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Faculty of Arts

Doctoral programme in Education

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Programme:
Education (4-years), doctoral studies

Field of study or combination of fields:

FF: Education (Eng.), doctoral studies, study mode: combined, single-subject, languages in which the course is taught: English,

• Information about the field:
  

  At the Department of Educational Sciences of the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University, the doctoral programme in Education is conducted in English. This programme is focused strongly on the independent work of the student in cooperation with a supervisor. It is divided into three modules whose focuses are on philosophy and methodology, professional training, and language. In the course of his/her studies, each student is required to pass examinations in the philosophy of science and the methodology of educational research plus an examination in an educational discipline chosen in accordance with the focus of the student’s dissertation. The programme includes regular group seminars in which doctoral students, supervisors and guests lecturers take part. The standard length of a full-time course of study is four years; for part-time studies, the standard length is seven years. Applicants for the doctoral programme in Education should hold a Master’s degree in Education or a related discipline, be able to conduct scholarly discourse on issues in education with reference to its structure, problems and methodologies, and have a command of English that allows them to communicate at a high level in this language both orally and in writing.

• Entrance examinations for this field:
  

  Only university graduates of MA programmes with a corresponding or similar specialization can be admitted to the doctoral programme after passing an entrance examination. Documentation required for the admission procedure (must be sent in a written form to the Admissions Department (Oddělení pro přijímací řízení) to the above postal address by the end of January 2012): CV a list of published works a dissertation project an officially attested copy of the diploma (recognition of a foreign university degree, if applicable) Contents of the oral entrance examination: 1. The extent of preparedness for academic research 2. Your own conception for the major specialization in terms of the studied subject 3. Project for the Ph.D. dissertation 4. Language skills Entrance examinations will take place in February 2012

• Approximate number of applicants that are to be admitted in this round:
  

  1

• Information on studies in the Course Catalogue:
  

  http://www.phil.muni.cz/wff/home/studium/informace/katalog/index_html/view?set_language=cs

The degree programmes and fields listed above are open to applications in the following round:

Doctoral programme in Education

Faculty of Arts

Applications can be submitted from 2012/04/25 to 2012/05/31.