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Petr Kadlec currently works at the Centre for Economic and Social History, University of Ostrava. Petr does research in History of Education and Cultural and Social History, especially in the 19th and 20th century.
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June 2012 - March 2024
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September 2008 - July 2012
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This study deals with the issue of the changes in the professional training of those who participated in textile production during the industrialisation process in the second half of the 19 th and early 20 th century, when the mechanised factory mass production overshadowed the traditional forms of production and final treatment of textiles based o...
This study deals with the topic of the national identification of Jews in the Bohemian Lands in the 1880–1930 censuses. It tries to demonstrate how the specific position of the Jewish minority, its perception by the state authorities and the non-Jewish majority and a considerable degree of diversity regarding the Jews’ own identification were refle...
This study displays the results of Czech research into the history of education
from around the middle of the 18th century to 1918. It focuses primarily on the work of
Czech historians since 1989, though it also gives an extensive account of the situation
in Czech historiography during the preceding decades. The text outlines key topics and
areas o...
Kniha analyzuje interakce mezi hospodářským a sociálním vývojem, státní správou, společností, zástupci hospodářské sféry a tou částí vzdělávacího systému, která měla připravit kvalifikované pracovní síly pro tovární průmysl, řemesla, zemědělství, obchod a částečně i služby. Ve zvoleném časovém úseku odkrývá okolnosti vzniku odborných škol a mimoško...
The book deals with the development of secondary schools and their place in the process of intelligentsia formation in the territory of the Northern Moravia and Silesia in the second half of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century. The starting point of the author is a premise that secondary schools of this period are able to be considere...
The text focuses on the development of school infrastructure in the Valašské Meziříčí region in the last three decades of the 19th century. Specifically, it presents, on the basis of statistical data, the basic quantitative and qualitative parameters of the development of regional primary education in the years 1870-1900. Although the statistical s...
The study is dedicated to the role of private schools in the process of institutionalization of the commercial education between the half of the 19th century up to 1918. It takes into account the quantitative development, organisation and study programmes. The author aims to highlight the specifics of these schools and their complicated relationshi...
The study deals with the issue of commercial education in Austrian Silesia in the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It specifi cally focuses on schools oriented this way in the East Silesian centre of Cieszyn (Teschen), whose development is placed in the context of more general trends in the development of Silesian and pr...
Kapitola knihy se zabývá problematikou sčítání lidu v Československé republice v roce 1921, konkrétně jeho přípravou (včetně cenzu na Slovensku v roce 1919), průběhem, výsledky a reflexí.
The chapter of the book deals with the issue of the census in the Czechoslovak Republic in 1921, specifically with its preparation (including the census in Slova...
The monograph describes the life and public activities of Friedrich (Fritz) Plachky, a Silesian native of a family of the German-speaking intelligentsia, who from the late 1860s to the early 20th century had a significant impact on the life of the Moravian town Hranice. A lawyer by profession, a very active person in public life and a municipal and...
The chapter deals with the formation of vocational school inspectorates and the role played by their inspectors in the Cisleithanian region of the Habsburg Monarchy from the 1850s until the First World War. The pan-Cisleithanian perspective is supplemented in the text with a more detailed view at the provincial and local level, where is the Silesia...
This study deals with statistics describing Austrian schools and education in 1828–1915. The potential of this source has so far been used by researchers only most sporadically. The text presents the development of key statistical series, their contents, potential uses, and draws attention to some difficulties which researchers working with school...
This study deals with the issue of industrial education on the Silesian-Galician border in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Against Cisleithanian-wide trends it depicts the establishment of the so-called state industrial school (Staatsgewerbeschule) in the town of Bielsko in the 1870s and the development of this educational instit...
This article focuses on the process of institutionalisation of agricultural education in a period spanning between mid-nineteenth century and the outbreak of the First World War. From a territorial point of view, it is focused on Austrian Silesia, although some phenomena are treated within a wider geographical context. The text highlights some of t...
This contribution deals with research in the Czech history of education between mid-eighteenth century until 1945. It offers a characterisation of existing historical production dedicated to the history of education during this period and highlights the main trends and subjects. The author points to shortcomings of existing research and outlines it...
The study focuses on the development of business education in the area of Cisleithania and
Austrian Silesia from approximately mid-18th century until the First World War. It introduces
the main developmental trends in this educational sector, key legislation and organisational
changes, and outlines the broadening distribution of various sectors of...
The study deals with the significance of social networks within development of secondary and vocational school infrastructure between the second half of the 19th century and the First World War. It comments on principles appliad across the Cisleithanian part of the Monarchy within the context of development in the territory of Austrian Silesia. Bas...
