e-Pedagogium, 2019 (vol. 19), issue 2
Articles
A cross-cultural study of value orientation and its effect on doctoral students’ self-concept formation
Danping Peng, Iva Koribská, Štefan Chudý
e-Pedagogium 2019, 19(2):7-20 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2019.011 
Enormous changes in recent decades have led to the trend of higher education globalization. Globalization brings great opportunities for equity and quality in education to be realised for international students, however, it also poses challenges. Focused on doctoral students' self-concept formation, the current research adopted a qualitative approach to explore the value orientations of doctoral students and their self-concept formation, aiming to contribute to the literature on doctoral students' values and to the improvement of practice in higher education. Convenience sampling and random selection was used to select the participants. Four international...
Children in Roma families
Denisa Selická
e-Pedagogium 2019, 19(2):21-31 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2019.012
Romany people and families have an irreplaceable role in their children's education. We cannot replace this effectively with any other social institution that might possibly aim to take on this role. In the paper we present the opinions of experts. The focus is on the position of the Roma child in the family and the related specific features of this.
Fundamentals of organization and trends of academic professional music education in the Ukraine
Olena Matselyukh
e-Pedagogium 2019, 19(2):32-43 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2019.013
This publication deals with the structure of modern musical schooling, as well as school as a complex of didactic, theoretical and practical aspects of learning. This came to light because of new concepts of musical education, which became the flagship of children's schooling, and the practical achievements in pedagogical endeavours of Ukrainian composer Bohdan Kotyuk: "Through studying folklore to the formation of students' national consciousness".
On students' attitudes towards small group teaching in mathematics lessons
Petr Emanovský
e-Pedagogium 2019, 19(2):44-58 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2019.014
Research about students' attitudes is a current topic in understanding the processes and practices of teaching. In order to improve this process, it is useful to know attitudes of students towards its various aspects. The teaching method used is an important factor influencing the quality of teaching. The article explores students' attitudes towards one of these methods, namely small group teaching. For this purpose, a quantitative research survey was designed. The aim of this research was to determine students' attitudes towards this teaching method in mathematics lessons and investigate the influence of grade and gender on attitudes. The research...
Measurement of selected aspects of student behavior in online courses
Michal Černý
e-Pedagogium 2019, 19(2):59-67 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2019.015
The paper analyzes the possibilities of using learning analytics outside of LSM, for example in educational environments that are not associated with common large systems such as Moodle or Blackboard, but which can only be analyzed through web analytics tools. This topic has been marginalized in the discourse by the educational public for a long time. My research and methodological attention show that the data that can be obtained from these environments about the learning and information behaviour of students can be of interest to the design of the whole educational environment and can help with significant changes in the design of courses, measuring...
Sensation seeking tendency and the preference of experiential learning
Dita Culková, Jan Suk
e-Pedagogium 2019, 19(2):68-79 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2019.016
The present descriptive study is based on mixed pre-structured research fundamental strategy of which is a non-intervention questionnaire and more in depth semi-structured interviews. A statistically significant correlation between the degree of tendency to seek sensation and preferences of so-called experiential learning is examined via Pearson's correlation coefficient. The qualitative part of the research verifies whether monitored students with a high tendency to seek extraordinary experiences intuitively and deliberately need experiential learning, while two out of three students with low tendencies to seek extraordinary sensations do not have...