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Ján Hvozdík

So záujmom som si prečítal návrh na znovuvydanie monografie prof. PhDr. Jána Hvozdíka, DrSc., Základy školskej psychológie. Bolo pre mňa cťou byť v redakčnej rade nového vydania učebnice. Znovuvydanie učebnice sa deje v čase, keď ako sa zdá, školská psychológia prežíva renesanciu svojho uplatňovania. Nie je to náhodou, pretože profesorova koncepcia školskej psychológie ako teoreticko-aplikovanej a integrovanej psychologickej disciplíny, ktorá sa usiluje nielen priamo, ale aj nepriamo, to znamená pedagogickou praxou učiteľov, ovplyvniť konkrétne situácie výchovno-vzdelávacej praxe v školskom prostredí. Zo svojej strany oceňujem aj to, že v učebnici sa venuje pozornosť stále aktuálnemu samoučeniu, to znamená autodidaktike žiakov a študentov. Školská psychológia sa stala profilovým predmetom, v rámci ktorého sa realizujú aj jej špecializácie. Treba pripomenúť skutočnosť, že v podmienkach totality profesor nebol členom KSS a napriek tomu má veľkú zásluhu na budovaní školského poradenstva nielen v teórii, ale aj v praxi, čo vzbudzuje úctu a obdiv. Znovuvydanie učebnice nie je jeho ospravedlňovaním, ale vyzdvihovaním jeho pozitív.

prof. PhDr. Ján Grác, DrSc.

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Jaroslav Marcin - Viktória Marcinová a kol.

This little book started out in a way that probably many other scholarly publications do: When the five of us met as doctoral students and instructors in the Department of British and American Studies, we soon realized that our research overlapped on a number of points. Most prominent among those was our interest in political or politicallymotivated discourse and the study of myths and manipulation that it employed. 

In the end, we decided to pool the results of our research together in order to create a more complex picture, providing a variety of perspectives and voices. In our endeavor, we were greatly aided by the financial support we received from a grant offered by the Šafárik University. The outcome of these efforts is the five chapters of this brief, but hopefully informative and insightful monograph.

In Chapter 1, Viktória Marcinová deals with the impact of totalitarian ideology on the translation of so-called “capitalist” drama during the first stage of normalization in Slovakia (1948-1968). In Chapter 2, the focus shifts to political discourse and manipulation in a democracy, as Jaroslav Marcin takes a closer look at the wartime rhetoric of American presidents. USA remains the focus also in Chapter 3, but this time the question, addressed by Martina Martausová, will be one of the myth of the American Dream and its presentation in post-9/11 United States. A similar idea, though in a different geographical-cultural context, is dealt with in Chapter 4, where Božena Velebná identifies myths of Scottish identity as portrayed in historic films. Finally, in Chapter 5, Eduard Soták will take a look at the role of the mass media within the topic of politically-motivated discourse and spread of political ideology.

It is our hope that in this way we can contribute to a better understanding of politically-motivated discourse, manipulation and the use of myths. Through interweaving the results of our research and our analyses, we hope to provide a more complex look at the topic in question, which we feel is missing at the moment.

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Renáta Orosová • Katarína Petríková • Lucia Diheneščíková

Teaching belongs among the oldest professions in human history. Despite all efforts to innovate education by substituting the teacher using the products of the rapidly developing information and communication technologies in modern teaching concepts, the teacher continues to play a decisive role in the education process. If it is to be controlled, it cannot work without a teacher.

To be a teacher means to accept the responsibility for the education of the next generation: to prepare young people for their life and future profession. To be a good teacher means to possess certain characteristics related to professionalism, thinking, expectations and leadership. It means to master different teaching and learning strategies as well as motivation methods, endure the stress and pressure of the school environment, use basic social and communication skills actively and efficiently, follow the progress of their pupils to help them improve, and also to be capable of optimally resolving emerging educational situations and issues (Rovňanová, 2015).

It suggests that the teacher must be a “master” in their profession, i. e. they must never stop learning, improving themselves, creatively working with the educational content and innovating the process of education. Innovations can come along as early as during the initial stages of one’s teaching career. Practical professional training for future teachers largely focuses on the development of subject-related and didactic skills, however, self-reflection is paid little attention. Self-reflective techniques and methods may be incorporated in the practical professional training for students in model situations in the faculty environment as well as in the actual school environments during their teaching practice.

