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Term of evolution and its understanding by students of secondary schools and high schools
Müllerová, Lucie ; Teodoridis, Vasilis (referee) ; Pavlasová, Lenka (referee)
This thesis deals with the conception of evolutionary topic in schools and textbooks. It introduces education systems and curricular documents of England, Scotland and the Czech Republic. Based on this information an analysis of biology textbooks was made, which was focused on the theme of evolution. The research included 62 textbooks distributed by 27 different publishers. Comparative SWOT analysis of these textbooks has shown that the concept of biology in general is presented differently, what is also reflected in the interpretation of the studies of evolution. The questionnaire research based on those findings was done in the Czech Republic. It is focused on secondary school and high school pupil's knowledge and their personal opinions about this topic. 586 pupils took part in this research. It was found that in the context of evolutionary processes the pupils have problems to use commonly known biological, or evolutionary terms (e.g. adaptation, evolution of the organisms). On the other hand some pupils can easily define some more complicated evolutionary topics such as Neo-Darwinism. Pupils have quite various personal opinions on the issue of the evolution. Some of them are not interested in this area; the others have many questions about the topic of evolution. Some questions are relevant,...
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The category of competence and its interpretation by teachers in practice
Kargerová, Jana ; Doležalová, Jana (referee) ; Lukavská, Eva (referee)
This dissertation deals with issues related to the realization of the concept of key competencies as educational goals which are being brought about by curricular reform. The theoretical component is aimed at researching the way key competencies are treated in the relevant literature and in European and Czech curricular documents. This section deals with the conception and implementation of key competencies in national educational programs in the EU countries. Various procedures in these countries are compared and evaluated in relation to curricular reforms in the Czech Republic and in conjunction with the interpretation of key competencies in the Framework Educational Program for Basic Education. The research component of the dissertation focuses on mapping out the understanding of key competencies on the part of the ‚main players' of curricular reform (teachers, teacher trainers, school inspectors) whose responsibility it is to bring this new concept into pedagogical practice.
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New forms of reading and their pedagogical and psychological character
Vaňková, Eva ; Krykorková, Hana (advisor) ; Sedláčková, Daniela (referee)
The ground for this bachelor's thesis is a general concept of text within which the author addresses her goal - to introduce new forms of reading. She proceeds from the traditional form based on reading of written and printed texts and to identify the new forms she chooses different criteria including the dominant communication code, and the medium conveying text. On the basis of the dominant code she differentiates visual-graphic reading based on reading pictures and graphic characters, and, in terms of media, reading texts using digital technologies. In connection with the rise of the new forms of reading, the author deals with basic problems concerning reading, understanding and reflecting printed, visual, and digital texts and their processing. Text work leads to the conclusion the author considers a major problem for any learning and text processing. Having compared studies of reading Čteme?: obyvatelé České republiky a jejich vztah ke knize, Čtenáři a internauti, PISA 2000 and PISA 2009, the author concludes that there has not been quantitative, but rather qualitative decline of traditional reading. She sees the main cause in underdeveloped reading skills. These skills and their development thus seem to be the issue to elaborate and examine further in the future master's thesis.
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Health Education in School Books and Educational Reality at Primary School
Jelínková, Veronika ; Marádová, Eva (advisor) ; Kovaříková, Miroslava (referee)
Thesis "Health Education in School Books and Educational Reality at Primary School" deals with the realization of Health Education at primary school. Theoretical part of diploma paper results from the content of Health Education in curricular documents, further there is stated up-to-date legislation which regulates this topic. Furthermore the most frequent school books with Health Education are described in this thesis. Practical part of the diploma paper includes the assessment of teachers' attitude on primary schools towards this topic. Thesis evaluates real use of school books by teachers in their effort to achieve the main objectives of Health Education. Further it analyses selected school books of general science considering the health support and protection. In conclusion the results of research work are sumarized in this thesis with the intention to reveal the curent situation in the application of school books and other school materials in the process of realization of Health Education in chosen schools.
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Cross-Curricular Subjects chosen for biology education.
Čermák, Martin ; Rajsiglová, Jiřina (advisor) ; Janštová, Vanda (referee)
Bachelor thesis is literature search. It compares cross-curricular subjects in the Czech Republic with other neighbouring countries (Germany, Austria, Poland, and Slovakia). As the source of information were not used scholarly articles but also school education programmes of countries. Cross-curricular subjects offer an opportunity to connect most or all school subjects. Themes which mainly cross Biology are analyzed in detail. Cross-curricular subjects in the Czech Republic are provided only marginally.
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Media education - incorporation into language education and teaching materials for teachers of English
Oršošová, Lenka ; Syřiště, Ivo (advisor) ; Hanková, Zdeňka (referee)
Messages delivered by the media are often used as a source of authentic texts in language teaching, yet there is not a sufficient amount of works dealing with the connection between media education and language teaching. The theoretical part of this thesis, therefore, tries to describe this relationship from the perspective of media studies, linguistics and language teaching methodology. The aim of this work is to create teaching materials incorporating media education into teaching English as a foreign language. The materials consist of worksheets for students and methodological support for teachers. Key words media education, language teaching, authentic text, context, curricular documents, teaching materials, worksheets, methodological support
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Getting to know the realities of the region as part of the primary school
Levý, Josef
Science and social science curriculum in primary school can be introduced several ways. One of them is regional approach. Thesis brings a contemporary view to the implementation of the regional curriculum for teaching in primary school education in the Man?s world and offers concrete ways to bring the student curriculum. A comprehensive overview of the microregion enables teachers to facilitate the design of curriculum and offers him the possibility of finding a new forms and methods of work in education. Nature trail is one of the options on how to effectively bring knowledge of the microregion to pupil. Information on nature trail can be multilaterally used. Appropriate teaching materials are worksheets related to the nature trail and the immediate surroundings of the pupil.
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The Importance of School for Regional and Local Identity Formation - case study the Tábor Region
Mrázková, Anna ; Kučerová, Silvie Rita (advisor) ; Kühnlová, Hana (referee)
The educational reform, current changes in society and closer cooperation with municipalities as the usual founders of schools allow schools to focuse on less common and specific themas and work with them in a new way. In these days, the school itself is not only a place of education, it is a very important element of cultural and social life of every municipality as well. Based on these changes, the possibility of schools and individual teachers to form territorial identity of pupils and local residents comes to the fore. That is why the aim of this diploma thesis is to analyse teachers' attitudes to teaching about the territorial identity and its forming "outside" the school. For our research three small schools with composite classes in the Tábor region are chosen. Subsequently we analyse their school education programmes in the cotext of territorial identity, by the in-depth interview with teachers we analyse the intended currirulum and by the observing of appropriate lesson we analyse thematically focused realised curriculum. Key words: territorial identity, elements of territorial identity, small school with composite classes, curricural documents
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