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Analysis of indicators of the social environment in the municipalities on the basis of various criteria for use at the local level
Galgonek, Dina ; Janoušková, Svatava (advisor) ; Novák, Josef (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with analysis of indicators of the social environment in small municipalities with up to 2 000 inhabitants based on various criteria for local use. The aim of the thesis is to propose an indicator set, which will best meet the requirements of such set in terms of applied criteria. The research question is: What indicators should be included in an indicator set for assessing the social environment of municipalities with up to 2 000 inhabitants to suit the differences and needs of these communities? The research problem addressed in the thesis concerns the possibility of measuring social sustainability at the local level, focusing on small municipalities with up to 2 000 inhabitants in the Czech Republic. The thesis also focuses on the possibility of projecting SDGs into this set. It is a qualitative research that involves the use of methods of document analysis, comparison, description, non-participant observation and semi-structured interviews. Based on the first four methods and theoretical knowledge, a preliminary design of the indicator set was created. Within the framework of semi-structured interviews, this design was discussed with representatives of selected small municipalities and other stakeholders. The edited set represents the final indicator set of the social...
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Development of a Competency Model for the Assessment of Scientific Thinking of Science Graduates
Pyskatá Rathouská, Lubomíra ; Janoušková, Svatava (advisor) ; Bílek, Martin (referee) ; Kričfaluši, Dana (referee)
Our society is currently facing significant changes in the labor market. The changes are brought by the trends from Industry 4.0. The assumption is that higher-skilled positions will gradually come to the forefront of interest: employees who hold specialized positions requiring deeper knowledge and skills, staff with the ability to solve complex problems. The system including knowledge, skills and also to some context values and attitudes is called 21st Century Skills. These skills must be also incorporated and reflected in education, including science education. Science education needs to take into account the above-mentioned as this has direct impact and implications not only on scientific knowledge but also on skills such as critical and analytical thinking, the ability to do research, problem solving or decision-making processes. The system of such key knowledge, abilities and skills is included in the concept of scientific thinking and reasoning. For this reason, the curriculum of schools, including universities, requires development of thinking and reasoning, which would enable them to find a good job on the labor market. Furthermore, relationships between universities and employers are gradually being built, which catalyzes the adoption of universities' curriculum according to the needs of...
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The Development of a Housing Sustainability Assessment Tool
Adamec, Jakub ; Janoušková, Svatava (advisor) ; Veselý, Martin (referee) ; Moldan, Bedřich (referee)
Sustainable development is a principal concept for housing, urban infrastructure, energetics, transportation, or business. Fragmentation of concept definition is a result of abusive term overuse by the entire society. In 2015 UNECE established a clear sustainable housing definition through The Geneva UN Charter on Sustainable Housing and its 34 Rationales. The UN encourages its member states to measure progress in sustainable development through existing or newly developed indicators. Existing commercial housing evaluation tools are insufficient for the Geneva UN Charter concept. Initially, the tools measured the so-called greenness of buildings overlooking anthropocentric and social qualities of housing underlined in the UN Geneva Charter. Commercial certification tools heavily reliant on profits often utilize incorrect concepts of sustainability. That results in false sustainability. This work aspires to introduce a transparent housing sustainability assessment tool for the Czech Republic. Firstly, were identified unique phenomena outlining the concept of housing sustainability. To identified phenomena were consequently nominated and assigned appropriate indicators. While in a different situation is housing interpreted as a human environment, building, home, investment, or fundamental human...
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Comparison of selected disciplines of educational area Man and Nature of the Czech curriculum with the integrated subject Natural Sciences in European curricula
Blaško, Michal ; Stratilová Urválková, Eva (advisor) ; Janoušková, Svatava (referee)
Education policy is one of the important goals of any country, as it affects the lives and employment of its people. Compulsory education in the Czech Republic is defined by the Framework Educational Programme for Basic Education (FEP BE), with science education set out in educational area called Man and Nature. Although this is divided into individual educational fields, its framework concept allows the content of the fields to be integrated according to school programme. However, science has been taught separately in most basic schools for several decades, and any integration efforts are burdened by a lack of examples of good practice. The aim of this paper is therefore to perform comparative analysis of the educational area Man and Nature of the Czech FEP BE and integrated science curricula of selected European countries at the level of lower secondary education (ISCED 2). The analysis identifies topics that are included in foreign curricula but not in Czech curriculum and can thus be an inspiration (in the sense of policy learning), what integrative topics to include in the science education at basic schools. The theoretical part of the thesis describes the integration of natural sciences, both from a historical and curriculum development perspective. Theoretical models describing different...
