Contemporary labor pedagogy. Problem areas

Labor pedagogy is a subdiscipline of pedagogy which tackles issues of upbringing to perform work throughout the entire life of a person. Contemporary socio-economic changes mean that the range of problems undertaken on the basis of labor pedagogy is systematically expanding, which culminated particularly after the introduction of a market economy in Poland. Labor pedagogy is a subdiscipline of the borderland of sciences, which means that it is strongly associated with many other disciplines of science. That makes it difficult to determine its separateness. Despite this, however, the features of a scientific subdiscipline can be recognized in it. A number of problem areas identified within it are important for both pedagogy and other social sciences. They are systematically examined by labor pedagogy researchers. In labor pedagogy, scientific theories based on other social sciences are used as well as its own theoretical concepts have been developed . They try to explain the problems outlined in the thematic triad: man - education - work. An important task of labor pedagogy is to disseminate its theoretical achievements on the basis of other subdisciplines of pedagogy as well as other sciences.