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Oficyna Wydawnicza IMPULS

Kraków, 19.07.2010
 
 
Oficyna Wydawnicza IMPULS is polish publishing company mainly specialized in pedagogics, psychology, sociology and media.
The company publishes about 170 titles per year. The advertising slogan is Impulse for Better Education. In the on-line catalogue on the website www.impulsoficyna.eu or www.impulsoficyna.com.pl is placed over 560 books. The mission of the publishing house is to give people the best knowledge especially from pedagogisc through very high quality of theoretical and practical books. The best value of the company are very good qualified people – both authors and personnel.
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Our booksEnglish wersion of book:
 
Alicja Szerląg (Edited by)
Health in pedagogical discourses and school practices
Selected perspectives
 
ISBN number: 978-83-7587-418-1, Technical information: Wydanie I, Kraków 2010, Format B5, Objętość 202 stron, Oprawa miękka, klejona, folia matowa
 
The issue of health constitutes a crucial element of reflections over both human condition and contemporary world. It significantly embraces the axiological spheres of meanings, with regard to which the individual does not only carry out the process of self identity, but also determines life priorities which accomplishment requires social engagement. In consequence, the category of health manifest itself in various spheres- subjective, social, cultural, civic, economic or last but not least – educational. Hence, the reflections tackling this topic become an interdisciplinary discourse, since exercised in the filed of medicine, sociology, psychology, pedagogy, education as well as economy, political science and even technical disciplines.
            It should be also emphasized that in the context of findings established within World Health Declaration and action strategies in the European Region of WHO “Health for everyone in 21st century”, health is perceived as individual value but also as a form of a capital crucially influencing the development dynamics of entire societies. Therefore, in this perspective reaching optimal health condition becomes one of inalienable, individual rights, with the responsibility for individual and social health as one of civic duties, embracing as well the sphere of governmental policies…more: http://www.impulsoficyna.eu/index.php?cat=2&id=1136
           
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Krystyna Piotrowska-Breger
America: A Dream Disturbed.
The Unhinging of Today's Polish Immigration
 
ISBN 83-7308-639-0, First Edition, Cracow 2005, Size B5, Cover: adhesive binding, broshure, coloured
188 pages
 

„America ...that splendid, dreadful, funny country – surely the greatest and the drollest of them all(Portrait of a Lady, Henry James).
America is a dangerous place to go. The freedom she confers on her adopted children, the instant feeling of anonymity, and the enormous possibilites – all quintessentially American attributes – are simply too much for the average person to handle safety. These attributes not only create and bring forth; they also destroy – laying low the incapable and the unprepared.

 
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Anetta Jaworska, Robert Parol
The aim and sense of the prisoners’ life in aspect of penal rehabilitation
 
ISBN number: 978-83-7587-106-7, First Edition, Cracow 2009 ,Size B5, Cover: adhesive binding, broshure, coloured 84 pages
 
There are constantly reappearing questions about the point of institutional rehabilitation, during which, instead of changes in personality, there is a developing personality degradation of the nature and life of the isolated person.
Seeking ways that allow for an effective, broadly understood, rehabilitation became to us a stimulus to set about the realisation of the study presented in the subsequent parts of this article. A new, creative, social readaptation needs a departure from the routine and an open attitude towards unconventional methods of acting with people serving a prison sentence for criminal offences.
 
 
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Aneta Chybicka, Maria Kaźmierczak (red. nauk.)
Appreciating diversity – cultural and gender issues
 
ISBN 978-83-7308-888-7, First Edition, Cracow 2007,Size B5, Cover: adhesive binding, broshure, coloured
320 pages
 
 

This book is present with the aim if concentrating on the variety of human existence In two aspects: culture and gender – on human needs, relations and the values of they profess. People the whole world over are connected by some universal elements regardless of the culture they were born in and the society they live in. The beauty of human nature lies in the fact that it is still not entirely discovered. Of course, the individuals living in one culture or one society become similar to a certain extent as a result of the constant influence of social impact, for instance displaying a similar code of values, professing a certain religion. On the other hand, however, they remain individuals who make various choices and present different attitudes with their own history of life experience, with certain plans or goals in their lives. This is exactly what this book is about – about the pancultural and cultural diversity of the human being, mainly considering gender as the leitmotif of the conducted analysis.
One should ask: how this diversity is perceived by psychology as science?
 
