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Geographical literacy: various approaches to its definition and verification
Kalfusová, Helena ; Řezníčková, Dana (advisor) ; Chromý, Pavel (referee)
The present baccalaureate work deals with geographical literacy. It has as the major aims to define geographical literacy in accordance with contemporary professional literature, to investigate the presence of elements of geographical education incorporated in the National Education Frame of preschool and primary education levels, and to indicate basic means of its verification. Each if these aims requires to seek answers to the following research questions: 1. Is the notion of geographical literacy unanimously defined in professional literature? 2. Which of the requirements posed on the children of the preschool and the 1st and 2nd primary school levels, given in the National Education Frame, represent fundamentals of geographical literacy. Are these requirements continuously developed? 3. How can the basic geographical literacy be tested? Each of these questions implied a specific approach: literature retrieval, content analysis of the National Education Frame, survey of the existing verification methods and case studies. The paper is divided into five chapters, dialing with the subject of geographical literacy in general (the first chapter), with its components (the second chapter) and with the geographical literacy in particular (the third chapter). The fourth chapter is concerned with the...
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Geographical literacy: various approaches to its definition and verification
Kalfusová, Helena ; Řezníčková, Dana (advisor) ; Chromý, Pavel (referee)
The present baccalaureate work deals with geographical literacy. It has as the major aims to define geographical literacy in accordance with contemporary professional literature, to investigate the presence of elements of geographical education incorporated in the National Education Frame of preschool and primary education levels, and to indicate basic means of its verification. Each if these aims requires to seek answers to the following research questions: 1. Is the notion of geographical literacy unanimously defined in professional literature? 2. Which of the requirements posed on the children of the preschool and the 1st and 2nd primary school levels, given in the National Education Frame, represent fundamentals of geographical literacy. Are these requirements continuously developed? 3. How can the basic geographical literacy be tested? Each of these questions implied a specific approach: literature retrieval, content analysis of the National Education Frame, survey of the existing verification methods and case studies. The paper is divided into five chapters, dialing with the subject of geographical literacy in general (the first chapter), with its components (the second chapter) and with the geographical literacy in particular (the third chapter). The fourth chapter is concerned with the...
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