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Musical Activities In The International Pre-Schools in Prague
Gajdová, Magdalena ; Kmentová, Milena (advisor) ; Jiřičková, Jiřina (referee)
This work analyses music activities of English-speaking children of pre-school age, attending international schools in Prague, following the British Curricula. The goal of this work is to develop and to validate teaching materials of musical activities, supporting children with different native languages from the language of the teaching material, those in transition period, and those with communication barriers, and to offer concrete implementation strategies for teachers of music in both Czech and international schools. The theoretical part compares Czech and British music curricula for pre-school children. It defines terms such as transition period and describes its course in Czech and international environments. Furthermore, it addresses the role of music during this stage of development and explains the concepts of project-based learning and music integration project. As theoretical underpinning for the practical portion, the work offers detailed discussion of musical factors, syllabic structure both in English and Czech language, and the variations in interpretation of musical fairy tales. The practical part describes the goals, methods, and procedures of the action research focused on the implementation of the musical fairy tale in Czech and English, as well as reflection and evaluation of...
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Child adaptation in an international school
Králová, Adéla ; Burešová, Karolína (advisor) ; Kasíková, Hana (referee)
The goal of this work is to map an adaptation process, which children have to go through when coming to a foreign school in terms of different instructional language, curriculum and particularly sociocultural enviroment. The work is focused on a group of factors which influence the adaptation, e.g. child age, family role, community role, cultural differencies and support techniques used by schools to make the transition process for children smoother. The work also describes the cases when children have to face the adaptation process multiple times because of repeated moving to new countries and therefore repeated school changing. This trend is caused by migration and globalization and and is connected especially with international schools, which consider the successful adaptation process of its students as a key assumption for students' future success. The work also shows situation of bilingual children in terms of adaptation to a new school enviroment and specific problems of children who have never lived in their own culture or culture of their parents ("Third Culture Kid Theory"). One part of this work is a research held in American International School of Budapest which consists of 3 case studies of foreign students.
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