Editorial Team

prof. zw. dr hab. Stefania Walasek

– Editor-in-chief of the journal “Family Upbringing”
0000-0002-0236-9325

From 1975 to 2018 employee of the Institute of Pedagogy, Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences, University of Wroclaw. Currently retired. Research interests focused on the history of education and teacher training (from the second half of the 19th century to 1939).

Motto: “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value” (Albert Einstein).

dr Ewa Jurczyk-Romanowska

– Deputy editor-in-chief of the journal “Family Upbringing”
0000-0002-1508-5604

Institute of Pedagogy, Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences, University of Wrocław

Research interests focused on two topics: legal-pedagogical contexts of upbringing in the family and education, and innovative educational methods, with particular attention to IT education of people in the age of late adulthood using the game method.

Motto: “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” (Antoine de Saint-Exupery).

dr Ewa Musiał

– Secretary of the journal “Family Upbringing”
0000-0001-7710-2265

Institute of Pedagogy, Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences, University of Wrocław

Research interests focused on the didactic activities of various educational institutions, with particular attention to the organisation and functioning of the first stage of education, the professional development of teachers, and the dimensions of professionalism of preschool and early childhood education teachers.

Motto: “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence” (Helen Keller).

dr Aleksandra Aszkiełowicz

– Member of the editorial team of the journal “Family Upbringing”
0000-0001-5414-6652

Higher School Humanistic-Economic in Brzeg

Conducts research in the field of familology and gamology, focusing on the study of the quality of marital and family life. In her research, she draws on the achievements of biographical, narrative, and visual research methodologies. Family counsellor and systemic psychotherapist.

Motto: “The place where I would like to live a little: Rome.”

dr Marta Baranowska

- Member of the editorial team of the journal “Family Upbringing”
0000-0001-5531-1656

Department of Pedagogy and Psychical Culture, Faculty of Physical Education, School of Physical Education in Wrocław

Research interests focused on pedagogy and psychology of health, pedagogy and sociology of physical culture, andragogy, geragogy, and physical education of late adulthood. Research areas: educational biography of adults, health predictors of modern man.

Motto: “At the end of the day, at the end of the week, at the end of my life, I want to say that I have given more than I have criticized” (Brene Brown).

dr Kamil Błaszczyński

- Statistical editor of the journal “Family Upbringing”
0000-0003-4896-8371

Institute of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Wroclaw

Research interests include issues of electoral behaviour, the role of religiosity in shaping political attitudes, changes in the understanding and perception of democracy in Poland and around the world, political attitudes of young people in Poland, and the application of statistical analysis to the description of social reality, with particular emphasis on survey research and the creation of research tools.

Motto: “Accept the facts, even when they are inconvenient for you."

mgr Sylwia Bokuniewicz

– Member of the editorial team of the journal “Family Upbringing”
0000-0002-0378-5136

Institute of Pedagogy, Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences, University of Wroclaw

PhD student at the University of Wroclaw, graduate of psychology at SWPS University in Wroclaw. Scientific interests oscillate around rehabilitation, penitentiary and forensic psychology, and social pathologies.

Motto: “Man never looks back on what has been done, but looks forward to what he has to do” (Maria Curie-Skłodowska).

dr Joanna Darda-Gramatyka

– language editor of the journal “Family Upbringing”
0000-0003-1151-1984

Institute of Neophilology, Faculty of Philology, Pedagogical University of Cracow

Research interests oscillated around the modern Russian language in didactics, grammar, and translation. She combines research and teaching with translation and proofreading. Since 2017, she has been a member of the editorial team of “Przeglad Rusycystyczny [The Russian Studies Review]”, and in 2021 she joined the editorial board of the journal “Family Upbringing”.

Motto: “What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean” (Isaac Newton).

David Harrold

– Language editor-native speaker of the journal “Family Upbringing”
0009-0003-3210-5544

Educated in economics and law; BA (Hons), University of Cardiff, UK. Specialises in legal, business, medical, scientific, educational, IT, manufacturing and engineering, specialist language etc. He has a wide range of professional experience including the music industry, hotel management, English language teaching and course development for corporate and classroom use (plus CELTA qualification), journalism (reporting, article writing), insurance and finance (claims handling, fraud investigation), agriculture, security, and warehousing (stock control, employee management). Has been a trade union representative (for Wales, West Midlands, South and South West of England). Trained Specialist Negotiator (negotiating with the management of a multinational company, representing members in disciplinary cases, employment tribunals etc.).

