Department of Social and Culture Pedagogy
Head of the Department: Prof. Agnieszka Piejka
Members of the Department deal with issues such as cultural differences in the teaching and learning process, intercultural education and the influence of the social environment on individual development. In addition, they emphasize the study of social group dynamics in educational contexts, including processes of social integration and exclusion. They also undertake research on education for peace and social responsibility, seeking to understand how education can promote active social participation and democratic values. Through their research, faculty members strive to better understand the complex relationship between education, society and culture, and to develop strategies that support diversity and equality in education.
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Prof. Agnieszka Piejka
A pedagogist. PhD habil. in Humanities in the field of Education. A graduate of the Faculty of Education of the University of Warsaw. She also obtained a doctoral degree there. Since 2014, she has been associated with the Christian Theological Academy in Warsaw. Chairwoman of the Education and Culture Team in the Committee for Futures Studies “Poland 2000 Plus” by the Polish Academy of Sciences Presidium. In the years 2019-2021, she was a member of the Warsaw Branch’s Management Board of the Polish Educational Research Association. Research areas: education for peace, theory of aesthetic education, intercultural pedagogy, general pedagogy. Author and editor of several monographs on the topic of peace and aesthetic education.
Prof. Edyta Januszewska
PhD habil. in Social Sciences in the field of Education (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 2020). Her research interests focus on issues related to migration processes, the acculturation processes of immigrants in Poland, the situation of refugee children in Poland and other countries in Europe and in the Middle East. In 2012, she was an expert at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs promoting the figure of JanuszKorczak as part of the activities of Polish diplomatic missions. She is a member of the Social Pedagogy and Andragogy Research Group of the Committee on Pedagogical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, a member of the Polish Oral History Association and the Polish JanuszKorczak Association. She cooperates with NGOs as a manager and consultant in projects regarding the situation of children and women during armed conflicts. Currently, thanks to an internal ChAT grant, she carries out research about the functioning of children with diverse cultural-national backgrounds in new places of residence on the example of Ukrainian refugees in Poland.
She has received individual awards from the Rector of The Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw and the Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa, as well as distinctions from the Łódź Scientific Society. In 2020 she was awarded the silver medal for long service by the President of Poland. She teaches subjects related to migration issues, social deviance problems, prevention of social risks, as well as a Master’s seminar. She also conducts classes for the doctoral students at ChAT about the techniques of academic exchange of ideas.
Rev. Prof. Mirosław A. Michalski
A philosopher, ethicist, theologian and priest of the Polish Catholic Church in the Republic of Poland. His scientific interests focus on philosophy and ethics, religious studies, Old Catholic theology, eco-theology and eco-philosophy, as well as security sciences. He is an author of numerous publications concerning philosophy, theology, pedagogy, ethics, religious studies and security sciences, including. the first monograph about Witold Rubczyński, one of the last Polish Neo-Mesyanists and Neo-Romantics, as well as the Messianic idea in Polish philosophy and literature.
What is more, he is an author of more than 150 other national and foreign publications, a participant of more than 200 conferences and symposiums of national and international character. A supervisor and reviewer of numerous doctoral, master’s and bachelor’s theses. An author of numerous peer-reviews and a member of scientific societies and editorial boards, associations and foundations.
Joanna Barbara Kluczyńska, PhD
An academic teacher (senior lecturer). In 2006 she obtained a PhD degree in Humanities in the field of Education at The Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw. After studying at ChAT in Warsaw, she got an MA degree in evangelical theology. She also got a bachelor’s degree in the field of social work in Ecumenical Institute of Pedagogy of ChAT.
Scientific interests: social pedagogy and social work, educational care issues, disability, getting old and old age, dysfunctional families, foster care.
