Prof. PhDr. Jiří Mareš, CSc. On the Occasion of His Jubilee Celebrations

Abstract

Dear Professor, it is hard to believe that you are celebrating another of life's major anniversaries. In this message of congratulation, we would like to look back over selected milestones in that long part of your life's journey on which we have had the honour to meet you, ask you for interviews or even for advice. At our very first meetings we dealt with the interesting research topic of the microanalysis of teaching from the perspective of teacher-pupil interaction and communication. At that time, it was a question of the microanalysis of teaching, the results of which were incorporated in research work that you completed and defended at the Jan Comenius Pedagogical Institute at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. The results of this research emerged in an interesting research team with whom you collaborated (Tollingerová, Helus, Křivohlavý, Gavora, Kulič, Š. Švec and many other specialists). Every member of the team focused on questions relating to the analyses of teacher-pupil or teacher-student communication and interaction in teaching from a different perspective. All tried to find methods what would facilitate the description of the reality of teacher in school practice and contribute research findings to support future changes. In the 1970s this was an entirely unique methodology in an otherwise normatively conceived approach to questions of school. A series of microanalytical approaches to pedagogical and psychological research have revealed that pedagogical communication in primary school teaching has a number of reserves. The proceedings of a 1981 conference that were prepared under your editorship with the title TeacherPupil/Teacher-Student Interaction provided very rich inspiration for changes in pedagogy as a science in the search of a new quality of pedagogical theory and practice