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Integrating Environmental Education Topics into the EFL Class to Improve Students' Communication Skills
Brzá, Tereza ; Vallin, Petra (advisor) ; Hofmannová, Marie (referee)
This bachelor thesis aims to explore ways in which environmental topics might be integrated into the ESL classroom to improve students' communication skills. The theoretical part is concerned with teaching methods that combine content and language instruction, introduce relevant topics and create an authentic environment for language learning. It further analyses the content and main objectives of Environmental Education as a cross-curricular subject and identifies communication skills as an essential element of soft skills. The thesis examines their possible development through engaging students in discussions about environmental issues. The practical part consists of planning individual lessons whose content derives from topics of Environmental Education and emphasis is placed on communication activities. The lessons were thereafter implemented in an Elementary School ZŠ Drtinova and reflected on using Korthagen's ALACT model. Based on the teaching experience, the practical part contains recommendations for similar lessons. The thesis suggests that English language teachers are in a unique position to promote environmental awareness and improve students' language skills simultaneously.
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Diagnosis of didactic competencies of students FTVS
Hubená, Kristýna ; Süss, Vladimír (advisor) ; Mužík, Vladislav (referee)
Title: Diagnostics of didactic competencies of students of UK FTVS. Objectives: The goal of the dissertation was to verify whether the chosen combination of quantitative and qualitative methods is suitable for the diagnostics of the didactic competencies of the students of the UK FTVS in swimming didactics. Methods: The research was supported by a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods. Participating observation was used in direct participation in the didactic outputs of students. Data collection was done by acquiring audio and video recordings of students' didactic outputs within the subject of Theory and Basics of Swimming Didactics at the UK FTVS, by a questionnaire and group interviews with students who were in the role of "pupils" during didactic outputs. Through an uninvolved observation, the analysis of video recordings of students' didactic outputs was made. Coding of individual didactic outputs of students was done through modified analysis of didactic interaction (MADI). Descriptive statistics was used to encode and process data from questionnaires. Then the transcript of group conversations from electronic form to written was done by transcription. From the partial results of the MADI method, questionnaires and group interviews, case studies of five selected...
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Teaching rhetorics on secondary school. Present state and future perspectives
Potůčková, Marie ; Chejnová, Pavla (advisor) ; Vlčková, Jana (referee)
This thesis deals with various approaches of secondary school teachers and students to the rhetoric and the teaching of communication. The main purpose of the thesis is to map how students see the quality of their own communicative skills and the quaility of communication classes and the attitude of teachers to including communication in their classes. Attention is also paid to the development of communication teaching methods. The survey was carried out at seven Prague secondary schools mainly by using questionnaires. Data were also collected during interviews and when attending classes. The survey suggests that both students and teachers consider the teaching of communication a necessary part of Czech language and literature lessons and have a responsible attitude to it. Students are more critical to their own speech than their teachers. They have quite a good knowledge of the theoretical basis of rhetoric and communication but they have problems applying the theory in practise. Teachers prefer professional, clear and attractive textbooks of communication. As for the future of the subject teachers are of the opinion that it should become an inseparable part of all subjects, i. e. of comprehensive education. KEY WORDS rhetoric, teaching of communication, communicative skills, speech, discussion
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Headmaster in the role of manager, comparation of the situation in the Czech Republic and Republic Belarus
Vesela, Elena ; Trunda, Jiří (advisor) ; Liška, Roman (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the implementation of theoretical knowledge in the day-to-day decision-making process of the headmaster in the Czech Republic and Belarus based on the study of the information obtained. The aim of this bachelor thesis is to formulate identical and different characteristics of the activities of the headmaster in the role of manager in the Czech Republic and Belarus. This work, with regard to research questions, should show in detail the differences in the approach to managerial work of the headmaster in the conditions of the Czech Republic and Belarus with regard to legislation, customs and experience. The bachelor thesis examines the director's personal profile as a manager with all aspects of managerial work and determines the work of a manager with human resources in the primary school environment of both countries. The theoretical part summarizes the knowledge concerning the work of the headmaster in the Czech and Belarusian environment and verifies the predicted model by research in the school field. The aim of the research is to map and describe how managers of independent schools apply managerial skills in specific activities of school management, taking into account the conditions of these countries. The method of comparison of results will create a table with...
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Diagnosis of didactic competencies of students FTVS
Hubená, Kristýna ; Süss, Vladimír (advisor) ; Mužík, Vladislav (referee) ; Bláha, Ladislav (referee)
Title: Diagnostics of didactic competencies of students of UK FTVS. Objectives: The goal of the dissertation was to verify whether the chosen combination of quantitative and qualitative methods is suitable for the diagnostics of the didactic competencies of the students of the UK FTVS in swimming didactics. Methods: The research was supported by a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods. Participating observation was used in direct participation in the didactic outputs of students. Data collection was done by acquiring audio and video recordings of students' didactic outputs within the subject of Theory and Basics of Swimming Didactics at the UK FTVS, by a questionnaire and group interviews with students who were in the role of "pupils" during didactic outputs. Through an uninvolved observation, the analysis of video recordings of students' didactic outputs was made. Coding of individual didactic outputs of students was done through modified analysis of didactic interaction (MADI). Descriptive statistics was used to encode and process data from questionnaires. Then the transcript of group conversations from electronic form to written was done by transcription. From the partial results of the MADI method, questionnaires and group interviews, case studies of five selected...
