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Creation as the way of reaching educational goals in high school literary education
Grulichová, Veronika ; Komberec, Filip (advisor) ; Laufková, Veronika (referee)
This work deals with creation in literary education. In its view creation is not only an addition or a way of education results verification. It is considered to be a way how to achieve literary goals. It also deals with contemporary didactics teachers' views and context of Czech curriculum. It looks for specific forms of creative work in professional publications and analyses chosen current textbooks in the terms of questions and tasks for students. It comes to a conclusion that professional publications can be seen or used as a source of particular methods and principles and textbooks can be used as a database of appropriate texts from the didactics point of view. Furthermore, the work brings the reflection of a few own lessons based on the creation. Studying the resources leads to the view, that creation is a source of constructivism, an option not to learn completed conclusions but to achieve literary knowledge through a process by working with an artistic text. Students are learning by making an artifact and communicating about it. The pivotal point of work in the class is a reflexion which helps students to take the knowledge adopted by creation. Most often creation in literature is put into practice by creative writing or by drama methods. It is still possible to find and make meaningful...
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Cooperation between a Public Library and Kinderkarten: A Multiplecase Study
Hajduchová, Hana ; Laufková, Veronika (advisor) ; Novotná, Kateřina (referee)
Bachelor's thesis aims to describe the actual state and options for cooperation between a public library and a kindergarten. The thesis is focused on supporting preschool children in reading. The text is interested in developing reading habits in preschool children and describes the kindergartens, their support in this topic and the state of the public libraries in relation to the preschool children. In respect of the chosen subject and the aim of the thesis, used methods are quality research, specifically design of the case study containing cooperation of three kindergartens and the public library. Data are collected using half structured in-depth interview and content analysis of spaces for readers in the kindergarten and the public library. From the research outcome it is clear that the kindergarten stimulate cooperation with the public libraries especially for introducing children to the library's space. This action is also beneficial for the public library in the rise of readers.
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Pre-school library in kindergarten: action research
Hercíková, Lenka ; Laufková, Veronika (advisor) ; Neumann, Lukáš (referee)
This thesis is based on the need to lead children to read at an early age. International research (PIRLS, PISA) shows, that the children's library in kindergarten has an inherently positive impact on the development of reading literacy. The aim of this thesis is to map the equipment of the children's library in the Elíšek kindergarten and to find out for what activities children use the books for. How teachers use them in their work and, also to map the children's home backround and if parents leads children read in their families. The aim of the action research is to improve the work with the book in the kindergarten, to involve in directional activities and build a new reading corner with selected books for children, various secondary activities and equipment. KEYWORDS Preschool age, reading illiteracy, literary award, genres of children's literature, reading corner in childrenʹs group, action research
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Work with children's literature on the topic of disability with preschool children in kindergarten
Nováková, Kateřina ; Laufková, Veronika (advisor) ; Kadrnožková, Monika (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with what children's books are suitable for opening the topic of a child's life with special educational needs (SEN) and what methods of working with the book (including reading strategies) to use to convey this topic to children through books. The theoretical part deals with the characteristics of children with SEN in preschool education and their education in preschool type facilities; it further mentions work with a book within preschool children. Based on the obtained information, the analysis of framework educational program for preschool education is performed. It also deals with reading literacy, pre-literacy and its development. It mentions the creation of a positive attitude towards reading and how to work with the book in kindergarten. The practical part posed as a problem the development of prosocial behavior of children through work with a book on the topic of life of children with special educational needs. The practical part focused on whether the children's literature mediating the life of a child with special educational needs is used in kindergarten and whether this topic is not very demanding for preschool children. It was done through individual lessons with three books mediating children with disabilities in kindergarten (Madlenka and glasses, Strakáč...
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Interpretation of the main characters of The Witcher Saga based on qualitative research
Válek, Filip ; Laufková, Veronika (advisor) ; Starý, Karel (referee)
This thesis explores how upper primary schoolers interpret characters of the popular series The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski. Given their reading experience and mental development, pupils at this age are becoming the series' target audience. The theoretical part of the thesis introduces the reader to the world of The Witcher through the life and work of its author. Model character descriptions are also provided. They attempt to complexly explore possible ways of describing select characters from the series through various means of characterization. In the practical part of the thesis, character typology is offered based on some key traits shared by certain characters. This typology is then used in a small-scale qualitative research done on readers who have read the series and are capable of interpreting its characters. Three main types of characters are introduced - protagonists (characters connected by their destiny), antagonists (characters capable of evil acts in the name of prophecy) and other characters who are connected with the protagonists by shared goals and heroic transformation. The aim of this study is to show how works of modern fantasy might be used in Czech literature classes and to compare pupils' interpretations with expectations of how characters might be perceived. Despite the...
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Death mediated to pupils through children's literature
Němečková, Kateřina ; Laufková, Veronika (advisor) ; Komberec, Filip (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the topic of death and its mediation to pupils of younger school age. The aim of the thesis is to find and introduce appropriate literature for younger school-age pupils and to offer ways of conveying a complicated topic through the literature to younger school-age pupils. The theoretical part of this thesis deals with the definition of death and the concepts related to it. It also defines the concept of the younger school age and describes the emotional development of the child at this age. The thesis also provide space for the definition of literature for the younger school age and for the characteristics of publishing houses concerned with publishing the books with the theme of death for children of younger school age. The theoretical part also introduces, through brief annotations, selected titles of literary works conveying the theme of death. At the end of the theoretical chapter of this thesis, the background of the RWCT program is described, the methods of this program are introduced, and the three-phase E-U-R learning model used in the preparation of the lessons of the practical part of the thesis is specified. The practical part then defines the objectives of the research, which are: to select suitable titles for the research, to design teaching lessons with...
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Form of final assessment of pupils at the time of distance learning (COVID-19): pupils and teachers point of view
Malinová, Zuzana ; Laufková, Veronika (advisor) ; Novotná, Kateřina (referee)
The thesis, titled The form of evaluation in the time of distant learning (COVID-19, deals with the form of final evaluation in the time of distant learning, focusing on positives and negatives of individual forms of evaluation and analyzes the preferences of students as well as their teachers from different viewpoints, i.e. motivation for learning. This thesis is divided into two main parts - theoretical and empirical one. The theoretical part deals with the school evaluation and approach to it, its functions, forms, but also its history. A chapter can be found there about pupils' motivation for learning, main principles and methods developing pupil's motivation for learning or the main obstacles in developing pupils' motivation during schoolwork. The theoretical part is closed up by a chapter about a final evaluation on the school report in the time of COVID-19. The aim of the empirical part is to identify whether the change in the final evaluation due to distant learning in pandemic COVID-19 suited the pupils, to describe the opinions of the teachers and pupils of the secondary school and lower classes of grammar school on various forms of evaluation, to describe the teachers' experience with evaluation in the context of distant learning and to subsequently compare the pupils' and teachers'...
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