Course: Knowledge and Society

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Course title Knowledge and Society
Course code KSA/ZSP
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 6
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Dopita Miroslav, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1) Knowledge and society 2) Post-industrial societies as knowledge societies 3) Information societies: technological and economic definition 4) Information societies: employment, spatial and cultural definitions 5) Knowledge societies: Nico Stehr 6) Knowledge societies. Helmut Wilke 7) Knowledge societies: UNESCO, OECD 8) Knowledge societies and education and learning 9) Learning Societies 10) Knowledge organisations and learning communities 11) Current approaches in research on education and learning in knowledge societies 12) Current concepts of knowledge in society

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to provide students with the ability to characterize the developmental stages of transformation of society into a knowledge society, to characterize its features in the context of post-industrial and information society.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Mark

Recommended literature
  • BURKE, P. (2007). Společnost a vědění: od Gutenberga k Diderotovi. Praha: Karolinum.
  • Burke, P. (2013). Spoolečnost a vědění II: Od Encyklopedie k Wikipedii. Praha.
  • Stehr, N., Adolf, M. (2018). Je vědění moc?: poznatky o vědění.. Praha: Slon.


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