Ondrej Kascak
Biographic Data
| ID | 770917 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ondrej Kascak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ondrej |
| FAMILY NAME | Kascak |
| SIGNATURE | KASCAK O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Trnava |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8864-9848 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Who is in favour of the choice to homeschool in Czechia and why
To gain deeper insight into the factors behind support for homeschooling in Czechia, we used representative survey data collected in February 2024. Analysis of the public opinion data suggests that homeschooling in Czechia is not tied to religious conservatism or populist distrust of elites, nor is it related to mistrust of the state or its political representatives. Instead, homeschooling appears to function primarily as pragmatic ‘escape route’…
Homeschooling as an extension of school choice in the Czech Republic after the Covid-19 pandemic
Inclusion discourses in contemporary Slovak education policy – From the individual to the community and from right to performance
The study on which this article reports sought to explain the complexity of the relationship between inclusion policies and practices in education in Slovakia. Education policy in Slovakia is characterised by an enduring resistance to inclusion practices, despite the presence of humanist inclusion discourses. Accordingly, education policy and practices in Slovakia manifest a conflicting or parallel application of humanist and neoliberal discourse…
Early childhood education and care traditions and policy in an expanding Europe
Europe is often characterized as being divided into four blocks of countries with their own distinct cultural, historical, political, and economic characteristics. The geopolitical diversity within the EU is also recognized in a wide variety of different traditions for ECEC and upbringing of children. Nowadays, new reforms and policy initiatives are trying to introduce common ECEC quality framework. These recent developments might produce tension…
Not being able to fool around with my friends at break – children’s home-based education in space and time
The study describes elements of the daily spatial and time systems relating to online home-based primary education during the pandemic school closures. It was conducted from the children’s perspective (semi-structured interviews with children), which is only marginally discussed in research on the effects of home-based education during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data were analysed using thematic analysis. The spatial recontextualization of the ho…
Family as a Substitute for School? The Distribution of Educational Responsibilities during Two Waves of the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Czech Republic
The worldwide crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic forced many states to adopt strict anti-COVID measures aimed at social distancing. In the field of education, this involved closing schools and the continuation of education at home. In the Czech Republic, schools first closed in March 2021; the school closures lasted, with a few interruptions, for more than a year. Some educational functions that were traditionally performed by schools were te…
For God and for nation! The ideologisation of schools and education under the changing relationship between church and state in Slovakia
The present study analyses education policy in Slovakia and determines the role of the church in education governance and the church–state relationship in education policy. The church–state relationship is also evident in the specific constellations of the national curriculum. The study highlights the de-secularisation trend in education policy and curricula and identifies the links between religious and nationalist education content, which are l…
Test culture from a 'new economy of power relations' perspective
This study draws on qualitative data to analyse the effect of the national Year 5 test culture on test actors in selected Slovak schools. The test culture is presented in the context of disciplinary power, while the method of analysis follows Foucault’s later recommendation to focus more on the ‘new economy of power relations’. Such an analysis is more empirically oriented and takes account of, and even emerges from, practical forms of resistance…
Communists, Humboldtians, neoliberals and dissidents: Or the path to a post-communist homo oeconomicus
The neoliberalisation of higher education in post-communist central and eastern Europe, the new EU member states, is not seen as being distinct. Implementation of the Bologna Process and Lisbon Strategy means it has become part of the competitive global sphere of higher education. The transformation of post-communist higher education has attracted little attention, but it is in fact an example of an unprecedented radical 25 year-long transformati…
Re-negotiating an ethics of care in Kenyan childhoods1
Childhoods in contemporary Kenya are entangled with discourses of care in a post-colonial landscape. Such imaginaries of childhoods through discourses of ‘care’ and ‘charity’ are well established through Western lenses. Another lens that is often enacted is the lens of de-commercialised, un-spoilt, pure and innocent childhoods in the Kenyan landscape. In this study, the authors utilize Nel Nodding’s concept of an ethics of care, and a feminist le…
Towards perpetual neoliberalism in education: The Slovak path to postcommunist transformation
Slovak education policy is an example of the kind of transformations occurring in the education spheres of postcommunist countries. While at the end of the 1990s, it seemed that education policy was still attempting to ensure that Slovakia caught up with education levels in western countries, the period that followed brought with it a shift towards neoliberalization of the education sector and towards the economization of education. Slovakia’s en…
Buttoning up the gold collar — The child in neoliberal visions of early education and care
This study refers to the discursive transformation in perceptions of preschool age children generated by central European Union policy on early childhood education and care. This policy is representative of the pervasion of contemporary entrepreneurial culture and curricula within preschool education. At the same time, the field is also starting to become subordinated to the neoliberal trend of economising the social. This study highlights the fa…
“Das bin ich...”: Corporeality and early German language education in (Slovak) kindergarten
