GUEST OF HONOUR Prof. Bogusław Śliwerski

Title of conference speech: “TEACHER AS AUTHORITY OR WISDOM KEEPER?”

prof. Bogusław Śliwerski – head of the Department Educational Studies at the Faculty od Educational Studies at the University of Lodz; research professor at the Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw; doctor honoris causa of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (2014), the Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz (2016), the John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin (2017), the Cardinal Wyszynski University in Warsaw (2020), the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine (2019); member of the International  Board of the Tomas Bata University in Zlin (Czech Republic) and the International Board of the Pedagogical Faculty of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice (Czech Republic); honorary professor of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn and the University of Silesia in Katowice; former chairman of the Educational Sciences Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) (2011-2019), since 2024 honorary chairman of PAN Educational Sciences Committee; chief editor of “Studies on the Theory of Education”, academic blogger, author of 48 scientific monographs, editor of 4 and co-editor of 3 volumes of academic textbooks “Pedagogy”, editor of 11 scientific monographs translated from German and Czech, editor and co-editor of 57 collective works in pedagogy and alternative pedagogy.