The authors
The authors - 2020:
Grażyna Cęcelek - Stefan Batory State University
Dr prof. PUSB – Author and co-editor of pedagogical monographs and over 100 scientific articles on the border of social, care and educational and rehabilitation pedagogy, as well as in the area of preschool and early school education, pedeutology, permanent education and media pedagogy, as well as educational and vocational counseling - published in Polish and foreign periodicals and scientific monographs.
Areas of scientific and research interest: environmental conditions for the development and upbringing of children and adolescents, pedagogical aspects of the functioning of basic educational environments, the problem of poverty in the contemporary Polish family, organization and processing of the human life environment, barriers to access to education and instruments for equalizing educational opportunities, psychosocial aspects of the phenomenon social exclusion, permanent education, distance learning, information technology and its role in the educational process, media pedagogy, professional and personal counseling.
Monika Czajkowska - The Maria Grzegorzewska University
PhD, assistant professor at the Maria Grzegorzewska University. She was a member of several research teams, incl. PISA, TEDS-M, OBUT. Her research interests are focused on solving mathematical problems and teaching future teachers. She is the author or co-author of many scientific and didactic articles about learning process and teaching mathematics. For many years she has been cooperating with educational publishers. In 2011, she was awarded the Medal Komisji Edukacji Narodowej.
Sylwia Galanciak - The Maria Grzegorzewska University
PhD in cultural studies, assistant professor at the Institute of Pedagogy, The Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw. Her research interests are related to media and social pedagogy and the use of new technologies in teaching. Polish manager of the Digital Assessment for Learning Informed by Data to Motivate and Incentivize Students (Erasmus +) project. Editor of the „International Journal of Pedagogy, Innovation and New Technologies”.
Anna Hady
Coach and trainer in the area of conscious parenting and building relationships based on respect and understanding. She works in groups and individually with parents, guardians and teachers, supporting families and institutions in building a better understanding with children and developing emotional intelligence. Certified trainer and coach of Process Communiction Model®, trainer of the Familiylab Foundation. She runs a blog on personal development and building healthy relationships (www.annahady.pl/blog)
Jarosław Jagieła - Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa
social counsellor and psychotherapist. Head of the Educational Transactional Analysis Research Team at Jan Dlugosz University in Częstochowa. Lecturer at the Department of Psychopedagogy at the Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow. Honorary editor of the Educational Transactional Analysis Journal and the Educational Transactional Analysis Library. Author of 20 books and over 300 scientific and popular scientific articles.
Anna Jaskulska
Psychologist, psychotherapist in the field of transactional analysis during training, member of the Polish Society for Transactional Analysis. English philologist, translator of workshops and examinations conducted by the European Society for Transactional Analysis, author of the translation of the EATA Training and Examination manual. He runs a private psychological and psychotherapeutic practice in Szczecin, works with teenagers and adults.
Elżbieta Jasnosik
Psychologist, psychotherapist, Transactional Analysis practitioner in the field of psychotherapy, prison psychologist. She works with convicted men, penitentiary recidivists. She also runs a private practice.
Piotr Jusik - Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y Cultural in San Pedro La Laguna in Guatemala
independent researcher affiliated with the Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y Cultural in San Pedro La Laguna in Guatemala. Since 2017 he collaborates with the Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa (Poland) by writing articles and sharing his international experience as a teacher, trainer, transactional analysis counsellor and coach. Piotr holds Qualified Teacher Status in the UK, he is a fully accredited psychotherapist/counsellor by the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, he holds a Level 7 Diploma in Leadership and Executive Coaching from the Institute of Leadership and Management, UK. He is interested in applying transactional analysis in education to address the emotional factors of teaching and learning. Between 2015 – 2020 Piotr designed and led various coaching transactional analysis workshops in Poland, Ukraine, the UK and Guatemala. His particular interest revolves around training teachers in counselling skills. Currently, Piotr works internationally as coach & counsellor and provides educational training and workshops to NGOs in Guatemala. He is in his final stages of becoming a Certified Transactional Analyst in the field of Counselling.
Marek Kuźnik - Humanitas University
PhD in the humanities in the field of psychology; certified psychotherapist of the Scientific Section of Couples and Families Therapy of the Polish Psychiatric Association; Assistant professor at the Institute of Psychology at the Humanitas University, he worked, among others at the Department of Family Sciences at the University of Silesia in Katowice and at the Institute of Applied Psychology of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow; certified trainer of the psychological workshop of the Polish Psychological Association.
