Doc. PhDr. Alena Hošpesová, Ph.D. is the associated professor of the Faculty of Education of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. Her research interests focus mainly on primary school teacher education (pre and in-service) and ways of improvement of teachers´ competencies (via self and joint reflection, problem posing and methods of inquiry-based education). She is an active member of the Czech and international research community (e.g., she was a member of the IPC PME; the organizer of several conferences of ERME; she was a member of the informal community Learners´ Perspective Study).