Educational Sciences

This Educational Sciences PhD program from Masaryk University aim is to provide a scientific education in the fields of education and andragogy.

The Educational Sciences PhD program from Masaryk University is ready for highly professional scientific research activity in the field of education. Graduates possess the knowledge and skills of basic and advanced teaching disciplines, the methodology of educational research, the design and execution of empirical research and the evaluation of its results, and the ability to disseminate research results to the professional community and collaborate with experts from other universities at national and international levels.

Career opportunities:

Successful graduates are able to pursue separate and highly professional scientific research activities in the field of teaching, to design and implement pedagogical research and to evacuate its results, to convey the results of their research to the professional community, and to collaborate with experts from other places of work at national and international levels.

The graduates of our doctoral studies program are very well prepared for scientific work, as evidenced by the fact that they are successfully hired at many Czech universities and continue to work in the field. Our graduates are employed by the Technical University of Ostrava, the Faculty of Education of Masaryk University, the University of Pardubice, Mendel University in Brno, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, the University of Hradec Králové, the Global School of Science in Nepal, the Royal University of Bhutan, and Comenius University in Bratislava. 

Main research topics:

• Distributed leadership in schools

• Adult education in the world (comparative study)

• School climates through pupils’ eyes

• Communication between pupils in group classes

• Informal learning for school leaders

• The role of pupils’ language equipment in their involvement in teaching communication

• Arguments in dialogic teaching