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The Necessity of a Social Worker in Primary Schools.
PŘIBYLOVÁ, Michaela
This bachelor thesis focuses on school social worker and his role in primary schools. The aim of the bachelor thesis is to find out the necessity of a social worker in primary schools, and to identify what their role should be from the perspective of principals and teachers in primary schools. In the research was chosen a qualitative research strategy in which was used the semi-structured interview technique. The interviews took place with teachers in primary school. The selection of the research population was realised by deliberate selection. The interviews were recorded on a dictaphone and then transcribed into a text form of the electronic version. The results evaluation was carried out by using an open coding. The codes have been assigned to the individual statements. By writing on this bachelor thesis, I have expanded my horizons about the profession of the school social worker, its role, and competencies in primary schools, and found out what view have teachers at primary schools on this profession. The bachelor's thesis can expand the awareness of the necessity of a school social worker and consider its inclusion into the legislative sphere. The research results showed that educational staff and other professionals can imagine the functioning of a school social worker in primary schools and confirmed that there is a need for them in certain areas of their focus on primary schools. It was found that the low practice of school social workers in the Czech Republic influences people's awareness of this position, and they cannot accurately determine its role in primary schools. Communication partners were able to imagine their role in certain areas, but it was more challenging for them to distinguish the boundary of the competencies of the school social worker to avoid duplication of other professions that operate in primary schools.
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Social disadvantage of secondary school student - the effect of disadvantage on education and possibilities of eliminating this phenomenon
Zbořilová, Barbora ; Laurenčíková, Klára (advisor) ; Němec, Zbyněk (referee)
This thesis focuses on the education of secondary school pupils who are socially disadvantaged. It presents the phenomenon of social disadvantage in the context of education and current legislation. It also describes the current situation and the causes of social disadvantage, particularly the role of the family, and also focuses on pupils and their families from socially excluded localities. A significant amount of space is dedicated to descriptions of the manifestations of social disadvantage in school, the diagnosis of social disadvantage, and the specific education of socially disadvantaged pupils, especially the principles of such education. The goals of this thesis are to demonstrate the effect of social disadvantage on secondary school pupils and to highlight possible solutions to this phenomenon within the education system, the possibilities for support in education, and the role of the school social worker in eliminating the impacts of social disadvantage in education. The thesis also contains case histories of socially disadvantaged female pupils as a demonstration of the professional and important work of the school social worker. KEYWORDS education, social disadvantage, socially disadvantaged pupils, secondary school, social exclusion, school social worker
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Education social worker - history and present
HAJNOVÁ, Jitka
The bachelor thesis deals with the need for the position of school social worker. Nowadays, their activities at school and beyond are extensive and affect the complexity of services - services to pupils, services to the family and parents, and the services of teaching staff and school staff. The aim is to point out that the school social worker, as an expert in the social environment, can evaluate and solve important influences in it. The school is a fully structured system in the ecosystem, where subsystems, their social boundaries, the interrelationship of all relationships and elements need to be understood to achieve balance. Therefore, every school should have a social environment expert who can correctly analyze and look for opportunities to solve any imbalance. School social work should become an integral part of all schools. In its absence, a number of activities are shifted to teachers who are already busy. In the literary part, I will focus on the definition of basic categories (social work, social worker, school social work, school social worker, social pedagogue, pedagogue) and their competences, or job content. I will pay significant attention to groups of children in school education who, due to their problems, require increased attention. I will focus on factors influencing their behaviour and success in education. By using summary tables and graphs of the number of students registered in the M & Scaron statistics, MT will process the data and draw conclusions. I will support the argumentation for the need of a school social worker by incorporating my own practical experience, conclusions and possible recommendations.
