PGB110 Pedagogy of Family

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Milada Rabušicová, Dr. (lecturer)
Mgr. Barbora Nekardová (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Milada Rabušicová, Dr.
Department of Educational Sciences – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. et Mgr. Adéla Zajíčková
Supplier department: Department of Educational Sciences – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Pedagogy of Family is based on characteristics of contemporary family in the present day society and its basic functions. It primarily focuses on the educational – socializing – function. It studies family organization and atmosphere that are best suited the accomplishment of the educational function. It also deals with circumstances that complicate or preclude it, notorious phenomena such as divorce, incomplete family, parents’ employment, youth parenting, alcoholism, educational disunity in more generational families, etc. It pays special attention to families with children of all group ages, as well as adult-only families. Among other topics, there are introduction of several possible models of family education, issues of communication and collaboration between families and schools, as well as position of the state in relation to a family: to parents’ duty to take care of children and to children’s duty to take care of parents when adult. Students will learn about current theoretical and empirical approaches to contemporary family issues and will discuss them in panel discussion, in which they will express their opinions.
Learning outcomes
identify the role of the family in contemporary society; comment on current developments and changes in the functions of the family in today’s society; identify factors influencing family education and socialization; apply pedagogical principles to family education; understand the place of the family in relation to the school;
Syllabus
  • 1. Basic family-related terms; contemporary context of family life; changes of family functions. 2. Family of our predecessors (a view of a family in a “traditional” society) 3. Support of contemporary family. Pro-family and pro-natality issues (trends and changes in social roles of family, comparative and historical arguments) 4. Contemporary and prospective changes of family, marriage, and parenthood (based on family researches in the Czech Republic in 1990s to the present) 5. A view of a family on the basis of selected theories (sociological, sociobiological and psychological) 6. Socialization and education in a family (general background, basic conditions, principles, parenthood as life-long learning). 7. A selected model of family education (specific educational attitudes according to Adler’s concept of family education, sibling constellations) 8. Educational problems related to “atypical” families (definition and characteristic of atypical families, relations in atypical families, effects on children’s education, and examples) 9. Family with a school-child (relationship of family and school education, parental school-child support, reference to cultural capital theory and speech model theory, family-school collaboration) 10. Family with an adolescent child (adolescents’ stereotypes of parents, parents’ stereotypes of adolescents, communication, family authority issues) 11. Family of adults (adult children’s leave, comparative view of relations in family with adult children, adult children’s duties to parents, feminine and masculine roles in family and family education). 12. Importance of family traditions and rituals
Literature
    required literature
  • Alan, J.: Etapy života očima sociologie. Panorama, Praha 1989. Campbell, R.: Potřebuji tvou lásku. Návrat, Praha 1992. Campbell, R.: Hledám svou cestu. Návrat, Praha 1993. Demografie (nejen) pro demografy. SLON, Praha 1993. De Singly, F.: Sociologie souč
  • RABUŠICOVÁ, Milada. Rodiče a škola (Parents and school). In Průcha, J. Pedagogická encyklopedie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2009, p. 319-323. ISBN 978-80-7367-546-2. info
  • MOŽNÝ, Ivo. Rodina a společnost. Illustrated by Vladimír Jiránek. Vydání druhé, upravené. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství (SLON), 2008, 323 stran. ISBN 9788086429878. info
  • RABUŠICOVÁ, Milada. Postavení rodičů jako výchovných a sociálních partnerů školy (The Position of Parents as Educational and Social Partners of the School). Pedagogika. Praha: PedF UK, 2004, LIV, 2004, No 4, p. 326-341. ISSN 0031-3815. info
    recommended literature
  • RABUŠICOVÁ, Milada, Lenka KAMANOVÁ and Kateřina PEVNÁ. O mezigeneračním učení (On Intergenerational Learning). Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2011, 212 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-5750-0. info
  • RABUŠICOVÁ, Milada, Lenka KAMANOVÁ and Kateřina PEVNÁ. Učení v rodině v mezigeneračním pohledu (Learning in a Family from Intergenerational Perspective). Pedagogická orientace. Brno: ČPdS, 2010, roč. 20, č. 4, p. 92-111. ISSN 1211-4669. info
  • RABUŠICOVÁ, Milada, Markéta KLUSÁČKOVÁ and Lenka KAMANOVÁ. Mezigenerační učení v rámci programů a kurzů neformálního vzdělávání pro děti, rodiče a prarodiče (Cross-generational learning in programmes and courses of non-formal education for children, parents and grandparents). Studia paedagogica. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2009, vol. 14, No 2, p. 131-153. ISSN 1803-7437. info
  • KOCOURKOVÁ, Jiřina and Ladislav RABUŠIC. Sňatek a rodina: zájem soukromý nebo veřejný? (Marriage and the Family: private or public matter?). 1st ed. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Přírodovědecká fakulta, 2006, 158 pp. ISBN 80-86561-93-3. info
  • RABUŠICOVÁ, Milada, Vlastimil ČIHÁČEK, Kateřina EMMEROVÁ and Klára ŠEĎOVÁ. Role rodičů ve vztahu ke škole - empirická zjištění (The Role of Parents in relation to School - empirical evidence). Pedagogika. Praha: PedF UK, 2003, vol. 2003, No 3, p. 309 - 320. ISSN 0031-3815. info
  • RABUŠICOVÁ, Milada. Možnosti spolupráce školy a rodiny. In Sborník příspěvků z 5. pedagogického semináře organizovanéhe Ústavem celoživotního vzdělávání při PdF OU v Ostravě. Ostrava: Ústav celoživotního vzdělávání při PdF OU v Ostravě, 1999, p. 21-31. ISBN 80-7042-149-5. info
  • MOŽNÝ, Ivo. Sociologie rodiny: její vývoj, teorie a základní problémy (Sociology of Family: its envelope, theory and basic problems). 1st ed. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 1999, 250 pp. ISBN 80-85850-75-3. info
    not specified
  • RABUŠICOVÁ, Milada. Influence of the Family on Educational Achievement (Influence of the Family on Educational Achievement.). In Developing Schools for Democracy in Europe, an example of trans-European cooperation in education. Oxford Studies in Comparative Education. United Kingdom: Triangle Books, 1995, p. 125-133. ISBN 1-873927-13-4. info
Teaching methods
Lecture and seminar
Assessment methods
Seminar thesis presentation and oral exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Předmět není určen pro studenty 1. semestru
Teacher's information
https://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf3/course/view.php?id=475
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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