Community Connections – Studies on Culture and Education

The black box effect and the philosophy of artificial intelligence in pedagogy

Dóra Dr. Dergez-Rippl — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Artificial intelligence is a deciding factor not only for science and tecnology but for our everyday life as well. In my study I reach the philosophical and pedagogical aspects of the topic and try to give a short introduction of the basic questions of the philosophy of AI which can be useful in the praxis of pedagogical explanations. Furthermore I examine the issue from the perpectives of teachability, knowledge transfer and humanities. I go through a pedagogical problem which does not root in pedagogical skills but in a philosophical phenomenon, namely the black box effect. To avoid this I recommend a metapedagogical viewpoint. The aim of this is an interdisciplinarity-based understanding of complex pedagogical processes.

"Political systems embedded in culture are here to stay"

Tamás Jászay — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

It's hard to catch it in Hungary, but we can say that two and a half years after its premiere, Singing Youth has been revived: after Dresden, Vienna and Belgrade, it is due to appear abroad again, to introduce international audiences to the reality of the 1950s and the 2020s, which in many ways parallels the politics and public discourse of Hungary. Tamás Jászay also talked to the creators of the performance, Judit Böröcz, György Bence Pálinkás and Máté Szigeti about the inherited power structures and the different emphases of Hungarian and foreign reception.

Question of Identity, Depiction of Ideological Aspirations in the Contemporary Serbian Movies.

Sándor Fejős — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Abstract

Question of Identity, Depiction of Ideological Aspirations in the Contemporary Serbian Movies.

In the 1990s, the split-up of Yugoslavia culminated in a bloody civil war. The economical recession, the social tensions overwrote the thought of Yugoslavism, as a result of which centralist (Serbian) and separapist (Croatian, Slovenian etc.) views became dominant. The nightmares of the war conflicts, the risings of nationalist aspirations, the social indifference and the painful moments of statelessness, the illusions of the deformed nostalgia – in an explicit and implicit way – set a base for themathics of the contemporary Serbian movies from past quarter-century. The rise of the transitional period of Serbian cinematic culture coincided with the democratization and capitalization of the country. The beginning of information and communication technology development (digitization) can also be registered to this period.

Boredom? Calm? Excitement?

Renata Bozso, Andrea Patkósné Hanesz — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Reading habits are constantly changing in terms of quantity, quality and in terms of the use of tools. In the last decade or so, there have been many changes that have not left this area untouched, while the strategic goal has remained the same: to educate people to become readers.

In 2011, as the library science group of the Institute of Cultural Studies of the University of Szeged, we conducted a reading survey among upper secondary and secondary school students in Szeged as the first step in a trend study. The questionnaire was updated and transferred to an online platform, and our measurements were repeated in 2022. From this, we would now like to summarise our findings for Szeged secondary school students. The secondary school students surveyed in 2011 – based on popular generational theory – were the last representatives of the Generation Y, while the young people we are now interviewing belong to Generation Z. However, we hypothesise that it is not the generational change per se, but rather the technological development and the period of quarantine and online education that have left their mark on the leisure, library and reading habits and preferences of this age group.

Our research aims to explore how young people spend their free time, how much time they spend online, what they read, when and on what devices, whether they go to the library and how they perceive the role of this type of institution, and to compare this with the results of the 2011 survey.

Generational readings? Literary pedophilia?

Tímea Urbanik — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

The upper class students of the Kapocs Research Group's 2022 reading research in Szeged are all digital natives, born in the last years of Generation Z. Comparing their answers with the data of the Szeged reading research 11 years earlier (Bozsó et al. 2011) and with the data of the national representative reading research of 2017 and 2019 (Tóth 2020) helps to observe generational characteristics and trend-like changes.

What does the list of favorite readings show, how does it relate to the mandatory readings, and to age characteristics? What genres, authors, series, and brands are the seniors receptive to? Are there currently generational readings? And does everything have Szeged, local aspects? The study seeks answers to these questions by comparing the answers of the 421 high school informants of the 2022 research in Szeged with the 343 informants of the 2011 research in Szeged and the data of the 2017 and 2019 nationally representative research.