This paper, based on ethnographically obtained data, discusses German language acquisition at an early age: the discovery of the interconnection between language and corporeality is the key component of the analysis based on videostudies. The body—conceived as an intermediary and content element of education, becomes an essential base for foreign language acquisition. This will be documented by tangible data and subsequent theoretical analysis wi…
Critical issues in contemporary education: Prolegomena
This paper summarizes the problematic aspects of a globalized neoliberal culture in education. Linking to the particular studies of this monothematic volume it discusses the consequences of the globalization of a testing culture in schools, the issues of developing civic literacy in the context of current education practice and the issues of forming a historic consciousness in present schools relating to the existing social discourse. Language te…
School culture at risk of political and methodological expropriation
The aim of this article is to problematize the concept of school culture both as a concept and as a subject of investigation. It deals with the historical roots of this concept and the fact that it is shrinking—a consequence of the managerial imperatives of effectiveness and accountability in education. School culture, in relation to the quality of schools and the quality of education, has become the subject of audits, arrived at through a develo…
Neoliberal Governmentality in Social Designing of Education
The article examines the application of 'governmentality studies' to the field of education and particularly to the formation of social representations of the goals and needs of contemporary education and current curriculum design. The field of governmentality studies is based on Michel Foucault's analyses of social power and the technologies of power, which in later writings he applied to liberal government and liberal notions of social control.…
Neoliberal Governmentality in Social Designing of Education
The article examines the application of 'governmentality studies' to the field of education and particularly to the formation of social representations of the goals and needs of contemporary education and current curriculum design. The field of governmentality studies is based on Michel Foucault's analyses of social power and the technologies of power, which in later writings he applied to liberal government and liberal notions of social control.…
Buttoning up the gold collar — The child in neoliberal visions of early education and care
This study refers to the discursive transformation in perceptions of preschool age children generated by central European Union policy on early childhood education and care. This policy is representative of the pervasion of contemporary entrepreneurial culture and curricula within preschool education. At the same time, the field is also starting to become subordinated to the neoliberal trend of economising the social. This study highlights the fa…
School culture at risk of political and methodological expropriation
The aim of this article is to problematize the concept of school culture both as a concept and as a subject of investigation. It deals with the historical roots of this concept and the fact that it is shrinking—a consequence of the managerial imperatives of effectiveness and accountability in education. School culture, in relation to the quality of schools and the quality of education, has become the subject of audits, arrived at through a develo…
Family as a Substitute for School? The Distribution of Educational Responsibilities during Two Waves of the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Czech Republic
The worldwide crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic forced many states to adopt strict anti-COVID measures aimed at social distancing. In the field of education, this involved closing schools and the continuation of education at home. In the Czech Republic, schools first closed in March 2021; the school closures lasted, with a few interruptions, for more than a year. Some educational functions that were traditionally performed by schools were te…
Test culture from a 'new economy of power relations' perspective
This study draws on qualitative data to analyse the effect of the national Year 5 test culture on test actors in selected Slovak schools. The test culture is presented in the context of disciplinary power, while the method of analysis follows Foucault’s later recommendation to focus more on the ‘new economy of power relations’. Such an analysis is more empirically oriented and takes account of, and even emerges from, practical forms of resistance…
Towards perpetual neoliberalism in education: The Slovak path to postcommunist transformation
Slovak education policy is an example of the kind of transformations occurring in the education spheres of postcommunist countries. While at the end of the 1990s, it seemed that education policy was still attempting to ensure that Slovakia caught up with education levels in western countries, the period that followed brought with it a shift towards neoliberalization of the education sector and towards the economization of education. Slovakia’s en…
Neoliberal Governmentality in Social Designing of Education
The article examines the application of 'governmentality studies' to the field of education and particularly to the formation of social representations of the goals and needs of contemporary education and current curriculum design. The field of governmentality studies is based on Michel Foucault's analyses of social power and the technologies of power, which in later writings he applied to liberal government and liberal notions of social control.…
“Das bin ich...”: Corporeality and early German language education in (Slovak) kindergarten
This paper, based on ethnographically obtained data, discusses German language acquisition at an early age: the discovery of the interconnection between language and corporeality is the key component of the analysis based on videostudies. The body—conceived as an intermediary and content element of education, becomes an essential base for foreign language acquisition. This will be documented by tangible data and subsequent theoretical analysis wi…
Critical issues in contemporary education: Prolegomena
This paper summarizes the problematic aspects of a globalized neoliberal culture in education. Linking to the particular studies of this monothematic volume it discusses the consequences of the globalization of a testing culture in schools, the issues of developing civic literacy in the context of current education practice and the issues of forming a historic consciousness in present schools relating to the existing social discourse. Language te…
School culture at risk of political and methodological expropriation
