W artykule podejmuję refleksję nad zjawiskiem profesjonalizacji komunikacji politycznej w dobie przeobrażeń wynikających z procesu mediatyzacji. Stanowiskiem wyjściowym w podejmowanej dyskusji jest twierdzenie, że profesjonalizacja kampanii wyborczych nie jest równoznaczna z profesjonalizacją komunikacji politycznej w ogóle. W poniższych analizach przyjmuję perspektywę strategicznego podejścia do działań komunikacyjnych podejmowanych przez organizacje partyjne. W pierwszej części dokonuję krytycznej analizy dotychczasowego spojrzenia na proces profesjonalizacji komunikacji politycznej oraz prezentuję wybrane propozycje badawcze, które mają na celu próbę ustrukturyzowania badań profesjonalizacji. W efekcie podjętych analiz, a także na podstawie dotychczasowych doświadczeń badawczych, w drugiej części tekstu proponuję spojrzenie na proces profesjonalizacji z perspektywy sposobu organizacji działań komunikacyjnych przez partie polityczne.

A contemporary human being expands and uses their individual abilities to update, deepen and enrich the potential of knowledge, skills and competences in order to adapt to the changing social living space. The tasks imposed by the contemporary society necessitate creation and fulfillment of an individual who learns to live and is able to develop in the individual and collective dimension by professionalisation and use of their own competence potential. The contemporary civilisational tasks are not based on preparing individuals for the existing society but on providing stimuli enabling every human being, by using their competence potential, to understand the surrounding world, to create it, to be its actual participant and recipient, and to feel responsible for it now and in the future.

This paper is focused on peer review used by schools as a potential means of support for mutual learning and the development of staff professionalism. It is based on empirical material obtained from The Road to Quality Improvement1, a Czech national project designed to support self-evaluation in schools. Data from 32 schools were collected by questionnaire surveys, interviews, focus groups and document analysis. Main findings are as follows: (1) a prerequisite for successful peer review is previous experience of evaluation activities and work with data; (2) peer review develops participants’ sensitivity in terms of the need for the development of evaluation skills; (3) evaluation activities and work with data develop participants’ professionalism and their potential to contribute to school development.

The article informs on the results of pedeutologic research carried out by a professiographic method. An overview of teachers' professional activities and of their time-demand has been obtained together with the level of teachers' self-evaluation. The results enable to compare teachers' professional activities in different countries and are a basis for working out the standards for teacher professionalization together with "The Empirical-Integral Model of teacher-training".

Youth is one of the riskiest groups at the labour market. Social pedagogy offers historical experience, a theoretical background as well as professional approach to solving youth unemployment. There is a wide range of social and pedagogical interventions into this multidisciplinary problem including preventive counseling, coordination of the school system and the labour market, and criticism and innovation of social changes that would bring help to unemployed youth.

A social worker is a key support profession in the social assistance system, so this profession should be performed by well-educated specialists. The aim of this article is to study the advancement of the process of professionalisation process of the job of a social worker in Poland. The research questions concern the key indicators of professionalisation of the job of a social worker, the course of this professionalisation in Poland and the main barriers to the process. Based on the research carried out, it was shown that, in the case of Poland, the professionalisation of the job of a social worker has reached the level that makes it possible to define a social worker as a ‘profession’. However, full professionalisation has not been reached in terms of all adopted indicators of the analysis; hence the need to support further professionalisation of this profession.