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Lifestyle of the Third Age University Students
HOLICKÁ, Monika
Lifestyle of the University of the Third Age listeners The thesis as a whole is written in the spirit of the quality of senior life and active spending an old age. First chapter ? Current status - represents the theoretical frame of the thesis which introduces the reader with the key issues essential for the correct understanding of the work. In its´ main subchapters are described demographical development and the population aging, life quality of senior people and social security in old age. Special chapter is dedicated to the tools of an active old age where the both national and international activities on this field are described, the types of senior organizations such as Active seniors clubs or People´s universities are divided, and separate chapter deals with the education of senior people including the description of educational activities like University of the Third Age or the Academy of the Third Age. The last part of mentioned chapter is dedicated to functions, targets and positive results of the senior people education. Remaining chapters concern the qualitative research. In the chapter two the objective of the thesis is defined, including the main and component research questions. The objective of the thesis is to describe the lifestyle of the senior people who participate on the educational activities within the University of the Third Age (U3V). Specifically to describe how their lifestyle differs unlike to the senior people who does not attend the educational courses via U3V and which positive benefits the study brings. The secondary objective is to determine the factors that impede these senior people to attend the Universities of the Third Age. Third chapter refers to the detailed description of the research methodology. The qualitative attitude with the research design of the case study was chosen for this thesis. I used the moderated interview method and the semi-structured interview for the data collecting and right after the framework analysis was chosen in order to process gathered data. To evaluate the data I used the case comparison method. This chapter also includes the description of the research sample selection and also its characteristics. Forth chapter presents the results of evaluated interviews. Whereas the research file was divided into three groups, also these results have a structure of three separated subchapters. The summary of gathered key knowledge is mentioned at the end of this chapter. I managed to identify the base differences in particular branches of senior people lifestyles between senior people that attend the U3V educational activities, those who don´t and the senior people participate in the Active senior clubs thanks to the comparison of the particular case studies. It is possible briefly to say that the result shows us that the U3V study has no influence on the softening of the feeling of loneliness, although the important role of the U3V in senior people lives mainly in giving them both the kind of meaning of life and the opportunity to spend old age actively with the people of the same generation with the same interests. Senior people who do not attend the educational activities indicate the lower number of meetings with other people, but on the other hand they meet their relatives much more often, in some cases every day, and thanks to this fact, they do not feel the loneliness and see their meaning of life in the care od family. This is the reason, why they do not have a need to attend other activities. After this chapter the Discussion follows, which compares the gathered results of the research with already publicized knowledge. The conclusion, bibliographic sources and the annexes are placed in the end of the thesis.
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The importance of information communication technologies in the lives of active seniors
SEDLÁKOVÁ, Iva
The thesis deals with the importance of modern information communication technologies (ICT) in the lives of active seniors. The theoretical part of the thesis deals with biological, psychological and social topics of aging as the basic demarcation of the present conception of the old age issue. It follows up the information and computer literacy, the methods and forms of the education of seniors considering the acquisition of knowledge and skills within using modern means of communication. In the practical part of the thesis the quantitative research has been interpreted, the goal of which was to find out the importance of ICT for active seniors, the frequency and the rate of using means of technology. At the end of the thesis there are the results of the research discussed how they influence the quality of life of active seniors and as possible forms of communication for informing seniors about cultural events and their acquisition in social life.
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EDUCATION AS AN IMPLEMENT FOR GREATER APPLICATION OF SENIORS ON THE LABOUR MARKET
Pospěchová, Michaela ; Vostrovská, Zdenka (advisor) ; Štípek, Vladimír (referee)
This bachelor thesis is based on aging population and the ways in which elderly people adapt to ongoing changes in society. In times of new technologies and innovations, older population find it more difficult to stay economically active. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the influence of leisure education on active participation of senior population in job market, based on education in Universities of Third Age (U3A).I will analyze the influence of U3A on our seniors regarding their abilities and motivations in a job market in Czech Republic. Respondents will be divided into two groups. First will be from a capital city Prague, and the second from a smaller city Uherské Hradiště. The estimate number of respondents will be 100. This survey will be based on questioners which will help to establish if the percentage average of students or graduates of U3V in current employment in Czech Republic is higher then average of working seniors. Respondents will be divided into 5 year age groups. I will furthermore compare these results with working seniors in Germany. The theoretical part will include basic use of terminology regarding senior population, U3A and a job market. As well as description of motivation for studying It will include new development in universities and portfolios of educational courses. The practical part will include a quantitative research based on questionnaires and a universities SWOT analysis. The conclusion of my theses will either proof or refute the established hypothesis.
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Support of teaching computer courses for seniors
Janečková, Hana ; Benáčanová, Helena (advisor) ; Seghmanová, Michaela (referee)
The purpose of this bachelor thesis was to create an e-Learning study material on the subject of MS Excel and to explain the steps of its creation. To achieve these aims it was used not only theoretical materials, but also the results from the questionnaire filled by participants of courses at the University of the Third Age. The thesis is divided into theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part deals with the question of e-Learning, its definition, its characteristics, its advantages and disavantages. Next, it focuses on the question of seniors education. Special emphasis was put on the practical part, in which the connection between seniors and the program MS Excel was analysed. Then their demand was respected during the creation of e-Learning study material. The contribution was in the creation of study material and in the posibility of utilisation in education.
