Last Name: Kaniewski
Given Name: Marek
Date of Birth: 07.04.1959
Nationality(ies): Polish
Spiritual Journey: spiritual rebirth (conversion) 1983; baptized 1986. Member of the Christian music group "Psalm-150" for 10 years (drums, harmonica) in the Baptist Church. Member and secretary of the congregation council of the local Baptist Church (Katowice). Founder and president of the Polish Association of Christian Teachers (10 years until the association is dissolved). Sunday school teacher 15 years. Now member the Church of Christ in Katowice
Education Details:
- A graduate of the Academy of Physical Education - teaching; first specializing - tourism and recreation; second specialization - correction of posture defects (Katowice, 1985)
- Two-year qualification and methodical course: "Sexual education” (Katowice, 1999; State Methodological Center)
- Postgraduate studies “Education for family life" (Katowice, 2007; University of Silesia in Katowice, Pedagogical University in Cracow)
- Postgraduate studies "Totalitarianism, nazism, Holocaust” (Oświęcim 2016; International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust; The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim; Pedagogical University name of the National Education Commission in Krakow)
Major international courses and trainings:
- Training of educators: "Holocaust and human rights" & "Training program on the Holocaust"; Organizer: US Embassy in Warsaw, US State Department, Office Education and Culture USA, Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington & Jewish Heritage Museum in New York; Washington, New York August 11-18, 2011
- Participation in the Seminar for Educators at the Yad Vashem International School of Teaching about the Holocaust in Jerusalem, on November 2-13. 2014; Organizer: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim, Yad Vashem Memorial Institute in Jerusalem.
Work Details (type of work, where, when):
- Teacher at a mining school (1985-1996) and an economic technical college (1996-2017) in Katowice city (16 school principal's awards, 2 awards of the mayor of the city of Katowice and education superintendent's award for educational work
- Many years of practice in working with the so-called "Difficult youth" and voluntary work in prisons (1988 -1992 and 2003). Participation in the juvenile prevention program (1992 - 1994) including innovative activities in the field of organization of educational lessons in prisons.
- Court mediator in juvenile, family matters in school
- Participant of 104 national pedagogical conferences, including organizer and lecturer at 16 conferences. Participant of 25 international pedagogical conferences, incl co-organizer, lecturer and speaker at thematic seminars at 10 conferences.
Professional/Missional Memberships:
- Polish Christian Teachers Association (founder, president and member 1994-2004) - association dissolved
- The EurECA Association (member a few years in board - from 1992)
- US Alumni Association operates at the US embassy in Poland (member 2014-2020) - personal resignation
Publications, Including in Non-Traditional Media:
- Author of 70 articles in the field of pedagogy, psychology and education.
Other information at the present time:
- speaker on issues related to the martyrdom of prisoners in German Nazi concentration and extermination camps and the Holocaust.
- lectures for young people on sex education based on Christian (Biblical) values
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