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The humanities are rapidly changing nowadays. Since the late nineteenth century the humanities claimed to follow an own method: ‘hermeneutics’ (Verstehen). This method was different than the methods of the (natural) sciences. While scientists explain nature by way of counting, measurement, and formulating laws, scholars in de humanities try to understand (hermeneutics) particular and unique phenomena – such as texts, artworks, or for instance a historical period – by way of empathy and imagining. However, during t...

The article analyses attitudes of nursing students towards learning the subject of gerontology. Since an individual is able to self-assess his/her learning best by thinking over his/her performance and actions helping to develop new skills on the basis of existing knowledge and understanding, the attitudes of nurses were researched by presenting a questionnaire to be completed in writing. The questionnaire consisted of three open-ended questions: what were the most useful aspects in gerontology classes? What did n...

The paper aims to present and discuss the results of a research study conducted to investigate the role of the narrative photovoice in stimulating metacognitive talk and reflection. A longitudinal design was preferred to conduct the study. A number of 35 subjects were selected to participate in the study, but 11 of them left earlier the project. In the first phase, all the subjects completed the COMEGAN-ro questionnaire to assess the initial level of metacognition. In the second phase of the research, the particip...

The last great poem written by T. S. Eliot, The Four Quartets, offers a complete vision of his philosophical and poetical mind. Beginning with his first questioning poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, going through Gerontion and The Waste Land, with their expectations and prophecies, and advancing into the poems after conversion (Ash-Wednesday, The Ariel Poems) where the questions receive answers and the prophecies, fulfillment, the main themes and symbols of this last poem develop their power of revelation...

The authors explore the problem of identity as a result of the interaction of subjects in the process of communication. The authors allocate various types of identity depending on the historic stage of the existence of the human community. They distinguish ethnic identity, religious identity, linguistic identity, national identity, cultural identity. The authors select such form of identity as transcendental identity and consider it to be the ultimate form of identity and the most significant on a contemporary soc...

Reflective practice has become a very important concept in teacher education. The current article focuses on the reflective approach to cultural experiences of pre-service teachers of foreign languages. It is maintained that reflexivity of cultural experience is considered as an assessment criterion for the cultural competence of foreign language learners. Hence, the aim of the research is to investigate the reflective skills of pre-service teachers of foreign languages concerning their cultural experience gained ...