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Impact of inclusive environment for pupils attitudes towards persons with disability
Zilcher, Ladislav
This dissertation is conceived as a theoretical - empirical study, which is focused on modifications in attitudes of fourth and fifth grade pupils towards people with disabilities. The research is based on three possible influences for attitudes, (1) the effect of classmate with disability on pupils' attitudes towards people with disability, (2) teacher's approach to the issue, their inclusive teaching competences and the effect on pupils' attitudes and (3) if school and its inclusive setting (which is represented by schools with "Fair school" certificate) has any influence on pupils' attitudes towards persons with disabilities. We try to explain one elemental empirical question by dealing with these three particular research issues. Does inclusive environment have positive influence on fourth and fifth grade pupils towards people with disabilities? We decided to choose a quasiexperimental design of this study to answer this question. Two validated empirical instruments were used in the research, they were administrated on a sample that consists of 1948 pupils from fourth and fifth grades and (their) 102 teachers. The acquired data were processed by appropriate statistical methods. Our outcomes partly confirmed the assumption that inclusive environment may have an impact on pupils' attitude towards...
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Inclusive education opportunities for children with physical disability in nursery schools in South Bohemian region
HAIDEROVÁ, Lenka
This thesis focuses on inclusive education of children with physical disability in nursery schools in South Bohemian region. The authoress describes in theoretic part of its thesis individual kind of congenital and acquired physical disabilities, next she compares inclusive education with integration and present situation of inclusive education in Czech Republic, including looking at this education in the past. She writes about child development in preschool age too, and this of aspect his motor and cognitive development, socialization in nursery school and about specialty children's psychology of a child with physical disability, which differs from development healthy child. In practical part the authoress concentrates on the opinions of selected educational staffs (teacher) and parents regarding this phenomenon in education. Research sample contains nine respondents, of which five teachers and four parents, for teachers were prepared eleven questions and for parents nine. She used as a method of research semi structured interview, that she could ask for details and digress from prearranged question. The authoress wanted to know with this research, if these two groups would be willing to support this education and what they are the reasons for this. Next she ascertained attitudes of parents of children with physical disability and benefit of this education for children with physical disability and for other children, healthy. She donated to compare these opinions between educational staffs and parents too. Finally, she tries to compare opinions between educational staff and parent from one nursery school.
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Approaches to inclusive education of students with physical disabilities in elementary schools of the Třebíč region
PLÍŠKOVÁ, Kateřina
The thesis of the topic "Possibilities of the inclusive education of the handicapped pupils at the primary schools in Třebíč´s region" is aimed at the possibilities of integration. Based on the literature sources, individuals with a physical handicap are happen to be the most suitable candidates for the inclusive education. The main obstacles of their schooling at regular primary schools appear to be architectonical dispositions and other people´s attitude. Such integration has been recently discussed quite frequently and currently there is being apparent an effort to obtain equal position and rights for handicapped individuals not only for education but also for status within the whole society. This thesis is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part is aimed at specification of the term "health handicap" and "physical handicap", furthermore at types of physical defective conditions, their causes, and allied disorders. As the topic prompts the thesis is aimed at education in the main educational stream, especially inclusive one. The author of the thesis has focused on current changes and described specifications of the handicapped individuals´ education. Briefly, there are mentioned schooling consulting services and supportive precautions which mainly cover a position of a teacher´s assistant and an individual educational plan. The introduction of the thesis mainly covers a goal of the thesis, and is focused on techniques and methods. The goal of the thesis is to learn how the primary schools in Třebíč´s region are prepared for the inclusive education of the physically handicapped pupils in the main educational stream. Based on the goal, the author has strived to define the following hypothesis: preparedness of the primary schools is affected by previously obtained experiences with already integrated pupils. A quantitative research has been completed in order to conduct data for the thesis. A questioning method and a technique of the personal questionnaire were used. The results of the questionnaires are added with graphs and tables. All primary schools in Třebíč´s region were addressed. In order to obtain a high level of backflow, the author personally contacted all schools and the questionnaires were physically provided. However, seven schools refused to participate in this research due to a lack of time, interest in research theme, or due to a previously held questionnaires research on the same or similar topic. The research was taken during the months of April and fifty-one schools participated. In order to confirm or disconfirm the hypothesis, the results were sorted separately from the schools which had already had previous experience with integration and those schools which had had no such experience previously. This comparison revealed that preparedness of the schools is influenced by previously gained experiences with the pupils´ integration. The results indicate that 45% of the schools have a certain experience with inclusive education of physically handicapped pupils. Whereas fourteen schools already educate an individual with handicap. These schools faced an issue of architectonical barriers which had to be resolved by either staircase adjustment or installation of a platform, elevator or loan of the stair equipment allowing transport of handicapped individuals. Those schools which are not experienced with integration of physically handicapped individuals have architectonical barriers. Only two schools claimed to be barrier free. Based on the results, it is apparent that another significant factor influencing integration happens to represent people who are part of such integration. Parents, teachers´ assistants and school management are all affected and their cooperation is essential.
