PROFILES OF DEPARTMENT MEMBERS

CONSULTATION HOURS 2024/2025

Wednesday:     9:00 - 10:00 

Thursday:      17:00 - 18:00 online

(students must pre-register for consultations by email)

Room R104, Phone +421 2 9015 9288, Email bartonovafedu.uniba.sk

CURRENT PROJECTS

VEGA 1/0196/23 Approaches, interventions and attitudes of teachers towards pupils with specific learning disabilities and specific behavioural disorders (ADHD) in Slovak primary schools (principal investigator)

KEGA 055UK-4/2023 Prevention and elimination of socio-pathological phenomena in the Internet environment for individuals with disabilities - digital safety for inclusive education (co-investigator)

KEGA 038UK-4/2023 Support and development of innovations in aesthetic education subjects with emphasis on expressive therapies in inclusive education (co-investigator)

 

PROFILE

Prof. PaedDr. Miroslava Bartoňová, Ph.D. works at the Faculty of Education of Comenius University in Bratislava. She completed her higher education at the Faculty of Education of University of Olomouc in the field of Teaching for schools requiring special care. She completed her doctoral studies (PhD.) in Pedagogy at the Faculty of Education of Masaryk University in Brno. Her research and teaching activity is focused on the development of special and inclusive pedagogy. She specializes in the field of education, intervention for pupils in inclusive primary and secondary school environments with an emphasis on pupils with specific learning disabilities and pupils with intellectual disabilities. She implements her years of experience and the empirical knowledge gained from her practice in teaching students. Through publishing, cooperation with foreign countries and lecturing activities at domestic and foreign conferences, she supports the dissemination of the acquired knowledge from scientific research activities towards the professional public. Within the academic sphere, she is currently the principal investigator of the national VEGA grant, and she has been the investigator and co-investigator of national and international projects focused on research in the field of special and inclusive education and counselling. She is the author or co-author of several monographs, university textbooks on inclusion, inclusive didactics and intervention approaches for pupils in mainstream education.

CONSULTATION HOURS 2024/2025

Wednesday:  11:30 – 13:30 

Wednesday:  13:30 – 14:30 Coordinator for students with hearing impairment

Thursday:     13:30 – 15:00 also online by appointment

(please arrange consultations in advance by email) 

Room R101, Telefón +421 2 9015 9128, Email tarcsiovafedu.uniba.sk

CURRENT PROJECTS

DAAD project 2023-2024 Bildungsgänge Studierender mit Hörschädigung (Principal Investigator)

KEGA 018UK-4/2023 Creation and implementation of new didactic means for the acquisition, development and evaluation of specific communicative forms of children and pupils with sensory disabilities (principal investigator)

VEGA 1/0478/23 Sign language and sign communication and their use in special and inclusive pedagogy for developing communicative competence of selected groups of children and pupils with special educational needs (principal investigator)

 

PROFILE

Darina Tarcsiová, prof. PaedDr. PhD., is a graduate of the Faculty of Education of Comenius University in Bratislava and works in the field of Teaching and Pedagogical Sciences, specifically in special education. She specializes in the pedagogy of the hearing impaired and the pedagogy of the deafblind, focusing on several areas. The first is the communication of people with hearing impairment and deafblindness, with a narrower focus on the use of specific forms of communication - sign language, slovak sign language and finger signs. Another area of her interest is bimodal bilingualism - bilingualism using spoken and signed language, relating to both deaf and hearing children of deaf parents (CODA children). In the context of the paradigm shift in pedagogy and special education towards inclusive education, she is co-author of the Strategy of Inclusive Approach in Education 2022-2030 and subsequent materials related to support measures. She is a investigator and co-investigator of several domestic and international research projects and author and co-author of a number of publications in her fields of expertise.  She cooperates with civic associations of the hearing impaired and parents of children with hearing loss. She works as an interpreter of Slovak sign language within RTVS.

 

CONSULTATION HOURS 2024/2025

Wednesday:   9:00 - 10:30  

Thursday:    10:30 - 12:00  

(please arrange consultations in advance by email)

Room R106, Phone +421 2 9015 9118, Email bisco.kastelovafedu.uniba.sk

 

CURRENT PROJECTS

KEGA 055UK-4/2023 Prevention and elimination of socio-pathological phenomena in the Internet environment for individuals with disabilities - digital safety for inclusive education (co-investigator)

KEGA 038UK-4/2023 Support and development of innovations in aesthetic education subjects with emphasis on expressive therapies in inclusive education (co-investigator)

 

PROFILE

Associate professor Alexandra Biščo Kastelová, PhD. is a long-standing expert in the field of special education at the Faculty of Education of Comenius University. Her academic profile is characterized by a systematic approach to research and publishing.

