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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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Travelogues and travel literature in the teaching of geography at the lower secondary schools
MENHARDOVÁ, Eva
Travelogues have always played a major role in teaching for many decades. Even though the widely used travel literature that was originally used is now receding into the background, it does not mean that travelogues are disappearing from teaching. Their new forms are coming to prominence, and teachers are often using them more than ever before. This bachelor thesis aims to present the importance of travelogues in geography teaching and identify their position in the field of modern trends and problems of today's geographical education. By using an in-depth interview with geography teachers at lower secondary schools, the thesis investigates and describes their views of the problems. Furthermore, it synthesizes the results and tries to link them with the identified aspects of the geographical education issues. The thesis is divided into two parts - theoretical and analytical. The theoretical part is devoted to getting familiar with modern trends in teaching in lower secondary schools, modern trends in geography teaching and travelogues themselves. After that, the research methodology with data processing is described. The analytical part is focused on the interpretation of the results and their synthesis. At the end of the thesis, the results are summarized and connected with the theoretical basis.
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Multimedia tool for teaching Year 5 through to Year 9 of primary schoola about the local Votice region
VEVERKOVÁ, Natálie
The Master´s thesis examins the creation of a multimedia tool for teaching Year 5 through to Year 9 of primary schoola about the local Votice region. The local region should be an integral part of contemporary education as well as modern technology. This thesis combines boths of these topics and gives a theoretical-methodological basis for a concept of region, teachinng aids and their modern forms in education. It further explores the geographic characteristics of the Votice municipality, the methodology of creating multimedia tools for teaching about the local Votice region and concludes by presenting the teaching aid itself. Its main part has been created online using Google Sites and i tis avaible at the folloving address: https://sites.google.com/view/poznej-votice/menu.
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Topics in Teeaching Geography of Religion at the Second Grade of Primary Schools focusing on the key competences
TOMKOVÁ, Jaroslava
The diploma thesis deals with topics in the teaching of geography of religion at the 2nd grade of elementary school. The aim of the thesis is to create own educational material focused on the geography of religion, which will develop pupils in the key competences resulting from interdisciplinary relationships. The theoretical part is devoted to the classification of teaching methods and their characteristics. Futher, the issue of geography of religion is placed in the context of RVP ZV and monitored at selected schools. From the point of view of the given topic, attention is also paid to the didactical evaluation of geography textbooks for the 2nd level of primary schools with the current MŠMT clause. At the end of the thesis there is a proposal of own teaching material in the form of various activities that will interestingly approach pupils to the given topic.
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Ethical Aspects of Geography Teaching - Values education in high-school geography lessons
Kopáčová, Hana ; Hanus, Martin (advisor) ; Řezníčková, Dana (referee)
This paper examines the ethical aspects of teaching geography in high school. Attention is focused on valuation, which is an integral part of both teaching geography and ethics. The thesis explains the concepts of character and conscience and presents the theory of moral development of pupils according to Lawrence Kohlberg and developmental psychology. It also provides amethodology for dealing with values in geography teaching according to Lambert and Balderstone. It is divided into five main access routes. First, values inculcation, secondly, values analysis, third, moral reasoning, fourth, values clarification, and fifth, action learning. In the third chapter this thesis presents an analysis of the values contained in the School Act, the White Book, and above all in the RVP G, which is the values that are binding for secondary school education. In the chapter four, a questionnaire examines geographic topics that teachers consider ethically sensitive. The highest ethical sensitivity was found in the racial issue, migration, religion, the political order in the world, and the cutting down of tropical rainforests. Differences in the assessment of ethical sensitivity between men and women, and between teachers and students have been identified. The fifth chapter designs four geography lessons. Their...
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Subject Matters for Geography Teaching in the Second Stage of the Primary School with the Focus on Key Competences
SLEPIČKOVÁ, Markéta
The diploma thesis suggests methods and forms of geography teaching in the second stage of the primary school aimed at the theme of quality of life. The themes of the suggested subject matters are the influence of the environment on quality of life of people, difference in quality of life in rural and urban areas, comprehension of the concept of quality of life and quality of life of the elderly. The concept of quality of life is situated into the context of the Framework Education Programme for Basic Education and the chosen curriculum of Základní Škola pod Svatou Horou in Příbram. Didactic evaluation of the given topic in chosen textbooks of geography for the second stage of primary schools is a part of the thesis. The theoretical concept based on expertise literature is connected with themes of Didactics, cross-curricular approaches, key competences, methods and forms of teaching. The research surveying pupil's problem-solving competence focused on the topic of quality of life is realized among 28 pupils and 11 teachers by way of questionnaire survey.
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Powerpoint presentation usage in geography education
Mrázová, Marcela ; Marada, Miroslav (advisor) ; Jelen, Libor (referee)
The thesis studies using PowerPoint presentation in geography teaching, especially for the impact of visualized substance on the effectiveness of teaching. The theoretical part is followed by questionnaire survey to monitor the current situation in Czech schools. Students and teachers of Geography were asked if they are computer users and how are their subjective views and experiences of using PowerPoint in teaching. I also examined the technical background of Czech schools and whether there is even possible to use audio-visual technology in education. I also asked which teaching method was preferred by students and whether they prefered the lessons with PowerPoint presentations. The numer of 62 teachers and 283 students were participants in this survey. Most of them is an ordinary computer user. PowerPoint presentations are often used in Geography. Their opinion of using powerpoint presentations in lessons is rather positive. The most popular method among students is an interpretation, which corresponds with the most common PowerPoint usage. The second part of the thesis includes qualitative research of effectiveness using PowerPoint in Geography lessons. In two parallel classes, there were teached substance, which has been visualized by PowerPoint presentation in one class and by any analog...
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The use of natural and historical attractions of Cesky Krumlov and its surroundings in teaching at primary school
KMOCHOVÁ, Eliška
This thesis examines The use of natural and historical attractions of Cesky Krumlov and its surroundings in teaching at primary school. It is based on the Framework Education Programme for Basic Education - Humans and Their World - The Place Where We Live and People and Time. Theoretical part surveys the Cesky Krumlov area ? location, characterization, economic and social system, historical development and landscape singularity. The first half of the practical part takes advantage from the previous chapters and it summarises general information which had been readjusted for use in the classes. The other half forms the certain projects for lessons. The important part of this thesis is survey, which was done at several primary schools in Cesky Krumlov area, and the analysis of the didactical conceptions.
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