Member of management
leader of the Teacher Tribe

Blanka Pravdová

Blanka Pravdová has been dealing with teachers' self-concept and professional training of future teachers for a long time. For 5 years, she devoted herself to the innovation of practice and the teaching of teacher students at the Faculty of Educationof Masaryk University in Brno, where she also graduated from the doctoral study program in Pedagogy. For twenty years, she taught Czech language and literature, civic education and social sciences at grammar schools.

Experience and education

  • 1988–1993 Faculty of Education, Palacky University Olomouc, Teaching general education subjects for 2nd and 3rd grade, Czech language, civic education and basics of social sciences

  • 2009–2015 Faculty of Education, Masaryk University Brno, Doctoral study program Pedagogy, field of pedagogy

  • 1994–2011 Private six-year high school in Ostrava – Teacher of subjects Czech language and literature, basics of social sciences, civic education, social science seminar, media education; class teacher; faculty teacher at the University of Ostrava; school education program coordinator; educational consultant; preventer of socio-pathological phenomena; ISO internal auditor

  • 2011–2012 The first renewed real grammar school in Ostrava – Teacher of subjects Czech language and literature, civic education, roots of European culture; class teacher

  • Head of the Theater Club at the First Restored Real Grammar School in Ostrava

  • 2012–present Faculty of Pedagogy, Masaryk University, Department of Pedagogy – coordinator of teaching practice innovation at PdF MU; deputy head of the department; subject teachers: seminar on the theory and methodology of education, pedagogical communication, seminar on teaching practice, application of pedagogy, school pedagogy, education in the work of a teacher

  • 2013 Co-investigator of the Teacher in Theory and Practice project, PdF MU

  • 2013–2014 Co-researcher of the project Systemic support for the permanent professional development of teaching staff by connecting the Faculty of Pedagogy with schools in South Moravia – Educoland, PdF MU

  • 2013–2016 Co-investigator of the project Acquisition of tacit knowledge by teacher students during their teaching practice, PdF MU

  • 2014 Co-investigator of the project Knowledge base of teaching and its reflection, PdF MU

  • Author and lecturer of the training program for trainee teachers, PdF MU

  • Author of the monograph I as a teacher: the professional self-concept of a teacher student, PdF MU

  • 2015 Co-investigator of the project Determinants of effectiveness of teaching practices, PdF MU

  • 2014–present Teacher live, Depositum Bonum Foundation – Co-author of the Teacher live project