The aim of this article is to problematize the concept of school culture both as a concept and as a subject of investigation. It deals with the historical roots of this concept and the fact that it is shrinking—a consequence of the managerial imperatives of effectiveness and accountability in education. School culture, in relation to the quality of schools and the quality of education, has become the subject of audits, arrived at through a develo…
Buttoning up the gold collar — The child in neoliberal visions of early education and care
This study refers to the discursive transformation in perceptions of preschool age children generated by central European Union policy on early childhood education and care. This policy is representative of the pervasion of contemporary entrepreneurial culture and curricula within preschool education. At the same time, the field is also starting to become subordinated to the neoliberal trend of economising the social. This study highlights the fa…
Towards perpetual neoliberalism in education: The Slovak path to postcommunist transformation
Slovak education policy is an example of the kind of transformations occurring in the education spheres of postcommunist countries. While at the end of the 1990s, it seemed that education policy was still attempting to ensure that Slovakia caught up with education levels in western countries, the period that followed brought with it a shift towards neoliberalization of the education sector and towards the economization of education. Slovakia’s en…
Re-negotiating an ethics of care in Kenyan childhoods1
Childhoods in contemporary Kenya are entangled with discourses of care in a post-colonial landscape. Such imaginaries of childhoods through discourses of ‘care’ and ‘charity’ are well established through Western lenses. Another lens that is often enacted is the lens of de-commercialised, un-spoilt, pure and innocent childhoods in the Kenyan landscape. In this study, the authors utilize Nel Nodding’s concept of an ethics of care, and a feminist le…
Communists, Humboldtians, neoliberals and dissidents: Or the path to a post-communist homo oeconomicus
The neoliberalisation of higher education in post-communist central and eastern Europe, the new EU member states, is not seen as being distinct. Implementation of the Bologna Process and Lisbon Strategy means it has become part of the competitive global sphere of higher education. The transformation of post-communist higher education has attracted little attention, but it is in fact an example of an unprecedented radical 25 year-long transformati…
Family as a Substitute for School? The Distribution of Educational Responsibilities during Two Waves of the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Czech Republic
The worldwide crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic forced many states to adopt strict anti-COVID measures aimed at social distancing. In the field of education, this involved closing schools and the continuation of education at home. In the Czech Republic, schools first closed in March 2021; the school closures lasted, with a few interruptions, for more than a year. Some educational functions that were traditionally performed by schools were te…
For God and for nation! The ideologisation of schools and education under the changing relationship between church and state in Slovakia
The present study analyses education policy in Slovakia and determines the role of the church in education governance and the church–state relationship in education policy. The church–state relationship is also evident in the specific constellations of the national curriculum. The study highlights the de-secularisation trend in education policy and curricula and identifies the links between religious and nationalist education content, which are l…
Test culture from a 'new economy of power relations' perspective
This study draws on qualitative data to analyse the effect of the national Year 5 test culture on test actors in selected Slovak schools. The test culture is presented in the context of disciplinary power, while the method of analysis follows Foucault’s later recommendation to focus more on the ‘new economy of power relations’. Such an analysis is more empirically oriented and takes account of, and even emerges from, practical forms of resistance…
Inclusion discourses in contemporary Slovak education policy – From the individual to the community and from right to performance
The study on which this article reports sought to explain the complexity of the relationship between inclusion policies and practices in education in Slovakia. Education policy in Slovakia is characterised by an enduring resistance to inclusion practices, despite the presence of humanist inclusion discourses. Accordingly, education policy and practices in Slovakia manifest a conflicting or parallel application of humanist and neoliberal discourse…
Early childhood education and care traditions and policy in an expanding Europe
Europe is often characterized as being divided into four blocks of countries with their own distinct cultural, historical, political, and economic characteristics. The geopolitical diversity within the EU is also recognized in a wide variety of different traditions for ECEC and upbringing of children. Nowadays, new reforms and policy initiatives are trying to introduce common ECEC quality framework. These recent developments might produce tension…
Not being able to fool around with my friends at break – children’s home-based education in space and time
The study describes elements of the daily spatial and time systems relating to online home-based primary education during the pandemic school closures. It was conducted from the children’s perspective (semi-structured interviews with children), which is only marginally discussed in research on the effects of home-based education during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data were analysed using thematic analysis. The spatial recontextualization of the ho…
Homeschooling as an extension of school choice in the Czech Republic after the Covid-19 pandemic
Who is in favour of the choice to homeschool in Czechia and why
To gain deeper insight into the factors behind support for homeschooling in Czechia, we used representative survey data collected in February 2024. Analysis of the public opinion data suggests that homeschooling in Czechia is not tied to religious conservatism or populist distrust of elites, nor is it related to mistrust of the state or its political representatives. Instead, homeschooling appears to function primarily as pragmatic ‘escape route’…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (12 works) · Pedagogy (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities (5 works) · Higher education (5 works)