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Outdoor Activities at secondary schools in Mladá Boleslav from the view of students
Pelikán, Karel ; Turčová, Ivana (advisor) ; Nováková, Lenka (referee)
Title: Outdoor activities in selected secondary schools in Mladá Boleslav Aim: The aim was to create a comprehensive summary of sport courses organized by secondary schools as a part of compulsory education and to find out students' true opinion of these courses, using the feedback based on executed activities. Method: The datas were collected using interviews and checklists which contained opened,closed and scaled questions. These datas were interpreted considering graphs and led into conclusions. Results: Sport courses'structure is mostly concieved in way that educatiors don't care about preparation properly, they don't take advantage of natural environment but students showed appreciation to running of courses, though. Key words: physical education, outdoor sports, adventure education, experience, sport games, ecological education.
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The European beaver (Castor fiber) in the Czech landscape - educational project
PEKAŘOVÁ, Silvie
This bachelor thesis is focused on the formation of an educational program with the topic "The European beaver and his influence on the environment". The work summarizes current knowledge of history, general biology and ecology of this species, as well as information on the impact of beaver on the environment. Further, the educational program with this theme is proposed, in the modifications for the primary, secondary, high schools and university students. Participants of the program will learn about the beaver and its environment. They will learn about his history and about his return to our country. The most important of the educational program is the importance of the European beaver in our landscape and how it affects the surroundings. The tutorial also deals with the relationship between the European beaver and humans. The program was tested in the near the Soumarský most with students of the Ecological and Food High School in Veselí nad Lužnicí.
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Practical Activities as a Space of Development of Ecological Thinking of the Pupils of the Primary School
KÁNDLOVÁ, Michaela
This diploma thesis deals with the development of ecological thinking of the pupils of the primary school under the project teaching within the subject called Practical Activity at elementary schools. The thesis contains ten projects; six of them were put into practice. The first part of the thesis includes theoretical knowledge derived from specialized literature. The theoretical part describes the topics of project teaching, activation teaching methods and technical and ecological education. The second part of the thesis depicts particular projects from the practical point of view. Photographical documentation and reflection from the projects, which were taught, form a part of the practical section of the thesis.
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Cooperation of schools and external partners on the development of environmental awareness among students
Frýblová, Jitka ; Veselý, Arnošt (advisor) ; Hiekischová, Michaela (referee)
This master thesis is concerned with current issues of educational politics, namely the integration of environmental aspects into the curriculums of grammar schools and high schools. Environmental education, and awareness raising has appeared in schools following the introduction of the framework education programme as one of its cross-curricular subjects, reflecting new social needs. While there lies a great potential for the development of our education system within cross-curricular subjects and framework education programmes, these also introduce new requirements for teachers, who are not always quite prepared for dealing with them. The introduction of external partners into education is one possible way of dealing with those requirements, as these external partners have many years of experience with ecology oriented education programmes and their methodical specifics. The presented master thesis familiarizes the reader with the individual forms of cooperation among schools and external partners and tries to generalize its pros and cons and outline the possibility of engaging external educational partners in teaching subjects other than environmental education. The paper deals with a multidisciplinary topic in which the findings of public policy, pedagogy, ethics and ecology intertwine. The...
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Outdoor Activities at secondary schools in Mladá Boleslav from the view of students
Pelikán, Karel ; Turčová, Ivana (advisor) ; Nováková, Lenka (referee)
Title: Outdoor activities in selected secondary schools in Mladá Boleslav Aim: The aim was to create a comprehensive summary of sport courses organized by secondary schools as a part of compulsory education and to find out students' true opinion of these courses, using the feedback based on executed activities. Method: The datas were collected using interviews and checklists which contained opened,closed and scaled questions. These datas were interpreted considering graphs and led into conclusions. Results: Sport courses'structure is mostly concieved in way that educatiors don't care about preparation properly, they don't take advantage of natural environment but students showed appreciation to running of courses, though. Key words: physical education, outdoor sports, adventure education, experience, sport games, ecological education.
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Nature as an art workshop
Zajíčková, Magdaléna ; Skarlantová, Jana (advisor) ; Brejcha, Šimon (referee)
This thesis is oriented on use of nature in art education. It consists of teortical and practial part. Theoretcial part describes possibiliteis of using nature and natural materials in art education in relationship with environmental education, history of art and art education in relationship with nature as inspiration or source of material. Practical part consits of two guidelines. The first one is focused on work with natural materials directly in nature. The second one is sectioned into another four guidelines inspirated by seasons of the year. Intention of this thesis is to point to the value of the nature in art education and offer number of possibiliteis how to use this topic. The main asset of this thesis is in summarizing knowledge about nature in relationship to art education and suggestions for activities inspirated by nature or realized directly in nature.
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Introduction to the waterlogged spruce forest habitat as part of Šumava ecosystems - materials for environmental education
HRIČOVSKÁ, Veronika
Šumava is one of the oldest mountain in the Czech Republic, it is a nature phenomenon with a little affected landscape, fauna and flora. Probably the most noteworthy biotopes are the extensive forests and wetlands. Something between these two biotopes are waterlogged and peaty spruce forests mostly unknown habitats by wide public. This bachelor thesis is focused on the introduction of these overlooked habitats in the scale of Šumava National Park with reference to its importance in enhancing biodiversity and the retention capacity of water in the ecosystems. They were taking into account all the factors affecting landscape and therefore its habitats. For example climate, altitude, geological evolution and historical and recent human activities. The educational program is developed with regard to the principles of continual learning. Concurrently an informative brochure for general public was developed. These materials will be used for environmental education centers of Šumava National Park and other environmental organizations in the region.
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Forest Kindergartens
KALČÍKOVÁ, Štěpánka
Bachelor thesis "Forest kindergartens" is examining the theme of forest kindergartens in Czech republic. The thesis is divided into the theoretical and the practical part. The theoretical part is focused on the history and the origin of forest kindergartens here, in Czech republic, and in the world. In individual chaptres there will be described the philosophy of forest kindergarten, methods and aims of work with children, the personality of the teacher, the types of forest kindergartens, its pluses and minuses. The conclusion examines methods of the education and the progress of children who visit forest kindergarten. The practical part is concentrated on the description of the environment, activities and motivation of educators in forest kindergartens. This description is patterned on observation of concrete environment and the interviews with pedagogues from five visited forest kindergartens. The detailed description of results with its evaluation follow. In the discussion are asked some questions concerning of the current activity and the vision of the future. In the end, I evaluate the meeting of the goals and the way how the theme influenced me. The results of the thesis present to the public the current situation of this alternative of the preschool education.
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