The Czech Republic: From Ethnic Discrimination to Social Inclusion in the Educational System

2019 ◽  
pp. 379-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Fónadová ◽  
Tomáš Katrňák ◽  
Natalie Simonová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
The Czech Republic

The Complex Support and Assistance to Children with Disability and their Families in the Czech Republic and the Presentation of Case Final Reports on Early Care of Client as an Example of Good Practice

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-84
Author(s):  
Zdenka Šándorová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Practical Case ◽  
Early Care ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Children With Disability ◽  
Global Comparison ◽  
The Social

Abstract The theme of the paper is very topical in global and European context. It brings theoretical information on the concept of asocial model of early care in the Czech Republic and practical case studies and final reports related to the early care provision which demonstrate tangible activities within the system of the complex support and assistance to children with disability and their families. The author applies the theoretical-practical approach as she is of the opinion that „the practice without theory is as a blind person on the road and the theory without practice is as a cart without an axle”. The aim of the paper is to extend theoretical information on the topic in the Czech Republic by individual examples of final reports related to the provision of social prevention of the early care in the Czech Republic. The overall aim of the paper is to justify topicality and eligibility of early care in its broad reference framework, including its practical impact. The theoretical basis of the paper is elaborated with respect to the analysis and comparison of Czech and foreign literature, legislation, methodology document and other relevant written resources. The practical level is elaborated with respect to 3 cases and final reports of the provider of an early care of the social prevention. The early care in the Czech Republic represents a professional, modern and recognized system in European and global comparison and is legally anchored in the Act 108/2006 Coll. on social services. It aims on the minimization of child´s disability impact upon child´s development, especially the social inclusion of a child and a family and their capability to cope with limitating disability in natural environ, i.e. by the preservation of standard way of life. It represents a multi-dimensional model, overcoming limitation of sectoral division of the early care and facilitating complex assistance from a series of subject fields at the same time. Services for families with an endangered child in early age are the background for social, educational and pedagogical inclusion of a child and the re-socialisation and re-inclusion of a family. Early care is considered preventive, from the point of the prevention of the second disability (i.e. is effective), in the prevention of institutionalized and asylum care (i.e. is economical), in the prevention of segregation (i.e. is ethical).

scholarly journals Environmental Education as Part of Geographical Courses in the Czech Republic - Problems, Suggestions, and Challenges

Geografie ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-168
Author(s):  
Hana Kühnlová ◽  
Karel Kühnl
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Local Region ◽  
Broad Sense ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
The Czech Republic

Improvement of the environment is conditioned by a systematic environmental education. The role of geography in such an educational system is also crucial. As a result, geographical courses require changes. A sound knowledge of one's local region much contributes to the understanding of environment in the broad sense. Environmental education must include the historical development of natural and social elements as well as future prospects. The concept of eco-museum could bring much inspiration to this process. The article deals with the idea of eco-museum of Cental European importance which should primarily influence the environmental thinking of the population.

The Greengrocer and Compassion in Time of War

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 310-314
Author(s):  
James F. Pontuso
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Personal Reflection ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Normal Life ◽  
Marxist Ideology ◽  
The Way

This is a personal reflection on the effects of The Power of the Powerless on students living in post-tyrannical societies—the Czech Republic in 1993 and Iraq in 2010. Czech students read the essay as an indictment of Marxist ideology, one-party rule, bureaucratic stagnation, and their former educational system. Havel was a symbol of resistance, human rights, and courage. Iraqi students found a different lesson. The Power of the Powerless does not excuse tyranny, but it does explain the way people trying to live a normal life rationalize their compliance with repression. Havel’s essay made Iraqi students comprehend how complicated choices are under difficult circumstances. Perhaps, as its author intended, the essay proved upon reflection to be a source of compassion.

The System of Police Education in the Czech Republic: the Current State and the Directions of Improvement

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (29) ◽  
pp. 112-126
Author(s):  
Jiří Víšek ◽  
Lukáš Habich
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Education System ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Current State ◽  
Police Education ◽  
The Future ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Service Relationship

The article describes the system of police education in the Czech Republic on the basis of the mandatory obligations that regulate it. Most importantly, it is act No. 361/2003 Coll. on Service Relationship of Members of the Security Corps, whose section 45 contains the obligation of the Security Corps’ members to educate themselves. Having described the specificity of the Czech Police in the light of the abovementioned regulations, and having depicted the educational system that prepares Czech policemen to their service, the authors follow on to the assessment of the current state of police education in Czech Republic backed up by statistic data. Finally, fact-based scenarios are presented on how the contemporary Czech police education system may be improved in the future.

scholarly journals Conceptualization of Roma in Policy Documents Related to Social Inclusion and Health in the Czech Republic

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (21) ◽  
pp. 7739
Author(s):  
Lenka Slepickova ◽  
Daniela Filakovska Bobakova
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Individual Responsibility ◽  
The Political ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
The Czech Republic

In the Czech Republic, a number of strategy papers and policy documents are guiding the direction of Roma inclusion, including in the area of health. The conceptualization of Roma and how mainstream political and public discourse operate with the term “Roma” contribute to a mistakenly homogenous and harmful image of Roma that conforms to negative stereotypes. The aim of our study was to examine the conceptualization of Roma in policy documents related to social inclusion and health in the Czech Republic. Relevant political, strategic and project documents were selected for analysis. Emphasis is placed in them on individual responsibility in relation to health, while structural conditions and discrimination are mentioned less often. Roma are described in relation to health primarily as people who should be educated. More emphasis is placed on the economic benefits of eliminating health inequalities than on citizens’ rights and the importance of inclusion. When “participation” or “empowerment” is mentioned, it is done vaguely, usually in addition to references to completely non-participatory practices. The majority is the primary actor in the field of eliminating health inequalities, as it defines the “path” that Roma need to be shown or determines what is needed to “stimulate” citizens. Although the political discourse concerning Roma has shifted more towards human rights, equity and combating discrimination in the Czech Republic, subtle forms of anti-Gypsyism still seem to be present.

