e-Pedagogium, 2010 (vol. 10), Suppl. 1

Festival vzdělávání dospělých AEDUCA 2009

Lenka Cimbálníková

e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(88):7-8  

Lifelong Guidance as a Learning Opportunity for Adults

Lenka Hloušková

e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(88):11-22  

The contribution stems from empirical data collected via standardized interviews (a questionnaire) from a characteristic sample of adult population aged from 20 to 65 in year 2005. I follow the question if Czech adults look for help in different areas of their lives and thereby create another learning opportunity in the scope of informal learning in this contribution. The attention is also paid to the fact how looking for, or not looking for help, is related to participation and planning of participation in further education at the same time.

Employers, Educators and Guidance Practitioners: Information and Guidance Services Missed in Further Professional Education

Markéta Pencová

e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(88):23-33  

The article presents a part of results of a small explorative qualitative research focused on three groups from further professional education: employers, educators and guidance practitioners. The text summarizes knowledge about information and guidance services in further professional education, which are insufficient or nonexistent in the Czech Republic. Also the identified development needs of guidance practitioners are shortly described (topics, which the guidance practitioners need to study and a conception of professional corporation "meaningful" for guidance practitioners). The text offers the review of deficiencies, which have to be repaired...

Counselling as a Tool of Development of Human Development in Services for Adults

Lea Šírová

e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(88):34-44  

In the following study we describe counselling as a part of services for adults. The institutionalization of counselling indicates its topicality and justification as well as the need to continue its development. We stress the application of counselling in different areas of life of an adult person and during the work with various target groups of adults. We outline the fact that counselling is effective provided if it follows the development of personality of an adult. This fact can be proven by the attention which andragogy pays to counselling and the development of andragogical counselling.

Quality Management in Education

Alexandra Arendášová

e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(88):47-52  

The submission deals with the managering of quality in education. Within the philosophy of model TQM describes four elements, which are important from perspective TQM for the quality of educational system. The one of ways for succeed in the trade of education between schools, is establishing the system of managering of quality at the schools.

New Career System of Educators in Slovakia and Increase of School Quality

Simoneta Babiaková

e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(88):53-61  

After many years the act on educators solves the situation of teachers in Slovakia within their profession and also within the whole society. The submitted precept of law is one of the reform pillars because pedagogues are a determining factor of the educational reform. The act implements the new career system of educators - based on two career ways. It determines career levels and career ranks. It deals also with responsibilities and rights related to continual professional education of teachers, to principles of evaluation and remuneration of teachers. There is a real chance that the planning of pedagogic employees' professional growth, their continual...

Professionalism and Academic Teaching Quality

Iveta Bednaříková

e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(88):62-77  

This article deals with particular aspects and standards of the academic teaching quality in the context of requirements on the university education quality in the European and national scale. It analyses the profession of academic teacher from the point of related activities and defines competences. It points out the necessity of systematic education as a basic assumption for the development of the academic teachers' professionalism and the pedagogical competence.

Economy of Education from the Point of View of Adult Education

Miriam Bitterová

e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(88):78-84  

Nowadays investments in human capital are seen as the main part of economical and social status development. The type of education determines the employee's position on the labour market on which directly depends his/hers income and the quality of life. One way how to improve the value of human labor force is to improve the quality of the educational system. Education is in whole European Union valued as a key factor of success and development. In the future a larger rise distance education and adult education is expected. With this the advisability of teaching with the main accent in praxis on use is supported and global thinking with local application...

Principalship at Secondary Schools and Influence of Act No. 245/2008 Coll. on Upbringing and Education (the School Act) and on Changes and Amendments to Some Acts as Amended on Quality of Principalship

Dana Čuláková

e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(88):85-96  

The aim of the contribution is to point out provisions of Act No. 245/2008 Coll. on Upbringing and Education (the School Act) and on changes and amendments to some Acts as amended, form and organization of upbringing and education in secondary schools. Particular attention is paid to changes in types of secondary schools and their characteristics, changes in levels of education and the introduction of a national educational program and school educational program, under which it is pursued education and training in secondary schools. In this article, relatively close attention is paid to provisions relevant to the fulfillment of the completion of study...

