Alumni Newsletter 1/2024
2 Sep 2024, 17:07  |  Čeština

Newsletter for Graduates of the Faculty of Education Masaryk University

Celebration of 30 years of the Department of Special and Inclusive Pedagogy at PED MUNI

Are you a graduate* of the Department of Special and Inclusive Pedagogy, PdF MU?

Come together with us and your classmates to reminisce about your student years, meet, dance, have fun and share your experiences and work experience.

The celebration will include a panel discussion on "Specka Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" - we want to hear your perspective as practitioners.

Where: Merciful Brothers Hall, Vídeňská 7, Brno
When: Thursday, 12 September 2024

You can come at any time during the day from 11am to 10pm.

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Festival Inspire!

The Inspire! festival will bring a range of events suitable for graduates

From the programme we select:

10. 9. 2024

17:30-19:00
Film screening
Monsieur Chocolat
Classroom 50

11. 9. 2024

17:30-19:00
Film screening
Jiřík's vision and discussion with the director of the film Marta Kovářová and the main protagonist Jiří Svoboda
Classroom 50

12. 9. 2024

14:30-15:30
Lecture
Inspiration from non-violent communication for people in schools (registration required)
Classroom 50

17:30-18:30
Textbook launch
A1+ and expert discussion on teaching Czech as a target language
Classroom 1

13. 9. 2024

17:30-18:30
Discussion
EduInfluencer: Teachers in the digital world
Classroom 1

Complete programme (CZ)

The Academic Senate of PED MUNI has new leadership

On 4 June 2024, the senators elected for the term of office from 23 May 2024 to 22 May 2027 met for the inaugural meeting of the Academic Senate of PED MUNI. Mgr. Martin Vrubel, Ph.D.

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Establishing a research collaboration with Professor Sharma of Australia's leading Monash University

Petr Svojanovský and Jana Obrovská have established cooperation with Professor Umesh Sharma from Monash University in Australia, which is one of the world's leading universities in the field of education research. Professor Sharma is a world-renowned expert in inclusive education.

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History and language in dialogue: A new book on the Slavization of the formerly German-speaking territories of the Czech Republic by Hana Svobodová

In her new publication, Hana Svobodová reveals the complex linguistic situation of the formerly German-speaking areas of the Czech Republic after 1945 using the Broumov region as an example. The book focuses on the Slavicisation of this area in particular and explores how language contacts shaped local society. Expert reviews, including those by Prof. Rudolf Šrámek and Prof. Christian Lübke, praise the work for its theoretical and methodological originality, as well as its importance for historians, sociologists and linguists.

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Professor Jan Svartvik, Honorary Doctor of Masaryk University, died

It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of Jan Svartvik, Professor Emeritus at Lund University and holder of an honorary doctorate from Masaryk University, on 18 June 2024 at the age of 92. He was a world-renowned English scholar and an eminent expert in the field of corpus linguistics who made a significant contribution to the development of modern linguistics and English studies.

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Associate Professor Naděžda Krsková, a renowned academic and key figure in the development of foreign language teaching at the MU Faculty of Education, passed away

It is with deep sadness that we announce that on Friday 23 August 2024, at the age of 94, doc. PhDr. Naděžda Krsková, CSc., a prominent linguist, long-time teacher and a respected member of the academic community of the Faculty of Education of Masaryk University in Brno.

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