Publisher: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství

Central European Political Studies Review (CEPSR)

Středoevropské politické studie

Frequency: 4 issues / Country: Czech Republic

The on-line peer-reviewed quarterly “Central European Political Studies Review” is a scholarly journal focused on modern politics in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), including its Europe-wide or international ramifications. The journal thus provides a platform for primarily original political-scientific research related to the Central and East European region, as well as for other social-scientific research relevant for the discipline. Our background ambition, however, is to reflect upon problems and vectors that reach beyond the region itself.
Topically, the journal rests on three main pillars which mirror contemporary challenges to CEE: comparative research, testing social-scientific knowledge and experience across various countries; foreign and security studies, dealing with questions of societal order and peace in both established democracies and recently democratised or newly democratising countries, as well as their position the international context; and the broadly conceived field of political theory of both the empirical and normative kind, which puts empirical findings into wider conceptual or theoretical context.
Based on this triad of mutually interconnected topical areas, the Central European Political Studies Review aspires to facilitate scholarly debates on challenges with which the region as a whole or individual counties are faced, and which often carry important implications for scholarly understanding of political structures and processes beyond the CEE region itself. A prime example is provided by European integration and the questions it raises, and more broadly by the research agenda of European studies that allows for synthesising the particular CEE experience and its Europe-wide consequences. This is another reason why the Editors of the journal are also interested in articles from branches of political science other than those explicitly mentioned here, or from other social scientific disciplines (such as International Relations, Sociology, Media Studies, Political Economy, Area Studies, and others)

Bohemica litteraria

Bohemica litteraria

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Czech Republic

Bohemica litteraria is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes original contributions to the field of Czech literature studies. The journal focuses on a wide range of topics within Czech literature studies, related to literary theory, history and criticism, comparative literature, didactics, cultural and adaptation studies, and others. The journal publishes peer-reviewed studies as well as interviews, reviews of scholarly publications, and reports of significant events in the field and at the Department of Czech Literature and Library Studies.

Since 2009 the journal has been issued twice a year by Masaryk University (Faculty of Arts, Department of Czech Literature and Library Studies), Brno, Czech Republic.

Studia sportiva

Studia sportiva

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Czech Republic

Studia sportiva is the research journal of the Faculty of Sports Studies, Masaryk University published since 2007. The journal is focused on the topic kinanthropology and kinesiology. The journal is included in the European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS). The aim of the journal is presentation of the newest findings in the areas of kinesiology and kinanthropology.

Presents the latest findings from research, development, and studies in kinanthropology and related disciplines (social sciences, kinesiology), reflects current issues in the field and presents promising student activities.

Discourse and Interaction

Discourse and Interaction

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Czech Republic

Discourse and Interaction is a peer-reviewed linguistics journal founded in 2008. The journal is committed to present the outcomes of current research into aspects of negotiation of meaning in English language discourse and related stylistic and socio-pragmatic variation. The study of discourse and interaction is understood as research into language with relevance to real-world problems and its aim is to reveal the stylistic diversity, non-homogeneity, and socio-pragmatic variety of language as these should be reflected in the teaching of English in academic settings.
The journal invites contributions in the fields of:

• discourse analysis
• pragmatics
• stylistics
• sociolinguistics
• applied linguistics
• semantics
• syntax

The journal has adopted ‘double-blind’ peer-reviewing procedures, which guarantees anonymity for both authors and reviewers. All manuscripts sent to Discourse and Interaction are first reviewed by the editors as to their suitability; then, they are sent to two reviewers who send back their comments with a recommendation to accept, suggest rewriting and resubmission, or reject.

All submitted manuscripts should be new, original and not published previously; it is the sole responsibility of the authors that their manuscripts shall not contain any plagiarized or improperly attributed materials.

Review of Law and Technology

Revue pro právo a technologie

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Czech Republic

Review of Law and Technology, which first issue was published on 1st November 2011, is a peer-reviewed academic journal with focus on technology fields of law and legal science. The dominant areas are ICT law, legal informatics and also special areas of technology law like energy law, law of specific production etc.

