"It is no good if we treat teaching as an onerous adjunct to the job proper, when it is our raison d'être within the walls of the university"
Leszek Kołakowski
dr hab. Anna Sajdak-Burska, prof. UJ | Biogram
Education
- Master's degree in pedagogy, Institute of Pedagogy, Jagiellonian University, Master's thesis: "Possibilities of enriching initial teaching of mathematics by extending the concept of equations", supervisor Dr Jan Gałuszka, 1993.
- Doctoral degree in pedagogy on the basis of the dissertation "The concept of creative school in experimental pedagogy", supervisor Prof. Dr. Anna Łukawska, 2002.
- Habilitation degree in social sciences in the discipline of pedagogy on the basis of the dissertation "Paradigms of student education and support for the development of academic teachers. Theoretical foundations of academic didactics' and general assessment of scientific achievements, 2014.
Research interests
Issues in the theory and practice of academic didactics, school experiments and alternatives, creative education and the competence and professional development of the university teacher.
Academic position:
- Head of Doctoral Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University: from 2020 to present.
- Head of the Doctoral Programme in the Discipline of Pedagogy in the Doctoral School of Social Sciences: from 2019 to present.
- Deputy Chair of the Discipline of Pedagogy at UJ: from 2022 to present.
- Head of the Department of School Pedagogy and Academic Didactics: from 2015 to present.
- Head of the Department of Pre-school and Early Childhood Pedagogy: from 2021 to present.
- Member of the Council of the Jagiellonian University Study of Pedagogy: from 2016 to present.
- Member of the Council for the Improvement of Academic Didactics Ars Docendi: from 2017 to present.
- Member of the Council of the Rector's Fund for the Development of Didactics Ars Docendi: from 2020 to present.
- Deputy Director of the Institute of Pedagogy for full-time studies: 2012-2016.
- Member of the Programme Board of the Ars Docendi Centre for the Improvement of Academic Didactics: 2014-2020.
- Member of the Student Disciplinary Committee: 2016-2020.
- Member of the Scientific Council of the Educational Research Institute: 2017-2021.
- Chair of the Research Ethics Committee of the Educational Research Institute: 2017-2021.
- Member of the Board of the Polish Pedagogical Society: 2011-2014.
- Chairperson of the Polish Pedagogical Society Krakow Branch: 2008-2011.
Honours and awards:
Projects
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2020-2021 Coordinator of the Educational Ecosystem Excellence Initiative Research University Jagiellonian University.
2022-2023 Project manager of the University Teaching Excellence Initiative project Jagiellonian University.
Selected publications
(full list available at https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/)
Disseminated publications:
- Sajdak A., Paradygmaty kształcenia studentów i wspierania rozwoju nauczycieli akademickich : teoretyczne podstawy dydaktyki akademickiej, Impuls, Kraków 2013.
- Sajdak A., Edukacja kreatywna, WAM, Kraków 2008.
Scientific editor of the academic series Dydaktyka Akademicka published by Jagiellonian University (6 volumes):
- Maciejowska I., Sajdak-Burska A. (red.), Dydaktyka akademicka – nowe konteksty, nowe doświadczenia, WUJ, Kraków 2022.
- Sajdak-Burska A., Maciejowska I. (red.), Profesjonalizacja roli nauczyciela akademickiego, WUJ. Kraków 2020.
- Maciejowska I., Sajdak-Burska A. (red.), Rozwijanie kompetencji dydaktycznych nauczycieli akademickich. Wybrane praktyki, WUJ, Kraków 2018.
Articles in journals:
- Sajdak-Burska A., Strengthening student agency, community, and trust in academic education : a teaching approach, In: Budzanowska-Drzewiecka M., Bugaj J. M., Mikołajczyk B., Building an academic community : challenges for education quality management, Brill, Boston 2024.
- Sajdak-Burska A., Konserwatyzm i nowoczesność w edukacji: dwoistość - otwarcie – pułapki, Polska Myśl Pedagogiczna, 9/1, 2023.
- Sajdak-Burska A., Nowoczesna szkoła konserwatywna: otwarcie perspektywy, Polska Myśl Pedagogiczna, 8, 2022.
- Budnyk O., Sajdak-Burska A., Pedagogical support for Ukrainian war-affected children: future teachers’ readiness to work in crisis : comparative analysis of research results in Ukraine and Poland, Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, 10, 2023.
- Sajdak-Burska A., Zagrajmy w pokera … czyli Student Centered Learning w praktyce kształcenia kadry akademickiej, W: Maciejowska I., Sajdak-Burska A. (red.), Dydaktyka akademicka – nowe konteksty, nowe doświadczenia, WUJ, Kraków 2022.
- Sajdak-Burska A., Problematyka jakości kształcenia akademickiego: uroki skrajnych perspektyw, W: Bugaj J., Budzanowska-Drzewiecka M., (red.), Jakość kształcenia akademickiego, WUJ, Kraków 2022.
- Sajdak-Burska A., Edukacja zdalna w potrzasku archaizmu i nowoczesności kształcenia, W: Pasterniak-Kobyłecka E., Kabat M. (red.), Nauczyciel: czas, przestrzeń, szkoła, otoczenie i jego (nie)znany wymiar, Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, Toruń 2022.
- Sajdak-Burska A., Oblicza dehumanizacji dydaktyki, Rocznik Lubuski: Szkoła w kontradyktorycznościach : kontradyktoryczności w szkole, 47, 2021.
Author of dozens of popular science articles in the field of academic didactics, published periodically since 2014 in "Forum Akademickie".