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"European Identity" of a Teacher
Gröschlová, Andrea ; Walterová, Eliška (advisor) ; Chvál, Martin (referee) ; Janík, Tomáš (referee)
This work attempts to identify and analyse factors that have an effect on the identification of teachers with Europe: "European identity" of a teacher is being argued. We widely discuss actual meaning of the term "Europe" and seek an empirical approach to the "European identity" research. Correctness of the "European identity" of a teacher is not put to test; actual issue of the teacher's profession is being discussed instead. The structure of this work consists of three chapters. First of all some basic assumptions for the work need to be posted: we discuss such terms as "globalisation", "knowledge society", "educational aims" and context of "European dimension of education". The second chapter presents three interrelated parts. They are focused on the meaning of theme "teacher as a subject of research", "identity as a subject of research" and "Europe as a subject of research" . We conclude with the own meaning of the "European identity" of a teacher in the end of the second chapter. Empirical approach throughout the rest of the work is based on this conclusion. The methodological approach is derived from the character of the postulated hypothesis. We compare two independent samples. Two samples being a) teachers (teachers of basic and secondary schools in Prague) and b) random population. Based on the...
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School Education in Germany
Ježková, Věra ; Walterová, Eliška (advisor) ; Rýdl, Karel (referee) ; Kopp, Botho (referee)
It is the aim of the doctoral thesis to bring new current issue to Czech comparative educational science while using a non-traditional methodological approach and to provide incentives for Czech educational policy. The thesis consists of two main parts: theoretical and methodological part, and research part. In the theoretical and methodological part the aim of the research and research problem are first defined, existing knowledge concerning the topic of thesis are then briefly evaluated, and the the theoretical and methodological bases of the research are presented. The most comprehensive chapter of this part views the presented research from the perspective of the theory on educational research. In the final chapter, the actual execution of the research is briefly described. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Vexation at highschools in Kroměříž county
VITOŠOVÁ, Andrea
ABSTRACT In today´s world chicane becomes more pronounced term and is considered to be the most significant negative aspect of current school system. In addition unlike chicane in the past today is displays more alarming features. That includes in particular increasing number of chicane occurrence in schools, lower age of offenders and increased aggressivity and brutality of such behaviour. Chicane is a complex and cross-society problem. And it is defined as any behaviour with the intention to harm somebody repeatedly, threaten or intimidate other student or group of students. This intentional violence is focused on individuals or groups of students who don{\crq}t know how or cant defend themselves for whatever reason. It includes physical attacks in form of beating, extortion, robberies, damaging of property of others as well as verbal attacks in form of invectives, aspersions, assault or humiliation. It may also have the form of sexual harassment or even sexual abuse. Chicane occurs also indirectly as notable neglecting or ignoring of a student or students by the teacher or other group of students. Danger of chicane is based mainly on its severity, long term effect and related consequences for mental and physical health. These are the reasons why chicane must not be neglected and underestimated. The purpose of this diploma work is to map occurrence and severity of chicane in secondary vocational schools in Kroměříž district. In my opinion this objective has been achieved. The research objective was to prove or disprove the following hypothesis: H1: Chicane occurs in secondary vocational schools in Kroměříž district. H2: Most of chicane cases are not of severe character in secondary vocational schools in Kroměříž district. H3: Most of chicane offenders also display discipline problems. H4: Boys are more often chicane offenders than girls. The H1 hypothesis has been proved. 66 % of students in secondary vocational schools in Kroměříž ever experienced chicane and 21 % of students experience chicane in their current school. The H2 hypothesis has been proved. Chicane is not of severe character. The most common form of chicane is verbal attacks, humiliation and aspersions. The H3 hypothesis has been disproved. The research did not prove that chicane offenders also display discipline problems. The H4 hypothesis has been proved. The result of the research conclude that boys are more often chicane offenders, in 60% of cases. In addition the research pointed out the problem of chicane reporting and solving. Chicane often remains unreported or is reported but not addressed. As concerns the chicane abatement issue in secondary schools, also 8 % of students is of the opinion that their school effectively addresses chicane and less than 61 % of student does not even know if their schools are addressing this problem at all. Therefore I would recommend to schools to pay more attention to communication with students about this socially pathological problem and take preventive measures.
