Publisher: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství

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Mathematical disabilities of pupils with dyscalculia and their impact on solving learning tasks in physics and in mathematics: Summary of the results of the research investigation

Poruchy matematických schopností žáků s dyskalkulií a jejich vliv na řešení učebních úloh ve fyzice a v matematice: Shrnutí výsledků výzkumného šetření

Author(s): Lenka Pavlíčková / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: education; inclusive education; mathematics; disability; dyscalculia;

The monograph focuses on the mathematical disabilities of pupils with dyscalculia and their impact on the solving of learning tasks in physics was. Issues connected with dyscalculia are nowadays more and more frequently discussed. Difficulties arising from this disability influence not only the teaching of mathematics, but also the teaching of other subjects, mainly the sciences, where mathematics is used, which has impact especially on the success of the pupils in physics or chemistry. For these reasons, our publication focuses on solving learning tasks in mathematics and physics by pupils with dyscalculia. The research combines two research methodologies: case studies and didactic tests in mathematics and physics. Using the case studies, we examined pupils with mathematical disabilities who took the didactic test in physics or in mathematics. The research confirmed that pupils with dyscalculia have some perception, cognitive, and motor skills deficiency, while each pupil with dyscalculia who took part in the research had deficiency of a different kinds of skills, in different intensity, and in different combination. Most often, pupils with dyscalculia had disabilities in the partial area of cognitive skills related to pre-number and number notions. Through the didactic tests in physics and mathematics, we judged the level of ability to solve a learning task in physics and in mathematics for pupils with dyscalculia as well as for pupils without dyscalculia. Pupils without specific learning disability achieved the best results, while pupils with dyscalculia achieved the worst results. It is obvious from the results that not only pupils with dyscalculia, but also pupils with specific learning disabilities encounter significant problems in physics and in mathematics. Our research results show the need to change approaches to pupils with dyscalculia and with specific learning difficulties in the teaching of mathematics and physics and the need for changes in diagnostic and re-education care.

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42.56 €

Porcelain +

Porcelán +

Author(s): Hana Novotná / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: art; porcelain; conceptual medium; visual arts; Czech Republic;

The publication is revised version of the dissertation entitled “Porcelain as a Conceptual Medium” and has aims to analyze and describe contemporary tendencies and interpretations associated with the use of porcelain in the visual arts, not only as a utilitarian material but also as part of a conceptual art work. The work will be presented by the authors on the Czech art scene, with the emphasis on the youngest generation and its authentic expressions. It will also become acquainted with the work of renowned Chinese authors who are world leaders in this field. The whole research is presented in historical and pedagogical contexts.

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20.66 €

How is it for Mums: Psychological research on motherhood

Jak to mají mámy: Psychologický výzkum mateřství

Author(s): Lenka Lacinová,Zuzana Masopustová,Petra Daňsová,Veronika Hanáčková,Kristína Chabadová,Renata Šebelová,Tereza Chrudinová,Tomotaka Umemura,Adéla Woznicová,Renata Hlavová,Pavlína Navrátilová / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: psychology; mom; motherhood; mothering; 1989; Velvet Revolution;

The monograph How is it for Mums portrays mothering in the first generation of mothers after the 1989 Velvet Revolution. The female respondents who took part in our research were growing up or born after November 1989, at times of considerable changes in all spheres of society, parenting being no exception.

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Young Slavistics IV: Researching the Slavonic Territories: The Generational Transformations

Mladá slavistika IV: Výzkum slovanského areálu: generační proměny

Author(s): / Language(s): Slovak,Russian,Czech

Keywords: literature studies; Slovenian literature; Ukrainian literature; Russian literature; Czech language; Russian language; orthography; Dostoevsky;

“Young Slavistics IV” is the seventh consecutive publication in a series of annual publications of doctoral students from the Department of Slavonic Studies in Brno. The book was introduced by a study from Prof. Ivo Pospíšil called “Generations in Literary Criticism, Their Fame and Traumas”. There are also six studies by doctoral students of different Slavonic fields, in which the students focus on specific chosen topics of Slavonic literatures, languages and cultures. Their research is based on dissertations currently being prepared. Therefore, the publication is a presentation of current research topics solved in Brno by young students of Slavonic studies and at the same time they indicate the trends which this emerging generation of researchers brings to contemporary Slavonic research.

