Fundamental Pedagogy Jana Doležalová

Introductory Questions and Assignments 
1. What impact does your knowledge of objectives have on your planning 
and performance of activities?
7.1 Objective of Education
 
The objective of education (educational goal) is the intent that we want to 
achieve through an educational activity. It is the foreseen, anticipated or 
desirable outcome.
Determining factors:

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society and social factors; 
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tradition; 
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opportunities and inspiration offered by the environment in which the 
educational process is carried out; 
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worldview, life philosophy of those contributing to the development of 
the personality. 
It is difficult to determine who and what should influence the definition of long-
term objectives and the hierarchy. Another problem is that the pedagogical 
science based on the pluralism of opinions brings diverse ideals and a large 
amount of objectives and changes that the education should observe and 
achieve. It is therefore uneasy to define concrete and content-specific 
objectives.
Recently, neutrality and independence has been the typical requirements in a 
very wide range of things, including education. The prevailing tendency of low 
requirements in this segment is dangerous, as it is transferred directly to other 
spheres of human life (Pintes In Duchovičová et al., 2012). 
Some researchers do not make any difference between the objective of 
education and the ideal of education. However, defining the ideal for education 
as the perfect (ideal) vision and the best possibly quality of education has its 
reason, even though it cannot be achieved, only approximated.
The ideal of education is the general notion of human beings as the bearers 
of the most important values. Ideals differ in the worldview and value 
determination. They are thus forming various notions of humans and thus 
various goals for education.
The ideal of current education is human relation to the world, to the nature and 
to oneself (see Kyrášek In Pařízek, 1996). 
The ideal, the notion of a perfect human, has two functions:
- the basis for the formulation of an educational objective; 
- indicating the direction for self-improvement for the object of education. 
For practical reasons, the objectives of education have to be specified on 
the basis of ideals. The objectives stand for the content expression of the ideal 
of education. They determine the levels of education, content, instruments and 
form of education. 
Teleology is the teaching that deals with the objectives of education. 
Educational objectives have the following functions:  
- motivational, 
- regulatory
- self-evaluating. 
The form of the expression of the objectives of education must be adopted 
accordingly.

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