Pre-school Pedagogy

Have you already acquired a kindergarten teacher qualification, and do you want to deepen and broaden your knowledge of pre-school education now? Do you have an ambition to support development of children with difficulties or specific educational needs? Are you interested in improving the quality of pre-primary education in the school reality or the pre-primary education as a scientific discipline? At Masaryk University, you can study a programme deepening the knowledge of the youngest children education in the fields that are topical in today`s kindergartens. This study programme provides you with improving your knowledge of the pedagogical disciplines closely related to pre-school education, like pedagogy, psychology, sociology, and social pedagogy. The study programme will increase your value in the labour market with broad specialization: from leading and coordination of small teams in nursery schools to development of the science discipline of pre-primary education at universities.

“Let’s find the ways to (not only) children development!”

We connect theory with praxis together in all the programme’s courses. Students have to undertake practical training in schools every semester. The training also helps students to understand children with difficulties or special educational needs, with planning their professional development, and mainly with communication with all interested participants: family, colleagues, and educational and psychological counselling centres. The practical training is for students also a tool to continuous checking his/her professional growth and a space for applying the theory. During your studies, you can also gather some great experiences with pre-school education abroad with the Erasmus+ programme (you may visit for example Estonia, Austria, Spain, UK, etc.). You can undertake not only a study visit in the maximal length of a year but even an internship. It is a great opportunity to increase your language as well as pedagogical skills.

Is the pre-school education study for you? Try to answer these questions:

Are you a kindergarten teacher, but you need to understand better the peculiarities of children with difficulties or special educational needs?

Do you want to affect the forms or schemes of the pre-school education in the Czech Republic and to improve its quality?

If you answered yes to both questions don’t hesitate and apply for admission to our study programme!

Practical training

An important part of the study programme is the completion of several practical trainings. The first one is the practical training in the educational and psychological counselling centres. Another type of practical training is implemented in the form of supervisions in the classes. The third type is based on diagnostic activities and creation of pedagogical support plans and individual courses of study; in this type you can test your abilities to communicate with families. The third type is implemented mainly in special classes or special nursery schools.

Further information

More information available here: https://katedry.ped.muni.cz/primarni-pedagogika.

Prospective ambiguities can be consulted at the Department of Primary Education at Faculty of Education of Masaryk University, Poříčí, 31, third floor, at office hours or on an open day.

As a graduate of our study programme, you will understand the specific issues of education of children with difficulties or special educational needs and the issues of communication with families and educational and psychological counselling centres. You will develop your knowledge in the field of pre-school education and close disciplines, so you will be able to work on further development of these disciplines. You will be also able to manage and coordinate small teams. After graduation, you can offer your employer your diagnostic knowledge, which is necessary to understand the specifics of children and to subsequent formation of an interventionist programme; you can also provide the support for teachers with the issues of communication with the families or educational and psychological counselling centres. You may become a leader of a multi-member team working in a kindergarten class (for example a class with two teachers and a teacher’s assistant). You can also become a mentor or coordinator of other pedagogical staff in the multi-classes nursery schools with pupils with difficulties or special educational needs. You can also be a useful worker in other institutions looking after children in preschool age (child groups, private kindergartens etc.). You can also continue to study the doctoral programme to deepen your theoretical knowledge, to broaden your research abilities, and – of course – to further develop the discipline of pre-scchool education.

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Minimum score and numbers of accepted applicants in past years

If you think about the further study, you can go on in the doctoral programme called School Pedagogy at Faculty of Education of Masaryk University or the programme called simply Pedagogy at two other faculties of education in the Czech Republic.