal that can never be achieved but towards which one ought to strive persistently. Additionally, the pursuit of perfection is accompanied by paradoxes, which have been pointed out many times in the history of human thought. The volume embodies the belief in the existence of an invisible college understood as a research community embodied by young scientists starting their academic path inspired by recognized professors.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright Information
• Table of Content
• Preface
• Introduction: Reconsidering Ph.D. Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities in Poland: Between Tradition and Innovation (Agnieszka Gromkowska- Melosik, Bartosz Hordecki, Michał Klichowski, Paulina Pospieszna, Anna Sakson- Boulet, Tomasz R. Szymczyński)
• Education in the Anthropocene: Sustainability, Mimesis, Rituals (Christoph Wulf)
• Interdisciplinary Research: Opportunities and Challenges (Paulina Kewes)
• Educating Cyber-Wisdom: Theoretical Underpinnings and Practical Implications (Tom Harrison)
• Toward a Civically Engaged Teacher Identity: Qualitative Analysis of a Service Learning Project in Educators Training (Juan Luis Fuentes, Ángela Sirera, Paloma Redondo-​Corcobado)
• The Role of Think Tanks in US Policy Toward Iran (Radoslaw Fiedler)
• In the Grip of Science: Youth and Professional Career in the World of Global Change (Agnieszka Cybal-​Michalska)
• Educational Research from the Perspective of Comparative Pedagogy (Tomasz Gmerek)
• School and Cultural Assimilation: Dimensions of Assimilation Politics in Education (Jarema Drozdowicz)
• The Founding and Development of the University of Oxford (Marcin Gierczyk)
• University Social Responsibility and Cooperation with Business (Anna Sobczak)
• Forms of Cooperation Between Local Governments and the Implementation of Senior Policy: Case of Metropolis Poznań (Maciej Górny, Artur Marcin Lorek)
• Mediatization of Contemporary Armed Conflicts and the Importance of Media Coverage: The CNN Effect and the Diffused War Concept (Krzysztof Grządzielski)
• Rohingya Muslims’ Ethnogenesis and Their History Until the Fall of Socialism in Myanmar in 1988 (Miroslaw Jaremba)
• Perception of Own and Another’s Medical Condition Among Women Suffering from Endometriosis (Marlena Kaźmierska)
• Adulthood in the Self-Identification of Academic Youth (Alicja Lawiak)
• Evolutionary Perspectives on Singlehood: Fear of Being Single, Relationship Status Satisfaction, and Sociosexual Orientation (Radosław Trepanowski, Monika Frydrychowicz, fJulia Pradelok, Dominika Zyśk, Wiktoria Szott)