Education - Multiplicity of Meanings, Commonality of Goals

Jolanta Szempruch is Professor of social sciences at the Institute of Sociological Studies at the University of Rzeszów, Poland. Her research interests focus on the sociology of education, pedeutology, educational policy, social policy, general pedagogy, early childhood pedagogy, and didactics. Beata Pitula is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mining, Safety Engineering and Industrial Automation of the Silesian University of Technology, Poland. Inetta Nowosad, Associate Professor, is Head of the Department of School Pedagogy, University of Zielona Góra, Poland. Prof Dr Zenon Gajdzica, special educator, is full professor and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. Since 2015, he is a member of the Committee on Pedagogical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His main areas of research are inclusive education, transformations of special education, education and socialization of people with intellectual disabilities, social research methodology. Magdalena Zapotoczna, PhD, Assistant Professor, works in the Department of School Pedagogy, University of Zielona Góra, Poland. Beata Pitula is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mining, Safety Engineering and Industrial Automation of the Silesian University of Technology, Poland. Inetta Nowosad, Associate Professor, is Head of the Department of School Pedagogy, University of Zielona Góra, Poland.