e-Pedagogium, 2017 (vol. 17), issue 1

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e-Pedagogium 2017, 17(1):5-6

Original articles

What are the social sciences, ambiguity and great variability of the meaning of the term "the social"

Peter Ondrejkovič

e-Pedagogium 2017, 17(1):7-24 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2017.002

The question if it is at all possible to speak about science also outside the scope of natural sciences arises from an outdated classic conception of science based on the Newtonian and Cartesian models. The social sciences also represent an outdated conception of science created by division and unification of separate parts in accordance with the laws of classic causality, which formed the deterministic world view. The classic conception of strictly deterministic laws recedes and appears to be a complex web of relationships between various parts of the social reality. Social reality does not consist solely of rationally acting beings, thus it is not...

Controversy of Humanism and its Heritage in the Social Sciences and Pedagogy

Jaroslav Koťa, Martin Strouhal

e-Pedagogium 2017, 17(1):25-34 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2017.003

The starting point of this text is the question of humanity in the social sciences and pedagogy after six centuries of the existence of humanism. The text describes the evolution of humanism and its various appraisals. It deals with the problem of conceptualization of "humanism" and "human" as these concepts are philosophical or ideological, and not scientific. The authors try to capture the ambiguity of humanistic ideas influencing cultural and sociopolitical European history. The problem of reductionism in the social sciences is mentioned within this context. The scientific perspective only focuses on a limited number of aspects of human life, not...

Issue of the Method of Moral Dilemmas in Ethics Education

Jan Hábl, Jan Polinský

e-Pedagogium 2017, 17(1):35-45 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2017.004

The objective of this paper is to answer the question of whether the method of so-called moral dilemmas is a suitable tool for Ethic Education lessons. The work will introduce the fundamental ideological concept of two figures of moral psychology, Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg. It will be followed by the methods of moral dilemmas efficacy and applicability of which in lessons will be tested. Moral development of an individual is influenceable through pedagogy in school environment. Moral dilemmas are an efficient tool in ethics education but only for individuals who have reached a certain level of moral development.

Self-concept of Teachers - Suggestions for Self-evaluation and Research

Hana Lukášová

e-Pedagogium 2017, 17(1):46-58 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2017.005

Teachers constitute their profession on their professional qualities allowing them to perform self-evaluation, i.e. conscious processes of professional self-control and self-assessment in the dimensions of their won self-concept. Next to reflection of lesson preparation, realisation and evaluation processes, these processes of conscious self-evaluation of their own professional self-concept are very important for the professional performance. The study text will list and define deeper inner variables of teachers' self-concept that will be starting points for conscious self-evaluation. The study is to contribute to the current search for requirements...

Coping with Stress and Burnout Syndrome in Primary School Teachers

Irena Smetáčková, Eliška Vondrová, Petra Topková

e-Pedagogium 2017, 17(1):59-75 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2017.006

Burnout syndrome is a high-risk phenomenon, which impedes the quality of care of clients or rather pupils in helping professions including teachers. Since burnout syndrome develops as a result of long-lasting stress, for better understanding it is important to examine strategies of dealing with stress (coping strategies). The paper presents a research on relationship between teachers' burnout syndrome and coping strategies in primary schools (n = 107). The results show the predominance of positive coping strategies. However these do not correlate with burnout syndrome. On the contrary, there was found a correlation between negative strategies and burnout...

Vztah životní spokojenosti a jejích složek s osobnostními charakteristikami u studentů učitelských oborů

Lucie Křeménková, Jana Kvintová, Michaela Pugnerová

e-Pedagogium 2017, 17(1):76-88 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2017.007

The aim of the paper was to analyze the life satisfaction in relation to personality characteristics of students of teaching disciplines. The research survey was performed by questionnaire methods (DZS, NEO-PI-R) and comprised 319 participants. As part of the results has been found significantly lower levels of satisfaction with Health and Self by the students of teaching fields than the normative values of the same age population. It has not been found continuity of Life satisfaction with age (r = -0.008), nor with sex (r = 0.02). Conversely, it have been confirmed the research assumption mapping relation between Life satisfaction and Personality....

Formative assessment in foreign countries and in the Czech Republic

Veronika Laufková

e-Pedagogium 2017, 17(1):89-99 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2017.008

The paper introduces the basic characteristics of formative assessment in foreign countries and in the Czech Republic with the goal to outline the possibilities of development of formative assessment in the Czech Republic. Methodologically it is a review that analyses and summarizes especially theoretical approaches in the topic of formative assessment. The aim of this review is to answer these key questions: the genesis of formative assessment; the collective characteristics of its definitions; the arguments of its implementation and the difficulties of the implementation.

