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Luczaj, Kamil – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2020
The purpose of this paper is to investigate if foreign-born academics employed in Poland and Slovakia have a sense of being marginalised in the global world of knowledge production, and, if so, what are the basic indicators of this marginalisation. The paper is based on 100 qualitative in-depth interviews conducted in Poland and 40 interviews…
Descriptors: Foreign Nationals, College Faculty, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
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Churski, Pawel; Motek, Pawel; Stryjakiewicz, Tadeusz; Cybal-Michalska, Agnieszka – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2017
For many years internationalization has not been a strong point of geographical education in post-socialist countries, including Poland. Therefore, all attempts at intensifying it are a real challenge and good practices deserve dissemination. This paper seeks to present the organizational and programme assumptions of a new field of postgraduate…
Descriptors: International Education, Geography Instruction, Foreign Countries, Social Change
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Kwiek, Marek – European Educational Research Journal, 2017
In a recently changing Polish academic environment--following the large-scale higher education reforms of 2009-2012--different academic generations have to cope with different challenges. Polish academics have been strongly divided generationally, not only in terms of what they think and how they work but also in terms of what is academically…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, College Faculty
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Apanel, Danuta – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2015
In the period of the People's Republic of Poland, there were almost no students with disabilities at universities. The legislative, organisational, social and educational conditions at universities and students' dormitories made it impossible for people with disabilities to start higher education. In the period of serious socio-political,…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Social Change, Educational Change, Social Systems
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Kwiek, Marek – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
This paper focuses on a generational change taking place in the Polish academic profession: a change in behaviors and attitudes between two groups of academics. One was socialized to academia under the communist regime (1945-1989) and the other entered the profession in the post-1989 transition period. Academics of all age groups are beginning to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Productivity, Teacher Attitudes, Social Systems
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Williams, Don – Higher Education, 1982
The 1980-81 Polish upheavals included proposals for dramatic change in higher education. Taking advantage of momentum for change created by Solidarity and using strikes, academics, and students produced temporary changes sometimes representing complete policy reversals. Possible directions for Eastern European socialist higher education are…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Faculty, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Legowicz, Jan, Ed. – 1986
The English version of a Polish journal on higher education is presented. Included are 19 articles on the problems and experiences of these institutions, three articles on teacher's workshops, and three review articles. Titles and authors include: "Polish Science in 1973-1986" (Benon Miskiewicz); "The Humanism of the Contemporary…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Instruction, College Science