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Voluntary simplicity and second generation
Kolářová, Marta ; Jančaříková, Kateřina (advisor) ; Andreska, Jan (referee)
Starting point. Voluntary simplicity is a form of lifestyle. Its typical feature is selection intensity in all areas of human life. Severity of voluntary simplicity lies in self-control of consumer behavior in the daily confrontation with the media pressure, which is oriented at a high rate of consumption. The task of this thesis was to find out if people raised in voluntarily simple families keep living this way, or if they turned away from this lifestyle and joined the high consumption society. Methods and results. Research included 40 respondents who met the requirement that voluntary simplicity was part of their upbringing. Addressed were people from alternatively living groups (preppers, ecovillages, macrobiotics, minimalists, forums dedicated to maternal education and child care, and other groups possessing forums on an alternative way of life of voluntary simplicity). The investigation was conducted by a questionnaire which was distributed electronically among respondents. We found that 13 out of 40 respondents (32,5 %) fully met our stated profile of voluntary simplicity. Relative frequency of responses from all respondents that meet the requirements of modest behavior amounted to 74,3 %. Hypothesis H1 predicted that the influence of upbringing in a voluntary simplicity will make respondents prefer...
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Philosophical aspects of environmental aducation and consulting
Marková, Kateřina ; Hogenová, Anna (advisor) ; Semrádová, Ilona (referee) ; Švecová, Milada (referee)
TITLE: Philosophical aspects of environmental education and consulting AUTHOR: Mgr. et Mgr. Kateřina Marková DEPARTMENT: Department of civics and philosophy SUPERVISOR: Prof. PhDr. Anna Hogenová CSc. ABSTRACT: This Dissertation deals with philosophical bases of environmental education. It conducts a survey of a historical development from nature protection education, through environmental care, ecological education, and environmental education up to education for sustainable development in the Czech Republic. In the chapter "The Reasons of environmental education" certain until now nonanswered questions are formulated, following the chapter where Fink's educational antinomies are discussed. Environmental schools are described by Činčera like ecological education - positivistic stream, global education, deep ecological education and way back to roots, education for sustainable development, and education for ecoliteracy. The crucial theme of the Dissertation is the chapter of a philosophical base of the environmental education. According to Patočka and Palouš we are living just now in an era that can be called as ecological one. From the presented theoretical analysis under a help of philosophy, or more exactly said philosophy of education, followed cardinal philosophic topics of ecologic education, that...
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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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