Accepted Abstracts -- 2021

How to Preserve the Structure Amidst Transformations: A Contribution to Zoltán Paul Dienes’s Psychobiography (Accepted)

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The Hungarian-born Zoltán Paul Dienes (1916-2014) was a mathematician, a devoted teacher of mathematics, a psychologist studying the learning process and a tireless world-traveler who trained math teachers in almost all European languages. The psychobiographical approach, which ambitions to point out a close interrelationship between life and life work, promises to reveal exciting interrelations between Dienes’s unusual childhood experiences and his future theoretical ideas. As a young child, together with his brother, Dienes was exposed to fundamental changes in terms of place of living (moving all around Europe), in terms of language to speak (Hungarian, German, French, Italian, English), in terms of values to identify with (civilian family, Montessori boarding school, Raymond Duncan’s hippie commune) and in terms of ideology to internalize (atheism, “Duncanism”, Protestantism, Catholicism). The moral of his early life experience was that it is possible to preserve identity amidst the changes. As a mathematician he argued that it is beneficial to transform (“embody”) the abstract mathematical structures into several concrete forms (“multiple embodiment”) for teaching purposes. During the learning process (which means a play activity in his method) the learner can realize the common structure behind the diverse embodiments (through detecting their structural isomorphism) and successfully decodes the exact same abstract mathematical structure, without information loss. I conclude that the idea that abstract structures can be transformed into concrete ones and vice versa, without identity loss, might come form a life experience that one can preserve his identity despite of the successions of contextual changes.


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Ágnes Bálint graduated as a teacher of Hungarian and English in 1992 at Janus Pannonius University in Pécs, Hungary. She earned a second MA degree in Psychology (1998). Her PhD dissertation was a psychobiography of a Hungarian writer, László Németh (2005). Ágnes Bálint has been teaching psychology at the University of Pécs for 20 years. Fields of research interest include psychobiography, psychology of learning and cognitive neuroscience. She published two books which couple her psychological interest with devotion to literature. Her forthcoming book comprises the neuroscience-based psychology of learning and teaching.

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Conflicted Identities and Art Therapy: Practices and Case Studies in Kolozsvár/Cluj-Napoca, Romania (Accepted)

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This paper reports on the way in which the authors practice art therapy in order to provide useful experiences to children and youths who encounter the stigma of cultural differences. The art therapy team is interdisciplinary and includes additional professionals in europsychiatry, psychology, and social work. Cluj-Napoca in Transylvania, Romania, is a leading city for computer and web-based technologies. The city has a historically multiethnic population who maintain their language-based cultural identities. Although Hungarians are the largest minority in the city, keeping traditions alive is contentious, even as Hungarian-language schools and cultural establishments provide anchors. Conflicts between Hungarian and Romanian ethnic populations are often subtle, sometimes pronounced, and largely expressed in adult society. But the effects of such conflicts can be severe on children and youths with disabilities, whose self-image and social skills are less robust. The therapists use all media, especially clay and virtual experiences in a multimedia setting. 3D multimedia installations are found to be effective in creating environments in which parent-child and child-and-peers interactions can be visualized and rehearsed. These transformational experiences help to increase self-confidence, tolerance and resilience for effected children and youths. The case studies presented here derive from three locations in Cluj: the Mental Health Center for Children and Adolescents at the Children’s Hospital (132 cases per year), from the “Romulus Vuia” summer camp at the outdoor Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania, and the clay studio of Emilia Chirila. Benefits arise from experiences based in artistic creativity: materializing ideas and coping with unexpected outcomes.


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Emilia Chirila is a ceramic artist and Art Therapist at the Mental Health Center for Children and Adolescents at the Children’s Hospital in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Chirila graduated from the Ion Andreescu Fine Arts Institute in Cluj in 1978, worked as the designer of production ceramics at the Iris Ceramic Factory in Cluj until 2005, and began exhibiting clay sculptures in 1991. Chirila has been working as an art therapist since 2008, and finds the workshop setting the most favorable and clay very suitable for engaging with her patients in a beneficial way.

Diana Dragan-Chirila is a multimedia artist and Lecturer at the University of Art and Design (UAD) Cluj-Napoca. She is a graduate of the UAD Cluj-Napoca, obtained her masters in 2002 at the Polytechnic School of Design in Milan, Italy, and earned her doctorate in visual arts in Photo-Video and Computerized Image Processing at UAD Cluj-Napoca in 2011.
The creative work of Dragan-Chirila focuses on experimental and mixed-media photography, digital manipulation, interactive video and animation. She has participated in numerous artistic events, exhibitions, biennials and national and international film and animation festivals, most recently in Politics of the Machines--Art and After, Copenhagen May 15-17, 2018.

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The Presence of Hungarian Students with Dual Citizenship in the Higher Education System of the Mother Country (Accepted)

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On average, 67 thousand students in Hungarian higher education institutions receive their degrees each year. The total number of students can be divided into three categories: born Hungarian citizens, Hungarian students with dual citizenship, and finally the group of non-Hungarian (international) students. The number and proportion of these groups went through significant changes during the period under review. The number of students born in Hungary decreased, however the number of members of the latter two clusters had multiplied and their proportion increased. This study – based on data provided by the Office of Higher Education Information Systems of the Office of Education – provides an overview of the overall graduated student population over the past seven years in the Hungarian higher education and the main reasons for the change in its composition, particularly for the proportional changes of international and dual nationality students. During my work, I considered the geographical location of the selected institutions, as well as the training area and levels of training, as criteria for the research.



