doc. Mgr. Petr Knecht, Ph.D.

Curriculum vitae (CV)

Profile

• KNECHT, Petr, Ph.D.
  
  Profile for academics:
  
  He graduated in Geography and Civic Education for secondary schools at the Faculty of Education at Masaryk University (MU), where he also completed his doctoral studies in the field of Education (2008, supervised by Eduard Hofmann) and habilitation in the field of Education (2016). From 2008 to 2018, he worked at the Institute for Research in School Education at the Faculty of Education, Masaryk University. Since 2016, he has been working at the Department of Geography at the Faculty of Education at Masaryk Univesity, where he is involved in teacher education, as well as in research on geography education. In the past, he has been the principal investigator of four projects funded by the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR), focusing on problem-solving competencies in textbooks and geography teaching, visual aids in geography education, and the conceptions of geography teaching. Currently, he is the coordinator of the doctoral study program in geography education and serves on the editorial boards of the journals Zeitschrift für Geographiedidaktik/Journal of Geography Education, Geografie and European Journal of Geography. He also teaches geography part-time at a lower secondary school.
  
  ResearcherID: D-2442-2013
  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-5025
  
  Profile for regular people:
  
  Petr Knecht works as a geography educationist at the Faculty of Education at Masaryk University. In the past, he has been involved in research and teaching in the fields of pedagogy, but currently, he focuses more on geography and various ways of recontextualisation of geography in teacher training and in education. He teaches geography part-time at a lower secondary school. He enjoys teaching at both the higher education and secondary school levels. He likes to read and write, think, innovate, and try new things. He perceives the mistakes he makes as an opportunity for reflection and subsequent improvement.
  

Department/Faculty/University

• Department of Geography, Faculty of Education, Masaryk University
• https://www.muni.cz/lide/53924-petr-knecht

Function, current position

• Associate professor
• Researcher in Geography Education
• Geography Teacher Educationist
  

Education and academic qualifications

• 2004: Mgr. in Teacher Training for Lower Secondary School (specialisation in teaching geography and social studies), Masaryk University, Faculty of Education
• 2008: Ph.D. in Educational Science, Masaryk University, Faculty of Education
• 2014: Doc. (habilitation) in Educational Science, Masaryk University, Faculty of Education

Professional experience

• 2008-2018 Research Scientist at Institute for Research in School Education, Masaryk University, Faculty of Education
• 2016–now Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, Masaryk University, Faculty of Education
• 2005–now Lower secondary geography teacher (part-time)

Teaching activities

• Geography teaching and learning
• Curriculum studies
• School Pedagogy/Didactics

Research activities

• Curriculum studies
• Theory and methods of geography education
• Research on learning and teaching in geography
• Textbook research
• Conceptions of geography and geography teaching among students and teachers
  

Internship and stays for the purpose of study or work

• Short internships and stays (1-3 weeks)
  
  
• Universidad de Alcalá, Teacher Training Institute in Guadalajara, Spain (2005, 2 weeks)
• Georg Eckert Institute, Braunschweig, Germany (2006, 2 weeks)
• Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugalsko (2006, 2 týdny)
• A teacher training course on Human Rights Education in Multicultural European Societies, OSCE, Warsaw, Poland (2006, 1 week)
• European Educational Research Association Summer School, LISUM Ludwigsfelde, Germany (2007, 1 week)
• University of Education Karlsruhe Dept. for Social and Scientific Studies in Primary Education, Germany (2007, 1 week) The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Primary Geography, Greece (2009, 1 week)
• Augsburg University, Department of Educational Science, Germany (2012, 1 week)
• Georg Eckert Institute, Braunschweig, Germany (2013, 2 weeks)
• Georg Eckert Institute, Braunschweig, Germany (2014, 3 weeks)
• Pedagogical University Cracow, Department of Geography, Poland (2021, 1 week)
• Augsburg University, Department of Geography, Germany (2022, 1 week)
• University of Ljubljana, Department of Geography, Slovenia (2022, 1 week)
  
  
• Internship and stays (longer than one month)
  
  
• My teaching duties at lower secondary school are a serious limitation of involvement in longer internships and stays.
• 2007/01/01 – 2007/05/31: University College of Teacher Education Vienna/Krems (KPH), Wien, Erasmus+, AUT

Other academic activities, research projects, grants

• Principal investigator of 4 research projects funded by the Czech Science Foundation (GACR)
• Member of the Scientific Board of Faculty of Education, Masaryk University (2019-2023,2023-???)
• Chair of the doctoral board of Geography Education, Masaryk University (2018-???)
  