Life-long Learning and Labour Market

Jozef Habánik

e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(88):97-102  

The paper presents information on a drawing up of conceptual, strategic and legislation documents for life-long learning, life-long advisory in the Slovak Republic. Attention is focused mainly on relations among the Slovak economical structure, education system and changing labour market. A topic of competitiveness of the Slovak Republic in compliance with the Lisbon Strategy is addressed by adoption of a separate law on the life-long learning and in a future law of the life-long learning financing in the Slovak Republic.

Contradictions in Assessment of School Management Attributes

Alena Hašková

e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(88):103-117  

Currently to manage a school requires a great part of formalised education.The content of this education should follow a research aimed at nowaday requirements of school management. The contribution presents some results of two recently carried out research activities, dealing with reflection of applying managerial competences by headmasters and with applying leadership at schools. The research results can be understood as very contradictive but not within the frame of participative school management.

Strategy, Processes and Risks as Key Performance Indicators for Assessment of University Management

Tomáš Kafka

e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(88):118-127  

The contribution shows the need of professionalization of university management influenced mainly by growing world competition in the field of tertial education. It defines key criteria of evaluation of quality of the university management system in examples of both Czech and foreign public and private universities. The university management system is regarded as a necessary part of the so-called "University Governance".

Competent Autoevaluation - a Part of School Quality

Juraj Kalnický

e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(88):128-135  

The contribution deals with the analysis of outputs of the qualitative research of the Methodology and Evaluation Centre, Ostrava University. Analysis was carried out within the ESF Projects oriented on the increase of quality of basic and secondary schools in the Moravian-Silesian region. The research was primarily focused on competent methodology of autoevaluation and external evaluation, its adoption, as well as its side aspects, for example ethic-didactic aspects of this new educational phenomenon.

Merge as a New Phenomenon in School Management and Leadership

Irena Lhotková

e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(88):136-153  

The falling demographic diagram and securing efficient school management make local authorities to merge schools. For headmasters of these schools it means to work with this new phenomenon in school management and leadership. This contribution presents two examples of connection, compares the attitudes of headmasters and describes their managing and leading as a process of change. At the end it stresses the lack of feedback and its possible results.

Several Results of School Management Researches Carried Out by the Institute of Technology of Education at the Faculty of Education, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra

Zdeněk Obdržálek, Mária Pisoňová

e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(88):154-166  

Theoretical analysis of school management potentialities to participate in creation of a good quality school. The development of school management approaches to its optimization based on an analysis of studies and researches oriented towards these issues. The results of a research dealing with school management and school manager education at the Institute of Technology of Education at the Faculty of Education, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra.

Education of Headmasters and Their Competences

Václav Trojan

e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(88):167-182  

Author is a manager the Education Management Centre, at the Faculty of Education at Charles University Prague. His contribution is focused on some questions of managerial competence of school headmasters with regard to the revision of the educational system in the Czech Republic.He presents the results of the realized national project Successful headmaster and he compares its results with the point of view of the project participants. He confronts the requierements posed to the headmasters with their professional preparation.

Education Management and Its Place in School Management

Mária Uhereková

e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(88):183-196  

The contribution deals with education management as one of factors influencing the quality of school education. It analyses the education quality management by teachers. It shows the positon of education management in school management. It focuses on school management from the point of view of leading teachers toward understanding and applying school management.

External Element in Internal School Evaluation

Jana Vašťatková, Michaela Prášilová

e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(88):197-210  

The article is based on the theory of potential of school self-evaluation processes for school quality development. It follows the idea that implementation of an external element into internal evaluation contributes to its effectiveness. It informs of possibilities linked with the concept of benchmarking in schooling. In the empirical part, the article introduces conclusions of analysis of published school educational programmes, school annual reports from three regions and 20 essays of school leaders. It thus provides an insight into the reality of Czech school in this respect.

Communication Opportunities of University Departments and Their Applications in Examples of the Department of Recreology

Lenka Bartková

e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(88):213-231  

The contribution is focused on communication problems of universities. It deals with questions what controlled communication means and why communication of university parts, like individual faculties or departments, with public is so important these days. I will mention concrete examples of communication of the Department of Rekreology, which is a part of the Faculty of Physical Culture, Palacký University Olomouc, in my article. I will try to display possibilities how to communicate with a target group and not only to diversify, but also to show up differentiation through communication at the same time. The last part of the article deal's with new...