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School Social Work - An Attitudes of Parents of Primary School Pupils
PACÁKOVÁ, Tereza
The theme of this bachelor thesis is the social work in schools. The aim of this thesis is to find out the opinions of parents of elementary school students about the possibility of a social worker operating at elementary schools. Nowadays, words such as social work or social worker are almost unknown in the Czech Republic. Legislative for school social work is missing as well as experts working in the field of social work. Cooperation with the families of students is an important part of school social work and therefore it is necessary to inquire about the parents' views of school social work. The qualitative method and semi-structured interview were used to reach this text's goal. The sample population was parents of elementary school pupils from České Budějovice. The sample size was eight people. Data were analyzed using open coding and are presented using categorization. The research results showed that most of the parents would welcome the social worker position in elementary schools. The parents would mostly use social worker in the problematic scenarios linked with the students' problematic behaviour and to gather information about the functioning of school. Parents agreed upon the social worker being an asset to school environment. Some parents showed uncertainty about the need for social worker and expressed the idea of specialized teachers who already work at schools being able to do school social work as well. What can certainly be told is that school social worker position would have a positive impact on elementary school environment.
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Prevention in Social Work and in School Environment
Machačová, Julie ; Krahulcová, Beáta (advisor) ; Nová, Monika (referee)
Diploma thesis is focused on prevention in social work and in school environment. It presents possibility of interdisciplinary cooperation by creation of school social worker position. Emphasis is put particularly on bullying as one of the form of risky behavior. Theoretical part of the work defines topics such as social prevention, prevention in school environment, school social worker and school bullying. Practical part of the thesis elaborates on selected interviews with school employees, family members and social workers using grounded theory approach. Focus of the analysis is put on inter-role cooperation in primary prevention of school bullying. Key words: social prevention, prevention in social work, school social worker, school primary prevention, bullying, inter-role cooperation
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Social disadvantage of secondary school student - the effect of disadvantage on education and possibilities of eliminating this phenomenon
Zbořilová, Barbora ; Laurenčíková, Klára (advisor) ; Němec, Zbyněk (referee)
This thesis focuses on the education of secondary school pupils who are socially disadvantaged. It presents the phenomenon of social disadvantage in the context of education and current legislation. It also describes the current situation and the causes of social disadvantage, particularly the role of the family, and also focuses on pupils and their families from socially excluded localities. A significant amount of space is dedicated to descriptions of the manifestations of social disadvantage in school, the diagnosis of social disadvantage, and the specific education of socially disadvantaged pupils, especially the principles of such education. The goals of this thesis are to demonstrate the effect of social disadvantage on secondary school pupils and to highlight possible solutions to this phenomenon within the education system, the possibilities for support in education, and the role of the school social worker in eliminating the impacts of social disadvantage in education. The thesis also contains case histories of socially disadvantaged female pupils as a demonstration of the professional and important work of the school social worker. KEYWORDS education, social disadvantage, socially disadvantaged pupils, secondary school, social exclusion, school social worker
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School social worker - Attitude of Pedagogical workers in Elementary schools
HODKOVÁ, Eva
In this Bachelor Thesis I am dealing with the topic of school social work. Its main objective was to determine the elementary school teachers' attitude towards school social workers. A partial objective was to determine the pedagogues' opinion on whether the function of a school social worker could have a positive impact on functioning of schools and a healthy social climate. Up until now, the terms School social work and School social worker have not been very well-known in the Czech Republic. They are neither well-established nor do they have any legislative backing. In isolated cases a similar position exists in some community type elementary schools. In recent years the topic of introducing school social workers has gained momentum, however, up until now, mostly on academic level. The theoretical part of my bachelor thesis is devoted to mapping the school social work throughout the world, where school social workers have been active for many years. The U.S. have the longest history of school social work, that is why most of the first chapter is devoted to the history and present of the American school social work. In the U.S. school social work dates back to 1877 when the Child Labour Act has been adopted followed later by the Compulsory Education Act. At that period the social workers' main job was to ensure that children attend schools. Later, once school social work had been officially introduced, their authorities have gradually broadened. At present their school and out-of-school activities are very extensive and according to the School Social Work Association of America they provide services to three main target groups: students, parents and family, and school staff. Besides the