Piotr Tomasz Nowakowski (born 1974, in
Tychy, Poland) is a Polish researcher, Doctor of Pedagogy, Assistant Professor at the
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin ( pl, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, la, Universitas Catholica Lublinensis Ioannis Pauli II, abbreviation KUL), established in 1918. It is the only private college in Poland with the s ...
.
He is a Member of the
International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA), Florida (USA).
He holds the position of a secretary for international cooperation at the Polish quarterly "Społeczeństwo i Rodzina". He is "ICSA Today’s" (USA) news correspondent for Eastern Europe, is a Member of Editorial Board of the US annual "International Journal of Cultic Studies" (USA), and a consulting editor for Nigerian quarterly "Journal of Educational Review".
Research
Fields of scientific research and interest of Nowakowski are: social prevention,
social work
Social work is an academic discipline and practice-based profession concerned with meeting the basic needs of individuals, families, groups, communities, and society as a whole to enhance their individual and collective well-being. Social work ...
, social rehabilitation, mass media pedagogy,
philosophy of education
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, and
aretology
An aretalogy ( el, Αρεταλογία), from ἀρετή (aretḗ, “virtue”) + -logy,or aretology (from ancient Greek aretê, "excellence, virtue") in the strictest sense is a narrative about a divine figure's miraculous deeds where a deit ...
.
Nowakowski has given guest lectures at
Kymenlaakso University of Applied Sciences (Finland, 2008),
University of Gothenburg (Sweden, 2009),
Başkent University
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(Turkey, 2010), and
Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin
The Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin (german: Alice-Salomon-Hochschule Berlin, or ASH) is a vocational university for social work, public health and early childhood education in Berlin, Germany.
History
The university was f ...
(Germany, 2011). In 2010 he conducted a research project ''The Problem of School Violence in California: Preventive Aspects'' at the
University of Southern California (Los Angeles, USA).
Nowakowski is an author and editor of several books and an author of many articles in the fields of social and pedagogical issues – he has published in the Slovak quarterly "Rozmer", in the Ukrainian "Visnyk", the Nigerian "Journal of Educational Review", the Brazilian "Educação", the Bolivian "Yachay" and the American "ICSA Today" as well as the "International Journal of Arts and Sciences".
Works
Books
*''Sekty: co każdy powinien wiedzieć''
ults: What One Should Know(1999)
*''Sekty: oblicza werbunku''
ults: Faces of Recruitment(2001)
*''Fast food dla mózgu, czyli telewizja i okolice''
ast Food for Mind, i.e., Television and Surroundings(2002)
*''Modele człowieka propagowane w czasopismach młodzieżowych. Analiza antropologiczno-etyczna''
odels of Man Propagated in Selected Magazines for Young People. An Anthropological and Ethical Analysis(2004)
Joint publication editing
*''The Phenomenon of Cults from a Scientific Perspective'', Cracow 2007.
*''Sekty jako problem współczesności''
ults as a Problem of Contemporary Reality Mysłowice 2008.
*''Higher Education in Nigeria: Selected Aspects'', Bloomington, IN (USA) 2010.
References
External links
Piotr Tomasz Nowakowski in the academic base of nauka-polska.pl Website(OPI)
*Articles by Piotr T. Nowakowski:
''Methods of Recruitment to Cults: The Social Influence Perspective''
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John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin alumni
Academic staff of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
1974 births
People from Tychy
Living people