Travelling Educational Change and Cultural Diversity in the Czech Republic

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-72
Author(s):  
Dana Moree
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Educational Change ◽  
Open System ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
The Czech Republic

This article analyses the interconnectedness of travelling policy and domestic top-down and bottom-up processes in the case of a country going through a transformation from a communist to a more open system. This interconnectedness and the dilemmas it poses will be examined in several steps. After a theoretical introduction to the concept of travelling policy and domestic bottom-up and top-down processes, we will introduce the initial situation of the educational system in the Czech Republic around 1989. We will then analyse the process of educational change, and we will describe how Czech teachers view this change by presenting the results of qualitative research among these teachers. Finally, we will concentrate on the diversity issue as one part of the process of educational change. A diversity aspect was chosen because on this issue we can demonstrate the influences of travelling policy on top and bottom development.

scholarly journals   The role of farmers in Local Action Groups: The case of the national network of the Local Action Groups in the Czech Republic

2012 ◽  
Vol 58 (No. 9) ◽  
pp. 433-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Delin
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
Local Action ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
National Network ◽  
Rural Development Programme ◽  
The Social ◽  
Action Groups

The social inclusion of different rural population groups is one of the objectives of the Rural Development Programme of the Czech Republic for the period of 2007–2013. The fourth axis of this programme is devoted to the LEADER method and, as such, it establishes and supports an inclusive and participative bottom-up approach. This article is concerned especially with a specific social group of farmers and agricultural entrepreneurs, and the position of this group in the local action groups that constitute the National Network of the Local Action Groups (LAGs) in the Czech Republic. With regard to this subject, the role of farmers and agricultural entrepreneurs in LAGs was analysed using a questionnaire-based survey and testing a hypothesis of external and internal inclusion/exclusion (see Thuesen 2010) of farmers into/from local action groups. The results show that the level of participation differs in the local action groups, but generally speaking the position of agricultural subjects is decreasing off the subjects from the different spheres (especially NGOs).

scholarly journals Geographic skills, their specifications and categorization

Geografie ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 108 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-163
Author(s):  
Dana Řezníčková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
General Education ◽  
Educational System ◽  
National Strategy ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
White Book ◽  
The Government ◽  
Key Terms ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Way

A large reform of educational system has been in course these last years in the Czech Republic. New pedagogical documents are being prepared to help to carry out changes in the general education in the context of the national strategy approved by the Government (White Book 2001). Pedagogical documents are formulated in a relatively general way, so that their effective usage is, among others, influenced by a uniform interpretation of key terms. They include geographic skills, the content of which is the theme of this paper. This term was defined on the basis of a comparison of different approaches. Individual geographic skills were then specified in detail and categorized in view to evaluate the performance of students within the general educational system. Two alternative proposals how to classify geographic skills were presented; they document, among others, a narrow interdependence between the way of classification and the selection of instruments to verify and to evaluate geographic skills.

scholarly journals Income and Poverty in Households in Selected European Countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (345) ◽  
pp. 7-25
Author(s):  
Malgorzata Teresa Ćwiek ◽  
Paweł Ulman
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Income Distribution ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Income Poverty ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Visegrad Group

Incomes of population and poverty are key elements of the EU cohesion policy which aims at reducing disparities between the levels of development of individual regions. The traditionally appropriate study to evaluate the convergence of the Member States is the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU‑SILC). However, this is not the only source of information on income distribution and social inclusion in the European Union. In this article, the basis for calculations are the results of the fourth European Quality of Life Surveys (EQLS), whose purpose is to measure both objective and subjective indicators of the standard of living of citizens and their households. The aim of the paper is to assess the diversity of distributions of household incomes and the level of income poverty due to the selected socio‑demographic characteristics of the respondent or household in selected European countries in two periods: 2007 and 2016. Countries of the Visegrad Group (Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary) were selected for the analysis, along with the Weimar Triangle (Poland, Germany, and France). Such a selection allowed us to compare the financial situation of households in Western Europe with those in Central and Eastern Europe. Poland becomes a natural link between all these countries. The article uses modelling methods of income distribution, indicators of distance (overlapping) of distributions and aggregate indicators of the scope, depth and severity of poverty. Those ratios were determined on the basis of the use of relative. In order to ensure comparability of incomes of households with different demographic compositions, the analysis used equivalent incomes. As a result of the preliminary analysis, differences were noted regarding the measured position, variation and asymmetry of equivalent incomes in the studied households. The applied gap measurements showed a significant disparity between the distributions of income in Western European countries (Germany, France) and the countries of the Visegrad Group, but the size of that differentation de creased significantly in 2016 relative to 2007. Important differentiation was also noted in terms of income poverty risk within the Visegrad Group: the highest proportion of households at risk of poverty exists in Poland and the lowest in the Czech Republic.

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