Abstract
The contribution concerns the development of the subject of chemistry education with respect to its institutionalization during scientific preparation and doctoral studies in Czech Republic and Slovakia. The first part of the contribution concerns the scientific preparation in the subject of chemistry teaching which has existed here between 1970's and 1990's.
In the second part of the contribution, we will deal with the establishing, meaning and conception of doctoral studies for the development of the subject of chemistry education and the characteristics of its quantitative and qualitative measures in the Czech and Slovak Republic, where this type of study was first acredited in 1998 (Slovakia) and 2003 (Czech Republic).