Pedagogická orientace (Journal of the Czech Pedagogical Society)
The study presents selected results of a research on subjective theories of physics teachers at lower secondary schools. Against the background of current transformation of the Czech school curriculum the author focuses on the category of „teaching goals“. In an effort to find out what goals should be pursued in physics instruction according to teachers and how these goals are achieved through teaching,...
Ways in which children are raised and educated in the family are changing. Therefore it is necessary to strengthen education towards familyhood and parenthood because emotional and behavioural qualities that children acquire at home and in schools determine the future life of the young generation.
The concept of school as a learning organization is widely discussed abroad. The article shows how fear of schools (and their staff) from admitting their possible shortcomings and mistakes in work can hinder from adopting this concept in Czech environment.
The paper deals with the issue of the environment of Religious education. It focuses on a family, a parish, a school and a community. It also reflects various children’s ideas about God, it touches the phenomenon of education and faith in the life of modern man.
The article presents selected results of a French research project that analysed the climate and alleged spread of chicane in Czech basic schools. The phenomenon of disrespectable and improper behaviour was discovered as a new indicator of educational climate. The research refers to the difficult social and economic position of teachers which is interconnected with the topic of building pedagogic...
This paper is focused on terminological issues concerning the ethics of teaching. In connection with the profession of teachers we find weaknesses or even absence of theoretical modelling of professional ethics within philosophy and ethics at all (not only in Slovakia and Czech Republic); moreover, similar situation exists in pedagogy. Therefore we stress the importance of “visualising”the ethics...
One of the roles that school plays is to introduce values that are meaningful and that present a measure for human activity; not only practical values of the cognitive world but also spiritual values, however the Framework Educational Programme for Basic Education is aimed at those values that are “generally accepted by the society”, i. e. pragmatic values. Leading thinkers advert to a crisis of values...
This article is aimed at orthographical mistakes that are frequently made by pupils in the fifth grade. It also discusses the topic of orthography and the theory of mistake in general. The paper also presents developments in approaches to the concept of mistake, as well as approaches to mistakes in the classroom and to orthographical mistake. An empirical study was conducted that showed that pupils’...
The Slovakian society, in which various national and ethnic groups have coexisted for long time, has in fact been a multiethnic society for decades. This becomes more tangible when we consider the fact that not only whole nations and ethnic groups, but also smaller intellectual, family and other groups, that exist within the society, are attributed by their own culture. Each culture (as well as subculture)...
In the contribution is attention devoted of historical development of social pedagogy in Poland. The paper concentrates on a task of social pedagogy in the present time. It demonstrates the possibilities of employment of graduates in practice.
This paper deals with the topic of teaching English as a foreign language to young learners. It reports on two research projects that were carried out at the English department of the Masaryk University’s Faculty of Education under the roofing term of EVYL (English for Very Young Learners). Grade 8 pupils, as well as prospective students of the Faculty of Education were examined for the effects of...
Based on the findings of Shulman and Bromme the construct “tacit knowledge” was paid a lot of attention in the 1990s – primarily in the area of (natural) sciences. The investigation in hand, carried out as a research assignment at the State College of Education, aims at the identification of subjective theories and their modifications with teacher trainees (lower secondary pathway) over a period of...
The paper is focused on outlining selected factors that, in author’s view, substantially influence the image development of the social-pedagogic conceptions formed in the course of historical development. The reflection analysis of content of teaching social pedagogy history is primarily based on the depiction of socio-cultural phenomena and the history of everyday life.
This paper deals with the heritage of Jaroslav Foglar, writer and educator, since whose birthday one hundred years passed in 2007. It is recapitulating briefly a pedagogical potential of his literally work and presenting him as a typical representative of experiential education, whose games, instructions and inspiration are often utilized in educational practice. However, the challenge for theoretics...
The article is devoted to formation the cultural and transcultural competence in the process of teaching and learning Russian language by Czech pupils. In the paper the author studies the formation and development of cultural knowledge of Russian Culture, Literature and History in teaching Russian language to our pupils and students. Russian Culture, History and Literature have always aroused a great...
The findings of a sociological research of university students in Slovakia show that a substantial majority chose to study of their own free will. Instrumentally, they see studying as a tool for acquiring an interesting profession with a good salary and good social conditions. A half of students enter university with adequate expectations of the difficulty of the study programme. Neverthless a great...
This article presents opinions of pupils and teachers on biology textbooks. The research was carried out on ten lowersecondary school (6th–9th year). Findings show, that current Czech biology textbooks differ in processing particular topics. Pupils of the 7th year are the most interested in biology. Later students’ interest in this subject decreases. Students dislike the biology topics in textbooks...
The concept of „pedagogical knowledge“ was introduced in recent years to the czech scientifis community by studies written by Vlastimil Švec and his collegues. The aim of the presented review article is to describe, how the concept of „pedagogical knowledge“ was established in theory, practice and research of techaer education in the Czech Republic.
The author reflects important landmarks on his road to pedagogical knowledge. At its the beginning there was a research of student’s and teacher’s conception (theory) of teaching and developing professional skills of students which led to the research of pedagogical skills and implicit pedagogical knowledge. At present, in his research the author (with his fellow workers) deals with the problems of...
The study presents research focused on investigation of relationships among knowledge, attitudes and actual behaviour within environmental education in lower secondary school pupils. The descriptive part of the research concentrates primarily on an analysis of problematic items of a didactic test. Theoretical background of the research, its aims and methodology are described. Quantitative methodology...