Thirty Years of the Polish Association of the Social Work Schools

Abstract

The existence of an institutional and organizational space in which researchers, teachers of social work schools and social workers carry out research and education is an important condition for shaping the identity of social work. Such a specific space has been created for over thirty years by the Polish Association of Social Work Schools . The discussion on the role of the Association in the promotion of research and academic standards of education for social work – is a personal reflection of the author on the contribution of the organization in creating a symbolic and real space for the development of social work as a professional activity and discipline, as well as the exchange of ideas and theoretical and practical experience of social work in Poland. Not without significance is the contribution of PSSPS in creating scientific and didactic cooperation on an international basis. In the article, the author tries to recreate certain events from the past of PSSPS, as well as the spaces of experience of the community of Members, by participating in annual conventions, which, according to R. Koselleck, become a modernized past, creating the present and determining the future of the Association.