The journal is since 1st January 2015 enlisted in the List of reviewed non-impact journals published in the Czech Republic.

Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology

Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Czech Republic

Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology (ISSN on-line 1802-5951, ISSN printed 1802-5943) is a peer-reviewed academic journal which publishes original articles in the field of information and communication technology law. All submissions should deal with phenomena related to law in modern technologies (e.g. privacy and data protection, intellectual property, biotechnologies, cyber security and cyber warfare, energy law). We prefer submissions dealing with contemporary issues.

Input, Process and Product: Developments in Teaching and Language Corpora

Input, Process and Product: Developments in Teaching and Language Corpora

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

Keywords: corpus; language learning; data-driven learning; concordancing;

This volume is a collection of 21 academic papers selected from the ninth biennial Teaching and Learning Corpora conference that was held at Masaryk University in the summer of 2010. The papers were selected through a double blind reviewing process by the academic committee of the conference. The book deals with a variety of uses of language corpora in foreign or second language teaching and learning, and is divided into four parts. Sections 1 and 2 look at corpora as input, first exploring general issues of how they can inform language teaching, and second describing how this can be put into practice and evaluating concrete uses of corpora with learners. Sections 3 and 4 look at learner corpora as output: this includes comparison with native-speaker corpora to identify ‘errors’ or areas of difficulty, but also shows what learners can and do know at different levels of proficiency, and what this tells us about the learning process.

Presidents above Parties?: Presidents in Central and Eastern Europe, Their Formal Competencies and Informal Power

Presidents above Parties?: Presidents in Central and Eastern Europe, Their Formal Competencies and Informal Power

Author(s): Vít Hloušek,Lubomír Kopeček,Josef Mlejnek,Gábor Dobos,Attila Gyulai,Attila Horváth,Piotr Sula,Agnieszka Szumigalska,Peter Spáč,Rein Toomla,Daunis Auers,Algis Krupavičius,Blagovesta Cholova,Sergiu Gherghina / Language(s): English

Keywords: Perosnal power; Head of State; Parliamentary Democracies; Political system; Presidents; Central and Eastern Europe;

The book aims at an examination of the discrepancies between the formal and actual positions of presidents in Central and Eastern European countries, especially those which are classified as parliamentary democracies and those which have semi-presidential features. Constitutionally, presidents are normally endowed with symbolic functions and duties that are shared with the government (such as appointment of important officials), regardless of whether they are elected directly or indirectly. Governments are thus typically perceived of as being the dominant executive institutions. The influence of presidents in select political systems is not only contingent upon the letter of the constitution, but also historically rooted in constitutional traditions, as well as the personal charisma and power wielded by specific presidents.

Studia Macedonica II

Studia Macedonica II

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

Keywords: Czech history; Macedonian history; cultural history; ethnography; folklore; Czech-Macedonian relations; philology; language;

Twenty studies and essays written by scholars from Czech and Macedonian universities and other academic institutions which deal comparatively with Czech-Macedonian historical, linguistic, literary, and ethnographic / folklore topics. The problems of Czech-Macedonian cultural and political relations could not be researched before 1991. Only after the foundation of an independent Macedonian state, the Macedonian language, literature, and culture courses were introduced at Czech universities, and first scholar papers on both the oldest (Constantinand-Methodius) history and contemporary era in our mutual relations and their development began to emerge.