Education and academic degrees: Alexandra Biščo Kastelová obtained her PhD. in 2006 as part of her doctoral studies in the field of special education. Later, in 2007, she defended her PhDr. degree, thus completing her rigorous studies. Subsequently, in 2015, she successfully completed the habilitation procedure, thus confirming her professional qualification.

Academic workplace: Since 2008 she has been a member of the academic staff of the Faculty of Education of Comenius University, where she works at the Department of Special Education. At this department, she lectures on subjects focused on special pedagogical diagnostics, special pedagogical counselling and comparative special pedagogy at the bachelor, master and doctoral levels of study.

Research focus: Her professional interest focuses on special education diagnostics and counselling for individuals with special educational needs.

 

Scientific activity: Alexandra Biščo Kastelová has a rich scientific profile with studies, chapters in university textbooks, university textbooks and scientific papers published in national and international journals since 2005. Her monographs and textbooks from 2012, 2014, 2017 and 2020 reflect her research activities in the field of special education diagnostics within special education counselling.

CONSULTATION HOURS 2024/2025

Wednesday:  13:00 – 15:00  

Thursday:     11:00 – 13:00  

(Please arrange consultations in advance by email)

Room R110/111, Phone +421 2 9015 9121, Email harcarikovafedu.uniba.sk

 

CURRENT PROJECTS

VEGA 1/0196/23 Teachers' approaches, interventions and attitudes towards pupils with specific learning disabilities and specific behavioural disorders (ADHD) in Slovak primary schools (Deputy Principal Investigator)

KEGA 027UK-4/2023 New approaches in sex education of young people with intellectual disabilities in the context of their inclusion into mainstream society (co-investigator)

KEGA 055UK-4/2023 Prevention and elimination of socio-pathological phenomena in the Internet environment for individuals with disabilities - digital safety for inclusive education (co-investigator)

 

PROFILE

Doc. PaedDr. Terézia Harčaríková, PhD. works in the position of pedagogical employee - associate professor at the Department of Special Education. She specializes in the pedagogy of the physically disabled, ill and medically impaired, within which she focuses on several areas. She is involved in pre-vocational and vocational training of individuals with physical disabilities, issues of school self-assessment of students with physical disabilities, illness and medical impairment. She is also interested in chronically and terminally ill children and pupils, specifically in the field of education of these children and pupils, as well as in the field of special educational support for children and pupils with incurable, life-threatening illnesses. She is also interested in the issue of pupils with developmental learning disabilities, in particular the specifics of their education, the school self-assessment of these pupils and also pre-vocational and vocational training.

In connection with the paradigm shift in the field of special education towards inclusive education in the Slovak Republic, she participated in the development of strategic documents. She is a co-author of the Strategy of Inclusive Approach in Education for 2022-2030.

Recently, she has been working closely with the NIVaM, the Department for Inclusion and Special Education, Early Childhood and Preschool Education. She is the author and co-author of the Catalogue of Support Measures, methodological materials of support measures focused on the area of specialised career counselling, on the area of provision of activities for the development of children and pupils, etc.

She is a member of the scientific board of the international scientific peer-reviewed journal Studies in Special Education of Faculty of Education of University of Prešov, and a member of the editorial board of the journal Special Education at the Faculty of Education of Charles University in Prague.

She is a member of the board of the study programme in Special Education at all levels of study. 

 

She is the head of the Department of Special Education at the Faculty of Education of Comenius University in Bratislava.

