Professor Zofia Konaszkiewicz, PhD Hab.

Head of the Chair of Music Education

Zofia Konaszkiewicz stud­ied psy­chol­ogy, edu­ca­tion and music art.

She majored in psy­chol­ogy at the Uni­ver­sity of War­saw in 1967. The title of her the­sis was Analy­sis of the Process of Re-education of Chil­dren with Learn­ing Dif­fi­cul­ties in Read­ing and Writ­ing. She majored in the arts at the Fry­deryk Chopin Acad­emy of Music in War­saw in 1975 on the basis of a music per­for­mance and a the­sis enti­tled The Edu­ca­tional Role of Ama­teur Youth Group Music Making.

She got her PhD in Edu­ca­tion from the Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion, Uni­ver­sity of War­saw in 1974 on the basis of her doc­toral the­sis The Edu­ca­tional Func­tions of Music Recep­tion in Youth. She received her post-doctoral degree (Habil­i­tacja) from the same depart­ment in 1988 on the basis of her book Pol­ish Dancers — Their Train­ing, Their Profession.

She was given the title of Pro­fes­sor at the Insti­tute of Art, Pol­ish Acad­emy of Sci­ences in 1997 and became Full Pro­fes­sor in 1999.

Teach­ing:

• at the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music in War­saw since 1975 (psy­chol­ogy, ped­a­gogy, meth­ods of music edu­ca­tion, research method­ol­ogy, Master’s Degree super­vi­sion, lec­tures at var­i­ous post-graduate courses):
• at the Papal Depart­ment of The­ol­ogy in War­saw since 1993 (psy­chol­ogy, edu­ca­tion, Master’s Degree super­vi­sion, mono­graphic lectures);
• she has also taught at Sec­ondary Music School and var­i­ous insti­tu­tions for hand­i­capped children.

Pro­fes­sor Zofia Konaszkiewicz is Head of the Chair of Music Edu­ca­tion at the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music in War­saw. She is also Mem­ber of the Sci­en­tific Doc­tor­ate Com­mis­sion, Mem­ber of the Exec­u­tive of the Pol­ish Sec­tion of the Inter­na­tional Soci­ety for Music Edu­ca­tion, mem­ber of the Pol­ish Ped­a­gog­i­cal Asso­ci­a­tion, Mem­ber of the Euro­pean Asso­ci­a­tion for Music in School, Expert of the Min­istry of National Edu­ca­tion for the Pro­fes­sional Advance­ment of Teach­ers. She co-operates with the Cen­tre for Artis­tic Edu­ca­tion, the Cen­tre for Cul­tural Ani­ma­tion and the Children’s Trust.

She has con­tributed to dozens of sci­en­tific ses­sions and con­gresses, mostly on music edu­ca­tion and edu­ca­tion through art.

Main areas of research:

• the musi­cian as edu­ca­tor in the chang­ing world;
• the psy­cho­log­i­cal and ped­a­gog­i­cal foun­da­tions of music education;
• the psy­cho­log­i­cal and ped­a­gog­i­cal deter­mi­nants of the pro­fes­sion of dancer and bal­let school education;
• the edu­ca­tional and ther­a­peu­tic func­tions of music with respect to chil­dren and adolescents.