e-Pedagogium, 2012 (vol. 12), issue 2

Editorial

Milada Bocáková

e-Pedagogium 2012, 12(2):5  

The Use of Augmentative and Alternative Communication with Pupils of Special Schools in the Czech Republic

Petra Bendová, Martina Čecháčková, Kateřina Fialová

e-Pedagogium 2012, 12(2):7-23 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2012.021  

The paper examines the current state in the use of augmentative and alternative communication (hereinafter AAC) with special primary schools pupils in the Czech Republic. It defines the systems of AAC that are currently used at special primary schools in the Czech Republic as a tool of communication and education of pupils with a greater degree of intellectual disabilities. It describes the contribution of such tools to the development of specific segments of personality of the individuals with a greater degree of intellectual disabilities. It defines the preferred aspects for the choice of the communication system of the given target group, and it...

Initial Mathematics Teacher Training at University of Vienna

Petr Emanovský, Bronislava Štěpánková

e-Pedagogium 2012, 12(2):24-32 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2012.022  

The quality of mathematics education is a very contemporary didactic topic at present. Improving the quality of this education is unthinkable without a quality mathematics teacher training at universities and other educational institutions. Many authors describe this issue (e.g. Hejný 2001, Monk 1994). The article deals with the contents and organization of the study programme for future teachers of mathematics at the Mathematical faculty of the University in Vienna of connection with the innovation of similar studies at the Faculty of Science of Palacký University, Olomouc that is realized within the ESF project "Professional science teacher training...

Psychological Functioning of Parents of Children with Congenital Heart Disease: Review of Literature

Joanna Fryt, Karolina Sikora

e-Pedagogium 2012, 12(2):33-46 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2012.023  

Advancement in medical treatment of congenital heart disease (CHD) has improved dramatically over the past 20 years creating a new group of children who grow up with CHD and parents who deal with challenges of the disease. Although it is clear that having a child born with CHD rapidly increases demands and stress placed on the family, little is known about the specifics of parental experience and factors determining family adaptation. In the article we review previous studies on parental well-being and mental health, caregiving demands, parent-child interactions, family functioning and satisfaction with medical care. We describe several psychosocial...

Theory and Practice of Experimental Learning of the Future Preschool Teachers in Slovenia

Jurka Lepičnik Vodopivec

e-Pedagogium 2012, 12(2):47-61 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2012.024  

In this contribution, we attempt to answer the question of how experimental learning is implemented in the educational program for future preschool teachers. At the same time, it is important to know that the ideas of experimental learning represent a consequence of searching a closer connection between theory and practice; in particular, in the processes of educating teachers/preschool teachers its beginnings date back to the era of reform pedagogy. In the first part, we will introduce the grounds of the experimental learning of preschool teachers. In the second part, we will present the findings of a survey on implementing the experimental learning...

Quality of Life Indicators in Visions of Adolescents

Jitka Šimíčková-Čížková

e-Pedagogium 2012, 12(2):62-70 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2012.025  

Our study focuses on application of the SEIQoL Method for investigating perceptions of quality of life by learners attending lower secondary schools. Our results indicate that the method mentioned above corresponds to the level of thinking of older learners (14-15 years of age). Younger learners (11-12 years of age) consider difficult to imagine their future and to generalize what they perceive as important in their lives. The structure of quality of life indicators corresponds to the age of respondents, and is also influenced by the urban or rural environment, in which the adolescents live.

Action Plan of a Teacher in His/Her Own Class

Jana Trabalíková

e-Pedagogium 2012, 12(2):71-94 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2012.026  

This paper informs about the action plan of a teacher in his/her own class. It focuses on one of the possible approaches how to explore the quality of class environment as a factor of the education-formation strategy efficacy in real conditions of a Slovak primary school during the implementation of cooperative teaching. By the means of diagnosing mutual relations among pupils, and the changes in the sociometric structure of groups, it reviews the changes in their prosocial behaviour. It describes the research, which compares by sociometric measures the diagnosable differences in the dynamics of social relations in an experimental and controlled group...

Emotion Understanding in Children with Hearing Impairment

Xie Yuhan

e-Pedagogium 2012, 12(2):95-110 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2012.027  

Emotion understanding refers to the ability to recognize, comprehend and infer emotions, which is crucial to the development of social competence and mental health in children with hearing impairment. Researches on understanding emotions in hearing impaired children are introduced and reviewed in this article based on three aspects: recognizing emotion, understanding the cause of emotion, and understanding display rules of emotion. Plausible interpretations are analyzed, and study issues needed to be explored further in the future researches are put forward.

Development of Secondary Education in Slovakia in the Period of the First Czechoslovak Republic from the Staff's Perspective

Jarmila Zacharová

e-Pedagogium 2012, 12(2):111-134 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2012.028  

1918 became a breaking point in the history of Europe. New states were formed, Czechoslovakia was also among them. School education became a cultural base for this small state, however, after the long-term assimilating process of the former Hungarian Kingdom, there was a need to Slovakize the school education actively.This paper examines the area of the development of secondary education in Slovakia with respect to that time legislative changes, extended by a perspective regarding the solution of staff issues as far as the employment of pro-democratic and pro-national oriented teachers at Slovak secondary schools were concerned. Since there were...

Efficient Early Diagnostics of Risk Behaviour in Adolescents

Petra Hedrichová

e-Pedagogium 2012, 12(2):135-138  

Methods for All Subjects

Kamila Kmentová, Milena Öbrink Hobzová

e-Pedagogium 2012, 12(2):139-141