International Conference „Pedagogical Multidimensionality of Development”, Lublin, 4-6 April 2011

Abstract

The international conference „Pedagogical Multidimensionality of Development. An Individual – Social Space – Institution” took place on 4-6 April, 2011. It was organised by the Institute of Pedagogy of John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL). The conference was held as a jubilee meeting and it commemorated the 30th anniversary of the reactivation of the Institute of Pedagogy at the Catholic University of Lublin. On this occasion, a book on the work of the employees of the Institute in this period was published, edited by Professor Alina Rynio and Professor Ryszard Skrzyniarz1. The honorary patronage over the Conference was held by Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski (the Prefect of The Congregation for Catholic Education) and Professor Barbara Kudrycka, Ph.D. (the Minister of Science and Higher Education). Celestino Migliore, Apostolic Nuncio to Poland, was a special guest of the jubilee symposium of educationalists at the Catholic University of Lublin. The aim of the conference was to present the prevailing tendencies in modern pedagogy; to discuss the current results of pedagogical research and the experiences of academic circles in the field of pedagogical multidimensionality of development; to debate the perspectives of the development of educational theory and practice; to search for theoretical and practical solutions to the problems of development and education in the context of ever-changing reality.