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Non-traditional students studying education in Czech universities

Netradiční studenti pedagogických oborů na českých vysokých školách

Author(s): Dana Knotová,Katarína Rozvadská,Libor Juhaňák,Milada Rabušicová,Karla Brücknerová,Petr Novotný / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Czech Republic; education; higher education; non-traditional students;

This publication is devoted to the topic of non-traditional students in tertiary education. The key criteria for our definition of this group are age and a break in the formal educational trajectory after high school. From among all the non-traditional students in Czech higher education, we selected those who chose university studies in study programs that qualify them for work in education (e.g., teachers, counsellors, youth workers, teacher assistants, social educators, and adult educators). The book is divided into 11 interconnected chapters presenting theoretical background, methodology and results of mixed design research conducted by the team of authors.

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Olší, Nusperg, Růžodol : Names of some woody plants in the chosen Czech place names

Olší, Nusperg, Růžodol: Názvy dřevin v sídelních jménech českých zemí

Author(s): Kristýna Dufková / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: language; lexis; place names; trees; bushes; Czech language; landscape;

The aim of the publication is to list the chosen Czech, Moravian and Silesian place names which reflect the names of trees, bushes and shrubs. Trees and bushes, especially solitary ones, have drawn people's attention for centuries, for which reason they have served mainly for specifying location, direction or orientation in an area. The book contains the list of some places named after woody plants. In addition, the related municipal locations are recorded in the form of public online maps for the further use of readers. All gathered data must be treated with caution, because the proper names show a specific linguistic characteristic. The author explains that the purpose of the selected proper names is not to transmit an image of the past or contemporary landscape, but she stresses that the proper names themselves can help a great deal to reveal either a past or contemporary mutual relationship between the landscape and its inhabitants.

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The Ways of the Authorial Fairy Tale after the Year 2000 in the Czech Republic and in Bulgaria

Cesty autorské pohádky po roce 2000 v České republice a v Bulharsku

Author(s): Martina Salhiová / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: children's literature; fiction; fairy tales; Czech Republic; Bulgaria; contemporary literature;

This monograph deals with a genre of children’s literature (literature for children and young adults) – the contemporary authorial fairy tales published between 2000 and 2020 in the Czech Republic and in Bulgaria. Using a comparative method and analysis of the works, the monograph follows the development shifts in the genre of authorial fairy tale in both national literatures. The work is selective, focused on the most distinctive types of authorial fairy tales. The division of the monograph into four parts (folklore-influenced fairy tales, diary and calendar fairy tales, lyricized and rhythmic fairy tales, humor and nonsense fairy tales) tends to be more orientational and approximate thanks to the mixing of different literary genres.

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40.50 €

Advanced data analysis in SPSS and AMOS

Pokročilá analýza dat v SPSS a AMOS

Author(s): Petr Soukup / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: research; methodology; statistics; statistical analysis; social science; SPSS; AMOS;

The book follows up on the successful title Statistical Analysis of Social Science Data through SPSS (Masaryk University, 2019). The book introduces the reader to selected advanced statistical techniques used in the social sciences. Specifically, the book deals first with structural equation models (specifically path analysis and confirmatory factor analysis), then with multilevel models (linear and nonlinear) and finally with procedures for processing categorical data (correspondence analysis and latent class analysis). The basic calculations are performed in the book in IBM SPSS Statistics and IBM SPSS AMOS, and accompanied web page contains in addition also other materials, specifically analysis procedures in other statistical programs (MPlus, JASP or R) The materials on the accompanying website will be further supplemented, partly according to the requirements of readers.

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From the Shores of the Others: New Narratives, New Aesthetics: Contemporary Authors of Subsaharan Francophone Africa from the Perspective of Migrations, Hybridity and World Globalization

Des rives des autres: Nouveaux récits, nouvelles esthétiques : auteurs contemporains de l’Afrique francophone subsaharienne du point de vue de l’hybridité, des migrations et de la globalisation mondiale

Author(s): Petr Vurm / Language(s): French

Keywords: Francophone African authors; Sub-Saharan Africa; migrations; globalization;

The aim of the book is to look closely at writings of contemporary Francophone African authors from Sub-Saharan Africa by providing their critical analysis in an appropriate historical, social, cultural and literary context. More specifically, on a well-delimited and logically justified corpus of texts it tries to shed some light on crucial contemporary issues of this writing such as postmodern hybridity, métissage, migrations and exiles on the background of contemporary globalized and increasingly interconnected world.

