PROFIL PRACOWNIKA: Joanna Leek

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Education

• 2014 - University of Łódź, Doctor of Social Sciences in the discipline of Pedagogy
• 2000 - University of Łódź, Faculty of Philology
• 2003 - University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law and Administration

Membership in Organizations

• World Education Research Association (WERA)
• European Educational Research Association (EERA)
• Comparative and International Education Society (CIES)
• International Network for Early Career Scholars in Global Education Policy (INECS)

Selected Research Fellowships

• VI-VIII 2024 - Justus Liebig University Giessen, Institute for Educational Science, Germany
• IX-XI 2022 - University of Vienna, Center for Teacher Education, Austria

Comparative Pedagogy, International Education Programs, International Baccalaureate, school education in Poland

School Pedagogy

• Theories of Education Curricula
• Hidden School Curriculum

Education of Immigrants

Selected publications 2019-2025

• Leek, J., Rojek, M., & Szulewicz, E. (2024). International schools for LGBTQ+ youth: A comparative case study of the educational function of international schools in Poland . In A. W. Wiseman (Ed.), Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2023 (Vol. 48, pp. 251–272). Emerald Publishing Limited. doi.org/10.1108/S1479-367920240000048014
• Leek, J., Rojek, M., Dobińska, G., & Kosiorek, M. (2024). Navigating the power of time in classroom practices: teachers’ and students’ perspectives. Educational Review, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2024.2438878
  
• Leek, J., Sliwerski, B. (2024). How international curriculum effectively challenge and counteract the negative effects of authoritarian education policies: a case of Poland. Curriculum Perspectives
• Leek, J. (2022). International Baccalaureate schools as islands of educational resistance in East-Central European region. A case study of Poland. Globalisation, Societies, Education.
• Leek, J.; Rojek, M. (2021). Functions of digital learning within the international mobility programme – perspectives of university students and staff from Europe, Education and Information Technologies
  
• Leek, J.; Rojek, M. (2021). ICT tools in breaking down social polarization and supporting intergenerational learning: cases of youth and seniors citizens. Interactive Learning Environments
• Leek, J. (2020). From educational experiment to the national programme. International Baccalaureate Programmes in Poland - policy and practice perspectives. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education

• Leek, J. (2020). The role of ICT in intergenerational learning between immigrant youth and non-related older adults: experiences from Sweden. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research

• Leek, J. (2020). Homo Sovieticus in policy versus teacher leadership in Polish international baccalaureate practices. International Journal of Leadership in Education

• Rojek, M., Leek, J. Svoboda,, P. (2020). Exploring the virtual world of learning across generations. Information and communication technology for the educational support of immigrant youth. Lodz-Cracow: University of Lodz Press-Jagiellonian University Press

• Leek, J. (2019). Decentralization policies concerning leadership of parents and students in school councils in Poland. From autocracy to democracy within the state monopoly. International Journal of Leadership in Education, published July 2019, online first.

• Rojek, M., Leek, J. (2019). Intergenerational learning in the virtual world. Case of the European community-based educational project. The New Educational Review, 53, 2019, s. 88-100.

• Leek, J. (2019). Teachers perceptions about supporting youth participation in schools: Experiences from schools England, Italy and Lithuania. Improving Schools, 22 (2), 173-190.

• Leek, J., & Rojek, M. (2019). ‘ICT Guides’ project as an example of educational support of young immigrants through intergenerational learning and ICT tools. In E. Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger, H. J. Abs, & P. Müller (Eds.), Thematic papers based on the Conference “Migration, Social Transformation, and Education for Democratic Citizenship” (pp. 87-106). University of Duisburg-Essen: DuEPublico. doi: 10.17185/duepublico/47639.