Motto: “Life’s too short to worry about the little things.”

mgr Anna Korycińska

– Language editor of the journal “Family Upbringing”
0009-0007-0563-428X

Main Library of the University of Life Sciences in Lublin

Graduated in art history at the Catholic University of Lublin and postgraduate studies in language editing of texts at the University of Warsaw. She is edits and proofreads scientific research papers in the journal “Family Upbringing”. She is interested in the written word understood as a means of interpersonal communication. She is interested in extracting the right meanings from words and discovering their value. Author of books for children and novels for young people.

Motto: “To write is human, to edit is divine” (Stephen King).

dr hab. Piotr Kwiatkowski

– Statistical editor of the journal “Family Upbringing”
0000-0002-4283-0278

Institute of Pedagogy, Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences, University of Wrocław

Scientific interests focused on issues of risk behaviour prevention and social maladjustment and social rehabilitation, the phenomenon of resilience and the essence and causal mechanisms of stress and burnout in various social roles, as well as ways of counteracting these phenomena.

Motto: “The mind is like a parachute... It only works if we have it open” (Albert Einstein).

dr Anna Lubińska

- Language editor of the journal “Family Upbringing”
0000-0002-1109-3324

Institute of Information and Media Sciences, Faculty of Philology, University of Wrocław

Special interests: artistic books of the 19th-20th century, literature and popular culture, book marketing, editing, and science communication.

Motto: “Caring for language is not a luxury, but a duty.”

mgr Wojciech Olszewski

– Language editor of the journal “Family Upbringing”
0009-0003-5104-7677

Library of the Institute of Pedagogy, University of Wrocław

Graduate of political science at UWr (1998), and postgraduate studies: Local Government and Local Economy (UWr), Journalism (PWT Wrocław), Librarianship and Scientific Information (UWr). Interests: history, politics, Eastern Borderlands, Carpathians, and Ruthenians.

Motto: “Volenti non fit iniuria” “No injury is done to the willing” (Ulpian Domitian).

mgr Aleksandra Rabenda-Nowak

– Member of the editorial team of the journal “Family Upbringing”
0000-0001-5281-2703

Faculty of History, Vistula University of Finance and Business in Warsaw

Research interests focused on the history of feminism, specifically the first wave of the women’s rights movement in the USA at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and their views on the institution of the family. She is an American Studies graduate, currently pursuing a doctorate at the Department of History of the Vistula University College of Arts and Sciences. An employee of the British Embassy in Warsaw and a fan of crime podcasts.

Motto: “It always seems impossible until it’s done” (Nelson Mandela).

dr Luba Ślósarz

– Member of the editorial team of the journal “Family Upbringing”
0000-0002-0507-6595

Wroclaw Medical University

Psychologist and pedagogue with a double doctorate (in psychology and pedagogy). Author/co-author of nearly 60 scientific texts, participant and organiser of numerous national and international conferences, and founder and editor-in-chief of the “e-methodology” journal. Research interests include topics related to identity, image, and self-presentation.

Motto: “It is not about doing all things in the right way. It is mostly about doing the right things” (Peter Drucker).

mgr Magda Wieteska

– Member of the editorial team of the journal “Family Upbringing”
0000-0002-1174-609X

Institute of Pedagogy, Faculty of History and Pedagogical Sciences, University of Wrocław

Pedagogue-antagonist, journalist. Author of three novels as well as scientific articles and e-books in the field of family pedagogy. Instructor of creative writing workshops. Editor-in-chief of magazines: “Dobre Życie”, “Agora Seniora”. Scientific interests: gerontology, adult education and creativity, biographical research, and family counselling.

Motto: “If you dream about something in life - reach for it” (Jacek Walkiewicz).

mgr Kamila Wylęgły

– Member of the editorial team of the journal “Family Upbringing”
0000-0001-9787-5046

Institute of Pedagogy, Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences, University of Wrocław

Research interests focused on risk behaviour by university students, supporting individual and social resources of young adults, the period of early adulthood, as well as positive psychology in the field of education and resocialisation pedagogy.

Motto: “When in doubt, go to the library” (J. K. Rowling).