Traditional Folk Culture in Moravia: Time and Space

Traditional Folk Culture in Moravia: Time and Space

Author(s): Daniel Drápala,Roman Doušek,Daniel Drápala,Miroslav Válka,Alena Křížová,Martina Pavlicová / Language(s): English

Keywords: Moravia; Traditional Folk Culture; 1750-1900; Religious behavior; Rural Residents; Agriculture; Forms of farming; Handicraft; Carpathian style clothing;

In 1624, Abraham Goos, a Dutch graphic designer and map publisher, published a map of Moravia. I. A. Comenio was identified as the author of the map. Jan Amos Komenský (1592–1670), or John Amos Comenius, was the Bishop of the Bohemian Brethren, a philosopher, an educational theorist, and a man with a wide range of knowledge. He prepared materials for this cartographic work before he went into exile; he had planned to use the map as a supplement to his work about the history of Moravia. However, the result of his research and documentary work, which was intended to improve on the older Fabricius map, soon became a fully-fledged item in the list of his essential works. The 1624 publication was followed by more, and the original served as the basis for a number of versions that differed only in minor details or in the place of publication and publisher.

How teachers learn: Professional development as a way to dialogic teaching

Jak se učitelé učí: Cestou profesního rozvoje k dialogickému vyučování

Author(s): Klára Šeďová,Roman Švaříček,Martin Sedláček,Zuzana Šalamounová / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Teachers; education; teaching at school; stimulating students; teaching methodology; dialogical teaching; professional development;

The book presents the results of an action research project which aimed to implement dialogic teaching at lower secondary schools and systematically researched subsequent changes. The monograph opens with two theoretical chapters. The first introduces the key concept of dialogic teaching as a mode of communication which organizes teaching with the aim of stimulating students’ thinking and deepening their understanding of taught content. The second chapter discusses how teachers can change their teaching within further professional development and with the help of video-recorded classes they have taught, their analyses, and their reflections. The focal point of the book is a research project with a professional development course for teachers which consisted of theoretical, experiential, and reflective parts. Therefore, three chapters discuss the course’s results which demonstrate the degree to which teachers were able to manifest changes in their teaching and how these changes were perceived by their students. Through a mosaic of seven case studies, we are shown how the teachers involved transitioned from classic teaching to dialogic teaching, how they dealt with their past habitual patterns of behavior and potential problems which impeded them from fully implementing dialogic teaching, and their ability to reflect on their own teaching. The book concludes with a synthesis, which mainly discusses how difficult it is to change one’s own behavior, especially if the change is very complex and deep.

Momentum. Art and Cosmopolitan Modernity

Momentum. Umění a kosmopolitní modernita

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

Keywords: modernity; art; sociology of art; social theory; 20th century; music; Czech Republic; media; journalism;

This book attempts to capture the momentum, a moment of transformation, where the complex processes related to the expansion of heterogeneous cosmopolitan modernity intersect and converge, processes that influence and change both Euro-American civilisation and the planet as a whole, and along the way transform the state, economic, cultural and social arrangement, the practices and the notions used in order to understand our existence in the world. The authors of the studies that make up this publication look at the problem from several selected aspects falling within the domains of sociology, culture and new media art, which have in common an effort to put current phenomena into more general and more profound social, political and cultural contexts. They strive to avoid presentism in order to observe the processes gathered under the umbrella of “cosmopolitan modernity” from the point of view of the longue durée.

Career adaptability: Its forms, changes, contexts, and roles in the lives of young adults undergoing upper-secondary vocational education

Kariérová adaptabilita: Její podoby, proměny, souvislosti a role v životě mladých dospělých procházejících středním odborným vzděláváním

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

Keywords: Career adaptability; Career construction theory; gender and career adaptability; education and career adaptability; social support; self-esteem; professional identity; life satisfaction;

Living in today’s rushed time full of various changes increases the demands on the individual’s ability to adapt to these changes. Career adaptability plays an important role in coping with changing demands in the field of work. What is career adaptability? Why is it important, and what does it affect? The answers to these questions and many others are provided in the monograph, entitled “Career adaptability: Its Forms, Changes, Contexts, and Roles in the Lives of Young Adults Undergoing Upper-Secondary Vocational Education,” which is the first publication written on this topic in the Czech language. In the book, a team of authors presents the construct of career adaptability and the results of unique research carried out in the Czech Republic. In the first part, the reader may find an analytical overview of various concepts of career adaptability and related concepts. The central part of the publication is devoted to the results of quantitatively conducted longitudinal research, which aimed to identify career adaptability and its relationships to several demographic, school, relational, and personality variables in the case of students and later graduates of upper-secondary vocational education—those who are in the crucial stages of their career construction. Many empirical findings concentrated in this book are beneficial not only for the career counseling theories and research on career adaptability but also for vocational education or career counseling practitioners.