Amanda Lacy - University of Sydney
Amanda (Mandy) Lacy's PhD research examined group memory, micro learning and knowledge building practices at team meetings. www.meetingintelligence.global outlines the practical application of MQ. Mandy is a consultant, coach and educator in the areas of; leadership, workplace learning, team development andbenefits realisation management predominantly with major digital transformation programmes. www.mandylacy.nz
Agnieszka Majewska-Kafarowska - University of Silesia
assistant professor at the Pedagogy Institute of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Silesia. Her interests concern the adult man: conditions and threats to development, adult education, human identity, socio-cultural contexts of development, conditions of education in adulthood. Recently, a particularly close and important area of the author's interest has been human aging and old age, considered in the context of lifelong development, as well as biographical conditions, which she has devoted to many publications. Member of the Academic Andragogical Society, founding member, board member and president of the 2nd term of the Association of Social Gerontologists. Since 2007, she has been associated with the University of the Third Age in Jaworznik. Secretary of the "Edukacja Dorosłych" journal, published by the Academic Andragogical Society.
Łukasz Michalski - University of Silesia
Employee of the Institute of Pedagogy at the University of Silesia in Katowice. In his research interests he oscillates around the philosophical and cultural contexts of upbringing and qualitative research strategies (in particular, using the interface between the methodology of literary studies and reflection on upbringing). Currently, he focuses his research efforts on issues related to the theory of historiography of education. He published, inter alia, the book Transformations of Impossible Syntheses. Towards the pedagogical nature of the textbook historiography of education, in which it explores the meanders of the narrative of contemporary historical and educational syntheses.
Krystyna Moczia - University of Silesia
PhD of Humanities in the field of pedagogy; Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice.
Her professional interests focus on chronically ill children and their families in primary educational environments and during hospitalization. Authoress /co-authoress of over 60 publications, including several in foreign languages, mainly in the field of special education.
Member of HOPE, i.e. Hospital Organisation of Pedagogues in Europe. HOPE is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) which brings together teachers working with children and young people with medical needs all over Europe.
Sabina Pawlik - University of Silesia
Assistant Professor at the Institute of Pedagogy of the University of Silesia in Katowice, doctor of social sciences in the discipline of pedagogy, special educator. She is coordinator for accessibility at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Silesia. She holds the social function of head of the pedagogical section of the internal research unit Institutum Investigationis Scovorodianum at the Autism Team Foundation in Łódź. Her research interests include: the inclusive potential of art of people with disabilities, educational inclusion, transformations of contemporary special education, and disability and social exclusion in the biographical perspective.
Kacper Prauzner
student of medicine, Medical University of Warsaw.
Tomasz Prauzner - Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa
assistant professor, doctor of humanities in the field of pedagogy, higher education in computer science, electronics and technology. The main goal of the author's research is to analyze the usefulness of modern technical and didactic means in teaching technical subjects. As part of his interests, he also conducts research on the use of simulation programs to assess the threats occurring in the environment and in the widely understood OHS. Author of over one hundred and twenty publications in the field of teaching technical subjects, information technology, electronics and health and safety education. Member of the Polish Pedagogical Society, Association of Polish Electrical Engineers.
Dorota Siemieniecka - Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun
Ass. Prof. NCU Head of the Department of Didactics and Media in the Institute of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. She is a member of Polish Pedagogical Association and Polish Society of Cognitive Sciences and main editor of scientific journal Cognitive Science- New Media- Education.
Member of the media pedagogy section Committee of Pedagogical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her scientific interests, research and teaching activities fo-cus on the issues of didactics, creativity in education, creative teaching, the use of media in the education process, as well as the cognitive aspects of media in education. She is also the chair-man of the scientific and organizational committee of a series of international conferences devoted to the issues of education based on educational technologies (http://www.edukacja.torun.pl/konferencje-i-seminaria/konferencje-organizowane-przez-kdimwe/).
Marek Siwicki - The Maria Grzegorzewska University
PhD in humanities, assistant professor at the Institute of Pedagogy, The Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw. A graduate of the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science at the University of Warsaw and the University of Physical Education in Gdańsk. He is interested in the issues of practice and ethics in the media, media and social pedagogy, as well as the history and educational aspects of physical culture, in particular sailing.
Agata Szekiełda - Adam Mickiewicz University
psychologist, mathematician, PhD student at the Faculty of Psychology and Cognitivism at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Psychotherapist, in the process of training in the trend of transactional analysis. Scientific interests: relations between mind and body (psychosomatics, somatomorpfic disorders, eating disorders), relation trauma, personality disorders.