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School phobia
ŘEHÁČKOVÁ, Irena
When we are thinking about entering the system of compulsory education in future, we project an image about how it should be like, about our future schoolmates, and then there comes the greatest surprise of all the teacher. Unfortunately, not everybody reaches the end of their time spent in school with success and without difficulties. The daughters of my respondents suffer from school phobia, which illustrates these issues. The topic of my thesis is School phobia.These issues may arise out of several causes. The child may be anxious not only about the school environment and associated dangers that await him or her there, but also about the teacher that might have made an inappropriate comments about the child. One of the other factors contributing to this phobia is separation anxiety. Child that suffers from separation anxiety cannot be separated from his or her mother. It is not only the child who may suffer from separation anxiety. This issue might be also rooted in the personality of mother or father. The aim of this bachelor thesis is to provide real-life information from mothers bringing up a child suffering from school phobia. Their testimonies should be able to provide an overview of the issues surrounding children with school phobia ? its origin, course of the disorder and, in the case of these particular respondents, also still to-be-solved treatment from health care specialists. This bachelor thesis is based on qualitative research. The collected information was acquired from answers from personal face-to-face semi-structured discussions with mothers of affected children. The beginning of the theoretical part of my diploma thesis focuses on general definition of basic concepts and topics associated with school phobia. What follows is a separate chapter dealing in detail with school phobia. This section focuses, among others, on the reasons for school phobia occurring caused by both parents and school staff. The topic of penultimate chapter is family. For example, I describe the family atmosphere-The last chapter deals with school and school maturity. What is also mentioned is the issue of bullying that may have a negative impact on school phobia. The research goal of the empirical part of this bachelor thesis is as to discover the ways parents and educators use to identify issues associated with school phobia in children, their approach towards this phobia and solutions. To achieve this goal, I have asked three key research questions: 1)How do parents identify school phobia issues in children? 2)What kind of approach parents adopt towards pupils suffering from school phobia? 3)What methods proved to be successful in dealing with school phobia issues? The answers to these research questions can be found in Interpretace výsledků (Interpretation of results) chapter that contains a lot of interesting information. One piece of interesting information is, for example, that while the causes of school phobia in daughters of my respondents were different, the issues associated with gradual development of school phobia have almost the same origins connected mainly to psychosomatical symptoms. The attitude of questioned mothers to their daughters´ issues is almost the same, and this also applies to the major and key attitude towards accepting the existence of their daughter´s school phobia and providing psychological support from family. The ways mothers tried to solve the issues connected to school phobia are also the same as far as the number of health care specialists they thought might help them are concerned. For all three daughters of respondents the situation is as follows: none of the said health care specialist was able to come with a reliable cure to school phobia.
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Cooperation of schools and external partners on the development of environmental awareness among students
Frýblová, Jitka ; Veselý, Arnošt (advisor) ; Hiekischová, Michaela (referee)
This master thesis is concerned with current issues of educational politics, namely the integration of environmental aspects into the curriculums of grammar schools and high schools. Environmental education, and awareness raising has appeared in schools following the introduction of the framework education programme as one of its cross-curricular subjects, reflecting new social needs. While there lies a great potential for the development of our education system within cross-curricular subjects and framework education programmes, these also introduce new requirements for teachers, who are not always quite prepared for dealing with them. The introduction of external partners into education is one possible way of dealing with those requirements, as these external partners have many years of experience with ecology oriented education programmes and their methodical specifics. The presented master thesis familiarizes the reader with the individual forms of cooperation among schools and external partners and tries to generalize its pros and cons and outline the possibility of engaging external educational partners in teaching subjects other than environmental education. The paper deals with a multidisciplinary topic in which the findings of public policy, pedagogy, ethics and ecology intertwine. The...
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Child with ADHD in Younger School Age
Johnová, Markéta ; Ortová, Marie (advisor) ; Nejedlá, Dana (referee)
This essay is dealing with a problem of children with ADHD, especially taking into consideration how to work with them and what kind of surrounding is suitable for them according to the reduction of their difficulties. In the first chapter I am presenting the basic information about ADHD. I have included this chapter for general familiarization with this problem and with the difficulties, that the children with this diagnosis have. Further in my essay I am presenting mainly the practical recommendation for common life at home and in school. In the practical part I am describing the system of ZŠ Grafická, what is the approach to the chidren with ADHD in practice nad what is the school offering to them. By the description of the practice and the surrounding at the ZŠ Grafická, I am comparing the theory of approach to children with ADHD with the situations in real life. Due to the descriptions, the comparison can be done by the reader. Summary is noted in the Conclusion. The problem of the children with ADHD is quite broad, the children have difficulties of different extension and seriousness. Ussually, they do not differentiate from the ordinary children but they are in disadvantage when they have to deal with education, learning and coping with daily situations. Common life can be eased by the right approach...
