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Term of evolution and its understanding by students of secondary schools and high schools.
Müllerová, Lucie ; Teodoridis, Vasilis (advisor) ; Pavlasová, Lenka (referee)
The term of evolution and its understanding by students of secondary schools and high schools This Master's thesis deals with the conception of evolutionary topic in schools and textbooks. It introduces education systems and curricular documents of England, Scotland and the Czech Republic. Based on this information an analysis of biology textbooks was made, which was focused on the theme of evolution. The research included 62 textbooks distributed by 27 different publishers. Comparative SWOT analysis of these textbooks has shown that the concept of biology in general is presented differently, what is also reflected in the interpretation of the studies of evolution. The questionnaire research based on those findings was done in the Czech Republic. It is focused on secondary school and high school pupil's knowledge and their personal opinions about this topic. 586 pupils took part in this research. It was found that in the context of evolutionary processes the pupils have problems to use commonly known biological, or evolutionary terms (e.g. adaptation, evolution of the organisms). On the other hand some pupils can easily define some more complicated evolutionary topics such as Neo-Darwinism. Pupils have quite various personal opinions on the issue of the evolution. Some of them are not interested in...
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Analysis of Teaching Geography in Upper Secondary Educational Level in Germany
Jindřichová, Eliška ; Řezníčková, Dana (advisor) ; Kühnlová, Hana (referee)
Title: Analysis of teaching geography in upper secondary educational level in Germany Author: Bc. Eliška Jindřichová Department:Department of social geography and regional development Supervisor: RNDr. Dana Řezníčková, Ph. D. This thesis contains an analysis of the conception of geographical education on ISCED level 3 in Germany. It aims to answer the following basic conceptual questions: Under which conditions is geography being taught? In what manner is geography being taught? What are the expected effects of geographical education on the pupils? During the discussion of conditions, the current status of geography as a teaching subject is presented and the possibilities for cross-curricular collaboration are pointed out. Emphasis is placed on the analysis of form and content, learning objectives/goals and creation of geographical skills. Another part of the thesis is the description of the process and methods used to evaluate the gained geographical knowledge of pupils. The basic method for obtaining relevant data is content analysis of the curricula of the federal states of Germany, resulting in a set of complete record sheets. Based on the chosen method of data collection and analysis, I got all the answers to the three basic conceptual questions and compare the resulting data to Czech...
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General chemistry at secondary schools in experimental tasks
Voborská, Dana ; Čtrnáctová, Hana (advisor) ; Stratilová Urválková, Eva (referee)
Title General chemistry at high schools in experimental tasks Abstract This work explores the subject of chemical equilibrium in the curriculum of general chemistry in chemical education at secondary schools. The main source is basically analysis of educational systems and mentioned curriculum topic in selected European countries (Great Britain, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia) and Czech Republic. The main objective is to prepare instructional chemical equilibrium documents at the level of secondary education in the form of worksheets, that include teaching exercises and chemical experiments. The experiments are designed mainly for home laboratory work, some experiments are useful for elementary school pupils.
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The issue of sex education in primary school
NUŇEZ BOLÍVAR, Monika
This diploma thesis deals with problematics of sexual education at primary schools. Its aim is to make an overview of the problematics concerning two chosen primary schools, find out about their attitude towards this field and try to analyse real needs of pupils attending them. This diploma thesis is divided into theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part deals with a term of sexual education and its importance in modern society. Other chapters emphasize sexual education in families, at schools and their participation in curricular documents. The practical part deals with a research of real conditions of sexual education at two already chosen primary schools and it tries to find out about these schools' attitudes towards the problematics. It also tries to find out about real needs of pupils in this area and about their knowledge of sexual education not only from their school's point of view, but also that of their families.