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Integration from the perspective of inclusion in regular kindergarten
VACKOVÁ, Kateřina
This Bachelor's thesis deals with the theme of inclusion and integration of children with special educational needs into general kindergarden. The goal of the work is find out if teachers and parents of children are good ready for this problem. If they see shifts in the education. And what they consider for problems. I will map individual terminology terms in the teoretical part. I will try to approache to their essence with the professional literature. I will describe individual children with special educational needs that I chose for outline problematic in the practical part where I will try to find out with help of qualitative interviews to extent is possible integrate a child with special educational needs into general kindergarden.
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The established practices in inclusive education in Germany
PÍCHOVÁ, Martina
The thesis deals with the issue of the integration of established practices in inclusive education. As a target country for processing has been selected the Federal Republic of Germany. The first part deals with basic facts about migration of foreigners to Germany with the respect of current events. It also addresses the topic of integration, where are mapped the general integration efforts from the government, organizations and volunteers. Then the thesis is focused on the issue of provision of language courses and inclusive education for children of foreigners. These theoretical parts are complemented by real observations from the German environment. Final theoretical part is about multilingualism, with an emphasis on teaching the main language in the classes for foreigners, qualification and competence of teachers, principles and methods of teaching the second language which is relevant for these classes. The practical part creates the concept of teaching immigrant children by using theoretical information. It includes intercultural aspects and the most intensive way, how to transmit the information. Last part contains description of teaching course, which was implemented in practice.
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Examples of successful integrations of students with physical disabilities in the mainstream education
HEŘMANOVÁ, Michaela
This bachelor thesis deals with the examples of successful integration of students with disabilities in the mainstream education in České Budějovice and nearby. The integration of students with the disabilities is currently widespread and it can be frequently found in common types of schools. The thesis consists of three parts: theoretical, practical and appendix. The theoretical part of this thesis discusses the basic concepts which are related to the disability. The most popular types of the physical disability are divided and described there. In the following part a pupil with his special educational needs and learning opportunities is characterized in terms of the legislation. The study also deals with the concepts of integration and inclusion. The term integration is legislatively known in the Czech Republic since 1989. In the process of integration, the supportive measures for the pupils with special educational needs are considerably important. They are e.g.; the early custody and the special educational support. This type of integration should be prepared and planned thoroughly before its creation. The factors that affect this process play an important role in the proces of integration. These factors are particularly; the family, especially the parents, school, class groups, teachers, counseling, diagnosis, and also the form of integration. In any case the main aim of this study is to find and describe the examples of successful integration of students with disabilities in the mainstream education. Moreover, the partial goals are to find out the factors which are positively influencing this process as well as the factors that are not desirable in this process. The another objective is to identify the level of the teamwork between the school, parents and the school counseling facility and then between the cooperation with fellow pupil, teacher's assistant and the classroom teacher. To achieve the above mentioned practical goals the qualitative research has been used. The data were collected with using of the questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. The research sample consisted of five students with disabilities who were integrated in mainstream elementary schools in České Budějovice and also in the surrounding area. Furthermore, the research group was made of the parents and classroom teachers of the integrated pupils. The questionnaires with the opened questions were created for these pupils and their parents. The surveys differed in the varied number of questions and their content. In addition the semi-structured interviews were conducted with classroom teachers of the integrated pupils. On the basis of the results, it is apparently evident that the most important factors affect the integration of the human factors. All the people, involved in the integration, are the most important factors for the success of the process. It is a collaboration of the parents and school, teacher's assistant collaboration with the classroom teacher, assistant teacher working with an integrated pupil, pupil´s positive acceptance from the mainstream classmates and the school cooperation with the special educational center. The cooperation between all the stakeholders is essential for the successful integration process. Furthermore, the supportive measures which are important could be for instance; the special methods, compensation, rehabilitation and teaching aids, special teaching materials and more. The highest possible supportive measure is to establish a teaching assistant profession. This work also describes the examples of the successful integration while each of them is unique. There is no precise instruction how to provide the successful integration. It always depends on the capabilities of the school and on the individual skills of integrated pupil. Each student needs to be supported by the different security measures which can help him to overcome the obstacles that cause a physical disability.
