She earned a master's degree from the University of Lodz in Poland, a Ph.D. from the University of Warsaw and a diploma for teaching French at Sorbonne University in Paris. She completed post-doctoral training at Laval University in Quebec. She has published more than 20 articles in journals in England, Canada, the United States and Poland, and has presented her research in Greece, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland and Canada. Her major research interests are the symbolic representation of children, the teaching of orphan and foster children, and the development and assessment of caring dispositions in pre-service teachers.