Will Schooling Ever Change?

Piotr Mikiewicz is a professor at the University of Lower Silesia in Poland. He is an author of numerous publications revolving around the concept of social capital and social effects of the educational expansion. He is also an expert at the Ministry of Education and Science in Poland as well as the Poland’s representative in the OECD's International Education Surveys: PISA Governing Board, PIAAC Board of Participating Countries. Recent publications include Social capital and education - An attempt to synthesize conceptualisation arising from various theoretical origins (2021), Educationalisation and its implications for contemporary society (2020) and Socjologia edukacji. Teorie, koncepcje, pojęcia (Sociology of Education. Theories, concepts, definitions, 2016). Marta Jurczak-Morris is a Researcher and a PhD candidate at the University of Lower Silesia in Poland, at the Faculty of Applied Studies. Having worked as a teacher in highly diverse primary schools in London in the United Kingdom, she has developed her professional and academic interests around issues such as class, social justice, educational inequalities, discrimination, as well as the phenomenon of distance learning. Recent publications include Pedants vs Mondains - On the Ways in Which Young People Interact in the Schooling Process Through the Lens of Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Habitus and Socio-Cultural Capital (2021) and The Emerging New School Culture with Its Potential Consequences in the Context of Distance Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic? (2021).

Introduction

1. Education during the time of the pandemic

2. School in its essence

3. Potential direction of change looking forward

Ending: What comes next?