"... I must submerge the poem in water and then dissolve it" Haiku interpretation for high school students

Tímea Mária Hevesi — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

The level of abstract thinking is highly correlated with academic performance. A high level of abstract thinking can lead to good academic results in mathematics and science (Shayer 1999; Nurjannah, Kusnandi 2020). The process of abstraction is considered the core of computational thinking (Zehetmeier et al. 2019). Students with abstract thinking are able to think deductively and inductively, can analyse possibilities and make good use of abstract ideas (Velasquez 2013). A high degree of abstraction is involved in the interpretation of symbols (Kapitány, Kapitány 2020). Szepes (2014) argues that it is precisely the symbolic imagery of a poem written in the haiku genre that makes it a haiku genre, when a figurative, thoughtful plane is hidden behind the poem's perceptual imagery.

In our research, we investigate abstract thinking based on the interpretations of haiku by young high school students. We analyse the interpretation of the symbol of water in Ákos Fodor's poem „Preparation Proposal”, written in haiku, based on the responses of 449 secondary school students from three secondary schools in Szeged. Our analysis is based on data from the KAPOCS Research Group's 2022 reading survey.

In our research, we are looking for answers to the question: what type and amount of abstract concepts did secondary school students use to interpret the symbol of water? Is the frequency of abstract concept use related to their book reading habits?

Value and community

Márta Bánkutiné Mihalcsik — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

In my research, I examined the legal background of the value survey, and which settlements in Veszprém County used this opportunity and with what efficiency. I present the creation and activities of creative circles operating in the following settlements in the Balaton Highlands: Alsóörsi Csipkeműhely, Paloznaki, Felsőörsi and Tótvázsonyi Hímzőműhely. I will explain how a defining personality affects the creation and effective activities of a community, how the Hungarian movement "Let every value have a community" came to be. motto, what is the essence of community value exploration, what positive impact did settlement value exploration processes have on sister settlements abroad. I used the personality test and the comparative method, the further data collection was assisted by conducting interviews, collecting and analyzing documents, photos, works, and extensive processing of the literature.

Editor’s welcome.

Éva Szirmai — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Different generations at work

Tímea Juhász, Csilla Czegledi, Erika Varga — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

In their article, the authors discuss the concept and characteristics of generations and their attitudes in the workplace. With the primary research 2022-23, they seek answers to the question with whom each generation in the labour market works together and with whom they are willing to share their knowledge. The survey was conducted via the internet in the form of quantitative research. The authors used their own questionnaire, the reliability of which was tested using the Spearman-Brown test. The results show that intergenerational cooperation is positively present in companies, although some generations prefer working with certain age groups to a lesser extent than with other generations.

Recruitment and workforce retention in a generational approach

Borsos Aranka — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Abstract

The labor market is constantly changing; the years employees spend at work is increasing, and more and more generations are represented at the workplace at the same time, and yet, because of our declining population, the number of new entrants is decreasing, the proportion of older age groups is increasing, however, due to globalization and digital changes, the labor demand is primarily aimed at the younger generations, mainly affecting newly emerging professions, thus increasing competition between employers.

In order for the participants in this competitive situation to be able to react appropriately to the changes, it is important to be aware of how different generations can be motivated.

Regarding this topic, on the occasion of my research in 2023, I examined the different job selection aspects of the generations present on the labor market and the factors influencing their job satisfaction, since by taking into account the expectations set by each generation, the management of human resources in organizations can become easier and more efficient.

Multigenerational workplaces in practice

Lilla Csastyu — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Differences between generations usually result from differences in living conditions, technological developments, social changes and values. These differences can affect people's thinking, behavior and general attitude towards life, however, they also define interpersonal relationships, so their understanding and operation are fundamental when examined from the point of view of the labor market. In my study, I examine and explore the historical implications of the differences between generations and generations in international and Hungarian literature. I examine those key factors that can mitigate generational differences.