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The attitudes of primary school pupils to selected minorities
HAMPL, Ladislav
This bachelor thesis deals with an attitude of elementary school students towards their schoolmates of different nationalities and ethnic groups. It consists of theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part is divided into three main chapters. The first chapter focuses on multiculturalism in general and multiculturalistic education in Czech Republic. It describes an integration of multiculturalistic education in general education plans of Czech Republic and in those of elementary schools. The second chapter focuses on attitudes, stereotypes and prejudices in general, their origin and ways of manipulation. The third chapter is dedicated to the most common ethnic groups living in Czech Republic, that is Ukrainians, Vietnamese, Russians, Slovaks and Romani. It describes their history in Czech Republic and differences of their customs. The practical part focuses on the research of elementary school students attitudes towards their schoolmates of different ethnic groups. The purpose of the research was to find out whether students hold any prejudices towards their schoolmates of different nationalities and ethnic groups and whether the same nationality is important for them during a creation of friendship bonds.
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The Image of Italy and Italians in the works by E. M. Forster and Henry James
JEŘÁBKOVÁ, Silvie
For my diploma thesis, I decided to choose "The Image of Italy and Italians in the Works by E. M. Forster and Henry James." I selected this topic because my attitude towards Italy is very positive and also because it seems to me interesting to compare in what way the depiction of Italy and its inhabitants is different and in what way similar at these authors. In the introductory part of my thesis, I describe the role of Italy in the course of history. I mention the significance of this country and also its influence on people who visited it. I explain the important function of Italy during the "travel for improvement" that was a part of young English men´s education first of all in 18th century and that was called the "Grand Tour." I also point out the fact that various Italian towns were perceived in a different way. Prejudices and stereotypes played an important role in the perception of Italy, which I mention at the beginning of my thesis as well. Later on, I explain why the authors including Forster and James set the plots of their works in Italy. I present particular Forster´s and James´s works on this topic and I summarize the most important aspects of their use of Italian setting and characters. The comparison of the representation of Italy and Italians in the works of these authors is the goal of my thesis. At first, I deal in my thesis with E. M. Forster´s relation to Italy and with his works on the Italian topic. I focus on the roles and functions of Italy and on the Italian characters in these works that I subsequently compare. I use the same process at H. James. I similarly describe at first his attitude towards Italy and after that his works, the plot of which is situated in Italy or in which there are some Italian characters. I compare these works once again with the focus on author´s depiction of Italy and its inhabitants. In next part of my thesis, I compare the mentioned works of both authors. I pay attention to the Italian setting and to the presented art, then to the role of Italy in both authors´ works, to similarities and differences of Italian characters, to cultural prejudices, stereotypes and xenophobia in the works, and I also describe to what extent E. M. Forster was inspired by H. James´s works, during which I draw on Forster´s critical work Aspects of the Novel. I confront the information with some critical texts of other authors, as for example with an article by Kevin J. H. Dettmar and a review by Edmund White. At the end of my thesis I analyse film adaptations of Forster´s and James´s works with the Italian topic and I put them in contrast with the original sources, on the grounds of which they were made. I observe during these analyses the similarities and differences in the depiction of Italians and Italy.
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Gender Aspects of Social Work
KUBEŠOVÁ, Kristýna
The thesis, "Gender aspects of social work" deals with the issue of incidence of gender stereotypes and prejudices among social workers both gender in České Budějovice. The goal of this work is to find out if gender stereotypes and prejudices could be found in their mind and in practical approach to clients. Moreover, we would like to identify what create conditions for them and how the individuals try to deal with them. The theoretical part is divided into four chapters which focus on terms gender, gender issues generally as well as in connection with social work and above all on gender stereotypes and the incidence in the area of social work. The basic terms are discussed as gender, gender identity, gender role, gender contract and gender socialization. I am concerned with differences between gender, division of male and female role and created gender stereotypes. In addition, I deal with the theme of gender studies and discrimination in connection with gender marginally. Primarily, the theoretical part is focused on gender stereotypes and prejudices in social work and personality of social workers. The practical part is a description of the qualitative research, where attitudes of representative social workers are investigated in case of gender stereotypes and prejudices. With regard to the objective and qualitative strategy of this theses, two research questions were defined: 1) Is there any awareness in social workers about possible gender stereotypes and prejudices in social work?, 2) Are gender stereotypes and prejudices present in behavior, opinions and attitudes of social workers or as the case may be how they are manifested in approach to clients? Semi-structured interviews with 5 women and 1 man were conducted for the purpose of this study. They were selected by objective sampling intentionally. All of them work in organizations of social work in České Budějovice. The realization of the study took place in May 2014 in České Budějovice. The results were divided into three parts on the basis of semi-structured interviews and then were analyzed by the method of clustering. In the first part of interview, I am concerned with the basic information about social workers in connection with performance of social work. Then I focus on their own gender socialization and their idea what is the optimal distribution of gender role in family. Second part of interview is focused on consciousness of social workers about gender in social work. I took an interest in incidence of stereotyped behavior and creation of attitudes to clients. Moreover, the possibility of preference clients on the grounds of affiliation with gender was explored. The final part of interview, I focus briefly on reflexion of social workers and instruments which are used for reflexion of gender stereotypes and prejudices. The results were analyzed in a qualitative way and transformed to uncluttered charts. Results showed gender stereotypes and biases occur among social workers of male and female gender and their primary attitude to male or female clients is influenced by them. The incidence is mainly affected by transferring patterns of men and women role from their families. Nevertheless, men and female social workers are aware of their incidence and they try to eliminate and reflect them during their work. Because of these mechanisms, the attitude of social workers to male and female clients is getting better. In future, the thesis may serve as a source of information for social workers as well as general public who take an interest in this area.