Rural Architectural Culture

Vesnická stavební kultura: Stavební materiál – domová dispozice – slohové ohlasy – dřevěné sakrální stavby

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

Keywords: Tradition rural houses; Rural architecture; mud building; 18th-19th centuries; clay as a building material; wooden Churches; log cabins and granaries; wooden bell towers;

The publication follows the traditional rural house from the point of view of building materials, house arrangement, echoes of styles as well as timbered and sacral buildings. It features an interdisciplinary approach that includes methodological procedures applied by architects, preservationists, historians and ethnologists. Even though the rural house was a theme of synthetic works, one did not succeed in explaining all the genetic and typological issues; moreover, the researchers’ interpretations differ on a lot of phenomena. Historical research of constructions and ethnologic research, applying new methods of dating recently, as well as plan documentation discovered in archive funds offer new knowledge that corrects the hitherto findings based on the application of traditional macroscopic methods.

Vladislav Vančura in the Literary Context of the 20th Century

Vladislav Vančura v literárním kontextu 20. století

Author(s): Jiří Poláček,Jan Bílek,Erik Gilk,Lukáš Holeček,Miroslav Chocholatý,David Kroča,Marek Lollok,Petr Mareš,Radomil Novák,Ester Nováková,Ondřej Sládek,Hana Svobodová,Martin Tichý,Veronika Valentová,Adam Veřmiřovský / Language(s): English,Czech

Keywords: Literary Context; Vladislav Vančura; Czech literature; 20th century; literary inspiration; narrative techniques; literary analysis;

On June 23, 2021, it was the 130th anniversary of Vladislav Vančura’s birth, and June 1, 2022, was the 80th anniversary of his death. These anniversaries became the impetus for a collective volume entitled Vladislav Vančura in the Literary Context of the 20th Century. The editor Jiří Poláček approached researchers from various disciplines from literary studies to linguistics and to theatre studies with an appeal to think and rethink the literary and general cultural legacy of this important figure. The book volume by the team of researchers from six Czech universities is an attempt to reflect on the oeuvre by Vančura from the perspective of the current state of knowledge in literary studies and the broader context of the 20th century. The image of Vladislav Vančura within the context of the previous century arises from 15 texts by 15 authors, organized into four thematic blocks.

Gregor Johann Mendel: Ways to the genome of the founder of genetics

Gregor Johann Mendel: Cesty ke genomu zakladatele genetiky | Begründer der Genetik – die Wege zu seinem Genom | Ways to the genome of the founder of genetics

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

Keywords: Gregor Johann Mendel; genetics; genome; tomb; remains; exhumation; analysis;

The book maps the ways to the analysis of the genome of Gregor Johann Mendel, a project which was carried out to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of this important scientist. It describes the exhumation of his remains from the Augustinian tomb at the Central Cemetery in Brno and the scientific examination that followed, as well as the search for traces of Mendel’s DNA on his personal belongings kept in the Augustinian Abbey in Old Brno. The individual chapters, that is, the ways of research, introduce the reader to the initial impulses leading to the archaeological research on the tomb and the subsequent analysis of Mendel’s genome. They describe the process of identifying the remains found in the grave with the person of Abbot Mendel, the anthropological research on his skeletal remains, as well as the process of isolation and analysis of the DNA of this historical figure. Rich photographic documentation chronicles the exciting work of the scientific team. Thanks to their efforts, the book reveals surprising findings and new, important details about the founder of genetics.

