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Teachers as Citizens
Professional Preparation
and Development
Grzegorz Mazurkiewicz
INTRODUCTION
The most important result of a teachers’ work is a student who learns. This is an obvious statement,
which becomes complex when one starts to clarify what leaning means. There are numerous under-
standings of the concept of learning as well as numerous understandings of its aims. We know that
the context of human life and also the context of education have changed dramatically during rst
decade of the 21st century. It is not necessary to repeat here the diagnosis of a contemporary global-
ized world hardly inuenced by the development of technol ...