 

Aneta Chybicka, Maria Kaźmierczak (red. nauk.)
Appreciating diversity – gender and cultural issues
Tom II
 
ISBN 978-83-7308-901-3, First Edition, Cracow 2008,Size B5, Cover: adhesive binding, broshure, coloured
428 pages
 
This is the second volume of a two volumes series on cultural and gender issues. While the first volume concentrated mainly on the different manifestations of cultural encounters (e.g. acculturation processes of immigrants and cultural differences in close interpersonal relationships) this book places gender issues into the focus in an exciting and original way. Are there, in fact, gender differences or they are the result of perceptional illusion or social construction? How somebody is perceived who does not behave according to the stereotypical expectations of her/his gender? Is there a third gender? How Arabic men living in Poland construct their masculinity? Does smiling have any effect on attraction in Internet relationships in different cultures? Do Polish young adults differ from Spanish in terms of their estimation of physical attractiveness? Are men and women different in their social convictions? What kind of male gender role expectations are there in close relationships in Egypt, Germany and Poland? Arc cultures different in terms of violence against women? Are there specific cultural factors contributing to violence against women in Poland? Does being sexually abused make a difference between women going through a personal crisis?
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Lech Sałaciński, Andreas Seidel (red. nauk.)
Changes in Student Achievement Assessment System in Selected European Countries - a Comparative Study
 
ISBN 978-83-7308-655-5, First Edition, Cracow 2007, Size B5, Cover: adhesive binding, broshure, coloured
344 pages
 

An international team of educationalists has undertaken the difficult task of exploring those neglected districts and researching the meander of various school assessment systems followed in order to draw more academic conclusions and reconsider the options available in terms of revitalizing the system or giving it a fresh start. The research was comparative by principle and resulted from a long term cooperation among universities in Germany, Poland, Russia, Belorussia, the Czech Republic and Hungary as well from a number of international seminars on changes in education which have taken place in result of the state reform in eastern and Central Europe as well subsequent stages of the school reform introduced in particular countries of the area.
The research carried out on a parallel basis in three countries: Germany, Poland and Russia is presented in particular chapters of this book. In order to make sure that research in really comparative in nature, research strategy, procedure and methodology were agreed in advance. The research focused on the following issues:
– what is the value of school assessment from the point of view of teachers, students and their parents?
– what are the major functions of assessment and to what extent its interpretation varies depending on school courses?
– what is assessed in particular courses?
– what are the expectations of particular subjects in terms of form, function and principles of assessment?
– what, according to the subjects researched, stands for or against school assessment and its function?
– to what extent students participate in self- and peer-assessment?
– what is the impact of school assessment on inter-personal relations in
schools as well as on students’ attitude to school and learning?
– what changes should be introduced in the school assessment system according
to the subjects researched?
The research material collected allowed particular contributors to carry out in-depth analyses and draft detailed reports. The aim of the reports was to offer answers to the following principle research questions put forward: how have school assessment systems changed in particular countries and to what extent the changes respond to the needs and expectations of principle research subjects i.e. students, teachers and parents in the process of education, but also to what degree changes in the assessment system follow transformations in pedagogical thinking as well as in academic theory.

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Jolanta Szempruch
THE SCHOOL AND THE TEACHER IN THE PERIOD OF CHANGE
 
 
ISBN 978-83-7587-390-0, First Edition, Cracow 2010, Size B5, Cover: adhesive binding, broshure, coloured
146  pages
 
In the current social situation it is both school roles and the means of educational operation that are subject to change. School generates internal changes and reacts to transformations in various fields outside. It should foster the development of an individual, his/her attitudes and skills that constitute conceptual, critical and creative thinking as well as his/her ability to manage own development and the choice of life path. It is to introduce values into the world, pass on and popularize the achievements of science and disseminate cultural wealth. (…)
School is becoming a strategic institution for the society that is informational, knowledge-based and engaged in lifelong learning. The core of its existence lies not only in knowledge transfer, but most importantly in teaching the skill of living in a world of multiplicity and informational contradictions as well as in a world of conflict of values and interests. (…)
In the new educational context the teacher is assigned the role of a creator and executor of changes in the educational process. (…)Creative and engaged in the transformation processes, the teacher is becoming the pillar of modern school and faces new tasks meant to make school more attractive and equip students with tools necessary to understand the learning society (…)
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Anetta Jaworska, Danuta Apanel (red.)
Social Rehabilitation, Care and Education in Postmodern World
 
ISBN 978-83-7587-188-3, First Edition, Cracow 2009, Size B5, Cover: adhesive binding, broshure, coloured
158  pages
 
 
The considerations presented in this book apart from educational problems include broader contexts of social reality, incorporating the area of care of the elderly and issues of social rehabilitation for the ones towards whom other educational measures have so far proved ineffective.
The first part of the book contains theoretical considerations about the contemporary social reality and the possibilities of carrying out constructive changes in it.
 
The second part of this book contains reports from social research. The presented studies underscore certain problems of the contemporary student governments.
 
It seems that this book can become a source of new questions and quests in the field of science but, first and foremost, educational, care and rehabilitational practice.
 
 
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Contact persons - the sale and purchase of licenses:
 
 
Wojciech Śliwerski – dyrektor wydawnictwa –wojciech.sliwerski@impulsoficyna.com.pl
 
Pomoc– Paweł Głowiak  – Kierownik Działu, Sprzedaży, Analiz i Rozwoju
pawel.glowiak@impulsoficyna.com.pl
 
Pomoc językowa (niemiecki) – Sylwia Kukuła – asystentka dyrektora
sylwia.kukula@impulsoficyna.com.pl
 
 

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