Category — (1) Studies – abstracts

The paper summarizes the reading literacy achievement of pupils in the PISA project. The average scores of the Czech, Slovak and Finnish pupils are compared. In the Czech pupil sample, the effect of socio-economic and socio-cultural characteristics of pupils´ home has been proved to be a significant factor. An overview of B. Bernstein’s theory on the relationship of language, education and social class is presented, and has been applied by the author to explain the reasons of low reading literacy of Czech pupils.

PEDAGOGIKA SK 2010, Vol. 1. (No. 2: 97-105)

Key words: reading literacy, theory of B. Bernstein, PISA project, inequality in education, compensation of language deficit

The paper is a literature review which summarizes the body of research conducted on relationship between the overall quality of life of pupils and their lives in the school. The paper describes the genesis of the concept of quality of life and its spread in many scientific domains. Due to diversity of these domains, difficulties exist in adopting a unified definition of the concept. Two orientations prevail in empirical research of quality of life: investigation of well-being, and investigation of satisfaction and happiness. The paper condenses the research on quality of school life of chronically ill pupils as well as the research on pupils´ school satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Another section of the paper identifies the relationship between the quality of life of pupils and the school prosocial climate. The final section depicts the methodological problems that make the research of quality of school life difficult.

PEDAGOGIKA SK 2010, Vol. 1, (No. 1: 47-72)

Key words: quality of life, perceived quality of life, quality of school life, students, school, subjective well-being, satisfaction, assessment, research, review

In the first part of the paper the author delineates the history of education and schools, he describes their importance and analyzes the differences in the category systems of history and methods of history and education. In the second part he describes the development of the object of history of schools and education. There is an open paradigm yet of history of schools and education. In the final part, the author sums up the tasks for quality and detailed historiografical study of schools and education in Slovakia, for management of educational institutions, proposing and solving top projects and for expansion of researchers community.

PEDAGOGIKA SK 2010, Vol. 1, (No. 1: 31-46)

Key words: history, history of education and schools, styles of historiography, heuristics, paradigm

Layers of culture in the narrow and broad perspectives. Acceptable definition of the education science culture. Institutional cultures of educology. Revised international definition of research and development. Standards for writing research papers in social sciences of educational research and humanities-oriented educational research. Standards for evaluation of school programmes. Ethical standards for researchers, developers and evaluators. Language culture of pedagogy and andragogy. Needs and prospects of educational research and development.

PEDAGOGIKA SK 2010, Vol. 1, (No. 1: 7-30)

Key words: culture, pedagogy, andragogy, educology, research, experimental development, evaluation, standards for writing research papers, standards for evaluation of programmes, ethics of science, language of science.