Publisher: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci

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Curriculum of informatics and digital technologies from the point of view of primary school teachers

Kurikulum informatiky a digitálních technologií z pohledu učitelů 2. stupně základních škol

Author(s): Hana Bučková,Jiří Dostal / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: didactics; informatics; digital technologies; curriculum; elementary schools;

The purpose of our research activities was to expand the theory od didactics of informatics and digital technologies and to implement an empirical research survey that would provide information relevant to curricular planning. Within its framework, a critical and comparative analysis of current theoretical knowledge and research conclusions published by domestic and foreign authors, who dealt with the issue, was performed. Special attention was paid to the implementation of the description od processes associated with the introduction of innovations in the curriculum of informatics and digital technologies.

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Anthology of Shoah-themed texts for the 6th-9th year of primary school

Antologie textů s tematikou šoa pro 6.–9. ročník ZŠ

Author(s): Milan Mašát,Jana Sladová,Kristýna Šmakalová / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: 20th century; World War II; history; literature; holocaust; teaching; didactics;

This antholology of texts with the theme of the Shoah for 6.–9. grade of lower secondary schools presents a set of 28 examples, mainly from intentional literature on the given topic. The anthology is designed cross-sectionally for all grades. The selection of samples was verified by means of questionnaires. The samples are equipped with questions and tasks postulated in line with the knowledge of contemporary subject didactics of literature. The anthology is equipped with a methodological appendix, the aim of which is to introduce teachers to the range of possibilities of how to work with the selected examples.The monothematic collection includes a list of other recommended fiction and a list of selected scholarly publications on the Shoah and the didactics of literature.

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Manual of French linguistics and general linguistics

Manuel de linguistique francaise et de linguistique générale

Author(s): Samuel Bidaud / Language(s): French

Keywords: French; economics; linguistics; general linguistics; handbooks;

This handbook aims at introducing the students of French philology and French applied to economics to French and general linguistics. That's why it focuses on the main fields of linguistics: phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics, etc., but also on topics permit to have an overview of the problems of the science of language, like the notion of sign, the classification of languages or the communication. This book proposes numerous excercices after almost each chapter, so the students have the opportunity to train with the different points which are mentioned. The handbook is written in French and gets the students familiarized with the grammatical terminology.

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Dear friend: Bohuslav Martinů´s Letters to Zdeněk Zouhar / Milý příteli: Dopisy Bohuslava Martinů Zdeňku Zouharovi

Milý příteli: Dopisy Bohuslava Martinů Zdeňku Zouharovi / Dear friend: Bohuslav Martinů´s Letters to Zdeněk Zouhar

Author(s): Zdeněk Zouhar,Vít Zouhar / Language(s): English,Czech

Keywords: Bohuslav Martinů; correspondence;musicology; music history;

This unique collection of letters form the last ten years of Bohuslav Martinů's life addressed to Zdeněk Zouhar is a key testimony to Martinů's works, life and relationship between the composer and the interpreter of his works who premiered the cantata The Opening of the Springs, the cycles Three Part-Songs and Three Sacred Songs and initiated the origin of the primrose cycle. This edition captures Martinů's specific literary style in authentic form, without corrections, provides facsimiles of letters and juxtaposes the correspondence with the composer's letters to his family, firends, performers, as well as the reminiscences of his wife Charlotte. A more detailed picture of the composer's last years is emerging.

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Czech Technical Screenplay 1945-1962

Český technický scénář 1945-1962

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

Keywords: technical screenplays; film; aftewar period; 1945-1962

The topic of the book are Czech technical screenplays between 1945 and 1962. The nationalization of the Czechoslovak film industry in 1945 affected production in many ways. Ideologically suitable films and economical efficiency of production were common goals. The USSR film industry became a dominant inspiration. For example, literary and technical screenplay was established according to soviet manuals. The transfer of soviet experience encountered with Czechoslovak tradition. It resulted in unsuccessfull attempts in the implementations of the new practice. In three chapters I explore 1) screenwriting manuals, 2) changes of formal structure of TS, 3) the development of approval process. I combine metodological frameworks of production studies and screenwriting studies to explore history of technical screenplays.