Zbigniew Wieczorek - Jan Dlugosz University in Częstochowa
social counsellor and sociologist, PhD in Humanities, employee of the Department of Education Studies of Jan Dlugosz University in Częstochowa. He has an over twenty-year experience in assertiveness training and social skills training. His scientific interests focus on widely-understood social communication and using techniques from different therapeutic schools in the process of self-development and learning new behaviours. Privately he is interested in cycling, rock climbing and mountain trekking.
Ewa Wilczewska
HR and communication strategist, certified trainer of social competences and business mentor, practitioner of transactional analysis. Author of the Feedback Development Value Project, the textbook "Effective and developmental interpersonal communication", the e-book "Know-how in managing oneself in time" and e-learning courses on human potential management. Professionally, by combining business and mentoring experience, she supports organizations in information management and implementation of projects that allow them to build committed, effective teams, based on the identification of employees' potential. Research interests: feedback in the current of transactional analysis as a tool that works and brings profit to the individual and the organization.
The authors - 2019:
Jarosław Jagieła - Jan Dlugosz University in Częstochowa
social counsellor and psychotherapist. Head of the Educational Transactional Analysis Research Team at Jan Dlugosz University in Częstochowa. Lecturer at the Department of Psychopedagogy at the Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow. Honorary editor of the Educational Transactional Analysis Journal and the Educational Transactional Analysis Library. Author of 20 books and over 300 scientific and popular scientific articles.
Sławomir Kania - Opole University
M.A. in Pedagogy, lecturer at the Institute of Pedagogical Sciences at Opole University, certified leader of preventive programmes. Conducts scientific research on the border of social pedagogy, rehabilitation and social work. Specialist in research in the area of pro-social behaviours and risky behaviours of children and adolescents, diagnosing social issues, efficiency of social prevention, with a special emphasis on the concept of positive prevention.
Iveta Kovalčíková - University of Presov
Iveta Kovalcikova is the Professor at University of Presov (Faculty of Education), Slovakia. Her teaching and lecturing is focused on the following subjects: Cognitive Education, Cognitive stimulation of individual educational needs, Dynamic assessment of latent learning capacities. In the last 10 years she was (and still is) the principal investigator of the research projects supported by National Research Agency Ministry of Education, Slovak Republic: Dynamic assessment of the latent learning capacities, Executive functioning as a structural component of ability to learn with special focus on underperforming children from Roma ethnic group. She has obtained a specific research experience related to Cognitive Education and Psychology during: Fulbright research scholarship, PACE, Yale University (USA) and, DAAD research scholarship, University of Osnabrueck (Germany). From 2013 till 2017 she was the vice-president for Europe of International Association of Cognitive Education and Psychology.
Zbigniew Łęski - Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa
PhD in Humanities in the area of Pedagogy. Specialises in issues concerning the technology of education and media education. Member of the Educational Transactional Analysis Research Team.
Olena Medvid - Sumy State University
PhD in Philology, Ass. Prof. at Germanic Languages Department and Deputy Dean of Foreign Philology and Social Communication Faculty (Sumy State University – Ukraine). Scientific interests: Methods of Foreign Languages Teaching (Teaching English as a Foreign Language), Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics.
Joanna Miecznik-Warda - Janusz Korczak Pedagogical University in Warsaw, University of Presov
PhD student at University of Presov, at the Faculty of Pedagogy, academic teacher at Janusz Korczak Pedagogical University in Warsaw, at the Faculty of Social and Pedagogical Sciences in Katowice, teacher at the Complex of Public Schools “Your Future” (“Twoja Przyszłość”) in Sosnowiec, early-school counsellor, school counsellor, pedagogical therapist, Rational Behaviour Therapy therapist, mediator, mnemotechniques trainer. Her scientific interests encompass diagnosing and supporting learners with special educational needs, diagnosing learners’ cognitive processes, learning efficiency: mnemotechniques and ICT in education.
Katarzyna Nowak - University of Technology and Humanities in Radom
PhD in Humanities in the area of Psychology, graduate of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (2003), psychologist, psychotherapist, since 2005 lecturer at the Kazimierz Pulaski University of Technology and Humanities in Radom, author of a monograph Jakość życia w chorobie psychicznej (2010) and scientific articles on clinical psychology. Member of the Polish Psychologists Association. Completed a four-year training in psychotherapy at the Institute of Group Analysis – Rasztów in Warsaw (2004), continuously improves her psychotherapy competencies, conducts psychotherapy practice under supervision.
