The Institute of Pedagogical and Psychological Sciences

About the Institute

Provides education in Bachelor’s study programmes Social Pathology and Prevention and Educational Care for the Elderly. It primarily focused on the field of prevention of socio-pathological phenomena.

The Institute cooperates with the Czech Police, with the Psychiatric Hospital in Opava, the Opava Charity, the Children's Centre Cloverleaf (Čtyřlístek) in Opava, the public benefit NGO Elim Opava, and a number of primary schools and other organizations.

As part of its activity, the Institute solves scientific applied research projects, for example, Sociological Monitoring of Educational Inputs and Outputs in Children and Pupils with Special Needs in the Czech Republic, or the project Professional Readiness of Primary School Teachers in the Area of Risky Behaviour and Its Prevention in the Moravian-Silesian Region. Every year since 2007, the Institute and its University workplace, the Cloverleaf Children's Centre, organize a conference focused on the issues of the contemporary family and regularly since 2002, the lecture series "The Human Under the Magnifying Glass of Social Disciplines" is held 4 times a year.

Profiles of workers

Mgr. et Mgr. Dana Dlouhá, Ph.D.

Consultation hours valid for the academic year 2024/2025:

Always by prior e-mail appointment.

Projects:

Healthy and Safe School Audit - pilot study (period 2024-2025)

Mental Health Prevention in Inclusive Environments II (period 2024)

Mental Health Prevention in Inclusive Environments I (period 2023)

MAP II, III, IV in the Bystřice nad Pernštejnem ORP (2020-2025), expert consultant

BeIN - Barriers to Inclusion and Overcoming them (2020-2021), external collaborator

Stand up against bullying (leadership, addressing and media coverage of issues related to bullying and cyberbullying), Erasmus+ (February 2016 - June 2018)

Professional activities:

from 01/2024 - Assistant Professor at the Silesian University in Opava, Faculty of Public Policies, Institute of Pedagogical and Psychological Sciences

08/2023 - Co-founder and expert at the Centre for School Support DaMi-E, z.s. [registered association]

10/2021 - 06/2024 - Masaryk University, Faculty of Education, IVIV

09/2019 - 06/2024 - Masaryk University, Faculty of Education, KTVVZ

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