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The Tale of Sim Chong, The Tale of Unjong

Vyprávění o Sim Čchong, Vyprávění o Unjong

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

Keywords: Korean classical novels; traditional story; Sim Chong and Unjong; Romeo and Juliet

The Tale of Sim Chong is one of the most famous classical novels in Korea. The theme of the story is devotion and love between father and daughter. Sim Chong suffers all the hardships, she even decides to sacrifice her life for her father. The blind father tries to save his daughter, but after he is left alone, he suffers only misery. In the end, however, everything comes to a happy ending, so typical for Koreans. On the contrary, the Tale of Unyong is a story of tragic love that overcomes social barriers, even death. The whole novel is interwoven with tragedy and despair of the main and supporting characters, who live in a world full of pitfalls, where they fail to fulfill even the slightest wish. Unyong and her lover resemble Romeo and Juliet, but their love can overcome everything. The publication consists of an annotated translation of two classic Korean novels with an accompanying study.

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News about Them or Us

Zprávy o Nich nebo o Nás

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

Keywords: Roma; majority; minority; media; Czech Television

What would we know about the Roma if we knew them only from news of the public service media -Czech television? The book provides findings from quantitative content analysis, discursive and semiotic analysis of the main news program Události. The study is based on the assumption that media representation of "the others" also tells about the majority's ideas of itself. The author points to key features that contribute to the representation of Roma as culturally different. She illustrates that mainstream television news is ethnocentric and mainly reports on the actions of majority members, even in news that verbally or visually refers to the Romani minority. Such an approach attributes Romani's passive position as recipients of social assistance or objects of political measures by the majority. The optics of the minority is omitted in the programme, and Romani represented in positions of authority are an exception in the reports. The construction of the news as stories about "Us" and "Them" confirms the symbolic otherness of both ethnic groups. Repeatedly used visual footage triggers negative connotations and circulates stereotypes long present in the Czech majority mainstream culture. However, the news media are key agents in the social construction of reality and can contribute not only to inclusion but also to social exclusion and discrimination against members of social groups.

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Basics of epidemiological methodology and evidence-based medicine

Základy epidemiologické metodologie a medicíny založené na důkazu

Author(s): Ladislav Štěpánek,Simona Zatloukalová,Jana Janoutová / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: epidemiology; evidence-based medicine

"Epidemiology is a scientific field dealing with the study of the distribution, frequency and determinants of health in society. Epidemiological methodology is an integral part of epidemiology, as a set of systematic procedures, techniques and tools applied in the conduct of research and data analysis.The study text comprehensively deals with the field of epidemiological methodology, from the definition of epidemiological indicators, through individual types of epidemiological studies, to the principles of evidence-based medicine. It introduces the reader to time series analysis and principles of screening and deals with the basics of statistics used in epidemiological research. Emphasis is placed on the practical demonstration of the discussed topics and the presentation of illustrative examples from clincal practice."

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Týn Church and architecture of the Poděbrady period

Týnský kostel a architektura poděbradské doby

Author(s): Jana Pařízková Čevonová / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Catholic churches; history; gothic architecture; artistic decoration; medieval art; architectural monuments

"The Church of Our Lady before Týn, since the 14th century the main parish church of the Old Town, after the Hussite Wars the main church of the Utraquist Church in Bohemia and Moravia and an unmissable dominant feature of the historical centre of Prague, is the second most important medieval sacral building in Prague after St. In syntheses of the history of Czech Gothic architecture, it is often ranked at the forefront of the development of the architecture of the Luxemburg period, and at the same time the completion of the church after the Hussite Revolution is mostly presented as the most important building of the time of George of Poděbrady. On closer inspection, however, the ideas of many authors regarding the identification of the pre-Hussite and post-Hussite parts of the church differ fundamentally, which raises important questions for the understanding of the architecture of the Poděbrady period. The present book on the Late Gothic completion of the Old Town Church of Our Lady of before Týn attempts to contribute at least partially to a more detailed treatment of the architecture of the Poděbrady period, which summarises many years of research on the building."

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Addictive behaviour on the Internet. Generational behavioural changes in the digital era

Závislostní chování na internetu. Proměny chování generací v digitální éře

Author(s): Jan Šmahaj,Marek Kolařík,Ondřej Glaser / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: netholism; generations; partner relationships; Internet communication; adolescents; risk behavior; psychological research

"Internet is quickly getting into our normal lives and even into our intimate parts of our relationships. This book aims to describe the most common Internet-related behavior and connect it with clinical and empirical trends. We try to objectively describe basic paradigms, behavior patterns and explore the advantages and disadvantages of the on-line world. The book describes on-line and off-line communication methods and their impact on our relationships. We explore well-known and lesser-known phenomenons connected with cyberspace. All theoretical background is utilized in the empirical study of Czech adolescents and their addictive behavior."

