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Information Education in the Czech Republic
Dombrovská, Michaela ; Vlasák, Rudolf (advisor) ; Steinerová, Jela (referee) ; Mazáčová, Pavlína (referee)
Dombrovská, M. Informační vzdělávání v České republice (Information Education in the Czech Republic). Praha: Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta, Ústav informačních studií a knihovnictví, 2017. Disertační práce. Vedoucí disertační práce doc. PhDr. Rudolf Vlasák. Abstract This doctoral thesis investigates information science, public policy, and law, via established system theory, to uncover how information education, and particularly information literacy, can be better developed in the Czech Republic. The theoretical focus is on concepts of information literacy, information education, and information competencies. This is complemented with case studies, investigating existing policies through grounded theory. The novel contributions to knowledge arising from this research are: (1) a new three-wave staged model of the evolution of literacies; (2) a promising methodology for creating and implementing effective literacy policies respecting these three waves; (3) three specific proposals, grounded in constitutional rights and obligations, for overcoming the lack of political and public interest in further developing information literacy at a national level. Keywords: literacy, information literacy, information education, access to information, human rights, citizens' rights and duties
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Interconnection of school libraries in teaching in secondary schools
Vaníčková Makosová, Edita ; Slámová, Hana (advisor) ; Buřilová, Marcela (referee)
This bachelor thesis brings a case study focusing on better integration of the activities of school libraries in an educational process and prepars a draft suggesting how to implement the knowledge in the area of Information and Library Studies into the framework education plan for high schools. The case study relates to the library of Gymnasium Přibram, Legionářů 402. The work has a theoretical part developing policies and work possibilities of school libraries within their schools. In the application Part it processes, implements, and evaluates the example lesson for the educational area Man and Society on the topic of information sources for historical seminary,citation ethics. It is the level of literacy of children on the basis of the findings of international surveys PISA and IALS. Analyzes technical, spatial and personal capacities involvement of school libraries in the education of students. Analysis framework educational plan for the student competence grammar sets that are consistent with the content of information literacy standards. Detects the status of the information needs of secondary school students based on analysis of information requests readers school library Gymnázia Pribram, Legionářů 402 in the years 2010 - 2015. It compares the demands of secondary school teachers on students' work...
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Grammar school's libraries and their activites for reading development and information literacy education
Krčková, Adéla ; Landová, Hana (advisor) ; Slussareff, Michaela (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with grammar school libraries and their activities for reading literacy and information literacy development in the Czech Republic and Sweden. The first part of the thesis defines theoretical methods for reading and information literacy development, current level of reading and information literacy in the Czech Republic and Sweden. Part of the thesis describes school system and legislation of school libraries of both countries. Practical part of the thesis is composed of analysis of websites of the libraries and comparison of one Czech and one Swedish school library.
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Information literacy standards for elementary education
Šafářová, Kateřina ; Landová, Hana (advisor) ; Slussareff, Michaela (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to gather data for the creation of information literacy standards for graduates of 9th grade of elementary school in the Czech Republic. The theoretical part contains the definition of information literacy, organizations in the field of information literacy, documents in the information society, as well as existing standards of information literacy in the Czech Republic and abroad. Finally, research activities in the field of information literacy in the Czech Republic are described. In the practical part, the analysis of the current situation in the information literacy development in the UK and Sweden is introduced. The analysis of the currricula of selected elementary and grammar schoools in Benešov distrikt is described as well. The main contribution of this thesis is the analysis of the selected schools and a proposal of the information literacy standards. Keywords information literacy information literacy standards education elementary education elementary school
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An analysis of research support in engineering with the emphasis on a university environment and based upon a survey of information behavior and information needs at the CTU in Prague and UCT Prague
Němečková, Lenka ; Papík, Richard (advisor) ; Rankov, Pavel (referee) ; Jarolímková, Adéla (referee)
Mgr. Lenka Němečková An analysis of research support in engineering with the emphasis on a university environment and based upon a survey of information behavior and information needs at the CTU in Prague and UCT Prague (dissertation thesis) Analýza informační podpory uživatelů z oblasti technických oborů a věd s důrazem na vysokoškolské prostředí a opírající se o výzkum informačního chování a informačních potřeb provedený na ČVUT v Praze a VŠCHT Praha (disertační práce) Abstract This thesis is focused on the analysis of researchers' information behavior and information needs in engineering in academia and in industry. It is aimed at identifying trends in research support by university libraries based on research of information behavior and information needs that has been conducted at the CTU in Prague and UCT Prague and by a brief insight into industrial environment. Initial parts of the thesis provide an overview of classification schemes in engineering. It also describes brief differences between university and industry environment with the aim at defining the differences in user information needs. It further provides brief summary of theories and models of information behavior and identifies differences between information needs of students and researchers concluding in defining research skills as basic...
