Department of Education
Contact: e-mail: nevtud@tok.elte.hu
Hungarian homepage: https://www.tok.elte.hu/tanszek/nevelestudomany
Main professional activities of the Department:
Teaching activities:
Primary School Teacher’s Training offers the training of future professionals who possess theoretically based knowledge, skills, and competences of pedagogy to complete teaching and education service concerning all compulsory subjects in the first four classes of the primary school.
Pre-School Teacher’s Training: offers the training of future professionals who possess theoretically based knowledge, skills, and competences of pedagogy to complete the tasks of pre-school education.
Infant and Early Childhood Education: offers the training of future professionals who can apply the proper methods of development and education when they look after and take care of 0–3-year-old infants and children; have competences in complex care, pedagogy, psychology to improve children’s mental, emotional, social and communication abilities.
Research activities:
- transition to school
- teacher education and teacher roles, teacher training, pre-, and in-service teachers' thinking, continuous professional development,
- mental health and well-being at the early childhood
- hospital education
- methodology and research of children- and playing culture, childhood, education through arts in connection with mental health/health promotion
- sexual development and education in early childhood – sex, gender, gender roles and stereotypes
- family and institutional education
- social competencies, social entrepreneurship
- special educational needs
- history of childhood and early childhood education
International Research and Development Projects
- Kids Strength (2009-2011) https://www.strong-kids.eu/
- Early Inclusion (2015-2018) https://www.early-inclusion.eu
- I.ECEC – Intercultural Early Childhood Education and Care
- Curriculum Design for Professionals (2018-2021) https://www.tok.elte.hu/en/content/erasmus-ka2-i-ecec.t.5356?m=219
- Youth Start – UKids (2017-2021) http://www.youthstart.eu/
Additional activities:
- active participation in the realization of different conferences and professional events; regular publication
- organization of further training programs
- active participation in the management of students’ research activities and academic progress
Staff:
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NAME |
TITLE/POSITION |
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MAIN PROFESSIONAL FIELDS AND SPECIAL ACTIVITIES/INTERESTS |
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Serfőző, Mónika |
Docent, head of department |
Teacher training; Career motivation, career socialization, pedagogical views; Higher education methodology; Student-centred teaching evaluation and assessment; Distance learning in teacher training |
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Aggné Pirka, Veronika |
Assistant Professor |
Life reform movements, history of childhood, reform pedagogy, alternative education in Hungary |
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Biró, Rita |
Assistant Lecturer |
Early intervention |
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Böddi, Zsófia |
Assistant Professor |
Developmental psychological characteristics of children (e.g., aspects of play); Professionalization of preschool teacher candidates |
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F. Lassú, Zsuzsa |
Docent |
Psychology of sexuality and gender (e.g., gender stereotypes, gender ideologies and the image of women in fairy tales; sex education and prevention of sexual abuse); Resilience and mental vulnerability |
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Flick-Takács, Nikolett |
Assistant Professor |
laying the foundation for lifelong learning in preschool and primary school |
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Golyán, Szilvia |
Docent |
Hospital education (e.g., the effect of learning on healing); Pedagogy of transitions (e.g., from family to institutions, from kindergarten to school); History of preschool teacher training in Hungary |
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Gyöngy, Kinga |
Assistant Professor |
Interactions of creche early childhood education; Training and career development of early childhood educators |
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Hercz, Mária |
Docent |
Entrepreneurship education, social entrepreneurship development; Assessment for learning (the evaluation system of student support in higher education) |
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Janek, Noémi |
Assistant Lecturer |
History of preschool in Hungary; Historical research on the change in the role of a preschool teacher; Online presence and internet usage in preschool age; Preschool teacher's career profile and social reflection |
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Kerekes, Valéria |
Expert teacher |
Research on early childhood play and tale; Teacher training methodologies |
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Kolosai, Nedda |
Docent |
Methodology and research of children- and playing culture; Children's culture; constructive forms of learning (e.g., peer-to-peer education; museum learning) |
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Rádi, Orsolya |
Assistant Professor |
Alternative and reform pedagogy; Learner-centred curriculum development; Pedagogical planning |
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Sándor, Mónika |
Assistant Professor |
Development of social competences - prosocial behaviour; Communication conflict management; Contention in childhood |
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Svraka, Bernadett |
Assistant Lecturer |
Prevalence of math anxiety; Pedagogical Study of Dyscalculia |
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Tóth, Brigitta |
Assistant Lecturer |
Female roles, female characters in fairy tales |
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Vetési, Erika |
Assistant Lecturer |
Digital curriculum development |