Civilia 2012, 3(2):4-17 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2012.014
The aim of our study is to describe the theoretical and methodological questions that we asked when designing research. In our research on teacher education for citizenship in the Olomouc region, we examined the perception of influence on the process of educational paradoxes of citizenship education.
Civilia 2012, 3(2):18-26 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2012.015
Paper is focused on theory of the participatory democracy and its connections with protest social movement and student's rebellions in the United States and Western Europe of the 60th years of the 20th Century, which stimulated the rise of the new political parties of the new left: environmental parties and left-wing libertarians parties.
Civilia 2012, 3(2):27-38 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2012.016
This study deals with the political parties of the Aristocrat's Large Farm in Bohemia and Moravia in the 2nd half of the 19th and on the beginning 20th Century considering political system in Cislaitania. The attention is also paid to application of this topic into curriculum of the history and civics.
Civilia 2012, 3(2):39-53 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2012.017
The contribution responds to the current situation in the implementation of financial literacy in school curricula of basic education. It presents the documents and publications area of economical and financial literacy, specifying, and developed. At the same time presents the results of the survey conducted through interviews with the directors of selected primary schools. Respectively how are children in schools with financial education introduced.
Civilia 2012, 3(2):54-64 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2012.018
Contemporary researches document an increasing disinterest of students for sports activities. One of the possible solutions could be the orientation of physical education classes towards games (play activities) and related experience. Generally, a game itself has a high motivational potential for sports activities and we can achieve the state of the flow through a game.
Civilia 2012, 3(2):65-71 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2012.019
Diversity of learning and cognitive styles of pupils is current topic in recent years. Theory of teaching, particularly the various field didactics, brings many ideas for teachers related to the choice of the most optimal teaching strategy due to heterogeneousness of learning styles. The paper presents partial results of research aimed to identify the learning styles of secondary school pupils.
Civilia 2012, 3(2):72-79 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2012.020
In the text are the starting points for the implementation of educational research, which his focusing point to the possibility of examining the social components of elementary teaching as the primary basis of the social sciences in education.
Civilia 2012, 3(2):80-83 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2012.021
This paper solving terminological problem of overall naming the non-communist's resistance groups in Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia on the period of Nazi occupation.
Civilia 2012, 3(2):84-93 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2012.022
The author, in relation to the contradictory processes of globalization and its impact on the individual, emphasizes the necessity of the implementation process of global education in the curriculum of primary and secondary schools. This request is based on the latest trends in educational policy in Slovakia. In the paper author introduces the concept of developing core competencies of pupils through global education. She has focused on the integration of global education topics into the teaching, to define the specific objectives of global education, teaching methods for deepening of development of critical thinking and towards a deeper understanding...
Civilia 2012, 3(2):94-101 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2012.023
The author of the paper Ethics, research and vulnerable people calls attention to several ethical aspects of qualitative research conducted with vulnerable people in social sciences. Research with people with cognitive deficit (for example with intellectual disabilities or dementia) is emphasised. The author draws upon her experience with research she conducted at Charles University, Prague, and University of Stirling, Scotland. Praxis of protecting the vulnerable people, gaining informed consent and proxy consent is being discussed.
Civilia 2012, 3(2):102-116 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2012.024
The aim of this article is on the basis of the theory of institutionalization of party system of the American political scientist Scott Mainwaring to insight crucial developmental aspects of the Czech Party System and assess throw the findings, whether it can be considered as more or less institutionalized according to four Mainwaring's criteria of institutionalization and describe the factors, which have serious impact to the degree of institutionalization of the Czech Party System.
Civilia 2012, 3(2):117-126 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2012.025
This paper tries to catch the rise to power of Kim Jong Il in 1970s. That period was crucial for building his position among the North Korean nomenclature. In the 1970s he made several very important steps that helped him later not only to take over the leadership of DPRK but also to maintain his power until his death in December 2011. The Czechoslovak archives help to understand this process better. The employees of the Czechoslovak embassy followed the situation in DPRK very thoroughly. Their observations were very useful for this analysis. The 1970s development can be used as a comparison for the latest succession of Kim Jong Un.
Civilia 2012, 3(2):127-140 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2012.026
The article focuses on the life and work of a Salvadoran poet, journalist and politician Roque Dalton (1935-1975). The first part is concerned with the influence of the Cuban revolution on the radicalization of Latin American intellectuals in the 1960s. The second part discusses the beginnings of Dalton's political engagement. Close attention is paid to his stay in Czechoslovakia, mainly to the analysis of his articles in the Problems of Peace and Socialism journal. The concluding part describes the period after his return to Cuba until his death.
Civilia 2012, 3(2):141-152 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2012.027
Nicholas of Cusa is considered to be one of the first thinkers, who used the term "experiment" in the same way it is being used nowadays, especially in natural sciences. In my contribution, I would like to focus on specific metaphysical presuppositions, which allowed Cusanus to develop this almost "empirical philosophy" in Idiota de staticis experimentis. It will be showed that the empirical project of Cusa is fully dependent on his own explication of the Neo-platonism "metaphysics of the One".
Civilia 2012, 3(2):153-170 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2012.028
The innovations, entering to the attention of the teachers at different school levels, are based on the research results of the human brain. This multidisciplinary approach describes the main principles of the learning process that respects the innovative tendencies and also a new concept of teaching and learning. Implementation of the neuro-didactics principles, that are respecting researches of the brain and its functions in the education process, causes not only the effectiveness of educational process, but also the modern approach to the student and possibilities for successful learning opportunities.
Civilia 2012, 3(2):171-180 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2012.029
This paper characterizes legislative changes in education in the period of normalization in Czechoslovakia and tries to understand motives of these changes.
Civilia 2012, 3(2):181-185
