e-Pedagogium, 2016 (vol. 16), issue 2

Introduction

Editors

e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(2):5-6  

What helps in the Scenery in Systemically-Oriented Work with People

Stanislava Ševčíková

e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(2):7-16 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2016.012  

Postmodern time appeals many questions dealing with the manner of the cooperation among the people in different context, f. e. in helping professions such as social pedagogy, social work or school system professionals. In the article, the author deals with the question of what is systemic approach, what constructs it uses for the understanding of "problem" and what is achieved by the systemic approach in dealing with the principles of beauty and usefulness by the respecting of the other in his otherness as an offer to the traditional view of using "specialism" as a tool assigned to a helping professional in a helping relation.

Quo Vadis Teaching Literary Criticism

Suryo Tri Saksono, Imron Wakhid Harits, Štefan Chudý

e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(2):17-25 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2016.013  

Literature comes to its readers/audience with complexity and uniqueness. Behind literature, there are authors that bring morality, religion, and other hidden missions. Literary criticism works to reveal every element in literature. It bridges the authors' agenda and the audience's needs. Aware with these complicated tasks, literary criticism has to face the problematic challenges: define its focus of analysis or let itself goes everywhere to follow the authors' agenda and the audience's needs.

Foreign Language as Teachers' Skill in the 21st Century

Linda Chmelařová

e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(2):26-35 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2016.014  

The article analyses English language knowledge as one of the teachers' skills in the 21st century. Emphasis is put on English for specific purposes and its significance for the profession of a lower-secondary teacher. The target group of teachers is so-called non-linguists, i. e. those who are not qualified to teach a foreign language.The paper also describes new features and demands thattoday's world puts on individuals and which teachers must face. It includes some partial results of a research carried out at the Faculty of Education, Palacký University Olomouc among future lower-secondary teachers. Its aim was to reveal students' opinions on...

Gaining Specific Competences from the Perspective of Future Teachers of English

Zuzana Sassiková, Blanka Babická, Tomáš Studeník

e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(2):36-45 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2016.015  

This article concentrates on the specific competences future teachers of English need to acquire and on their ability to use them in class. Within the survey we observed three competences: communicative, linguistic and linguodidactic competence. The aim of the research was to find out how students of English at the Faculty of Education, Palacký University Olomouc assess their competences after completing their first and second compulsory teaching practices. Furthermore, we wanted to compare the students' assessment of the selected competences. For the survey we chose a non-standardized questionnaire which was distributed to the students of the follow-up...

Selected aspects of lifestyle of active boys in the older school age

Jana Kvintová, Martin Sigmund, Michal Kudláček, Iva Dostálová

e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(2):46-61 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2016.016  

The main objectives of this thesis was to identify and evaluate selected aspects of lifestyle (physical activity/inactivity, sedentary behaviour - watching TV and DVD, playing PC games, negative eating habits, substance abuse and sexual experience) in the research sample of 105 young boys from Olomouc, Prostějov and Přerov aged 11, 13 and 15 years, with regularly controlled physical activity (ice hockey) and compare them with the same old boys from the HBSC study (The Health Behavior in School-aged Children). The results show that these young active boys have an overall healthier lifestyle than boys in the HBSC study. This pilot study can become the...

Professional Reflection and Self-reflection in the Educational Work of Secondary School Teachers

Michal Novocký

e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(2):62-74 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2016.017  

This paper will discuss the issue of teachers' reflection and self-reflection within the scope of teaching and extracurricular educational activities. Every teacher should realise the significance of the elements of reflection and self-reflection as they may help to improve their educational work. Only those teachers who evaluate and revise their decisions on a regular basis and rectify individual educational elements have an excellent starting point to achieve progressive changes in their work. Teachers with routine educational methods should be replaced by reflective professionals aware of the need of their continual improvement, therefore they should...

Lower Secondary School Pupils' Perception of e-Textbooks

Josef Moravec, Karolína Pešková

e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(2):75-89 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2016.018  

The presented study aims to build on pupils' perception of textbooks in respect to the kind of textbook (printed or electronic) pupils prefer to use at school. The main research aim of the study was to investigate pupils' perception of the (future) use of e-textbooks as pupils are the population who are the textbooks primarily intended for. The partial aim was to find out advantages and disadvantages of printed textbooks and e-textbooks from the pupils' point of view. A questionnaire with demographic and context focused items, 5-point scale Likert type items and open-ended items was chosen as a research tool. The sample included 250 lower secondary...

Development and Reflection on Early Childhood Education in U. S. Higher Schools

Shangwei Li

e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(2):90-107 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2016.019  

Early childhood education at higher schools is a type of education to train early childhood teachers for children 0-8 years old that have developed very quickly and made a great progress in the United States of America. The paper is to introduce the developmental status and features of early childhood education at the U. S. higher schools. Investigation shows that there are at least 228 colleges and universities with early childhood education major, focusing on "higher educational level", "various major fields", "practicable degree plans", "diverse instructional methods", "strict teacher certification" and "networking". At meantime, there is a "confused...

Developing Professional Skills in Pre-primary Teachers via Reflexion and Self-Reflection

Zora Syslová, Nina Ziklová

e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(2):108-119 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2016.020  

This study brings for discussion on pre-primary education the view upon developing reflective skills of students of pre-primary teaching as well as using self-reflection in the work of kindergarten teachers. The authors talk in the introduction to the study about reflection as in teaching as the key factor in the professional growth in both the pre-service teachers as well as the in-service teachers. They are presenting the information on the state of the art findings in this field. The key part of the text is devoted to action research within which the video recording of the teacher's own work was used and reflected upon subsequently (reflection on...

Preschool Teacher Education in China: History, Achievements, Problems and Prospects

Shangwei Li, Changjie Deng

e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(2):120-132 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2016.021  

The purpose of this paper is to sum up the pros and cons of preschool teacher education in China. Preschool teacher education has experienced a century, formed more perfect management system and internal structure, produced some useful research results, and greatly promoted the development of preschool education in China. However, Chinese preschool teacher education has still imperfect management systems and structure, and impertinent practice and research. Therefore, China should further improve ecological environment and structure, enhance the effectiveness of theory and practice in preschool teacher education and pay deeper attention to the rural...

Pre-service Teachers' Sentiments, Attitudes, and Concerns about Inclusive Education in Chongqing, China

Xinrui Li, Suqiong Xu, Youyu Xiang, Miloň Potměšil

e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(2):133-141 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2016.022  

This paper reports on pre-service teachers' attitudes toward inclusive education, concerns about inclusive education and sentiments toward individuals with disabilities in Chongqing, China. It uses the Sentiments Attitudes and Concerns about Inclusive Education Scale Revised (SCACIE-R), designed by Forlin, Earle, Loreman, & Sharma (2011), with 424 pre-service teachers involved. It was found that variables such as interaction with persons with disabilities and previous training had a significant impact on the participants' attitudes toward inclusive education. The implications for the further improvement of pre-service teacher education programs...

A Practical Guide for Practitioners in Inclusive Early Childhood Classrooms

Yuntong Peng

e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(2):142-144  

Professionalization of Kindergarten Teachers from the Perspective of Curriculum Reform

Alena Jůvová

e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(2):145-147  

Art in History, History in Art Chapters from British History Seen Through Works of Art

Ondřej Duda

e-Pedagogium 2016, 16(2):148-149