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Well-being in professional life of university teachers and design of activities for its improvement
Erlebachová, Kateřina ; Kočí, Jana (advisor) ; High, Radka (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the well-being of university teachers. The aim was to design activities that can be included in the lives of university teachers and improve their well-being. The thesis is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part deals with both the definition of well-being and the explanation of various approaches to its definition. There is also a description of other theories, which contain components leading to optimal well-being. These theories are spiritual and cognitive well-being, some topics of positive psychology (physical health, social health, optimism, gratitude), Maslow's pyramid of needs, hygge and the Okinawan program. The theoretical part also explains the connection between work and well- being and introduces the risk factors of the teaching profession, such as stress and burnout syndrome. Finally, the work description of university teachers is introduced to present the number of activities that are necessary to perform this line of work. In the practical part, 42 activities are proposed. They are divided into eight chapters, according to the types of well- being proposed by Harvard University. These types of well-being are emotional, environmental, financial, intellectual, physical, relational, spiritual, and vocational well-being. Working...
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Burnout Syndrome in University Teachers - International Comparative Study
Černíková, Barbora ; Kebza, Vladimír (advisor) ; Štětovská, Iva (referee)
This thesis is concerned with the phenomenon of burnout in university teachers, who have been previously rather neglected in connection with this topic. The theoretical part provides an analysis of current knowledge regarding the development of the concept of burnout from the very early interest in this issue in the 1970s to the present, with emphasis being placed on the teaching profession, especially in the tertiary education sector. In the empirical part of the research, the assumption of different levels of burnout in university teachers in the former Eastern Bloc and Western European country was tested. This international study compares the burnout level in teachers from the philosophy faculties of Czech Charles University and German Universität Regensburg. In order to achieve a more holistic view of this topic, the levels of life engagement and depression have been studied as well. The data were collected with the help of Copenhagen Burnout Inventory, Life Engagement Test, Beck Depression Inventory and a sociodemographic questionnaire. Basic research assumption predicting differences in levels of burnout, life engagement and depression in Czech and German university teachers was confirmed in only one burnout subscale, namely the subscale of student-related burnout. Additionally, the...
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Burnout Syndrome in University Teachers - International Comparative Study
Černíková, Barbora ; Kebza, Vladimír (advisor) ; Štětovská, Iva (referee)
This thesis is concerned with the phenomenon of burnout in university teachers, who have been previously rather neglected in connection with this topic. The theoretical part provides an analysis of current knowledge regarding the development of the concept of burnout from the very early interest in this issue in the 1970s to the present, with emphasis being placed on the teaching profession, especially in the tertiary education sector. In the empirical part of the research, the assumption of different levels of burnout in university teachers in the former Eastern Bloc and Western European country was tested. This international study compares the burnout level in teachers from the philosophy faculties of Czech Charles University and German Universität Regensburg. In order to achieve a more holistic view of this topic, the levels of life engagement and depression have been studied as well. The data were collected with the help of Copenhagen Burnout Inventory, Life Engagement Test, Beck Depression Inventory and a sociodemographic questionnaire. Basic research assumption predicting differences in levels of burnout, life engagement and depression in Czech and German university teachers was confirmed in only one burnout subscale, namely the subscale of student-related burnout. Additionally, the...
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The important figures of the French philology of Brno from the beginning up to now
KOUŘILOVÁ, Iva
This bachelor thesis deals with important persons of French philology of Brno from the beginning up to now and especially with one particular person - Otakar Novák. The work is divided into two parts. The first part describes the life and work of Otakar Novák before he started to work as a teacher at the university in Brno. The second part then describes his life and work since the beginning of his work in Brno until his death. Otakar Novák was born on 28 December 1905 in Vienna. He studied Czech and French language and literature at the university in Brno. Since 1946 he worked as an assistant at Charles University in Prague. In 1952 he was moved to Brno, where he worked until the end of his career. Besides being great teacher, he was lecturer at many conferences in Czechoslovakia and abroad, he has published seven books and dozens of articles, reports and reviews of French literature in particular and many forewords and afterwords to classics works of French literature. In 1969 he was elected chairman of the Circle of modern philologists and in 1964 was appointed professor of history of French literature. Otakar Novák was at the time the central figure of Romance studies of Brno and decisively contributed to its development in the area of French literary history, and helped her maintain an internationally comparable level.
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The Sources of University Teacher?s Authority within the Education process
POLÁŠKOVÁ, Petra
The theme of this Bachelor thesis is "The Sources of University Teacher?s Authority within the Education process." The Bachelor thesis is divided into theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part deals with an analysis of the issue of source of university teacher?s authority within education process. In the practical part a quantitative questionnaire survey was undertaken. The questionnaires were distributed among the students of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. Prior to processing of the research two goals were chosen. The first goal of the research of this Bachelor thesis was to identify and analyse differences in assessment of the teacher?s autority from university students´point of view. The second goal was to describe the key sources of the university teacher?s authority. To achieve the objects set two hypotheses were established. The first hypothesis assumed that students are able to reflect their relation to teachers as well as the issue of their authority. This hypothesis was confirmed. In the questionnaire survey respondents answered the questions in their own opinions and experiences. The second hypothesis, which supposed that students consider the teacher?s authority at school as important, was also confirmed. The survey showed that in respondents´opinions the teacher?s authority at school is still of great importance, even though the authority is, unfortunately, disappearing out of schools. Of the basis on the results discovered this work can be used as a supplementary material suitable for training of future university teachers or as a feedback mechanism for the current teachers.
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