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DEPARTMENT STRUCUTRE AND STAFF


Assoc. Prof . APS
Barbara Smolińska-Theiss
The head of the Department
btheiss@aps.edu.pl
Ph. D. :
- 1980 - Ph. D. in humanities and social pedagogy: Warsaw University
Habilitation :
- 12th March 1993 - habilitation in humanities and social pedagogy: Warsaw University
Scientific interests:
- Social pedagogy: theory, terminology, trends
- Social problems of a child and childhood, spaces of childhood
- Middle class children - family and school environment
- Theory of social work
Current research:
- Middle class children; family social status vs. school autoselection issues. The role of status factors in the formation of educational biographies of students of exclusive Warsaw high schools. Reproduction of social status through education.
Publications:
- Compact publications (selection)
- B. Smolińska-Theiss, Childhood in a Small Town. Warsaw 1993, University of Warsaw Department of Pedagogy
- B. Smolińska-Theiss (ed.),Peace with Children. Christian Pedagogy in the Face of Threats to Child's Development,. Warsaw 1999, Edited by "Żak"
- J. Bińczycka, B. Smolińska-Theiss (ed.), Childhood Dimensions in Transforming Society. Kraków 2005, Impuls
- Articles (selection)
- B. Smolińska-Theiss, Sozialpädagogik und Sozialarbeit in Polen. In: W. Hörner, S. Steier-Jordan, M.S. Szymanski (ed.), Transformation im Bildungswesen und europäische Perspektiven. Deutschland und Polen im Vergleich. Köln, Weimar, Wien, Bohlau 1999, Bohlau Verlag, pp. 23-32
- B. Smolińska-Theiss, Childhood in Poland. From: M. Du Bois-Reymond, H. Sunker, H-H. Kruger (ed.), Childhood in Europe. Approaches - Trends - Findings. New York 2001, Peter Lang, pp. 273-297.
- B. Smolińska-Theiss, Childhood Researchers and Pathbreakers: J.J. Rousseau, J. Locke, J. Korczak and Their Followers (also in Hebrew translation). "Bulletin. The Janusz Korczak Association in Israel," 2003 no. 63.
- B. Smolińska-Theiss, Maria Theiss, Chancen und Schattenseiten des polnischen Bildungssystems. Wer sind die Gewinner und Verlierer? In: F. Barth, C. Narowski (ed.), Politik für die Hochschule im Europäischen Haus. Darmstadt 2003, Bogen Verlag, pp. 29- 38
- B. Smolińska-Theiss, The Marginalization Dilemmas in Social Pedagogy Perspective. In: M. Orłowska (ed.), Doomed to Exclusion. Warsaw 2005, Academy of Special Education, pp. 47-57
- B. Smolińska-Theiss, Social Work Models: Family - Organization and Institution. From: B. Kromolicka (ed.), Social Work in Non-Governmental Organizations. Problems of Acting and Educating, Toruń 2005, Akapit, pp. 49-61.

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