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Preschool education theory and practice at German nursery school
Vacková, Veronika ; Opravilová, Eva (advisor) ; Loudová Stralczynská, Barbora (referee)
ANNOTATION: This thesis deals with institutional upbringing and education of children up to three years in the Czech and German environment. It introduces the current situation of early childhood education with regard to historical context, legislative arrangement and initial models of both countries. The practical part compares examples from the following institutions: Children's nursery Jihlava, Czech-German kindergarten KIDS Company Prague and Kindertagestätte Entdeckerkiste Dresden. The paper provides analysis of their educational documents, describes the conditions of upbringing and education and examines thein impal on the children in these institutions. Assessment of the strengths and weaknesses is reflected in the proposal of optimal educational plan for early childhood.
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Nursery schools in Tabor in the years 1948 - 2010
Bonaventurová, Jana ; Uhlířová, Jana (advisor) ; Loudová Stralczynská, Barbora (referee)
Subject of the thesis named Nursery Schools in the Town of Tabor between 1948 - 2010 is to describe the historical development of nursery schools in Tabor. The main goal of the thesis is to research development of Tabor's nursery schools. The thesis is divided into ten chapters. These concerns with the history and characteristic of the town Tabor, preschool institutions and its development in Bohemia, school system in Tabor, nursery schools in Tabor till 1945 and after 1945, history of four oldest nursery schools in Tabor, criteria of public holidays and children's healthcare in four oldest nursery schools in Tabor and comparison on base of chronicles. The thesis is a historical study and analysis ensuing from primary sources. There is used a historical method and primary documents and comparative methods in the thesis. The issue is research of the nursery school development in Tabor between 1948 and 2010.
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Educational values from the perspectives of preschool teachers
Krausová, Simona ; Hejlová, Helena (advisor) ; Loudová Stralczynská, Barbora (referee)
Values and their role in preschool education are the main topic of this diploma thesis. The mail aim is to find the answer to the question what kind of educational values nursery teachers consider to be the most important ones from their point of view concerning the curricula. In the theoretical part of my diploma thesis I describe values from different perspectives: from philosophical, psychological, sociological and pedagogical perspective which is the most important ones. It is examined how values are connected with and grounded in the binding document "Framework educational programme for preschool education", I also focus on ethical principles of preschool teachers which should be followed and I describe the influence of values on shaping of children's behaviour. In the empirical part I introduce research information, data collections and data analysis and main results. The most important values from preschool teacher's point of view can be divided into three groups: moral values, values connected with relationships and values connected with skills. Keywords values, moral values, social relationships, social skills
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Development of the Czech nursery school in 1980 - 2010 in Ostrava
Korbelová, Petra ; Uhlířová, Jana (advisor) ; Loudová Stralczynská, Barbora (referee)
The aim of this theses is to summarize the development of the Czech nursery school in the years 1980-2010 in Ostrava. The development is divided into chapters by decades. Each chapter describes the current educational legislation which has been related to nursery schools in the given period. The focus is on target and the concept of education in the nursery school in the given decade. Detail is devoted to important documents determined to the nursery school. It deals with the changes in the planning and evaluation of the educational work. The practical part is processing historical documents, such as school records, chronicles and inspection reports from nursery schools in Ostrava. The method of the questionnaire survey finds opinions nursery school's teachers on the transformation of the Czech nursery school. The questionnaire survey maps the views of parents to the current nursery school. In conclusion my thesis compares the Czech nursery school in each decade according to the monitored items. Finally, theses summarizes the development of the Czech nursery school in the years from 1980 to 2010.
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Přemysl Pitter's humanism and his contribution to the education of values at the primary school
Bartoňková, Dagmar ; Uhlířová, Jana (advisor) ; Loudová Stralczynská, Barbora (referee)
TITLE: Přemysl Pitter's humanism and his contribution to the education of values at the primary school ABSTRACT: The aim of the thesis is to provide basic information about Přemysl Pitter's ideas, thoughts and activities. The theoretical part depicts mainly historical and biographical events to enable the understanding of the life values of Přemysl Pitter and the main context of his life. The practical part is based on a project that enables 5th grade elementary school students to penetrate into Pitter's life and to understand his life approach and values through their own experiences. We conclude with reflections from the project that students made sense of Přemysl Pitter's values and the historical events connected with his life, as well as Pitter's uniqueness and courage. On their own the pupils put the information together into a book, which is the output of their project. The aim of the thesis and the project has been accomplished. KEYWORDS: Přemysl Pitter, humanism, values education, project
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Maturity to kindergarten entrance
Králová, Barbora ; Opravilová, Eva (advisor) ; Loudová Stralczynská, Barbora (referee)
The purpose of this study is to analyse the level of maturity of children older than two years in the context of their potential integration in the public preschool education system before they reach the age of three years. The first chapter discusses the opinion of the EU Council of the preschool education, its ambition to promote the institutional care in line with the equal opportunities for men and women policy, and the situation in EU member states as regards meeting the 2002 Barcelona goals. The second chapter describes the current legislative and institutional framework in the Czech Republic. It focuses on the applicable legislation, namely the Parental Subsidy Act as amended, and the existing framework of the institutional care in question. The key focus of the third chapter is on children and their needs. The third chapter elaborates on various factors influencing their development such as family situation, age and other individual particularities. The last chapter of the theoretical part is on maturity of a child younger than three years from the point of view of the developmental psychology. The practical part surveys children maturity based on the environment examination in kindergartens, crèches and children homes. It encompasses observations of three children from their day one in...
