Faculty of Andragogy and Social Gerontology

www: https://www.uni.lodz.pl/kaigs  

Area and direction of research

Employees of the Faculty of Andragogy and Social Gerontology conduct scientific research primarily in the area of andragogy and social gerontology.

The Faculty substantially coordinates education in the realm of pedagogy in the field of adult education with coaching.

Detailed areas of research of the Faculty employees:

in the area of andragogy: multidimensionality in adult education, processes and situations of life-long learning; informal learning, new methods of educational work with adults, including coaching and mentoring; andragogical auxiology, preparing for adulthood; adulthood in disabled people; adulthood and learning in the era of modern information technologies;

in the area of social gerontology and geragogy: preparation for old age, learning in/of old age, activity of the elderly, professional activation of the elderly, education in old age, intergenerational learning, research into existential issues of the elderly, institutional and non-institutional support for the elderly;

in the area of research methodology: biographical approach in andragogy, studying educational biographies;

in the area of pedagogical monoseology: solitude/loneliness as pedagogical category, strategies of dealing with loneliness, learning in/of solitude/loneliness;

in the area of thanatopedagogy: thanatological education, taming the fear of death.

Most important publications:

Chmielecka M., Transformacja w coachingu Doświadczenia uczenia się dorosłych, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2020.

Dubas E., Edukacja dorosłych w sytuacji samotności i osamotnienia, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2000.

Dubas E., Adult loneliness. In: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Solitude, Silence and Loneliness, ed. by Julian Stern, Christopher A. Sink, Małgorzata Wałejko, and Wong Ping Ho)., London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, pp. 261 – 275.

Dubas E., Learning in/of solitude in the context of pedagogical monoseology, “Journal of Silence Studies in Education, 2022, 2(1), pp. 5 – 15.

Gutowska A., Zespół Aspergera u osoby w okresie późnej dorosłości. Analiza przypadku, “Roczniki Pedagogiczne” tom 12, nr 3(2020), s. 191-208.

Gutowska A., Sztobryn-Giercuszkiewicz J., 2022, Zdrowie psychiczne w czasie pandemii – perspektywa studentów z niepełnosprawnościami w: G. Mikołajczyk-Lerman, J. Sztobryn-Giercuszkiewicz (red.), Życie z niepełnosprawnością w świecie VUCA, Wydawnictwo UŁ, Łódź.

Gutowska A., 2022, The Care of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: Informal (Family) Caregivers’ Perspectives, “International Journal of Environmental Research Public Health”, Volume 19, Issue 23, 15622.

Muszyński M., red., Międzypokoleniowe uczenie się, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2014.

Marcin Muszyński, Methods of reconstruction of the theory of aging in Poland, “Exlibris Biblioteka Gerontologii Społecznej”, 2019, 1(16).

Muszyński M., 2022, The image of old age emerging from place personalization in older adults’ dwellings, Journal of Aging Studies 63.

Sztobryn-Bochomulska J, Tanatos w literaturze dziecięcej i jego pedagogiczny wymiar, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2020.

Sztobryn-Bochomulska J. (2020) , Meeting in Children’s Literature Concerning Death – Finding Connections with Andrzej Nowicki’s Incontrology. With the Example of the Relationship with the Oldest Generation, Nauki o Wychowaniu. Studia Interdyscyplinarne, 1(10), pp. 202-219.

Świtalski W., Uczenie się dorosłych w zabawie, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2019.

Wąsiński A., Autokreacja małżonków bezdzietnych do wielowymiarowego rodzicielstwa adopcyjnego. Perspektywa pedagogiczno-antropologiczna, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2018.

Wąsiński A., Szyszka M. (2022), Valorization of Cultural and Social Heritage of the Post-Industrial Areas in the Upper Silesia, Illustrated with the Case of the Nikiszowiec District. Cultural Management: Science and Education, ISSN 2512-6962, DOI: 10.30819/cmse.6-2.06;

Wąsiński A. (2020), Experiencing Loneliness as a Source of Existential Suffering during Alzheimer’s Disease, Nauki o Wychowaniu. Studia Interdyscyplinarne, 1(10), pp. 202-219.

Seria wydawnicza: Biografia i badanie biografii, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź.

Seria wydawnicza: Refleksje nad starością, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź.

Most important scientific research:

• International research and implementation project: ”E-Bezpečí v oblasti prevence rizikového chování v online prostředí” (CZ.11.4.120/0.0/0.0/17_ 028/0001654“.) financed by InterReg Cz-PL. The entity applying for and implementing the project is Centru prevence rizikové virtuální komunikace (PRVoK) Pedagogické fakulty Univerzity Palackého v Olomouci. Contractor in the project: Professor of the University of Łódź Arkadiusz Wąsiński, PhD habil. Duration of the project: 2019-2022.

” Scientific excellence as the key to educational excellence”, a project realized by the University of Łódź as part of the competition of the National Center of Research and Development, POWR.03.05.00-IP.08-00-PZ1/17, task 10: Didactic competences of university staff (project financed from the funds of the European Social Fund as part of an operational programme Knowledge Education Development). Task 10 manager: Anna Gutowska-Ciołek, PhD. Co-operation: Marcin Muszyński, PhD, and Wojciech Świtalski, PhD. Duration of the project: 1^st October, 2018 – 30^th September, 2022.

Co-operation with academic centers, both nationally and abroad

• Long-term (since 1981) partnership with Justus Liebig Universität Giessen, Institut Erziehungswissenschaft/Berufspädagogik (Germany),

• Co-operation in the field of research into loneliness: with Professor Julian Stern (Bishop Grosseteste University, Great Britain), University of Szczecin, and the International Society for Research on Solitude - Professor Elżbieta Kowalska-Dubas

Most important awards and distinctions

2017

Medal of the National Education Commission - Arkadiusz Wąsiński, PhD (29^th June, 2017 ID number 157654).

Bronze Medal for Long Service – Marcin Muszyński, PhD.

2019

Arkadiusz Wąsiński PhD habil., The Board of the Academic Andragogical Society awarded Arkadiusz Wąsiński, PhD habil., in 2019 for an outstanding andragogical monograph: Self-creation of childless spouses to multidimensional adoptive parenthood. Pedagogical and anthropological perspective, Publishing House of the University of Łódź, Łódź 2018.

2020

Professor of the University of Łódź, Arkadiusz Wąsiński, PhD habil. - Award of the 1^st degree of the Rector of the University of Łódź for scientific achievements.

2016, 2020

Profesor Elżbieta Kowalska-Dubas, PhD habil. - Award of the 1^st degree of the Rector of the University of Łódź for organizational activity

2021

Monika Chmielecka, PhD, the Board of the Academic Andragogical Society awarded Monika Chmielecka, PhD, with the outstanding andragogical monograph award for Transformation in coaching. The experience of learning in adults, Publishing House of the University of Łódź, Łódź, 2020.