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73.55 €

Břeclav – Pohansko X. Settlement Area in the North-East Suburb: Archaeological research in the years 2008–2016

Břeclav – Pohansko X. Sídelní areál na Severovýchodním předhradí: Archeologické výzkumy v letech 2008–2016

Author(s): Jiří Macháček,Adéla Balcárková,Petr Dresler,Renáta Prichystalová,Michaela Prišťáková / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Břeclav-Pohansko X. Settlement Area; archaeology; Northeast Suburb at Pohansko; middle ages;

This book is the result of many years continual research of the archaeologists from Department of Archaeology and Museology FA MU in the area of the Northeast Suburb at Pohansko near Břeclav. Publication is aimed at archaeology professionals or students and describes in some detail the settlement structure of the suburb, the inventory of finds and the first interpretations of the archaeological sources gathered by excavations carried out in the 2008-2016 period. The monograph contains chapters in which immovable and movable archaeological sources are analysed and interpreted. For instance, the authors were successful of the functional interpretation of the individual excavated settlement sectors based on the using the spatial distribution of pottery, kitchen waste and daub. One of the important results of the method employed is the relatively unambiguous identification of early medieval above-ground buildings which could not have been revealed under different conditions. There is an additional detailed text catalogue of the investigated field relics accompanied by an extensive supplement with images and plans.

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28.93 €

The Adventure of Historical Interpretation

Dobrodružství historické interpretace

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Czech

Keywords: history; politics; communism; methodology; historical texts; historical interpretation; historians; Czech Republic;

This collection of nineteen essays written by prominent historians demonstrates the diversity of academic approaches. Their work with historical sources, the foundation stone of research, is combined with ethical and aesthetic decision-making, which forms an indisputable part of their work. This is often surprising - both for the readers and themselves. It represents a great intellectual adventure. They cannot invent sources or set arbitrary rules, plots, and twists and turns, as a novelist might. However, they can write a scientific work which is the result of a creative approach.

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12.40 €

Philosophers in the city

Filozofové ve městě

Author(s): Radim Brázda / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: philosophy; Masaryk University; philosophical seminary; Department of Philosophy; centenary;

The book Philosophers in the City was created on the occasion of the centenary of the founding of the Philosophical Seminar of the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno. It is dedicated to the reminder of the first nine philosophers, who gradually held the position of head of the philosophical seminary, the later department of philosophy. Their life, work and work at the head of the department are reminiscent of excerpts from their professional and popular texts, from materials stored in the Archives of Masaryk University. Selected texts provide insight into official and personal correspondence, diary entries, memories of their contemporaries and other documents related to their work and life. The texts and archives are connected and paralleled with general philosophical themes and European philosophers of the time as well as contemporary philosophers.

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37.19 €

Construction Tasks: Textbook for Students of Mathematics Teaching at the 2nd Level of Primary School

Konstrukční úlohy: Učební text pro studenty učitelství matematiky 2. stupně základní školy

Author(s): Irena Budínová,Lenka Pavlíčková / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: school education; 2nd level primary school; mathematics; teaching; textbook;

The publication presents the problems of solving construction problems at primary school. It shows ways of solving basic construction problems and complex construction problems that are given at primary or secondary school. It deals with problems of solving construction problems in Geogebra.

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26.45 €

Rural ageing: Forms of active ageing and quality of life in the countryside

Stárnutí na venkově: Podoby aktivního stárnutí a kvalita života v rurálních oblastech

Author(s): Lucie Galčanová Batista,Marcela Petrová Kafková,Barbora Hubatková,Lucie Vidovićová / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: ageing; gerontology; rural ageing; active ageing; countryside; quality of life;

The publication presents mixed methods research results looking at the lives of older people living in heterogeneous village areas. We focus on the discussion of myths related to rurality (rural idyll, rural as stable, green, and socially cohesive, but also ageing, poor, dull and deprived). The book thus complements currently absent reflection of dominant (social/political) concepts such as "active aging" or "age-friendliness" in the contexts of potentialy specific needs of the older rural population.

