Designing and implementing public policy in contemporary society : : new perspectives / / Dorota Szaban, Magdalena Zapotoczna, and Piotr Pochyły.

• VerfasserIn: Szaban, Dorota, 1979-; Zapotoczna, Magdalena,; Pochyły, Piotr,
• TeilnehmendeR: Zapotoczna, Magdalena,; Pochyły, Piotr,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen : : V&R Unipress,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (189 pages)

Public policies are an arena of collective actions that respond to the main problems of society. They are understood as a cycle of decisions and actions of public administration aimed at achieving the desired benefits in the future. They are mostly used when market mechanisms fail and are not able to deal with the problem on their own, or when they do not work effectively enough. The multiplicity of problems and the inadequacies in their solutions create opportunities for the emergence of new sectoral policies and interventions that address both entirely new and traditional phenomena of social life, but require a new approach that recognizes the special importance of political factors. The main objective of sectoral policies is to support the development of the identified key areas of development. This anthology presents the ways of creating and implementing public policies related to educational, demographic and social problems.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Foreword -- Educational perspective -- Magdalena Zapotoczna: Higher education policy towards the need for activing academic entrepreneurship in Poland -- Genesis of academic entrepreneurship in Poland -- Definition and meaning of academic entrepreneurship -- Formal and legal conditions and infrastructure to support academic entrepreneurship in Poland -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Anita Famuła-Jurczak: Principles of Universal Design in Inclusive Education -- Inclusive education - theoretical and practical assumptions -- Universal design in education - assumptions, goals, principles -- A model of universal design in education - an opportunity for education -- Bibliography -- Marzenna Magda-Adamowicz: Training teachers to pedagogical creativity in Poland -- Introduction -- The essence of academic education -- The concept, aspects and approaches to creativity -- Sources and the original concept of teacher's pedagogical creativity -- Research problems and methods -- Teachers' education and professional development in the field of their pedagogical creativity -- Discussion -- Bibliography -- Lidia Kataryńczuk-Mania: Music education in the face of educational changes -- Introduction to music education -- About Music teachers - several reflections -- Music Education from the perspective of educational reforms -- Summary -- Bibliography -- Demographic perspective -- Krzysztof Lisowski / Beata Trzop: Mechanisms of shaping senior policy in Poland in the face of challenges of an ageing society -- Introduction -- Demographic outline of the ageing of Polish society -- Senior citizen policy: operationalizing the concept -- Senior policy - the initial stream of solutions -- Senior policy today: the political agenda -- Conclusions -- Bibliography.

Joanna Frątczak-Müller: Caring farms - a tool for the senior policy implementation -- Introduction -- Senior policy and its challenges -- Method and Materials -- Green Care: A conceptual framework -- Green Care: Practical solutions -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Cultural perspective -- Magdalena Pokrzyńska / Izabela Kaźmierczak-Kałużna: International Folk Festival "Bucovinian Meetings" as a tool of transboundary socio-cultural policy -- Introduction -- International Folk Festival "Bucovinian Meetings" -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Stefan Dudra: Religious policy in Poland after 1989 -- Introduction -- Religious policy after the democratic changes in Poland -- Religious administration after 1989 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Arkadiusz Tyda: U.S. migration policy in the 19th and 20th centuries -- Bibliography -- Anna Ratke-Majewska: Narratives of Memory in the Foreign Policy Sector: the Case of Poland after 2015 - Selected Aspects -- Poland's foreign policy strategy after 2015 and narratives of memory -- The direction of memory narratives - Polish traditions of freedom and resistance to the Soviet and German totalitarianism -- The direction of memory narratives - Poles were saving Jews from the Holocaust during World War II -- Summary -- Bibliography -- Social perspectives -- Anna Mielczarek-Żejmo: Centre for social services. Prospects for strengthening local and individual agency -- Agency in an individual and local perspective -- Social service centres - sources of agency -- Subjectivity of local communities -- Involvement of residents -- Development of the non-governmental sector -- Discussion -- Recapitulation -- Bibliography -- Dorota Bazuń / Mariusz Kwiatkowski: Solidarity with Ukrainian Refugees in Transformative Perspective -- Introduction -- Solidarity practices in transformative perspective.

Differentiating forms and practices of solidarity -- Transformative paradigm and the problem of refugees -- Transformative potentials of solidarity practices -- Transformative dimension of solidarity with Ukrainian refugees in Poland -- From symbolic to involving solidarity -- From spontaneous to systemic solidarity -- From bonding to bridging solidarity -- From caring to empowering solidarity -- From refugees and hosts to new neighbours -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Wioletta Husar-Poliszuk: Catalonia's internal politics: the peculiarities of the Valle de Arán microregion -- Introduction -- The general characteristics of the area -- Historical and geopolitical determinants of the identity of the residents of Valle de Arán -- Cultural and linguistic differences of the microregion -- The special political and legal regime of the Aran Valley within the Autonomous Community of Catalonia -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Authors.