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'Applied anthropology and action research. Methodological assumptions for research process realised for the needs of the theme village foundation project' - Piotr Idziak

In the research conducted for the needs of founding theme villages, the perspective of applied anthropology was adopted. This approach assumes conducting social practice-oriented research.

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'Development and Education – Inseparable Siamese Twins' - Dr Wacław Idziak

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Development and education – inseparable Siamese twins, it's so obvious, but nowadays these words are getting a new meaning.

Currently humans' civilization suffers another wave of revolution changes, knowledge becomes the most important factor of the development. We're getting into knowledge based economy, in times of information society. Resources and values are created now by mental work than physical one, number of long term (constant) work-places is decreasing, same as number of low qualified jobs. In new economy important are and will be important such factors as creativity, imagination, social and emotional abilities, ability to learn. Knowledge workers are defined as "symbolic analysts", workers who manipulate symbols rather than machines. They include architects and bank workers, fashion designers and pharmaceutical researchers, teachers and policy analysts, artists and programmers. In so called advanced economies, more than 50 per cent of workers are knowledge workers.

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'Hobbiton and other ideas: opportunities and barriers on the way of Polish marginal rural areas to the knowledge based economy' - Dr Wacław Idziak

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'Village in the knowledge- creativity- and emotion-based economy' - Dr Wacław Idziak

Morning in Delhi, the capital of – the crowd of people laughing their heads off in one of the parks. They watch nothing, there is no a comic among them. They are simply laughing. We witness the meeting of one of the hundreds laugh clubs that first began appearing in India and then in other countries throughout the world. Such meetings were initiated by Dr Madan Kataria. He decided to make wider use of the knowledge of therapeutic properties of laugh. Since laughing causes secreting the hormones of happiness – endorphins in human body, it can be a substitute of many mood improving medicines, the remedy for depression and even the supporting measure in cancer treatment. Laugh therapists maintain that five to twenty minutes of laugh per day are enough to feel its beneficial impact on your body and mind ¹.

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