Study Programme Pedagogy
Doctoral programme: Pedagogy
Field of Study: 38. Teacher Training and Education Science
Doctoral studies consist of three parts:
1. the learning part (lectures, seminars and individual study),
2. the scientific part (scientific, research and publishing activity) and
3. the pedagogical part (teaching and related activities).
The doctoral programme Pedagogy is an organic part of the field of study of Teaching and Pedagogical Sciences. It aims to provide the scientific education needed for research in pedagogical theory and practice and related disciplines at all levels of education including adult education, as well as its application in school practice, and related disciplines at all levels of education, including adult education, as well as its application to school and out-of-school practice.
The doctoral programme observes in the learning part:
- deepening students' knowledge of current philosophical, socio-cultural, pedagogical-psychological, historical and social contexts of education and training and ways of addressing them, and
- deepening students' knowledge of educational sciences, information and knowledge about the latest scientific results and the current state of scientific knowledge in the field of pedagogical and related sciences in an international sense,
in the scientific part:
- guiding the student to the perception and addressing of a pedagogical, scientific problem in the field of study,
- developing the student's ability to formulate the conclusions of his/her own scientific work while adhering to ethical principles and scientific language and to interpret these conclusions, discuss them and present them at scientific conferences and publish them in scientific journals in a competent manner.
The specific method of teaching, its criteria and required goals are described in more detail for each course of the submitted study programme, which is also provided in the course information sheets.
With the help of the their supervisor, each PhD student creates his/her own study plan that complies with the requirements of the study programme leads to its successful completion and the obtaining of the required minimum number of credit points, in which he/she:
- addresses the assigned scientific problem from the field (thesis topic) by independent activities,
- evaluates the obtained professional and scientific information in a seminar form and through the individual guidance of his/her supervisor, acquires skills in the standard methods and forms of scientific research,
- participates in the teaching of subjects in the first cycle of higher education in the field of Teaching and Pedagogical Sciences.
The graduate of doctoral studies can find employment as teaching staff or a researcher at a university, academic and other educational, scientific research, prognostic, statistical institutions including those of a European character. He/she can perform in a professional manner the job of a university teacher, tasks in theoretical and applied research, the tasks of an innovative conceptual, programme worker, evaluator in state administration in education. He/she can also find a job as a teacher in regional education as per Act No 138/2019 Coll on Teaching Staff and Professional Staff.
The graduates of the study program by assessing their applicability in the labour-market will fall into the category "011 Education" according to the international standard classification (International Standard Classification of Education: Fields of Education and Training 2013)
(1) Conditions of admission to the study of the doctoral study programme Pedagogy at the FE JSU for the academic year 2025/2026 - Pedagogy: (here)
(2) Thesis topics - Pedagogy - Academic year 2025/2026: (
here)
(3) Dissertation project plan - proposal
(4) The members of the Special Committee of the doctoral study programme in Pedagogy, Study field: 38. Teacher Training and Education Science
Dr. habil. PaedDr. Kinga Horváth, PhD. (Department of Primary and Pre-school Education, Faculty of Education of J. Selye University, ) - chairman
Dr. habil. PaedDr. Melinda Nagy, PhD. (Department of Biology, Faculty of Education of J. Selye University, ) - vice-chairman
Doc. Dr. univ. Agáta Csehiová, PhD. (Department of Primary and Pre-school Education, Faculty of Education of J. Selye University, ) - secretary
Prof. Dr. Katalin Ambrus Attila Józsefné Kéri, DSc. (Department of Primary and Pre-school Education, Faculty of Education of J. Selye University,
Prof. Dr. Krisztián Józsa, PhD. (Department of Primary and Pre-school Education, Faculty of Education of J. Selye University, )
Prof. Dr. András Németh, DSc. (Department of Primary and Pre-school Education, Faculty of Education of J. Selye University, )
Prof. Dr. Béla István Pukánszky, DSc. (Department of Pedagogiky, Faculty of Education of J. Selye University, )
Prof. Dr. Péter Tóth, PhD. (Department of Pedagogiky, Faculty of Education of J. Selye University, )
Dr. habil. PaedDr. György Juhász, PhD. (Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Education of J. Selye University, )
Dr. phil., Mgr. Attila Mészáros, (Department of German Language and Literature, Faculty of Education of J. Selye University, )
Doc. RNDr. Edita Partová, CSc. (Faculty of Education, Comenius University Bratislava, )
Mgr. Katarína Szarka, PhD. (Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Education of J. Selye University, )
Dr. habil. László Varga, PhD. (Benedek Elek Faculty of Pedagogy, University of West Hungary, Sopron, )
(5) Organisational and Negotiating Rules of the Special Committee for Doctoral Studies in Pedagogy (
here)
Doctoral students in the academic year 2022/2023 - study programme Pedagogy (
here)