State & Society

Joanna Aksman, PhD

Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University

jaksman@uafm.edu.pl

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9333-7723

Doctor of Humanities, graduate in Pedagogy from the Jagiellonian University; from 2008 to 2025, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Psychology, Pedagogy and Humanities at Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski University; Head of the Department of Preschool and Early School Pedagogy; supervisor of the UAFM Pedagogues’ Student Research Club; member of the Polish Pedagogical Society, the Polish Society for Media Education, and the Polish Communication Association.

Consultant for educational films for teachers and students of pedagogy, including films illustrating the assumptions of the NSE model and instructional films on its implementation in early school education. Since 2017, organiser and promoter of pedagogical theatre at UAFM, in cooperation with director Artur Dobrzański. Author of numerous curricula and study plans for pedagogues and teachers of preschool and early school education at first- and second-cycle degree programmes and postgraduate studies.

Main academic and research interests: preschool and early school education, art education of younger school-age children, gifted younger school-age children, health education and the development of children’s life skills, pedagogical diagnostics, media education of children and teachers, manipulation and its pedagogical and social aspects.