In the Doctoral School of Education, the training is conducted within a modular structure. All doctoral students participate in the courses that are part of the shared modules, which include intensive training in research methodology. At the same time, based on their individual research interests, they also engage in one of the eight thematic programs offered by the Doctoral School. Each of these programs provides a specialized course portfolio tailored to the needs of the respective research field, comprising both mandatory and elective elements.

Doctoral programs

Adult Learning and Education doctoral program

Program leader:

Helga Dorner
E-mail: dorner.helga@ppk.elte.hu

Description of the program:

Our program aims to provide doctoral students with interdisciplinary (e.g. economic, social, community/organizational) knowledge, skills and research methodologies related to the field of adult education that are applicable in their postdoctoral professional contexts and beyond. The researcher attitude will contribute to transferring their expert knowledge to multidisciplinary academic and non-academic contexts as well as to nurturing openness towards sustained professionalization and self-development. ... For more information please click here.

Teacher Education and Higher Education Studies (EDiTE) doctoral program

Program leader:

Erika Kopp
E-mail: kopp.erika@ppk.elte.hu

Description of the program:

The original form of the Teacher education and higher education studies (EDiTE) doctoral program was developed in the framework of a European Union funded international project in partnership with five European universities under the name of “European Doctorate in Teacher Education”. Originally this program admitted applicants interested in research on teachers and teacher education. Following the closure of the international project the scope of the program was enlarged so that it could provide doctoral education also to students interested in general higher education studies. ... For more information please click here.

Special Education doctoral program

Program leader:

Andrea Perlusz
E-mail: perlusz.andrea@barczi.elte.hu

Description of the program:

The mission of the Ph.D. program is to provide young researchers who will be able to take on leadership and senior lecturer roles in academic, research, and clinical settings concerned with the scientific study of human development and everyday life of individuals with special needs. The Ph.D. program in Special Education is an interdisciplinary program that brings together scholars from education of children and adults with special needs, rehabilitation sciences, disability studies, and neuroscience. ... For more information please click here.

Early Childhood Education doctoral program

Program leader:

Anikó Zsolnai
E-mail: zsolnai.aniko@ppk.elte.hu

Description of the program:

This PhD program aims to provide an overview of the most recent scientific knowledge on development and education in early childhood. Another important goal is to provide necessary methodological knowledge about current trends, approaches, methods, and practical issues to study the cognitive, social and emotional skills and abilities of children between 0 and 12 years. ... For more information please click here.

Culture, Diversity, and Education doctoral program

Program leader:

János Győri
E-mail: gyori.janos@ppk.elte.hu

Description of the program:

The goal of the doctoral programme entitled Culture, Diversity, and Education – Kultúra, sokféleség és oktatás is, firstly, that doctoral students, relying on the special methodology of cultural researches, uncover educational, pedagogical, sociological, socio-psychological, anthropological, and other features which are intertwined with cultural diversity in both local and global educational scenes, including features relevant to the culture and educational environment of Hungarian, and other European and non-European communities alike. Secondly, the programme also intends to place good practice under regular scrutiny by implementing comparative research methods, and other scientific tools, thus facilitating future development options through raising a new generation of scientists. ... For more information please click here.

Learning, Instruction and Subject Pedagogies doctoral program

Program leader:

Sándor Lénárd
E-mail: lenard.sandor@ppk.elte.hu

Description of the program:

The Learning, Instruction and Subject Pedagogies Module focuses on the research of learning and teaching, actors, processes, social environment and the operation of practice, their connection, and the factors that influence their effectiveness. It encourages researches on how learning support practices, an educational institution, a training program, an educational system work, what, why, and how participants learn, and last but not least, what kind of connection can be discovered between these and the individual, the social and societal characteristics, processes. The aim of the module is to enable students to use basic features, principles, and conceptual structures of pedagogical research, learning research, educational theory paradigms prevailing in today’s educational research in their own research. Besides that prepare them to validate the specific aspects of teaching, equity, and subject pedagogies. ... For more information please click here.

Theoretical - Historical Pedagogy doctoral program

Program leader:

Imre Garai
E-mail: garai.imre@ppk.elte.hu

Description of the program:

The Theoretical and Historical Pedagogy Doctoral Program is based on the research projects carried out by the Research Group on Historical, Theoretical, and Comparative Pedagogy and a research community attached to it. These research projects are carried out in a wide national and international research cooperation with a qualitative research orientation focusing on current research questions and subdisciplines (education in the family outside the school, within the school, theoretical, systematic, comparative, and historical aspects of children and youth education) of educational sciences. ... For more information please click here.

Sports and Health Promotion doctoral program

Program leader:

Attila Szabó
E-mail: szabo.attila@ppk.elte.hu

Description of the program:

The program approaches the area of sports and health education in a complex way from different directions. One topic is the somatic and health education, focusing on the sports and body culture as well as on the recreation, respectively. It is also an important the orientation teaching of healthy and mentall hygienic sport performance research. Another direction is free time and leisure sports, their relation to the competitive sports, and also examination of the methods especially applied on these areas. The third direction is training methods, educational/teaching ideas and practice, respectively, applied in sports. Finally, a fourth direction is theoretical and general problems, including sports theory, sports history and sports law. In addition to provide a rich and general doctoral training for those coming from the areas of sports, recreation and health education, it can be a useful addition for the doctoral training of those coming from the areas of adult education, special education and kindergarten/primary school teachers’ courses as well.

Common modules

Theoretical Module

Research Methodology Module

Anikó Fehérvári
E-mail: fehervari.aniko@ppk.elte.hu
Description of the modules is available here.