Wider Contexts of School Achievement in Mathematics

Helena Vomáčková, David Cihlář

e-Pedagogium 2017, 17(1):100-109 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2017.009

This paper comments on one part of the results of the research carried out in the years 2014-2015 in 42 primary schools in the Czech Republic. It was focused on the contexts of school success in pupils of older school age in mathematics according to the distribution of regions. In spite of the fact that the numerical classification does not expressly reflect the pupil's knowledge and skills in the given subject, its value as an arbitrary variable was used to identify statistical relations with the defined arbitrary variables: locality of the region, the achieved level of education of pupils' parents, pupils' physical dispositions in the form of the...

Pedagogy and Performative Speech Acts

Jan Sůsa

e-Pedagogium 2017, 17(1):110-116 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2017.010

The aim of the paper is to explore possible practical use of Judith Butler's theory of performativity for education. The main theme of her theory of performativity deals with the constitution of subjective identity in relation to language and power. An example of performativity can be seen in a teacher's possible remark like "Girls usually aren't so good in mathematics" - such statement can be seen as an example of speech act, which is not only a description of a neutral situation, but also have potential to act performatively. This approach can be used for an analysis of power and language in education as proved in works by W. Kohli and V. Walkerdine.

Specifics in Oral Speech Comprehension in Pre-school Children from Speech and Language Kindergarten and Kindergarten of Common type

Renata Mlčáková

e-Pedagogium 2017, 17(1):117-129 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2017.011

The article presents the results of research aimed at the specifics of oral speech comprehension in pre-school children from speech and language kindergarten and kindergarten of common type. The author of the article collected the research data during June 2016 within the frame of part of IGA_PdF_2016_019. The examination of comprehension of oral speech was attended by 27 children, 17 children from the speech and language kindergarten and 10 children from the kindergarten of the common type. Children from speech and language school suffered from mild or severe articulation disorder, specific language impairment (developmental dysphasia), hardness of...

The Situation of Parents of Deaf Children - Decisions for Cochlear Implantation

Pavla Pitnerová, Pavlína Reová

e-Pedagogium 2017, 17(1):130-138 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2017.012

The following text presents the results of research, which investigated the parents' look at the period from detection of hearing loss of their child until the child was implanted cochlear implant. The subject of research was to identify how the parents of children with hearing impairments related perceive the process from the detection of hearing impairment, the decision-making process about cochlear implantation. For data acquisition, the technology of semistructured interview was chosen. The research involved 13 informants.

Assessment options of pragmatic communication level in children with autism spectrum disorder - partial survey results

Kateřina Vitásková, Lucie Šebková, Lucie Schwarzová

e-Pedagogium 2017, 17(1):139-148 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2017.013

Communication pragmatics is frequently disturbed in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which causes difficulties in the social interaction, and thus it might be one of the obstacles to speech therapy intervention realized in these children. The aim of this paper is to highlight some assessment options of pragmatic communication level using originally created assessment (test) material which aims to pragmatically oriented communication situations relating to daily activities and real life. Ten children with ASD and ten intact children were evaluated within preliminary testing; their choice of an adequate illustration from pair pictures representing...

EMBU and Other Versions as Tools to Measure Attachment

Gabriela Rozvadský Gugová

e-Pedagogium 2017, 17(1):149-161 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2017.014

Objective: The diagnosis of attachment now provides the ability to track various aspects of behaviour. The attachment theory is widely recognized today. Here is a short overview of the development of the EMBU method and its changes for the paediatric population, for adults and for parents. In the conclusion, we inform about the specifics in the Slovak version of sEMBU.Methods: sEMBU is mainly looking for three basic models used in parental behaviour: rejection, emotional warmth and overprotection. Modifications of the original EMBU are briefly introduced through the authors' studies. We used a 23-item (short)-EMBU (Arrindell, W. A. et al., 2001)....

Knowledge about epilepsy and confidence in approaching a pupil with epilepsy among teachers in training and practicing teachers

Dana Brabcová, Eliška Strejcová, Jiří Kohout

e-Pedagogium 2017, 17(1):162-173 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2017.015

Epilepsy is a neurological disease having negative impact on school life. A support of the affected children from the well-educated teachers is thus highly needed. The aim of this study was to compare knowledge about, attitudes towards epilepsy and confidence in approaching pupils having this condition between two distinct groups. 123 practicing teachers and 111 teachers in training completed the 21-item Scale of Attitudes Toward People with Epilepsy (ATPE), an 18-item multiple-choice test measuring knowledge about epilepsy, and a 5-item questionnaire focused on confidence with epilepsy in a school environment. We found that despite a higher level...