Bíró, Barbara
I am a second-year student in the Master's program in Education. I joined the CHERD - Hungary Education Research Internship Programme as an undergraduate. In my current research, I am investigating the language use of preschool children from different social backgrounds based on Bernstein's theories. I was a 2022 NRP awardee, where my research also involved parental involvement in how Step by Step is implemented in alternative education.
I am a fourth-year student of English History at the University of Debrecen, Hungary, and I joined the CHERD-Hungary Educational Research Internship Programme in 2022. Within the framework of the research group, I am conducting my research, which measures the impact of communities of practice for teacher education students in Hungarian universities of science. As a member of the MTA-DE-CSATOKK research group, I contributed as one of the developers of the board game K.Ö.SZ.I., mainly in the development of the game's theme, story, and characters.
I am a Master's student in Education. Even before starting my university studies, my interests were already focused on education and psychology. Within this, gender, motivation, and happiness are the topics I like to delve into the most. I joined the Internship Programme in 2023. My long-term goal is to stay within the research sphere. I believe that everyone has a right place in life and I want to contribute to this through my work. In 2024, I won an EPSEP grant for my research entitled Hidden Resources for School Effectiveness: A Quantitative Study of father involvement.
Fekete, Emese Kincső
I am Emese Kincső Fekete, a student of English and Computer Science Education at the University of Debrecen. I joined the Internship Program at the CHERD-Hungary Research Center in 2022. My research, conducted in collaboration with my research mentor, Dr. Tímea Ceglédi, focuses on the role of teachers in parental involvement and specifically their opinions on this matter, aiming to support it. Thanks to the Internship Program at the CHERD-Hungary Research Center, I can deepen my knowledge not only in the field of research but also believe that I can greatly utilize the insights gained from interviews and the research itself in my future teaching work. I hope that my future research results can contribute to developments in the area of parental involvement, thereby assisting students in achieving better educational outcomes and prospects for their lives.
Fodor Ivett
I am a second-year undergraduate student of Hungarian Ethics. For me, the university has not only given me learning opportunities but also a friendship with Csilla Soós, with whom I will be working on a joint research topic in the CHERD-Hungary Research Centre's Educational Research Internship Programme on the education of boys' children and the relationship between parents and sons. We would like to develop a qualitative methodology for the research. We started our research work in 2023 in the Sociology of Education course and together we formed the "Novum" internship research group. In addition to investigating our topic, we are also involved in the research group's tasks.
Horváth, Annamária
I am Annamária Horváth, a third-year English-Biology teacher trainee at the University of Debrecen. Parental involvement was an essential aspect of our research involving disadvantaged students, entitled Discovery of Hidden Value of Mentoring (DHVM). In the Let's Teach for Hungary Mentoring Programme, we investigated the perception of the Pygmalion effect among mentored and non-mentored students.
Kas Dorka
She is a third-year student of History of Homeland and Ethnic Studies at the University of Debrecen. I have been interested in the world of educational research since my secondary school years, which is why I joined the CHERD-Hungary Research Centre's Educational Research Internship Programme in 2023. Together with my research mentor, Dr. Zsófia Kocsis, our research focuses on helicopter parenting and parental involvement.
Papp, Hunor
I am Hunor Papp, a 5th-year Hungarian and Ethics teacher trainee. Since the beginning of my studies, I have been interested in the functioning and impact of alternative educational tools. I would like to get to know pedagogical methods that can help teachers in the long run and contribute to the promotion of the teaching profession. I am interested in research on the role of mentoring in public education and the use of modern ICT tools in schools. I believe that mentoring can be an excellent way of authentically transmitting knowledge between generations, so I am both a mentor and a mentee. As a mentor in the Let’s Teach for Hungary Mentoring Programme for primary school students, I aim to use the knowledge I have gained as a mentee in the CHERD-Hungary Educational Research Internship Programme.
Puskás, Marcell
I am Marcell Puskás, a third-year teacher trainee at the University of Debrecen, with my majors being English and History. My university studies started in 2020 and I joined the CHERD program as a research intern in 2022. Since I started my university studies, I have been interested in doing research, however, I did not know in what field. My decision was made: religion sociology, with a special emphasis on schools with different denominations. My research topic became more exact this year, as the research on organizational culture was added to it, more specifically from the eyes of the teachers of these institutions.
Soós Csilla
In September 2024, I joined the CHERD-Hungary Research Centre's Education Research Internship Programme with my research partner Ivett Fodor. In the autumn semester of 2024/25, I changed my major: originally I was studying Hungarian Ethics, but I realized that ethics was not really for me, so now I am majoring in Ethics and Ethnic Studies, which I can throw myself into. Although I didn't originally want to study to be a teacher, I'm very happy to be doing this. The topic we researched in the sociology of education course has captivated us so much that we are happy to continue working on it. Our research focuses on the relationship between male children and their parents.