e-Pedagogium, 2008 (vol. 8), issue 1
Java Applets and Teaching as a New Phenomenon
Milan Bernát, Renáta Bernátová
e-Pedagogium 2008, 8(1):5-18 
The paper reports the aspects related to Java applets creation and their application in teaching technical subjects. The author of the paper also presents the Java applets he himself created and applied in the teaching process. At the same time he emphasises the irreplaceability of didactic and professional mastership of a teacher in the teaching process using Java applet programmes.
Can we Play with Mathematics?
Radka Dofková
e-Pedagogium 2008, 8(1):19-27
Teachers have been constantly facing a problem how to make mathematics more interesting to pupils. Motivation plays definitely the most important role in this respect. It is motivation that assigns subjective sense to the learning activities of the pupil. It has been shown a number of times that solving non-standard tasks, projects, games or other motivational activities can help to change the way mathematics is viewed as only a school subject. The above-mentioned activities can have a formative influence on the pupil only on condition that the teacher knows the pupil's personality, creates such environment for his/her learning activities that the...
Biology Textbooks and Their Text Difficulty
Libuše Hrabí
e-Pedagogium 2008, 8(1):28-34
This article presents the most important knowledge of the text difficulty evaluation of 22 current Czech biology textbooks for the 6th - 9th grades. The text analysis was carried out according to my own methodology. Results indicate that the average values of text difficulty increase from the 6th to 8th grade (from 32.11 points to 37.56 points). The textbooks for the 9th grade are characterized by a low text difficulty level (35.89 points). The scale of the biology text difficulty is a part of this paper.
The Role of Task Analyses in Effective Instruction
John H. Hummel, David M. Monetti, and William G. Huitt
e-Pedagogium 2008, 8(1):35-47
The purpose of this paper is to discuss how task analysis (TA) can be utilized to help pre-service and practicing teachers to generate lesson plans that can positively impact the achievement of students. The connection between state standards, ordering of learning objectives, task analyses, and assessments are described. Different approaches to constructing and implementing TAs are presented. While TAs for the psychomotor domain are briefly described the emphasis is on developing such analyses for outcomes associated with the cognitive domain. Examples are provided that demonstrate the process of developing TAs for a Georgia Performance Standard, and...
Psychological and Social Issues of the Romany Minority
Jana Kvintová
e-Pedagogium 2008, 8(1):48-57
This paper focuses on the largest ethnic minority group in the Czech Republic - the Romany minority. The purpose of this paper was to provide several different perspectives on this group and to present various information and research conducted in this area. It discusses briefly the history and changes brought by year 1989 and focuses on characteristic features of this minority.
The Proposal of Education Programme of Counsellors for Social Services Users
Jan Michalík, Kateřina Jeřábková
e-Pedagogium 2008, 8(1):58-66
The article informs about the conception of a new counselling service in the Czech Republic and about an educational system designed for workers of this service. It presents the outcomes of the authors' work because they participated in the creation of education as well as the counselling system for social services users. The authors propose an original and comprehensive conception of the educational programme fulfilling the accreditation requirements of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
Life-satisfaction and Selected Personality Traits of Teachers in Elementary Schools
Michaela Pugnerová, Jana Kvintová
e-Pedagogium 2008, 8(1):67-77
This presentation focuses on the life satisfaction of teachers in elementary schools from two regions in the Czech Republic. The purpose of the research was to examine not only the overall life satisfaction of teachers but also the factors that may influence it. We focused on selected personality traits (extraversion, neuroticism) and their association with the overall life satisfaction of teachers. This is a part of a larger research program that evaluates the well-being of teachers in elementary schools.
The Most Frequent Types of Tasks in Czech Biology Textbooks
Olga Vránová
e-Pedagogium 2008, 8(1):78-83
This article is concerned with tasks evaluation in biology textbooks. Twenty five textbooks of the Fortuna, Fraus, Jinan, Prodos, Scientia and SPN publishing houses were analysed. This study was concentrated on the number, difficulty and diversity of tasks in each textbook. The difficulty of tasks was classified according to Tollingerová. Tasks of simple cognitive level were the most frequent ones.
Reflection of the Pilot Study of Selected Fields of the Czech Framing Program for Pre-school Education
Eliška Zajitzová
e-Pedagogium 2008, 8(1):84-92
This article presents results of a dissertation pilot study. This pilot study deals with the verification capacity of the research implementation, which is going to be used with the aim to check the communicative skills of children in pre-school education, which is a part of my dissertation research work.