Biography

Diplomas held, academic degrees:
Warsaw University, Branch in Biatystok, Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology—Master's
degree in Protective and Educational Pedagogy; 09.06.1993
University of Bialystok, Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology—Ph.D. in Pedagogy; the title
of the doctoral dissertation: "The perception of cultural Diversity in the context of the
regional dimension of identity" (,,Postrzeganie Innego kulturowo w kontekscie regionalnego
wymiaru tozsamosci"); supervisor: prof. Jerzy Nikitorowicz; reviewers: dr hab. Jadwiga
Izdebska, prof, dr hab. Tadeusz Pilch; 26.06.2003
University of Economics and Innovation in Lublin—postgraduate studies "Manager of
academic research and development"; 09.02.2012
Nicolas Copernicus University in Toruń, Faculty of Education – habilitation; „Place and community. The sense of community among the inhabitants of the northern-eastern part of Poland's borderland. A pedagogic study case” Wydawnictwo Akademickie "Zak", Warsaw 2014 (monograph); reviewers: prof. zw. T. Pilch, dr hab. prof, of the University of Silesia A. Szczurek-Boruta

Information on employment in academic units:
• since February 1994, Assistant lecturer at the Social Pedagogy Institute at the Faculty
of Pedagogy and Psychology at the Warsaw University, Branch in Biatystok
since October 1995, Assistant lecturer at the Institute (later: Department) of
Intercultural Education at the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology at the Warsaw University,
Branch in Biatystok
• since February 2004 to 2017, Assistant professor at the Department of Intercultural Education at the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology
• October 2017, Associate Professor of Intercultural Education at the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology,


Research interests
My academic activity concentrates on the local dimension of the northeast region at the
border of Poland. My academic interest is focused around three subject areas, i.e.: sense of community, local
environment as an educational environment, social relations and social communication in
traditionally culturally diversified areas at the northeast border of Poland and the issue of
identity of groups and individuals. I can specify the following detailed directions of interest
within individual subject groups. Those are as follows:
• socialisation and culturalisation processes in culturally diverse local environments in
the borderlands,
the capital of the socio-cultural borders,
• the local dimension of individual's functioning and its significance in the creation of
the individual's identity,
• intercultural communication competence,
• the significance of intercultural and regional education in the development of local
environments at the borderlands.
• sense of community