Elżbieta Zawacka – pedagog niezłomna

The article presents the socio-professional activity of Elżbieta Zawacka (1909–2009). She was an out- standing figure in the recent history of Poland. The heroine of the underground 1939–1945, participant in the Warsaw Uprising, prisoner of the Stalinist times, university professor, founder of the archival and scientific centre in Toruń. She was decorated with the Order of the White Eagle, the Cross of the Order of Virtuti Militari, and the Cross of Valor (five times). Regardless of the time, area and form of activity, Zawacka remained faithful to the “ethos of indomitables” – people acting in the name of humanistic and humanitarian values for the good of the country and other people.

Self-assessed attitudes of adolescents towards learning

The article presents the results of a pedagogical study, recently conducted on a group of over 8 thou- sand adolescents on the self-assessment of attitudes towards learning. As technologies have shifted many points of focus in addressing learning as an essential aspect of the educational process, the author intended to analyze the representations of adolescents from the knowledge and information century, administering an online questionnaire consisting of different types of questions. The results revealed diverse and mature perceptions, problems of teacher-student, student-student relations, of the institutional process of organization / culture of learning, but also of its results, as perceived by the main actors of the educational act.

Problematyka „spraw zdrowia” w dziełach polskich klasyków pedagogiki społecznej – Heleny Radlińskiej, Aleksandra Kamińskiego, Ryszarda Wroczyńskiego

The article presents views on “health matters” contained in the works of the classics of social peda- gogy: Helena Radlińska, Aleksander Kamiński, and Ryszard Wroczyński to emphasize their topicality concerning the contexts of contemporary health pedagogy and health education

Ideały społeczno-wychowawcze z perspektywy pedagogiki społecznej i władzy politycznej

The aim of this article is to show the contradiction between establishing social pedagogy as a scientific discipline and equipping the humans, especially youth, with a system of humanitarian values and at the same time, initiating practical activities aimed at improving the material conditions of life. The opposite of these humanistic aspirations of the scientific discipline is the destructive action of political power based on malicious intentions, subordinating to its power, often authoritarian, the life and behaviors of citizens. The government rejects his vocation to serve the common good and the country’s develop- ment; and focuses on dominating all manifestations of collective and individual life. This striving for power reduces civil liberties and rights, divide society into hostile interest groups, and lead to abuse of violence and economic crisis. An additional nuisance for the society is the drastic neglect of social welfare, the disorganization of the infrastructure serving the public and the general disorganization of collective life. In this form, power can only be abolished.

Perspektywy renesansu publicznego stosowanej pedagogiki społecznej w postindustrialnej przestrzeni

The author takes up a critical approach to several concepts presented in the literature of social sci- ences, on so expected problems of public rehabilitation and revitalisation during the active enggement of such subdiscipline as modern social pedagogy. He analyses the local urban space, opposed to spontaneoulness chaos and anomia accured in public structures. The paper warns againt the relin- quishment in local communities of earlier order and the whole social network. It could becme in each posttransformated cociety during the social change. The aim of the paper was to mobilise on future a public support across education and prophylaxis to avoid a lot of individual and collective traumatic and neurostic feelings.

Karol Mausch, Ewa Ryś (red.), Troska. Między teorią a praktyką, Gorzów Wielkopolski 2021

Karol Mausch, Ewa Ryś (red.), Troska. Między teorią a praktyką, Gorzów Wielkopolski 2021

Agnieszka Cybal-Michalska, Katarzyna Segiet, Klaudia Węc (red.), Aktywizacja młodzieży w warunkach zmiennej rzeczywistości społeczno-kulturowej, Poznań 2021

Agnieszka Cybal-Michalska, Katarzyna Segiet, Klaudia Węc (red.), Aktywizacja młodzieży w warunkach zmiennej rzeczywistości społeczno-kulturowej, Poznań 2021

Sprawozdanie z V Ogólnopolskiej Konferencji Naukowej „Pomoc – wsparcie społeczne – poradnictwo. Między teorią a praktyką wspierania jednostki w życiu osobistym, edukacji i pracy”, 25.03.2021 r.

Sprawozdanie z V Ogólnopolskiej Konferencji Naukowej „Pomoc – wsparcie społeczne – poradnictwo. Między teorią a praktyką wspierania jednostki w życiu osobistym, edukacji i pracy”, 25.03.2021 r.

Makrostruktury społeczne w przedmiocie zainteresowania pedagogicznego

The problem of upbringing is one of the inherent elements of social experience and has accompanied the human since the invention of the form of organization of social life, known as the state. Remedy for the experienced problems should be various initiatives and constructs unfortunately most of which often become ideology. In this article, author attempts to describe the concept of upbringing problems through its deconstruction and categorization of its components, which is aimed at presenting the implications for social reality, both contemporary and historical.

Przestrzenie lokalnej demokracji. Szkic z gdańskiej perspektywy

This article is an expression of thinking about the spaces of local democracy, which was based on the research project “Gdańsk as a Shared Place” (2014–2015). Due to the fact that the theses and results of this ‘old’ project are updated in the light of the deepening crisis of the social in the pandemic conditions, I present in the article the content selected from the research report, hopefully emphasizing their impor- tance in shaping various, sometimes surprising forms and places of democracy. I am doing this, counting on the fruitful expansion of the field of understanding and practicing bond-forming, communal forms of social life. Thus, I follow the path that Professor Stanisław Kawula (1939–2014) pioneered in social pedagogy, tirelessly describing the social condition and – thus – updating the dimensions of democracy in various perspectives [for example, in relation to the diagnosed risks (2003; 2005 etc.)]. Hence, I dedicate this text to him, and choosing the horizon of local experience, I want to draw attention to the meaning of research descriptions of this local dimension, which is especially important today, in a social crisis condi- tion. I conclude with a reflection on the meanings of non-consensual democracy, inscribed in urbanity as a way of social life, and emphasize the importance of a neighborhood which – literally: having a place – locates democracy in a special way. Such a location allows us to capture its essential meanings and show the democratic productivity of everyday, neighborly production of commonality, that is the common good, constantly crumble and constantly arouse mutual attention and ask for care.