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Analysis of Volunteering in Region České Budějovice
WOLMUTH, Karolína
The bachelor thesis deals with the issue of volunteering. The aim of this work is the analysis of volunteering in the České Budějovice region. To fulfill this goal is introduced the basic theoretical background and description of the current state of volunteering in the Czech Republic. In the first three chapters of the thesis there is a definition of volunteering, its use in the social sphere, and the approach of the Czech public to volunteering. Volunteer management is described in more detail, with an emphasis on the process of selecting volunteers, ensuring their preparation for volunteering, and attention is also paid to the evaluation and motivation of volunteers. The practical part describes the realized qualitative research, whose aim was to analyze the implementation of volunteering in the České Budějovice region. The main research question was: What does the issue of volunteer management currently look like in the České Budějovice area? Five partial research questions were derived from this question. The methods of data collection were semi-structured interviews and also the analysis of documents. The sample consisted of five communication partners from organizations in the České Budějovice region, who act as a volunteer coordinator. Data from interviews were analyzed using grounded theory design. The outcome was to propose a new theory in which emphasis is placed on strengthening the role of supervision in volunteer management. Volunteers do not use supervision, and contact the coordinators if necessary. However, coordinators are burdened with increased administration and cannot take responsibility for the work of the employees of organizations where volunteers operate and who should provide the necessary support and guidance to volunteers. In addition, supervision should serve as a tool to strengthen the identity of the volunteer and to increase interest in volunteering in society through awareness raising by well-run volunteers.
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The Labour Market and the Issue of Employment of Special Educational Needs Teachers
ŠÍMOVÁ, Aneta
The thesis "The Labour Market and the Issue of Employment of Special Educational Needs Teachers" deals with the question of what criteria special educational needs teachers have to meet, if they want to be qualified workers in the field. The thesis is divided into a theoretical and empirical part. The theoretical part is divided into three chapters. The first chapter explains the subject and aim of special needs education, its legislation, and the employment of special educational needs teachers. The second chapter focuses on the competencies of special educational needs teachers and on further development of these competencies. The last, third chapter deals with supervision as important part of occupational burnout prevention. The empirical part describes the chosen goals and the survey questions. It also contains a description of the employed survey method, which was semi-structured interviews. The main goals of this thesis were to establish the specialization of special educational needs teachers in the real-life work environment, to map out their attitude towards self-education in their profession, and to map out the workplace requirements from the management towards special educational needs teachers. The probands included in this survey were both special educational needs teachers and their supervisors in the Strakonice region. We found out which requirements special educational needs teachers have to meet, ranging from personality traits to education. We encountered some concurrence as well as differences among the probands in their opinions on the employment of recent graduates and on the possibilities of developing one's skills, self-reflection, and self-knowledge. The emphasis is on the importance of various skills and abilities that special educational needs teachers must possess.
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Risk of power in helping professions.
BÁRTEK, Lukáš
This thesis addresses aspects of helping professions that could represent a certain ?risk? of using power; it especially focuses on a social work sphere. In the first part, the thesis deals with basic terms that are essential for this issue. It pays attention to power itself and its specifications and connections to the helping professions. Further, it focuses on characteristics of terms that apply to the helping professions and social work or on a formulation of aspects which represent a risk of an improper use of power. In addition, it deals with the topics of burnout, helper?s syndrome or supervision as spheres that are closely related to the topic. The second part of the thesis refers to the necessity of ethics application in social work and in the helping professions in general. It is based on values from which the helping professions arise and which are crucial to them. It focuses on the Code of Ethics of social workers as a tool to solve ethical problems and on its justification in social work. It attempts to introduce ethical theories which are crucial and relevant to this sphere, and further - on the basis of these theories - to outline the basic ethical principles which play an important role in the ethical justification of proper decisions and in the use of power in the context of helping professions. The aim of this thesis is to describe an ethical framework of helping professions themselves and subsequently to analyze the problem of power in helping professions. This will be used as a basis on which to formulate basic ethical starting points that should be taken into account during the execution of helping professions.
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