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Working with School Curriculum and Teaching Geography in Secondary Schools (Lower Secondary Education)
KALINA, Matyáš
The year 2007 marked the transition to a two-level system of educational documents for Czech education, which many described as a revolution. To this day, however, it is evident that for many schools and teachers this change took place only on paper, which also negatively affects the teaching of geography. This work provides an insight into the topics of working with school curriculum and teaching geography from the point of view of lower secondary education geography teachers. The theoretical part is devoted to the history and current system of Czech educational documents. The theory of geography teaching is also outlined. In the practical part, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 21 geography teachers, which made it possible to deepen the understanding of teaching geography and working with school curriculum. Due to the small number of interviewed teachers, the results cannot be considered representative, despite this, the work confirmed the formality of school curricula to a certain level. In many cases, the work of teachers and schools with school curriculum remains very shallow. The character of geography teaching contains significant differences among the teachers, the Czech educational system is highly differentiated. The research also pointed out the weak positions of human geography and fieldwork in the geography education at lower secondary education. The semi-structured interviews contained a total of 18 segments, 9 on working with school curriculum and 9 on selected aspects of geography teaching.
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Curriculum framework and its fulfilment in common and extended music education
NERMUŤOVÁ, Barbora
The diploma thesis focuses on the school subject "Music class" in its common conception and on the teaching of Music classes with extended learning (further on MCEL) at the second level of primary schools from the perspective of the Framework Educational Programme for Primary Education (further on FEPPE). The thesis contains theoretical knowledge about curriculum documents for education and about the requirements of the FEPPE for teaching Music classes. In the following chapters, the thesis deals with the documents that relate to the teaching of regular Music classes and to the teaching of Music classes with extended time allotment. The differences between these two conceptions of Music classes are pointed out in this diploma theses. The thesis presents a part of the School Curriculum of a particular school where Music classes with extended time allotment are taught. Based on an interview with a teacher of MCEL, the thesis provides findings from the overall organisation of the subject.
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Teacher and foreign language teaching before 1989 and today
BOUŠKOVÁ, Karolína
The bachelor thesis is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part is focused on the development of foreign languages teaching since the period before 1989 up to now. It contains information based on researches, for example made by Czech school inspection. It also considers quantity of qualified foreign languages teachers in the nineties of 20th century and in the beginning of 21st century and documents including ways of foreign languages teaching at primary school. It also contains some modern trends about teaching of foreign languages at primary schools and in children's free time. The practical part of the bachelor thesis contains information from teachers about the transformation of Czech education system around the year 1989. These teachers were requalified from teaching Russian language to teaching English.
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History of Chemistry Production in the Czech Republic Territory
Grassinger, Tomáš ; Rusek, Martin (advisor) ; Kolář, Karel (referee)
This thesis deals with the chemical production and its history in the Czech Republic. The chemical production has its long tradition in the Czech Republic. In the first chapter the thesis focuses on the topic of the chemical production in the national curriculum and selected school curriculums in the Chrudim region and the Pardubice region. In the second chapter it analyses the production of various chemicals described in the present and former elementary school textbooks of Chemistry. It also concerns historical Chemistry textbooks published since the year 1945 in which other facts that are not being included in the present textbooks are mentioned and enlarge the synthesis. The history of the notable and traditional chemical production in the Czech Republic is the component of this thesis in the third chapter. This thesis summarizes all the facts concerning the chemical production so that it could be used by teachers and students who are interested in studying the subject of Chemistry. KEYWORDS chemical production, history of chemicals, national curriculum, school curriculum, textbooks for elementary schools
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Mineralogy in the School curricula
Kálalová, Anna ; Matějka, Dobroslav (advisor) ; Ziegler, Václav (referee)
This bachelor thesis is focused on teaching geology and mainly mineralogy on grammar schools. Questionnaire was made for purposes of this bachelor thesis. Objective of this questionnaire was to ascertain information about organization teaching geology and mineralogy on these types of schools and their inclusion in the school curricula. The questionnaire results showed that each school is very different in organization of teaching geology. Mineralogy is most often taught in first classes of four-year, or an equivalent multi-year study. Mineralogy is at some schools taught only in classes corresponding to an elementary school. Optional subject in which is the geology taught students may choose only to nearly forty percent of surveyed schools. Schools use a lot of sorts of material - textbooks for elementary and secondary schools, university textbooks, professional books and Internet resources. The most common tools used in the teaching of geology are collections of samples. Very frequent are also models of crystals and the geological maps. Fewer common are paintings, photographs and films with a geological theme. Uncommon are tools for microscopy and geological compass. 48 % of grammar schools incorporate to education laboratory work and geological or mineralogical excursion, 4 % only laboratory...
