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Katerina Ciháková – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2024
Scientific literacy is decreasing in the Czech Republic and inquiry-based science education (IBSE), believed to enhance it, is used rarely. Meanwhile, outdoor teaching is on the rise, but it is unclear if it could help promote inquiry. This study examines the frequencies of outdoor teaching and IBSE and their relationship in self-reported practice…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Electronic Learning, Educational Resources, Foreign Countries
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Belánová, Andrea; Kostelecká, Yvona; Machovcová, Katerina; McCabe, Marta – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2020
In the Czech Republic, home schooling is an increasing but still rare education practice. The country is at the same time not favourable to public demonstrations of religion. In such a specific context, we investigated the intersection of religion, spirituality, and home schooling. Drawing on a broad ethnographic research design, we identify three…
Descriptors: Spiritual Development, Home Schooling, Decision Making, Ethnography
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Kašparová, Irena – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2015
There is a 240-year tradition of compulsory school attendance in the Czech Republic. To many, compulsory school attendance is synonymous with the right to be educated. After the collapse of communism in 1989, along with the democratization of the government, the education system was slowly opened to alternatives, including the right to educate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Home Schooling
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Kostelecká, Yvona; Komárková, Tereza; Novotná, Veronika – Journal of Pedagogy, 2021
In March 2020 a state of emergency was declared in the Czech Republic in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which that resulted in the closures of schools. The provision of education continued through mandatory remote home-based education. The aim of this study is to use in-depth interviews to show how Czech families with children at the primary…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Elementary School Students, Pandemics, COVID-19
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Kostelecka, Yvona – International Review of Education, 2012
As new laws on education were gradually adopted in post-communist states after 1989, the countries also dealt with the problem of how to include home education in their own legislation. This article investigates the development of legislation on home education in five states of post-communist Central Europe: the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia,…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Educational Legislation, Differences, Foreign Countries
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Kostelecká, Yvona – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2010
The paper analyzes the emergence of home education in European post-communist countries after 1989. The case of the Czech Republic representing the development and characteristic features of home education in the whole region is studied in detail. Additional information about homeschooling in other post-communist countries are provided wherever…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Home Schooling, Educational History, Federal Legislation