doc. PhDr. Martin Strouhal, Ph.D.

Contact
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9420-0817
ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Martin-Strouhal
Education He graduated from the Master’s programme in Humanities (double major in Philosophy and Pedagogy) at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. In 2006, he defended his doctoral dissertation on Durkheim’s moral sociology and sociology of education. In 2020, he completed his habilitation at Palacký University Olomouc.
Professional Experience For more than fifteen years, he taught at grammar schools in Prague.
He has been affiliated with the Department of Education, Faculty of Arts, Charles University since 2010 and served as its head from 2011 to 2023.
He teaches in bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programmes, including courses in General Pedagogy, Theory of Education, Philosophy of Education, Ethics for Educators, and Philosophical and Methodological Problems of the Social Sciences.Additional academic responsibilities include:

  • Member of the Board and Deputy Coordinator of the disciplinary area Education and Pedagogy within the Charles University Cooperation programme
  • Academic guarantor of the bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes in Pedagogy
  • Academic guarantor of continuing education programmes in pedagogical studies for lower-secondary and upper-secondary school teachers
  • Coordinator of admissions procedures for bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes in Pedagogy
  • Departmental coordinator of the University of the Third Age programme
  • Member of the Research Ethics Committee
Professional Focus His research focuses primarily on the current state of pedagogical discourse and on the philosophical foundations and contexts of educational sciences, with particular emphasis on analysing the disciplinary profile of educational theory.
His work is inspired by Durkheimian traditions and selected currents of contemporary French philosophy of education. Additional research interests include the future of humanities education, the teaching profession, and selected historical traditions of educational thought.
Memberships
  • Board of the disciplinary area Education and Pedagogy (Cooperatio, Charles University), Deputy Coordinator
  • Subject-Area Board of the Pedagogy and Education programmes at the Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Education, Charles University
  • Subject-Area Board of the Pedagogy and Education programmes at the Faculty of Education, Palacký University Olomouc
  • Subject-Area Board in Pedagogy and Scientific Board of the Faculty of Humanities, Tomas Bata University in Zlín
  • Subject-Area Board in Pedagogy and Scientific Board of the Faculty of Education, Trnava University
  • Subject-Area Board of the Geography Didactics programme, Faculty of Science, Charles University
  • Member of the editorial boards of Journal of Pedagogy, Studia Paedagogica, e-Pedagogium, Rocznik Lubuski / Lubuski Yearbook, and Studia Paedagogica Ignatiana
  • Founding member of the governing board of the International Connectivity Centre (ICC), an interdisciplinary international platform bringing together researchers from the University of Zielona Góra, Charles University, Université de Bordeaux, the University of Madeira, the University of Central Lancashire, and the Romanian Academy in Bucharest; within ICC, he serves as Coordinator for Science and Education
  • ISATT (International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching) National Representative for the Czech Republic
  • Since 2023, Chercheur associé at LaCES, EA 7437, Université de Bordeaux
Additional Information He maintains long-term research and publication cooperation primarily with Université de Bordeaux and the University of Zielona Góra.
He also teaches at the Prague College of Psychosocial Studies (PVŠPS), where he lectures on ethics, philosophy, and the methodology of social sciences.
Alongside his academic career, he is active as a concert performer of operatic and art-song repertoire for baritone voice. He also performs in concerts of sacred music and regularly collaborates as a guest artist with various Prague musical ensembles.
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