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Sounds of Nature or Econarratology through the Folk Songs
Starostová, Martina ; Jančaříková, Kateřina (advisor) ; Hlaváčová, Lucie (referee)
The topic of the thesis is econaratology in conjunction with folk songs, which is subject to the laws of nature and forms a sort of mind set of the of nature life. Singing songs is an integral part of the narrative approach, narrative is complemented by tones and melodies for better memorization. The theoretical part defines the terms: narration, econaratology and folk song. I am interested in what place there the narrative approach in environmental education takes and what are its benefits. I allude to the use of narrative and folk songs as a means of education in practice. The aim of the thesis is based on research findings to determine the extent to which children are able to follow recordings of sound recording recognize and identify vocalizations of domestic or wild animals and industrial sounds of outside world. The research findings are utilized qualitative research, supplemented in some parts of quantitative research. Research tools are the individual interviews over the audio material, which I apply in preschool children. Keywords: narration, econaratology, folk song, nature sounds, folk traditions, research.
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Alienation of Children from their Natural Environment - Changes in Middle Childhood
Vosátková, Lucie ; Jančaříková, Kateřina (advisor) ; Dlouhá, Jana (referee)
This thesis deals with a very topical issue. The theoretical part contains information relating to the alienation of children (human) from nature. The thesis offers an introduction to selected perspectives of human on nature in its history. There is described a relationship between man and nature, from a psychological point of view, clarified the term "alienation" or "alienating nature" and listed the expected consequences of this alienation. Attention is also focused on environmental sensitivity and summary of findings from previous research of alienating nature of children in the Czech Republic. Subject of interest is also the development of leisure activities and value preferences of Czech youth. In the research part of the thesis there is children's relationship to nature, based on the amount of their experiences in the natural environment, determinated by questionnaire survey. Comparison with the results of previous research findings showed that although the issue of alienation of children from nature is solved, the situation does not improve nor deteriorate. Equally interesting are the findings of a growing unsubstantiated fear of children in nature, but it does not have any effect on many experiences in the natural environment. A comparison of the results of the research also showed that...
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Transformation and the Utilization of the School Garden of the Elementary School Jílové u Prahy Since Establishment Until Today
Hrdličková, Libuše ; Jančaříková, Kateřina (advisor) ; Mazáčová, Nataša (referee)
Title Transformation and the Utilization of the School Garden of the Elementary School Jílové u Prahy Since Establishment Until Today. Annotation The goal of my thesis is to monitor the establishment and the development of our school garden. In the first, theoretical part of my thesis, I outlined the historical events and attempts that would lead to the establishment and the decline of school gardens in the Czech Republic. This is closely linked to the historical developments of the Czech educational tradition. This part of my thesis is backed up by the information found in specialised and professional literature. In the second part of my thesis, i.e. my research, I have focused on collecting the information about the process of building a new school in Jílové u Prahy and about the development and changes in the adjoining school area from the day it was opened until now. My research is based on documents found in the archive, class records and annual reports. I gained lots of valuable information from interviews with eyewitnesses. In my conclusion, I compare the development phases of the school area and outline my findings in terms of the function of the school garden for the teaching process at the ground school. Key Words Key words: history of school gardens, ZŠ Jílové u Prahy, school area, school garden,...
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Stereotype Behaviour of Horses
Škantová, Blanka ; Řezníček, Jan (advisor) ; Jančaříková, Kateřina (referee)
This thesis focuses on clearing up the concept "stereotypic behaviour of horses" describing its causes, signs and possible ways of its elimination. Next purpose was to observe group of horses by specific breeders. Data, that may have something to do with stereotypic behaviour of horses (age, sex, use of horses, type of housing etc.), were based on this observation. Stereotypic behaviour of horses is a taught behaviour, especially visible by domesticated horses. The behaviour is unnatural, repetitive and does not have specific purpose or function. There are many causes of stereotypic behavior, mainly bordom, anxiety, lack of exercise, influence of nutrition or genetic factors. Based on my own observation of 43 reared horses, 10 of them (23,26%) were behaving stereotypically. The most often type of stereotypic behaviour was weaving (3 horses), wind-sucking (3 horses) and box- wlking (2 horses). The other I have observed were raking, clacking lips, swing chain, chewing wood, aggressiveness. Followed group of horses was divided into 4 subgroups according to their use, 3 subgroups according to their type of housing and 3 supgroups according to their age. The best way of housing is pasture breeding, With this type of housing was stereorypic behaviour visible only by one followed horse. By other types of...
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Voluntary simplicity and second generation
Kolářová, Marta ; Jančaříková, Kateřina (advisor) ; Andreska, Jan (referee)
Starting point. Voluntary simplicity is a form of lifestyle. Its typical feature is selection intensity in all areas of human life. Severity of voluntary simplicity lies in self-control of consumer behavior in the daily confrontation with the media pressure, which is oriented at a high rate of consumption. The task of this thesis was to find out if people raised in voluntarily simple families keep living this way, or if they turned away from this lifestyle and joined the high consumption society. Methods and results. Research included 40 respondents who met the requirement that voluntary simplicity was part of their upbringing. Addressed were people from alternatively living groups (preppers, ecovillages, macrobiotics, minimalists, forums dedicated to maternal education and child care, and other groups possessing forums on an alternative way of life of voluntary simplicity). The investigation was conducted by a questionnaire which was distributed electronically among respondents. We found that 13 out of 40 respondents (32,5 %) fully met our stated profile of voluntary simplicity. Relative frequency of responses from all respondents that meet the requirements of modest behavior amounted to 74,3 %. Hypothesis H1 predicted that the influence of upbringing in a voluntary simplicity will make respondents prefer...
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Autism and Zootheraphy
Chamillová, Marie ; Jančaříková, Kateřina (advisor) ; Pavlasová, Lenka (referee)
Title: Autism and zootherapy In my thesis I deal with the topic of using different kinds of zootherapy for people with various autistic spectrum disorders. The thesis has a goal to find out diverse possibilities which zootherapy can offer to people with autistic spectrum disorders. I focused on exploration what kind of zootherapy is suitable for the specific diagnosis or the other way around, what kind of zootherapy is not a good fit for a concrete diagnosis. In the thesis I also describe a various subtypes of autistic spectrum disorders including Asperger's syndrome. I co-operate with organizations which are engaged in assistance for people with autism spectrum disorders, medical treatment and rehabilitation, zootherapy or professional animal assistance training. Zootherapy is in a constant expansion and suitability of various kinds of this therapeutic method for each autistic spectrum disorder, or mentally and physically disabled is still a matter of contemporary research. Key words: autism, autistic spectrum, zootherapy, Asperger's syndrome, assistance, canistherapy, hippotherapy
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Comparation of Educational System and Methods of Teaching Biology in France and the Czech Republic
Pavlová, Erika ; Andreska, Jan (advisor) ; Jančaříková, Kateřina (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to compare the educational systems and methods of teaching biology and earth sciences in France and the Czech Republic. The thesis includes historical development of education systems in both of chosen European countries. First part of this work describes the structures of education systems in each level of education. Within the structure of education systems I focus also on educational programs and thematic areas of biology and earth sciences for each grade of secondary schools (students of age 16 to 19). Furthermore, the work presents comparison of two teaching and education methods from each of the various systems. One part of the comparison is discussing about objectives and educational programs. In the conclusion, teachers manuals and students textbooks are compared, as one means of achieving educational objectives. This extra work contains results of educational research. The research was based on a comparative method and the chosen measurement technic was didactic test. For research were asked students from different levels. The aim of the research was to compare the general biology and earth sciences background knowledge of secondary school students in France and the Czech Republic.
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