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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
Comparative Education - OENPP1705Z
Title: Comparative Education
Form of teaching: lecture
Guaranteed by: Katedra pedagogiky (41-KPG)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2023
Duration in semesters: 1
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: 5 / unknown (20)
Maximum number of enrolled students: 20
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: yes / 10
Key competences: data literacy
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Repeated enrollment: 2 / 2 / 3 / 2
Note: enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: prof. RNDr. PhDr. Hana Voňková, Ph.D. et Ph.D.
PhDr. Ondřej Papajoanu, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): PhDr. Ondřej Papajoanu, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Comparative education, one of the main pedagogical disciplines, examines and compares educational phenomena and school systems in two or more countries. It focuses on trends and developments in education world-wide and how are education systems compared.
Last update: Papajoanu Ondřej, PhDr., Ph.D. (28.01.2025)
Aim of the course -

Students should understand the focus and methods of comparative education and should be able to examine education systems and compare them while reflecting trends and developments in education world-wide.


Last update: Papajoanu Ondřej, PhDr., Ph.D. (28.01.2025)
Literature -

Průcha, J. (2015). Srovnávací pedagogika: mezinárodní komparace vzdělávacích systémů (3., aktualizované vydání). Portál.

Straková, J. (2016). Mezinárodní výzkumy výsledků vzdělávání: metodologie, přínosy, rizika a příležitosti. Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Pedagogická fakulta.

Váňová, M. (2003). Srovnávací pedagogika. Vysoká škola J.A. Komenského.

Walterová, E. (2006). Srovnávací pedagogika: vývoj a proměny v globálním kontextu. Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Pedagogická fakulta.

Last update: Papajoanu Ondřej, PhDr., Ph.D. (28.01.2025)
Course assessment methods and requirements for successful completion, grading scheme -

Active participation in the seminars.

Passing the final exam.

Last update: Papajoanu Ondřej, PhDr., Ph.D. (28.01.2025)
Syllabus -

1. Comparative education, its methods and functions.
2. Historical development of comparative education.
3. An analysis of education systems in different countries, ISCED classification, typology of education systems.
4. Organizations focusing on comparative education.
5. International comparison of educational outcomes of students.

Last update: Papajoanu Ondřej, PhDr., Ph.D. (28.01.2025)
Learning outcomes

Student defines comparative education as a dicipline. Student characterizes the phases of historical development of comparative education and its selected representatives. Student characterizes the ISCED classification and its levels and explains its use in international comparisons. Student describes key organizations and institutions focused on comparative education. Student characterizes international large-scale assessment studies in education (PISA, TIMSS, TALIS, PIRLS, ICILS) and compares them in terms of their basic characteristics (focus, partipants etc.).

Last update: Papajoanu Ondřej, PhDr., Ph.D. (28.01.2025)
 
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