Kultura i Edukacja 2008, No. 5 (69) ISSN 1230-266X
LEADER
Another English language issue of the Culture and Education (Kultura i Edukacja) quarterly comprises texts we published in 2007. Th e Editorial was guided by a few principles while making their choices. Special emphasis was placed on refl ecting the key thematic range of the journal. Th e Culture and Education signboard as-sumes potential wide problem fi eld, although, on the other hand, it is clearly lim-ited in practice. In the discipline sense, major roles are played by sociology and pedagogy, but there is also some room for philosophy, culture studies, philology, political science, and others. Th roughout the past 16 years of the quarterly’s pres-ence in the market, one may observe a shift of stresses in view of content-related refl ection space of the Authors contributing to its columns, yet it has always been the multidiscipline approach which has marked its identity. Our concern for high quality of content implies multistage selection and reviewing, thus forcing us to eliminate some texts. Th erefore, it has been even a greater dilemma to make a choice of works for this issue, already published in Polish.
Th is issue has preserved a periodical’s formal structure of regular sections, namely the STUDIES-ARTICLES, followed by the RESEARCH RELATIONS-REPORTS. Some time ago, the SPECIAL NEWS section was added, devoted to relevant events in the fi eld of social science and humanities. And so, in the 3/2007 issue a few texts portraying the course of the Pedagogical Convention appeared, its idea and organization, introductory lecture, general report, and then, relations of selected groups and sections. A similar approach was applied in the 4th issue of 2007, which presents the Sociological Congress throughout six articles, in total. Each issue of the quarterly is closed by the REVIEWS-WRITE-UPS section, where also polemics are published, being so rare in contemporary social science and humanities. We hope you will fi nd this issue worth reading.
