Knowledge society failure? Barriers in the use of ICTs and further teacher education in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60461373%3A22810%2F20%3A43920768" target="_blank" >RIV/60461373:22810/20:43920768 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/su12176933" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390/su12176933</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/SU12176933" target="_blank" >10.3390/SU12176933</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Knowledge society failure? Barriers in the use of ICTs and further teacher education in the Czech Republic

Original language description

The study investigates barriers of Czech secondary school teachers in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in teaching and in further education in ICTs. The Czech Republic is used as an example of a post-communist country with an evident gap between the digital competencies in general and teachers&apos; didactic skills necessary for their implementation in teaching. To explore how teachers deal with the challenges of digitalization of the education system, an online questionnaire was created to analyze the use of ICTs in teaching, as well as barriers teachers encounter when using digital technologies and when participating in further education. The results indicate that respondents have average understanding of ICTs and use them rather occasionally in teaching. Data show gender and age differences in the use of various digital means and in the barriers, the importance of social support in using ICTs in teaching, and also the necessity to eliminate prevalent gender stereotypes. Systematic further education that focuses on lowering computer anxiety and the distrust in new technologies might be also a major key in successful digital transformation of schools. © 2020 by the authors.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sustainability

ISSN

2071-1050

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

17

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000569732400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85090580238