CONSULTATION HOURS 2024/2025

Monday:    14:00 – 16:00 

Tuesday:    10:00 – 12:00 

Tutor and Coordinator for students with specific needs:  Thursday: 10:00 – 11:00 

(please email in advance to arrange consultations)

Room R109, Phone +421 2 9015 9123, Email lopuchovafedu.uniba.sk

 

CURRENT PROJECTS

KEGA 055UK-4/2023 Prevention and elimination of socio-pathological phenomena in the Internet environment for individuals with disabilities - digital safety for inclusive education (Principal Investigator)

KEGA 018UK-4/2023 Creation and implementation of new didactic means for the acquisition, development and evaluation of specific communication forms of children and pupils with sensory disabilities (Deputy Principal Investigator)

VEGA 1/0196/23 Teachers' approaches, interventions and attitudes towards pupils with specific learning disabilities and specific behavioural disorders (ADHD) in Slovak primary schools (co-investigator)

 

PROFILE

 

University teacher working at the Department of Special Education of Faculty of Education of Comenius University in Bratislava. Her priority area of interest is special education, with a narrower focus on the pedagogy of the visually impaired, but also pedagogy of early childhood and preschool children, pre-primary education, digital and assistive technologies for individuals with disabilities. Longitudinally, she is engaged in scientific research and publishing activities, which includes more than 200 publications. As a co-author, she participated in the creation of documents of strategic character for the Slovak Republic, e.g. the Strategy of Inclusive Approach in Education of Children and Pupils with Specific Needs, Manual of Debarisation, Professional Standards, etc.

She was/is a researcher of KEGA, VEGA, development projects, as well as projects aimed at making cultural institutions accessible to disadvantaged groups of the population.

As a faculty coordinator for students with specific needs, she has extensive experience in debarring and making the academic environment accessible to students with specific needs.

In the field of special education, she has 15 invited lectures at home and abroad. She actively participates in scientific conferences and professional seminars of domestic and foreign provenance.

She is the chairwoman of the Quality Council of the Faculty of Education of Comenius University in Bratislava, a member of the Quality Council of the Comenius University, a member of the Accreditation Council of the Faculty of Education of Comenius University, a member of the board of the study programme of Special Education at all levels of study. 

She is a member of the editorial board of the scientific journal Paedagogica Specialis, a member of the scientific board of the international scientific peer-reviewed journal Studies in Special Education, Faculty of Education of University of Prešov in Prešov, a member of the commission for the evaluation of specific needs of students with specific needs, a member of the examination committees for rigorosum and dissertation examinations and defences of rigorosum/dissertation theses of Faculty of Education of Comenius University in Slovakia and in the Czech Republic.

At the faculty she currently holds the position of Vice-Dean for Internal Quality System.

 

 

CONSULTATION HOURS 2024/2025

Tuesday:     9:00 - 10:30

Thursday:  13:00 - 14:30 

(please arrange consultations in advance by email)

Room R107, Phone +421 2 9015 9497, Email dagmar.nemcekfedu.uniba.sk

 

CURRENT PROJECTS

KEGA 051UK-4/2022 Inclusive Education in Physical and Sport Education (Principal Investigator)

VEGA 1/0611/23 Model of sport-specific classification of athletes with intellectual disabilities in para karate (Deputy Principal Investigator)

 

PROFIL

Doc. Mgr. Dagmar Nemček, PhD. is a graduate of the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport of Comenius University in Bratislava in the field of study Physical Education and Sport with specialization in Health Physical Education and Sport. At the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport of Comenius University she completed her doctoral studies in the field of Sport Educology, in which she was also habilitated. She works as a university teacher at the Department of Special Education of the Faculty of Education of the Comenius University in Bratislava, where she prepares future special educators in the subjects of Physical and Sports Education and Health Physical Education. She is the author of more than 200 full-length scientific and professional papers in the field of inclusive physical and sport education and sport of the disabled with more than 600 domestic and foreign citations. She is the chairwoman of the Slovak Scientific Society for Physical Education and Sport, a member of the executive committee of the Slovak Association of Sport for All and a member of the International Sport and Culture Association (ISCA). She is the editor-in-chief of the domestic scientific and professional journal Physical Education & Sport. Her research interest is focused on the quality of life of athletes with disabilities, inclusive physical education and health physical education. In these areas, she has been a successful investigator of several national and international projects.

