scholarly journals Social justice in education from the perspective of the Roma in the Czech Republic – A case study

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Racial Bias ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Cultural Models ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Dominant Group ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Educational Rights ◽  
Poor Families

AbstractThis paper addresses the current educational rights of the Roma community (in the Czech Republic). The aim of the paper is to present the educational system, its advantages and disadvantages and the ways in which the legal system supports educational rights. The second part of the paper focuses on the exercising and negotiation of rights in the contemporary social context. The work is based on ethnographic research conducted since 2005 by the Levínská, Bittnerová, & Doubek team in socially excluded localities. The data analysis is based on the theoretical concept of cognitive anthropology and the cultural models theory (D’Andrare, & Strauss, 1992). Cultural models and the ways in which parents, students and teachers negotiate rights are presented. The tension between rationality and morality (Bateson, 1958) is demonstrated by the models’ endurance; communication, cognitive and material support; and independence. Although the system itself provides equal opportunities, the prospects that education affords are a fundamental problem. One obstacle is racial bias, which influences members of the dominant group. Another significant obstacle is poverty and the costs of higher education, which are beyond the financial capacity of poor families. A third obstacle is knowledge, which is insufficient in excluded localities and poor families, and that families are unable to give students adequate support in navigating the full scope of student responsibilities.

scholarly journals Selected regional geographical differences of the Czech Republic agriculture, after the transformation processes

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (No. 5) ◽  
pp. 207-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Věžník ◽  
L. Bartošová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Agricultural Policies ◽  
Geographical Differences ◽  
Regional Productivity ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Moment

Transformation of Czech agriculture led to significant changes, which were mirrored in the crystallisation of rather large territorial differences. Clear regional disproportions are a fundamental problem for the state as a whole, therefore, it is important to provide aid for the regions that lag behind in economic development by introducing sensible regional policies. This situation is still more complicated in agriculture, as this transformation to  free market economy results in the unequal regional development in relation to  natural environment,  regional traditions and the level of rural settlement in addition to the phenomena such as price liberalisation  and the flow of goods, capital and population, among other. At the moment, the principal aims of regional agricultural policies are the preservation of regional productivity, the settlement of problematic and endangered regions and the support of a balanced regional development. The primary goal of this article is to indicate some of the largest regional differentiations in the agriculture of the Czech Republic. The purpose is to give an increased consideration to the restructuring of agricultural production, the environment and the social and general economic milieu in which it is located

Blackout 2014 Exercise – Prague, the Capital of the Czech Republic

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 270-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Hudecek ◽  
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Josef Juránek ◽  
Jaroslav Pejcoch ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
City Management ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Rule Of Life ◽  
Analysis Of Results ◽  
Potential Damage ◽  
Over Time

As our world becomes increasingly complex over time, we are using increasingly sophisticated tools to be fed and entertained. This increasing complexity has both advantages and disadvantages. Our dependence on electric power is almost absolute and a long-term blackout could become potentially fatal to any region or country hit by it. It has been a rule of life that the intensive preparation to some crisis begins not sooner than after it strikes and causes a big damage. Prague city management did not want to wait to find out, however, and organized an exercise to understand just what such a situation might look like and just how well prepared the capital of the Czech Republic was to manage it. The exercise was designed, run and documented by up-to-date information technology, enabling further study and analysis of results to improve the city’s resilience and to prepare adequate means for mitigating potential damage.

scholarly journals Corporate social responsibility in mining industry

2013 ◽  
Vol 61 (7) ◽  
pp. 2163-2170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvie Gurská ◽  
Adriana Válová
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Core Country ◽  
The One ◽  
Corporate Social

This paper focuses on the comparison of corporate social responsibility in mining industry. It compares specific territorial areas of two different countries – one of them country that could be called as semi-periphery or even core country and the second one a periphery country. The first one is Czech Republic (Northern Bohemia area) and the second one is Zambia (Copperbelt area). CSR activities in Copperbelt have played primarily an ameliorative role in the context of significant social disruption and uncertainty in the wake of privatization. Some experts say there are still important gaps between mining companies’ CSR activities, on the one hand, and accountability and fairness, on the other. The CSR concept is relatively new in the Czech Republic – but more and more discussed and interesting for many firms. The Czech company “Severočeské doly” was one of the finalists of the national round of the competition “The European Corporate (Social) Responsibility Award” in 2007. The aim of this paper is to find the opportunities the companies working in this industry use, and how the system of CSR is developed. It analysis the areas they concentrate on in their CSR activities and compares it with theoretical concept. The comparison is based on secondary data as well as on personal experience of visiting both of these areas and companies.

Comparison of Using 360-degree Feedback in Evaluating on Education of Employees and Managers in the Czech Republic and English Speaking Countries

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-76
Author(s):  
Jana Stehlíková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
360 Degree Feedback ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Usa ◽  
English Speaking

The thesis focuses on using a managerial instrument of 360-degree feedback while evaluating on managerial development. The main aim is to compare the use of this instrument in the Czech republic and in English speaking countries, which are home countries (especially USA) of 360-degree feedback. The thesis has also compared the frequency of using the method in English speaking countries and the main advantages and disadvantages, which are attributed to this instrument in the Czech Republic and in the USA, and other differencies. The branches, where 360- degree feedback is used, are also described in this article. The specifics of each country are described on an example for each country. The main outcome is identification of main resasons for 360-degree feedback being used more or less frequently in the Czech Republic than in English speaking countries.

scholarly journals Party Institutionalisation in the Czech Republic: Towards a New Measurement of the Theoretical Concept

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 249-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakub Stauber
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Party System ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
System Level ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Electoral Support ◽  
Overall Stability ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Stability