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Authorial Acting as (Non)education towards a Self
Pártlová, Zuzana ; SUDA, Stanislav (advisor) ; MALANÍKOVÁ, Hana (referee)
This doctoral thesis explores the potential of authorial acting as a tool for open-ended
self-education. It focuses on the properties and the process of acquiring psychosomatic
capacity for presentation in front of an audience as a means of self-discovery and
self-realization through play (Dialogical Acting with the Inner Partner) and other
preparatory psychosomatic drama disciplines. The secondary subject of this thesis is
the relevance of this capacity to teachers and educators.
In the theoretical section, I present the essential terms and concepts as well as the
basis of my research. I explain why I use the expression "(non)education towards a
self” rather than "personal education” and how one's holistic and creative conditioning
relates to the skills of a pedagogue or educator in the broadest sense of the word. The
qualitative research section consists of three parts which correspond to three research
projects. The first part explores the "personal trajectories" of students of the two-year
“Creative Pedagogy-Pedagogical Condition” (CP-PC) study program. The exploration is
based on written reflections and a two-day encounter devoted to discussion and
creative work. The encounter involved practical workshops as well as talks with
I. Vyskočil and E. Vyskočilová and student discussions. The aim was to explore the
development of the individual psychosomatic “fitness" by means that go beyond
written subjective reflections and offer live confrontations with oneself and others in
workshops and discussions. The second part focuses on the issue of authenticity and
the triple actor-viewer-assistant relation. Using simultaneous recording with two
cameras and focus groups, we tried to analyze the moments of spontaneity during the
experimentation and to identify the essential features of authentic expression.
The themes that significantly emerged from the research were the theme of inner and
outer spectator and of body resonance and joy as main characteristics of authentic
presence.
In the third section, I followed up on the findings of the previous sections in 16 semistructured
interviews with students of the CP-PC program as well as regular and
external students at the department. These interviews were analyzed using the
method of open coding combining two perspectives: a broader, theme-focused
perspective and a narrower, notional one.
This research reveals the complexity of tacit learning processes which, in the context of
play and psychosomatics, foster a personal evolution towards an original, creative
personality, i.e. "becoming one's self”. Simultaneously, this research attempts to define
the essential "virtues” of authentic acting and outlines the benefits of Vyskočil´s
pedagogy for education of educators.
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Subjective experience of perinatal loss by midwives
Tóthová, Eva ; Vaňková, Milena (advisor) ; Adamcová, Kateřina (referee)
This Bachelor thesis deal with the topic of subjective experiencing of the loss during the delivery from the sight of midwifes. The main goal is to identify the basic spectrum of emotions and feelings related to the problematics. There are established other partial goals and research questions, which cover factors that influence providing care, strategies to handle stressful situations, psychological hygiene of the midwifes, the importence of supervision and its implementation to the praxis, burn-out syndrome in helping professions and personal experiences with this fenomen. Furthermore, there are created suggestions for practice, which alert on absence of attetion to the medical staff and comprise options, how to work in area of this problematic. Interviews in qualitative research, providing us elementary idea about problematic of the reliving attached to care of a woman during perinatal loss. Results show us that even that this process is really mentally tough, midwifes don't look for professional help. They try to solve stress situations on they own reflexion or with help from their community. In the sphere of psychic hygiene, is effort for increasing toughness and maintain mental balanc with many types of freetime activities or any other relaxation techniques. Extra alarming finding is fact...
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Komunikační dovednosti ve vybraných oborech středního odborného vzdělávání
Peňáz, Vít
The subject of the thesis are the communication skills of students of selected fields in secondary vocational education. Secondary vocational education is, for the purposes of the thesis, limited solely to 3-year vocational courses with an apprenticeship certificate. Only the following technical fields have been analysed: Electrician, Model Maker, Machinist, Toolmaker and Machine Tool Operator (Metals). The theoretical part of the thesis aimed to map the range of communication skills which are defined by the state in the national curricula of the individual fields. At the same time, the school curricula of the individual fields were mapped, and again, with the focus on communication skills. The method of targeted information gathering was used in the writing of the theoretical part of the thesis. The practical part of the thesis was defined by two objectives. The first objective was to find out, on the basis of a quantitative survey, whether the specified com-munication skills, set by the national curricula, or the school curricula, became part of the teaching during the study. The second objective was, again on the basis of the conducted quantitative survey, to find out whether the respondents would also recommend including the teaching of communication skills for practical purposes in the education. The results of the survey show that the specified communication skills have become part of the teaching. The respondents were also unanimously in favour of including the communication skills for practical purposes in the education.
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Children with Specific Language Impairment in the School Environment
Sobíšková, Veronika ; Švandová, Martina (advisor) ; Pálenská, Jana (referee)
THESIS TITLE Children with Specific Language Impairment in the School Environment ABSTRACT The thesis focuses on children with specific language impairment (also called developmental dysphasia) in the school environment and it is divided into a theoretical and an empirical part. The theoretical part consists of four chapters. The first chapter describes specific language impairment and related terminology, defines a younger school-age child and also deals with causes, diagnosis and therapy of specific language impairment. The second chapter discusses social and communication skills of a child and the impact of specific language impairment on these skills. The third chapter concentrates on reading, writing and particular influences of specific language impairment which are associated with the development of other disorders and difficulties. The fourth chapter describes adaptation of a child with specific language impairment to the school environment. The empirical part consists of qualitative research, designed as multiple case studies, that was carried out among five younger school-age respondents. It attempted to determine how specific language impairment affects a child in the school environment and the empirical part contains results of this research. Besides the analysis and data interpretation, the...
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