CONSULTATION HOURS 2024/2025

Monday:        9:00 - 10:30

Wednesday:   9:00 - 10:30

(online consultations are also available by appointment, please email in advance to arrange a consultation)

Room R108, Phone +421 2 9015 9424, Email ivanovafedu.uniba.sk

 

CURRENT PROJECTS

VEGA 1/0196/23 Teachers' approaches, interventions and attitudes towards pupils with specific learning disabilities and specific behavioural disorders (ADHD) in Slovak primary schools (co-investigator)

KEGA 027UK-4/2023 New approaches in sexual education of young people with intellectual disabilities in the context of their inclusion into mainstream society (co-investigator)

KEGA 055UK-4/2023 Prevention and elimination of socio-pathological phenomena in the Internet environment for individuals with disabilities - digital safety for inclusive education (co-investigator)

 

PROFILE

Mgr. Zuzana Ivanová, PhD. has been working as a pedagogical employee - assistant professor at the Department of Special Education since September 2022. Her pedagogical and research activity is focused on the issues of children, pupils, adolescents and adults with physical, intellectual and multiple disabilities. Specifically, she is working in the area of early and pre-primary education, educational rehabilitation, support and intervention measures, as well as basal stimulation issues. A key area is that of individuals with physical disabilities, illness and medical impairment, where the research focuses on a group of individuals with terminal illness, their quality of life and also the specifics of education for these individuals. Publication and pedagogical activities of Mgr. Zuzana Ivanová, PhD., has recently expanded her research and teaching activities in the field of inclusive education of children and pupils with SEN and also the possibilities of their support through support measures, which are gradually being introduced into the environment of kindergartens, primary and secondary schools in the Slovak Republic. She cooperates closely with the NIVaM, the Department for Inclusion and Special Education, Early Childhood and Preschool Education. She is the author and co-author of methodological materials on support measures focused on the adjustment of objectives, methods, forms and approaches in education, adjustment of the content of education and training and evaluation of the results achieved by children and pupils in education, provision of activities for the development of children and pupils and others.

CONSULTATION HOURS 2024/2025

Monday:  13:00 – 14:30 

Tuesday     9:00 – 10:30 

(Students must pre-register for consultations by email)

Room R108, Phone +421 2 9015 9423, Email nadanyifedu.uniba.sk

 

CURRENT PROJECTS

VEGA 1/0478/23 Sign language and sign communication and their use in special and inclusive pedagogy to develop communicative competence of selected groups of children and pupils with special educational needs (co-investigator)

KEGA 060UK-4/23 Compulsory pre-primary education of children with autism spectrum disorders and children with severe multiple disabilities in the paradigm of special and inclusive education (co-investigator)

 

PROFILE

Mgr. Lenka Nadányi, PhD. works as an assistant professor at the Department of Special Education. She performs pedagogical activity of subjects focused on autism spectrum disorders and within the scientific-research activity she is also engaged in the issue of autism spectrum disorders, education of individuals with these disorders, etc. She has a degree in special education within the framework of the II. and III. degree of university studies. She continues to educate herself in the field and expands her knowledge through webinars, courses, seminars and training. She has extensive experience in educating and supporting individuals with autism spectrum disorders, which she has gained through several years of experience in providing behavioral interventions, allowing her to connect theory with practice.

 

CONSULTATION HOURS IN 2024/2025

Monday: 12:30 - 14:30

Tuesday: 14:00 - 15:00

(please arrange consultations in advance by email)

Room R104, Phone +421 2 9015 9125, Email osvaldovafedu.uniba.sk

 

CURRENT PROJECTS

KEGA 038UK-4/2023 Support and development of innovations in aesthetic education subjects with emphasis on expressive therapies in inclusive education (Principal Investigator)

 

PROFILE

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATION DEVELOPMENT

2002 - 2004: PhD. Department of Music Education of Faculty of Education of Comenius University in Bratislava.

1996 - 2000: Master (Mgr.) Musicologist, Department of Musical Science of Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava.

 

PaedDr. Margaréta Osvaldová, PhD. works at the Department of Special Education as an assistant professor. Her area of interest is music, music art and music education with a narrower focus on individuals with disabilities and inclusive education. Her creative work, which includes around 70 publications, is also focused on this area. She teaches, for example, the subjects Fundamentals of Music Education, Special Music Education, Special Didactics of Music Education, Fundamentals of Music Therapy for Special Educators, Special Music Education for the Intellectually Disabled, as well as Educational Rehabilitation of the Intellectually and Multitarily Disabled. She supervises bachelor and diploma theses with the above mentioned issues, she is a member of state examination committees. She actively participates in scientific conferences and professional seminars. As part of her professional skills development, she has completed, for example, Phonemic Awareness Training.