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Successfulness of integrated pupils involved in inclusion education at schools related to Arpida centre,in mainstreem education
HONNEROVÁ, Anežka
Educational integrity is a term used quite often at present. It means the involvement of pupils with special needs in the main educational process. The expression integration also means complete involvement of the person among intact part of population. School/ educational integration is a very demanding process. Its success depends on many factors and it is not always easy to achieve it. Obviously, integration has its limits, which relate to the degree and type of the handicap. There appears incomprehension of both teachers and classmates many times. I have chosen the topic dealing with the success rate of integrity of the children from the rehabilitation centre for disabled people ARPIDA in České Budějovice (later only ARPIDA) as I had experienced the process of integrity on my own. I had begun attending the centre in the second year of the primary school and I finished the first stage of the obligatory school attendance there. Then I returned to the primary school in Dubné, where I accomplished basic education. I started studies at Bishop Grammar School of J. N. Neumann in České Budějovice the same year, where I graduated successfully four years later. After that I enrolled the Faculty of Health and Social Studies at the University of South Bohemia., where I have been studying the branch of Special Pedagogy. As for the theoretical part of my thesis I define not only basic terms such as integration, inclusive education, individual curriculum, a teacher´s assistant, a disabled pupil, the characteristics of disability, a pupil with a physical disability, cerebral palsy, spastic triparesis, congenital spina bifida, a pupil with a physical disability and his self-esteem among intact classmates, the family and its influence on the inclusive process of a pupil, but also, last but not least, the centre ARPIDA. I have analyzed factors influencing integration as well. I have tried to find out how disabled pupils are integrated among their peers. The aim of the thesis is to monitor and find out the success rate of inclusive education of former child clients of the centre ARPIDA, who were later involved in the main educational process and they study at college or university now. In the research part of the thesis I have attempted to find out whether the children from the district of České Budějovice who had attended the centre ARPIDA integrated in the main educational process successfully. I have included four respondents who used to be clients of the ARPIDA centre in my research. All of them were integrated together in the basic educational process at primary school in 2003. Three of them attended the same classes as I did in the centre. The main aim is to monitor and determine the success rate of inclusive education. Casuistries describe the course and the results of the integration. I used different research methods: anamnesis, observation, secondary analysis of data and an interview belong to them. I had asked two questions in the research part, to which I searched for answers after that. At first I assessed each of the respondents individually and then all of them together. In conclusion, I consider it necessary to mention that the respondents agreed their families, classmates and teachers´ friendly attitude helped them a lot while being integrated. Mostly they found the transfer from the ARPIDA centre to primary school the most difficult while one of them had difficulties when finishing primary school and beginning studies at grammar school. I have found out, as the result of my research, the integration of the monitored respondents was successful.
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Inclusive education in kindergartens.
MLEJNKOVÁ, Jana
The theme of my Bachelor thesis deals with situation of inclusive education in the common kindergartens. In the theoretical part I deal with explanation of meaning of terms integration, inclusion and inclusive education. I also deal with age bracket of children in preschool age and their upbringing and education. The conclusion of the theoretical part is dedicated to the situation of inclusive education in our republic according to the accessible sources. The practical part points at Pilsen region. In the practical part I determined main goal to find attitudes of pedagogical workers and founders of kindergartens towards inclusive education. The partial goals were: find the attitude of teachers of kindergartens towards integration and inclusive education, then the deeper insight to attitudes of teachers who have already had a child with disability in their class during their practice. For the completion of the whole situation I also find out the attitudes of headmasters and founders of kindergartens towards this issue.
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The inclusive education in Federal Republic of Germany
PÍCHOVÁ, Martina
The bachelor's thesis focuses on the issue of the inclusive education in our neighbouring country, Federal Republic of Germany. It deals with the integration of children of foreigners into the German schools. The first third of the thesis is devoted to the migration of foreigners into Germany and associated facts. The up-to-date situation of the German immigration and asylum policy is presented here. Subsequently we come to the issue of the integration of foreigners, where the general efforts to achieve integration are described. The second third of the thesis deals with the issue of education. The information presented and processed range from the most general information to the educational system of the Federal Republic of Germany and situation on the individual types of schools up to the inclusive education to which we devote attention theoretically as well as from the viewpoint of the public, children and teachers. The last part of the thesis follows up and develops this complex of knowledge. This last part consists of the chapters devoted to two selected federal countries Saxon and Hessen, with the closer description of the individual attitude of each country. The chapter concerning Hessen is supplemented by the analysis of the class reserved exclusively for the children of foreigners based on observations and talks with the employees of school as well as children.
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Possible Limits of Inclusive Education for Children, Pupils and Students with Medical Disability in České Budějovice.
NOŽINOVÁ, Kateřina
The bachelor thesis deals with the possible limits of inclusive education of children , pupils and students in České Budějovice who are physically disabled. In the theoretical part I define terms such as inclusion, integration and inclusive education also from the legislative point of view and I characterise the means of special pedagogical support. Next I dedicate to etiology and classification of a physical handicap. In the practical part I set a goal to specify the advantages or possible disadvantages of inclusive education of children, pupils and students with physical handicap in České Budějovice. I chose qualitative type of research and the technique of controlled dialogues. I adressed three nursery, elementary and high schools where a disabled pupil is individually integrated. In every school I also spoke to the head teacher and a teacher and I asked them different questions. In the research I found out that most of the adressed head teachers had enough information about inclusive education, some schools are even joined in the project of inclusive education support. For the head teachers the advantages of inclusive education are seen in integration into everyday classes, cooperation and communication with other classmates. The main disadvantage is lack of financial resources and insufficient conditions for inclusive education. From the teachers´ point of view integration is perceived positively although it is quite hard work for them and assistents. Most teachers do not agree with integration of a pupil with serious handicap. All teachers and head teachers agree that integration is dependent on conditions and possibilities of every school.
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