ZS1BP_EVV Epistemological Basics of Teaching

Faculty of Education
Spring 2018
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Jiří Havel, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Jiří Havel, Ph.D.
Department of Primary Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Soňa Kudelová
Supplier department: Department of Primary Education – Faculty of Education
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The subject – epistemological sources of teaching – has in a preparation of Primary school teachers and tutors a propaedentic significance for further pedagogical disciplines of diagnostic and didactic character. At the end of the course students should be able to: - establish into a contact with children - purposefully observe and analyse children play and the other activities - record and analyse interview with child - use the basic theory for explanation some children cognitive mechanismes - make diagnosis of children preconceptions - explain importace constructivistical strategies and authentic teaching in primary education
Syllabus
  • 1. How children think. How they get to know the world. How it happens that a human learns something (cognitive qualifications, experience, cognitive style and way of learning…). Psycho didactics. 2. Research methods finding out preconceptions and misconception of young school age children (development of terms, generalizations, causality). 3. Genesis of viewing space 4. Genesis of time conception. 5. Genesis of value conception. 6. Genesis of digit conception. 7. Authentic learning and its significance for cognition forming. 8. Critical thinking. 9. Construction of teaching tasks, asking questions.
Literature
  • HOLT, John. How children fail (Orig.) : Proč děti neprospívají. info
  • BUZAN, Tony. Mentální mapování. Translated by Jiří Foltýn. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2007, 165 s. ISBN 9788073672003. info
  • FISHER, Robert. Učíme děti myslet a učit se : praktický průvodce strategiemi vyučování. Translated by Karel Balcar. 2. vyd. Praha: Portál, 2004, 172 s. ISBN 8071789666. info
  • Predškolská a elementárna pedagogika. Edited by Zuzana Kolláriková - Branislav Pupala. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2001, 455 s. ISBN 80-7178-585-7. info
  • MACHALOVÁ, Miloslava and Alice PROKOPOVÁ. Jak učit (učit) vlastivědu? (Utváření psychodidaktických dovedností nutných ke konstruktivisticky pojaté výuce vlastivědy) (xx). In Monitorování a rozvoj pedagogických dovedností. Brno: Paido, 2000, p. 199-206. ISBN 80-85931-87-7. info
  • PIAGET, Jean. Psychologie inteligence. Vyd. 2., v nakl. Portál 1. Praha: Portál, 1999, 164 s. ISBN 80-7178-309-9. info
  • PIAGET, Jean and Bärbel INHELDER. Psychologie dítěte. Vyd. 2., v nakl. Portál 1. Praha: Portál, 1997, 143 s. ISBN 80-7178-146-0. info
  • HOLT, John. Jak se děti učí. Vyd. 1. Praha: Agentura Strom, 1995, 173 s. ISBN 80-901662-7-X. info
Teaching methods
Lecture
Assessment methods
Credit. Semester paper: analysis of children preconceptions and cognitive processes Criteria: extent of at least 5 pages (5 points), methodological level (5 points), the formal level (5 points). To pass the requirements it is necessary to acquire minimum 10 points.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2019.
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