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Zalewska-Bujak, Malgorzata – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2023
Similarly to many other countries, what has been spreading in Poland for about two decades is the global ideology of market neoliberalism. This takes place alongside the aiming at bigger effectiveness of education with the use of some procedures typical of the business sphere. Simultaneously, an excessive focus appears at school on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Teacher Behavior, Neoliberalism
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Malkowska-Szkutnik, Agnieszka; Berkowska, Aleksandra; Gajda, Maja; Kleszczewska, Dorota – Education Sciences, 2021
The daily functioning of children who suffer from chronic conditions may be limited by the disease and by hospitalization. Hospital schools have an important role in counterbalancing those negative effects. The aim of the study was to define hospital schools' teachers' needs. The data from qualitative research conducted on 21 Polish hospital…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Hospitals, Hospitalized Children, Adolescents
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Ciepielewska-Kowalik, Anna – Policy Futures in Education, 2020
Merton's law on unintended consequences (1936) warns against the undesirable and unanticipated outcomes of every action and policy. More recent research (Zhao, 2017) in the field of education, in relation to Merton, claims that these consequences are usually treated as inconvenient side effect of a policy, but are, in fact, planned by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Early Childhood Education, Government Role
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Cervinkova, Hana; Rudnicki, Pawel – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2019
We focus on describing some of the effects of austerity capitalism in the public educational sector in Poland, a country that was a part of the Soviet bloc from WWII and experienced dramatic transformation after 1989. This transformation from "communism" to "democracy" involved all spheres of the life of society and individuals…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Authoritarianism, Political Attitudes, Politics of Education
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Richards, K. Andrew R.; Washburn, Nicholas; Carson, Russell L.; Hemphill, Michael A. – Quest, 2017
While stress has always been present in the teaching profession, recent trends such as standardized testing and school and teacher accountability may be making teachers' work more stressful. Teacher satisfaction research has emerged as a popular lens through which to understand how teachers experience their work. This scoping review sought to…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Job Satisfaction, Educational Research, Periodicals
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Brzezinska, Renata – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
"Parrhesia" is a certain form of honest and open discourse. Its representative is the one who takes the risk of telling the truth and preaching honesty, regardless of meeting severe consequences. The first section of the following paper presents--on the basis of a set of philosophical works--certain requirements to be met, in order to…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Ethics, Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries
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Madalinska-Michalak, Joanna; Bavli, Bünyamin – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
This paper reports on a qualitative case study that investigated the challenges faced by teachers who teach English as a foreign language at secondary schools in Poland and Turkey. A number of shared challenges affecting teachers in both Poland and Turkey were identified, despite the contrast between these educational contexts. These challenges…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Secondary School Teachers