{"id":10,"date":"2012-06-14T11:25:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T11:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driftidentity.ibi.uw.edu.pl\/driftidentity2\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2024-08-05T20:23:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T18:23:51","slug":"%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%be%d0%b5%d0%ba%d1%82%d1%8b","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/drift.al.uw.edu.pl\/driftidentity2\/%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%be%d0%b5%d0%ba%d1%82%d1%8b\/","title":{"rendered":"Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Project ‘University – in – Diff\u00e9rance’<\/b><\/h4>\r\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Laboratory of the Artes Liberales Faculty, \u00a0the University of Warsaw<\/b> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\r\n
  \u00a0 \u00a0   by Zoja Morochojewa and Anna Wr\u00f3bel, Engl. transl. by Nadezda Aydaeva. December, 2014. <\/pre>\r\n
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Context<\/h5>\r\n
The \u00a0University of \u00a0Warsaw as a comfortable study place for students from non Western countries, with a focus on Asian regions. The recent years have been encountering the increasing flow of discussions on the clash of Western and other civilizations\u2019 values. New civilizational ideologies have been developed \u00a0as a foundation for building blocks of states on the ground of shared values (e.g., Eurasian, European, Atlantic). Old assumptions about social life related to specifics and \u00a0values of some cultures (Asian values, World muslim civilization) have been revitalizing. Due to the growing number of migrants the border between civilizations is no longer outside \u00a0\u00a0the European communities but inside them. Civilizational differences tend to be more \u00a0obvious in economics, \u00a0politics, everyday life and space. Intercultural contacts promise to be more intensive, \u00a0expanded and obvious. Due to growing political and economic importance of the Asian continent we face the fact \u00a0of the emergence of other than Western world centers. The process of intercultural interactions will inevitably be very complicated. We think the coordination of university education and academic mobility in such a complicated situation can play a specific role. Universities are indeed one of the places to stand aside from conflicts being able to build grounds for mutual intercivilizational understanding.<\/p>\r\n
Why UW?<\/h5>\r\n
The majority of the foreign students at the \u00a0University of Warsaw \u00a0come from countries of other than Western civilization. They are from Asia and the regions on the borderland between the West and other civilizations (Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus). Meanwhile they \u00a0have been taught educational programmes being oriented for students \u00a0from Poland (the Poles and those socialized in Polish culture). The University education is organized on the foundation of the Western paradigm causing the Eurocentric way of thinking and developing the forms of education \u00a0grounded on these relations. These \u00a0characteristics are the consequences of the linear paradigm of time and space understanding in the classic model of substance. \u00a0Guided by these assumptions we assume that the \u00a0University of Warsaw as a European institution seems to be not a very comfortable place for representatives of non-Western civilizations, mostly because of the impeded intercultural communication. \u00a0The majority of the University courses are given \u00a0\u00a0in Polish and are primarily oriented to Poland\u2019s needs and \u00a0European Union\u2019s perspective as well. This orientation is not sufficient any more in the situation of the globalizing world. This project supposes the possibility to develop the education coordination model in the perspective of intercivilizational communication. The project aims at developing \u00a0the up-to-date education model of intercivilizational cooperation at the University. According to Jacques \u00a0Derrida\u2019s concept the model is named \u201cUniversity – in – Diff\u00e9rance\u201d.<\/p>\r\n
“University – in – Diff\u00e9rance<\/b>” \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/i><\/p>\r\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Diff\u00e9rance is a French term coined by Jacques Derrida, deliberately homophonous with the word \u201cdiff\u00e9rence\u201d.<\/i> \u00a0Diff\u00e9rance plays<\/i>\u00a0 \u00a0 on the fact that the French word diff\u00e9rer means both \u201cto defer\u201d and \u201cto differ.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\r\n
University – in – Diff\u00e9rance<\/b> is a model of intercivilizational \u00a0communication on the basis of deconstruction in the perspective of a dialogue. The issue is to arrange conditions for the process of intercivilizational communication being opened to other modes of thinking, other logics in addition to the Western ways of thinking. \u00a0In our model intercivilizational communication is not grounded on the similarity principle but on the diversity (diff\u00e9rance). With instruments of cultural anthropology and social studies we arrange conditions for representatives of diverse civilizations, for a guest\/alien and a host\/self to interact . The objective is to shift communication from civilizational to intercivilizational mode. A dialogue between actors \u00a0emerges \u00a0as a prove of discovering the common ground in the intercivilizational