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Cooking Stone Soup: Porous Workforce Training at the Czech National Library of Technology as a Supplement to (Impermeable) University Education
Chodounská, Alena ; Krueger, Stephanie
As in many other countries around the world, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) libraries in the Czech Republic are facing the difficult challenge of meeting the rapidly-evolving service needs of the communities they support in an environment in which the current university educational system does not provide graduates—neither those from STEM subjects nor those graduating from Czech library/information professional schools—with the appropriate set of skills needed for working in today’s specialized information provision settings. As a result, the Czech National Library of Technology (NTK) has been forced to provide on-the-job workforce training since early 2015 to its reference, instructional, and front-lines services staff simply in order to keep pace with STEM library developments outside the Czech Republic. This weekly workforce training effort, christened NTKu (short for NTKyouniversity), does not resemble traditional university education with its rigid structures and focus on the attainment of a degree. NTKu is, instead, porous: traditional “impermeable,” less flexible university curricula are supplemented with on-demand, ever-changing targeted instruction on specific issues, topics, and skills applied immediately to real-work settings. This manner of instruction, as the authors discuss in the paper, can yield highly effective results; however, unique challenges can emerge in an instructional environment lacking traditional measures of effectiveness (i.e., grades) and requiring voluntary participation by both learners and instructors. Such porous instructional efforts resemble those of open source software (OSS) communities, in which voluntary effort can produce results benefiting a particularly community—but only to the degree of investment provided by contributors. Such initiatives resemble cooking stone soup: the results can be tasty, but everyone involved needs to bring something to the table.
Fulltext: idr-1016_1 -  PDF
Slides: idr-1016_2 - PDF
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Further Education for Social Workers in Institutions Providing Services to Infant Clients
BÍLKOVÁ, Ladislava
This bachelor's thesis determines the contribution of continuing education for social workers in day centres for clients aged 1 to 26. The theoretical part describes education in general, differences in adult education, factors and motivation involved in adult education. Lists the requirements for education and lifelong learning of social workers. Identifies social worker's skills developed during lifelong learning, personality development and other virtues important for social work. It further deals with day centre, its purpose and client's support in comprehensive rehabilitation in relation with social workers' education and interdisciplinary cooperation. The research part evaluates the benefits of continuing education for social workers.
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Current approach of the gevernment to expert profession – key component of analyses in context of lifelong experts education standardisation
Pivoňková, Kateřina
The author in her article considers current topics of expert profession from the point of view of comparing existing, i. e. original situation (Act No. 36/1967 Sb., Regulation No. 37/1967 Sb.), as the legal rules regulating the experts´s activities, and conditions which occurred after applying the Rules of Administrative Procedure (Act No. 500/2004 Sb.) into the issues of judicial experts, expert witnesses or forensic experts. The author explains basic terms relating to this profession, and status of such experts in court proceedings. As well, she deals with expert´s appraisals, expertises, reports and opinions as types of evidence for procedural acts. The article includes basic concepts relating to the given issues, compares how many experts are engaged in particular specializations, and how many are listed with single regional courts, including problems solves by advisory boards of these courts.
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Compulsory lifelong learning of experts
Pivoňková, Kateřina
In her thesis, the author deals with the issue of lifelong learning of experts with the aim of creating a uniform education system (hereafter called UES). It will be possible to use UES in all expert fields, branches and specializations and it will be systematic and lucid and will result from already known and in practise proven methods (e.g. certification, courses, specialized studies etc.). UES will be comprised of the knowledge of judicial engineering branch, its four fields of expert activities and the current methodology. It will integrate the newly suggested approaches which will define the lifelong learning of experts systematically and broadly, both on a theoretical level, the legal one especially, and on a professional level, i.e. practically focused on particular expert disciplines. The model example will include the lifelong learning of experts before their appointing to the office and also a credit system of learning for the whole time of carrying out the function of an expert while taking andragogical approaches into consideration.
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Using of drama methods in project Dating is a game
Soukupová, Kateřina ; MACHKOVÁ, Eva (advisor) ; VALENTA, Josef (referee)
The thesis describes the benefits and possibilities of using drama methods in the context of dating events. In the theoretical part compares the behavior of animals and people in the process of courtship, briefly introduces history of dating , the phenomenon of "singles" and deals with today's possibilities of dating. Further looks into the adult education in context with drama education to a general level of communication. The practical part describes the genesis process of authorial project " Dating is a game " and presents an example of three programs which were realized as a dating event for singles by using dramatic methods.
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The issue of further education and its implementation in the conditions of a particular company
REITINGEROVÁ, Martina
This bachelor work deals with the issues of further education. The theoretical part describes the situation of conceptual and systemic further education of employees in the Czech republic. It also deals with the role of the government in supporting the further education, typical features characterising the in-company education and general motive and attitude to further education of adults. The practical part deals with description of the state of further education within a specific company. It is also focused on analysis of problems which follow the process of education.The outcome of this work is recomendation of the realisation to the company where the research was made.
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The application of art activities focusing on the development of personality of people in custodial sentence
JANSKÁ, Dagmar
This thesis deals with the application of the fine arts with much focus on the development of personality on people serving prison sentences. The content of this thesis is divided into theoretical and practical chapters. First part defines some key terms of including the program of rehabilitation and pedagogical events that are used in this specific environment. The practical chapters are devoted to the realization of own longer-term didactic project named ?Kordelie? which is concerned with the positive thinking, values, and the development of competences at the target group of occupationally unclassified sentenced women in the custodial prison České Budějovice. Based on the application of these sets of activities and their consequent evaluation, I am obliged to observe the real possibility of fine art inclusion in didactic projects to individuals in correctional facility.
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