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Evaluation of pupils performance in geography at four-years high school
Weiner, Adam ; Řezníčková, Dana (advisor) ; Matějček, Tomáš (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with a deeper understanding of the professional beliefs of geography teachers in the area of evaluating the performance of pupils in the teaching of geography. On the basis of a qualitative investigation, answers two research questions were sought: (1) How do high school geography teachers acquire the competence to evaluate students in their teaching? (2) Which factors influence the teacher's way of evaluating students? The work structure has a traditional layout. The first part frames the selected issue and subsequent research in a more general context. In addition to the explanation of the essence of the starting theory, i.e. the theory of information dissemination, key concepts - professional beliefs and the very competence (competence) of the assessment are defined here. In the practical part, the work focuses on the results of semi-structured interviews with 10 geography teachers in four-year grammar schools. The responses of the respondents were analysed (coded, categorized) in order to answer the research question. We considered the skills in the area of assessment required of graduates of university teacher studies in the Competence Framework for Graduate Teachers (MŠMT 2023) to be a turning point in the theory of the diffusion of innovations. The conducted content...
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The analysis of historical geography textbooks from environmental ethics point of view
Weiner, Adam ; Matějček, Tomáš (advisor) ; Bartoš, Jan (referee)
The bachelor thesis focuses on analysis of historical textbooks for primary and secondary schools from the perspective of the environmental ethics. During the analysis process, statements of environmental issues were sought, which were evaluated and divided into appropriate directions of environmental ethics. The results were graphically processed and compared with the work of Seidlová (2010), who conducted similar research on contemporary textbooks. The research shows that in historical textbooks the anthropocentric, biocentric and ecocentric directions occur mainly, while the anthropocentric direction is the most represented of these directions. The theocentric direction and the direction of evolutionary ethics appeared only in a few cases. The similar scheme is in current textbooks, with the difference that ecocentrism is the most represented. The biggest difference between historical and contemporary textbooks is in the number of statements and their unambiguity. It was found that the number and unambiguity of statements is increasing towards the present.. The reason could be the stage of development and progress in which the society found itself. Keys words environmental ethics, geographical education, historical textbooks of geography, the man-nature relationship, evaluation of textbooks,...
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