Anna Pierzchała - Jan Długosz University in. Częstochowa
PhD in Humanities in the area of Pedagogy, employee of the Faculty of Research on Education of Jan Dlugosz University in Częstochowa, member of the Educational Transactional Analysis Research Team at the JDU Faculty of Social Sciences, certified pedagogical therapist. Her scientific interests focus on the possibilities of using the concept of transactional analysis in the area of educational activity and pedagogical therapy of learners suffering from dyslexia, ADHD and behaviour disorders.
Svitlana Podolkova - Summy State University
PhD in Philology, Ass. Prof. at Foreign Languages Department of Foreign Philology and Social Communication Faculty (Sumy State University – Ukraine). Scientific interests: Methods of Foreign Languages Teaching (Teaching English as a Foreign Language), Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics.
Bartłomiej Przybylski - Adam Mickiewicz University
PhD, IT specialist, lecturer at the Faculty of Mathematics and IT of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He also completed postgraduate studies in the area of management (MBA). School and academic teacher, experienced in teaching Mathematics and IT subjects. His interests also include the theory of transactional analysis with a particular focus on human relations in enterprises.
Agnieszka Reifland
M.A. student at the Faculty of Care and Education Pedagogy and B.A. student at the Faculty of Special Education, specialising in rehabilitation and education of mentally handicapped individuals, at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Silesia in Katowice. She is also the head of the Scientific Group Włącznik whose aim is acting for the protection of widely-understood human rights.
Adrianna Sarnat-Ciastko - Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa
social counsellor and political scientist. Lecturer working at the Department of Education Studies of Jan Dlugosz University in Częstochowa. Member of the Educational Transactional Analysis Research Team. Tutor. Author of numerous scientific articles, focusing in particular on teacher-learner relations and individual programme schools. Researches the effectiveness of school tutoring in the Polish system of education.
Agata Szekiełda - Adam Mickiewicz University
psychologist, mathematician, PhD student at the Faculty of Psychology and Cognitivism at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Psychotherapist, in the process of training in the trend of transactional analysis. Scientific interests: relations between mind and body (psychosomatics, somatomorpfic disorders, eating disorders), relation trauma, personality disorders.
Edyta Widawska - University of Silesia
PhD habilitatus, professor of the University of Silesia in Katowice at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Silesia in Katowice. Her post-doctoral degree concerned pedagogy, her PhD dissertation concerned sociology. She is a member of the Educational Transactional Analysis Research Team, a graduate of the Human Rights School of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, specialist in monitoring and human rights, very experienced trainer and educator of equality and watch activities in the country and abroad. Cooperates with many non-governmental organisations. What is more, she is a soft skills trainer in the area of methods and techniques of didactic work, educational transactional analysis, alternative forms of conflict solving (mediation, facilitation, negotiations), communication without violence, and assertiveness. She is an author and co-author of many scientific, didactic and popular scientific publications. She successfully combines scientific research with practice, realising projects in cooperation with institutions engaged in implementing equality policies at the state and international level (including: The Polish Ombudsman, OSCE, UN, CE, EU, UNHCR).
Zbigniew Wieczorek - Jan Długosz University
social counsellor and sociologist, PhD in Humanities, employee of the Department of Education Studies of Jan Dlugosz University in Częstochowa. He has an over twenty-year experience in assertiveness training and social skills training. His scientific interests focus on widely-understood social communication and using techniques from different therapeutic schools in the process of self-development and learning new behaviours. Privately he is interested in cycling, rock climbing and mountain trekking.
Justyna Woroch - Adam Mickiewicz University
PhD in Applied Linguistics, employee of the Institute of Roman Philology of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, in the Department of Translation and Research on Francophone Canada, teaches interpreting and is a practising interpreter of the French language. Graduate of a year Academy of Transactional Analysis in Poznań, where she obtained TA 101 Certificate. Interpreted from French hundreds of hours of advanced trainings in transactional analysis in the area of education and organisation, individual and group supervision, including the area of psychotherapy.
Agnieszka Woś-Szymanowska
psychologist, business consultant, Transactional Analysis practitioner. Works on the border of business and psychology, supporting organisations in their development. Passionate about transactional analysis, author of a blog Transactional Analysis: get to know yourself – understand others, and a certified Process Communication Model® trainer and coach.