Civilia 2021, 12(1):4-41 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2021.001
The paper considers the importance of citizenship education for the meaningful and effective involvement of individuals in civic life in contemporary democracies. Following this, the concept of an open classroom climate is discussed as a potentially suitable teaching strategy on how to effectively pass on civic knowledge to pupils and students. The authors try to answer the following research questions. Whether and if so, why we need civic education and citizenship education? What do we mean by civic education? What should be the content and goals of civic education in today's democracies? And last but not least, what may civic education and citizenship...
Civilia 2021, 12(1):42-55 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2021.002
The quality life of people in companies is considerably dependent on the economy and in relation to the preparation of a young generation for the implementation of the economy's activities is the attention focus on economic ethics, which is one of the types of applied ethics. The contribution points to the need for its implementation in the education of future economy experts, even with regard to the change in dominating paradigm in education "education for profit". It justifies that, in order to ensure the quality life of people in companies, decent access to them and ensuring human and socio-economic development helps economic ethics, but also some...
Civilia 2021, 12(1):56-73 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2021.003
The paper focuses on the area of further education of pedagogical staff. Specifically, it deals with a group of leading pedagogical staff, respectively leaders of schools and school facilities. At present, courses and other educational activities are offered in the field of further education, which, however, often do not reflect current trends in the management of kindergartens, small schools, primary schools, secondary schools, youth homes and institutions for institutional and protective education and institutions providing hobby education. The presented contribution responds to this need in the field of further education. Based on the suggestions...
Civilia 2021, 12(1):74-90 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2021.004
In the article, the authors analyzed selected Slovak associations that shaped the public opinion of the political and lay public on the independence of the Slovak Republic as a subject of international law. After the velvet revolution, the question of a new constitutional order of the Czech-Slovak Republic on the principle of equal to equal gradually opened up. The reluctance of the Czech side to accede to the Slovak demands led the political and social development towards the gradual division of the Czech-Slovak federation in the Federal Assembly into two independent and successor states - the Slovak Republic, the Czech Republic. At present, both...
Civilia 2021, 12(1):91-98 | DOI: 10.5507/civ.2021.005
This text deals with the issue of media training and media education in the context of the current development of the media and society as such, which is significantly affected by a new determinant, namely the epidemiological situation related to a disease called COVID-19. The original claims of Mark Deuze, Jussi Parrika and Winfried Schulz about the heteronomy or societal dependence on the media, which could until recently be considered at least as venturesome and whose visionary dimension cannot be denied, quickly and unexpectedly became a reflection of the everyday reality of the living and social worlds due to the external circumstances with which...
