Civilia 2016, 7(1):4-11 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2016.001
The study analyzing and comparing various ways in contemporary Czech and Slovak history textbooks and the historical development of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic after the division of Czechoslovakia.
Civilia 2016, 7(1):12-29 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2016.002
This essay focuses on practical training of high school's social work students at Social policy and social work department at Masaryk University Brno. Field education is very important element of social work education. In the Czech Republic, as in most other countries, social work student learning is a combination of a college based education and field education. Author discuses importance of field education in social work placements and the crucial role of practice teachers from placements. There are presented empirical findings from survey which examined the experience of practice teachers engaged in field education. Author analyses possible risk...
Civilia 2016, 7(1):30-35 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2016.003
The fates of the Jewish population in the south-eastern Moravia, which we shall call Slovácko (regarding the aspect indicated in this article's caption), were enacted following the scenario valid for all the region of the Czech countries: based on the racist policy they are Slovakia deprived of their rights and human dignity, then they are centralized in transports, deported into concentration camps and exterminated. Into such horrifying scheme, just the specific regional figures could be introduced. And yet, there is something about the south-eastern Moravia, that is special and repulsively quaint - it is the misuse of ethnography in order to support...
Civilia 2016, 7(1):36-52 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2016.004
The present study aims at examining the effect of using translation from L2 to L1 as a strategy to improve foreign language learners' linguistic accuracy and increase their intercultural communicative competence skills. Through the examination of translations of proper names in the Harry Potter books from English into Spanish and French, we try to open up a new horizon for English instructors to encourage the use of learners' mother tongue in second language acquisition. To fulfill this purpose, we present an experiment carried out with 2nd Year students of the subject EFL Applied to Translation, which is part of a degree in Translation and Interpreting...
Civilia 2016, 7(1):53-58 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2016.005
The paper focuses on issues of an educational paradox, namely on the paradoxes of citizenship education. It presents various paradoxes and characterizes their basic contents.
Civilia 2016, 7(1):59-79 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2016.006
In our study we are using anthropological discourse to focus on understanding multicultural ideology. Utilizing the results of our own research realized from 2014 to 2015 among teachers of elementary and high schools in Zlínský, Olomoucký and Moravskoslezský district we aimed to map teachers' approach towards the ideas of multiculturalism which we defined pragmatically in correspondence with general education programs as leading to pacifist and just coexistence of different groups with different culture, ethnicity and religion. While presenting the results of our research we mainly focus on ways multicultural education is grasped, how it's understood...
Civilia 2016, 7(1):80-90 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2016.007
Text deals with the ethics education a shaping character in the context of the Czech Republic. The attention is paid to relation pupil-teacher-school-family, in addition to that theoretical foundations of given problems and its application in educational process. On example of Department of Social Sciences of Faculty of Education of Palacký University Olomouc is demonstrated concrete form of ethics teaching for future teachers including questions, which in given context relating to shaping character (children, youth, teachers). This theme is topical for today's society not only in the Czech Republic, but also in broader context exceeding boarders of...
Civilia 2016, 7(1):91-97 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2016.008
The article is based on research and the current state of contemporary history teaching in primary and secondary schools. The example of international (German-Czech-Polish project) shows how new media can be used in education, respectively in project teaching.
Civilia 2016, 7(1):98-109 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2016.009
Hume's philosophy of knowledge is contained in Book I "Of the Understanding" of his Treatise of Human Nature (The Old Hume) and in his Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (The New Hume). The dispute about philosophical relevance of these two works has become topical again recently, and there is a growing number of Humean commentators who rather prefer the Enquiry which is certainly better in style. It is undoubtedly also easier for readers, free of some formal imperfections of the Treatise, and although - as a whole - it is a good deal shorter than Book I of the Treatise, one third of its contents is new, so that it is a substantially different...
Civilia 2016, 7(1):110-112