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Consumers' Motives for Buying Upcycled Clothes
Bourová, Tereza ; Janoušková, Svatava (advisor) ; Švíková, Radka (referee)
The focus of this diploma thesis is on the consumers' motives for purchasing upcycled clothing. Based on the research of available resources, this thesis firstly describes the most expanded model of clothing production, fast fashion, with special focus on the negative environmental impacts it has during different stages of a product life cycle. It later moves on to describe the traditional and more environmentally friendly model, slow fashion, and puts both these concepts (fast fashion and slow fashion) in connection with the hierarchy of waste management and the concept of circular economy. This theoretical base helps to fully understand the concept of upcycled fashion, which is thoroughly described in a separate chapter that also includes various examples of designers who focus on fashion upcycling. The last section of the theoretical part deals with motivation and motives for purchasing clothes. The empirical part of this diploma thesis focuses on how consumers perceive upcycled fashion in order to answer the main research question: What are the consumers' motives for purchasing upcycled clothes? To answer the question, qualitative research was used, specifically semi- structured interviews. The interviews were conducted with a total of twelve shoppers who have had previous personal experience...
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Drama-Based Science Teaching
Scholzová, Veronika ; Teplý, Pavel (advisor) ; Janoušková, Svatava (referee)
The master thesis deals with Drama-Based Science Teaching. The theoretical part of the work deals with the literature research on the topic. It presents basic information about dramatization methods, sets straight the record on some common misconceptions and categorizes dramatization methods. Furthermore the fundamental role of plays and simulations in the learning is discussed. Research also provides evidence that dramatization methods can be and should be included in science teaching. They are suitable e.g. for the implementation of key competencies and teaching of Cross-Curricular Subjects as defined by The Framework Educational Programme (for Secondary General Education). Finally, specific examples of dramatization methods are shown, and the benefits and pitfalls of these methods are discussed. Practical part describes a dramatization teaching material created by the author. The topic is alcohols with a focus on pupils' understanding the formation of methanol and ethanol and the difference between these two. This material was tested on the sample of about 150 high school pupils in Prague. There is also author's solution as well as several pupils' worksheets included. The impact of the activity on the pupils' knowledge was measured and evaluated. The shortcomings of the original version were...
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Chemistry in food TV advertising and its use in media education
Matějčková, Veronika ; Teplý, Pavel (advisor) ; Janoušková, Svatava (referee)
The following bachelor thesis deals with the topic chemistry in advertising. It focuses especially at food TV commercials and claims appearing in them, which directly or indirectly concern chemistry, chemical substances or chemical processes. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first part addresses advertisement, its definition, aims, history, the tools of advertising and the supervision of advertisements. In the next chapter of this part media education is explored, namely to how and to what extent is media education incorporated into Framework Educational Programmes and subsequently in School Educational Programmes of selected schools. The second part of the thesis presents an analysis of selected TV commercials and it also contains an analysis of specific claims, which were stated in the commercials and concern chemistry. The claims are classified into several categories and afterwards, they are evaluated on their correctness, meaning and utilization for creating a teaching material, a worksheet, which could be used for teaching media education in Chemistry lessons.
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The visualization of basic shapes of organic molecules
Andrlíková, Věra ; Teplá, Milada (advisor) ; Janoušková, Svatava (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on teaching using visualization of shapes of molecules in organic chemistry in contexts with orbitals at grammar schools. The theoretical part explores the classification of the topic in the Czech Framework Education Programme as well as in selected grammar school curricula. Within the content of the visualization, the emphasis is placed on molecules of alkanes, alkenes and alkynes, bonds (single, double and triple bonds) and the association with molecular orbitals and hybridization. The theoretical part also dedicates to a set of criteria for analysis of didactic materials. The practical part devotes to evaluation of selected didactic materials (textbooks, mobile applications for smartphones, websites and videos). The analysis was based on criteria given in the theoretical part. The practical part deals more deeply with the practical processing of lesson which devotes to the topic of shapes of molecules and bonds. The visualisation of molecules plays a key role in the proposed lesson plan.
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