Karel Dvořáček Library at Vyškov - a Centre for Adult Education

Zdeňka Adlerová

e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(88):235-242  

In these days, a library is not only a place where people can borrow books. It offers more opportunities, for individuals as well as for groups. Many people need to meet up, but they miss a place. Karel Dvořáček Library wants to be their natural meeting place, so-called community centre. The aim of the library is to support a relationship between people and the place where they live and also to develop cultural and educational activities meeting the needs of the community. Among others, it is the Third Age Academy - education for seniors, PC courses for people of active age, memory training and brain jogging.

Lecture Cycles and Other Forms of Adult Education at the Observatory and Planetarium of Johann Palisa, VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava

Ivana Češková, Tomáš Gráf

e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(88):243-254  

The contribution presents the offer of educational and popularization cycles of lectures and other forms of adult education realized at the Observatory and Planetarium of Johann Palisa in Ostrava, informs of the development of visit raze and outlines ways of promotion of the mentioned activities.

Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc for Education of Children, Pupils, Students and Adults

Eva Křístková, Aleš Lebeda

e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(88):255-264  

The Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc (founded in 1901) has more than 2000 plant accessions on the area of 0.56 ha. Besides the flora of the Central Europe, there are plants of Mediterranean, North American and Asian origin. The garden is primarily aimed at education of university students, but it also develops programmes for education of pupils and students of all other types of schools, participates in scientific projects and programmes for the protection of diversity of wild and cultivated plant species. In 2005 garden acted as one of the funding members of the Association of Botanical Gardens of the Czech Republic....

Andragogical-social Dilemmas of Roma Education in the Slovak Republic

Tibor Loran

e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(88):265-274  

The presentation andragogical-social aspect descriptively analyzes, in broader social dimensions, the current insurmountable dilemmas of Roma education within the institutional education at the beginning of the 21st century. In the context andragogical-social issues the lecturer also points out the importance and the need for intensified andragogical action towards segregated and marginalized Roma living in settlements and ghettos in the Slovak Republic.

Institutionalized Adult Education from the Sociological Perspective

Helena Kubátová

e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(88):275-297  

The article is focused on an issue of the institutionalized adult education from the sociological perspective. The article has two parts. The first part pays attention to the adult education as a part of the idea of lifelong learning. It defines a concept of the lifelong learning and describes its main strategic aims including their implementation. The second part of the article is concerned with a sociological view of the institutionalized adult education and is based on assumption that the adult education is an institution. This approach analyzes the institutionalized adult education through two contradictory sociological theories - systems theories...

Influence of Attitudes - a Dilemma of Institutionalized Adult Education

Dana Pokorná

e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(88):298-305  

The author outlines the needs of parallel development of knowledge and influence of approaches in the process of adult education. The methods used in institutional education of adults are focused mainly on knowledge development but there are specific development areas where the effectiveness of education lies not in cumulating field-related information but rather in influencing approaches. Such an area is e.g. social responsibility which is currently being presented as a significant part of the business world, of managerial education as well as of business ethics of different companies. The paper presents the author's intentions for her dissertation thesis.

Practice in the Companies as a Solution of Unemplyment

Sylvie Navarová

e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(88):309-319  

The report presents a survey of 180 job candidates registered by the Unemployment Offices for over 12 months. It deals with unemployment as a psychosocial problem of the present time and with personality characteristics hampering the return of the unemployed onto the labour market. It presents the structure of career types and personality dimensions from the perspective of the success in job search. It discusses about the role of consultancy in the area of unemployment and outlines personality characteristics to be strengthened during vocational training in order to eliminate unemployment in the future.

Cooperation Between ÚTV PF UKF in Nitra and MPSVaR SR in Providing E-learning for UPSVaR Managers

Mária Pisoňová, Marcela Červeňanská, Peter Brečka

e-Pedagogium 2010, 10(88):320-331  

This paper deals with preparation and implementation of the project NP XIV - The specific vocational education of bureaus of labour, social affairs and family. It was carried out from April 2008 to December 2008 in the Slovak Republic. The project was carried out by the Institute of Educational Technology, Faculty of Education, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra. The paper deals with the process of the e-learning training which formed a significant part of the described project.