Non-university activities

• Current activities:
  
  
• Member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Education, University of Ostrava (2021-present).
• Member of the GAČR (Czech Science Foundation) Panel for Pedagogy and Psychology (2021-2023, 2023-2024).
• Member of the Doctoral Board for Pedagogy at Charles University in Prague (2018-present).
• Member of the Doctoral Board for Geography Education at Charles University in Prague (2021-present).
• Member of the Editorial Board of Zeitschrift für Geographiedidaktik/Journal of Geography Education (2019-present).
• Member of the Editorial Board of Geografie (2021-present).
• Member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Geography (2023-present).
  
  
• Past activities:
  
  
• Member of the Doctoral Board for General Geography at Charles University in Prague (2019-2021).
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Review of International Geographical Education Online (RIGEO; 2011-2021).
• Member of the Editorial Board of Geografické rozhledy Journal (2017-2021).
• Member of the Expert Group for Geography Education, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (2012-2020).
• Managing Editor and Chair of the Editorial Board of Pedagogická orientace/Journal of the Czech Pedagogical Society (2015-2018).
• Member of the Board of the Czech Educational Research Association (ČAPV; 2012-2014, 2014-2017).
• Member of the Main Board of the Czech Pedagogical Society (2015-2018).
  
  
• Membership in scientific societies:
  
  
• Czech Educational Research Association (ČAPV).
• Czech Geographic Society (ČGS).
• International Society for Historical and Systematic Research on Textbooks.
  

Most significant professional accomplishments

• Board Member of the Czech Educational Research Association (2012-2014)
• Fellowship at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (2007 and 2014; Braunschweig, Germany)
• Editorial board member of Zeitschrift für Geographiedidaktik/Journal of Geography Education
• Editorial board member of the European Journal of Geography
• Member of The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic Geographical Education Expert-Group (since 2012)
  

Major publications

• SPURNÁ, Michaela, Petr KNECHT a Eduard HOFMANN. Studying Geography Teaching: First-Year Undergraduate Students’ Concerns and Expectations. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. United States: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2024, roč. 114, č. 6, s. 1251-1267. ISSN 2469-4452. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2024.2350994. URL info
• KNECHT, Petr a Michaela SPURNÁ. Does specialization in geography teaching determine teachers' conceptions of geography teaching? International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education. London: Taylor & Francis, Routledge, 2022, roč. 31, č. 3, s. 242-260. ISSN 1038-2046. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10382046.2021.1970967. URL info
• SPURNÁ, Michaela, Petr KNECHT a Hana SVOBODOVÁ. Perspectives on geography education in the Czech National Curriculum. International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education. Taylor & Francis, 2021, roč. 30, č. 2, s. 164-180. ISSN 1038-2046. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10382046.2020.1789807. URL URL info
• KNECHT, Petr, Michaela SPURNÁ a Hana SVOBODOVÁ. Czech secondary pre-service teachers’ conceptions of geography. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 2020, roč. 44, č. 3, s. 458-473. ISSN 0309-8265. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2020.1712687. URL info
• PEŠKOVÁ, Karolína, Michaela SPURNÁ a Petr KNECHT. Teachers’ Acceptance of Curriculum Reform in the Czech Republic: One Decade Later. Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal. 2019, roč. 9, č. 2, s. 73-97. ISSN 1855-9719. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.26529/cepsj.560. URL info
• JANÍK, Tomáš, Tomáš JANKO, Karolína PEŠKOVÁ, Petr KNECHT a Michaela SPURNÁ. Czech teachers' attitudes towards curriculum reform implementation. Human Affairs-Postdisciplinary Humanities Social Sciences Quarterly. Berlin: WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH, 2018, roč. 28, č. 1, s. 54-70. ISSN 1210-3055. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2018-0006. URL info
• HOFMANN, Eduard, Hana SVOBODOVÁ a Petr KNECHT. Geography Curriculum in Czechia: Challenging Opportunities. In Karvánková, P., Popjaková, D., Vančura, M., Mládek, J. (Eds.). Current Topics in Czech and Central European Geography Education. 1. vyd. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG Schwitzerland, 2017, s. 15-32. Springer Nature. ISBN 978-3-319-43613-5. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43614-2_2. URL info
• KNECHT, Petr a Veronika NAJVAROVÁ. How Do Students Rate Textbooks? A Review of Research and Ongoing Challenges for Textbook Research and Textbook Production. Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society. 2010, roč. 2, č. 1, s. 1-16. ISSN 2041-6938. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.3167/jemms.2010.020101. URL info

2023/06/15