Curricular Innovations on the Subject of Computing in the Czech Republic in the Context of Global Changes – Analysis of Teachers' Opinions on the Current Situation and Planned Changes in Teaching

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3291078.3291107" target="_blank" >10.1145/3291078.3291107</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Curricular Innovations on the Subject of Computing in the Czech Republic in the Context of Global Changes – Analysis of Teachers' Opinions on the Current Situation and Planned Changes in Teaching

Original language description

In this paper we discuss implementation of the curricular reform on the subject of Computing at the primary school level. The reason for this is the fact that there is a trend of implementation of programming and algorithmization in education in more and more countries of the world. First, we analyse the form of the informatics curriculum in four selected countries – in the UK, Austria, Germany and Poland. Then we focus on examining the views of teachers on the form of the curriculum, i.e. what they think should be taught in schools, regardless of the prescribed curriculum. The q-methodology was used to carry out the research that allowed us, thanks to working with a smaller sample of respondents, to have a deeper insight into the researched area. The research activities show that there are two groups of teachers – “opposers to programming” and “supporters of the thematically balanced development of informatics competencies and digital literacy”. The teachers involved in the first of these groups prefer to teach topics related to the general use of computers in everyday life. They put great emphasis on teaching topics such as network security, working with text and spreadsheet editors, creating presentations. However the least preferred topics, i.e. those that should not be taught in the schools according to these teachers, definitely include programming and algorithmization. The teachers in the second group prefer topics that can generally be included under the term “digital literacy”, i.e. work with text and spreadsheet editors, network security, computer graphics, creating presentations, basic computer skills etc. as well as topics related to programming and algorithmization.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

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

Article name in the collection

ACM Conference Proceeding

ISBN

978-1-4503-6577-2

ISSN

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e-ISSN

neuvedeno

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

129-135

Publisher name

Association for Computing Machinery

Place of publication

New York

Event location

Bali

Event date

Nov 5, 2018

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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