IDENTIFICATION OF KEY AND CRITICAL POINTS IN EARLY CHEMISTRY CURRICULUM IN CZECH REPUBLIC

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Bílek ◽  
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Jiri Rychtera ◽  
Katerina Chroustová ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Critical Points ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Chemistry Education ◽  
Curricular Reform ◽  
Chemistry Curriculum ◽  
Curriculum Innovation ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Chemistry Teachers

In the contribution possibilities and limits of the early chemistry curriculum innovation in the Czech Republic at time of current curricular reform are discussed. An example of chemistry subject matter in educational content and the context are focused. Methodology of research is based on interview with chemistry teachers, and partial results present problems with cognition overload of the pupils and the necessity to improve the content, particularly to build stronger connection to everyday life and forming of science literacy. Keywords: early chemistry education, key and critical points of curriculum, chemistry teachers.

TEACHERS’ VIEW ON THE LOWER SECONDARY CHEMISTRY CURRICULUM IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Bilek ◽  
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Katerina Chroustova ◽  
Jiri Rychtera ◽  
Veronika Machkova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Critical Points ◽  
Chemistry Education ◽  
Chemistry Curriculum ◽  
Secondary Chemistry ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Chemistry Teachers ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Key Topics

The research was focused on the teacher’s opinions about the key and critical points of the lower secondary chemistry curriculum in the Czech Republic. Through the interviews with 40 chemistry teachers from four Czech regions was gained information about what teachers named as critical topics and what as key topics in early chemistry school contents. Some problems were identified mainly with cognition overload of learners and the necessity to realize stronger connections to everyday life and forming science literacy. Keywords: chemistry teachers’ opinions, early chemistry education, key points of the curriculum, critical points of the curriculum.

The Buddhist Style in Consumer Culture: From Aesthetics to Emotional Patterns

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 28-54
Author(s):  
Zuzana Bártová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Identity Style ◽  
And Behavior

Abstract This paper contributes to the sociological theorization of religious lifestyles in consumer culture, analyzing one of its most important identity markers: style. Based on a three-year comparative ethnographic research project into five convert Buddhist organizations in France and the Czech Republic, it finds that style is expressed through aesthetics with its adornment practices apparent in everyday life materializations of Buddhist symbols. The stylistic dimension is also found in practitioners’ attitudes towards Buddhism, as they may use the discourse of taste. Moreover, Buddhist style stands for the collective, coherent, and systematic emotional patterns expressed in Buddhist symbols, individual and collective experiences, and the ethics and behavior they display in everyday life. The paper also explores how this style is adapted to the educated, middle-class, city-dweller practitioners and how it respects dynamics of consumer culture with its emphasis on identity, style, and values of well-being, authenticity, and personal development.

scholarly journals ‘How it all turned out alright’: Autofiction as Memory Form in Irena Dousková’s Novels about Childhood and Youth in Post-1968 Czechoslovakia

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. RSL41-RLS65
Author(s):  
Anja Tippner
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Childhood And Youth ◽  
Late Socialism ◽  
Popular Texts ◽  
The Way

Autofictions and memoirs about growing up in late socialism have proliferated in Czech as well as in other postsocialist Eastern European literatures. These retrospective texts are often tinged with nostalgia and infused with irony and humour. Two of the most popular texts of this genre in the Czech Republic are Irena Dousková’s autofictional books Hrdý Budžes [B. Proudew] and Oněgin byl Rusák [Onegin Was a Rusky]. The Czech author writes about growing-up in a non-conformist family dealing with everyday life in socialist Czechoslovakia. After discussing Dousková’s books as autofiction the article will take a closer look at the poetics of childhood autofictions and their contribution to cultures of remembering socialism in comparison to autobiographies. It will discuss the ways how writing about childhood creates a specific socialist identity through scarcity, ingenuity, and working with/against restraints and the way humour is used to transmit difficult memories.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF FACTORS AFFECTING THE USAGE OF EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE IN CHEMISTRY EDUCATION IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kateřina Chroustová ◽  
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Martin Bílek ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Chemistry Education ◽  
Educational Software ◽  
Unified Theory ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Similar Theme ◽  
Research Studies

Why don´t we encounter too regularly with the inclusion of educational software in chemistry education in the Czech Republic? What factors affect the usage of educational software? What kind of relationship can be identified between these factors? For the search of answers to those formulated questions was necessary to, first of all, carry out a deep analysis of the conditions that could lead to more effective usage of educational software in chemistry education. In this article, we analyse the factors that affect the usage of educational software in chemistry education with the application of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) and the related theories, including a comparison of our results with the results of realized research studies with a similar theme. Key words: educational software, chemistry education, the unified theory of use and acceptance of technology (UTAUT).

scholarly journals The Methodology for Evaluating the Safety of Operations at the Uncontrolled Aerodromes

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Vladimír Plos ◽  
Jakub Kraus ◽  
Peter Vittek ◽  
Tomáš Duša
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Critical Points ◽  
General Procedure ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
The Czech Republic

