|
Role of physical activity in the prevention of childhood obesity
VRTALOVÁ, Jana
The thesis deals with physical activity in the prevention of childhood obesity. It is focused on children, namely pupils of the eighth and ninith grades of elementary school. Obesity is responsible for more human lives than both of the world wars and if we want this epidemic of obesity and problems associated with inactivity minimized, we have to start where it is most efficient and that is with children. The main objective is to explore physical activity in a selected group of pupils. Partial aim is to determine the prevalence of overweight and obesity in the investigated group of students using somatometric measurements in the selected location. Another objective is to determine how many of childrens parents did sports in the past or actualy do sports. The final goal is to prepare educational material for students about the importance of physical activity. The work is divided into two parts theoretical and practical. The theoretical part was compiled as a secondary data analysis. Sources of data and information originated from the Czech Republic and abroad in the form of scholarly books, journals and electronic resources. The contents of the theoretical part is focused on explenation of terms such as obesity, its consequences, complications, ways to prevent obesity, physical activity, appropriate kinds of physical activity and its effects on the human body. Distinctive part is the chapter dealing with the myths of obesity some of them are really surprising. The second part is practical part and includes its own research. The investigation was conducted in a primary school Komenského alej in Žatec for pupils of the eighth and ninth grades. File featured 107 pupils. The research was conducted as a quantitative survey complemented by measurements of somatometric indicators. The data were collected using a custom non-standardized questionnaire. The questionnaire contained 14 questions and two columns separated by line for recording the exact weight and height. We checked these data at pre-agreed periods.
|
| |
|
Methodist School-Based Prevention and his Role in Practical Elementary School and Special Elementary School
HAVLÍČKOVÁ, Markéta
The diploma thesis focuses at a theme of Methodology of school prevention and its role at the specialised primary school. The theoretical part is split into four main chapters which refers to the education system of children with need of special educative care in the Czech Republic. It defines socially pathological aspects including risk behaviour with its prevention. The last chapter describes primary prevention at schools using a minimal preventive program and work of a methodologist of school prevention. The practical part contains a quality-type research based on semistructural interviews with methodologists of school prevention at chosen specialised primary schools. The first task of my diploma thesis is to find out what advise parents need and ask for the most. The other task is to find out what aspects a methodologist of school prevention has to take into consideration during issuing a minimal preventive program. The questions have been asked in the way to find out how cooperation at the level of prevention between parents and specialised primary school works, and who else among school staff except of a methodologist participates in the issuing a minimal prevention program. I have contacted sixteen specialised primary schools in the South Bohemia region for the interview. Ten have replied, but only six of them were willing to cooperate further. Two of the schools are located in the regional city, the other four are from smaller cities of similar sizes. Interviews were carried out with methodologists of school prevention and questions were focused at the cooperation at the level of prevention between parents and specialised primary school, and possible influence of location of the school which could be reflected in the minimal prevention program.
|
|
Assessment of security of approaches to selected primary schools of Smichov and measures to its enhancement
Procházková, Barbora ; Novotný, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Milan, Milan (referee)
This bachelor thesis examines the issues relating to the safe walking of children and youth to the school facilities. Specifically, this work describes four primary schools located in Prague Smíchov. The surveyed school facilities include the Kořenského elementary school, teaching elementary school Drtinova with an extended language teaching, elementary school U Santošky and elementary school Grafická. The theoretical part includes a literature search, dealing with safety and security features that help meet objectives in this area. The analytical part identifies specific problems that are eliminated in the proposal of safety measures. The thesis contains analyses of bottlenecks in the selected area. Investigations are based on own surveys carried out directly in the field. The aim of the work is to draft safety measures that would help increase the safety of children walking to school in the surveyed area. In future, the thesis can serve as a basis for the study on transport or assist in the drafting of transport solution for Prague 5.
|
|
Analysis of biological features of Capsella bursa-pastoris (L.) Med.
Schneebergerová, Tereza ; Hamouz, Pavel (advisor) ; Holec, Josef (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to determinate selected biological characteristics of shepherd´s-purse, which have impact on the establishment and expansion of its populations in field crops. In particular, development of primary dormancy was studied and the effect of factors that influence the dormancy and germination of seeds was determined.
Shepard´s purse is an annual or biennial herb of the cabbage family, which is classified as winter annual weeds. Primarily infest the winter and spring crops, rapeseeds, potatoes or forages. It appears from lowland to foothills, so biological features of individual population can be very different. The ways of control are shallow tillage or herbicidal treatment.
After harvesting of ripe seed the first experiment was set to define the primary dormancy. Remaining seeds were stored in two different types of environment. Part of seeds was stored in the dry at 20 °C. Others seeds were stratified at 5 °C. Effect of storage conditions on primary dormancy was tested every two weeks. Seeds were germinated for
1 week in grow chamber under the influence of various factors such as different light mode, type of water and type of media for germination.
