The text concentrates on the work of an academic teacher who combines the roles of a teacher and a researcher in one profession. The author asks a question: what is the quality of students’ academic education? In a hypothetical answer to this question the author formulates a thesis that the quality of education is dependent on the relation between theory and practice. The utility of knowledge is therefore determined by the science-education dependence, contemporary vision of science in the understanding of knowledge, the understanding of the utility of knowledge, the dominance of rationalism in cognition and learning.
The article presents the academic profiles of the professors of the Faculty of Education at the University of Warsaw who published their papers in “The Pedagogical Quarterly”. Since 1956 the magazine, whose founder was Prof. Bogdan Suchodolski, has been closely related to the Faculty of Education. The material about professors’ scientific research and careers at the Faculty of Education was compiled mostly on the basis of personal documents stored in the Archive of the University of Warsaw. Articles and studies complemented the project.
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