Education

The Education course is a joint doctoral studies with Kaunas University of Technology,  Lithuanian Sports University, Šiauliai University (from 2021 – Vilnius University Šiauliai Academy).

Education Education al research provided by the team is based on the contemporary approach to education and learning, as well as on the using the best Lithuanian and world-wide pedagogical traditions. 

The team understands well that the boundaries of the discipline of Education have already broadened. The educational researchers within the Education course from  Kaunas University of Technology Kaunas University of Technology focus not only on young generation’s and adults‘ formal, informal, non-formal education and learning, social education and education management, issues related to higher education but also on modern educational technologies, educational and learning environments and other issues related to educational innovations. 

Key facts

• Research is also carried out in the fields of employees‘ organizational learning in knowledge organizations, learning communities, development of learning cities and regions in terms of educational and learning challenges they face.
• Having more than 50 years of experience and well known for preparing more than 100 PhDs who have knowledge of modern education, a team of researchers in Educational Science from Kaunas University of Technology is a recognised Centre of excellence in the field in Lithuania.
• The high quality of doctoral studies is ensured not only by contribution in research projects on the most relevant topics nowadays but also by an active collaboration with the academics from University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), University of Haifa (Israel), California State University, Fullerton (USA) and others. Doctoral students participate in Erasmus+ exchanges that enable them to be active in an academic field on an international scale.

Right to doctoral studies acquired in cooperation with Klaipėda University and Lithuanian Energy Institute. Right to doctoral studies approved by the order No. V-1019 of the Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania of 08 June 2011.

Courses include:

• Philosophy, Systems and Didactics of Higher Education

• Information and Educational Technologies in Educational Organization

• Learning Environments and Partnership Networks

• Research Data Management

• Strategies and Models of Educational Change

• Teacher Competences and Action Research