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Social Exclusion of Bereaving Parents
KUCSAROVÁ, Šárka
The bachelor's thesis deals with the topic of the social exclusion of bereaved parents. The main objective was to identify the causes of voluntary isolation to the social exclusion of bereaved parents. A sub-objective was to map the specifics of communication between bereaved parents and their environment in the first year after the child's death, from the perspective of the bereaved parents. The thesis is divided into theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part is devoted to a study of the available literature on death, bereavement, and social exclusion with a focus on bereaved parents. The practical part maps the differences in the communication of the bereaved parents with their environment in the period after the loss of their child, and also identifies what reactions to the environment had a positive and, on the contrary, negative influence on the communication style of the bereaved parent. Finally, it examines the influence of the reactions of the environment to the bereaved parent's child loss in terms of social perception. To achieve the aim, a qualitative research strategy based on semi-structured interviews was chosen. The thesis provides a probe into the mode of communication between bereaved parents and their environment and the changes that this communication undergoes during the first year after the child's death. The contribution of the thesis is the information depicting the attitude of the social environment towards bereaved parents, the reasons for this attitude, and its impact on bereaved parents. The thesis reveals the scope for educating society on communication with bereaved parents and highlights the grey area of care for grieving parents within social policy.
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Hearing impairment and its ethical aspects in a family environment and in work inclusion of person with impairment
ŽELEZNÁ, Zuzana
We speak of hearing as one of the most important senses of every human being. With its help, we are able to fully perceive the world around us. Accepting auditory perceptions makes it very easy for us to communicate with other people, it is easier to integrate into a social group. If we can completely receive and distinguish sound pulses, we are able to respond to them accordingly. This professional work is focused on the quality of life of people with hearing impairment, their socialization and the possibility of employment in the work environment. In this case, it is a one-case study of a deaf man who was born healthy (hearing person).
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Everyday Aesthetics and Urban Environment
KAHOUN, Jakub
This thesis aims to find potential conjunctions of environmental aesthetics and sociological urban criticism. The first chapter is concerned with certain theoretical problems of environments and various conceptions of the aesthetical. The overview of the anglophone tradition of aesthetics of environment based on aesthetic theory of nature is confrontated with theoreticians inspired by phenomenology and pragmatism. The main objective of this thesis is the theoretical inclusion of everyday urban experience and then the creation of prerequisities to describe and evaluate this environment. The necessity to reflect the different attitudes of producers and percievers is already occuring during the first chapter. The following part is dealing with diverse examples of alienation, manipulation and violence, which specially designed city environments perform on certain groups of inhabitants. This chapter also examines the selection of the targets of violence, typology of environments, strategies and motivations of the ordering party of such designed environments. The perspective is turned around in the last chapter, when the city environments are described from the viewpoint of a consumer, a pedestrian or a reader. The city is comprehended as an authoritative structure of opportunities, which can be nonetheless be seized creatively in various practices. These practices are considered as somehow subverting or microsubverting the structuring authority.
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The portrayal of the Indigenous community in Sherman Alexie's The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Skála, David ; Topolovská, Tereza (advisor) ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee)
This thesis aims to analyse the portrayal of Native American people in a semi-autobiographic novel The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007) by Sherman Alexie and to compare and contrast it with the current living conditions inside reservations designated for the Native American inhabitants. The practical part analyses the story of a young Native American named Arnold Spirit, often referred to as Junior, who lives in The Spokane Indian Reservation and encounters racism, poverty, ostracism and other troubles associated with ethnic minorities. The character's story is analysed from the perspective of various types of segregation, established in the theoretical part, he and his people routinely experience. The subsequent comparison of the novel and the reality is closely connected to the research from the theoretical part which dealt with the information from academic articles as well as authentic resources, such as community websites of the Indigenous community. The practical part essentially attempts to interpret the novel from the perspective of the research presented in the preceding part if the work. KEYWORDS Sherman Alexie, Native Americans, Indian reservation, adolescence, segregation
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African Americans in Atlanta
Kubeš, Filip ; Anděl, Petr (advisor) ; Raška, Francis (referee)
Atlanta, Georgia is labeled as Black Mecca of the United States of America since the 1970s. The term "Black Mecca" describes a city which attracts African Americans in big numbers. These people seek better living conditions and especially job opportunities. This fact is quite surprising, because Atlanta belongs to a region of Deep South, where the conditions of African Americans were harsher than in other parts of the country for a very long time besides other things because of "Jim Crow" segregation laws. This work should present which factors are responsible for the fact that a southern city such as Atlanta became a sought-after center of African American immigration and how these factors were reached. Atlanta became Black Mecca, because it achieved several goals. African Americans politically control the city, Atlanta offers superior job opportunities, high quality educational institutions are located within the city and the relations between white and black people are quite harmonic. These points were achieved besides other things thanks to the people that lived in the city including influential figures such as William Hartsfield, Ivan Allen, Robert Woodruff, Maynard Jackson, Andrew Young and many more.
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Specifics of the integration of exceptionally gifted children in kindergarten
Sapíková, Alena ; Mužáková, Monika (advisor) ; Zemková, Jaroslava (referee)
This thesis deals with the integration of gifted children to kindergarten. It outlines the needs and demands of these children - parents, educators, environment, forms and methods of education. The practical part focuses on specific research - identifying gifted children in kindergarten and on the conditions of their education. The research was conducted by e-mail between kindergarten teachers in all 14 regions of the Czech Republic. The practical part is supplemented by two case report of exceptionally gifted children (a boy and a girl) who are (resp. were) integrated and educated in private nursery schools. Conclusion The thesis contains suggestions for how to practice.
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Strategies of teaching gifted children at primary school
Dohnalová, Lucie ; Krčmářová, Tereza (advisor) ; Stará, Jana (referee)
This master thesis aims to describe the strategies, methods and forms of work, which are effective in teaching gifted pupils at primary school. Another aim is to compare the possibility of their applications in integrated and segregated forms of gifted education. The theoretical part summarizes findings about this issue and the aim is to specify the issue of gifted children in relation to the intelligence, creativity and heredity. Based on the analysis of Czech, but mostly foreign literature, this work definine the strategies and methods of teaching gifted students, which are nowadays used in the classroom. The practical part is focus on a qualitative research method aimed at comparing the work of teachers of gifted students in integrated and segregated forms of teaching. Based on the analysis of teaching and subsequent in-depth interviews with teachers, this thesis is trying to figure out how the teacher in a particular form of teaching is working with talented pupil, which teaching strategies he or she is selecting and how these strategies correspond with the literature search in the theoretical part. In terms of research, it is possible to observe the individual approach of teachers who were surveyed on the issue of gifted.
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