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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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

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

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název statě ve sborníku

ACM Conference Proceeding

ISBN

978-1-4503-6577-2

ISSN

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e-ISSN

neuvedeno

Počet stran výsledku

7

Strana od-do

129-135

Název nakladatele

Association for Computing Machinery

Místo vydání

New York

Místo konání akce

Bali

Datum konání akce

5. 11. 2018

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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