Professor Roman Czernecki Award
An award, granted between 2018 and 2023, for researchers, journalists, and educators for outstanding publications concerning education in Poland.
Who was invited to the competition
The awarded scientists, publicists, and practitioners pointed out the key challenges facing education, while also proposing solutions and inspiring action. They contributed to deepening the debate on education in Poland by addressing problems that are crucial for educators, students, and their parents. The aim of the Award was to recognize authors who write with passion, a fresh perspective, and integrity, and to promote the debate on education in Poland. To date, it is the only competition in Poland that has brought together such diverse communities centered around schools and education. In the six editions of the Professor Roman Czernecki Award, 27 laureates were selected, and 38 authors received honorable mentions. Below is the list of laureates and those who received honorable mentions in all editions of the Award.
Winners of the 2023 award
Scientific Category
Jacek Liwiński, “The Impact of Compulsory Schooling on Hourly Wage: Evidence From the 1999 Education Reform in Poland”
Journalistic Category
Ewelina Burda, “The first September without school,” Tygodnik Powszechny
Specialist Category
Jakub Mróz, Małgorzata Wójcik & Jacek Pyżalski, “Bullying–Peer persecution. Truths and myths about the phenomenon”
Special Prize
Maria Hawranek, “Mathematics is beautiful and I want to show it to students;” “Not only breasts and penises. Why do we need sex education in school?”, OKO.press
Winners of the 2022 award
Scientific Category
Katarzyna Gawlicz, “School as a site of transformative adult learning: parents’ experiences of Polish democratic school,” Critical Studies in Education
Journalistic Category
Przemysław Wilczyński, “Excused absence,” Tygodnik Powszechny
Specialist Category
Natalia Boszczyk, “Teachers’ ‘together’ in the Covid and post-Covid world, or a few supporting ideas in the difficult issue of relationships in the teaching staff,” Meritum
Winners of the 2021 award
Scientific Category
Sławomir Krzychała, “Teacher Responses to New Pedagogical Practices: A Praxeological Model for the Study of Teacher-Driven School Development,” American Educational Research Journal;
Małgorzata Wójcik & Maria Mondry, “The Game of Bullying: Shared Beliefs and Behavioral Labels in Bullying Among Middle Schoolers,” Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice
Journalistic Category
Sylwia Czubkowska, “It’s time to introduce media education into schools. This is the last call to raise a digitally aware society,” spidersweb.pl; Michał Sutowski, “Is In the Desert and the Wilderness racist? This is only the beginning of the problem,” Krytyka Polityczna
Specialist Category
Zofia Grudzińska, “Peer Crisis Intervention,” Sygnał. Magazyn Wychowawca; Magdalena Ochwat, “(Co-)Thinking in the Humanities. Literary Eco-education in the Anthropocene,” Polinistyka. Innowacje
Special Prize
Joanna Roszak, “Education as a Promise. Distance Learning in a Culture of Distrust,” kalejdoskopkultury.pl; Joanna Roszak & Rafał Kasprzak, “Through a Poem. About a Poem,” biuroliterackie.pl
Winners of the 2020 award
Scientific Category
Grzegorz Szumski & Maciej Karwowski, “Exploring the Pygmalion effect: The role of teacher expectations, academic self-concept, and class context in students’ math achievement,” Contemporary Educational Psychology
Journalistic Category
Aleksandra Pucułek, “The school trauma of getting up early,” Gazeta Wyborcza
Specialist Category
Dariusz Żółtowski, “Reading emotions and reading with emotions in the process of school reading.” [in:] Why does school not trust emotions? Emotional strivings in school and at university.
