Department of Pedeutology and Psychology of Education
The theoretical inquiries and empirical analyses conducted as part of the activities of the Department of Pedeutology and the Psychology of Education are interdisciplinary in nature. Issues relating to the widely understood upbringing and inextricably linked with it preschool and early childhood education (taking into account a strong pedeutological component, concerning, among other things, the training, further education and in-service training and professional functioning of early childhood education teachers) intended to provide children with optimal conditions for comprehensive development, as they are viewed from both a psychological perspective (primarily from the standpoint of developmental psychology, clinical psychology, school psychology, and psychology of personality and individual differences) and a pedagogical perspective (primarily from the perspective of pedeutology, general pedagogy, and preschool and early childhood pedagogy).
Our staff
Prof. Stefan T. Kwiatkowski
MA in Psychology (SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, 2010), PhD of Humanities in Education (The Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw, 2012), received Habilitation in Social Sciences in Education (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 2019). His scientific and research interests revolve around issues related to the teaching profession, with a particular focus on the determinants of professional development, as well as pedagogical and psychological factors determining the professional effectiveness of teachers (with a particular focus on early childhood education teachers) and the choice of studies preparing for work in this profession. He has conducted grants related to the professional personality, emotional intelligence and social competence of pedagogy students as determinants of future success in the teaching profession; locus of control and style of coping with stress as determinants of motivation for change and stress levels of teachers; diagnosis of the preparation of preschool and early childhood education teacher candidates from the perspective of internal characteristics determining professional effectiveness in working with children and adolescents; determinants of professional effectiveness of early childhood education teacher candidates”. Since 2018, he has served as Secretary of the Editorial Board of the journal „Studies on the Theory of Education”.
He is a member of Polish Psychological Association, the Polish Educational Research Association and the Pedeutology Section of The Committee of Pedagogical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, as well as a recipient of six individual awards from the JM Rector of ChAT. He conducts classes in pedeutology, fundamentals of psychology, school psychology, contemporary psychology, and a Master’s seminar. He also teaches research methods in social sciences to the doctoral candidates at ChAT.
Joanna Lewczuk, PhD
MA and PhD in Psychology.. Her scientific and research interests focus on issues related to social psychology and health psychology. She conducts research related to the issues of psychological functioning of students during the COVID-19 pandemic, factors related to the propensity to lead a healthy lifestyle (including personality correlates of health-seeking behavior) and psychological contexts of risky behavior of children and adolescents (online, sexual behaviors). At ChAT, she is the head of Academic Psychological Counseling Centre. As part of her practical activities as a consultant she provides individual psychological support to ChAT students and doctoral students. She also teaches classes in psychology and its subdisciplines.
Ewa Wojtowicz, PhD
MA and PhD in Psychology.
Completed postgraduate studies: Business management (2022), Professional counseling (2021), Educational management (2022), Higher School of Pedagogical Sciences, Warsaw.
Other: School of Business Trainers. SET Group. Warsaw; Study of Psychological Help and Crisis Intervention. Institute of Health Psychology, Warsaw; Cracow Psychodynamic Center, Study of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Cracow (one-year introductory course).
Research interests: psychology of work and organization, beliefs about the nature of the world, life goals, psychosocial aspects of obesity, self-determination, “life skills”
