Život Karla – příběh učitele v socialistickém Československu

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Title in English Karel's Life – the Story of a Teacher in Socialist Czechoslovakia
Authors

ZOUNEK Jiří KNOTOVÁ Dana ŠIMÁNĚ Michal

Year of publication 2017
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Orbis Scholae
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Web http://www.cupress.cuni.cz/ink2_stat/dload.jsp?prezMat=111114
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23363177.2018.56
Keywords communism; contemporary history of schooling in Czechoslovakia; life history of teacher; biographic method
Description This study is a reconstruction of the life history of a teacher who lived most of his life in the communist era, teaching at several schools, and lived to witness the fall of the communist regime in 1989. The research is based on the biographic method but we have also drawn on interviews with colleagues and pupils of the teacher, studied relevant archive documents, school yearbooks and other secondary sources. The life history of the teacher presents information not only on everyday life of schools and the teaching profession but also on education during the rise of the communist dictatorship. Our research also revealed that (sudden) deaths of witnesses of certain events may have a significant effect of the applicability of the biographic method. The research leads us to believe that studying life stories of teachers holds a great potential for uncovering new information on lives and teachers in totalitarian society but also the everyday reality of the communist regime and the education of the period.
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