Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2026, 62(4)
Building a Responsible Future: Civic and Environmental Education in Central Europe (Part 1)

Civic and Environmental Education in a Shared Perspective

Petr Bláha, Roman Kroufek, Vladimír Naxera

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2026, 62(4): 263-266  

The Implementation of Climate Change Education in the National Curricula of Selected European Countries

Miloslav Kolenatý, Sára Petrásková

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2026, 62(4): 267-298 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2026.017  

The study explored the state of the implementation of climate change education in the national school curricula of selected European countries. The initial research phase focused on analysing the presence of climate change education keywords in available European national curricula through a full-text search. The follow-up research utilised a multiple case study to investigate the scope of and the approach to the implementation of climate change education in the national curricula of the Czech Republic, Finland, Spain, and Estonia. The results of the multiple case study are discussed within the context of contemporary climate change education theories...

Synthesizing Four Models Integrating Civic and Environmental Education: Towards an Educational Supermodel for Central Europe?

Ondřej Filipec

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2026, 62(4): 299-324 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2026.019  

Various models are used to teach environmental issues, with the potential to integrate civic and environmental education. Although these models provide valuable frameworks for teachers in Central Europe, they are rarely implemented. This article presents four such models, including the models of environmental literacy, citizen science, place-based education and biophilic education, and reviews the current state of research in this area, the main aspects of these models and the challenges involved in their implementation. Next, these models are deconstructed into their vital components and placed within the synthetic Integrated Model for Multidimensional...

Participation as a Shared Lever for Civic and Environmental Education: Student Voice, Empowerment, and Perceived Control in the Czech Case and Central European Perspective

Roman Kroufek, Petr Bláha, Vladimír Naxera

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2026, 62(4): 325-347 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2026.023  

Civic and environmental education are often institutionally separated, although many contemporary public challenges—including climate adaptation, land use, mobility, energy transitions, and local environmental conflicts—require both democratic deliberation and socio-environmental action. This article develops an integrative conceptual review of student participation as a shared mechanism that may connect these domains. Rather than treating participation as a universally beneficial educational practice, we conceptualise it as an institutional opportunity structure whose effects depend on its quality, consequentiality, equity, and legitimacy....

Vzpomínka na Eduarda Maura

Zdeněk R. Nešpor

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2026, 62(4): 349-351  

Jan Keller: Služby a služebníci, pohled kulturně-historický

Rostislav Gramskopf

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2026, 62(4): 353-360  

Richard Ronald, Rowan Arundel (eds.): Families, Housing and Property Wealth in a Neoliberal World

Jana Závodská

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2026, 62(4): 360-362  

Agata Zysiak: Limiting Privilege: Upward Mobility within Higher Education in Socialist Poland

Nikola Balaš

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2026, 62(4): 362-367