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

Basic information
ORCID
Department / Institute
Department of Special Education and Social Rehabilitation
Faculty
Faculty of Social Sciences
University
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
Phone
+48 608 419 241
Email
Website
No personal website
ResearchGate
no URL provided
Discipline
Pedagogy
Academic achievement indicators
  • Publications (WoS/Scopus): no data
  • Citations (WoS/Scopus, excl. self-citations): no data
  • Hirsch index (WoS/Scopus): no data
  • Citations (Google Scholar): 207
  • Hirsch index (Google Scholar): 6
  • Promoted doctors: 0
  • Supervised doctoral students: 1
Doctoral student supervision
Polish doctoral student
Yes
Foreign doctoral student
No
Research interests / offered topics
  • Cancer in the family.
  • Thanatopedagogy.
  • Education of children with chronic illnesses.
Funds and infrastructure
Research funding
No
Department infrastructure
No
Basic information
ORCID
Department / Institute
Department of General and Care Pedagogy
Faculty
Faculty of Social Sciences
University
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
Phone
+48 503 053 427
Email
Website
no data
ResearchGate
Discipline
Pedagogy (social, care, critical)
Academic achievement indicators
  • Publications (WoS/Scopus): 0
  • Citations (WoS/Scopus, excl. self-citations): 0
  • Hirsch index (WoS/Scopus): 0
  • Citations (Google Scholar): 121
  • Hirsch index (Google Scholar): 7
  • Promoted doctors: 0
  • Supervised doctoral students: 0
Doctoral student supervision
Polish doctoral student
Yes
Foreign doctoral student
No
Research interests / offered topics
  • Issues of femininity and masculinity, related to social roles (motherhood, fatherhood).
  • Topics related to risky behaviors and addictions.
Funds and infrastructure
Research funding
Yes
Department infrastructure
Yes
Additional information
Preferred research in the qualitative and critical paradigm.
Basic information
ORCID
Department / Institute
Chair of Special Education and Resocialization / Institute of Pedagogy
Faculty
Faculty of Social Sciences
University
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
Phone
+48 606 141 691
Email
Website
ResearchGate
Discipline
Pedagogy (education)
Academic achievement indicators
  • Publications (WoS/Scopus): 40 / 37
  • Citations (WoS/Scopus, excl. self-citations): 56 / 125
  • Hirsch index (WoS/Scopus): 5 / 7
  • Citations (Google Scholar): 831
  • Hirsch index (Google Scholar): 16
  • Promoted doctors: 0
  • Supervised doctoral students: 1
Doctoral student supervision
Polish doctoral student
Yes (1 spot)
Foreign doctoral student
Yes (1 spot)
Research interests / offered topics
  • Inclusive research with persons with intellectual disabilities.
  • Parents of persons with intellectual disabilities.
  • Adulthood of persons with intellectual disabilities.
  • Education of students with diverse educational needs.
Funds and infrastructure
Research funding
No
Department infrastructure
Yes
Basic information
ORCID
Department / Institute
Chair of Special Pedagogy and Resocialisation
Faculty
Faculty of Social Sciences
University
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
Phone
+48 501 772 082
Email
Website
no data
ResearchGate
no data
Discipline
Pedagogy
Academic achievement indicators
  • Publications (WoS/Scopus): 0
  • Citations (WoS/Scopus, excl. self-citations): 1
  • Hirsch index (WoS/Scopus): 0
  • Citations (Google Scholar): 446
  • Hirsch index (Google Scholar): 11
  • Promoted doctors: 4
  • Supervised doctoral students: 1
Doctoral student supervision
Polish doctoral student
Yes
Foreign doctoral student
No
Research interests / offered topics
  • Special, integrated, inclusive education.
  • Rehabilitation and support for people with disabilities.
  • Interpersonal communication and speech therapy.
Funds and infrastructure
Research funding
Yes
Department infrastructure
Yes
Basic information
ORCID
Department / Institute
Chair of General and Childcare Pedagogy / Institute of Pedagogical Sciences
Faculty
Faculty of Social Sciences
University
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
Phone
+48 89 523 44 40
Email
Website
no data
ResearchGate
no data
Discipline
Pedagogy (education sciences)
Academic achievement indicators
  • Publications (WoS/Scopus): 0
  • Citations (WoS/Scopus, excl. self-citations): 0
  • Hirsch index (WoS/Scopus): 0
  • Citations (Google Scholar): 60
  • Hirsch index (Google Scholar): 5
  • Promoted doctors: 0
  • Supervised doctoral students: 1
Doctoral student supervision
Polish doctoral student
Yes
Foreign doctoral student
No
Research interests / offered topics
  • Educational philosophy and theory.
  • Contemporary pedagogies.
  • Basis of pedagogy and different sources of thinking on education (metaeducology, metapedagogy).
  • Problems of education in the 21st century and the future of education.
  • Interdisciplinarity of pedagogy and pedagogical applications of achievements from other domains of knowledge.
Funds and infrastructure
Research funding
No
Department infrastructure
Yes