scholarly journals Teachers’ Acceptance of Curriculum Reform in the Czech Republic: One Decade Later

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karolína Pešková ◽  
Michaela Spurná ◽  
Petr Knecht
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Secondary Teachers ◽  
Curriculum Reform ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
School Management ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Concern Based Adoption Model ◽  
Visegrad Group

Similarly to other Visegrád Group countries, the most recent curriculum reform in the Czech Republic brought substantial changes in the curriculum documents for schools. The purpose of this study is to investigate Czech primary and lower secondary teachers’ current attitudes towards curriculum reform. The results of a survey (n = 701) indicate that teachers have adopted rather negative attitudes. The acceptance of reform tends to increase among the teachers who use curriculum documents regularly and among the teachers with higher self-efficacy. In addition, teachers with system-centred/curriculum-oriented approaches are willing to accept the reform. There is no significant difference between teachers’ gender, their length of teaching experience, and their involvement in school management. Within the general frame of the Concern-Based Adoption Model (CBAM), the study draws on data from one country, but the implications for further educational development are potentially applicable across countries with similar educational policy backgrounds.

scholarly journals Czech teachers’ attitudes towards curriculum reform implementation

Human Affairs ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomáš Janík ◽  
Tomáš Janko ◽  
Karolína Pešková ◽  
Petr Knecht ◽  
Michaela Spurná
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Curriculum Reform ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Reform Implementation ◽  
Teachers Attitudes ◽  
Main Ideas

AbstractThe study focuses on the implementation of curriculum reform in grammar schools in the Czech Republic. The purpose of this study was to explore the attitudes of grammar school teachers towards the reform and its implementation. The perceived benefits of and problems with the curriculum reform were measured using closed-ended items (on a Likert scale). The research sample of this questionnaire survey consisted of 1,098 teachers from 58 schools. The results indicate that the reform has been more readily accepted in pilot schools than in non-pilot schools. In general, it can be concluded that although there was support for the main ideas behind the reform, the majority of teachers have not accepted the reform as a whole. The multiple regression analysis revealed that gender, position, length of teaching experience, and knowledge of specific characteristics of curriculum reform did not significantly contribute to teachers’ acceptance of the curriculum reform.

scholarly journals The Attractiveness of Selected Central European Countries for Winter Sports and Mountain Hiking

Turyzm ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
Kinga Krzesiwo ◽  
Kamila Ziółkowska-Weiss ◽  
Michał Żemła
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Mass Scale ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Mountainous Areas ◽  
Winter Sports ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Central European ◽  
Downhill Skiing ◽  
Visegrad Group

Abstract Hiking, downhill skiing and snowboarding are among the most popular forms of active tourism in mountainous areas. Their popularity and their mass scale do not only result from the presence of the appropriate landscape, but also from its appropriate development. The objective of the article is to attempt to assess the attractiveness of selected Central European countries in terms of winter sports and mountain hiking, to consider the opinions of students who live in Visegrad Group countries, as well as to evaluate the barriers to development of their competitive offers. According to respondents, the most attractive countries for winter sports are Austria and Slovakia, and the least attractive are Hungary, Romania and Lithuania. In turn, according to the students, the best conditions for mountain hiking are in Slovakia, Austria, the Czech Republic and Poland. In addition, respondents from particular countries assessed domestic offers highly.

scholarly journals Analysis and Comparison of Economic and Financial Risk Sources in SMEs of the Visegrad Group and Serbia

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1853 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judit Oláh ◽  
Sándor Kovács ◽  
Zuzana Virglerova ◽  
Zoltán Lakner ◽  
Maria Kovacova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Financial Risk ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Categorical Variables ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Risk Sources ◽  
Log Linear ◽  
Visegrad Group

Risk management is one of the most important internal process, not only in large companies but also in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). To identify the source of risk can be crucial in all companies. The primary objective of this study is to analyze and compare the economic and financial risk sources in SMEs of the V4 (Visegrad Group: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) and Serbia, in the context of the business environment of the countries analyzed. To achieve this goal, a questionnaire-based survey was carried out involving 2110 SMEs from Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Serbia. The questionnaire included questions about the importance of risks and the concept of risk management in the company. To test the formulated hypotheses, the following statistical tools were used: contingency tables, a Z-value, and a general non-hierarchical log-linear model with three categorical variables and a continuous covariate. Finally, the differences among V4 countries and Serbia were identified. Serbia is more vulnerable to the financial risk sources studied than the V4 countries. The result of the research shows that insufficient profit is more hazardous compared to the other risk sources and all countries are more vulnerable in in this issue. The article concludes with a discussion and a comparison with previous international researches.

Selected elements of fiscal policy in the Visegrad Group Countries

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 66-83
Author(s):  
Tomasz Grabia
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Fiscal Policy ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Public Debt ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Public Finances ◽  
Visegrad Group

The article discusses key problems of fiscal policy in four selected countries of Central and Eastern Europe (Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia) in years 2001—2014. The analysis covers, among others, indicators of public debt and its determinants, as well as indicators of budget revenues and expenditures. The article points out that public debt increased in all the studied countries in the analysed period. Both structural and cyclical deficits were responsible for its build-up. The country with the best state of public finances was the Czech Republic. Although the situation improved from 2011 Hungary had the highest level of debt in relation to GDP. That country was also characterized by a degree of fiscalism, measured by both budget revenues and expenditures in relations to GDP, much higher than those for other countries.

