Enhancement of constructivist and procedural concepts of good citizenship and civic identity in the Czech educational framework

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sr/issue/view/1928/659" target="_blank" >https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sr/issue/view/1928/659</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/sr.2022.6.2.03" target="_blank" >10.14746/sr.2022.6.2.03</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Enhancement of constructivist and procedural concepts of good citizenship and civic identity in the Czech educational framework

Original language description

This paper identifies the main flaws, dilemmas and challenges concerning the concept of civic education and teaching democracy in the Czech schooling system after 1989 with a special focus stressed on the urgent need for the application of more pluralist, constructivist and procedural approaches that would enhance the traditional concepts of social science education based on facts and typologies with the help of methods and trends depicting the principle of civic education as a multidimensional and everyday phenomenon. To suggest and analyse possible ways, the study reflects mainly two dominant causes of a low prestige and effectivity of civic education in the Czech Republic; first the implicitly ideological and universalist character of the national curriculum that is not able to accept social values as an issue of permanently flowing and contextually based discourse and second, the prevalence of ethnic attributes in the process of national identification which impedes any relevant efforts to treat collective identity and citizenship in an open pluralist way. Hence, the paper also presents new suggested understanding of the Czech civic education; the one that is based on more interpretative and constructivist pillars and that is self-aware of its own embeddedness, language dependence and procedural character. In this regard, several activities from this new Czech educational project are also analysed with an aim to demonstrate that any innovative initiatives following the abovementioned challenges in the framework of civic education should employ procedural understanding of social reality and thus reflect more radical questions that are linked to the postmodern democratic theory such as the notion of agonist democracy, impact of social networks, reflection of instrumental manipulative behaviour or more unbiased interpretations of human liberty.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Society Register

ISSN

2544-5502

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

35-60

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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