Editorial Team | INSTED: Interdisciplinary Studies in Education & Society

About Journal

The journal INSTED: Intedrisciplinary Studies in Education & Society offers a place for multi-field thinking about education, both in terms of theory and practice. The principal task of the journal consists in maintaining, strengthening and coordinating the dialogue between academics working in social sciences and humanities, particularly those who deal with the philosophy of upbringing, study educational processes and institutions from the perspectives of different disciplines and present diverse theoretical orientations.

Current issues in education are everyone's concern because humans are not only social beings, but also learning beings. The social reality in which we live appears to us as a complex, changeable and unpredictable reality. Therefore, without foregoing prospective thinking about education, we would like to focus our attention primarily on the present. This opaque present requires interpretation and understanding. This is the task we set the authors and associates of the journal.

History

The journal was established in 1998, under the title Teraźniejszość - Człowiek - Edukacja, on the initiative of Robert Kwaśnica, Ewa Kurantowicz and Mieczysław Malewski, who was the editor-in-chief from 1998 to 2020. The journal was published as Socio-Pedagogical Thought Quarterly. The quarterly published articles by eminent Polish and foreign researchers, both pedagogues, psychologists, sociologists as well as philosophers, political scientists and cultural studies researchers.

Since the beginning of its existence, the journal Teraźniejszość - Człowiek - Edukacja has been – and still is – a place for current, multifaceted debates in education, humanities and social sciences. The texts published in the journal concerned, and still concern, the most important contemporary problems, which are both transformations and dilemmas in the area of broadly understood education in the changing world, as well as (r)evolutions of research concepts. Openness to – characterising these complex transformations – polyphonicity of discourses, their transdisciplinary character, methodological pluralism, diverse understanding of the legacy of tradition and challenges of contemporaneity, all constitute essential features of the journal's profile. This openness is accompanied by research self-criticism, as well as the acknowledgement of the responsibility of science and the researcher, which is noticeable in the publications dealing directly with such topics as the status of qualitative research, research in action, engaged research, issues of subjectivity, self-understanding, relations between theory and practice, community, dialogue, ethics, European intellectual heritage or international cooperation of teachers and academics.

Since 2021, Tomasz Zarębski has been the editor-in-chief. The journal is published as a biannual, in bilingual versions: texts are published in Polish or English. Apart from the Polish title Teraźniejszość – Człowiek – Edukacja, an equivalent English title INSTED: Interdisciplinary Studies in Education & Scociety has been introduced.

Indexing

The journal is included in the Polish Ministry of Education and Science database with 40 points. It is indexed in the databases: Library of Science, CEEOL, DOAJ, EBSCO, Electronic Journals Library, ERIH +, Index Copernicus, OpenAlex

Programme 'Development of Scientific Journals'

In 2022-2024 the journal will be published within the framework of the project 'Development of scientific journals' financed by the Ministry of Education and Science under contract no. RCN/SN/0093/2021/1.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:

Tomasz ZARĘBSKI, DSW Ideis University ORCID

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT:

Anna ANDREJÓW-KUBÓW, University of Wrocław

EDITORIAL BOARD:

Anna BILON-PIÓRKO, DSW Ideis University ORCID

Anna KARŁYK-ĆWIK, University of Wrocław ORCID

Ewa KURANTOWICZ, DSW Ideis University ORCID

Maria REUT, DSW Ideis University ORCID

Marcin STARNAWSKI, DSW Ideis University ORCID

Jolanta ZWIERNIK, DSW Ideis University ORCID

TECHNICAL EDITOR:

Wojciech SIERŻĘGA

LANGUAGE EDITING:

Agnieszka HEIDINGER (Polish)

Jonathan BEC (English)

ADVISORY BOARD

Michel ALHADEFF-JONES,  University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Ingela BERGMO- PRVULOVIC, Jönköping University, Sweden

Maria CZEREPANIAK-WALCZAK, University of Szczecin, Poland

Rob EVANS, independent researcher (formerly: University of Magdeburg)

Ted FLEMING, Maynooth University, Ireland

Jason GORONCY, University of Divinity, Australia

Paula GUIMARĀES, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Dorota KLUS-STAŃSKA, University of Gdańsk, Poland

Maria MENDEL, University of Gdańsk, Poland

Paweł RUDNICKI, DSW Ideis University, Poland

Fadi SKEIKER, Fordham University, NY, USA

Jan STASIEŃKO, AGH University of Kraków, Poland

Tomasz SZKUDLAREK, University of Gdańsk, Poland

Bogusław ŚLIWERSKI, University of Lodz, Poland

Danuta URBANIAK-ZAJĄC, University of Lodz, Poland

Simon WARREN, Roskilde University, Denmark

Linden WEST, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

Rafał WŁODARCZYK, University of Wrocław, Poland

Georg K. ZARIFIS, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece