Fundamental Pedagogy Jana Doležalová

Application Tasks: 
1. Read the above definitions once again and use them to formulate 
attributes and functions of education. Write them down. 
2. When done, compare your notes to the information provided in the 
text below. 
According to Š. Švec (2002), the word to educate involves 
educating, upbringing and training activities. In his opinion, the 
domains involved include the intellectual, emotional, conative and 
volitional development as well as sensorimotor and motor 
development.
Table 1: 
Education Domains; Activities and Results of their 
Development
Education 
domains 
Learning 
Activities 
Result 
(outcome) 
Intellectual 
development 
Through 
cognitive 
learning 
education 
and 
instruction 
Education, 
level of 
education 
Emotional, 
conative and 
volitional 
development 
(also including 
cognitive 
development) 
Through social 
learning
Raising 
and 
upbringing 
manners

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Sensorimotor and 
motor 
development 
Through 
sensorimotor 
learning 
training 
training 
3. Compare this explanation to the definition in 
Pedagogický slovník 
[
Dictionary of Education]. Find the term education in Pedagogická 
encyklopedie [Encyclopaedia of Education] and expand your 
knowledge (Průcha, ed., 2009).
3.1.3 Attributes and Functions of Education 
The attributes of education are the basic characteristics in which 
education differs from other pedagogical phenomena. We will again present 
different classifications. Observe which attributes are repeated.
Attributes of education according to J. Duchovičová (2012) 

intentionality and purposefulness

positive change (perfection of personality)

lifelong process

process helping socialisation

development of authentic, internally integrated and socialised 
personality
Attributes of education according to V. Jůva (2001) 

permanent – taking place continually throughout entire life 

universal – taking place in various environments and spheres of life

all-round orientation – developing basic physical and psychological 
features of an individual, developing the individual’s role in individual 
fields of science and culture, preparing the individual for his/her 
social roles, through effects of education (two-sidedness of the 
pedagogical process)
Attributes of education according to J. Svobodová and B. Šmahelová (2007) 

permanent nature

versatility of education

universal and complex nature

dynamic and cyclic nature

links between hetero-education (education by other persons) 
and auto-education (self-education)

international and global nature – education has international 
and global nature, educational institutions should collaborate

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
plurality and integration – the option of choosing one’s own 
path to education should be available, but particular 
educational processes should be merged, integrated and 
interconnected

value orientation – the goal of education is always to adapt the 
values recognised by the society in the given historical era. 
Attributes of education according to K. Janiš, B. Kraus and P. Vacek (2010) 
a) intentionality
b) support of development 
c) long-term nature
d) process-based nature
e) bipolarity 
f) cyclic nature
g) dynamicity
h) universality 
The aforementioned attributes mutually condition and complement each 
other and partly overlap.
The nature of education is supplemented with functions of education. 
The functions of education indicate the goal or mission that education is 
fulfilling. D. Holoušová, H. Grecmanová, E. Urbanovská (1998, 2000) define 
the following functions: