On 9 November this year, the fifth conference organised by the Department of Adult Pedagogy and Sociology of Education and the Andragogy Unit of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Christian Academy of Theology in Warsaw took place under the title GLOBALISATION – CONFLICT – CRISIS. Social Reminiscences, this time with an international dimension.
The conference was opened by Prof. Renata Nowakowska-Siuta, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at CHAT. During the first session, Prof. Elżbieta Czykwin (CHAT) discussed the sources of stigmatisation in the context of contemporary social, political and cultural phenomena. This was followed by a paper on educational assumptions and practice in the context of multiculturalism by Prof. Dorota Misiejuk (University of Białystok) and Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Arcimowicz (University of Białystok) presented reflections on the ‘crisis of masculinity’. The final contribution of this session was a paper by Dr Rafał Bodarski (ChAT) on ‘Competence 4.0 in the context of the globalisation process and its crisis’. The session concluded with a discussion.
In the second session, Dr Dominik Chojnowski (University of Lodz) considered the role of the crisis of capitalism in the context of education. Dr Izabela Kochan (ChAT) provided an interesting insight into online empathy among schoolchildren, and Dr Anna Walczak (ChAT) focused on trust in emerging adulthood.
The English-language session brought together speakers from abroad representing academic centres from the United States, Bulgaria, Greece and the Czech Republic. Prof. Rumen Valchev (Bourgas Free University in Bulgaria) presented a paper on contemporary populism in Bulgaria, and Dr. prof. Bartłomiej Walczak (University of Warsaw) and Dr Nikolaos Lampas ( American College of Greece) analysed research results on attitudes towards the integration of refugees from South-West Asia and Ukraine in the context of Greece and Poland. Dr Markéta Švamberk Šauerová and Barbora Přibylová, M.A., from Charles University in Prague, focused on issues of developing students’ resilience and self-efficacy in a post-postmodern world, followed by Dr Arkadiusz Mironko from Indiana University sharing reflections on the role of values in the transformation of corporate culture. In the final exposition, Dr Olga Kučerová and Dr Klára Eliášková (Charles University in Prague) presented approaches to promoting school success as a way out of the social crisis. The session was concluded by Prof. Elisabeth Czykwin indicating further directions for reflection on globalisation, social conflict and crisis.