Based on the analysis of self-reflection competences in future teachers, opinions of the mentor teachers and their recommendations and the set of pupil-oriented and educational process-oriented competences, a protocol for using self-reflection methods has been created. More precisely, it is a self-reflection teaching diary. It is an innovative method of self-reflection competence development in teaching students in their practical specialized preparation, particularly the self-reflective observation practice and conversation.

The Self-Reflection Teaching Diary is the outcome of the VVGS “Innovation in self-reflection competence development teaching methods in the practical specialized training of future teachers” grant project solving. It is an innovative and creative text-based tool not only for teaching students but also for university teachers specializing in their practical preparation as well as mentor teachers in primary and secondary schools. Its English version can be used by teaching students on their study stays abroad. It is also a transparent and unified tool in the practical preparation of future teachers aiming at the development of their self-reflection competences.

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Vladimír Leško - Milovan Ješič - Pavol Tholt

Filozofické dielo najvýznamnejšieho českého filozofia 20. storočia Jana Patočku (1907–1977) vyniká jedinečnou mysliteľkou originalitou. Už v dobe svojho vzniku veľmi výrazne prekračovalo úzke hranice dobového česko-slovenského duchovného priestoru a neopakovateľným spôsobom spojilo našu krajinu s najvyspelejšími filozofickými učeniami západného myslenia, v ktorom hrali dominantnú úlohu Husserlova fenomenológia a Heideggerova fundamentálna ontológia. Zaiste, bolo by veľkou chybou, pokiaľ by sme však chceli redukovať rozhodujúcu pozíciu Patočkovej filozofickej tvorby len na recepciu a kriticko-tvorivé domýšľanie Husserlovej a Heideggerovej filozofie. V tejto súvislosti nemôžeme v nijakom prípade vynechať najmä rozhodujúci podiel Eugena Finka, ktorý uviedol Patočku do tajov Husserlovej a Heideggerovej filozofie. Obidvaja myslitelia potom celoživotne pokračovali v neustálom tvorivom filozofickom dialógu. Ale nemožno tiež nespomenúť Patočkov intenzívny záujem aj o diela Schelera, Ingardena, Landgrebeho, ale tiež aj Sartra a ďalších.

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Marianna Sedláková a kol.

The textbook is intended for students of Slovak studies to study the subject of didactics of Slovak as a foreign language.

Its core consists of relevant knowledge gained from the didactics of Slovak as a foreign language, with references to other professional literature. The textbook also includes practical guides for teaching specific language phenomena in schools with Hungarian as the language of instruction or in schools where students predominantly have a mother tongue other than Slovak, such as Romani. Essentially, it involves transforming knowledge acquired and verified in teaching adult foreigners, mainly at universities, into a didactic context for the second level of elementary school and high school, with appropriate emphasis on teaching Slovak as a foreign language at the first level of elementary school as the starting point for the educational process.

The textbook builds on the findings of real research on the state of teaching Slovak as a foreign language in elementary and secondary schools in eastern Slovakia, conducted in projects (EXPERT and DiSaC) implemented at UPJŠ in Košice from 2012 to 2015.

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Barbora Linhartová - Peter Dubóczi - Dávid Gajdoščík (eds.)

Zborník príspevkov z X. ročníka Medzinárodnej vedeckej konferencie študentov a mladých vedeckých pracovníkov organizovanou 1. októbra 2021 Katedrou politológie Filozofickej fakulty Univerzity Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach, v spolupráci s Inštitútom politických vied a verejnej správy Fakulty politológie a žurnalistiky Univerzity Marie Curie-Sklodowskej v Lubline, Ústavom sociálnych štúdií Fakulty regionálneho rozvoja a medzinárodných štúdií Mendelovej univerzity v Brne, Katedrou politológie Filozofickej fakulty Univerzity v Miškovci a OZ Res Publica.

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Magdaléna Halachová - Denisa Rovenská

The monograph theoretically analyzes the virtual environment and its aspects, offers insight into the identity of the child in the virtual environment, the necessity of social support and the diversity of social relationships in the real world and virtual reality. Furthermore, it contains the fundamental training program designed to minimize the risks of the virtual reality, because adolescents are often exposed to risks uncontrollably. For that reason it focuses on adolescent and empowering optimal self-image, as well as creating and maintaining real social networks. The set of experiential-educational activities is conceptually divided into two main areas. The first one is content-focused on the adolescent, his/her psychological capability including opinions, attitudes, emotions, competences, and self-reflection. The second one focuses on interpersonal real and virtual relationships, the recognition of the advantages and disadvantages of internet communication and face-to-face interaction, and last but not least for more optimal use of the Internet and preference for real social interaction.