CONSULTATION HOURS 2024/2025

Monday:      14:00 - 16:00 

Thursday:    15:00 - 16:00 

(please arrange a consultation in advance by email)

Room R106, Office phone: +421 2 9015 9439, Email: precuchova.stefanovicovafedu.uniba.sk

 

CURRENT PROJECTS

KEGA 027UK-4/2023 New approaches in sex education of young people with intellectual disabilities in the context of their inclusion into mainstream society (Principal Investigator)

KEGA 038UK-4/2023 Support and development of innovations in aesthetic education with emphasis on expressive therapies in inclusive education (co-investigator)

PROFILE

PaedDr. Andrea Prečuchová Štefanovičová, PhD. is a graduate of the Faculty of Education of the Comenius University in Bratislava. She completed her doctoral studies in 2012 in the field of Special Education. She works as a researcher primarily in the field of pedagogy of the intellectually disabled. From 2012 to 2015 she was the departmental coordinator of practice for the specialisation in pedagogy of the intellectually disabled at both bachelor and master degree level. She has participated in the preparation of several conferences. She was a professional researcher of the project University Science Park of Comenius University in Bratislava in 2015.

 

Currently, she is mainly involved in the issues of complex rehabilitation, sexual education of individuals with disabilities and pedagogy of adults with disabilities. She lectures and supervises bachelor's and master's theses focusing on the above mentioned topics. She actively participates in conferences, collaborates in the preparation of professional webinars with Edulab. She is part of several projects.

CONSULTATION HOURS 2024/2025

Monday:      10:00 - 11:30 

Tuesday:     13:00 - 14:30 

(Appointments for consultations must be made in advance by email)

Room R106, Phone +421 2 9015 9491, Email szaszovafedu.uniba.sk

 

CURRENT PROJECTS

YOUTH GRANT UK UK/145/2023 The use of the neuropedagogical approach in education, diagnosis and special education intervention (Principal Investigator)

KEGA 060UK-4/2023 Compulsory pre-primary education of children with autism spectrum disorders and children with severe multiple disabilities in the paradigm of special and inclusive education (co-investigator)

 

PROFILE

Mgr. Nikoletta Szászová, PhD., MBA, graduated within the master's degree in special education in the specialization of counseling and education of individuals with learning disabilities, behavioral disorders and impaired communication skills. She is an internal doctoral graduate of the Department of Special Education. Her main areas of interest are specific learning disabilities, impaired communication skills and neuropedagogical approaches in education. Within her dissertation she is working on the adaptation and modification of a foreign movement intervention programme (KMT programme) in Slovak conditions. Within her pedagogical activity she provides courses in the field of impaired communication skills and learning disabilities as well as integrative/inclusive special education. During her doctoral studies she was twice awarded with Grant for PhD. students, which allows her to more effectively implement the research part of her dissertation. Within the Geosen project, she is collaborating on the translation of an electronic geography textbook into Hungarian. She also works in a private counselling and prevention centre, where she is involved in the diagnostics of specific learning disabilities and special education intervention. She is a member of the KMT Academy in Budapest, where she works closely with experts in the field of neuropedagogy and movement therapy.

CONSULTATION HOURS 2024/2025

Monday:       10:00 - 11:30 

Tuesday:       13:30 - 15:00 

Tutor:  Wednesday: 14:00 - 15:00 

(please arrange your consultation date in advance via email)

Room R101, Phone +421 2 9015 9386, Email tomaskovafedu.uniba.sk

 

CURRENT PROJECTS

DAAD project Bildungsgänge Studierender mit Hörschädigung (co-investigator)

KEGA 018UK-4/2023 Creation and implementation of new didactic means for the acquisition, development and evaluation of specific communication forms of children and pupils with sensory disabilities (co-investigator)

VEGA 1/0478/23 - Sign language and sign communication and their use in special and inclusive pedagogy for developing communicative competence of selected groups of children and pupils with special educational needs (deputy principal investigator)

 

PROFILE

Mgr. Miroslava Tomášková, PhD. graduated in special education with a narrower focus on the education of the hearing impaired and counselling. She is currently a researcher at the Institute of Special Pedagogical Studies and Inclusive Education at the Faculty of Education of Comenius University in Bratislava. The subject of her interest so far is the diagnostics of communication of pupils with hearing impairment and the support of pupils with hearing impairment in the school environment. The issue of diagnostics was also the subject of her interest in her dissertation, which she elaborated on the topic of Assessment of Communication Competences of Children and Pupils with Hearing Loss. She is also very close to this issue on the basis of her personal experience and involvement, as she herself has a hearing impairment.