Russian Philosophy of the 19th and Early 20th Century: A reader of anthropologically oriented texts by Russian philosophers of idealist orientation

Ruská filozofie 19. a začátku 20. století: Čítanka antropologicky zaměřených textů ruských filozofů idealistické orientace

Author(s): Josef Dohnal,Pyotr Chaadayev,Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy,Nikolai Fedorovich Fedorov,Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov,Sergey Bulgakov,Konstantin Nikolayevich Leontiev,Nikolai Berdyaev,Semen Lyudvigovich Frank,Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky / Language(s): Russian

Keywords: philosophy; 19th century; 20th century; Russian philosophers; idealists; anthropologically oriented texts;

The textbook contains medallions of nine selected Russian philosophers of the 19th and early 20th century – P. Ya. Chaadaev, N. A. Berdyaev, S. N. Bulgakov, N. F. Fyodorov, P. A. Florensky, S. L. Fank, K. N. Leontyev, V. S. Solovyov and L. N. Tolstoy. In the next section, the texts of these philosophers are presented in the original Russian so that readers can become familiar with the basic underpinnings of their philosophical concepts. The textbook is intended for students of Russian studies, philosophy and humanities in general at the faculties of philosophy and education in the Czech and Slovak Republics, as well as for a wider circle of those interested in Russian idealist philosophy.

13th International Conference on Kinanthropology. Sport and Quality of Life: Book of Abstracts. September 7-9, 2022

13th International Conference on Kinanthropology. Sport and Quality of Life: Book of Abstracts. September 7-9, 2022

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

Keywords: analysis of human movement; sport training; healthy lifestyle; active aging; nutrition; regeneration; sport; sport and social sciences; sports medicine;

The book of abstracts of the 13th Conference of Sport and Quality of Life 2022 gathers the abstracts of all the oral and poster presenters and keynote speakers. The conference is divided into sections – analysis of human movement; sport training; healthy lifestyle, active aging, nutrition and regeneration in sport; sport and social sciences; sports medicine; and the poster section.

Memoirs: If you serve your country, don’t expect a reward

Paměti: Kdo sloužíš vlasti, odměny nečekej

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

Keywords: Karel Engliš; Czech economist; political scientist; teleological economic theory;

Karel Engliš started writing his memoirs in 1925, when he was 45 years old, and he worked on them intermittently until the end of his life in 1961. This resulted in the creation of several comprehensive thematic collections. It is therefore not a classic biography. However, this is what makes the book unique and special. It allows us to witness how Engliš dealt with different subjects over the years, and what he considered necessary to comment on, to record. The book provides the reader with an opportunity to recognize Engliš’s keen observational talent and extraordinary memory. Despite a gap of decades, Karel Engliš can describe events and personalities in such detail, as if he experienced or saw them just yesterday.From these texts written almost forty years ago, the reader will be struck by Engliš’s defining character traits: directness, truthfulness. He himself writes: ‘I speak the truth of what I think, no matter what wrath I may bring down upon myself. That's how I did it for the whole 80 years’. His kindness, tolerance, extraordinary diligence, well-organized thoughts and sense of humour are moving and impressive.

MABC-2 for children with autism spectrum disorder. Manual for the MABC-2 motor skills test for children

MABC-2 pro děti s poruchou autistického spektra: Manuál pro metodiku šetření dětí testem motoriky MABC-2

Author(s): Tereza Možná,Hana Válková / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Autism spectrum disorders (ASD); euro-developmental pervasive multifactorial diseases; unknown aetiology; learning; pedagogy;

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are neuro-developmental pervasive multifactorial diseases of unknown aetiology that are often associated with a significant impairment of motor skills and a delay in motor development. With the rapidly increasing prevalence of these disorders in the Czech Republic and worldwide, the possibilities of diagnosing the motor skills of children with ASD are an increasingly important priority. The research modified the standard administration and implementation process of the Movement Assessment Battery for Children, 2nd edition (MABC-2) by designing modifications that utilize fundamental principles of structured learning and the TEACCH program. In particular, these elements: Individualization, Structuralization, Visualization and Motivation, were implicated in the entire process of testing children's motor skills with the MABC-2 Test.