Samowiedza dziedziny jako czynnik wspomagający jakość i użyteczność badań
Self-knowledge of the discipline as a factor for increasing research quality and utility

Summary/Abstract: The article, written in a form of an essay, is dedicated to the attitude of a scientist towards his research practice and the discipline (with special attention to educational studies). It is a reaction to a negative assessment of quality of education, as delivered by employers, academics and educators. Self-knowledge is considered herein as a fundamental factor that increases quality and utility of research. The author undertakes the problem of self-knowledge, identity of the discipline, paradigm of science, shortcomings in the procedure of science construction as well as methodological aspects and offers a set of auxiliary questions to be answered while constructing a research project, with an emphasis made on its utility.

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