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Trajectories of Spanish Art and Culture in Bohemia: Studies and essays about Spanish and Ibero-American Art

Trajectories of Spanish Art and Culture in Bohemia: Studies and essays about Spanish and Ibero-American Art

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

Keywords: Spanish Art; Cultural Relations; Spanish culture; Bohemian lands; Visual arts Cultural exchange; Architecture; Middle Ages to 20th century

The book presents the sum of research of an outstanding art historian Prof. Pavel Štěpánek, a specialist on Spanish and Ibero-American culture, especially the visual arts. The publication collects eleven studies that display in notable scope of topics the relations between Spanish culture and Bohemian lands. These studies covers the extensive chronological space since the Middle Ages up to 20th century. The essays also deal with wide range of visual media as architecture, painting, sculpture, drawing and also many artifacts of the “minor arts”. A reader can meet, thanks to this book, an extraordinary phenomenon of “Spanish presence” in the Central Europe. It provides also opportunity to see the Central-Europe as dynamic space of cultural exchange, artistic intersections and creative cultural adaptations.

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The Specifics of communication in relation to sexuality II. Helping professions in relation to sexuality including persons with intellectual disability: From empirical research

The Specifics of communication in relation to sexuality II. Helping professions in relation to sexuality including persons with intellectual disability: From empirical research

Author(s): Dana Štěrbová,Miluše Rašková / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: sexuality in selected helping professions; persons with intellectual disabilities; communication about sexuality; acceptance of homosexuality

The publication is another continuation of thematic communications about sexual life in selected helping professions. It targets the general population, including people with mental disabilities. Insurance of basic needs including human sexuality in accordance with modern pedagogy and psychology. Our motto ""It would be less of a problem if you were to communicate more about sexuality,"" sets the direction for the development of communication about sexuality. On selected topics: the acceptance of homosexuality in societies and the problem of communication about it, as well as communication with legal representatives on sexual issues, influences the view of the need for further education in the field of human sexuality. The publication presents selected topics from the realized empirical research, in connection with the discovery and identification problem in the attitudes and skills of future experts.

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Selected aspects of the formation of professional beliefs of beginning teachers

Vybrané aspekty formování profesního přesvědčení začínajících učitelů

Author(s): Jaroslava Ševčíková,Jitka Plischke,Štefan Chudý / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: beginning teachers; teaching profession; career development; career choice; job satisfaction

Proffesional beliefs of beginning teachers, which is the main topic of the monograph entitled Selected aspects of formation of the professional beliefs of beginning teachers, is a multidisciplinary phenomenon, which is not yet clearly established in professional pedagogical terminology. The aim of this work is to anchor the concept in Czech professional terminology and to construct a new theory of the interrelationships of the formation of professional beliefs based on self-reflection of beginning teacher, in connetion with his perception of satisfaction in the profession. Research in qualitative design was carried out in several research lines, namely in the life story, and then in the line leading to grounded theory. Finally, the results of both lines were repeatedly analyzed and compared. Data were obtained mainly by the method of autonomous writing on a given problem, in-depth interviews and group discussion in focus groups. It was found that professional belief is a phenomenon that is reflected in practice, is multifactorial and represented by the teacher's faith in the profession, and the belief that he succeeds in the profession. It is formed before starting practice as a positive phenomenon, in two dimensions, stable and episodic. If the teacher has a stron positive professional belief at the time of entering practice, he shows higher self-confidence and self-assurance and declares individual satisfaction in the profession.

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Selected determinants and mechanisms of voice, speech and orofacial processes in speech therapy research

Vybrané determinanty a mechanismy hlasu, řeči a orofaciálních procesů v logopedickém výzkumu

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

Keywords: communicative disorders; voice disorders; speech disorders; orofacial stimulation; speech therapy

The collective monograph describes the investigation of specific determinants and mechanisms of disorders of verbal and non-verbal communication, voice, linguistic-cognitive and orofacial processes from the logopedic and special pedagogical point of view with transdisciplinary overlap into the linguistic, vocological, physiotherapeutic and psycholinguistic areas for use by the academic, scientific, clinical, educational, and counselling public. The book deals with 9 selected disorders and specifics of communication, including phonation and resonance, phatic functions, lexia and orofacial, neurodevelopmental and symptomatic speech disorders. It brings many original and innovative insights expanding the current state of knowledge in the sciences of human communication and speech-language therapy.

