Welcome to the St John´s Pedagogical College which has been operating here since 1995.
Its founder is the Archdiocese of Prague.
See Virtual Tour of the College made with support of the Archdiocese of Prague.
St John´s Pedagogical College
It is aimed for those who want to work with preschool children and become educators – guides to the first most important steps of a child in social groups. It is also for those who want to take care of children and adults in their free time.
College Introduction
The St John´s Pedagogical College offers a three-year study in the field of Preschool and Extracurricular Pedagogy, available both in full-time and part-time (so called distance or adult).
The study is completed by the graduation and achieving the degree of DiS. (diploma specialist), which has the same salary classification as Bc. (bachelor´s).
The contract with the Theological Faculty of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice enables our students to enrol in the study of Leisure time pedagogy. Of the mandatory ECTS-compliant 180 credits required to achieve the Bc., the Theological Faculty recognizes around 120 credits obtained at the St. John’s College (obtaining the final exam mark not lower than „very good“).
What makes the St John’s College unique?
Teaching contents, the building, the region.
The preparation of the future teacher is based on philosophical-theological foundations, which make it possible to understand human as an open, searching unfinished being, as a historically conditioned being responsible for their lives and for their social and environmental space.
The college is located in the original baroque monastery dated back to the 16th-18th centuries. The extraordinary architectural complex is sensitively incorporated into the landscape by the best builders of their time (as Lurago or Dientzenhofer) in a valley under a high rock wall. The whole complex is built on the foundations of a historic monastery, inhabited by the Benedictines from the 11th century.
History of St John´s Pedagogical College
Four years after the Velvet Revolution of 1989, which brought enthusiasm of the acquired freedom and new opportunities for most of us in the Czech Republic, the long cherisched idea of Mr and Mrs Fellner to establish a school for the education of future teachers matured. On November 29, 1993, these plans were confirmed by the Archdiocese of Prague, which established a charter for a Pedagogical College. However, it took another two years before the charter became a reality. With the great efforts of the college’s founders and their collaborators, teaching began on September 1, 1995 in the premises of the former St. John’s Monastery, which could already have been proud of its rich pedagogical past. From 1915 to 1942 there used to be a teacher training institute, which had managed to educate over a thousand future teachers.
Today the college has similar goals as then. We are a hundred years and two world wars wiser. The totalitarian regime has caused many scars to most of us. Perhaps all the more is our effort to educate the new generation of future educators. We are celebrating 22 years since the current beginning of teaching at our college. We have already provided hundreds of graduates not only with the necessary diploma, but mainly with the knowledge and experience that they now use in their lives. We are proud of the work of many of them and we are glad that we can find graduates not only in all corners of our country, but also abroad. We feel our mission to be a stone in the mosaic not only of the Czech and Moravian church education, but also of all educational institutions with based on the emphasis on the social and global phenomena of today.