Education - Multiplicity of Meanings, Commonality of Goals

New technologies, innovative industry and digital revolution are changing today's world on an unprecedented scale. The changes touch all spheres of human existence creating the conditions for realising the vision of a better world and building a new society. This requires more and more openness, creativity and innovativeness in human thinking and activities, imply the need for changes in education. This is so as only education - the "treasure" also of the 21st century - can live up to the challenge as long, however, as it is universal, fully accessible, flexible, open, innovative and creative. Along the lines of this thesis, this volume presents different views on selected problems of education of teachers in different specialities, with the aim of making the basis for in-depth analyses and optimal solutions.

Jolanta Szempruch is Professor of Social Sciences at the Institute of Sociological Studies at the University of Rzeszów, Poland. She is a member of the Committee of Pedagogical Sciences of Polish Academy of Sciences in Poland. Her research interests focus on the sociology of education, pedeutology, educational policy, social policy, general pedagogy, early childhood pedagogy, and didactics.

Beata Pitula is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mining, Safety Engineering and Industrial Automation of the Silesian University of Technology, Poland.

Dr hab. Inetta Nowosad, Associate Professor, is Head of the Department of School Pedagogy, University of Zielona Góra, Poland. Her research focuses on school improvement and effectiveness, educational change, quality of education, and conditions of school development at both institutional and system levels.

Assistant Prof. Dr Marzanna Farnicka is Head of the Family Psychology Unit, Institute of Psychology, University of Zielona Góra, Poland. She integrates scientific research with clinical practice and has collaborated extensively with social, educational, and business institutions. She previously served as the President of the local branch of the Polish Psychological Association and is currently a member and Custodian of the Committee of International Conferences on Conflict and Aggression (CICA). She also coordinates the Central European CICA Research and Formation Centre.

Prof Dr Zenon Gajdzica, special educator, is full professor and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. Since 2015, he is a member of the Committee on Pedagogical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His main areas of research are inclusive education, transformations of special education, education and socialization of people with intellectual disabilities, social research methodology.