Curriculum vitae - Milan Pol

 

 

PERSONAL DETAILS:

Name:MILAN POL
Office address:Masaryk University,
Faculty of Arts,
Dept. of Education,
A. Nováka 1,
660 88 Brno, Czech Republic;
tel.: +420-5-41121350;
fax: +420-5-41121406;
e-mail: pol@phil.muni.cz
Born:21. 4. 1961
Nationality:Czech
Languages:Czech (home language), English (very good), Russian (very good), German (poor)

 

 

 

 

EDUCATION:

 

2000

Palacky University, Olomouc (Czech Republic), Faculty of Education - habilitation - Associate Professor in Education

 

1989-1992

Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic ), Faculty of Arts, PhD. (in Czech CSc.) in Education

 

1983-1988

Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic), Faculty of Arts, M.A. with honour (in Czech PhDr.) in Education & Russian Language and Literature

 

1976-1980

Grammar School Velké Meziříčí  (Czech   Republic)

Secondary school leaving exam

 

 

 

STUDY STAYS and COURSES COMPLETED:

 

January - February 1998

University of London, Institute of Education, Management Development Centre

 

March 1997

Spoleto, Italy (Scuola Media A. Mazzoni - study stay focused on the theme „School and social participation“)

 

September - October 1996

Universiteit van Amsterdam, Faculteit der Pedagogische en Onderwijskundige Wetenschappen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

April 1996

Vrije Pedagogische Academie, Zeist, The Netherlands (organisational change)

 

January - February 1995

University of London, Institute of Education, Management Development Centre, London, U.K. (study stay connected with several lectures)

 

April 1994

European School of Educational Management, Oxford University, Department of Educational Studies, Oxford, U.K. (education management course)

 

September 1992-June 1993

The Centre for Social Development, East Grinstead, West Sussex, U.K. (one year course of organisational development)

 

September 1991-February 1992

Vrije Pedagogische Academie, Zeist, The Netherlands (alternative school sector)

 

 

 

CAREER HISTORY:

 

June 2000 - until now

Associate Professor in Education, Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts, Dept. of Education,  Brno, Czech Republic

 

September 1999 - until now

Chair of Dept. of Educational Sciences, Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts, Brno

 

June 1992 - June 2000

Assistant professor  in Education and Management, Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts, Dept. of Education, Brno, Czech Republic

 

September 1989-June 1992

Doctoral student,  Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts, Dept. of Education, Brno, Czech Republic

 

September 1988-June 1989

Junior Research, Fellow Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts, Dept. of Education, Brno, Czech Republic

 

December 1980-August 1983

Worker, Kablo Velké Meziříčí, Czech Republic

 

 

 

OTHER ACTIVITIES

 

2003 - until now

Member of the Scientific Board, Charles University, Faculty of Education

 

1999 - until now

Member of the Working Group for Education, Psychology and Kinanthropology, Accreditation Committee of the Government of the Czech Republic

 

2000 - until now

Chair of the Board for Doctoral Study Program in Education, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno

 

2002 - until now

Member of the Board for Doctoral Study Program in Education, Faculty of Education, Palacky University, Olomouc

 

2002 - until now

Evaluator of the project proposals, member of the working commission - Grant Agency of the Czech Republic.

 

2002 - until now

Evaluator of the applications of Socrates - Comenius project proposals (Socrates office, Prague, Czech Republic)

 

2001

Evaluator of the projects submitted to the Slovak Research and Science Grant Agency (VEGA), the Ministry of Education, Slovak Republic.  

 

October 2000 - June 2001

Consultant and evaluator of the project Distant education of educational and career counsellors. Coordinator: Institut of educational and psychological counselling, Czech Republic. Leonardo da Vinci CZ/99/1/10/PI/I.1.1.c/FPC.

 

January 2001 - until now

Member of the Monitoring Group in the Scheme the Twinning of Sites of Citizenship (Council of Europe)

 

2001

Member of the panel "Social transformation: society of the Czech Republic at the threshold of the 3rd millenium and the entry to the EU", within the framework of the project "Proposal of the National Program of the Oriented Research and Development in the Czech Republic and of Ways of their Realisation (The Ministry of Education, Czech Republic)

 

1992-until now

Trainer, designer  and co-ordinator of education and school development projects

 

1994- 2000

Lecturer on Basics of Management, Higher School of Education, Faculty of Economics, Hradec Kralové, Czech Republic

 

1999 - until now

Editorial board member of Czech education quarterly "Pedagogika" (Prague)

 

1997-1999

Board member of ENIRDEM (European network for improvement, research and development in educational management), editor of ENIRDEM Newsletter

September

 

June 1992-December 1995

Czech correspondent of the „Newsletter/Faits nouveaux“ (quarterly published by the Council of Europe)

 

1988-2000

Regular contributor to several journals on education: International Directions in Education (Sydney) - Central European Editor, Higher Education and Development (Bonn, Germany), Deutsche Univetsitäts-Zeitung, etc.

 

1996-1998

Member of the national board of the Czech Association of Educational Research

 

March 1995 - until now

Member of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development International, Total Quality Management - Education Network (Columbia, Maryland, U.S.A.)

 

 

Research

 

2001-until now

grantee of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic ("The culture of the Czech school and strategies of its development")

 

2001- 2003

Co-grantee: National Training Fund of the Czech Republic -  the Project "Czech schools and the granting offers" 

 

1997-1998

grantee of the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports („Social Changes and School: Teachers’ Collaboration as a Key Factor of Autonomous School Development“)

 

September 1996-October 1997

grantee of the RSS CEU („Management of Czech Schools: With or Without Teachers’ Participation?“)

 

1995-1997

grantee of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic („External Relations of the School in a Democratic Society“)