Lech Witkowski
Lech Witkowski is a professor at the Institute of Psychology and Pedagogy, Pomeranian University in Słupsk, Poland. A philosopher of education working in critical pedagogy and applied humanities, he trained in mathematics and philosophy and received the title of professor in 1992.
His research spans philosophy of education and culture, epistemology, social pedagogy, sociology of education, identity theory, and developmental psychology. He has written extensively on authority, ambivalence, the life cycle, duality, identity, and process theory, engaging with thinkers including Mikhail Bakhtin, Zygmunt Bauman, Erik Erikson, Henry Giroux, Jürgen Habermas, Alfred North Whitehead, and Florian Znaniecki.
He is the author of more than 20 monographs and has co-edited a further 20 works. His recent books explore Whitehead’s contributions to the humanities and education, Znaniecki’s intellectual legacy, psychodynamics, and the relationship between metahumanities and transdisciplinarity.
Before joining Pomeranian University in 2012, he held academic posts at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz. His career includes international teaching and publishing, doctoral supervision, and service as President of the International Society for Universal Dialogue from 2002 to 2005. Pomeranian University celebrated his 50 years of academic work in 2024.