|
|
Cyril O. Houle's Concept of Adult Education
Šedivá, Kamila ; Dvořáková, Miroslava (advisor) ; Kopecký, Martin (referee)
The master's thesis is focused on work of Cyril Orvin Houle, key thoughts and the influence on a theory and a practise of the adult education in the United States of America. The key objective of the thesis is introduce Cyril Orvin Houle's work, analyse primary and secondary sources and find key thoughts of the topic of the adult education. Papers and journals are described into details, which illustrate the beginning of his career and current topics, on which he responded, and selected professional and popular science publicatons. His works are set into a context of a development of the adult education in the USA and inspirational sources are identified. On the basis of the analysis results of documents, it can be concluded that key thoughts are self-directed learning, motivation of adult lerners to connect into education activities, vocational education conception in the USA and education programmes planning.
|
|
|
Analysis of financial literacy of the elderly in the Karlovy Vary region
Šedivá, Kamila ; Šerák, Michal (advisor) ; Reichel, Jiří (referee)
The bachelor thesis is studying the financial literacy and financial education of eldery adults. The thesis is devided into four chapters. In the first chapter we follow up with the elderhood and aging, current demografic situation in the Czech Republic and it's possible progress in the future. This chapter is also focused on the changes brought by elderhood and social and economic consequences of aging. The second chapter is dedicated to education of older adults, to it's specificities and to selected institutions that provide education to older adults. The third chapter is devoted to the financial literacy. It contains, besides the definition and demarcation of financial literacy, also documents at the international and national level, which deal with those issues and research which dealt with the financial literacy of citizens of the Czech Republic. Furthermore it describes the problems of financial literacy amongst eldery citizens and projects that are dedicated to its support specifically for this group of citizens. The empirical part is devoted to investigation of the level of financial literacy of older adults in the Karlovy Vary Region. The aim of the thesis is to analyze financial literacy of older adults in the Karlovy Vary Region and to zoom capabilities and aspects of their education in...
|
guest ::
RSS feed.