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Relationships between children
Němcová, Radka ; Koťátková, Soňa (advisor) ; Loudová Stralczynská, Barbora (referee)
The Thesis is focused on development of social relationships' need of a preschool-age child. The Thesis deals with theoretical information about relationships to a family and adults, siblings, children of the same age and differences among them. It deals with issues of relationships and opinions on a favourite child, inappropriate friendships, behaviour and a child without friends. It declares characteristic relationships resulting from games, when emotionality and bonds among children of the same age show spontaneously. These bonds arise in cooperative games. It deals with a group of children, positive and negative features of age-heterogeneous and age-homogeneous group and development of subgroups.In a final part it introduces preschool framework educational programme and the part "Child and the other" concentrates on mutual relationships among children. An action research in the practical part of the Thesis finds out what relationships among children prevail, what they like and dislike in a nursery school, how they accept, whether positive or negative relationships prevail, whether the negative ones are adopted by a children's group in the long term. It also concentrates on nursery school teachers' perception of children's relationships. A pedagogical programme supporting relationships among...
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What forms the image of nursery school in the eyes of parents
Šebestová, Jana ; Opravilová, Eva (advisor) ; Loudová Stralczynská, Barbora (referee)
The choice of a nursery school is a first life step into the world. A daily schedule, age composition of educationalists, size of the facility or reachability from home are some of many criteria influencing parent's choice of the nursery school for their child. The diploma thesis "What forms the image of nursery school in the eyes of parents" is divided into two parts - theoretical and practical. The theoretical part describes and characterizes individual elements of image in connection with the preschool institution during particular time period and shows first moments before entering nursery school. The practical part describes the realization of the research focused on nursery school choice criteria, parental expectations about the nursery schools and their view of the preschool education but also educationalists' opinion about the image. The chapters in the practical part are also focused on individual nursery school characteristics, detailed data analysis as well as data summary and evaluation of three distinct questionnaires. The thesis conclusion contains overall summary of all gained data and knowledge and final suggestions for creation of nursery school image.
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Concept of parenthood by university students
Pešinová, Martina ; Koťátková, Soňa (advisor) ; Loudová Stralczynská, Barbora (referee)
The bachelor thesis tries to map opinions, attitudes and values of current University students. The main purpose of this work is to find out how University students understand the topic of parenthood. The theoretical part of the thesis deals with research and knowledge about current family and it's transformations after the year 1989. Also covers how far is family accepted and supported by contemporary society; also examine how is family affected by economic changes, how the interpersonal relations changed and what value has the child for today's family. The next section of the theoretical part deals with the topic parenthood. Parenthood is debated from the point of view of the parents as well from point of view of the child. Parenthood is also viewed in a historical context, whereby change must always be taken into consideration. There is mentioned arrival of contraception and thanks to it also the arrival of possibility to separate sexual and reproductive life which have changed the relationship to parenthood significantly. Finally the last chapter focuses on the University students. What are they studying and the duration. What are the aims of their lives and which roles should the parenthood become for them among other of life's aspirations. The practical part tries to discover what attitudes...
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Pre-school education, upbringing and care in German speaking cantons in Switzerland
Loudová Stralczynská, Barbora ; Opravilová, Eva (advisor) ; Uhlířová, Jana (referee)
This paper discusses institutions providing pre-school education and care in Germanspeaking cantons in Switzerland. It describes organizational structures of pre-school education and brings a closer look at everyday operation of Kindergarten for children between 4 and 6 years of age. It also presents in details the EDK-Ost 4bis8 project in which the first three to four years of compulsory education are combined. Further it discusses child care offered by both public and private institutions outside of the family (Tagesstrukturen). The thesis maps out reforming efforts in the field of pre-school education reflecting new needs of the children population and changing society in Switzerland.
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