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Contemporary situation at Helplines in Prague
Ročovská, Silvie ; Sivek, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Hálková, Petra (referee)
Crisis is a part of our lives. There are situations that we are not able to solve only by our power, so we need an expert assistance. The most approachable form of help is telephone crisis intervention (TCI). The TCI is focused on stabilisation of acute state. I dealed with four organizations of telephone hotlines - for children, general and elderly population and hotline for victims of houshold violation. I described their work. Their help is immediate, available, anonymous for both participants, financial inexpensive. All the clients need in situations of crises is safeness and acceptance. Acording to the new law of social services, the workers of crisis hotlines have to improve their education in area of telephone crisis intervention. The organizations which deal with TCI often encounter problems with repeated calling of certain clients. These clients demand attention of hotlines workers because of compensation of missing relationship. The staff should provide other services and motivate clients into real relationships in their lives. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Integration of a child with Cerebral Palsy into a drama orientated summer camp - a case study
Fuková, Běla ; Flemrová, Miroslava (advisor) ; Vařeková, Jitka (referee)
Title: Integration of a child with Cerebral Palsy into a drama orientated summer camp - a case study Objectives: The aim of this work is to observe the intagration process and it's impact on the observed Josef K. and his surroundings during the two week's summer camp focused on drama or the drama classes run throughout the year. Methods: In my thesis I used a method of extraneous surveillance of a child: a short term surveillance, during a drama summer camp; and a long term surveillance during an over year drama class, taking place once a week. The other method used was individual and group interviews (focus group) with both: summer camp participants - being divided into groups by age (5-7 years old, 8-10 years old, 11-13years old, 14-16 years old, trainees, supervisors) and drama class members. All information gained I enrolled to evidence sheets. Results: Due to the attendance of the free-time activities, where he is confronted with normal children, the observed individual is used to cope with the real life situations and so manage better in his common life. He is able to distinguish when he is not being understood by his surrenders. All the members of the group attending drama lessons with him or the summer camp appreciate his presence there, taking it as a chance to deepen their empathy level...
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Charles Darwin and darwinism in Finnish Literature
Hanušová, Jitka ; Dlask, Jan (advisor) ; Parente Čapková, Viola (referee)
Name: Jitka Hanušová School: Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Department: Institute of Linguistics and Finno-Ugric Studies Title: Charles Darwin and darwinism in Finnish Literature Supervisor: Mgr. Jan Dlask, Ph.D. Number of pagess: 68 Nubmber of characters: 118 580 Keywords: Charles Darwin, darwinism, social darwinism, Finnish Literature, race, heredity, social class This diploma deals with evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin and examines its arrival to Finland, its spreading there and mentions the first references in the Finnish periodicals, public and especially in literature during 1860-1920. The topic is viewed through a cultural-historical context which consists of influences of evolutionary theories, social darwinism, racial theories, heredity research, or distinctions between social classes. The special emphasis is placed on reflections of the main aspects of this context in the Finnish literature, mainly in the works of Minna Canth, T. Pakkala, L. Onerva, Toivo Tarvas and Maila Talvio.
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Introduction to bio art
Šperanda, Nina ; SILVERIO, Robert (advisor) ; JANOŠČÍK, Václav (referee)
Bio art is a contemporary art practice that works with living organisms (except humans) or is created in cooperation with living organisms. It is relatively new art movement that is rooted deeply inside the history of evolution, domestication of animals and plants, technological discoveries, their development and science. Never before was art questioning its ethics and aesthetics in such profound, molecular and sub-molecular way.
In this work I will consider the historical influences and conditions that led to current developments in the field. I will also try to explain the problematics of defining what bio art is and try to clarify the associated terminology. Most relevant and ground breaking works in the field will be mentioned as some new recent developments.
Aesthetics of bio art is also an important subject often set aside by the ado around ethics of it. It is an extremely important subject to be considered when talking about bio art and I will try to sketch out a brief outline of it with references to philosophy and contemporary bio art theory.
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