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Research on the concept of sense of place (SOP) has become increasingly important in recent years. However, literature is dominated by studies dealing with the concept outside the field of education. Yet its potential for geography and environmental education (GEE) is considerable. The aim of this literature review is to determine how SOP is concep...
Considering students’ prior knowledge, everyday experience and future career aspirations when designing geography curriculum and making content- and pedagogy-related decisions promotes young people’s confidence, interests, and motivation to learn geography. Moreover, it increases the utility, value and relevance of school geography. The chapter add...
Quality education requires teachers to approach the curriculum systematically. Systematicity in education can be viewed from different perspectives. One of these is fidelity across the different levels of the curriculum: planned, implemented, and acquired. The basic premise is that what has been planned should be implemented and mastered. Therefore...
The main purpose of this methodology is to support political geography teaching in general education in a qualified way. This is a very lively, changing and interdisciplinary issue that has considerable educational potential. The authors' ambition is to offer a wide range of opportunities for political geography teaching, from which teachers can ch...
The world community of the first two decades of the twenty-first century represents a complicated system. Its functioning is greatly affected by information. The world is interconnected by information. People, including children, are overwhelmed, or even more attacked, with huge amounts of information and signals. Innovation is the driving force fo...
There is currently a stress on the need to bring up the individuals able to look at global trends from various viewpoints, and tolerating and respecting people from other cultures, with different religions and worldviews as well. The study explores the way the task is fulfilled in the Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Czechia, Hungary and Serbia. A qu...
The paper presents the results of research that focuses on the ideas and views of primary,
lower secondary, and upper secondary school teachers concerning the required geographical
skills performance of pupils at the end of the 5th and 9th grades of so called elementary
school and the last year of upper secondary school (approximately aged 11, 15 a...
This monograph outlines and enframes the outcomes of the research projects in didactics for the subjects of biology, geography, and chemistry. This project has been supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (P407/10/0514). Based on a multi-level analysis of skills on the levels of the intended, realised, and achieved curriculum, an entire...
This article contains the results of study, whose aim was to provide findings regarding the current state of proliferation of the GIS software at Czech grammar schools and also the barriers of further expansion of its use. Outputs of a questionnaire from beginning of year 2012 serve as the basic datasource for this study. The survey was sent to 103...
How to Recognize Gifted Geography Students. This article explores issues surrounding gifted pupils/students, with an emphasis on giftedness in geography. It describes characteristic manifestations of gifted students as well as certain mistaken notions regarding the so-called gifted, on the basis of a literature analysis and directed interviews with...
The publication contains infromation about project: Science and mathematics at high schools: actively, up-to-date and with applications.
The publication contains infromation about project: Science and mathematics at high schools: actively, up-to-date and with applications. The publication is focused on reasons, characteristic and content of project and expected goals of project.
The presented contribution summarizes the development of geographical education in primary and secondary schools, in Czechia, over the period of the past 20 years (especially after 2001), during which time extensive reforms to the Czech education system have been underway. The aim of this contribution is to shed light on a wider context, mainly on...
A large reform of educational system has been in course these last years in the Czech Republic. New pedagogical documents are being prepared to help to carry out changes in the general education in the context of the national strategy approved by the Government (White Book 2001). Pedagogical documents are formulated in a relatively general way, so...
Dotisk 2., upraveného vyd. Obálka Miloš Jirsa
Vyd. 1. Nad názvem: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Přírodovědecká fakulta, katedra sociální geografie a regionálního rozvoje "Projekt JDP 3 - Přírodovědná gramotnost" 250 výt.
