Pedagogue, honorary doctorate of the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin (2014), the UKW in Bydgoszcz (2016), the Catholic University of Lublin (2017), the UKSW in Warsaw (2020) and the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences in Ukraine (2019); member of The International Board of Tomas Bata University in Zlín and the International Advisory Board of the Faculty of Education of the University of South Bohemia in the Czech Republic; honorary professor of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn and the University of Silesia; b. Chairman of the Committee on Pedagogical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2011-2019), member of the Council for Scientific Excellence (from 2019). Scoutmaster. Editor-in-chief of “Studia z Theorii Wychowania”. Author, among others, of 47 scientific monographs and editor of 4 volumes of the international academic textbook “Pedagogy”. Academic interests: general pedagogy, philosophical and theoretical foundations of education, comparative pedagogy, andragogy and (early)school pedagogy.