Category: articles
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Interaction dynamics in classroom group work
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‘They usually look happy.’ approaches to the adaptation of Ukrainian refugees in Czech schools
❝Schools heavily prioritized social integration over academic integration.❞ After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a high number of Ukrainian refugee children came to the Czech Republic, a country with little previous experience with refugee schooling. This study explored how Czech lower secondary schools in the 2022/2023 academic year managed to adapt to Ukrainian…
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Slovak MPs’ response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine in light of conspiracy theories and the polarization of political discourse
❝Slovakia is highly polarized and conspired.❞ The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine received widespread international condemnation. In Slovakia, the invasion became a subject of much political discussion with large number of MPs openly advocating Russian interests. This study investigates Slovak political discourse on Facebook in the weeks before and after the invasion began. We examine…
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Relational and interactional dynamic network data from Czech lower-secondary school students
❝Let’s share our data.❞ In 2021/2022 school year, as part of the CoDiTe project, we collected granular interactional data from students’ group work along with longitudinal relational data about students’ friendships. Several papers from the data are now under review and we hope the data could be of use to anyone interested in studying mechanisms…
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Ukrainian refugees struggling to integrate into Czech school social networks
❝Ukrainian students were not well integrated in social networks in Czech schools in the beginning of the Russian invasion.❞ Czech Republic became a country hosting the highest number of Ukrainian refugees per capita following the 2022 Russian invasion. Many of those refugees were children requiring access to education. The Czech system of education faced an…
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A social network perspective on formation of peer relationships in Czech lower-secondary classrooms
❝Family socioeconomic status translates into peer relationships.❞ In this study, I explored the influence of students’ family SES on their relationships with peers in classroom. High-SES students tended to receive more likeability ties and less antipathy ties compared to others. This suggests that students’ SES influences their school lifes beyond the well-known effects on academic…
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Aiming for active student participation in online university lessons: A case study of two teachers during emergency remote teaching
❝Online teaching is not a substitute for contact teaching.❞ How can teachers make online lessons interactive? Why do some teachers succeed in making their lessons interactive while others do not? We addressed these questions in a study from COVID era. Our findings indicate that teachers’ views of online teaching can significantly influence their teaching practices.…
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Classroom Space and Student Positions in Peer Social Networks: An Exploratory Study
❝Seating positions in classrooms are related to social status.❞ How do seating positions of students relate to their position in social networks? We found that students who were perceived as more likeable sat in the middle column of the classroom and were seated close to each other. Locations inhabited by dominant students were positioned further…
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Low Socioeconomic School Composition as an Indicator of Low Educational Attainment: Evidence from Slovakia
❝The Slovak system of education does not mitigate the effects of social disadvantage on students.❞ In this study from 2020, I show that in Slovakia, students leaving elementary schools with high ratios of socially disadvantaged children are more likely to stop attending schools and less likely to continue at academic strand schools. Actually, in some…