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Education through the Geography in Curricular Reformation Period of Czech Education System: Reflection of the Changes at Selected Prague's Grammar Schools
Jáchym, Jan ; Chromý, Pavel (advisor) ; Hanus, Martin (referee)
The thesis, as the title suggests, focuses on education of Geography and analysis of Geography as a subject at Prague grammar schools. The aim of the thesis is to evaluate the impact of curricular changes on teaching Geography. Furthermore, the thesis is to analyze the ideas of the Geography teachers on teaching methods and content taught to students in their lessons. The work also evaluates the variety of opinions of the pedagogues concerning this topic. It also discusses their different views on a new form of the state leaving exam. Moreover, it looks for the answer whether the new exam might change the methodology of Geography. This work is mainly based on a critical evaluation of expert materials as far as the school reform is concerned. The empirical part itself consists of the survey results and the assessment of directed interviews with 11 respondents, who are the Geography teachers at nine Prague grammar schools.
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Trends of initial reading development and their practical application in Czech schools
Havlínová, Hana
The thesis deals with initial reading literacy in the first and second grade of elementary schools. The theoretical part defines the basic concepts related to the reading literacy. Some major studies, published from 1996 till 2015 and dealing with the reading literacy development are introduced further. The research chapter describes the qualitative research metodology identifies research goals and hypotheses, presents the timing of the research and the research sample. The methodological recommendations based on the data analysis obtained from the survey were organized into a handbook usable for all teachers. The whole research is summarized in the final chapter, the hypothesis have been confirmed . The answer to the key question, "How is the initial reading literacy developed by the teachers in the reading instruction?" revealed that the trend in the initial reading literacy development is the gradual comprehensive development of all the reading competences levels with the emphasis on the communication skills from the first school day. KEYWORDS core competencies, curriculum, educational programme, initial reading literacy, levels of reading literacy, reading literacy
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Support of health in the curriculum of the Nursing College and Secondary Nursing School in Prague 1
Urbanová, Hana
The topic of the following thesis is the health promotion included in curriculum of Special Medical High School and Medical High School in Prague 1. The aim of a qualitative research is to find out how the school adopted the possibility of health promotion in its curriculum and other educational documents, what is the life style of the teachers and their particular experience in health promotion during their classes. Three different data collecting techniques were used when doing the research: semi- structured interviews with selected teachers; class observation; analysis of relevant pedagogical documents. The thesis is divided into the theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part deals with the history and presence of the schools selected, pedagogical documents and also with chosen pedagogical staff. Further it informs about specific school health support projects. The practical part contains final results of qualitative research which shows that the topic of health support is included in many areas of chosen documents. Its following realization depends not only on financial possibilities and capacity of the school but mainly on particular teachers and their responsible approach to this issue within their lessons and lifestyle. In conclusion this school can be considered as a good example...
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Education Program of the Youth Houses
SRPOVÁ, Jana
The thesis deals with school educational programs of institutions which organize free time activities for children and youth in Pilsen and in Blovice. The first part characterises school educational programs, free time education or institutions which organize free time activities.The beginning of this first part deals with law of free time education in school system, forms of free time education and then it deals with process of making the school educational programs, their content and structure. In practical part there is a specification of selected institutions which organize free time in which the research was done. There are the research characteristics, questions and methods of the research. Next part analyses and compares school educational programs in selected organizations which work with free time activities for children and teenagers. The aim of the practical part is to compare information which is written in school educational programs and assess the quality and quantity of detected data. At the end there are results of this research and résumé.
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