Socio-economic and Socio-political Origins of Technocratic Populism in the Czech Republic and Nativism in Hungary

Populism ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-287
Author(s):  
Olga Lavrinenko
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Unemployment Rate ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Institutional Trust ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
European Elections ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Political Origins

Abstract This article investigates the socio-economic and socio-political origins of populism in the Czech Republic and Hungary, discussing the reasons for the national specificity of the populism. Despite the similar triggers that had led to the strengthening of the populists, the nature of the populism in these countries is different. In the Czech Republic, populism has a technocratic nature, while in Hungary—a nativist. I presume that the rise of the unemployment rate as the result of the 2008 Great Recession contributed to the decline in the confidence towards the national and the EU parliament as well as to the rise of the negative attitudes towards migrants. In their turn, the lower level of institutional trust and the negative attitudes towards the migrants correlate with the voting for the populist parties on the national and the European elections.

scholarly journals Antimicrobial Resistance in Fecal Escherichia coli Isolates from Healthy Urban Children of Two Age Groups in Relation to Their Antibiotic Therapy

2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 3005-3007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Literak ◽  
Radim Petro ◽  
Monika Dolejska ◽  
Erika Gruberova ◽  
Hana Dobiasova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Escherichia Coli ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Antibiotic Resistant ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Content Type ◽  
E Coli ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Two Age Groups

ABSTRACTThe study was performed in the Czech Republic during 2007 to 2009. OfEscherichia coliisolates from 275 children aged 6 weeks, 36% (n= 177) were resistant to 1 to 7 antibiotics. Of isolates from 253 children aged 6 to 17 years, 24% (n= 205) were resistant to 1 to 5 antibiotics. There was no significant difference in the prevalences of antibiotic-resistantE. coliisolates between these groups of children, even though the consumptions of antibiotics were quite different.

scholarly journals Challenges for the Visegrad Group – The Coronavirus Crises and its Impact on Tourism

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-32
Author(s):  
Gabriela Antošová ◽  
Maximilian Vogl ◽  
Melissa Schraud
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
International Tourism ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Visegrad Group

AbstractThis paper aims to analyze the regional cooperation which ensures stability and good relations to neighbours and other V4 countries and helps to enforce collaborations across Europe in many fields such as education, tourism and economic development. Another field of activity of the Visegrad Group is a joint positioning in international tourism which will be addressed in this article on the background of the current coronavirus crisis. The empirical part consists of a SWOT analysis for Visegrad group challenges and a PASTA Analysis with which the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the tourism industry in the V4 countries are researched. Lastly, recommendations for possible further actions in times of the coronavirus will be given, and potential future collaborations with the WB6 and EaP countries, also with regard to tourism, will be dealt with briefly. This article summarizes aspects related to tourism market, transport, cultural offer, economy, industry, and environment. The particular focus is also paid to political, economic, sociological, technological, legal and environmental factors of the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia and how the current coronavirus and the resulting measures against the spread of it affects the tourism industry in the Visegrad Group countries.

scholarly journals Struktury rolne i produktywność rolnictwa w Grupie Wyszehradzkiej

2017 ◽  
Vol 17(32) (1) ◽  
pp. 152-160
Author(s):  
Arkadiusz Piwowar
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
European Union ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Labour Productivity ◽  
Fold Increase ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Visegrad Group ◽  
Agrarian Structure

The main objective of the study was a comparative analysis of the diversity of the agrarian structure and the productivity of land and labour in the Visegrad Group countries. Additionally, the importance of the Visegrad Group in the European Union was analysed in relation to the size of the production of selected crops and livestock as well as the population and cast of cattle and pigs. According to the conducted analyses, the highest productivity of land among the countries of the Visegrad Group was shown in the years under study by Poland and Hungary (over EUR 600 / ha AL), while the highest dynamics of the growth rate of this parameter - by Slovakia (almost two-fold increase in 2010-2013). Taking into account labour productivity, it should be emphasized, that the greatest labour productivity characterized farms in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

scholarly journals Analysis of Interrelationships between Markets of Fuels in the Visegrad Group Countries from 2016 to 2020

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (20) ◽  
pp. 6536
Author(s):  
Anna Górska ◽  
Monika Krawiec
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Granger Causality ◽  
Price Changes ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Fuel Prices ◽  
Visegrad Group

A fuel market is an important sector of the economy and fuel prices influence the prices of numerous products and services. This paper focuses on the analysis of the interrelationships between markets of fuels in the Visegrad Group (V4) countries. The research is based on weekly prices of Pb95 gasoline and diesel in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia observed from January 2016 through December 2020. After performing the preliminary statistical analysis, the long-term relationships between the prices of fuels are investigated through application of the cointegrated regression Durbin–Watson (CRDW) test. Next, Granger causality is tested to answer the question of whether changes in prices of fuels in separate V4 countries Granger-cause changes in prices of fuels in other V4 countries. The cointegration research uses logarithmic prices, whereas causality investigation is based on their first differences. The results reveal long-term relationships between the prices of Pb95 gasoline in the Czech Republic and prices in other V4 countries as well as Granger causality flowing from diesel price changes in Poland to diesel price changes in other V4 countries and bilateral causation between changes in the prices of Pb95 gasoline in Poland, Hungary and Slovakia.

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