MODERN PEDAGOGUE – PROSPECTIVE FIELDS FOR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY. ANALYSIS OF THE PROBLEM BASED ON SELECTED PROJECT ACTIONS
MODERN PEDAGOGUE – PROSPECTIVE FIELDS FOR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY. ANALYSIS OF THE PROBLEM BASED ON SELECTED PROJECT ACTIONS

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is the presentation of the assumptions and the existing, selected project results of the „Modern Pedagogue” project (No. POWR.03.01.00-00-K423/16) co-financed by the European Union from the European Social Fund, conducted (and granted by the National Centre for Research and Development) at the Faculty of Pedagogical Sciences of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. The main aim of the project is to improve labour-market-required professional competencies, communicational abilities, in the field of entrepreneurship, IT abilities and analytical skills among students of pedagogy and special education – of the last two semesters of first and second degree studies. The „Modern Pedagogue” project incorporates: workshops, study visits at employer’s facility and a team work on the design method concerning, among others, the Hokus Focus therapy, „In somebody else’s shoes” – elaboration on the method of developing empathy among students, or „Departmental meetings with labour market experts”, being a favourable space for a debate with practitioners, including searching for an answer to the following question: What are the prospective fields of activity modern pedagogues these days? The answer to the above question is not an easy one, as it constitutes the starting point for further reflection and it’s part of discussion on the role of a modern pedagogue in the changing socio-professional reality.

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