Zuzana Heinzova

• PhD.
• Professor (Assistant) at Matej Bel University

The ability to effectively regulate emotions has emerged as an important protective factor for mental health. Current research provides insights into the maladaptive/adaptive nature of the selected emotion regulation strategies (e.g., cognitive reappraisal, suppression of emotion expression). The ambiguity of these findings suggests a protective fa...

This manual was created as part of the Erasmus+ project Service-Learning as a pedagogy to promote inclusion, diversity and digital empowerment, or SLIDE. It is the guide for the organizing the hybrid social hackathon with university students in international settings.

Pregraduálna príprava pomáhajúcich pracovníkov a pracovníčok je zameraná na rozvoj ich špecifických kompetencií pre prácu s klientmi a klientkami. Vysokoškolskú prípravu preto možno považovať za začiatok profesionalizácie budúcich pomáhajúcich pracovníkov a pracovníčok. Optimálny model tejto prípravy spočíva vo vzájomnom prepojení jej teoretickej a...

This study investigated the impact of the service-learning on the social and civic competencies and motivation and engagement in the school of secondary school students. The methodological design was quasi-experimental with a non-equivalent control group. With the data collected from 232 secondary school students from five European countries, the f...

Social competence is one of the basic key competencies of educational leaders, where the research aimed at targeted facilitation is absent. Thus, the study aims to verify the changes in the development of social competence and coping self-efficacy of future educational leaders within two courses (one-term course at university vs. one-year course at...

Our exploratory study analyzes the civic-mindedness of university graduates in an engaged university with emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe, particularly Slovakia. The research sample consisted of 452 graduates of the second level of university studies. To map and analyze civic-mindedness, we used the Civic-Minded Graduate Questionnaire (CMG;...

School transformation is a real process that is happening all over the world and also in Slovakia. Recently, one of the important topics involved in it is the conceptualisation and measurement of educational leadership. The purpose of this study was to examine the preliminary psychometric properties of the Slovak forms of the Leadership Practices I...

Líderstvo v edukácii sa stalo prioritnou témou vzdelávacej politiky na celom svete a školy 21. storočia sa definujú cez piliere silných lídrov, sebaistých učiteľov a inovatívnych prístupov (Schleicher, 2015/OECD). Tak ako sa krajiny snažia prispôsobovať svoje vzdelávacie systémy potrebám súčasnej spoločnosti, menia sa očakávania voči školám aj mana...

The transformation of education should originate in the school environment. Teachers, as actors of change, thus find themsel es in the position of transformational leaders. Keller (2006) identifies as transformational leaders those individuals who can succeed and fulfil a vision, inspire and activate followers who respond with en‑ thusiasm and dete...

The study verifies the benefits of volunteering in the development of key competencies of the unemployed. Unemployment has a number of consequences for the lives of society and individuals, and research shows that volunteering can make a significant contribution to reducing or eliminating them and promoting employability and employment. The aim of...

Analýza spracovaná v rámci národného projektu Kvalitnejšie verejné politiky prostredníctvom lepšieho poznania občianskej spoločnosti Kód projektu ITMS2014+: 314 011 V576

The aim of the monograph was to present the service-learning strategy and some research findings focused on the benefits of service-learning for students. The team of authors chose a structure from the broader presentation of the service-learning educational strategy as an active and service-based learning strategy for the benefit of others in orde...

This study at a university in Slovakia asked two questions: (1) Does completion of a service-learning course lead to changes in students’ social and personal responsibility and their attitudes toward community service? (2) Are personal and social responsibility and attitudes toward community service correlated? Service-learning and the third missio...

The contribution answers the question as to what the benefits of service-learning in the development of key competences of Slovak university students of caring professions are. We used a combination of research methods to answer the research question. The survey sample was made up of students of social work, social pedagogy and teaching who graduat...

The purpose of this trainers’ handbook is to provide support to trainers who will deliver training in service-learning in any type of higher education institution. This handbook presents for the trainers the structure of the training (training flow), gives additional ideas, useful tools and methods on how to conduct a training session effectively,...

OBJECTIVES: The text answers the question as to what are the benefits of the service-learning in the development of key competences of social work students. THEORETICAL BASE: Service learning is an teaching and learning strategy that combines service goals with learning objectives. The subject of the research verification of its impact are also the...

Te replication study offers research fndings from verifcation of the construct validity of social intelligence by the Slovak MESI scale (Manipulation, Empathy, Social Irritability – MESI, Frankovský, Birknerová, 2014) by means of confrmatory factor analysis, and by convergent/discriminant validity by the trait emotional intelligence questionnaire (P...

Social and personal development is a part of the moral characteristics of a personality (Swaner, 2005). The research in the field of social and personal responsibility development shows that educational programmes based on experience-learning strategy are effective (Hellison, 2003; Conrad-Hedin, 1981; Brozmanová-Gregorová, 2007 and others). Service...

Abstrakt: Primárnym predmetom záujmu školských psychológov je predovšetkým dieťa / žiak v edukačnom prostredí školy. V našom príspevku prinášame ukážku možnosti poznávať školské prostredie ako pracovné prostredie učiteľov-dotazník mapujúci kultúru pracoviska OCAI. Ide o dotazník, ktorý bol vyvinutý pre potreby mapovania kultúry organizácie / pracov...

Service-learning as a teaching and learning strategy, which combines meaningful service in the community with education, has spread not only in the United States but also in South America, Asia, and Europe in recent years, with the pedagogy being applied at all levels of formal and informal education. In 2005, Matej Bel University, located in Bansk...

Kapitola sa venuje problematike rozvíjania kľúčových kompetencií študentov a študentiek v rámci ich vysokoškolského vzdelávania, so zameraním na rozvoj komunikačných a sociálnych kompetencií prostredníctvom predmetu service learning. Service learning inovatívna stratégia učenia (sa), ktorá umožňuje študentom a študentkám transfer získaných poznatko...

Cieľom nášho širšie koncipovaného výskumu bolo hľadanie súvislostí medzi tlmočníckym výkonom a vybranými psychologickými charakteristikami-výkonovou motiváciou, osobnostnými vlastnosťami podľa Myers-Briggsovej typológie, kognitívnym štýlom závislosť-nezávislosť od poľa a viacerými aspektmi pozornosti u študentov tlmočníctva. Zvolené charakteristiky...

The Article presents the Results from the Study to detect the expected Relation between employees current and preferred organizational Culture (Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument OCAI from K.S.Cameron and R.E. Quinn, 1999) and their personal Values (Three Item Person – Organization Fit Scale from D. Cable a D. DeRue, 2002).

The paper focuses on selected aspects of volunteering as part of university education of social work and social pedagogy students. It presents theoretical starting points and empirical findings concerning the relationship between volunteer experience and attitudes of social work and social pedagogy students toward the target groups of their study....