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Andrea Klimková

Súčasný rozvoj aplikovanej etiky vo svete nasvedčuje, že sa aplikovaná etika dostáva do novej, kvalitatívne odlišnej éry inovatívnych aplikačných prístupov, metodík a metód, aj nových špecifických formátov vo výučbe. Aplikačné úrovne v aplikovaných etikách (v bioetike, biznis etike, etike techniky, profesijných etikách, atď.) sú späté s kritickou reflexiou doterajších stratégií a metodík v ich výučbe. Spájanie etickej racionality s variabilitou praxe a implementácia etických politík a nástrojov v konkrétnej praxi si skutočne žiada nové kompetencie, nové zručnosti, schopnosť pracovať novým spôsobom s empirickým aj normatívnym. Znamená to pracovať s etickou teóriou a morálnou praxou invenčne, heuristicky, inovatívne, propedeuticky. Tvorba užitočných a odborne vystavaných procedúr a formátov je súčasťou profesijnej a odbornej prípravy aplikovaných etikov na moderných katedrách aplikovaných etík.

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Lívia Körtvélyessy

Táto vysokoškolská učebnica vysvetľuje študentom, ktorí absolvujú kurz Jazyková typológia a univerzálie, základnú terminológiu, teoretické prístupy a metódy výskumu. Učebnica je rozdelená na jedenásť kapitol. Každá z nich obsahuje prístupným spôsobom prezentované teoretické poznatky ako aj praktické úlohy, ktorých cieľom je rozvíjať zručnosti študentov v predmetnej oblasti.

Učebnica pokrýva nasledujúce témy: predmet a povaha jazykovej typológie, stručná história tejto lingvistickej disciplíny, genealogická klasifikácia jazykov, rôzne prístupy a hlavné ciele typológie jednotlivých jazykových rovín (fonológia, morfológia, syntax, lexika) ako aj areálnej typológie, zložité problémy jazykových univerzálií a povaha a podstata práce typológov. Vzhľadom na bohaté výskumné aktivity lingvistov KAA UPJŠ v Košiciach, učebnica oboznamuje študentov s ich dosiahnutými výsledkami tejto intenzívne sa rozvíjajúcej oblasti lingvistiky.

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Zuzana Kolaříková • Helena Petruňová • Renáta Timková

The publication contributes to an active acquisition and development of language skills in the area of academic English. Individual lessons include tasks in which the user will find a lot of useful vocabulary in the form of collocations, phrases and sentences which can be applied in practice. The tasks are focused on the area of English pronunciation, grammar, word formation, vocabulary, improving communicative competence in written and verbal communication, improvement of professional skills of presentation, academic writing, etc. The publication provides space for complementing and creating own database of vocabulary (topic pages).

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Vladimír Leško - Pavol Tholt (eds.)

Zborník štúdií z IV. medzinárodného filozofického sympózia Dejiny filozofie ako filozofický problém, ktoré sa uskutočnilo v dňoch 14. - 15. októbra 2010

Filozofický zborník je záverečnou prezentáciou výsledkov práce bádateľských kolektívov výskumných projektov VEGA 1/0650/08 - Heidegger a dejiny filozofie a VEGA 1/4679/07 - Asubjektívna fenomenológia Jana Patočku a dejiny filozofie riešených na katedre filozofie a dejín filozofie FF UPJŠ v Košiciach.

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Jana Balegová

Skriptá Lectiones grammaticae Latinae I sú primárne určené pre študentov 1. ročníka špecializácie Latinský jazyk a literatúra na FF UPJŠ v Košiciach. Vznikli z praktickej potreby ľahko dostupnou formou (elektronicky) sprístupniť študentom preberané gramatické učivo v takej postupnosti, v akej nasleduje v jednotlivých lekciách používanej cvičebnice latinského jazyka. Z toho dôvodu obsahujú i gramatické javy presahujúce oblasť latinskej morfológie, ktorá tvorí hlavnú náplň gramatického kurzu v 1. roku štúdia. V prípade potreby sú však využiteľné aj pre iné študijné odbory, ktoré majú ako súčasť študijného programu latinský jazyk.

