Teacherś and Teacher Educatorś Attitudes to Educational Changes: An Insight to the Czech Educational System

AbstractThe paper is a presentation of an analytical-comparative insight into the contemporary Czech educational system from the perspective of educational changes via teacherś assessment and attitudes. This view is rooted mainly in the following aspects: a. permanent flexibility of the contemporary society, human being as well as schooling, b. heterogeneity of educational change and its reception, c. teachers (both prospective and in-service, as well as teacher educators) being key agents of the teaching- learning process representing a process of educational change.The paper follows the author‘s experience and results from/of: 1. teaching at, and innovating, teacher education study programmes, 2. quantitative research in the field of teacher as an innovative agent of education with further ongoing theoretical studies (2007 – 2010), 3. active participation in an applied research (2012) in the field of school self-assessment, which in the Czech Republic substitutes an educational change having been implemented since 2005, 2014 survey mapping teacherś subjective view of educational changes in the Czech Republi