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Edit Dukai is a second-year PhD student at the Doctoral School of Earth Sciences at the University of Pécs. She grew up in Topolya (Vojvodina), completed high school studies in Szabadka (Subotica), and bachelor's and master's degrees in economics at the University of Pécs. As a result of her personal commitment, she had been researching the university choice attitudes of Hungarian students in Vojvodina during her undergraduate years. Her research focus has evolved over the past years in the post-graduate settlement plans of foreign students who have studied in Hungary.

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Magyarország regionális vallási térszerkezete a 21. század elején (Accepted)

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Magyarország népességének kulturális jellemzői közül napjainkban is meghatározó a vallási tagolódás. Az előadás a 21. századi népszámlálások adatainak tükrében megkísérli feltárni Magyarország regionális vallási térszerkezetének változó és állandó vonásait. Regionális tudományi és statisztikai elemzések segítségével bemutatja a felekezeti eloszlás regionális különbségein túl a vallási diverzitás és felekezeti súlypontok változását a 2001. és 2011. évi népszámlálás adatainak fényében. Az elemzések azt mutatják, hogy a történelmi egyházak, felekezetek esetében az egyes térségek, régiók felekezeti jellege halványult, az új vallási mozgalmak, de főleg a nem vallásosak és nem válaszolók esetében viszont markánsabb lett. A felekezeti térszerkezet azonban lényegesen nem rajzolódott át. Mivel a jelenség hátterében a vallásossághoz – a vallási hovatartozás megvallásához – való viszony általános, országos szintű megváltozása állhat, ezért területi, regionális tényezők kevéssé mutathatóak ki. Részletesebb elemzések azonban kimutathatnak helyi anomáliákat. Az előadás ezeket veszi sorra, régiónként, megyénként. A bemutatott eredmények, elemzések alkalmasak arra, hogy az etnikailag viszonylag homogénnek tekinthető magyar társadalom bizonyos kulturális (vallási) jellemzők mentén megfigyelhető töréseit, eltéréseit lehessen vizsgálni.


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Pete József (PhD) geográfus, kutatótanár. 1995-ben szerzett történelem-földrajz szakos középiskolai tanári oklevelet Szegeden. Ugyanitt 1999-ben hitoktatói képesítést szerzett. 2009-ben A Pécsi Tudományegyetem Földtudományi Doktori Iskolájában PhD-fokozatot szerzett vallásföldrajzból. Fő kutatási területe: Magyarország vallásföldrajza. E mellett neveléstudományi, helytörténeti kutatásokat is végez. Számos akadémiai díj, pályázat nyertese.

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Feasibility Challenges of the Suleyman's Turbe Cultural-Tourism Center Project in Szigetvár (Accepted)

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The Suleyman's Türbe of Szigetvár is a historical monument with exceptional features, which was discovered by Norbert Pap and his research group of the University of Pécs. The strategic aim of the planned Cultural-Tourism Center is to be a strong bastion of cultural tourism in Baranya County, attracting 100,000 to 200,000 visitors to Hungary and internationally, which will operate in a self-sustaining way, creating jobs in the area and generating economic prosperity. During the planning of the Cultural-Tourism Center investment, a module-system component consisting of 3 main elements was created, which are: Central investment, which allows the presentation and visit of the narrowly defined Cultural-Tourist Center. This includes the use of basic, existing infrastructure. Additional investment, including the proposal of the City of Szigetvár for the implementation of the Visitor Center to be established in the immediate vicinity of the Cultural-Tourist Center, and the implementation of the Visitor Center connecting them with the Cultural-Tourism Center. Background investments required to create a complex tourism product, including the connection of historical monuments in Szigetvár and its surroundings with a memorial tour route to the Visitor Center and the Cultural-Tourism Center. The study aims to provide government decision-making with information on project-based approaches to project implementation, thereby assisting government decision-making. In addition, it gives insights about the challenges of a project management approach and the tools that will help in the planning process of other similar investments.


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Norbert Sipos is an Assistant Lecturer at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Pécs, teaching mainly management and accounting. Since 2015 his main lectures are: management, leadership, labor-market. In 2017 he was assigned responsibility for the Graduate Career Tracking System. Main research interests: • Graduate Career Tracking System and Administrative Databases Integration • Labor-market tendencies
• CRANET • EU migration and its consequences • Collective Bargaining

Ákos Jarjabka an economist, and associate professor of the University of Pécs. He is the Head of the Department of Leadership and Organizational Sciences of Faculty of Business and Economics. Besides his position, he is commissioned by the rector of the University of Pécs Diaspora Project Network. His publications encompass the science of leadership, national-organizational culture management and project management. He is the member of the public body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He owns the membership of the Project Management Institute’s Hungarian member organisation, the International Association of Cross Cultural Competence and Management (IACCM) and he is the member of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage in Hungary Committee as a representative of Hungarian Rectors Conference as well.

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