e-Pedagogium, 2016 (vol. 16), issue 3

Editorial

Úvodník

Redakce

e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(3):5

Original articles

Assessment and recording of academic work as fragments of changes of climate at teachers training faculties

Štefan Chudý, Pavel Neumeister

e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(3):7-14 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2016.027

The aim of this acrticle is to reflect, define and describe basic fragments of climate at teachers training faculties with regard to logically deductive conclusions of current regulative pursuits, mainly assessment aand recording of work of academic workers. Their use as a tool of management has an impact on the climate from the point of view of directing people. Regulative pursuits have an important role when creating, reconstructing and lapsing working groups at the level of departments, institutes, faculty management or university management. Regulative pursuits of academic workers together with their personalities (attitude, anticipation, etc.)...

Literacies, competencies and strategies of readers in the context of current Czech curriculum

Dana Vicherková, Vlasta Řeřichová

e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(3):15-24 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2016.028

This paper deals with the topic that is in the Czech education seen in context with the notion of reading literacy and discussed with reference to the results provided by the international comparative survey of reading literacy PISA. The first part describes the concepts of reading competence and reading strategies and mentions selected approaches to their classification. The second part - from the perspective of the chosen topic - discusses the latest adjustments of the Framework educational program for basic education which will be valid in the school year 2016/2017.

Methods of teaching reading in Belgian education, inspiration for us

Iva Košek Bartošová, Marie Karásková

e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(3):25-40 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2016.029

In the last years, the Czech Republic has been intensively paying attention to the development of early literacy. Literacy is a complex of knowledge and competencies influencing other skills. Results from international researches make us think about teacher's way of work and his/her role in education process. There is also a close relation with reflection of used methods, techniques and forms of work in the process of acquiring new knowledge. The aim of this article is to focus on natural inner motivation of pupils for adopting new skills. In the contribution, we would like to focus on knowledge based on practicing elementary reading in Belgium. This...

Ideology of teaching German during Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

Václav Velčovský

e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(3):41-52 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2016.030

During Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the Czech-German relations escalated. Specific non-coexistence was extrapolated by Nazi ideology. The attitudes towards language(s) and obligatory German language acquisition played a crucial role in this process. The aim of this paper is to analyze informal acquisition of German as a second language, attitudes of people towards this code and politics' influence on them.

Professional competencies of nursery school teachers

Anna Smolíková, Petra Bobková, Jana Kropáčková

e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(3):53-64 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2016.031

This article reports on a research study entitled Education of nursery school teachers. Pilot study aims at processing of four case studies of starting nursery school teachers with different qualifications. Pilot study helped validate the functionality of questionnaires. Research part is based on a questionnaire survery among teachers in nursery schools (96 respondents) and on interviews with seven experts on pre-school education. The survey was comparing how teachers assess the importance of professional competence and adequacy of their development in the initial training, depending on their level of education. Using structured interviews allowed...

Role of educational mentor in enhancing professional competencies of primary school teachers

Marcela Otavová

e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(3):65-74 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2016.032

The aim of this academic article is to contextualize the role of mentor in enhancing professional competencies of a primary school teacher in further and lifelong education. At first, the author describes important specifics of mentor work considering the professional development models and their process approaches that reflect paradigmatic plurality of the area. The author reproduces typologies of other authors dealing with this topic (Doyle, Schön, Shulman, Kolb and Korthagen). The second part of the article specifies the mentoring approach as a reflective process by comparison with another forms of practical teachers peer support - coaching and...

The conception of the mentoring by the novice teachers in the Czech Republic and Great Britain

Andrea Pazderská

e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(3):75-88 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2016.033

The paper introduces the basic contours of the functioning of the current system of the mentoring by the novice teachers in the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom with the goal to outline the possible applications of the selected aspects from the international practice in the Czech Republic. The theoretical foundation of this contribution is based on the concept of the mentoring as the process, which represents the targeted support of the teacher professional development at different stages of their professional teaching career. The mentor has the task to lead the teachers, to show them further possible ways of their professional development and...

How Teachers use the Monologue in the Teaching

Hana Navrátilová

e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(3):89-100 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2016.034

The aim of this paper is to present and to discuss research findings focused on possible forms of a teacher's monologue and communication styles of teachers at lower secondary level of elementary school. These lead to using monologues in teacher's speech while giving instructions to the class. The research is based on qualitative analysis of data from non-standardised observation of 6 teachers during their practice at standard elementary schools. The data include also field notes from direct observations and 24 transcribed video recordings. Obtained data show that the dominance of teachers talk in the class is still a powerful factor and is demonstrated...

Self-regulated learning as a factor influencing the rate of cheating by students

Anna Římánková

e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(3):101-117 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2016.035

The term self-regulated learning is becoming an important topic in education and psychology. Individual self-regulation skills or competences are among the key terms of educational aims. This paper shows that a high rate of self-regulation of students does not necessarily bring only positive effects to the school environment. It shows that some self-regulation skills increase the rate of particular types of students' cheating with differences between men and women. The results of this study are based on a quantitative study of a random sample of 346 students of secondary/high schools in Brno. For collecting the data, a method of questionnaire was used....

Teacher's perspective on the educational process supported by digital technologies

Peter Polakovič, Marta Vránová

e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(3):118-126 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2016.036

Modern ICT has changed the culture and society in a way comparable to the invention of the Guttenberg letterpress. Our world is characterized by an information explosion. The amount of knowledge that is available for men is growing very rapidly. Since the late 18th century the volume of information doubles every five years. The more information is available to humans, the more important is to know how to sort, process and pass the information on to other people. The rapid development of ICT, that we are witnessing now, has affected all areas of our daily lives, including education. ICT and the development of technology create new opportunities for...

Teaching evolution and natural selection at Czech and British schools

Lucie Hlaváčová

e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(3):127-138 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2016.037

The article presents data of a comparative analysis dealing with evolutionary bilogy tought at Czech and British (English and Scottish) schools. The research aims to find out to which extent the biological topics are associated with teaching evolution and natural selection. Total of 350 teachers from the Czech Republic and 122 teachers from England and Scotland took part in the research. The data were collected from online questionnaires. The main statistical procedures used for data analysis were descriptive statistics and chi-square test. The results show that Human Evolution and the Origin of life are the most common topics taught at Czech schools...