FORMS OF EDUCATION AND THE TEACHER’S
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FORMS OF EDUCATION AND THE TEACHER’S EMPOWERMENT
FORMS OF EDUCATION AND THE TEACHER’S EMPOWERMENT

Author(s): Małgorzata Kabat
Subject(s): Sociology of Education, Pedagogy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: forms of education; teacher; empowerment; PERFORM model; combining theory with practice;

Summary/Abstract: Introduction: Educational transformations in Poland and the world are the reason for under-taking the modernisation of the teacher’s professional activities. A key issue is becoming therequirement for the teacher to acquire knowledge about the organisation of the school processthat ensures the most effective realisation of goals, tasks and functions. Solutions are soughtin this area that include harmonizing the teacher’s natural organisational skills with his/herknowledge dependent on his/her talents, pedagogical experience exploited in complex educa-tional forms and situations.Research Aim: The aim of the research was combined with the recognition of the teacher’sinvolvement in the professional activity necessary in the organisational activities emblematicof the forms of school and non-school reality discussed. A deductive method of data analysiscombining with the selection of selected sources was used, focusing on descriptive and newimplementation.Evidence-based Facts: The exploration carried out revealed that the considered forms of edu-cation function independently as well as interpenetrate each other, creating a common groundfor the emergence of teacher empowerment, which is the impulse for the emergence of a newpersonal-team structure in the educational process.Summary: The theoretical and exploratory analyses made show a glimpse that the applicationin various forms of education of teacher empowerment and its assumptions together with thePERFORM model is an alternative way of combining educational theory and practice repre-senting a different remedy of professional functioning.

  • Issue Year: 42/2023
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 21-39
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: English