SO130 Leading of Experience-based Courses

Faculty of Education
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Petr Soják, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Tomáš Andrášik, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Žaneta Hrabcová (seminar tutor)
doc. Mgr. Dušan Klapko, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
MgA. Lenka Polánková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Petr Soják, Ph.D.
Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Ing. et Ing. Jana Šajkovicsová
Supplier department: Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Prerequisites
In the form of workshops, students demonstrate their theoretical knowledge gained as part of the lector's lectures. The output of the course is: - theoretical knowledge - written/oral verification of acquired knowledge within colloquium - application skills - preparation of an experience-oriented methodology that students advocate in the final presentations.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to get students acquainted with the basic principles of dramaturgy, work with the group and principles of reflective learning at experiential events. Students will acquire the methods of effective compilation of program units with regard to the requirements of the event, the specifics of the target group and other criteria.
Learning outcomes
Student: ● is able to orientate in contemporary methods and techniques from the areas of leisure-time pedagogy, outdoor and experiential learning ● is able to handle the dynamics, cohesion and atmosphere of the client group ● is able to prepare, implement and evaluate a lesson for heterogeneous learning groups with regard to the organization of work with them ● is able to lead clients by means of the methods of experiential pedagogy ● Has a clear level of self-confidence for team management and for lecturers of clients on leisure and experience-oriented courses
Syllabus
  • The content of the course are the following topics: - principles of reflective learning, theoretical anchoring (e.g. D. Kolb, Lewin, Dewey, Moon, Argyris, Schön, etc.), the view also through constructivist, phenomenological, humanistic, etc. optics. Theoretical knowledge and theoretical background (group types, leadership, theory and practice of group work, group cohesion, dynamics, group roles, theory of cooperative teaching, theory of sociocognitive conflict, social cognitive theory A. Bandury; communication structure (initiation, incitement, processing, monitoring, responses to signal). The key topic is the learning process in which, through targeted feedback, individuals seek to transform experienced into new information and opportunities that represent potential personality development. - to encourage reflective learning (How to use the reflection in education, How to lead reflective sessions?) - theoretical knowledge and practical experience - phases of reflective sessions, communication structure, questions creation, work with silence, reflection aims, skills - leadership of group reflexive sessions, try of supervised leadership in secure closed group environment - workshop focused on the experience pedagogy - work with the group - especially in practical form, but also in the theoretical background - dramaturgy, targeting (the operationalization of the pedagogical and dramaturgical aim), dramaturgic reasoning, dramaturgic principles, planned and real scenario, directing tricks, work with motivation, evaluation of activities, etc. The course includes examples of dramaturgical plans for specific experiential events. - ways of working with the group and its dynamics within the competence of the leisure time educator. Students will gain practical experience - phases of reflective sessions, communication structure, questions creation, work with silence, reflection aims, skills - leadership of group reflexive sessions, try of supervised leadership in secure closed group environment. - the principle of EE and reflective learning (Where and how do we process the accumulated experiences, so that we can use them later?)
Literature
  • SOJÁK, Petr, Veronika NÝDRLOVÁ, Markéta SEDLÁKOVÁ and Dušan KLAPKO. Kuchařka pro lektory zážitkově orientovaných kurzů aneb (Ne)vaříme z vody (Cookbook for lectors of experientially oriented courses, or we are (Not)cooking just with water). Online. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015, 150 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-8149-9. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-8149-2015. Čítárna Munispace info
  • SOJÁK, Petr, Veronika NÝDRLOVÁ, Markéta SEDLÁKOVÁ and Dušan KLAPKO. Kuchařka pro lektory zážitkově orientovaných kurzů aneb (Ne)vaříme z vody (Cookbook for lectors of experientially oriented courses, or we are (Not)cooking just with water). Online. 2015. ISBN 978-80-210-8149-9. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-8149-2015. info
  • SOJÁK, Petr, Veronika NÝDRLOVÁ, Markéta SEDLÁKOVÁ and Dušan KLAPKO. Kuchařka pro lektory zážitkově orientovaných kurzů aneb (Ne)vaříme z vody (Cookbook for lectors of experientially oriented courses, or we are (Not)cooking just with water). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014. ISBN 978-80-210-7572-6. info
  • SOJÁK, Petr, Veronika NÝDRLOVÁ, Markéta SEDLÁKOVÁ and Dušan KLAPKO. Kuchařka pro lektory zážitkově orientovaných kurzů aneb (Ne)vaříme z vody (Cookbook for lectors of experientially oriented courses, or we are (Not)cooking just with water). 2014. ISBN 978-80-210-7572-6. info
  • ARGYRIS, Chris. On organizational learning. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999, xv, 464. ISBN 0631213090. info
  • ZAPLETAL, Miloš. Jak vést letní tábor. Vyd. 1. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1969, 264 s. URL info
Teaching methods
Practical lessons, group work, presentation, discussions, group projects, self-study
Assessment methods
meeting the written assignments and active participationV
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Note related to how often the course is taught: blokově.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 6 hodin.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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