Project team - Heterotopie obywatelstwa

Helena Ostrowicka, Full Professor

Principal Investigator

Holds a professor degree in social sciences, in the field of pedagogy. She is the Head of Research Methodology and Discourse Studies Department as well as Dean of Faculty of Pedagogy at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz. Her research focuses on the lines of contact between scientific disciplines, primarily in the interdisciplinary area of discourse studies, including problems of constructing knowledge about youth. Her empirical research focuses on exploring the theoretical and philosophical post-Foucauldian perspective in analyses of discourse, relations of knowledge and power in four institutional contexts, in science, education, politics and media. She has authored or co-authored nearly 70 publications, including several monographs, such as „Regulating Social Life. Discourses on the Youth and the Dispositif of Age” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), „The Dispositif of the University Reform: The Higher Education Policy Discourse in Poland” (with Justyna Spychalska-Stasiak and Łukasz Stankiewicz, Routledge, 2020), „Przemyśleć z Michelem Foucaultem edukacyjne dyskursy o młodzieży. Dyspozytyw i urządzanie” [„Rethinking Educational Discourses about the Youth with Michel Foucault: The Dispositif and Governmentality”] (Impuls, 2015). Scholarship holder of DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) and the National Agency for Academic Exchange, winner of competitions of the Minister of Science and Higher Education and the National Science Center, awarded for scientific achievements, among others, by the Minister of Education and Science and the Mayor of Bydgoszcz.

Violetta Kopińska, Associate Professor

PhD, habilitation degree in Social Sciences, Associate Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of Education Sciences at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Head of the Department of Early and Civic Education, Vice Editor-in-Chief of “Przegląd Badań Edukacyjnych” (Educational Studies Review). She focuses her research interests on citizenship education, civic participation, and anti-discrimination education. She studies discourse of citizenship education from the perspective of critical pedagogy. She analyzes the relationship between politics and education in a discursive approach. Author of over 60 academic publications, including the monograph: „Edukacja obywatelska w szkole. Krytyczna analiza dyskursu podręczników szkolnych” [“Citizenship Education at School. Critical Discourse Analysis of the School Textbooks”] (Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, 2017).

Celina Czech-Włodarczyk PhD

Celina Czech-Włodarczyk, PhD – Doctor of humanities in the field of pedagogy, master’s degree in special education and political science, speech therapist, research and teaching assistant professor at the Department of Research Methodology and Discourse Studies at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz; research interests: functioning and reforming of educational systems in North America and Europe; methods of teaching children with special educational needs; education of national, ethnic and linguistic minorities in Canada and France; globalization and its impact on the sphere of education; influence of economic and ideological factors on reforms undertaken in the sphere of education. Selected publications: “Neoliberalism and civic education. Comparative study on the example of public secondary schools in Poland and Canada”, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2012; E. Potulicka, D. Hildebrandt-Wypych, C. Czech-Włodarczyk (eds.), “Educational systems in European countries” (Oficyna Wydawnicza Impuls, 2012); A. Boroń, A. Mańkowska, C. Czech-Włodarczyk, P. Peret-Drążewska (eds.), “Education in global and local conditions. Contexts and examples” (Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2018).

Magdalena Cuprjak PhD

PhD in pedagogy, Assistant Professor in Institute of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. The main areas of scientific interest: methodology of social researches, youth as a social and research category, identity construction. The author of the monograph “Konstruowanie tożsamości gimnazjalistów” [Constructing an Identity of Gymnasium] Torun, 2016. Major articles: Wiedza o społeczeństwie: raport przedmiotowy (Civic education courses: a subject report), co-author Violetta Kopińska, Warszawa, Feminoteka, 2016; Dyskursy o młodzieży w sytuacji edukacji instytucjonalnej: kontekst gimnazjum (Discourses about youth in the situation of institutional education: the context of the gymnasium) AUNC, 2018; Budowanie wiedzy o młodzieży w dyskursie normatywnym (Building knowledge about youth in the normative discourse), Przegląd Pedagogiczny, 2020.

Klaudia Wolniewicz-Slomka PhD

Assistant Professor in the Department of Research Methodology and Discourse Studies at the Faculty of Pedagogy, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz. She holds a Ph.D. degree in public policy. Her research interests focus on public policy, especially family policy, social policy on a local level, and media discourse. Her most important publications include “Projektowanie i implementacja polityki publicznej – przegląd podejść teoretycznych” [w:] „Studia z Polityki Publicznej”, 9(3(35)/2022; „Heterotopias of Nationalist Youth Organisations in Poland: Communitarisation and Entry/Exit System” [w:] „The Qualitative Report”, 27(11) (with Helena Ostrowicka); “Między pracą a rodziną ‒ opieka nad najmłodszym dzieckiem w debacie prasowej” [in:] „Szkoła-Zawód-Praca”, 21/2021; “Design and implementation of family policy on a local level: example of two cities” [in:] „Problemy Polityki Społecznej. Studia i Dyskusje”, 45/2019; She has participated in many national and international research projects carried out at the University of Warsaw, Polish Academy of Sciences and University of Exeter and financed by i.e. National Science Centre, Erasmus Plus.

Joanna Stepaniuk PhD

A doctor of social sciences in the discipline of pedagogy; recently a PhD student at the Faculty of Sociology of the University of Warsaw (earlier the Institute of Sociology of the University of Warsaw); an educator, a certified teacher; an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences in the State University of Stefan Batory in Skierniewice. In the period of 2014-2015 the expert in intercultural education within the project ’Diversity (in)among Us’ at the Education Development Centre in Warsaw. The author of over 30 scientific articles and chapters in the collective works, a co-editor of 2 scientific monographs, a speaker/lecturer at national and international conferences.
Her main research interest areas of studies are: intercultural education, national and ethnic minorities, immigrants and refugees in Poland, cultural transmission in the immigrants’ families, children’s rights in the educational practice, educational sociology, the matters of non-governmental organizations and voluntary. She has got the experience in the conducting of field research both in Poland and abroad.

Iuliia Lashchuk PhD

Philosopher, researcher, migration activist. She obtained a master’s degree in cultural studies at the East European National University of Lesia Ukrainka in Lutsk and defended with honors her doctoral dissertation on women’s migration at the University of Warsaw. Holder of the scholarship of the Polish Government in 2011-2012 (Government Scholarship Program for Young Scientists) and in 2015-2018 (Stefan Banach Program). Research interests: categories of otherness and strangeness and their immanent relations with exclusion, gender relations in the nation state, female migration, issues of identity, belonging and diversity, ethical dimensions of hospitality.
Selected publication: Displaced Art and the Reconstruction of Memory: Ukrainian Artists from Crimea and Donbas [in:] “Open Cultural Studies”; 2018, 2, The Care turn. Care as an attitude towards strangeness, [in:] „Ethics”, edited by Monika Rogowska-Stangret and Iuliia Lashchuk. Since 2011, she has been involved in non-formal education in Ukraine and Poland and works with children and youth as an educator.