Winners of the 2019 award
Scientific Category
Joanna Smogorzewska, Grzegorz Szumski & Paweł Grygiel, “Theory of mind development in a school environment: A case of children with mild intellectual disability learning in inclusive and special education classrooms,” Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities
Journalistic Category
Joanna Cieśla, “Teachers’ Rebellion,” “From Polish Land to Wolska,” “Lures for Ibik,” Polityka
Izabela Desperak, “Forgotten Teachers’ Rebellion,” Krytyka Poltyczna; Joanna Roszak, “Classroom Game,” Dwutygodnik
Specialist Category
Anna Abramczyk, Susanne Jurkowski Cooperative learning – a recipe for simultaneous realization of cognitive goals and development of social competences, Foreign languages at school; Małgorzata Minchberg, Education through art: artist at school, Educational Transactional Analysis
Honourable Mention
Anita Gulczyńska Stigma and the doomed-to-fail school careers of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods, Children’s Geographies;
Maciej Hanczakowski, Katarzyna Zawadzka Two Routes to Memory Benefits of Guessing, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition;
Dorota Jankowska, Aleksandra Gajda & Maciej Karwowski, “How children’s creative visual imagination and creative thinking relate to their representation of space,” International Journal of Science Education;
Martyna Kobus & Paweł Bukowski, “The threat of competition and public school performance: Evidence from Poland,” Economics of Education Review;
Magdalena Nowicka-Franczak, “Postfoucauldian analysis of the discourse on education,” Culture – Society – Education;
Anna Orylska, Julie A. Hadwin, Aleksandra Kroemeke & Edmund Sonuga-Barke, “A Growth Mixture Modeling Study of Learning Trajectories in an Extended Computerized Working Memory Training Programme Developed for Young Children Diagnosed With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder,” Frontiers in Education;
Krystian Szadkowski, “The common in higher education: a conceptual approach, Higher Education.” The International Journal of Higher Education Research;
Małgorzata Wójcik, “The parallel culture of bullying in polish secondary schools: A grounded theory study,” Journal of Adolescence;
Alicja Zawistowska & Ireneusz Sadowski, “Filtered Out, but Not by Skill: The Gender Gap in Pursing Mathematics at a High-Stakes Exam,” Sex Roles
Winners of the 2018 award
Scientific Category
Sylwia Bedyńska, Izabela Krejtz & Grzegorz Sędek, “Chronic Stereotype Threat Is Associated with Mathematical Achievement on Representative Sample of Secondary Schoolgirls: the Role of Gender Identification,” Working Memory, and “Intellectual Helplessness,” Frontiers in Psychology (2018, 428/9);
Anna Baczko-Dombi, “Escape from Mathematics. Reconstruction of the Process in the Context of the Social Image of the Subject,” Edukacja (2017, 140/1)
Journalistic Category
Justyna Suchecka, “Who are you? Citizen of the digital world,” Gazeta Wyborcza (April 12, 2017)
Przemysław Staroń, “And why not with seniors,” Głos Nauczycielski (2016, no. 33-36 pp. 16-17 and no. 36, pp. 14-15)
Honourable Mention
Agata Zysiak, “The gates of the university open to the working classes! Post-war reconstruction of the social imaginary and the project of the socialist university,” Nauka i Szkolnictwo Wysokie (2016, no. 1 p. 47);
Karolina Appelt & Sławomir Jabłoński, “The place of social-emotional competences in early school education,” Psychologia Wychowawcza (2017, no. 11. P. 64-82);
Magdalena Smak, Dominika Walczak, “The prestige of the teaching profession in the perception of teachers and former teachers,” Kwartalnik Edukacja (2017, vol. 5-2, pp. 22-40);
Agnieszka Bates & Rafał Godoń, “Tackling knowledge ‘like a business?’ Rethinking the modernisation of higher education in Poland.” Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education (2017, 47/4, pp. 454-467)
Special Prize
Jędrzej Malko, Editorial project Spięcie (2018); and co-authors: Przemysław Sadura & Anna Cieplak, “We want a school of life, not survival,” Krytyka Polityczna;
Michał Tomaszewski, “Space that divides,” Magazyn Kontakt;
Katarzyna Kasia “Polish school, or the Community undercover,” Kultura Liberalna;
Karolina Olejak, “School of Non-Governmentality, Teachers of Subjectivity,” Klub Jagielloński;
Jarema Piekutowski & Piotr Jesionowski “Teacher, get off the podium,” Nowa Konfederacja.