The results were processed by multiple-factor analysis of variance. Fresh seeds showed a strong primary dormancy at constant temperatures of 10 °C and 20 °C. Treatment with fluctuating temperature (20/10 °C), filter paper, drinking water and stored in dark had the highest germination rate (10.75 %). Seeds stratified at 5 °C had increase in germination in first weeks, but lost it during storage. On the other hand, seeds stored in dry at 20 °C firstly were in dormancy, but they lost it gradually during storage.
|
|
Didactic problem with children from the secular family conditions in religion subject at Primary school
PETRÁŠKOVÁ, Jiřina
In the first chapter there is a description of the family educational and socializational environment, the most important and the most principal factor in forming of the preconditions for good progress of a child. The child experiences the feeling of pleasure, safeness and love here, also the rituals, it obtains the trust and creates itself. The second chapter is all about school with the subjects. The child meets, as a pupil, the religion in the interdisciplinar relations there. The third chapter engages in optional Religious Studies in religion education and it inspects the contents of education with the position of both believing people as well as secular subject of education. The last chapter brings the survey with the perspective to the pupils and their motivations, which take the children from the secular families to Religious Studies.
|
|
Strategies of Agricultural Development in Angola. Case study: Catabola municipality
Rušarová, Kristina ; Havrland, Bohumil (advisor) ; Jiří, Jiří (referee)
Catabola municipality is one of the most damaged areas of civil war in Angola. Although the climatic as well as soil conditions are favorable for intensive agriculture, small farmers in the municipality are subsistence with the main income source of dried beans, dried cassava and vegetables. Hand-tool technology prevails in the Catabola municipality as it is employed in 95.38 % of the cultivated land of small farmers. The majority of small farmers uses only power of their family members (with a mean of 1.80 kW and standard deviation of 2.37 kW), hired labour is used by 38.0 % of small farmers. In addition, high engagement of child work was found out as 63.88 % of the children age 5-14 are involved in field operations. Primary data collection was conducted in the Catabola municipality in the period July - August 2011, semi-structured questionnaires and focus group discussions were the most frequent methods used. In total, 151 small scale farmers out of 9 villages participated in the survey. 10 factors that influence the dependent variable -- type of farmer regarding technology used on field in combination with hiring of extra labour -- were defined. The factors were statistically analyzed with use of ANOVA. Out of the factors expected to influence adoption of more sophisticated technologies than the hand-tool, increasing in size of the cultivated land and enhancement of education of both parents and children are found to be the limiting factor in the adoption process for use of animal traction or mechanical power from small farmers in the Catabola municipality. Strategy was formulated with use of simplified quantified SWOT analysis separately for animal-draught and mechanical-power technologies. The result can be interpreted as 8.0% assumption of success in animal traction adoption, contrary to 10.1% assumption of failures in mechanization adoption by small farmers in the Catabola municipality. Thus, tractors are not considered as an appropriate technology for small farmers in the Catabola municipality. The most critical criteria in animal traction adoption that should be considered are support of farmers' cooperatives and associations, FFSs, education in the form of general schooling as well as trainings for farmers, blacksmiths, extension workers and animal breeders.
|
|
Sorting of waste at primary school
Šimandlová, Magdalena ; Mikulová, Vlastimila (advisor) ; Ivana, Ivana (referee)
ABSTRACT
This thesis deals with the possibilities of municipal waste separation and the importance of education and awareness at the primary school level. The review part is generally focused on municipal waste issues, basic terms, methods of separation and recycling. In the next part there are the possibilities of elementary schools to participate in programmess with environmental topics, especially with the eventuality of systematic separation of waste within the classroom. It assesses the potential to create internal programmes and involvement in external ones. In the practical part the method of questionnaire survey at a primary school in Chodov near Karlovy Vary is employed. The research was applied there and it aims to determine the influence of education on the attitude of respondents, elementary school pupils. The comparison of the situation before and after completing the educational program of the company EKOKOM Tonda package on the road was carried out. The benefit is the analysis of pupils' awareness accomplished by the comparison of both questionnaires and specific verification of positive impact on the pupils approach to waste separation thanks to the awareness. One part of the thesis is to build an EVVO plan at the selected elementary school together with events focused on waste management.
|
|
Financial literacy of elementary school pupils
Čudová, Lucie ; Burian, Stanislav (advisor) ; Stará, Dana (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the topic of financial literacy of primary school pupils after the inclusion of the financial education in the Education Plan of primary schools.
With the use of professional literature, theoretical part of this bachelor thesis defines the Standards of financial literacy and assesses the benefits and issues of financial education of primary school pupils. The conclusion of the theoretical part of this bachelor thesis is dedicated to the history of financial education between 2005 and 2014.
The practical part of the bachelor thesis is dedicated to international survey of PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) and to author´s own testing. With
the use of PISA´s surveys and author´s own testing, the state of pupils´ financial knowledge and skills was analysed during the periods before and after the financial literacy was included in the Framework Education Plan. Fifteen-year-old boys were tested through the PISA project, students of elementary and secondary schools and grammar schools were tested by the author of the thesis. Consequently, the level of knowledge was compared between the secondary school pupils and grammar school students using PISA´s survey and author´s own testing. A survey has been done with the teachers and management of the tested schools as a part of own testing.
Own testing and the survey were done with the help pupils and teachers from primary schools in Čáslav and adjacent villages.
In the final part of the bachelor thesis, an assessment of findings and results was done
in order to improve teaching of financial literacy and a comparison of results of pupils that were tested through PISA and by the author of the bachelor thesis was made.
|
|
Consumer preferences of parents of primary school children as a part of a healthy lifestyle
Vojtěchovská, Anna ; Šánová, Petra (advisor) ; Hrubcová, Barbora (referee)
The subject of the bachelor thesis is to evaluate consumer parents preferences of primary school children within healthy life style. The aim of the thesis is to determine if parents are interested in healthy life style as well as if they are teaching their children to this life style. Theoretical part includes general characteristics of healthy life style and basic principals of healthy eating focused on primary school children. It defines basic administrative documents relating to school meals, and last but not least the theoretical part concerns with customer preferences. The main research was done by questionnaire survey, primarily focused on achieving the aim of the thesis. The quantitative survey was evaluated and later some recommendations were provided.
|
guest ::
