PhD Berufsbildung und Personalentwicklung (Vocational Education and Personnel Development) at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg

Structured doctoral programme in vocational education research and personnel development, run by a team of professors at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. It covers professionalisation of educational staff, vocational learning processes and the development of the vocational training system with its learning venues and transitions. Teaching language is German. Page lists the award as a certificate; the doctorate itself is taken at the supervisor's faculty under its doctoral regulations.

Faculty: Faculty HW  |  Department: Berufs- und Betriebspädagogik  |  Duration: 6 semesters  |  Intake: Winter semester  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

What you will study

Modules for specialised academic training at post-master level, accompanied by a programme on methodological and theoretical qualification while working independently on a dissertation project. Research fields: vocational work and learning processes and transitions in technical domains; professionalisation in person-related domains; learning processes in commercial-administrative domains; technical language, language education and intercultural communication; vocational education in international and comparative perspective; personnel development and skilled-labour security; continuing education research and higher education development.

Official programme page