University of Silesia in Katowice

Staff group: research-teaching staff

Expertise: pedagogy

Room: 252

Phone: +48 33 8546 112

e-mail: alina.szczurek-boruta@us.edu.pl

ORCID: 0000-0001-7705-4398

Academic biography

– 1989 Master of Arts in pedagogy, University of Silesia, Cieszyn Branch, Faculty of Pedagogy and the Arts

– 1996 PhD in pedagogy, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Pedagogy

– 2008 Associate professor of social sciences, University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań, Faculty of Educational Studies

– 2017 Professor of social sciences, University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań, Faculty of Educational Studies

Research

– Youth, developmental tasks and their realization

– Determinants and development of competence in teachers and tutors. Professional preparation in different social, cultural, and economic environments

– Identity formation in schooling, family environment, local community, amidst disparate life and cultural experiences

– Multiculturalism and intercultural education

– Social pedagogy, youth pedagogy, pedeutology, intercultural pedagogy, early school pedagogy

Main achievements, distinctions, awards

– Head researcher in an NCN-funded project “Learn from Others and Teach Others – Teacher’s work in Multicultural Environments” – 2011-05-20 to 2014-05-19, GRANT NUMBER: N N106 416640,URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.4716396

– expert – Kolorowe Ścieżki Euroregionu, Operational Program of Cross-border Cooperation OP PS ČR-PR 2007 – 2013. Centrum Pedagogiczne w Czeskim Cieszynie Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach Wydział Etnologii i Nauk o Edukacji (30.09.2010-30.09.2011)

– Cultural Heritage as a Key to Identity of Polish-Czech Borderland in Cieszyn Silesia. 1200 Cieszyn anniversary. Registration number: PL.3.22/3.3.05/ 09.01088, (03.08.2009-21.04.2010) University of Silesia, project partner: Polish Congress in Czech Republic (researcher)

– Centrum Upowszechniania Innowacji w Edukacji. Project number: POKL.04.02.00-00-063/08 University of Lodz, Faculty of Pedagogical Sciences as part of Priority IV: Activity 4.2.: The Development of Staff Competence B+R and Awareness Growth of Science in Economic Development, Operational Program Human Resources 02.02.2009 r. to 30.07.2010 (reseacher)

– Leksykon Polaków w Republice Czeskiej i Republice Słowackiej. Funding unit: Fundusz Nauki i Technologii Polskiej, Narodowy Program Rozwoju Humanistyki, Project nr 1 H 11 021380 Leksykon Polaków w Republice Czeskiej i Republice Słowackiej. Agreement 0098/FNiTPH/H11/80/2011. Grant 19/INP/2012-G. Realization 2013-2015 (researcher)

– Member of external experts team for Delphi Analyses in Foresight Polska National Program 2020 (since 2008)

– Member of experts team in “Grants for Grants” program – Experts (since 2015)

– Head researcher and coordinator in research projects „Persons entering adulthood in the space of borderland – needs, expectations and the experience of multidimensional support in the process of identity formation” (2016) and “Education of Adults and Seniors in Visegrad Sociocultural Area” (2016)

– Author of six monographs, co-author and editor of 21 monographs, including the series: „Edukacja Międzykulturowa” (15), Pedagogika Społeczna (5), Cieszyńskie Naukowe Forum Studenckie (1); author of over 200 articles

– 1996, 1998, 2001, 2002 – Rector’s Second Degree Individual Award for scientific and organizational activity

– 2003 – Rector’s III Degree Individual Award for scientific and organizational activity

– Rector’s I Degree Team Award for scientific activity

– 2007 – Medal of the National Commission of Education

– 2009 – Rector’s II Degree Individual Award for scientific-didactic activity

– 2009 – Silver Medal for Longtime Service to the President of  Rzeczypospolita Polska

– 2011 – „Oscar US” in the Scientifique category

– 2014, 2018 – Rector’s I Degree Individual Award for scientific-didactic activity

2018 – Rector’s Silver Badge for the service for the University of Silesia in Katowice

Fellowships

– Research fellow in USA, Czech Republic, and Slovakia (Fulbright Educational Partnership pt. “Preparing Educators for Global Society”)

Membership in scientific boards

– 2011 – „Studia z Teorii Wychowania” ISSN 2083-0998

– 2011 – „ПОЛЬСЬКО-УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ЖУРНАЛ OŚWIATOLOGIA/ОСВІТОЛОГІЯ Теорія і практика” „Oświatologia” ISSN: 2226-3012

– 2011 – Наукові записки Вінницького державного педагогічного університету імені Михайла Коцюбинського. Серія: педагогіка і психологія ISSN 2415-7872

– 2011 – „Studia Kulturowo-Edukacyjne” on-line UMCS ISSN 2084-4832

– 2011- „Edukacja-Wychowanie-Resocjalizacja” ISSN 2083-781X

– 2013 – „Konteksty Pedagogiczne” ISSN 2300-6471

– 2018 -„Pedagogika Społeczna” ISSN 1642-672X

Membership in editorial boards

– 2012 – „Edukacja Międzykulturowa” ISSN 229-4106

– 2012 – „Cieszyński Almanach Pedagogiczny” ISSN 0208-6336

Other

– Reviewer in: „European Review”; „The New Educational Review”; Pogranicze”; „Ars Inter Culturas”; „Studia Kulturowo-Edukacyjne”; „Psychologia Wychowawcza”, „Pedagogika Społeczna”, „Kultura i Edukacja”; Multicultural Studies; “Acta Universitatis Nicolai Copernici. Pedagogika”

– Vice Editor in chiefa and thematic editor in „Edukacja Międzykulturowa” – since 2012

– Scientific editor in the publishing series: Pedagogika Społeczna (2014) and Cieszyńskie Naukowe Forum Studenckie (2015)