Within her teaching activity she is engaged in manual communication forms by teaching subjects such as the Basics of Sign Language and Finger Signs, or education of children and pupils with hearing impairment in the subjects of Pre-primary Education of the Hearing Impaired and Educational Rehabilitation of the Hearing Impaired.

At the same time, she is a practice methodologist in the pedagogy of the hearing impaired for students of the bachelor's degree.

In her scientific and research activities she is a co-investigator, the deputy of principal investigator of the national projects KEGA/VEGA implemented in the field of education not only of the hearing impaired and the foreign project of DAAD. Her publications are mainly the output of these projects.

In the past, she has worked as a teaching assistant in mainstream and special primary schools, and collaborates with non-profit organizations dedicated to individuals with hearing impairments. Currently, in addition to college, she works at the counseling and methodological center Rozvoj dieťaťa o. z. as a professional therapist, where she works with different groups of children with special educational needs.

 

PROJECT ACTIVITY

1 Principal Investigator of Grant No. UK/187/2018 - Identification, analysis and assessment of communication competence in children/pupils with hearing impairment

2 Principal Investigator of Grant No. UK/183/2019 entitled Diagnostic tool for the assessment of communication behaviour in children and pupils with hearing impairment - KOZK.

3 Co-investigator of KEGA 049UK-4/2019 Possibilities and limits of integrative/inclusive education of pupils with sensory impairment (completed)

4 Co-investigator KEGA 034UK-4/2018 Innovation of the educational process of the subject geography for pupils with intellectual disabilities (completed)

 

5 Co-investigator of the DAAD (Deutscher akademischer Austauschdienst) project, implemented at Faculty of Education of Comenius University in Bratislava, in the years 2020 - 2021 under the title : Barrierefrei studieren - Inklusion im tertiären Bildungsbereich - Co-investigator of the project

CONSULTATION HOURS 2024/2025:

Wednesday:   14:00 – 16:00

Thursday:      10:00 – 11:00

(Please arrange a consultation in advance by email)

Room: R 107, Phone: +421 2 9015 9531,  e-mail: martin.zaniuniba.sk

 

PROFIL

University teacher Mgr. Martin Záni, PhD. works as an assistant professor at the Department of Special Education. He specializes in the fields of pedagogy of the intellectually disabled, pedagogy of the physically disabled, ill and medically impaired, pedagogy of the visually impaired. He is interested in the history of special education and comparison. He gained practical experience as a school special educator.

 

 

 

CONSULTATION HOURS 2024/2025

Monday:   14:30 - 15:30  

Thursday: 12:00 - 13:00  online

(consultations must be arranged in advance by email)  

Room R108, Phone +421 2 9015 9438, Email kristina.tkacovafedu.uniba.sk 

 

CURRENT PROJECTS

KEGA 038UK-4/2023 Support and development of innovations in aesthetic education subjects with emphasis on expressive therapies in inclusive education (co-investigator)

KEGA 060UK-4/2023 Compulsory pre-primary education of children with autism spectrum disorders and children with severe multiple disabilities in the paradigm of special and inclusive education (representative of the principal investigator)

VEGA 1/0196/23 Approaches, interventions and attitudes of teachers towards pupils with specific learning disabilities and specific behavioral disorders (ADHD) in Slovak primary schools (co-investigator)

 

PROFILE

 

Mgr. Kristína Tkáčová, PhD. graduated in special education with a focus on the pedagogy of the intellectually disabled and counselling. She works as a researcher at the Institute of Special Pedagogical Studies and Inclusive Education at the Faculty of Education of Comenius University in Bratislava. Her pedagogical-research activity is focused on the issues of children and pupils with intellectual, physical and multiple disabilities. In addition, she is interested in the issues of children and pupils with illness, which was the subject of her doctoral dissertation on the topic The Individual with a Terminal Illness in the Context of the Pedagogy of the Ill.

In her pedagogical activity she is involved in early care, pre-primary education, education of the terminally ill and she is also a methodologist of professional practices.

In the past, she worked as a school special educator in the inclusive kindergarten Rozmanita, as a professional therapist in the counseling and methodological center Rozvoj dieťaťa o. z., as a therapist in the n.o. Plamienok and as a research and development employee in the field of inclusive and special education at NIVaM.

