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FaVU-3PEDKAcad. year: 2026/2027
The Development of Pedagogical Competencies course (School of Imagination) promotes interdisciplinary thinking about creative and pedagogical competencies. It introduces an approach that combines creative and pedagogical methods and is grounded in sensory-based activities. This approach facilitates communication about challenging or controversial contemporary issues across differences of opinion and develops systems thinking and critical thinking. Through first-hand experience, students learn how to create a safe environment for group work without avoiding the complex issues that naturally arise within groups.
The School of Imagination workshop series is conceived as a continuous process of creative learning in groups with fixed membership. This pedagogical format supports the gradual acquisition and development of creative and pedagogical competencies that students can apply in their own practice, particularly when working as facilitators and creative educators. The workshops are led by external tutors MgA. Barbora Kleinhamplová and Mgr. Tereza Čajková in collaboration with Futuropolis/NaZemi.
The course requirements may also be fulfilled by completing training in pedagogical competencies offered as part of the Programme for the Development of Pedagogical Competencies among Doctoral Students.
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The course is completed by the award of course credit. To receive credit, students must either complete the three-day intensive course offered as part of the School of Imagination or attend training in pedagogical competencies provided through the Faculty programme. Further information is available from the guarantor of the doctoral degree programme.
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The course aims to develop students’ capacity to explore complex and challenging issues relating to contemporary life and the future through sensory-based activities. It focuses on developing the imagination, including its social and ecological dimensions. Each seminar introduces a diverse range of creative experiential methods and presents engagement with the senses and emotions as an essential part of the educational process. Students are introduced to the basic principles of critical pedagogy and systems thinking. Working together in groups with fixed membership supports openness and the gradual deepening of mutual exchange.
Upon completion of the course, students will have developed the following abilities and competencies:
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