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 on ERIH PLUS list. It is also included in the Polish Ministry of Education and Science database, issued in 2021, with 40 points. It is indexed on the databases: BazHum and CEJSH (The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities).
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.
Announcements
Dear Authors and Associates,
We are pleased to announce that the journal INSTED: Interdisciplinary Studies in Education & Society /Teraźniejszość - Człowiek - Edukacja has resumed its activities after a year's break. The journal has also been included in the scored journals database published in 2021 by the Ministry of Education and Science, with 20 points assigned. The editorial board has changed: Tomasz Zarębski (DSW) has become the editor-in-chief, Anna Bilon-Piórko (DSW) is the editorial assistant, and the Editorial Committee consists of: Ewa Kurantowicz, Barbara Muszyńska, Maria Reut, Paweł Rudnicki and Marcin Starnawski. We intend to carry out intensive publishing activity with a perspective of internationalisation and inclusion of the journal in the Scopus list. We invite you to cooperate with us and to submit original articles and research reports. We accept texts in Polish and English. In accordance with the tradition established in our journal we also accept essays, opinions and reviews.
We are happy to announce that the number 2(100), 2026 of INSTED will concern the theme: Educating Through Argument: Critical Thinking and Dialogue in Learning. It will primarily cover the chosen submission from the 5th European Conference on Argumentation – ECA 2025: Argumentation in the Digital Society (https://ecargument.org/), hosted by the Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Administration and Social Sciences, but is not limited to it.
We invite all submissions that explore the problems of argumentation in broadly construed educational contexts. The authors willing to participate in this volume are supposed to follow the usual procedure for making submissions to the journal (https://insted-tce.pl/ojs/index.php/tce/about/submissions), but indicate on the title page that it should be considered as the ECA article. Once the articles are accepted, they will first appear in an online-first version and will subsequently be collected in a volume.