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Ľubov Vladyková

The present monograph titled Evolutionary Ethics: Selected Issues and Challenges discusses a range of problems, theoretical concepts, and beliefs from the perspective of evolutionary ethics. The term evolution has become one of the central terms in contemporary science and philosophy. In social sciences in general, and in socio-biology and evolutionary psychology in particular, evolution has had great impact on our understanding of the genesis of culture. Evolutionary theories play a similar role within the theory of consciousness and of the mind (evolutionary epistemology). The interrelation between our evolutionary past and our sense of good and evil is also a subject of heightened interest in ethics; it has in fact become one of its challenges. The concept of evolution challenges the way we create thought patterns through which we understand, or hope to understand, ourselves and the world around us. This monograph represents a general summary of selected issues in evolutionary ethics, touching upon various aspects of current research into evolutionary ethics and the related domains of evolution, science, ethics, and morals. Evolutionary ethics has become a project which presupposes that in order to understand the essence and basis of morals one must turn to the process of evolution of thought, and to the theories put forth by evolutionists, specifically evolutionary biologists. The structure of this monograph, as well as its potential usefulness for research and education clearly show that the analysis of the problems discussed here has significant implications for domains far removed from the purely theoretical parts of moral philosophy or biology. The advantage of such discourse is that it enables the implementation of evolutionary ethics in social and ethical issues of public interest (for example Sex Literacy, Sex Education), and this should be recognised and welcome.

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Jana Nezkusilová • Margita Mesárošová (eds.)

Proceedings of Extended Abstracts from Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference

Conference proceedings comprise extended abstracts from contributions that were presented during the conference Negative consequences of performing helping professions II – Psychological, social and health aspects of performing helping professions, which was held on 12th of June 2019 in Košice. The conference was organized as one of the outputs of the research project APVV 14-0921 Self-care as a factor of coping with the negative consequences of the practicizing the helping professions. Abstracts present either original research by the authors or summaries of the authors' findings in their long-term research activities focused on helping professions. One of the ambitions of the conference was to create a space for dialogue between academics and professionals working in helping professions. The interdisciplinary character of the conference has brought new ideas and perception of this issue, which has also been reflected in the rich response during the discussions. Professionals from field of psychology, social work, occupational medicine and behavioral medicine participated actively or passively in the conference. Thus, the enriching aspect of the resulting proceedings is the interconnection of applied and theoretical studies related to wide range of helping professions.

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Eva Žiaková - Tomáš Šeďo (eds.)

Peer-reviewed collection of contributions from an online scientific conference (9^th year of Košické dni sociálnej práce) with international attendance held on the 26^th of November 2021.

The present peer-reviewed collection of contributions titled “Metanoia in social work theory and practice” is an output of the 9^th year of Košické dni sociálnej práce, an online conference with international attendance held on the 26^th of November 2021. As the name of the conference implies, the pivotal topic of submitted contributions is metanoia, which represents a change in life attitude. Various interesting and actual issues concerning diverse aspects of social work are discussed in the individual contributions. The present collection comprises contributions oriented towards the issues of social pathology and its prevention, supervision, the importance of digital technologies in social work, research methods, self-care and so forth. The collection further contains several contributions devoted to the exceptionally actual issues of radicalism and extremism, which are widespread and serious occurrences in the present time. The contributions are highly original and beneficial from the point of view of theoretical conceptions and methodological procedures apart from offering quality empirical processing and interesting results.

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Juraj Schenk a kol.

Vedecký časopis Sociálne a politické analýzy je interaktívnou elektronickou platformou pre komunikáciu a prezentáciu (publikovanie) odborníkov a ich práce z oblasti základného a aplikovaného výskumu a analýz v sociologických, psychologických, politologických a metodologických kontextoch. Ide o médium, zamerané na intenzívnu podporu výskumných aktivít a analýz v interdisciplinárnom rámci, výmenu skúseností, rozvoj spolupráce a vitalizáciu produkcie v tejto oblasti vedeckej práce.
Publikačná časť časopisu ponúka priestor pre uverejňovanie prác ako sú:
- pôvodné výskumné sociologické, psychologické, politologické štúdie a analýzy v ľubovoľných oblastiach sociálneho života
- metodologické štúdie
- výskumné správy
- štúdie z kvalifikačných prác
- projekty výskumov a analýz
- rezenzie

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