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Leisure time activities of senior´s and their use in České Budějovice
MALIŇÁKOVÁ, Věra
Thesis deals offering leisure activities for seniors in České Budějovice and their use. First, the author deals with basic concepts of the topic, defines terms of age and aging and discusses the problems that this entails. She also describes the social aspects and shows the negative demographic development of aging in EU countries and the Czech Republic. In the research concludes that in the sample seniors living in the Czech Budejovice is the most active group of seniors visiting the University of the Third Age, while the group home for elderly people spend their time differently from other groups, perhaps related to the fact that life in a constitutional device is specific and different
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Activation and education programmes for seniors in the region of Karlovy Vary
HANZELOVÁ, Jiřina
The thesis deals with the topic of Activation and education programmes for seniors in the region of Karlovy Vary. The topic is divided here into two parts. The first, theoretical part deals with the old age as a biopsychosocial problem, i.e. it evaluates the demography of old age, the concept of healthy ageing, it deals with medical and social geriatric diagnostics and, above all, with individual activation programmes, their creation and principles, importance and practical application. The work especially includes education programmes, it describes their particularities and use, as well as their teaching at colleges in the region of Karlovy Vary. The second, research part consists of the determining of hypotheses, the aim of the work, and the methodology of the research. I have chosen the quantitative method of research by which three questionnaires were assessed: for respondents living in old people´s homes, for respondents living at home and for professional workers dealing with activation and education programmes in old people´s homes. Further a comparative analysis of the questionnaire for respondents living in old people´s homes as well as those living at home was carried out. The subject of this analysis are the questions of the same aim and their statistic compiling. All the data are compiled with the help of charts, tables and statistic programme SPSS. The most important is the testing of the hypothesis concerning the knowledgeability of respondents about activation and education programmes and related participation in such programmes, and further hypotheses inquiring whether professional workers (course lectors) have enough information on the entire spectrum of these programmes. The discussion is directed at the evaluation of the research targets, practical implementation of knowledge into practice, and especially at additional new facts, which I revealed during the research itself and during the statistic compiling of data. It is possible to say that the respondents must have information on the importance of activation and education programmes, on their taking place and the conditions of participation. Alike the professional staff holding or lecturing them should be professionally trained in courses. Thus the programmes will reach the desirable quality and their importance for the society will be significantly higher.
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Leisure Time of Seniors
MALIŇÁKOVÁ, Věra
The work deals with leisure time of elderly people. The purpose is processing problems of leisure time by seniors focused to the Universities of the third age in Czech Republic. First is described leisure time generally. In the next part is proceed theme of aging and old age. There is defined and described periods of aging included all changes connected.. In the third part work deals with Universities of the third age as a option of meaningful exploitation leisure time. At the close are described results from the list of questions. Objective of questionary is estimation of satisfaction elderly people with study on the University of the third age, problems of this method education and effect studying to the people.
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E-Learning support of teaching seniors computer courses at the University of the Third Age
Kuchařová, Hana ; Benáčanová, Helena (advisor) ; Seghmanová, Michaela (referee)
The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to introduce the term e-Learning to the reader and using e-Learning as a part of teaching computer courses at University of the Third Age. The thesis goes from purely theoretical topics to more practical ones. In the introduction I outline the aims of my thesis and reasons for choosing the topic. I continue with describing what e-Learning means, from its history, to definition, participants of creation and users, its advantages and disadvantages, standards and supporting systems. The next part deals with education in later life and its government support. I focus on practical creation of an electronic course for the University of the Third Age on University of Economics in Prague too. In the concluding part I comment contribution and the possibilities which this field offers.
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education of seniors - financing of U3A
Zerzaňová, Amálie ; Kapinusová, Jana (advisor) ; Krebs, Vojtěch (referee)
The aim of the theses is to analyze financing of education. There are presented different views on the topic. The work present advantages and disadvantages of financing of education as public or private good. The case study was realized to search for financial conditions of seniors' education. Evaluation of needed resources on side of University of the Third Age providers and possibilities of financing from seniors was confronted.
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U3V VŠE a počítačová gramotnost v systému celoživotního vzdělávání
Hnilička, Jakub ; Horný, Stanislav (advisor) ; Vilím, Tomáš (referee)
Computer literacy has recently emerged as a new topic, complementing traditional literacy. While this issue affects every one of us, it is particularly important for people of post-productive age, who have not been able to become acquainted with information technology during their professional life. The National Computer Literacy Program provided a great opportunity to eliminate this illiteracy; unfortunately it came to an end together with termination of the Ministry of Informatics of the Czech Republic. It is striking that the State has been preparing projects in the area of e-Government, electronic census and electronic elections without having any developmental strategy for users of these ambitious projects. An opportunity to improve personal skills after the end of a professional career is provided by the University of the Third Age at the University of Economics, where students learn to use not only computers, but also the multimedia in the Graphic and Multimedia Laboratory. Unfortunately, this university is not accessible to everyone. The limitations consist particularly in the precondition of completed secondary education, but also in the available capacity. Thus, an option that is really available to everyone lies in the commercial sector, which offers a wide range of courses. These courses are provided either by software companies or by the ECDL (European Computer Driving License).
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