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Three times about the authorship

Třikrát o autorství

Author(s): Barbora Anna Janečková,Anna Tichá,Jan Fiedler / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: written texts; textual criticism; forensic linguistics; authorship; medieval manuscripts; Internet communication

From a mysterious text from the 15th century through authorship attribution in internet communication to the analysis of prefixes in forensic linguistics. That is Thrice About Authorship – a book of three student works that combines forensic linguistics and the search for the origin and authors of texts. The first part discusses the methods used to determine the origin of the Voynich Manuscript – a mysterious text written in an unknown script. The second part seeks to say whether it is possible to distinguish the authors of comments from news servers, using methods that enumerate selected linguistic features. The third part also falls into the field of forensic linguistics – it examines the possibility of using the frequency of prefixes to differentiate text writers.

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There beyond the sea of beer, or Our America as only a few know it. A contribution to the history of Czech and Slovak emigration to America

Tam za tím mořem piva aneb Naše Amerika, jak ji málokdo zná. Příspěvek k historii české a slovenské emigrace do Ameriky

Author(s): Miloslav, ml. Rechcígl / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: emigration and immigration; cultural activities in exile; nationalities relations; Czechs; Slovaks

The present publication deals with America as few people know it and as Voskovec and Werich sang about it in their popular sessions, and it is based on the author's lifelong ant research. It focuses on the history of emigrants from the historic Czech lands and Czechoslovakia and covers the period from the discovery of the New World to the present day. It includes not only the United States, but also Canada and Latin America. Individual sections deal with the pioneers, the arrival and settlement of immigrants in various states and regions of the Americas and the establishment of Czech centers and communities, the public and social activities of the settlers, and the various types of immigrants and their contributions to the Americas. Although they were not numerous in number compared to other ethnic groups, their contribution to America was phenomenal.

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The Subtle Art of Being Understood

The Subtle Art of Being Understood

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

Keywords: English language; written language

Writing clearly is not easy, especially not in a foreign tongue. The aim of this self-study book is to help students of English as a second language at university level how to write in a clear and effective way. Step by step it explains why we often fail and what we can do about it. The book provides a mass of hands-on advice and useful examples to show how to compose texts that will deliver. Since it is mainly is aimed at students, many of the examples come from the academic world. But the ideas presented can just as well be used in any other situation, and there is a number of examples of other genres in the book. The hope is that it will help you to improve your writing skills and become more successful.

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Syncretism of sentence elements in Russian and Czech

Synkretizmus větných členů v ruštině a češtině

Author(s): Václav Slovák / Language(s): Russian,Czech

Keywords: Czech language; Russian language;clause complements;syncretism (linguistics)

The description of the system of the parts of a sentence in Russian and Czech is one of the topical question in contemporary linguistics. In contemporary grammar books, the interpretation of the parts of a sentence is focused mainly on typical phenomena. Peripheral phenomena are often mentioned marginally; similar phenomena are understood differently in various publications. Sometimes, the fluency of transitions between individual parts of a sentence is being emphasized. In our research, we are focused on description of these peripheral phenomena in the system of the parts of a sentence, which represent one of the examples of linguistic syncretism. The term syncretism is defined in the book and various approaches of linguists to phenomena that we perceive as syncretic are presented.

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Female heroines and their portrayal in Czech television crime series

Ženské hrdinky a jejich zobrazování v českých televizních krimiseriálech

Author(s): Jana Jedličková,Iveta Jansová / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: television serials; crime television series; film characters; women in film; women criminalists; gender; media coverage

The book Female criminalists and their representation in Czech crime TV series is focused on Czech female criminalist in crime TV genre. It focuses on portrayal of gender identities in the particular genre in general. Our research reflects contemporary tendencies in gender portrayal and draws a map of such TV depiction in Czech context. We analyzed a ten year time period which helped us determine classical schemes of depiction and pick up on changes happening during those years. It shows that exactly this analyzed decade was a time of genre rebirth in Czech television context. Therefore, we can see many strategies common for TV crime production during communist era. This book is the first one focusing on crime TV through the lenses of gender identities in the Czech academia environment.

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Research oriented towards physical activity: methodological anchoring

Výzkum orientovaný na pohybovou aktivitu: metodologické ukotvení

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

Keywords: movement activity; cluster analysis; data collection

The book characterises the main pillars of methodological paradigm of research focused on the area of human movement-related behaviour. Currently used methodological approaches are described in detail. Simultaneously, their limits are introduced, from which the key methodological challenges are critically derived. The aim of the author was to put partial aspects of methodological paradigm in a broader context and to allow the reader to obtain the comprehensive view of the problems associated with the investigation of human movement-related behaviour. The reader should understand more the essence of research in the field as a whole and thus improve his competence to interpret the conclusions of relevant studies.

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