In 2008 Poland celebrated 36-th anniversary of the scientific subdiscipline "labour pedagogy", which initiated the Professor Tadeusz W. Nowacki and his colleagues Prof. Stanislaw Kaczor and Prof. Zygmunt Wiatrowski.
Despite the young age - as a scientific discipline - labour pedagogy has gained significant academic achievements that fulfill very important role in the complex of other science related topics. High activity of the labour educationalists' environment in the Committee of Pedagogical Sciences PAN (Polish Academy of Sciences), the development of research personnel, periodicals and publishing companies, numerous seminars and conferences, national and international projects and thousands of students studying the labour pedagogy is a concrete evidence of practical usefulness of this kind of scientific sub discipline.
The real instrument for 33 years (1975-2008) enabling dissemination, promotion and valorization of knowledge about pedagogy of work is czasopismo "the journal "Labour Pedagogy". It had two periods of its functioning. The first covered years 1975-1990 and it was associated with the activities of Institute of Vocational Training (IKZ) in Warsaw - the first publisher of the journal. The second phase is being dated from 1991 and it lasts up till today and the publishing duties took over the Institute for Sustainable Technologies - National Research Institute (IteE-PIB) in Radom. Today, we can say about continuity of "Labour Pedagogy" as the magazine and its mission in development of the theory and subordinated practice, including problems of education through the work, professionalism, vocational training, counseling and vocational guidance.
Labour Pedagogy is a biannual, nation-wide scientific journal. Total accumulated knowledge base including 51 volumes of journals. We can find there dissertations, the development of scientific and methodological elaborations, case studies, proposals of innovative solutions, announcements from examinations and implementations.
The magazine is being addressed in particular to scientific researchers, academic lecturers and teachers, students, education staff and public employment services, guidance counselors and specialists in human resources development.
The "Labour Pedagogy" is on the list of journals published on 15th November 2007 by the Ministry of Science and higher Education for the parametric evaluation of research units , with two points allocated (Part B of the list, position 431).
Source of information: Minister letter, a list of journals.
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