Tutoring in University Education as an Extended Perspective (Reality) and an Element of Inclusive Education

Abstract

Tutoring as a certain architecture of academic excellence is a method of preparing students for work, creating conditions for further research activities, and restoring the personal growth function of university education, whose goal is to foster attitudes and values that are understood as universal goods (Dziedziczak-Foltyn et al., 2020). The article consists of the following parts: an introduction and the main sections, presenting successively the basic theories, the applied methodology, the main analysis, and the conclusions. The main objective of this paper is to organize the theoretical foundations of tutoring and present the results of a study conducted by a team of researchers from the Faculty of Arts and Educational Science at the University of Silesia in Katowice. The members of the above-mentioned tutoring research team are the authors of this article. The research concerned the ways of defining tutoring by students of pedagogical fields of study who carry out tutoring in inclusive education institutions. In the course of the research, it turned out that tutoring is defined as a method, support, practice, teaching, experience, development, relationship, work, and observation. The method applied in their research is qualitative analysis.