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Error Analysis in the Interlanguage of Czech and Slovak University Students of Spanish as a Second Language

Análisis de errores en la interlengua de aprendices de ELE universitarios checos y eslovacos

Author(s): Cristina Rodríguez García / Language(s): Spanish

Keywords: Spanish language; Czech students; Slovak students; higher education; error analysis; interlanguage;

The monograph studies the written interlanguage in Spanish of a group of Czech and Slovak university students, focusing on analysis of their errors. The main purpose of this study is to find a pattern in these errors and to understand their evolution from the beginning to the end of the three-year bachelor program of Spanish Language and Literature at Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic). For this objective we have analyzed a corpus of written texts compiled from 2014 to 2017 and we have classified all the lexical and morhosyntactical errors according to specific criteria, creating a “grammar of errors” on its own. The conclusions indicate that there are no significant differences between errors according to the linguistic groups. This is due to the fact that the majority of these errors show universal learning strategies that do not apply to just one linguistic group. However, the results also show a considerable influence of Czech and Slovak, especially in the lexical errors that occur due to interferences, faux amis and loans. Furthermore, Slovak students have a higher percentage of errors compared to Czech students at the end of their degree, mainly because the essays are longer. This is an outcome of Slovak students taking more risks when they write in Spanish, since they use more language and they choose more complex structures.

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29.75 €

Master Jan Hus, teacher and colleague: Recommendation speeches of M. Jan Hus

Mistr Jan Hus, učitel a kolega: Promoční promluvy M. Jana Husa

Author(s): Jana Nechutová,Lucie Mazalová,Petra Mutlová,Libor Švanda,Helena Krmíčková / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Jan Hus; recommendation speeches; Czech translations;

This book contains annotated Czech translations of 14 recommendation speeches (graduation speeches) delivered by M. Jan Hus at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Prague between 1398 and 1410. The translations are preceded by four studies on the transmission of the manuscripts, the speeches’ argumentative structure, and the curriculum at the Faculty of Arts in Prague at the time, with a special focus on philosophy and grammar.

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When they spread out their arms, they touch the darkness: Changes to priestly identity within Czech catholicism in the 19th and 20th centuries

Když rozpínají ruce, dotýkají se temnot: Proměny kněžské identity v prostředí českého katolicismu v 19. a 20. století

Author(s): Petr Husák / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: 19th century; 20th century; Catholicism; Czech Republic; priestly identity;

This book examines the changes to priestly identity within Czech Catholicism in the 19th and 20th centuries on the example of three Catholic priests (Emanuel Masák, Antonín Ludvík Stříž, Dominik Pecka). The changing identity of priests in the modern age is a relevant theme in historical science and at the same time is the turbulent story of a social profession which still undoubtedly enjoyed social prestige during the mid-19th century, but which with the passing of time became a target of criticism as a symbol of backwardness for some, while for others it was a symbol of eternal order, legitimate authority, authentic service, or even martyrdom. Even in the 20th century, priestly identity continued to contain its sacral, spiritual and even overtly mystical content. As is suggested by the title, it is this which the author focuses on very thoroughly.

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Current issues of the Russian language teaching XIV

Current issues of the Russian language teaching XIV

Author(s): / Language(s): English

Keywords: education; Russian language; teaching; methodology; online tools; distance learning; poetry; folklore;

Collection of papers “Current issues of the Russian language teaching XIV” is devoted to issues of methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language, to issues of linguistics and literary science and includes papers related to the use of online tools and resources in teaching Russian. This collection of papers is a result of the international scientific conference “Current issues of the Russian language teaching XIV”, which was scheduled for 8–10 May 2020, but due to the pandemic COVID-19 took place remotely.

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26.45 €

The Izanagi Motive in Haruki Murakami's Novels

Izanagiovský motiv v románech Haruki Murakamiho

Author(s): Tomáš Jurkovič / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Japanese literature; Haruki Murakami; novels;

Japanese writer Haruki Murakami is sometimes considered to be an entirely Western-literature-inspired author of “non-Japanese” texts. Such an assessment, however, needs to be rejected upon analysing Murakami’s fiction. The present study offers guidance into the colourful world of Murakami’s novels in chronological order. It presents them together in what we could call a meta-story, starting from the very beginning of Murakami’s writing and its sources of inspiration, and ending with Murakami’s first victory in dealing with his most important subject as an author – the dark sides of modern Japanese history.

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4.50 €

Introduction to ecological issues

Úvod do ekologické problematiky

Author(s): Petr Jemelka / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: ecology; science; scientific field; cultural ecology; nature conservation; ethics; education;

The textbook offers the characteristics of ecology as a scientific field. The next chapters deal with cultural ecology and nature conservation issues. It also includes a chapter on environmental ethics. The final part deals with issues of education.

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