Blog | Social Inclusion Course | Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University

27 Jan 2018

Kyriaki Vagionaki: Homeless people: An invisible population

Another day has begun. I woke up, I made coffee and I run to catch the bus to go to university. After a long and a tiring day I returned home. I opened my bag, found my keys and unlocked the door. I changed my clothes and I relaxed on the sofa. Daily routine of mine, yours and millions of people around the world.

27 Jan 2018

Manioudakis Eleftherios: To be, or not “to be a man”?

Try to imagine a group of men walking down the street. You see them walking in herds. There may only be three of them, if not more, but you can tell from their body language that they feel inherently confident, especially when compared to women, who usually walk cramped, as if protected from all sides.

11 Jan 2018

Tereza Lusková: Special schools …For whom?

The concept of special schools divides the society into several groups, according to different perceptions of the concept. Are there special schools for sick, disabled, children with mental health issues or for ethnically different ones? Unfortunately, the trend in the Czech Republic is primarily to regard these children as problematic, actually, no matter what kind of school they attend.

11 Jan 2018

Monika Salamánková: Is secondary school for the more talented pupils or more ambitious?

Education and inclusion. Most of people immediately imagine example of elementary school and Roma children or disabled children. In case somebody mentions term inclusion/exclusion in education sphere, we are used to think in accustomed frames thanks to mainstream media. Me either.

29 Dec 2017

Elizabeth Anderson: Geographical Determinism and Terrorist Attacks in the United States.

After the lecture of De-radicalization, I was thinking about how our world is geographically and politically divided. Through social exclusion is a natural process but when combined with geographical determinism becomes problematically harmful. One way we categorize and divide ourselves is through the nation state.

14 Dec 2017

Marek Bartošík: Unpopular child is not a permanent status. Nothing lasts forever

Social scientists say that social excluded groups do not have access to education, work, power, and political participation. Excluded pupils at school do not fulfil these conditions. They go to school, then get a job and vote rights. However, their enemies made them excluded from a class and create a very specific example of exclusion which I find dangerous.

14 Dec 2017

Michaela Špringlová: The roots of prejudices

When we, as humans, think about our relationship to animals, we should notice the great inconsistency in what we do to these animals as a whole society, and what we (presumably) think is right. As has been suggested, people are assumed to have a rather positive relationship to animals – they often own pets to which they can create deep emotional ties.

14 Dec 2017

Filip Vodvářka: Utopia: no signs of social exclusion on primary schools

The concept of social exclusion and inclusion is one of the very important topics in the social sciences. Let’s think, how would you explain social exclusion to someone who has never heard about this before?