Tomas Bata University in Zlín

Mgr. Jana Vašíková, PhD.

Mgr. Jana Vašíková, PhD.

Department of School Education
E-mail: jvasikova@utb.cz TEL: +420 576 037 494 Office:
U18/431

She is a graduate of the Bachelor’s degree programme in Preschool Education at Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci. She subsequently completed a Master’s degree programme in Primary Education. She passed her doctoral examination in the field of Preschool and Elementary Education.

Since 2014, she has been working as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of School Pedagogy, Faculty of Humanities, Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně. In addition to her academic career, she has practical experience as a primary school teacher.

Her professional focus includes comparative education, curriculum studies, and art education didactics. Her research addresses visual means in education and their influence on the development of cognitive abilities in preschool and early primary school children. In this context, she particularly examines the relationship between the use of visual means and the quality of teaching.

She has broadened her professional experience through academic placements at universities in Spain and Switzerland, as well as through a long-term research stay at a university in Vienna.

 


Teaching

Consulting hours

Wednesday 9:00 - 11:00

Curriculum vitae

Internships and study stays

Study stays:

9/2022 Univerza Ljubljana, Slovenia

4/2024 Universidad de Málaga, Spain, Faculty of Education,  Didactics of Mathematics, Didactics of Social Science, and Experimental Science 

11/2024 University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland , Faculty/Department: FHNW School of Education Institut Kindergarten/Unterstufe u. Institut Primarstufe 

4/5 2025 University of Vienna, Faculty of Philosophy and Education, Department of Education

Process of employment

  • 2014 - present: Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Faculty of Humanities, Department of School Education, Assistant Professor

Membership of expert organizations

INSEA

ČPDS

ČAPV

Membership of bodies

Academic Senate of the Faculty of Humanities, Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně

Member of the expert team for the development of the Competence Framework for Preschool Education in the Czech Republic

Faculties and departments

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