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Preschool Child in a Facility for Children Requiring Immediate Help
Severová, Veronika ; Sotáková, Hana (advisor) ; Kučerová, Olga (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with a case study of a particular facility for children requiring immediate help and a case report of selected preschool children who are located in the mentioned facility. In the theoretical part I characterize child in preschool age, its development and needs. I also focus on the theme of CAN syndrome, family disorders and foster care. Furthermore, I summarize general information about the ZDVOP facility in the Czech Republic, its content and aim. The main method of research is the case study of an ZDVOP based in Prague, which I created on the basis of data analysis, direct observation, taking part in routine operation and interview with a social worker. The case study contains a brief description of the facility and a detailed record of the three selected children, focusing on the overall prosperity of the child, his actions, coping with the situation and experiencing separation from a loved one. The aim of my bachelor thesis is to observe the psychological and physical condition of the selected preschool child in ZDVOP during the whole stay. Furthermore, to monitor his behavioral changes, the relationship between him and his loved ones and look for circumstances that affect the child while staying in the facility. Based on this goal, I deal with research questions.
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Dynamic assessment in practice of school psychologist
Mrázková, Marína ; Lucká, Barbora (advisor) ; Kučerová, Olga (referee)
This bachelor thesis introduce dynamic assessment as an approach, which could be part of the practice of a school psychologist, and tries to figure out, whether, and to what extent is this method applied to school psychologists' everyday job. The data was collected and analyzed through the method of qualitative research from semi-structured interviews with seven school psychologists. The results of the research imply that school psychologists do utilize principals of dynamic assessment to a certain extent, but in majority they don't use it systematically. This resume is in agreement with the research, which was carried out under the project RAMPS-VIP III. In the resume, the author comes with the hypothesis that it might be useful if school psychologists learnt more about this method already during their studies - particularly those of them who potentially aspire for a career in schooling or counseling. KEYWORDS Dynamic assessment, school psychology, learning difficulties, mediated learning experience
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Social emotional competencies of home-educated children
Rubišová, Soňa ; Presslerová, Pavla (advisor) ; Kučerová, Olga (referee)
My thesis deals with level of socially emotional competence of home educated children. In theoretical part I present concept of individual education and disputation of various authors on this subject, characterize development period of young school age and present theoretical delimitation of both test methods that I use for data collection. Empirical part consist of elaborate comparison of output of two groups of children aged 8 - 10 years, each group consist of 5 respondents. First group is constituted of children that are home educated more than one year. Second group include children attending regular educational institution and meet the conditions I determined for pair comparison. Main methods for data collection are the Intelligence and Development Scales (IDS) and my own initiative material made of seven photographs, that are evaluated with the Scale of Social Orientation (SOS). Results are processed qualitatively. I compare individual pair of children from exploratory and control group followed by summary comparison. Then I analyze content of answers. Acquired results don't imply any significant differences in performance of exploratory and control group. KEYWORDS homeschooling, social emotional competencies, younger school age, test IDS, the Scale of Social Orientation
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Handwriting development from 1st to 5th grade of elementary school
Kučerová, Olga ; Kucharská, Anna (advisor) ; Wildová, Radka (referee) ; Viktorová, Ida (referee)
TITLE Handwriting development from 1st to 5th grade of elementary school Author: Mgr. et Mgr. Olga Kučerová Department: Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education Charles University Supervisor: Doc. PhDr. PaedDr. Anna Kucharská, Ph. D. ABSTRACT This dissertation project describes the development phases of the handwriting skills from 1st to 5th grade. The aim of this project is to describe the procedure of dynamic handwriting acquisition concerning two different alphabetic scripts used in Czech elementary schools. These include the traditional cursive script and alternative script that is Comenia Script. We focus on two different styles of penmanship, which are being taught in Czech elementary schools - cursive writing and manuscript writing. Our research sample includes two groups. The first group comprises writers who employ the cursive handwriting style of penmanship, whereas the second group considers the Comenia Script writer i.e. the manuscript style. The research consists of two parts - the theoretical and practical part. The theory defines the basic concepts related to handwriting skills and handwriting development. A substantial part focuses on both styles of penmanship - traditional cursive writing and Comenia Script. We depict their formal characteristics, circumstances of origin and the...
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School Counselling Centres - reality and expectations
Chrtková, Monika ; Kucharská, Anna (advisor) ; Kučerová, Olga (referee)
The thesis deals with the profession of school psychologist. We are wondering if there are any reasons that prevent or encourage the introduction of psychologists into schools. The first part of the thesis deals with the concepts of school psychology and school psychologist from the present and historical point of view. We are dedicated to the legislative anchoring of this profession and its ethical standards. We uncover the complex network of the school psychologist, including aspects that can be partaking of teachers' expectations of school psychologists. The second part of the thesis deals with the questionnaire survey which was carried out at the school, where the institution of the school psychologist is already established and where it is not. The data analysis was conducted the analysis. Through her, we found five areas of interest which affect expectations. The first area concerns the role of the school psychologist. The second area concerns of his work. The third is the idea of teachers about the " ideal " school psychologist. The fourth deals with the concerns of teachers and the fifth area concerns the financing of school psychologists. The main findings introduce together with the direct quote. In another part of the main findings offer a comparison between schools, which complement the...
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Problematic situations connected with position of school psychologist
Hanauerová, Zuzana ; Klimešová, Anna (advisor) ; Kučerová, Olga (referee)
The bachelor work "Problematic situations connected with position of school psychologist" lies within the field of school psychology and it is focused on position of school psychologist in professional network with another school participants, and on problem situations which this position could bring. The aim of this work is present these problematic situations in practice of school psychologists and try to find their own possible ways out of these situations and propose some solutions. Content of this work is divided into theoretical and practical part. The issue of theoretical part is knowledge base connected to work school psychologist profession - from introduction of branch specific terms of "school psychology" and term "school psychologist", through definition of school psychologist's profession and another consulting school professions up to school psychologist's relations network, where the sensitive points can be found. This part of the work is focused on the knowledge about problematic situations, in which the school psychologist can be confronted in relations with another school participants. The practical (research) part is issued to experiences of school psychologists in Prague. Realized research followed the theoretical knowledges which are mentioned above. This part of work was made...
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Comenia Script - handwriting and problems at third grade
Kučerová, Olga ; Kucharská, Anna (advisor) ; Sotáková, Hana (referee)
The following thesis focuses on the topic of the system of writing "Comenia Script", used by the pupils of the third grade of basic schools. The thesis consists - as usual - of two parts: a theoretical one and a practical one. The theoretical part deals with the school tuition of writing, the differences in the teaching of analytic- synthetic and genetic method, and forming of the individual handwriting. A substantial part focuses on the central theme, the Comenia Script (the circumstances of its origin, its shape characteristics, the course of its experimental testing, and current researches). The next chapter concerns itself with the scales designated for assessment of the writing (Matějček, Zelinková, Veverková). In the practical part we introduce the assessing scale of Jana Veverková (2011), adapted by us. By the means of this scale we were assessing the written expressions of ninety pupils using Comenia Script. At the same time, the pupils were taught by the analytic-synthetic or genetic method of reading and writing tuition, therefore we were able to compare the results also from the point of view of both methods. The aim of this thesis is to describe the typical written expression of a pupil using the Comenia Script and also adapting the Veverková assessment scale (2011), so that it convenes for...
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