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Feeding enrichment in selected Felids
PINTOVÁ, Radka
Environmental enrichment and welfare are important elements for animals in captivity. This study starts with general introduction in breeding animals in zoos and environmental enrichment for important taxonomic groups. The practical part is following with a research on effect of food on frequency of stereotypic behavior. The theoretical assumption says that the different time of eating the food leads to different behavior. Long-term observation was done to confirm the theory. Eight animals belonging in three species were observed in time of feeding, eight types of food were given. The behavior at the time of feeding and after was evaluated by ethogram. General trends in time used for feeding were confirmed (the shortest time for chicken and opposite the longest for head of a goat). The evaluation of stereotypic behavior mainly showed the individuality of each animal. However, servals exhibit most of this pattern. The relationship between stereotypes and time of feeding was insignificant. Generally most of the results were statistically insignificant because of low number of repetition in the dataset.
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Qualitative research of the influence of prejudices and stereotypes on the social integration of children of pre-school age.
PEKÁROVÁ, Lenka
The theme of this work is to determine the influence of prejudices and stereotypes on the socialization of preschool children, especially their inclusion in the group of peers in kindergarten. The theoretical part of the work describes the issue of prejudice and stereotypes in society, their influence and transfer to preschool children. It also discusses the adaptation of the child, socialization, and communication of children at preschool age, their cognitive, emotional and social development. Research part consists of eight case reports of children from minority communities, and children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds. The conclusion summarizes the results of the research, explains the various causes and consequences of the emergence and influence of prejudices, stereotypes, socialization and integration of children and their psychological and social development.
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Women in Czech politics and opinions of female students of Social sciences on women political involvement in politics
ZELENKOVÁ, Aneta
The main objective of my thesis is to outline basic concepts helping to understand the gender issue. Following these finds I want to focus on the concepts of the modern political scene and on the mapping of the theoretical finds and facts regarding the numbers of politically engaged women in Czech politics. A bigger part of this thesis will focus on the research which will consist of two parts. The original assumption consisted of only one research but while writing my thesis I encountered new facts which I wanted to include and that is why I conducted two researches. The topic of the thesis is the question of gender division of roles in the political sphere in the Czech Republic. Based on the introductory theoretical description of development of the emancipation movement striving for active participation of women in modern democratic politics and characterization of the situation in the Czech society, a research into the division of roles between men and women will be conducted. An attempt to state the reasons why there are less women in politics nowadays will be based on active cooperation with PF JCU students through information gained from questionnaire survey. The anticipated conclusion will be a summary of all finds and an attempt to suggest a solution to reach an optimal state in Czech politics.
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Reflection of ethnic and national minorities in textbooks of civics.
JIRÁČKOVÁ, Lenka
This Master?s thesis deals with a reflection of national minorities in textbooks of civic in elementary schools. The aim of this thesis is both theoretical research of civics textbooks and a practical exploration of attitudes of students and teachers of elementary schools in relation to minorities. The thesis contains three main parts. The first part deals with issues of multicultural community and explains the basic concepts that are associated with these issues. The next part, describes an author?s reflection of ethnic and national minorities in civics textbooks. The last part is dedicated to the research where a questionnaire survey was used. It maps attitudes of students and teachers of elementary schools to ethnic and national minorities
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The image of ethnic and national minorities in Czech mass media
MINAŘÍK, Michal
The work deals with an image of ethnic and national minorities in Czech mass media. The theoretical part defines the basic theoretical terms and briefly characterizes selected minorities in our country. It also attends to the issues of coexistence, problems of stereotypes, attitudes and prejudices. The end of this part is addressing the issues of media, media product and medial representation of minorities in the selected theme context. The practical part is based on the assumption of current media presenting the minorities mostly in a connection with negative content, for example criminality, unemployment etc. The research part is aimed at the content analysis of daily newspaper articles, that relate to chosen minorities.
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Evolution of social perception of people with handicap in Grade school for children with special needs of teaching
MITÍSKOVÁ, Jana
Title of the thesis: The target of my dissertation is the qualitative research based on grounded theory in which I am trying to detect the development of social perception of disadvantaged pupils at ?Základní škola praktická? in Milevsko. In the theoretical part I am giving a definition of terms ? social perception, perceptions´mistakes, stereotype, labeling, stigmatization, communication, mental handicap and memory, episodic memory and autobiographical memory. The target of the methodical part is to clarify the basics of grounded theory by using the methody of half-structured depth interview and observation. After implementation of qualitative research I want to summarize the discovered patterns of social perception and to find the movements in the field of social stereotypes in the specialists´approach to disadvantaged pupils.
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