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Parents´ and students´ attitudes to truancy
VESECKÁ, Nela
Truancy is a behavioural disorder characterized by the student wilfully staying away from school without permission or appropriate excuse. The student's absence is always excused by the teacher rather than by one of the student's parents, upon a written request of the student's legal representative (if he or she is a minor), or the student himself/herself (if he/she is of age), and invariably in accordance with the school's rules. Truancy is a serious offence; the student intentionally avoids compulsory school attendance, thus violating not only the school's rules, but also the Education Act. The socio-pathological phenomenon mentioned above is not a rare occurrence in today's school practice, having become commonplace in both elementary and secondary education. Owing to its serious nature, topicality and potential negative impacts, it merits a deeper examination. The present bachelor thesis, Attitudes of Parents and Students to Truancy, attempts to identify views of today's ninth-grade students of elementary schools on truancy-related problems by means of an analysis of different components of their attitudes. Its objective is therefore to map opinions, emotional reactions and behavioural trends of the students with respect to the object of the attitude. At the same time, it outlines how the students perceive the attitudes of their parents to the same problem. The work is divided into two principal parts. The theoretical part summarises existing knowledge on truancy-related problems. The first chapter deals with truancy in general, presenting relevant terms and definitions. Subsequent chapters are dedicated, in particular, to the typology of truancy, a detailed analysis of different causes of truancy, available solutions, and last but not least very important prevention of the socio-pathological phenomenon. The empirical part is based on a qualitative survey; a semi-structured interview technique was used to collect the data needed to meet the objective of the thesis. The respondents were pupils of the "Vltava" Elementary School in České Budějovice, who were interviewed, after their grades had been closed, using a set of questions based on the objective of the work and prepared in advance. The survey shows that today's ninth-grade students harbour mainly negative attitudes to truancy. They deny they would intentionally stay away from school, although most of them admit they often fake health problems to be able to stay home and avoid school. The paradoxical attitude is attributable to the fact that the students do not have any information on types of truancy and that they are not aware of potential consequences of the phenomenon, thus not knowing that even faking health problems qualifies as truancy. Furthermore, the survey has confirmed that parents' attitudes to truancy are negative as well, although they often support the socio-pathological phenomenon by allowing their offspring to stay at home without a serious reason at the time they should be at school. The reason is that they too are unaware of consequences of their acts. It should be noted that the results of the survey may be skewed to a substantial extent, as attitudes to truancy are affected by many factors. The bachelor thesis aims to present a comprehensive view on truancy-related issues. The results of the survey it presents could be made use of by teachers and educators who encounter the socio-pathological phenomenon in their everyday work, as well as by parents or general public interested in the topic.
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Problematika šikany na středních odborných učilištích
Čorňák, Petr
This bachelor thesis deals with the problem of bullying in secondary vocational schools located in Brno. The questionnaires distributed among students have been aimed at determining their level of bullying awareness, the possible presence of bullying and its various stages. In addition, the role of pedagogical staff in the prevention of bullying has been examined. This thesis includes recommendations on how to identify and solve a bullying problem in its early stage at these schools.
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Forms and level of collaboration of the basic schools with centres education care by prevention social patologic effects
SÁDOVSKÁ, Petra
This Bachelor{\crq}s thesis deals with the forms and the level of cooperation between primary schools (PS) and educational care centres (ECC) in the prevention of socially pathological phenomena. In the theoretical part I dealt with PS and the prevention programme that is progress here, school-age children as well as factors influencing the possibility that a socially pathological phenomenon, such as the personality, its development and socialisation, and the family, comes into being. I have further described the activity of ECC and the possibilities of their cooperation with PS, and finally, chosen pathological phenomena. The objective of this thesis was to survey the cooperation between PS and ECC in the prevention of socially pathological phenomena, its forms and level. The survey was conducted in the South Bohemian and Pardubice Regions. Further, it focused on comparing the regions surveyed and finding out whether the cooperation was sufficient. The objective laid down was achieved. To achieve this in the practical part, I used quantitative research, questioning method, questionnaire survey technique and controlled discussion. With this objective laid down as the basis, I set up two hypotheses. The first hypothesis: "More than a half of the primary schools questioned cooperate with the educational care centres in the prevention of socially pathological phenomena" was not confirmed. 44 per cent of primary schools cooperate with the educational care centres in the South Bohemian Region, and only 29 per cent in the Pardubice Region. However, it was found out that most of the not cooperating schools are country schools, which made up the majority in my research in both regions, and that is why the first hypothesis was not confirmed. The other hypothesis: "The number of educational care centres is not sufficient in neither of the regions surveyed, to cover the prevention of socially pathological phenomena in all primary schools in the localities mentioned" was confirmed by the evidence given by the staffs of both ECC and PS. The research has revealed that the cooperation between primary schools and ECC in the prevention of socially pathological phenomena is insufficient in both regions surveyed, and the situation is worse in the Pardubice Region than in the South Bohemian Region. To solve this problem, I propose that the number of the ECC and qualified staff members should be increased and its services should have a higher quality promotion. The thesis and its results may be used for the information of the professional and non-professional public and as a basis for further work and research focusing on prevention at PS.
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Prevention of socialy pathological phenomena in elementary school
PANENKOVÁ, Klára
The work deals with the incidence and prevention of socially pathological phenomena in elementary school, as prevention is organized and what kind of behavior that is not consistent with company standards, most elementary school students committed as possible to prevent this behavior, and who all should be on prevention in the educational process involved.
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BULLYING FROM THE TEACHERS /OF BASIC SCHOOLS/ PERSPECTIVE, IN THE COUNTRY AND IN PRAGUE (COMPARISON STUDY).
VORLOVÁ, Jana
The bachelor work deals with social pathological phenomenon of bullying at basic schools. The bullying is very complicated appearance which can be researched from various angles of view. I´ve concentrated at teacher´s opinions and especially their readiness at bullying solving. The bachelor work is concerned of comparisson resulting outcomes from two absolutely different environment - the country and Prague . In the theoretical part I tried to zoom in whole mechanism of bullying with its participants, development, diagnostics and prevention. In the practical part I´ve elaborated gained research results and done my best to find the connection in respondent´s attitudes to given topic. There were used the citations of Czech prime specialists as well as foreign author´s literature.
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