Vít Šťastný

• 2024
  associate professorship (Doc.)
  Charles University, Czech Republic
• 2012-2016
  Education studies (Ph.D.)
  Charles University, Czech Republic
• 2005-2010
  Education – Social work (Master degree)
  Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic
• 2007-2010
  Business French (Bachelor degree)
  Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic

• 2022-2024
  project n. 22-01308S Parental demand for shadow education: Contexts, processes, determinants and outcomes of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GAČR)
  principal investigator
• 2021-2022
  Visegrad Fund Strategic Grant: Preventing post-COVID Social Exclusion Together (coordinator Kraków University, Poland)
  main investigator for the Czech Republic
• 2021-2022
  Reasons of the shortage of teachers
  member of the research team
• 2021-2022
  Features of ability grouping in Czech schools
  member of the research team
• 2018-2020
  project n. 18-00939S The link between mainstream and shadow education: the case of Czech lower-secondary schools of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GAČR)
  principal investigator
• 2018-2020
  project n. 18-19056S Factors related to the cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes of vocational students. The role of the sense of academic futility and school culture of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GAČR)
  member of the research team
• 2015-2018
  Czech Longitudinal Study in Education
  member of the research team
• 2015-2016
  project n. 178515 The shadow education in upper-secondary schools of the Grant Agency of Charles University in Prague (GAUK)
  principal investigator
  

• Šťastný, V. (2024). The expansion and diversity of shadow education: Global perspectives, local contexts. Faculty of Education, Charles University.
• Šťastný, V. (2023). Shadow education in the context of early tracking: between-track differences in the Czech Republic. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 53(3), 380-398.
• Šťastný, V. & Chvál, M. (2023). Different subjects, different incentives: Private tutoring and perceived instructional quality in Czech lower-secondary schools. International Journal of Educational Development, 98, 102737.
• Šťastný, V., Chvál, M., & Walterová, E. (2023). School Partnerships with Private Tutoring Providers: Weighing the Risks and Benefits by Czech School Principals. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 22(2), 463–479.
• Kobakhidze, M. N., & Šťastný, V. (2023). Theoretical Perspectives on the Role of Parents in Shadow Education. Studia paedagogica, 28(2), 73-95.
• Šťastný, V. (2022). Shadow education: A double-edged sword for Czech mainstream schools in the competitive educational market. Research Papers in Education, 37(6), 1042–1063.
• Hoidn, S., & Šťastný, V. (2023). Labour Market Success of Initial Vocational Education and Training Graduates: A Comparative Study of Three Education Systems in Central Europe. Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 75 (4), 629-653.
• Šťastný, V., Chvál, M., & Walterová, E. (2021). An ordinary moonlighting activity? Determinants of the provision of private tutoring by Czech schoolteachers. International Journal of Educational Development, 82, 1–11.
• Šťastný, V., Greger, D., & Soukup, P. (2021). Does the quality of school instruction relate to the use of additional tutoring in science? Comparative analysis of five post-socialist countries. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 32(1), 24–46.
• Šťastný, V. & Walterová, E. (2019). Vliv školy na využívání soukromého doučování.[School influence on private tutoring use]. Studia paedagogica, 24(1). 51–78.
• Šťastný, V., Svobodová, Z., & Rochex, J.-Y. (2017). Školní vzdělávání ve Francii. [School education in France]. Praha: Karolinum.
• Šťastný, V. (2017). Availability of Czech school play-centres. Pedagogická orientace, 27(4), 575–598.
• Šťastný, V. (2017). Challenges, pitfalls, and opportunities of researching shadow education through internet. E-Methodology, 4(1), 95-113.
• Šťastný, V. (2017). Soukromé hodiny doučování na středních školách: diagnóza a směry dalšího výzkumu. [Private tutoring lessons in upper-secondary schools: Diagnosis and future research directions]. Pedagogická orientace, 27(1), 29–56.
• Šťastný, V. (2017). Private tutoring lessons supply – Insights from online advertising in the Czech Republic. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 47(4), 561-579. 
• Šťastný, V. (2016). Klíčová témata a metody ve výzkumu soukromého doučování. [Key topics and methods in private supplementary tutoring research]. Orbis Scholae, 10(1), 35-62.
• Šťastný, V. (2016). Private supplementary tutoring in the Czech Republic. European Education, 48(1), 1-22.
• Šťastný, V. (2015). Soukromé doučování pohledem společenskovědních disciplín a teorií. [Private tutoring phenomenon from the point of view of social sciences and theories]. Studia Paedagogica, 20(1), 45-66.
• Šťastný, V. (2014). Soukromé doučování a vzdělávací politiky v Evropě. [Private supplementary tutoring and education policies in Europe]. Pedagogická orientace, 24(3), 353–374.

Scholarships and internships abroad

• 1/5/2024–8/5/2024
  Erasmus+ staff exchange 
  Eötvös Loránd University Institute of Intercultural Psychology and Education, Budapest, Hungary
• 5/10/2019–20/10/2019
  The Belt and Road Shanghai autumn study project on „Policy and practice: Teacher professional development“
  Research Institute for International and Comparative Education, Shanghai Normal University
  workshop
• 15/5/2018–25/5/2018
  Research Institute for International and Comparative Education, Shanghai Normal University
  research internship
• 1/5/2017–31/5/2017
  Institut für Bildungswissenschaft, Universität Wien
  research internship
• 1/11/2015–30/11/2015
  Comparative Education Research Centre, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
  research internship
• 18/11/2013–24/11/2013
  study visit of Francie (overseas department Reunion) – SVES programme (CEDEFOP)
• academic year 2010/2011
  internship at upper-secondary school Jeanne d´Arc-Saint Ivy, Pontivy, France.

Community services

• member of CERA (Czech Education Research Association, ČAPV)
• reviewer for journals British Educational Research Journal, European Education, Pedagogická orientace, Orbis Scholae, Studia Paedagogica