Department of Language Monitoring and Communication

Owing to the special role of Language in the process of democratisation and education serving it, this department adopts a double function: at the level of the Centre itself, it is meant as an additional Language “fuse” so that the studies, projects, teachings, and initiatives carried out by the Rother department are carrued on on the basis of inclusive and politically correct language, and thus they fulfilled international legislature with reference to equality and justice, and also rights vested in national and ethnic minorities, as well as communities employing regional languages.

Most importantly, however, this department has various external tasks relating to international cooperation and Communications between various social entities, with the engagement of partner establishments of a character similar to that of ECED and specialists for the linguistic foundations of democracy, the educational role of language, sociolinguistics disinformation, and media coverage.

Additionally, an equally eseential task of the department will be protecting – on the level of language – the Centre itself as well as other EU structures against two types of risk: intentionally negative language used by the enemies of the EU in the form of unfavourable associations generated, on the one hand, and excessively positive language employed by European entities discouraging the European recipient, on the other hand.

The department is headed by:

Michał Daszkiewicz, PhD

Division of Studies on Childhood and School, Institute of Education, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Gdańsk; International Association for the Educational Role of Language

michal.daszkiewicz@ug.edu.pl

PhD in applied linguistics; completed post-graduate studies on educational measurement and evaluation; founder and leader of the International Association for the Educational Role of Language; editor-in-chief of Educational Role of Language Journal; organiser and co-organiser of national and international conferences devoted to the position of language in education and education for democracy. Co-editor of Collegium Nobilium Novum Foundation’s Annals Education for Democracy. Former instructor and researcher of the Inter-Faculty Centre for Educational Science and Methodology, and the Division of Educational Diagnostics at the University of Gdańsk. English language editor and translator. Author of publications concerning the linguistic dimension of education and democracy, incl. Language personality as a four-dimensional construct falling outside university students’ reflection, Language as the basis of democratic education, Democracy as a – socially and subjectively negotiated personal construct, Multilateral democratic education – four fundamental guidelines.

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