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Open Day at PdF UK (27 January 2024)
A short video of Open Day 2024 can be found on the faculty website:
Conference "What is and what could be the preparation of future teachers"
The Department of Pre-primary and Primary Pedagogy together with the Department of Didactics of Mathematics and Science Subjects organized on 12 September 2023 an international scientific and professional conference entitled "What is and what could be the preparation of future teachers" in the premises of the Faculty of Education of the Comenius University in Bratislava, under the auspices of the Dean of the Faculty of Education of the Comenius University in Bratislava, prof. PaedDr. Katarína Žilková, PhD.
The conference was oriented towards solving current issues related to the personality of the teacher with an emphasis on his/her pregraduate preparation. During the conference were presented papers focused on the research approach in the preparation of future teachers, especially within the individual disciplinary didactics (didactics of mathematics, didactics of science subjects, technology and informatics, etc.), as well as papers focused on the possibility of creating an interdisciplinary space for solving some problems and presenting partial results of currently implemented research, as well as suggestions for innovations in educational theory and practice.
Students from the Comenius choir
European Researchers' Night 2019 – Mirror Games
The Department of Pre-primary and Primary Education in cooperation with the Department of Didactics of Mathematics and Natural Science and the Department of Pedagogy of the Faculty of Education of Comenius University prepared a stand called Mirror Games (.pdf, 1,1 MB) during the European Researchers' Night on 27 September 2019.
The interactive activities we offered to primary education students and teachers, parents, as well as other interested parties, were aimed at exploring the principles of symmetrical figures and their properties. The preferred methods were to gain experience with symmetry through own discoveries with manipulatives and virtual aids. The activities presented were titled Create a Symmetrical Image (or What Do You See in the Mirror?), Create a Mirror Image, Create an Equally Symmetrical Image, Draw a Mirror Image, and Use Two Mirrors to Create a Mirror Image.
The goal of the presentation was to provide examples of manipulative and virtual activities aimed at creating symmetrical images and exploring the properties of axial or planar symmetry using mirrors. The activities had the same mathematical content but were designed in different modifications for different environments and with different aids. Aids of a haptic nature were preferred, such as cubes with different coloured walls, different sets of jigsaw puzzles, and a square grid, all using one or two mirrors. Equally important was the validation of the author's interactive applets, which worked with axial
The presentation reflected the results of the research project "Optimization of teaching materials in mathematics based on the analysis of current needs and abilities of pupils of younger school age" (OPTIMAT_APVV 15-0378), which aims to adapt teaching materials in mathematics to the abilities, interests and needs of primary education pupils.
We are delighted that our booth with interactive activities enjoyed general interest from all generations until late in the evening. We were able to grade the tasks and activities according to the abilities and interest of the individuals, resulting in participants staying more than expected at our booth. The positive feedback that was recorded during the Researchers' Night 2019 convinces us of the meaningfulness of popularizing the results of scientific research in the didactics of elementary mathematics and the dissemination of the authors' products in the form of interactive games freely available on the Internet within the student, teacher and parent community.
Katarína Žilková a Edita Partová
European Researchers' Night 2017
On 29 September 2017, the 11th edition of the Night of Researchers science festival in Slovakia took place in Bratislava. The Faculty of Education of Comenius University was not absent at this prestigious event and with its booth I make, I play, I learn, it attracted the attention of many visitors of the festival. The staff of the Faculty of Education of Comenius University from the Department of Didactics of Science Subjects in Primary Education, from the Department of Pre-primary and Primary Education and from the Institute of Educational Sciences and Studies prepared stimulating and interesting activities, which the participants had the opportunity to try out for themselves.
Visit from Iceland and Bulgaria 2015
At the beginning of May we were visited by colleagues from Iceland and Bulgaria. During the visit they had a field trip to the faculty kindergartens and also participated in a seminar organized by our department. Anna Magnea Hreinsdóttir (Iceland) – Kindergartens and the kindergarten system in Iceland. Assoc. Assoc. prof. Rozalina Engels-Kritidis, PhD. (Bulgaria) - Pre-primary education in Bulgaria.
Visit from Prague 2014
At the beginning of November we were visited by the Vice-Dean Jana Kropáčková, PhDr., from the Department of Primary Pedagogy of Charles University in Prague (Faculty of Education). During the visit, the vice-dean gave two seminars. The first one was "Preschool education in the Czech Republic" and the second one was "Current problems of Czech preschool education".
Visit from Liberec 2014
Within the framework of foreign cooperation, we were visited in October by colleagues from the Technical University in Liberec, from the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Humanities and Education, from the Department of Primary Education, PhDr. Jana Johnová, PhD., and PhDr. Hana Valešová, PhD.
Lecture by experts from the University of Kansas 2013
Presentation of research and activities of experts from the University of Kansas on the topic Inclusion of children from disadvantaged backgrounds in the educational process.