channel. We focus on such \u00a0assumptions as time and space as well as those ones related to notions of personality, patterns of social relations, ethical and moral issues. We are searching for \u2018problem zones\u2019 related to cultural diversity, stereotypes and differences in thinking. Each of the counterparts in this process has an opportunity to go out of the borders of his\/her socio-cultural world and \u00a0the deconstruction process opens the chance to come to \u00a0the intercivilizational communication code. At the point when it is possible to overcome the conditions of someone\u2019s own civilization and make a relative coming out of its limits, a site for a dialogue is being built in the interaction process. The matter is that the condition of nobody dominating the other is only possible in the situation of multiple contexts and in this case the actors are equal. Due to its relative nature we refer to the language of postmodernism as we think this language \u00a0is open to codes of other worlds \u00a0(including in the Eastern one) . It is the very same approach which has challenged the problems of colonialism, orientalism and questioned the issue how to speak to \u2018silent worlds\u2019.<\/p>\r\n
The project objectives:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n
1.To develop University – in – Diff\u00e9rance, <\/b>an up-to-date education model of intercivilizational interaction at the University of Warsaw.\u00a0\u00a0University – in – Diff\u00e9rance <\/b>is a model of intercivilizational communication on the basis of deconstruction in the perspective of a dialogue.<\/p>\r\n
2.To analyze intercivilizational academic mobility at the UW; try to develop a new \u00a0formula for students\/ academics\/researchers exchange \u00a0from diverse civilizations differing in organizational and working experiences at academic institutions.<\/p>\r\n
3.To analyze the aspect of intercivilizational exchanges in the Bologna system created for cooperation of Western universities; search for the opportunities of using the system in the intercivilizational context.<\/p>\r\n
The Project Outcomes<\/h5>\r\n
In the end the programme will help to attract attention of students from enlarging number of new cultural and civilizational \u00a0worlds. The case with Artes Liberales Faculty shows that a good and well developed programme for foreign students promotes the inflow of foreign students. The programme will enhance the quality and efficiency of the international academic mobility \u00a0management at the University of \u00a0Warsaw and promote more efficient financial policy in this sphere. It will improve coordination between various UW centers for foreign students. The growing flow of students will lead to increase \u00a0in Pollonicum activities and stimulate the UW to fight for the market of adaptation services until recently \u00a0being provided \u00a0by other science centers (mainly by \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, Rzesz\u00f3w, Wroc\u0142aw, Krak\u00f3w). The programme plans to increase the University activity in the international cooperation net. \u00a0We suppose \u00a0the UW is likely not as prestigious as Western universities for foreign students. Building of its own exclusive image is the chance to become a mediator between diverse civilizational worlds and provide specialized \u00a0education programmes for people from other cultures and civilizations. Our programme promotes the perspectives for changing the University of Warsaw as the national institution to a global one, thus introducing the UW into the extremely different context. We hope to develop the programme of openness representing Poland all over the world. The long term effect is that the UW will be more open to ideas from non- Western civilizations. We believe the Western science at the UW can acquire \u00a0knowledge and notions from non-Western civilizations. We \u00a0hope the dialogic atmosphere we want to create in our programme will help promote new science knowledge and innovative thinking. The programme will outcome in new and more efficient ways of interaction with \u00a0students from diverse civilizations (Western and non-Western). The programme plans to analyze multiple case studies at the University. The results of the analyses can be used and disseminated in the education courses, in classes and after classes meetings. Participation of the Polish students will result in a more productive cooperation and communication with foreign students. Polish students will obtain intercultural skills being very useful for their successful future. By this we do not mean only a better understanding of the world and increasing of the horisonts, but mastering of practical skills of living in the world where intercultural relations have been distributing wider and farther. The project will promote better understanding of at the UW foreigners\u2019 needs and problems. Deep interviews with foreigners being taken at the university give us directions for research issues. These interviews make us think of cultural diversities (and of cultural shock sometimes) as of non temporary or \u00a0casual phenomena. \u00a0Foreigners are used to say they have experienced them during the whole length of their stay and in all the spheres of everyday life. These differences impact substantially the way and degree of their knowledge \u00a0learning (or not learning) at the UW, their efficiency of staying at the University and quality of their cooperation with the University.<\/p>\r\n
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