Published : 2026-03-30

General Pedagogy in Modern-Day Poland: An Overview of Trends, Directions and Symposia

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This paper examines the complementary roles of monograph authors and volume editors in shaping the field of general pedagogy in Poland (1990–2025). Using a typology of key orientations (systemic–methodological, hermeneutical–axiological, critical–discursive, dialogical–emancipatory, holistic–metapedagogical), the study compares the thematic focus of individual publications and edited volumes. General pedagogy in Poland after 1989 developed under conditions of methodological pluralism and diverse intellectual traditions. The 1990s marked a turn towards hermeneutics, phenomenology, and personalism, combined with a critique of the instrumental pedagogy inherited from the socialist period. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, postmodern, axiological, existential, and dialogical perspectives emerged, focusing on subjectivity, values, and interpersonal relations in education. Historiosophical and biographical approaches highlighted the interplay between scholars’ biographies and their pedagogical theories. After 2010, meta-pedagogical reflection on the identity and methodology of pedagogy gained importance, alongside stronger interdisciplinary integration with sociology, psychology, and cultural studies. In the last decade, attempts at holistic and integrative frameworks have become more prominent. The analysis of academic centers shows that the strongest traditions of general pedagogy were developed at the University of Gdańsk, the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, and the University of Warsaw, with significant contributions from Kraków, Poznań, Łódź, Kielce, and Warsaw-based institutions. Overall, general pedagogy plays a reflective, critical, and integrative role in Polish humanities, contributing to the demystification of ideological myths and the search for comprehensive theoretical frameworks for education.

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general pedagogy, Poland, methodological pluralism, hermeneutics, phenomenology, personalism, critical pedagogy, postmodernism, dialogical pedagogy, axiology, historiosophy, interdisciplinarity, holistic education, academic centers, academic discourse, monographs, edited volumes, typology, systemics, emancipation



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Roczniki Pedagogiczne · ISSN 2080-850X | eISSN 2544-5243 · DOI: 10.18290/rped
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