e-Pedagogium, 2023 (vol. 23), issue 4

Introduction

Editors

e-Pedagogium 2023, 23(4)  

Critical Incidents in Pedagogy: an avenue to develop key competences

Dagmar Sieglová

e-Pedagogium 2023, 23(4):9-32 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2024.006  

Current societal trends foreshadowing Industry 4.0 will no doubt influence the world of education and language teaching. Adequate approaches to balance the changing means of communication and the world of work must be sought to meet the educational needs of students and prepare them to succeed in their jobs and lives. While language teaching methodologies and approaches develop over time, the know-how collected in nearly two centuries needs to be integrated into language teaching and learning practice to fit modern educational standards. Critical incidents, i. e., vivid life events, meet the requirements for context-integrated, student-centered, self-motivational...

The effects of 8-week mindfulness meditation training on participants stress levels: a literature review

Barbora Kvapilová

e-Pedagogium 2023, 23(4):33-42 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2024.005  

In recent decades, mindfulness meditation has gained a lot of interest from the ranks of psychologists, psychiatrists and educators based on beneficial effects on stress reduction, improved emotion-regulation and overall psychological well-being. Numerous studies have shown such positive effects, most of them relying on participants self-reported questionnaires before and after the training in mindfulness meditation. Most common form of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are the Mindfulness-based stress reduction program (MBSR) working with all types of populations and the Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), targeting mainly clinical populations...

Mindful Interventions in Special Education

Shulan Zeng

e-Pedagogium 2023, 23(4):43-46 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2024.001  

Intellectual Disability Education

Justýna Dočkalová

e-Pedagogium 2023, 23(4):47-49 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2024.007  

Education of Unassertive and Withdrawn Children

Justýna Dočkalová

e-Pedagogium 2023, 23(4):50-52 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2024.008