Professional Education
9.015.00.00 Professional Education
Qualification awarded: Doctor of Philosophy in Education/Pedagogy, Professional Education
Entry year: 2021
Mode of study: full
Program duration: 4 years
Institute: Department of Doctoral and Post-graduate studies
Number of credits: 43 credits ECTS of the educational component of educational-scientific programme
Level of qualification according to the National Qualification Framework and the European Qualifications Framework: NQF Level 8 (Third cycle of QF-EHEA / EQF Level 8)
Field(s) of study: Education / Pedagogy
Specific admission requirements: Admission rules for postgraduate study set requirements for admission, which take into account the peculiarities of educational-scientific programme (ESP). Applicants should provide scientific papers with topics (content) that are relevant to the features of the ESP. These works according to the rules include: scientific works and patents for inventions (copyright certificates on inventions) / in case of absence of scientific works and patents-abstract.
The entrance exams are conducted on the basis of the entrance examination programs, the content of which takes into account the features of the ESP. These programs are published on the University's website three weeks before the start of the entrance campaign, are reviewed annually and updated if needed. This is done centralized by order of the Rector before the entrance campaign.
The entrance examinations for postgraduate studies are conducted by subject commissions (3-5 persons), which are approved by the order of the Rector. These commissions include Candidates of Science (PhD) and Doctors of Science who carry out scientific research in their respective specialty and are responsible for the ESP of PhD students training.
These commissions may include representatives of scientific institutions with which there are concluded agreements on conducting joint scientific activities and / or on joint supervising of postgraduates studies and / or on joint implementation of educational-scientific programme, or with which doctors of philosophy are trained under a common ESP, agreed between the University and the scientific institution.
Specific arrangements for recognition of prior learning: Provided that the previous level has been obtained in another country, nostrification, which is carried out by Lviv Polytechnic, is required.
Qualification requirements and regulations, including graduation requirements: Complete implementation of the educational component of the programme (taking exams and credits)
Characteristics of the educational program: The goals of the educational-scientific programme (according to specializations) lie in the necessity to deepen theoretical knowledge and practical skills in the specialty, to develop philosophical and linguistic competences, to form universal research skills sufficient to conduct and successfully complete scientific research and further scientific activities, as well as relevant competences, sufficient for the effective fulfillment of the scientific, educational, managerial and innovative nature tasks for the purpose of further successful employment of specialists in the sphere of education / pedagogy. The educational-scientific programme covers a wide range of modern innovative vectors for the development of the theory and practice of professional education, which forms an updated theoretical and applied base for scientific research and provides for the formation of critical and creative thinking of future doctors of philosophy in the field of general pedagogic education. The academic units of the University serve as experimental sites for testing research in accordance with specializations of professional education and potential employers of graduates.
Gained competence: Knowledge of methodological requirements to the preparation and conduct of various organizational forms training lessons, training methods in thre professional school and basic requirements for their choice.
Knowledge of the andragogical paradigm basics in modern education, approaches to providing adult life-long learning activities, ways of implementing of competent, communicative, contextual and task-based approaches in formal, non-formal and informal adult education.
Knowledge of mathematical methods using to verify the accuracy of data obtained during a pedagogical experiment.
Knowledge of the structure and didactic requirements for the preparation of educational and methodological support of academic disciplines.
Knowledge of the essence and purpose of professional (professional-pedagogical) mobility and peculiarities of its formation in future specialists (teachers) during training.
Knowledge about technologies of educational interaction organization with an adult learner; selection of content, methods and forms of work with the adult learner in the context of different models of education; ensuring control and accounting of students general and professional knowledge and skills in the context of the andragogical paradigm.
Knowledge of modern approaches, methods, techniques and means of planning, organizing and educational work conducting with student youth.
Knowledge of theoretical -methodological foundations and categorical apparatus of the professional pedagogy.
Knowledge of the management decision-making algorithm, their types and forms.
Knowledge of theoretical-methodological approaches, principles, conceptual apparatus, analysis and design of the experimental pedagogical research results.
Knowledge of basic requirements for the thesis research organization, basics of theoretical research, basic requirements to empirical research.
Ability to analyze, organize and conduct scientific and pedagogical research related to the study, prediction and modeling of the professional training process.
Ability to put into practice the theoretical foundations of the professional education methodology, regularities, principles and teaching methods, educational technologies in the professional school teaching process.
Ability to adapt to new situations and make appropriate decisions by implementing professional (professional-pedagogical) mobility.
Ability to take into account the psychological and pedagogical features of an adult student in the process of the new educational content designing, the use of educational technologies and specific teaching methods, forms of educational activities on the andragogical grounds.
Ability to demonstrate the knowledge and ability to develop the own methods of organizing and conducting training sessions of various organizational forms of education, the use of educational technologies in the professional school.
Ability to organize and conduct management of a professional educational institution on the basis of knowledge about the principles of educational institution management, structure of the management cycle, management functions.
The ability to plan and carry out scientific and pedagogical research, to select and analyze the factual material of such research, to evaluate and summarize the results of own research, to plan and organize a pedagogical experiment.
Ability to design new educational content, educational technologies and specific teaching methods, including on the basis of the andragogical paradigm.
Ability to use correctly the theoretical and empirical research methods.
Ability to make an annual work plan, a weekly work plan of the manager; to prepare a report to the pedagogical council on a given topic and solution to it.
Ability to understand the need for lifelong learning in order to deepen the obtained knowledge and acquire new professional knowledge.
Ability to demonstrate a modern knowledge base on the problems of the professional education theory and to create own educational information base.
The ability of specialists practical training in professional-technical and higher education in the conditions of the andragogical paradigm, purposeful self-improvement as a teacher of professional-technical educational institution and higher educational institution, as an andragog.
Academic mobility: On the basis of the bilateral agreements between the university and the universities of Ukraine; bilateral agreements between the university and institutions of higher education of the countries-partners.
Work placement(s): The internship is usually done at the 3-4 years of study and is conducted on the basis of the Agreements on international cooperation of the Department of Pedagogy and Innovative Education and internship programs placed on the Opportunities Portal of Lviv Polytechnic.
Programme director: Kryshtanovych Myroslav Frankovych
Occupational profiles of graduates: - Scientific and pedagogical activity,
- Research activity.
Other program features: All research studies of postgraduate students are performed in accordance with the scientific direction of the Department of Pedagogy and Innovative Education "Theoretical and methodological foundations of a personality professional development " and within the framework of the scientific work "Theoretical and methodical foundations of a personality professional development in the context of European integration processes" (State registration number 0116U004108).