Professor Irena Polewczyk
Professor Irena Polewczyk
Position: professor
Staff group: research-teaching staff
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e-mail: irena.polewczyk@us.edu.pl
ORCID: 0000-0003-0764-0409
Academic biography
– 1991 Master of Arts in Pedagogy. University of Silesia in Katowice
– 1995 Postgraduate diploma studies in speech therapy. University of Warsaw
– 2000 PhD in pedagogy. University of Silesia in Katowice
– 2014 Associate professor of social sciences. University of Silesia in Katowice
Participation in research grants (2004-2008)
– Participation in International Grant Project VEGA č. 01/0092 Diferenciacia ako prostriedok zefektivnowania pedagogickiej činnosti v školnych zariadeniach. (January 2004) Grantowa uloha VEGA 01/0092 – 16: dr Irena Polewczyk – “The Differentiating Impact of Early School Education on the Level of Speech Development in a Six-Year-Old Child” (Head researcher).
– Project VEGA: „Cesty k inkluzii. Vychodiska inkluzivnej pedagogiky a ich impementacia v pedagogickej praxi novodobych trendov edukacie” (“Ways of Inclusion; The Point of Departure for Integrational Pedagogy and the Barriers in Pedagogical Practice in Contemporary Trends of Education”).VEGA MŠ SR č. 1/3632/06 – Head researcher. Period of realization: 2006-2008.
Research-collective projects:
– Head researcher: prof. Stanisław Juszczyk. Researcher: Dr Irena Polewczyk. Project title: “The Child in the World of Knowledge, Communication, and Information” (2005).
– Head researcher: prof. Erich Petlak. Research team: dr Małgorzata Mnich, dr hab. Mirosław Kisiel, dr Alina Budniak, dr Irena Polewczyk. Individual project title: „The Specificity of Pre-School and Early School Education in Poland and Slovakia – A Comparative Study” (2007).
– Head researcher: prof. Peter Seidler. Project title: „Pedagogical Diagnosis, Therapeutical Techniques and Individual Programs in Working with Pre-School and Early School Children” (participating: dr I. Polewczyk, dr M. Mnich) (2008).
Research teams (2015-2020):
– Head researcher: St. Louis Kenneth O., Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders at West Virginia University, US, Katarzyna Węsierska, Faculty of Philology, Institute of Polish Language, University of Silesia in Katowice, Irena Polewczyk, Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, University of Silesia in Katowice. Project title: “Changing Attitudes Toward Stuttering Among Polish Teachers and University Students”.
– Irena Polewczyk, Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, University of Silesia in Katowice, Mikołaj Jarosz, Concept Developer Education, Ecophon, Warszawa. Project title: “Influence of acoustic treatment of school rooms on changes in the functioning of students and teachers”.
Membership in research teams:
Individual projects
– The Differentiating Impact of Pre-School Education on the Level Speech Development (2005).
– Phonemic and Phonetic Hearing in Pre-School Children (2007)
NCBR research projects:
Grant number: WND-POWR.03.05.00-00-z117/17
Head researcher: prof. UŚ Michał Baczyński
Title: The Integrated Program of Development of the University of Silesia in Katowice
Project type: Implementation project realized from the subsidy of Narodowe Centrum Badań I Rozwoju. Priority Axis III: Higher Education for the Economy and Development. Activity 3.5: Comprehensive programs of higher education institutions.
Period of realization: 2018-10-01 – 2022-09-30
Membership in Expert Bodies:
– 2016-2017 Member of Expert Team for the standardization of diagnosis and therapy of Auditory Processing Disorders establisher by BONUM COMMUNE Foundation. The body gathered an interdisciplinary team of specialists in phoniatrics, audiology, physics, psychoacoustics, pedagogy, psychology, and speech therapy. The subsidy granted for the activity: 13 029 558,52 PLN. The subsidy granted for a reported year: 857 806,40 PLN. Role: Irena Polewczyk – provider of intellectual results.
Expertise:
– Speech disorders in children
– Stimulating speech development in pre-school children
– Auditory perception: diagnosis, development stimulation
– Noise in school
– Young children’s mathematical education
Main achievements, distinctions, awards
– 2008 Second degree Rector’s award – didactic activity
– 2014 Third degree Rector’s award – research and scientific activity
– .2019 Śląski Oddział Polskiego Towarzystwa Logopedycznego Logopedia Silesiaca award for outstanding activity in favor of logopediac environment in Silesia
Fellowships, study visits
– Teaching fellowship at Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre, Slovakia, April 2005.
– Training and internship stay at HAUTE ECOLE PROVINCIALE DE MONS–BORINAGE–CENTRE, Categorie pedagogique, Chemin du Champ de Mars, 15,7000 Mons w Belgii. – 21.IV. – 28.IV. 2009
– Teaching fellowship at KATHOLISCHE HOCHSCHULE NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN KÖLN, Germany, 15. 06.2011 – 22.06.2011.
Membership in scientific and editorial boards
– Logopaedica Lodziensia, University of Lodz – reviewer
– Logopedia, UMCS – reviewer
– The New Educational Review – reviewer
