Educational sciences

Educational sciences

Duration of the programme: 4 years (8 semesters) 

Programme description: 

The Program of Education at the Doctoral School carried out in the discipline of pedagogy enables to acquire specialist knowledge and skills necessary to conduct research topped with the submission of a doctoral dissertation in the field of pedagogy and preparation to take the role of an academic teacher. It is a modern, personalised proposal for the development of an academic career path.

The content of the program is targeted to acquire in-depth knowledge of the world achievements of the discipline of pedagogy and a range of cognitive skills related to the critical analysis of research results, innovative solving of complex educational problems, expert and research activities. The studies also allow to build a specialised methodological workshop that allows designing and conducting individual and team research projects, also in the international environment. The program also includes content aimed at competences enabling preparation for academic work with students and designing paths of one’s own scientific career.

Career opportunities:

The Education Program offered at the Doctoral School in the discipline of pedagogy enables the graduate to build a research workshop based on interdisciplinary theoretical background, allowing further independent scientific and research work. The graduate has an in-depth knowledge of the world achievements of pedagogy and its methodological foundations; mastered the research workshop to the extent enabling the creative use of research methods, techniques and tools; knowledge of a modern foreign language enables him to participate in an international scientific environment. The graduate’s completion of advanced studies and research makes him a high-class specialist area of his research interests.

The acquired substantive knowledge and research competencies as well as the established scientific contacts and cooperation with researchers domestically and abroad during the educational program give the graduate a strong position also on the non-academic labour market.

Key words:

  • general pedagogy
  • social pedagogy
  • care pedagogy
  • early childhood education
  • information and communication technologies in education
  • pedagogy of higher education
  • andragogy
  • geragogy
  • special pedagogy
  • resocialization pedagogy
  • health education
  • intercultural education

Candidates for PhD Supervisors

ORCID Number: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5250-3337
Department/Chair/Institute: Chair of Special Education and Resocialization
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
University: University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
Telephone: 608419241
Email: beata.antoszewska@uwm.edu.pl
Personal Website:
ResearchGate Account:

Academic Discipline:
Education

Academic Achievement Indicators:

  1. Number of Publications (WoS/Scopus): Not provided
  2. Number of Citations (WoS/Scopus) Without Self-Citations: 2
  3. Hirsch Index (WoS/Scopus): 1
  4. Number of Citations (Google Scholar): 129
  5. Hirsch Index (Google Scholar): 6
  6. Number of Promoted Doctors: Not provided
  7. Number of Supervised Doctoral Students: Not provided

Supervision Availability:
Polish Doctoral Student: Yes (1) / No
Foreign Doctoral Student: Yes (Number of foreign doctoral students) / No

Scientific Interests/Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  1. Psycho-oncology
  2. Therapeutic pedagogy
  3. Doctor-patient communication
  4. Education of children with chronic illness

Funds or Special Equipment Required for the Doctoral Project:

  1. Is there funding available to cover the cost of research?
    No
  2. Is the infrastructure and adequate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair to serve the planned research tasks?
    Yes

ORCID Number: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2305-6069
Department/Chair/Institute: Katedra Pedagogiki Specjalnej i Resocjalizacji
Faculty: Wydział Nauk Społecznych
University: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
Telephone: +48 606 141 691
Email: k.cwirynkalo@uwm.edu.pl
Personal Website: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/rid/AAM-6838-2020
ResearchGate Account: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Katarzyna-Cwirynkalo

Academic Discipline:
Education

Academic Achievement Indicators:

  1. Number of Publications (WoS/Scopus): 20 / 18
  2. Number of Citations (WoS/Scopus) Without Self-Citations: 14 / 50
  3. Hirsch Index (WoS/Scopus): 2 / 4
  4. Number of Citations (Google Scholar): 505
  5. Hirsch Index (Google Scholar): 11
  6. Number of Promoted Doctors: 0
  7. Number of Supervised Doctoral Students: 1

Supervision Availability:
Polish Doctoral Student: Yes (1) / No
Foreign Doctoral Student: Yes (1) / No

Scientific Interests/Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  1. Families of persons with disabilities
  2. Parents with intellectual disabilities
  3. Adulthood of persons with disabilities
  4. Education of students with individual educational needs

Funding and Resources for Doctoral Project:

  1. Is there funding available to cover the cost of research?
    No
  2. Is the infrastructure and adequate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair to serve the planned research tasks?
    Yes

ORCID Number: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0032-9944
Department/Chair/Institute: Chair of Didactics and Early Education/Institute of Pedagogical Science
Faculty: Faculty of Social Science
University: University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
Telephone: 694 921 990
Email: Marzenna.nowicka@uwm.edu.pl
Personal Website:
ResearchGate Account:

Academic Discipline:
Pedagogy

Academic Achievement Indicators:

  1. Number of Publications (WoS/Scopus): Not provided
  2. Number of Citations (WoS/Scopus) Without Self-Citations: Not provided
  3. Hirsch Index (WoS/Scopus): Not provided
  4. Number of Citations (Google Scholar): 262
  5. Hirsch Index (Google Scholar): 5
  6. Number of Promoted Doctors: 1
  7. Number of Supervised Doctoral Students: 1

Supervision Availability:
Polish Doctoral Student: Yes
Foreign Doctoral Student: No

Scientific Interests/Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  1. Childhood and children’s culture in the modern world
  2. Challenges of school education in the digital world
  3. Children’s online activity
  4. Processes of a child’s socialization at school

Funds and Resources for Doctoral Project:

  1. Is there funding available to cover the cost of research?
    No.
  2. Is the infrastructure and adequate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair to serve the planned research tasks?
    Yes.

ORCID Number: 0000-0002-3423-1347
Department/Chair/Institute: Chair of General and Childcare Pedagogy/Institute of Pedagogical Sciences
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
University: University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
Telephone: 89 5234440
Email: pawel.piotrowski@uwm.edu.pl
Personal Website: Not provided
ResearchGate Account: Not provided

Academic Discipline:
Pedagogy (Education)

Academic Achievement Indicators:

  1. Number of Publications (WoS/Scopus): 0
  2. Number of Citations (WoS/Scopus) Without Self-Citations: 0
  3. Hirsch Index (WoS/Scopus): 0
  4. Number of Citations (Google Scholar): 33
  5. Hirsch Index (Google Scholar): 3
  6. Number of Promoted Doctors: 0
  7. Number of Supervised Doctoral Students: 0

Supervision Availability:

  • Polish Doctoral Student: Yes (1)
  • Foreign Doctoral Student: No (N/A)

Scientific Interests/Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  1. Educational philosophy and theory
  2. Contemporary pedagogies
  3. Basis of pedagogy and some different sources of thinking on education (metaeducology, metapedagogy)
  4. Pedagogical application of achievements of some other domains of knowledge

Funding and Resources for Doctoral Project:

  1. Is there funding available to cover the cost of research?
    No
  2. Is the infrastructure and adequate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair to serve the planned research tasks?
    Yes