The present paper deals with the development of the general secondary schools network in the present-day Czech Silesia from the beginning of the 17th century until the end of the First Czechoslovak Republic in 1938. It tries to shed light on the role of the newly established general secondary schools (Gymnasien/gymnázia) after 1918.
The study is concerned with the development of educational training for apprentices in Silesia. The aim of the author is to show the basic developmental tendencies of the so-called industrial continuing schools (Fortbildungsschulen), to show their place in the educational system and the role they played in the education of youth, whose professional...
The paper is focused on the journeys of teachers from Cisleithania during the period between the mid-19th century and the Great War, examining two basic types according to the destination: travelling abroad and within the Habsburg territory. Journeys proposed and organized by state authorities, by school managment as well as by individual teachers...
The author sets out to determine to what extent the results of censuses reflected the specific position of the Jewish minority in interwar Czechoslovakia, the attitude of the state authorities and the majority non-Jewish population to the Jewish community, ant the somewhat ambivalent attitude of the Jews to their own self-identification.
The primary aim of the two-volume monograph is to measure the political value which was associated with determining language/nationality during the census in the Bohemian lands. Achieving the highest numbers of members of a particular nation was perceived as an important tool in fights over a political power. The book shows typical conflict situati...
The study deals with the development of secondary schools and structure of their students in Czech lands in the second half of 19th and the early 20th century. The ambition is to present on the basis of the Cisleithanian secondary school statistics quantitative growth of secondary school students and main changes in their structure in term of relig...
Article deals with national identification of Jewish people in Bohemian Lands during oficial censuses in years 1880-1921.
The census authorities had an important role in census taking in the interwar Czechoslovakia. This paper deals with the role of the census authorities in the First Republic censuses in 1919, 1921 and 1930. Its aim is, upon the analysis of legislative measures, decrees and ordinances, to show the role of census commis-sioners and inspectors in the c...
The study focuses on nationalist conflicts reflected by the population census in interwar Czechoslowakia. It focuses mainly on the key problems of selection and aktivity of the census bureaucracy in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia in course of the census of 1921 and 1930, which caused much conflict and had a major public following.
The study focuses on the private censuses in the Czech Lands in the period between the end of the 19 th century to the 1930s. It presents the major trends in the development of private censuses in this time period, deals with the problem of the motives of the organizers, the transformation of the organizers and the changers of the attitude of the s...
Secondary school teachers represented an important part of the intelligentsia, and they had a significant influence on shaping several generations of educated people. Their social importance consisted not only in their professionals activities, but also - above all - in their involvement in public life on the local and regional level. Frequently te...
This paper views the educated classes as a diverse, internally differentiated social group which defies easy definition and spans almost the entire reange of the social structure. The author views the educated classes as the bearers of above-average educational capital, which conditioned their roles and functionsin society as well as their patterns...
This study deals with history of German secondary school (Realschule) in Moravská Ostrava in the years 1877-1914. Study outlines main aspects of developement this school since the moment of founding this school until World War I.
The study focuses on the development of Realschulen in Moravia and Silesia to the First World War. The author?s aim is to outline the fundamental aspects of this development, pointing out the status of Realschulen in the education system and discussing the role played by the Realschulen in the formation of a technically intelligentsia. The study fo...
This study deals with representation of jewish students of Cisleithanians colleges in the period from mid-19th century to the World War I. It shows what portion of students made Jews and how it developed and reveals the jewish preferation of schools and fields of study.
This study deals with place of secondary schools in the process of forming Czech intelligentsia in the territory of the Northern Moravia and Silesia in the second half of 19th and at the beginning of 20th century. The starting point of the author is a premise that secondary schools of this period are able to be considered as real producers of this...
This study examines the path taken by working-class children to higher education during the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century. The author outlines several important works to the subject and assesses the findings of Czech and international historians. The study also proposes possible directions for future research on the par...
This case study is concerned in the development of Jewish representation at secondary schools of Moravská Ostrava in the years 1877-1914. It is interested in structural transformation of Jews.
This paper presents the state of research on the history of secondary schools and education in the Czech lands focusing especially in 19 th and early 20 th century. It submits the works which represent traditional framework of Czech research on the history of schools (school system) as well as modern history of education. The new concept of history...
This article is concerned in the development of jewish representation at secondary schools of Moravia and Silesia in the second half of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century. It is interested in the question of motivation of Jews to higher education, analyses quantitative development of jewish representation and its structural transform...
Work is about content, possibilities and limits of application of chosen sources for history of education and schools in 19th and 20th centuries (printed programmes /annual reports/ of secondary schools, school schematisms and secondary school main catalogs).
