Special Education

This Special Education PhD programme from Masaryk University prepares highly qualified professionals for theoretical as well as practical applications of special education expertise aimed at solutions of broad range of special educational issues including social inclusion.

The Special Education PhD programme from Masaryk University aim is to prepare researchers specializing in research, teaching and professional activities in special education focusing on following fields: speech therapy, hearing impairment, intellectual disability, physical disability, visual impairment, specific learning disorders, multiple disorders, special andragogy and addictology. 

The aim is to enable outstanding students to continue their chosen profiling in the doctoral study Special Education, to enable them to carry out research activities that many of them have been doing since master’s studies and to prepare highly qualified specialists for their further work at the university or at the research institutions in our country and abroad.

Career opportunities:

The graduates from the doctoral studies in Special Education are highly qualified specialists and find their positions mostly at universities or at the scientific and research institutions in the Czech Republic and abroad.

After successfully completing his/her studies the graduate is able to:

• know deeply and systematically the subject and scope of their special pedagogical field, both in the historical and contemporary wider contexts and at the level of the contemporary state of knowledge;

• gain profound knowledge in the field of special education with a focus on inclusion, inclusive education, and social inclusion;

• design, implement and evaluate results of special education research; be able to enrich scientific knowledge with ethnical principles in scientific projects;

• engage in the life of the national and international scientific community, including publishing activities, planning research projects, obtaining resources for their implementation;

• present results of own research to the professional community: in the form of monographs, papers at domestic and international conferences;