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Multicultural Education from the Perspective of Students of Secondary Schools in South Bohemian Region
KAŠPÁRKOVÁ, Michaela
Today's society is characterized by its multicultural diversity. Within the European Union you can travel and work freely in other countries, the same is true on the other hand, when in the Czech Republic there are still more foreigners who are trying to find a new home. Because of the ever increasing cultural pluralism may arise conflicts that may arise from disparities and the unknown. It was one of the reasons why schools introduced multicultural education. This thesis is called "Multicultural Education from the Perspective of Students of Secondary Schools in South Bohemian Region" and is divided into two parts. The first is the theoretical and the second part is practical. The theoretical part discusses the basic concepts of multicultural education such as the multiculturalism, ethnic group, nation, race, prejudice, etc., without which it would be difficult to orient in the area of multicultural education. The second half of the theoretical part deals with multicultural education in Czech schools, where the emphasis is on the curricula of multicultural education which came with us, talking about what should a teacher be, who is trying to implement multicultural education, etc. The practical section discusses the stated objectives of work and mentions the methodology used in the research and describes the research file. In the practical part it presents the results of the data obtained. This work has established two goals and two research questions. The aim of this study was to determine whether and how it is implemented multicultural education in secondary schools in South Bohemia and the second objective was to determine the attitudes and knowledge of students in the first and fourth years of school with the issue of multiculturalism in our country and the world. To achieve the objectives of qualitative the research was used in which eighteen semi-structured interviews with teachers who work at eleven secondary schools in South Bohemia were carried out. Interview questions were divided into four categories for better evaluation. To achieve the second objective it was compiled the questionnaire with mainly open-ended questions which were designed for students of the first and fourth years of four year schools. The questionnaire was completed so that the data could then be used to evaluate 130 first-year students and 130 fourth grade students on eleven secondary schools in South Bohemia. The results of interviews showed that to implement the education is not an easy task even though all respondents try to fulfill the Framework educational program for secondary school, which says that multicultural education should go throughout all the subjects. Teachers in the implementation of this education face difficulties. In most cases respondents, who teach social science, agreed that they have lack of time for teaching. This is precisely this subject in which multicultural education is crucial and should be implemented. Another problem is that teachers at all or poorly attend courses related to this cross-cutting theme. It is precisely at these seminars where the teachers can draw ideas on how to incorporate multicultural education into their lessons. Also they could obtain guidance documents, which all respondents are missing, at these seminars and perhaps this is the reason why multicultural education is little integrated. The results of the questionnaires helped to clarify that multicultural education is beneficial, at least in terms of knowledge and awareness of students with this issue. The fourth grade students in this area are more familiar and have larger insight than the first-year students. In the area of attitudes minor differences are seen when students of the first and fourth grades in most cases correspond to different views and attitudes.
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Drug prevention on primary school
ZDRHOVÁ, Radka
This diploma thesis deals with social-pathological phenomena at elementary schools. The theoretical part focuses on the characteristics of pathological phenomena and puts stress on anti-drug prevention at elementary schools. The practical part deals with the drug prevention, especially in the ninth grade from three elementary schools in České Budějovice and its surroundings.
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Preparation for entering the basic school
KOLÁŘOVÁ, Markéta
This thesis´ topic is to find out how pre-school children are individually and methodically prepared to enter elementary schools. The first theoretical part of this thesis compares a conception of a pre-school education and a primary level in some cuticular documents. The second part of the thesis describes a child entering the elementary school with a view of a psychology of evolution. The attention is paid to the child´s school maturity. The practical part is focused on how a nursery school can individually and methodically prepare the child to a compulsory education. An emphasis is also paid to some particular activities to be done with children and to the different fields of the child´s preparation for its compulsory education.
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Pre - school education to moral values
KUČEROVÁ, Helena
This bachelor work deals with the pre-school education to moral values, particularly with development of desirable moral qualities. Theoretical part, based on professional literature, defines concepts: values, education to values, moral education. It refers to education to values in various periods up to present. This part also defines introduction of education to values in educational documents. Practical part involves description of education to moral values in Frame work educational programme for pre-school education and elaboration of education to moral values in concrete school educational programme. According to a survey, it reports parents` and pedagogues` attitude to the moral education in background of kindergarten.
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