Report on the International Conference: Contemporary Social Policy 6-8 April 2011 w: Kultura i Edukacja 5/2011.

CONTENTS

ARTICLES-STUDIES

EWA PRZYBYLSKA
European Tendencies in Adult Education . . . 5
KAREŁ RYDL
Educational Policy from a Different Point ofView – „Hikikomori” as a Result of Global Influences? . . . 21
JOLANTA GROTOWSKA-LEDER
Contemporary Polish Poverty and Gender . . . 29
KRZYSZTOF OLECHNICKI
Everyday Life in the Mirror of Photoblogs. Social Functions of Photography in the Age of the Consumer Culture . . . 49

STATEMENTS-DISCUSSIONS

MAGDALENA DYBAŚ
Quality Assurance System in Bulgarian Higher Education – Development or Stagnation? . . . 68
MARTA KOTARBA-KAŃCZUGOWSKA
On Difficulties ofEarly Foreign Language Teaching-Based on Obseryation ofthe Organization of Language Learning of Bedouin Children in Israel . . . 95
KRYSTYNA FALISZEK, EWA LEŚNIAK-BEREK, SABINA PAWLAS-CZYŻ
Education for Social Work on Example of Social Projects by Students of Social Work College in Institute ofSociology at University of Silesia . . . 106
BEATA ARCIMOWICZ, KATARZYNA CANTARERO
New Directions in Psychological Research on Culture . . . 125

SPECIAL STATEMENTS

MIROSŁAW GREWIŃSKI
Report on the International Conference: Contemporary Social Policy; 6th-8th April 2011 . . . 138
MAREK CHAMOT
lst Congress ofCulture Experts in Poland . . . 151

REVIEWS-REPORTS

Przemysław Wewiór (rev.): Adam Grzeliński, Człowiek i duch nieskończony: immaterializm Georgea Berkeleya [Man and Infinite Spirit: Immaterialism of George Berkeley] . . . 156
Adam Grzeliński: Author s Note on the Review of Człowiek i duch nieskończony: immaterializm Georgeya Berkeleya [Man and Infinite Spirit: Immaterialism of George Berkeley] . . . 164
Dariusz Góra-Szopiński (rev.): Justin Vaisse, Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement; Jesus Velasco, Neoconservatives in U.S. Foreign Policy under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. Voices behind the Throne; C. Bradley Thomson, Yaron Brook, Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea . . . 167