Janina Parafiniuk-Soińska (1922–2012), Educator and Academic from Szczecin

The article presents professional and scientific acitivity of professor Janina Parafiniuk-Soiński. The scientist was connected with Szczecin (family and professionally) already since 1949. She actively participated in the construction of the Szczecin academic education because worked at Wyższa Szkoła Nauczycielska and Wyższa Szkoła Pedagogiczna. These institutions, as we rememeber, can be considered as a praforma of University of Szczecin, including Instytut Pedagogiki. The professor also served as a director of the latter institutions in the most difficult period of its operation, which certainly required from the considerable amount of work and effort. The paper also presents the directions of scientific work – research focusing on two fundamental: learning process in teaching and initial preparation of teachers at university level. Also invoked the image of Janina Parafiniuk-Soińska in the memories of her colleagues and students at the same time pointing out its most important qualities as a man and scientist.