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Influence of Feuerstein's instrumental enrichment method on vocabulary development in primary school age children
Vojtová, Vendula ; Sotáková, Hana (advisor) ; Lucká, Barbora (referee)
This bachelor theses primarili focuses on influence of Feuerstein instrumental enrichment program (FIE) to development of vocabulary of younger school age children. Another matter of interest is influence of FIE to expressive abilities, getting better in task solving strategies, vizuomotor coordination abilities and getting better in working and short- term memory in younger school age children and also individual improvement of children who attended FIE course. The aim of academic work is to track changes within these areas, primary in vocabulary, of children, which attended FIE like afternoon freetime activity. Theoretical part includes informations about younger school age children, FIE itself, dynamic diagnosis and origins of Feuerstein's work. Analitical part includes metodology of research, which has been done like a hybrid of quantitative and qualitative type of research. In quantitative part, we used test of Word definitions from CELF-V, Repeating numbers from WISC-IV and Rey-Ostterieth complex figure, therefore in qualitative part we used primarili observation. In quantitative part, we were looking for differences between children, which attended FIE and children, which did not. Significant difference between experimental and control group hasn't been demonstrated. In qualitative part, we...
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Who is the School Psychologist?
Durchánek, Milan ; Lucká, Barbora (advisor) ; Valentová, Lidmila (referee)
Name: Who is the school psychologist? The theses deal with relations of school psychologist at school. It is emphasized on the relation web in The School Counselling Department where is psychologist also included. The aim of this theses is concentrated on the description of role and position of school psychologist in The Counselling Department. The theoretical part is divided into 2 chapters which are named The School Counselling Department and A School Psychologist. The First chapter devotes history of counselling and describes The School Counselling Department in general. There are also described the other counselling specialists whose psychologist meets in daily routine. The Second chapter is concentrated on history of school psychology concretely. It describes the role and position of school psychologist at school. The next part of this chapter is devoted the relationships of school psychologist with the others in the education process. Finally, the theoretical part deals with legislative anchoring of school psychologist's position. In the end, there was also description of some contemporary researches on topic of the role and the professional identity of school psychologist. The practical part of this theses shows the proceed research at 4 elementary schools. The data were collected from...
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Care in the profession of school psychologist - about himself and from others
Pýchová, Pavlína ; Lucká, Barbora (advisor) ; Kučerová, Olga (referee)
The bachelor thesis is devoted to the problem of school psychology. The aim of the bachelor thesis is to find out how the mental hygiene care in the profession of school psychologist looks and to map the factors influencing the given care process. The issue is examined in relation to the stressful situations that are perceived by the psychologists and in the context of the approach and view of the school management on the given issue. The thesis is divided into the theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part serves to introduce the topic and mediates insights from the literature on the given topic. It characterizes school psychology as a discipline, describes the specifics of the school psychologist's activities, the content of his work, the clientele and the pitfalls that may arise during its execution. It also deals with the stress and possibilities of psychohygiene in helping professions. The practical part introduces the reader into the methodology and presents the results of the interview analysis. A qualitative approach was chosen for the realization of the research. The data was collected through interviews with school psychologists at elementary schools, supplemented by interviews with the director or school representative. The output is the evaluation of the state of care and the...
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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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Efficiency of the Cognitive Training Program Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment for People with Parkinson's Disease
Plzáková, Vladimíra ; Soukupová, Tereza (advisor) ; Lucká, Barbora (referee)
The objective of the study was to assess the effectiveness of the Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment training (FIE) in respondents with Parkinson's disease (PD) in comparison with another type of cognitive training. The specific aim of the study was to verify whether there were differences between the effectiveness of the FIE and the training of the individual cognitive domains for cognitive functions in respondents with PD. The study included patients with PD who underwent an examination by a neuropsychological battery before the beginning of the training in order to evaluate the level of cognitive functions. Based on the demographic characteristics and the overall score in the Mattis Dementia Rating Scale-II (DRS-II), the respondents (n = 24) were randomly divided into two research groups. The experimental group (EXP) trained using the FIE method for 60 minutes once a week during three months. The control group (CON) trained the individual cognitive domains. After the cognitive training the respondents were examined again in order to detect changes of the level of each one of the cognitive functions. The examination revealed significant differences in the first and the second phases of testing in the EXP respondents (n = 12) in the level of current anxiety (p = 0.024), memory for non-verbal...
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Pupils in institutional care from the perspective of a school psychologist
Muchová, Aneta ; Lucká, Barbora (advisor) ; Páchová, Anna (referee)
This thesis deals with the topic of students living at a children's home from the perspective of the school psychologist. The thesis describes, how school psychologists are approaching pupils from children's home and what specific requirements are essential for the job of the school psychologist when working with this particular group of students. Theoretic part focuses on declaring elementary activities of the school psychologist at the school and explains the advantages and possible obstacles of the psychologist job. Next part focuses on pupils from children's home and the topic of institutional care. Empiric part points at performing research including results and discussion. The research was completed with the assistance of the school psychologists using the interviews. Gained data from the interviews were analyzed based on the opened encoding and then presented by using a technique unloading card. The research goal was to find out, how school psychologists are approaching pupils from children's home and what specific requirements are essential for the job of the school psychologist when working with this particular group of students. Thesis results reveal the views of the school psychologists focuses on problematics pupils from children's home. The results also point out the specifics of the...
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The influence of Reuven Feuerstein ́s method on elementary school teacher didactics
Kurcová, Petra ; Lucká, Barbora (advisor) ; Sotáková, Hana (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with influence of Feuerstein's method of Instrumental Enrichment on didactics of elementary school teacher. The Instrumental Enrichment method is a very sophisticated strategy for developing individual cognitive structures. A person who helps develop cognitive structures acts as a mediator. These mediators are most often parents or teachers. So, according to Feuerstein, the teacher is not merely a knowledge builder, but he tries to develop his / her thinking and teaching potential. The aim of my work is to deepen the general knowledge of the influence of this method on teachers' didactics from the perspective of those teachers who work with it. To clarify in which areas didactics teachers perceive the impact of this method and how concrete changes are reflected. The theoretical part of the thesis introduces the author of the method, Professor Reuven Feuerstein, and the theoretical starting points from which his method is based. In addition, Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment Program is introduced, which is an application of mediated learning to pedagogical practice. It further defines the concept of didactics. The last part deals with available research on the influence of the method on teachers' didactics. In the empirical part, which is based on qualitative research...
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Influence of Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment on people after traumatic brain injury
Bublíková, Irena ; Preiss, Marek (advisor) ; Lucká, Barbora (referee)
The aim of this final thesis is to apply Feuerstein's instrumental enrichment program (FIE) to a person with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The theoretical part deals with the problematic of traumatic brain injury and Feuerstein's approach to the development of cognitive functions. The empirical part focuse on qualitative research to find out whether there has been an improvement in cognitive functions with three respondents with TBI after five months of intervention using the FIE program, or not. Respondents are young men aged between 23 and 32, about 10 years after the accident, who regularly rehabilitate and undergo reeducation at the Jedlička Institute and Schools (JÚŠ). The aim of the research is to compare whether the influence of the FIE program has improved cognitive functions. The comparison is achieved by objective assessment of cognitive functions using Klecanská opakovatelná neuropsychologická baterie (KONB; Klecany Repeatable Neuropsychological Battery). The results of the research are presented in structured case studies. These in addition to the results of the KONB examination and the description of several months of intervention, follows the respondents throughout their past from life before the accident, through the rehabilitation of the consequences of the accident to the present...
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