The overall stability of the party system is usually studied on the basis of system-level aggregates such as electoral volatility or the effective number of political parties. Such an approach can be problematic, because it primarily measures just one dimension of stability, which is defined as the stability of electoral support. The article argues that this external dimension of stability should be further analysed in the context of the development of intra-party structures. The institutionalisation theory includes both dimensions, so it is capable of interpreting complex relations between them. Based on empirical data, the article systematically compares nine relevant political parties in the Czech Republic to better understand differences in the stabilisation of different types of party organisations in the context of party system changes in recent years.

scholarly journals COMPARISON OF THE INDUSTRY 4.0 CONCEPT IN SELECTED COUNTRIES IN THE PERIOD OF GLOBALIZATION

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 253-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Kováčiková ◽  
Katarína Repková Štofková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Life Work ◽  
The Eu

Our society goes beyond the threshold of a new technological revolution, which will obviously affect the world economy, affect the life, work, communication of people and facilities. Significant features of the economy include the growth of market variability, the shortening of product lifecycles, the growth of global chain influences, but also the fact that current consumers demand products with individual solutions. Intelligent items, products, machines and devices will allow manufacturers to produce original products without increasing costs. Industry 4.0 or the fourth industrial revolution is the name for dramatic changes and their current entry into the industry. The bearer of these changes is product digitization, digitization and optimization of all business processes, including services. The period of globalization brings new challenges for businesses.This contribution is focused on the characteristics of Industry 4.0, the tools used for the area in question, the advantages and disadvantages of Industry 4.0 and the Industry 4.0 initiative concept and the comparison of the concept with the Czech Republic and Germany. The Czech Republic is geographically and culturally close to Slovakia, while Germany is the leader in this area within the EU.

scholarly journals COMPARISON OF METHODS TO MAP SELECTED TRAFFIC MARKINGS ON FIRST CLASS ROADS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

2018 ◽  
Vol XLII-1 ◽  
pp. 371-378
Author(s):  
V. Šafář ◽  
J. Karas ◽  
P. Černota ◽  
J. Pospíšil
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Laser Scanning ◽  
Mapping Method ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Time Data ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Council Directive ◽  
The Government

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> The article presents conclusions of a comprehensive analysis of pilot data collection using four mapping methods. To validate mapping methods and procedures, we selected three ten-kilometer sections of the first class roads with different geomorphological, vegetative and transportation properties. All sections were measured by aerial photogrammetry using GSD<span class="thinspace"></span>=<span class="thinspace"></span>4<span class="thinspace"></span>cm, mobile laser scanning equipment linked with cameras, by geodetic surveying methods, and one section was also measured by UAV. The tested methods mapped selected features of vertical and horizontal traffic markings on the first class roads. The traffic marking measuring sets were analyzed from the perspectives of personnel, time, data, costs, and technological and organizational aspects. All the mapping methods were verified as mentioned above starting from work preparation phase, its terrain realization, captured data processing and detailed analysis, concluding with stating the advantages and disadvantages for each mapping method. One of the analysis outputs was proposals to change and refine road administrator’s regulations. The mapping methods were compared with geodetic measurements. Analyses were also carried out in the context of creating digital data in 3D for the realization of BIM (Building Information Modeling) digital data in connection with the concept of the European Parliament and Council Directive 2014/24<span class="thinspace"></span>/<span class="thinspace"></span>EU on Public Procurement, and Czech Government Decree 682 on the Concept of Implementation of the BIM Method in the Czech Republic of 25 September 2017 and Decree 958 of the Government of the Czech Republic of 2 November 2016 on the importance of BIM for the construction engineering and proposal of further steps to introduce it in the Czech Republic.</p>

scholarly journals Agricultural Land Evaluation Considering the Czech Less Favoured Areas Delineation

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 1195-1204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakub Kučera ◽  
Tomáš Hlavsa
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Land Evaluation ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Point Evaluation ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Impact

This paper analyses the impact of the common European criteria on the Less Favoured Areas (LFA) delineation in the Czech Republic (CR) and compares it with currently used point evaluation system. Further, it compares the advantages and disadvantages of both delineation systems from various points of view and concerning the needs of common agricultural policies. In the Czech Republic, a system of point evaluation of the agricultural land productivity based on the Evaluated soil-ecological units (ESEU) is used for delineation of the other than mountain LFA since 2001. Within the programme period 2014–2020, the European Commission proposes to delineate the other than mountain LFA using a single set of criteria, common for all the member states. Some criteria of the natural handicap proposed by the European Commission (EC) can be derived directly from the ESEU five-cipher code and from the soil maps. The comparison clearly shows that the current Czech system of point evaluation of the productivity of agricultural land can express better the influence of worse soil and climatic conditions on the limitations of the agricultural use of the land than the system proposed by the EC. Additionally, the ESEU point evaluation can express also the effect of simultaneous influence of more factors, which may thus increase or decrease the final ESEU point values. Conversely, it is necessary to remark that the land quality evaluation based on ESEU is rather complicated and not easily understandable for the wide public. Also, it cannot be applied in all the EU countries.

Armed Forces of the Czech Republic and Temporary Bridges

2017 ◽  
Vol 755 ◽  
pp. 31-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Benda ◽  
Marek Hanák
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Way

The article deals with the provisional bridging systems that are being used in the Czech Republic area. The main and mostly deployed bridge sets owned by one of the Czech agencies are covered. Every bridging systems is described, along with the way of construction, deployment and a list of main advantages and disadvantages. An evaluation of contemporary usability of the bridging sets is conducted at the end of the article.

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