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Shaping of Students' Attitudes in Geographical Education - The Issue of Ips Typographus Outbreaks
Faflák, Jiří ; Matějček, Tomáš (advisor) ; Hanus, Martin (referee)
Shaping of students' attitudes in geographical education - the issue of Ips typographus outbreaks Abstract The diploma thesis deals with shaping the students' attitudes by utilising various texts during the geography classes. This experiment is shown on particular problem of Spruce Bark Beetle in the National Park of Šumava. There are two main streams towards this issue of Spruce Bark Beetle-one of them promotes the idea of incorporating the human intervention, while reducing the disaster, the other follows the opposite attitude towards the outbreak of the Spruce Bark Beetle, and that is not to intervene at all and to leave the destructed vegetation to regenerate. The backbone of the thesis is represented by a survey that aims at finding attitudes towards the problem mentioned above. Moreover, the survey also questions the way the attitudes change depending on critical reading of distinctive texts. Two main questions are posed in this research. The results are graphically depicted and commented upon in the thesis. The research shows the extent to which it is possible to influence the students' opinion utilising quality study texts. Key words: Spruce Bark Beetle (Ips typographus), National park Šumava, Spruce Bark Beetle outbreak, geographical education, critical thinking, active reading, shaping of attitudes
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Topographical concepts at different levels of education
Aronová, Magdaléna ; Matějček, Tomáš (advisor) ; Hátle, Jan (referee)
Topographical concepts at different levels of education Keywords: topographical concepts, teaching topographical concepts, regional geography, mental maps of pupils, quantitative research - survey, qualitative research - structured interviews. The aim of this diploma thesis is a comparison of pupils' knowledge of topographical concepts at various levels of education, specifically in primary schools and corresponding grades in grammar schools in the Karlovy Vary Region. In the first part is presenting a brief excursion into the history of regional geography as a science. The following extensive chapter is dealing with general concepts, topographical concepts and their selection and application for teaching. The practical part of thesis includes my own research as a quantitative research survey among pupils of different types of schools and qualitative research in the form of structured interviews. These interviews were aimed at geography teachers and future teachers qualified to teach geography. Main results of quantitative research were summarized in the set of six aggregated mental maps of pupils from each type of school. In conclusion of thesis there is an evaluation of survey results compared with geography teachers' opinions.
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Evaluation of the Quality of the Tutorials Offered by the Centres of Environmental Education
Klímová, Tereza ; Matějček, Tomáš (advisor) ; Tesařová, Barbora (referee)
This thesis deals with quality evaluation ofr ecological educational programmes that can be used to supplement high school Geography curricula. It focuses on a selection of ecological education centers offering these programmes in Prague and central Bohemia. Only the centers that allowed for observing their lessons and seminars were included in the thesis. This thesis contains details about various of these programmes and their topics and aims, along with an analysis pointing at which skills these programmes are designed to develop. The main goal of this thesis is to evaluate what various educational centers have to offer as far as geography oriented courses are concerned. Next, the thesis strives to ascertain which activies in particular ecological programmes are geography oriented and what skills do they develop. Apart from other things, the thesis provides information about running programmes. Those are evaluated using structured charts. This thesis is a continuation of my bachelor's project where I checked offers of all available ecology education centres in the Czech Republic and searched for programmes that could be used when teaching Geohraphy. These programmes were sorted and noted in a chart - this could enable Geography teacher to choose the best prorgamme for their class. This thesis is...
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Assesment of landscape permeability - example of Prague highway bypass
Štambergová, Barbora ; Romportl, Dušan (advisor) ; Matějček, Tomáš (referee)
Permeability of the landscape is crucial for the survival of many species. However, nowadays is quickly increasing the landscape fragmentation and the connectivity of landscape elements is decreasing. Fragmentation of the landscape is mainly affected by road constructions, which cause even other significant ecological impacts. In connection with recovery of the permeability of the landscape are therefore made these line barriers often passable. Construction of the road over- and under- passes is common measure, but the remaining question is if constructions of these objects help to achieve required measures. The practical part of this thesis is therefore focused on analysis of selected passageways of Prague highway bypass and on the evaluation of their using. Keywords: Landscape fragmentation, landscape permability, ecoducts, mitigation measures
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Complex Geographical Tasks Inspired by PISA Research
Šilhánová, Martina ; Řezníčková, Dana (advisor) ; Matějček, Tomáš (referee)
This diploma thesis outlines a set of three complex geographical tasks with different thematic focus inspired by the PISA research of scientific literacy. Using these tasks selected skills and knowledge of students are verified. The research examines how different are levels of mastery of selected skills and knowledge of primary school students and eight-year gymnasium students, and among the boys and girls thereof. This research is complemented by a questionnaire survey among teachers of tested students. In the testing there were involved 196 students from seven primary schools and 202 students of eight-year schools.