U.S., school social work has also evolved in Europe. The next section of the first chapter is devoted to England, Germany and Slovakia. The history of school social work in Slovakia is the shortest, however, considering our common history and similar educational systems, provides the most relevant comparison and experience. In the theory oriented chapter two I describe the Czech educational system and analyse the current situation at elementary schools. I outline how counselling services have evolved, how new working positions are being created, such as the school prevention methodologist or the education counsellor. In this chapter I also strive to describe specific activities by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports implemented in form of national projects the cost of which is partially being covered by the ESF. The projects aim to improve the educational and preventive function of schools, develop counselling services, and improve the know-how and competences of educational workers. In the practical section of my thesis I strive to uncover opinions of educational workers on establishing a new position of a school social worker. To carry out the survey I have used a qualitative research strategy and the semi-controlled interview technique. The research sample included elementary school teachers from the Vysočina region. I was able to interview a total of 21 respondents. When evaluating the interviews, I have used the tuft formation method. The results of my survey suggest that a school social worker would be a welcome addition to the team, however, it is not entirely clear whether he/she is currently needed. Considering the fact that the research was done while the "Common education" concept was being introduced at schools, the teachers did perceive the necessity of introducing other positions. To answer the partial question of my thesis, we could say, that if we had school social workers at schools, their work would have a positive impact on the overall school climate.
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School Social Worker-Elementary School Director's Attitude
FENIGBAUEROVÁ, Nela
This bachelor thesis is focused on school social work. Besides the theoretical pieces of knowledge it also describes perception of this field in social work by south Bohemian schools headmasters. The school social work is widespread all over the world. The social workers offer wide service scale to schools. Between these services belongs for example skills practice, individual consultancy which is suitable also for group or family, crisis intervention, visitations in students houses, education support, support of parents as well as advocacy for students and families (Allen-Meares a kol., 2013). In year 2006 school social work celebrates its hundred years as separate profession. Simultaneously with the development there were thought many ways how to practise it, which were also called school social work models (Mizrahi and Davis, 2008). However, not every time there was spoken about school social work or social work in schools. From the very beginning was the function of social workers or "visiting teachers" mainly to check school attendance out (Allen-Meares, 2000). School social work is realized in four models, these are described in books of many authors for example Slovak writer Skyba (2015), Allen-Meares (2000, 2013), Mizrahi and Davis (2008) or also Tokárová and Matulayová (2013). Despite very interesting and rich history of school social work worldwide, this branch is not used a much in our Republic(Skyba, 2015). The goal of this thesis was to find out which attitudes have the chosen primary schools headmasters to posture of school social worker. For finding out there were determined the three explorative questions. The first one was how the headmasters perceive the school social work? The second question was how the headmasters imagine the competence of school social workers? The third one was what opinion the headmasters have of expected development of school social work in the Czech Republic? The point of this work was to find out and demonstrate how much the headmasters are informed about school social work area. For the research there was applied qualitative research strategy, the questioning method and half-controlled conversation technique. The selective file was constituted by eighteen primary school´s headmasters in South Bohemia. Next criterion was the choice of only one primary school from given town. The primary schools always included grades from the first to the ninth. The data we got were analyzed with using of tuft creation method. The schools were divided into several groups according to number of students who attended them. On the other hand we find out that opinions and answers of headmasters are not dependent on the number of students who attend the schools. The first group of questions which were related to knowledge of schools social work showed that eleven from eighteen informants heard about school social work. It is positive finding of course. However, their knowledge was only of peripheral importance. Not anybody of headmasters gives the sources from which they came to know about school social work. The second group described the headmaster´s imagination about work competence. It showed that the overwhelming majority considers as the main work competence the cooperation with students from socially disadvantaged surroundings as well as the work with families. The third group of questions referred to necessity and future development. Fourteen from eighteen headmasters consider this area of school social work as needed and they perceive it important for school. That is favourable for future development as well as for raise awareness of school social worker´s profession. In major answers also was heard that school social work will develop in our country. This bachelor thesis and pieces of knowledge written in it may be used as information source for school workers as well as for the non-professional public.
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