Informatics education: current state and perspectives of development within the system of Field didactics in the Czech Republic
Abstract
This study offers an overview of the current state in the field of informatics education in the Czech Republic. The new publication of a monograph focusing on field didactics showed that a complex analysis of the current situation and future perspectives of development in informatics education that has not yet been addressed is needed.
The article presents an overview of development in the discipline from the 1960s, defines the main goals for informatics education in the Czech Republic and emhpasizes a need to revise curriculum about ICT in official pedagogical documents, teacher education including training of primary teachers and methodology of research in the field of informatics education. The authors analyse current trends that have impact on informatics education and also refer to the dynamics of computer science education, gradual shift of computer science to lower school education levels and introduction of new computer science topics into the area of information and communication technologies.
In the conclusion the authors formulate the current problems that informatics education will have to tackle and indicate the possible dangers and perspectives of its future developments. Authors distinguish between informatics education as a school subject education and computer science education and ICT education which we understand as parts of this school subject in this context.