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Project details

Opportunities to develop problem solving competence in textbooks and in the classroom

Project Identification:	GPP407/12/P059
Project Period:	1/2012 - 12/2014
Investor:	Czech Science Foundation
Programme / Project Type:	Post-graduate (doctorate) grants -
MU Faculty/Unit:	Faculty of Education MU Investigator: Mgr. Petr Knecht, Ph.D.
Field:	AM - Pedagogy and education (A - Social sciences)
Publications/Results:	more
Keywords:	key competencies, problem solving competence, opportunities to learn, classroom research, textbooks research, curriculum

Ongoing educational reforms in the Czech Republic strive to introduce new culture of learning and in- struction. Together with new culture of learning and instruction, new theoretical concepts are introduced, such as key competencies, which represent the highest aim of education in many educational systems around the world, including the Czech Republic. There is a lack of data that could provide a comprehensive picture of the curriculum materials as well as schooling processes as they occur in schools and classrooms and that could provide us with information about the implementation of educational reform. We suppose that ques- tions and tasks can be the most in uential and approachable features in the process of implementing new ideas, aims and objectives. In the proposed research, we focus on problem solving competence, as an exam- ple of a key competence. The purpose of the research is to examine and describe the nature and qualities of questions and tasks in geography textbooks and instruction with regard to the development of problem solving competence.