 

PROJECT ACTIVITY

Investigator of Grant No. UK/180/2016 The individual with a terminal illness in the context of the pedagogy of the sick

 

Co-investigator of KEGA 064UK-4/2020 Electronic geography textbook for pupils with intellectual disabilities

Co-investigator of VEGA 1/0789/14 Determinants and deviations of development of school-age children with disabilities in somatopathological, psychoeducational, communicative and social area

 

 

CONSULTATION HOURS 2024/2025

Monday: 15:30 - 17:00 

Wednesday: 16:00 - 18:00 online 

(Students must pre-register for consultations by email) 

Room R104, Phone +421 2 9015 9493, Email ondrasinovafedu.uniba.sk

 

CURRENT PROJECTS 

YOUTH GRANT UK UK/1053/2024 Using gestures as a special form of communication in special primary schools in Slovakia (Principal Investigator)

VEGA 1/0478/23 Sign language and sign communication and their use in special and inclusive pedagogy to develop communicative competence of selected groups of children and pupils with special educational needs (co-investigator)

KEGA 018UK-4/2023 Creation and implementation of new didactic tools for the acquisition, development and evaluation of specific communication forms of children and pupils with sensory disabilities (co-investigator)

 

PROFILE 

 

Mgr. Kristína Ondrašinová works at the Department of Special Education at the Faculty of Education of Comenius University in Bratislava as an internal PhD. student. She studied at the Department of Special Education at the Faculty of Education of Comenius University in Bratislava in the study programme Special Education. In her dissertation within the framework of her higher education studies of the III. degree, she deals with the possibilities of the use of signs and sign communication for individuals with other types of disabilities. In addition to the above, her area of research interest is in the field of augmentative and alternative communication.

 

 

CONSULTATION HOURS 2024/2025

Monday:   12:30 - 14:00 online

Thursday:    9:30 - 11:00

(Please arrange consultations in advance by email)

Room R113, Email svecova137uniba.sk

 

CURRENT PROJECTS 

Youth grant of the Comenius University UK/1062/2024 Attitudes of pupils with mental disabilities towards physical and sports education lessons (principal investigator)

KEGA 051UK-4/2022 Inclusive education in physical and sports education (co-investigator) 

PROFILE

 

Mgr. Daša Švecová is an internal PhD. student at the Department of Special Education of Faculty of Education of Comenius University. She graduated in special education - counselling combined with pedagogy of the intellectually disabled. Her dissertation deals with pupils with special educational needs and their attitudes towards physical and sport education.

 

 

CONSULTATION HOURS 2024/2025

Monday:    10:00 - 11:30 

Thursday:  10:30 - 12:00 online

(please arrange consultations in advance by email)

Room R113, Phone +421 2 9015 9509, Email zeman@fedu.uniba.sk

 

CURRENT PROJECTS 

KEGA 055UK-4/2023 Prevention and elimination of socio-pathological phenomena in the Internet environment for individuals with a medical handicap - digital security for inclusive education (co-investigator)

PROFILE

 

Mgr. Jana Zeman is an internal PhD. student at the Department of Special Education of Faculty of Education of Comenius University. She graduated in special education - counselling in combination with pedagogy of the intellectually disabled. Her doctoral thesis focuses on early care in children with disabilities and their families. She also deals with the issue of autism spectrum disorders.

She is currently a member of the Accreditation Board of Faculty of Education of Comenius University as one of the student representatives of Faculty of Education of Comenius University in Bratislava.

 

 

CONSULTATION HOURS 2O24/2025

Wednesday: 12:30 – 14:00 online

Thursday:      9:00 – 10:30 

Room R113, Phone +421 2 9015 9510, Email podhorska21uniba.sk

 

CURRENT PROJECTS  

Youth grant UK/1055/2024 Specifics of school self-evaluation of pupils with specific developmental learning disabilities (principal investigator)

VEGA 1/0196/23 Approaches, interventions and attitudes of teachers towards pupils with specific learning disorders and specific behavioral disorders (ADHD) in Slovak primary schools (co-investigator)

 

PROFILE 

 

Mgr. Monika Podhorská is an internal PhD. student at the Department of Special Education of Faculty of Education of Comenius University. She graduated in specialisation of special education - counselling in combination with pedagogy of individuals with learning and behavioural disorders and impaired communication skills. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the school success of pupils with specific developmental learning disabilities.