<span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;" lang="EN-GB">The objective of this methodology is to determine the general procedure for the evaluation of safety indicators for operation at uncontrolled aerodromes. The basis of this assessment is to determine the processes that take place at the aerodrome and finding critical points in these processes. They are determined on the basis of observations at aerodromes and are based on current legislation. The result of applying this methodology to aerodrome operations is the identification of several indicators, which monitoring and the adoption of safety measures can enhance safety at these uncontrolled aerodromes in the Czech Republic.</span>

scholarly journals Konstruování obrazu minulosti zaměřené na dětské adresáty: míšení stylů a žánrů*

Stylistyka ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 143-156
Author(s):  
Jana Hoffmannová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Time Machine ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
Czech Academy ◽  
Detective Stories ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Selection Of

The monthly magazine Časostroj (Time Machine), published in the Czech Republic since 2011, is meant to enable “a fun journey into history” for readers aged 7–15. Several years ago, this magazine took 2nd place in a competition organised by the Czech Academy of Sciences for the popularisation of science. The paper considers how this specifically-profiled popularisation of history oscillates between academic (pedagogical, didactic), everyday communicative and “entertainment” styles, as well as how the entertainment function of language and texts is promoted in contemporary communication. Attention is devoted to the fact that in this popularising discourse – probably much more than in scholarly historiography – narration merges with commentary, and historical fiction has a specific use. The selection of topics and historical events is determined witha consideration of young readers, who are transported into history and directly integrated into past events. The magazine’s authors and editors engage their intended readers in continuous dialogue and maintain live contact with them. The paper also presents the various genres which appear in the magazine (from myths, legends and fables to comics, including, e.g. “historical detective stories”). It further recalls and accents everyday life in history in this popularising discourse and its connections to the gender perspective (female perspective), among others. Emphasis is also placed on the educational function of the texts – on how young readers are encouraged to be actively interested in history and to be independent thinkers (e.g. through alternative history).

scholarly journals Examining Illiberal Trends and Anti-EU Politics in East Central Europe from a Domestic Perspective: State of Research and Outline of the Book

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Lisa H. Anders ◽  
Astrid Lorenz
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
East Central ◽  
Central European ◽  
The Subject ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
East Central European

Abstract This opening chapter introduces the subject matter and objectives of the book. It first explains central terms and provides an overview of the different illiberal trends in Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It then sketches recent conflicts between EU actors and the four East Central European states and explains why these conflicts are of a new quality. Next, it summarises the state of research on illiberal backsliding and on the EU’s tools against it and identifies shortcomings and gaps in the literature. Finally, it outlines the aims as well as the overall structure of the book and provides an overview of the contributions.

scholarly journals Undercommunicated Stories in Boundary Building Processes

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zdenek Uherek
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
The State ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Methodological Perspective ◽  
Life Issues ◽  
The Media ◽  
Everyday Communication

This text focuses on the narrations of Romani in the Czech Republic with regard to conversational topics which are usually not communicated in either conversations across group borders or in the media. The topics covered in these conversations range from everyday life issues and stories about success in employment to stories about experiences during powerful moments in the state’s history that resonate for all its inhabitants. The narratives analysed in this text include the experience of the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the adventures of a group of boys who tried to illegally cross the state border during socialism. The interviews were filmed with a camera. From a methodological perspective, an interesting feature throughout the project was that during the conversations the narrators did not stress their Romani identity. The dominant tone was rather that of plain interpersonal communication. Thus, these narratives can be characterised as acts of everyday communication – a mode of interaction which is not common in the communication of Roma with non-Roma – which emphasize the shared overall context in which all inhabitants of the Czech Republic find themselves.

scholarly journals Conditions for Experimental Activities at Elementary and High Schools from Chemistry Teachers’ Point of View

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 93-100
Author(s):  
Martin Rusek ◽  
Kateřina Chroustová ◽  
Martin Bílek ◽  
Petr A. Skřehot ◽  
Zdeněk Hon
Keyword(s):  
Inorganic Chemistry ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Chemistry Education ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Chemistry Teachers ◽  
Experimental Activity

Abstract School experiments represent a necessary means of subject-matter presentation in chemistry education and are important for chemical (scientific) thinking. Despite being a focus of several texts, a complex view on the experimental activity in chemistry education in Czechia is missing. The results of a questionnaire survey among 466 lower-secondary, lyceum and grammar school teachers focused on types of conducted experiments, their frequency, the place they are conducted. The most frequently used chemicals and sources of inspiration are presented in the paper. The results show that despite experiments’ significant role in education, its occurrence is rather seldom and teacher’s demonstrations prevail over students’ experiments. The list of the most often used chemicals suggests the experiments are mostly focused on inorganic chemistry. These results open further questions regarding occupational safety at schools as an important factor which could also be the reason for such a low representation of experiments in Czech chemistry education.

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