Transpedagogy or student-professor discourse on transculturality

This article is the germ of the concept of transcultural pedagogy based on reflections of female pedagogy students at [author’s] University related to the lecture “Introduction to transcultural pedagogy”. This lecture was given in the academic years 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 by the author of the text; it was probably the first lecture in Poland dedicated entirely to the application of the idea of transculturality into pedagogy. In principle, it was attended by second-year female students of the following master’s degree courses: Pre-school and Early School Education and Special Needs Education (additionally, a few fourth-year female students of Pre-school and Early School Education took part in the course on an optional basis). At the end of the course, the students produced essays on their perception of transcultural pedagogy. They gave written permission to make use of their work for scientific analysis, being aware that their perspective would be presented as a voice in the discussion on transcultural pedagogy in Poland, to which Jerzy Nikitorowicz and Marta Guziuk-Tkacz (2021) invited. This analysis is a qualitative study. It employs elements of grounded theory methodology (Charmaz, 2009) in the way that categories and subcategories were generated from the analysis of student papers. The qualitative data analysis software QDAMiner Version 5.0.12 with an individual licence was used to generate categories and subcategories.