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Analysis of computer literacy courses offer for elderly people in Prague
Petrová, Kateřina ; Šerák, Michal (advisor) ; Kuchař, Pavel (referee)
The thesis deals with the issue of computer literacy of elderly people and the offer of these courses in Prague. First part of the thesis is devoted to theoretical and analytical introduction of terms such as old age, aging, age, older adult, literacy and education of elderly people. This part also provides a deeper insight into gerontagogy and gerontodiadactics related to ICT literacy. The second part contains an analysis of the internet offer of computer literacy courses in Prague and the results of the quantitative questionnaire survey. These results are analysed and explained. Then the specified hypotheses are evaluated on their base. The thesis is written on the base of a comparison of scholarly sources from Czech and foreign authors and on analysis and synthesis of the data identified in the survey. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Application of methods of critical thinking in the information education: Case study of the Czech University of Life Sciences
Paulová, Kristýna ; Landová, Hana (advisor) ; Malečková, Dita (referee)
This thesis is focused on use of the critical thinking techniques into the courses of information education. The study describes links and relations among the critical thinking as one part of constructivist teaching and information, critical and reading literacy. A literature review of the thesis also includes description of programme for critical thinking development called "Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking". A finding and methodology section is divided into two parts. First one analyses questionnaire of the critical evaluation of information quality organized for students of Czech University of Life Sciences. Following part describes case study (method based on Yin, 2009) of application critical thinking techniques into the courses of information education in Czech University of Life Sciences. This part, due to chosen method, includes description of current state of information education in the university, its environment and influences. It also gives in detail description of "Course of information literacy for PhD students" which used critical thinking techniques from "Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking" programme. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Elements of Information Literacy and Netiquette Knowledge among Primary School Students in Klatovy Region in the Czech Republic
Hnojská, Veronika ; Voňková, Hana (advisor) ; Bendl, Stanislav (referee)
This master thesis deals with some elements of information literacy throught the term netiquette. The netiquette's relation with etics and etiquette is described in the theoretical part. This part's interest lies in the organisations engaged in netiquette, cyberspace, language and chosen elements of information literacy in connection with the computer literacy. The empirical part of the research handles the knowledge of netiquette at 4th and 5th grade students of elementary schools. Using an anonymous questionnary, the research's objective was to discover the acquaintance of the term netiquette and to realise the differences of the acquirement according to the size of the location of their elementary school, to the sex of subject and to the socioeconomic status of students. The research detects the relation of the information literacy with more facts, as having computer at home, knowing how to use computer and internet, managing the basic manipulation, being familiar with the safety rules. According to the investigation, all the asken students have modern technologies at home with ratio of 27% of the students on the countryside and 59% of the students living in a town, overal 43% of asked subjects are familiar with the netiquette. Even instructed students happen to break the safety rules. The...
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Non-library entities involved in information education of users of public libraries
Švejdová, Veronika ; Landová, Hana (advisor) ; Nekolová, Kateřina (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with non-library entities that collaborate with public libraries on the deepening of information literacy of library users. The theoretical part presents legislation and important documents that are connected with this topic. The following is an explanation of the terms that occur at work. The main part of the text is a research section that describes in detail used methods, a content analysis and a questionnaire survey, and their results. The conclusion provides selected examples of this cooperation in Czech and foreign public libraries.
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