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Assesment of land use influence on landscape naturalness
Kaňková, Helena ; Romportl, Dušan (advisor) ; Matějček, Tomáš (referee)
1 Assesment of land use influence on landscape naturalness Abstract Human activities are putting an increasing pressure on natural areas. Complex understanding and evaluation of human impact on the environment is considered to be a key tool to preserve natural balance. Biodiversity was chosen as proxy for naturalness as it has been recognized as one of the main components of environmental stability. Several different indices has been developed to assess human-induced changes in biodiversity. In this study, mean abundance of original species relative to their abundance in undisturbed ecosystems (MSA) is used as an indicator for current state of naturalness. Indicator MSA is built on simple cause-effect relationships between environmental drivers and biodiversity impacts, based on state-of-the-art knowledge. Drivers considered are landcover change, land-use intensity, fragmentation and infrastructure development. As most of biodiversity indices, MSA illustrate prevailingly poor condition of nature as a result of human induced pressures, especially land cover change. Considering constantly increasing population and economic development human pressure grow is likely to continue during the coming decades with irreversible loss in the diversity of life on the Earth. Keywords: Mean species abundance (MSA) - land...
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Spatial externalities in transport: Prague case study
Tomášek, Radek ; Matějček, Tomáš (advisor) ; Novák, Jakub (referee)
Spatial externalities in transport: Prague case study Summary: This diploma thesis deals with spatial externalities in transport, namely occupation of land in the centre of Prague. It is divided into eleven chapters, which are further divided into individual subchapters. Literature review, in which the theoretical part of this work is contained, deals with the issue of externalities in transport and real estate evaluation and is listed in chapter four to seven. Practical part of thesis, which is primarily focused on quantifying and evaluating of occupation of land is contained in chapter eight. In its introduction there is also mentioned the methodology of work, including the data and programs used. Following part is a brief description of the monitored area. Based on the results of quantification and evaluation of occupation of land by the transport infrastructure there is subsequently elaborated discussion of possible use of the acquired knowledge. Ninth chapter is the conclusion in which the objectives of this work are repeated and thanks to their fulfilment also answers to the research questions that the author put in the introduction. Key words: externalities, sustainable transport, occupation of land, land evaluation, paid parking zones
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Geographic skills of elementary and secondary school students
Holeček, František ; Matějček, Tomáš (advisor) ; Hanus, Martin (referee)
The ame of this thesis is a partial analysis of survey, which preceded the elaboration of thesis and was prepared by a wider team. Secondary school students and older elementary school students took a test focused on problem solving skills and information literacy abilities in geography. Specifically: searching for data in a table, comparing tables with graphs, working with maps (searching for data and information, comparing with other resources), asking questions (searching for the causes of the current state of some phenomena), analysing data from different types of resources (tables, graphs, maps), transcribing data from table to the graph, and independent thinking on the basis of the information given. Apart from the test, they also filled out a survey on their opinions about the test questions and the frequency of practicing these skills in the classroom. Their teachers filled out the analogical survey. This thesis is analysing the part of survey results and it's specifically focused on the relation between the teachers' and the students' views on the test results and the tested skills and abilities.
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The occurence of neophytes in Smutná basin
Bartoš, Jan ; Matějček, Tomáš (advisor) ; Čuda, Jan (referee)
The paper summarizes the results of the monitoring of selected invasive neophytes in the basin Smutná. Mapping was performed on 6 sections of watercourses (approx. 18 km) of riparian vegetation. Furthermore, in selected section fytocenological survey was performed and species abundance was recorded in riparian vegetation and in the floodplain Load riparian vegetation by selected invasive neophytes is rather mediocre in comparison with other rivers in the Czech Republic. There have been reported following taxa: Echinocystis lobata, Impatiens glandulifera, Impatiens parviflora, Reynoutria sp., Robinia pseudacacia and Lupinus polyphyllus. Despite the taxa of invasive neophytes in the basin Smutná occupy multiple segments, the total number of individuals is lower. For selected invasive neophytes growing in riparian vegetation Smutná there were no major differences in observed indicators during the two-years development period from 2010 to 2012. Significantly positive correlation between the degree of coverage and distance from a watercourse was found by Impatiens glandulifera. With the increasing distance from the watercourse its coverage decreases. The same dependence was also demonstrated by Echinocystis lobata, but due to its small representation in the phytosociological images this finding can not...
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