Sport as a Factor of Nation Branding: A Quantitative Approach     

Michał Marcin Kobierecki  Piotr Strożek 《国际体育史杂志》2017,34(7-8):697-712

In recent times, governments have become increasingly aware of the significance of shaping the international image of a state. However, the multidimensional character of the state’s brand causes difficulties in measuring it. The aim of the paper is to investigate whether good performance in sport shapes the brand of a nation, thus, making sport a tool of nation branding. The paper is both theoretical and empirical. Theoretically, a conceptualization of nation branding has been presented. The empirical part is focused on analyzing the influence of the level of sport on the international image of states. The level of sports was measured on the basis of the states’ achievements at the Summer Olympics, and on the international image of 10 selected countries with the use of available data concerning a states’ brand.  相似文献   

Interactive sonification of images in serious games as an education aid for visually impaired children     

Andrzej Radecki  Michał Bujacz  Piotr Skulimowski  Paweł Strumiłło 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2020,51(2):473-497

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The Role of Private Universities and Colleges in the Spatial Restructuring of Higher Education in Poland     

Józef Szabłowski 《Higher Education in Europe》2001,26(3):411-419

The development of private higher education institutions in Poland since 1989 has become a thorny political issue. The question is discussed in terms of the overall expansion of higher education in Poland, the Polish national development strategy, the spatial distribution of higher education institutions in Poland, and the role of higher education in the formation of the Polish national e´lite. The author argues strongly in favour of the equal treatment of private higher education.  相似文献   

Factors affecting success of training companies     

Piotr Rogala  Roman Batko  Sławomir Wawak 《Studies in Continuing Education》2017,39(3):357-370

This study aims to identify the key factors which influence the functioning quality and success of training companies. Based on an analysis of the requirements included in the quality management system standards for providers of education and training services, a set of twenty factors has been developed. This was followed by a survey for specifically selected managers of 90 Polish firms, which provide training, who evaluated both the influence of the factors on the probability of success and also the level of difficulty required to accomplish the factors. The findings indicate that the managers of the learning providers need to focus on employing qualified trainers and providing a curriculum which is unique and adjusted to their customers’ needs.  相似文献   

How to develop creative imagination?: Assumptions, aims and effectiveness of Role Play Training in Creativity (RPTC)     

Maciej Karwowski  Marcin Soszynski 《Thinking Skills and Creativity》2008,3(2):163-171

There are hundreds of ways to develop creativity among children, youths and adults. Developing new ideas and ways of teaching creativity should also incorporate youth's interests and hobbies. The article presents the main information about the new way of developing creative abilities, especially creative imagination, the Role Play Training in Creativity (RPTC).The conception of such training was inspired by RPG games. Forty-seven undergraduate education students (mainly women) voluntarily participated in the presented research. The training was conducted in two forms—1-day meeting (8 h) or four meetings 2 h each (totaling also 8 h). The effectiveness of training was evaluated with the use of two creativity tests - Urban & Jellen Test of Creative Thinking - Drawing Production (TCT-DP) and Kujawski Test of Creative Imagination (TCI). Comparison of post-test and pre-test results shows statistically significant increase of the results in TCT-DP and two of three TCI scales—fluency and originality.  相似文献   

Choosing the Future: Economic Preferences for Higher Education Using Discrete Choice Experiment Method     

Czajkowski  Mikołaj  Gajderowicz  Tomasz  Giergiczny  Marek  Grotkowska  Gabriela  Sztandar-Sztanderska  Urszula 《Research in higher education》2020,61(4):510-539

Research in Higher Education - This study illustrates how respondents’ stated choices (the discrete choice experiment method) combined with the random utility framework can be used to model...  相似文献   

Relevance matters. Eighteen-month-olds’ use of relevant informative pointing as a predictor of two-year-olds’ language abilities / La relevancia es importante. El uso de gestos deícticos relevantes e informativos por parte de niños de año y medio como factor predictor de las capacidades lingüísticas a los dos años     

Arkadiusz Białek  Marta Białecka-Pikul  Anna Filip  Maria Broda 《Infancia y Aprendizaje》2013,36(4):674-701

Abstract

The significance of pointing gestures in the development of linguistic communication is linked to their referential character and formation of common ground in use of gestures and speech. Our longitudinal study aimed to define the nature of this relationship more precisely and to explore whether the relevance vs lack of relevance of a child’s pointing gestures is related to development of language abilities. We developed a special protocol to measure relevant and irrelevant pointing gestures in 18-month-olds, sampled production of spontaneous speech and measured their language comprehension at two years of age. A group of 343 children was tested, and using structural equation modelling we showed that relevant gestures predict the level of development of language production and comprehension. As predicted, this association was not applied to irrelevant gestures. It is likely that a child’s more frequent use of relevant pointing gestures helps the caregiver to recognize the child’s communicative intentions and to comment on his/her behaviour appropriately. The identified developmental/predictive relationship is valid in both mentalistic and teleological interpretation of early communicative development.  相似文献   

Principles for modernizing education     

Czesław Kupisiewicz 《Prospects》1974,4(1):11-20

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Institutional accreditation as an instrument of public relations: The case of the Poznan´ university of economics     

Przemysław Deszczyn´ski 《Higher Education in Europe》2003,28(4):461-470

In December 2000, five Polish state institutions of higher education in economics established the Foundation for the Promotion and Accreditation of Economics Programmes. Its mission, as stated in its charter, is to improve the quality of economics and management education by disseminating and supporting its best models. This mission takes on particular importance on the eve of the inclusion of Polish higher education institutions into the European Higher Education Area. This article serves as a case study based on the experience of the Poznan´ University of Economics and what it gained from its accreditation in early 2003.  相似文献   

Dual-task effect on postural control in high-level competitive dancers   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Kuczyński M  Szymańska M  Bieć E 《Journal of sports sciences》2011,29(5):539-545

We investigated balance in 33 competitive dancers (17 females, 16 males) and 22 controls (17 females, 5 males) (age 16-27 years) on a force plate in two conditions: single task (quiet stance) and dual task (with a concurrent mental task). Balance was evaluated using centre-of-pressure shift (sway) variability, mean speed, frequency, and sample entropy. The effect of the dual task in the medio-lateral plane was comparable in both groups, decreasing sway variability (P < 0.05) and increasing mean speed (P < 0.001), frequency, and sample entropy (P < 0.001), showing that the participants effectively increased the level of automaticity. In the antero-posterior plane, the dual task also increased sway frequency and sample entropy (P < 0.01) in dancers without affecting their standing performance. In contrast, postural control in non-dancers was vulnerable to reduced cognitive investment, which adversely interfered with baseline performance. There were very high correlations between sway sample entropy and frequency in each group, plane, and task (r = 0.92-0.98, P < 0.001), indicating that both parameters may measure the same characteristic of postural control and that higher sway frequency may play an important role in protecting stability in dual tasking. The postural control of dancers and non-dancers appears to be similar, although dancing seems to facilitate the increased level of automatic control in the antero-posterior plane.  相似文献