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Contemporary Trends in Early Childhood Education and Care in England
Ristić, Petra
This paper examines current trends and developments in the early childhood care and education system in England. The aim of the thesis is to provide a comprehensive understanding of English early childhood education. The thesis focuses on the current anchoring of early childhood care and education in the English education system. It provides an analysis and deeper insight into the circumstances of the emergence, progress and direction of current reforms and trends. The thesis is framed by a qualitative research paradigm while the research design is a single country case study using content analysis of documents, semi-structured expert interviews and participant observation. The thesis captures the historical background to English early childhood education and its influence on the creation of the current situation. It has focused on analysis of external (European) and internal influences on educational policy in England and their reflection in curriculum development documents. The thesis also thematises the developments in workforce policy and their impact on the contemporary situation of early years professionals. It thus identifies current trends, reforms and challenges in early childhood education in England. The early childhood education system in England has undergone dynamic developments from...
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Car gearboxes
Charvát, Adam ; Ramík, Pavel (referee) ; Kaplan, Zdeněk (advisor)
This bachelor's thesis is focused on the most common transmission types of passenger cars and their components with a focus on manual transmissions, automatic transmissions, dualclutch transmissions, continuously variable transmissions, and transmissions for electric and hybrid vehicles. The work deals with the construction, principle of operation and comparison of the properties of these devices. Thesis also contains a look at development trends of these transmissions.
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Contemporary Trends in Early Childhood Education and Care in England
Ristić, Petra ; Uhlířová, Jana (advisor) ; Lipnická, Milena (referee) ; Podpera, Milan (referee)
This paper examines current trends and developments in the early childhood care and education system in England. The aim of the thesis is to provide a comprehensive understanding of English early childhood education. The thesis focuses on the current anchoring of early childhood care and education in the English education system. It provides an analysis and deeper insight into the circumstances of the emergence, progress and direction of current reforms and trends. The thesis is framed by a qualitative research paradigm while the research design is a single country case study using content analysis of documents, semi-structured expert interviews and participant observation. The thesis captures the historical background to English early childhood education and its influence on the creation of the current situation. It has focused on analysis of external (European) and internal influences on educational policy in England and their reflection in curriculum development documents. The thesis also thematises the developments in workforce policy and their impact on the contemporary situation of early years professionals. It thus identifies current trends, reforms and challenges in early childhood education in England. The early childhood education system in England has undergone dynamic developments from...
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Posouzení možnosti využití buku v materiálech na bázi dřeva a ve výrobcích
Horníček, Stanislav
The thesis deals with the assessment of the possibilities of using wood in wood-based materials and products. Part of this thesis is a list of basic wood-based materials used in timber construction. Furthermore, assessment of possibility and explanation of wood modification principles. The thesis includes the design of functional element of the product and also experiment examining selected physical properties of the modified beech wood. The aim is to create a basic overview of trends in production, products and in the use of wood-based materials and possibilities of the use of beech wood for these products and materials.
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Car gearboxes
Charvát, Adam ; Ramík, Pavel (referee) ; Kaplan, Zdeněk (advisor)
This bachelor's thesis is focused on the most common transmission types of passenger cars and their components with a focus on manual transmissions, automatic transmissions, dualclutch transmissions, continuously variable transmissions, and transmissions for electric and hybrid vehicles. The work deals with the construction, principle of operation and comparison of the properties of these devices. Thesis also contains a look at development trends of these transmissions.
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Current reforms of institutional pre-school education in the Federal Republic of Germany
Loudová Stralczynská, Barbora ; Uhlířová, Jana (advisor) ; Opravilová, Eva (referee) ; Lipnická, Milena (referee)
The doctoral thesis focuses on the development of preschool education in Germany. It was composed using the tools of comparative education research especially the qualitative research paradigm. It aims to analyze the contemporary reforms of the pre-primary education in Germany. The research design stands on a case study, which is based on the document content analysis method, semi-structured interviews with experts, and participating observation. The research has focused on the system settings in preschool education, as well as on ongoing reforms itself. The study outlines the development of pre-school institutions, external conditions and the possibility of managing preschool education in Germany. It provides an analysis of curricula documents as well as the insight into current alternative models and innovative approaches in preschool education. Also it elaborates the topic of contemporary situation in teaching staff and the trends in his training, and finally identifies the current reforms, trends and challenges in preschool education in Germany. Germany has implemented in the last 15 years a series of reforms relating to the settings of conditions in preschool education both at the national and state level. These reforms reflect specific regional features of individual federal states, but at...
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A content analysis of the winning photos of the World Press Photo contens
Teplá, Jana ; Lábová, Alena (advisor) ; Šoltys, Otakar (referee)
World Press Photo 1955-2010: a content analysis of the winning photos is a theoretical and empirical research. In the theoretical section the issues of photography as a reality representing medium, historical and current status of photojournalism as a profession and finally visual sociology including content analysis of photography are described. Main research question is: are there any tendencies in the winning photos' imaging of international events from the beginning of the contest in 1955 to 2010? Six hypotheses which assume these tendencies in the field of photography content as well as in the field of photography production are determined. A content analysis is applied on every World Press Photo of the Year including title and technical data. The goal of this research is to find some latent trends of the way international events are displayed in the photographs and to interpretate them in the terms of media studies. In the empirical section the procedure for the verification of hypotheses, the application of frequency, correlation and factor analysis are described and the results are interpretated. In final conclusion these results are discussed and other research aims to further knowledge in the field of content analysis of photos are proposed.
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Analysis of changes of households expenditures in CR
Bartošová, Livie ; Svatošová, Libuše (advisor) ; Jaroslav, Jaroslav (referee)
The Diploma Thesis is focused on changes in household spending in the Czech Republic.The aim was to analyze the changes in the average spending in individual household types.
In the introductory part, the method of data collection by the Czech Statistical Office, which collects the data from the households in the framework of the family accounts statistics, is described. Moreover, the inflation questions are explained here, together with the description of models of consumption ways. The introduction of the Thesis also includes the explanation of options of a non-consumer spending in the form of both investments and various types of savings.
The practical part comprises analyses monitoring changes in the spending structure, in the spending extent, and in the development of the expense entry value. The analysis of the changes in the spending structure concerns all categories of households, classified according to the person acting as the head of household, in the years 2006-2014. These changes are evaluated not only from the point of view of their extent and development trends, but they are also evaluated in comparison with other monitored households. The detailed analysis monitoring the spending extent and the development of individual expense entries studies the average household and the household of employees in the years 2000-2014, with a subsequent prediction for years 2015 and 2016. For the households of self-employers, unemployed persons and pensioners (without economically active members), the analysis covers the changes in the spending extent in the years 2006-2014 and includes also the comparison of such changes in terms of the mentioned household types.
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Developmental Trends in the Field of Early Care
MAŤHOVÁ, Lenka
This thesis dealt with trends within early intervention programs. Early intervention is a social service aimed at helping familimies and children with developmental delays or disabilities since birthday till the age of 7 years. It is a field service with vast majority of work being done within family environment, rarely accompanied by an ambulance service. This provides a great benefit, as is mentioned in theoretical part of thesis. Multitude of new developments concerning education, financing or work itself happened in the last couple years. The theoretical part of thesis defines the early intervention itself, or "early care" in some Czech translations, as well as its history. Methods for client service are described as well. The main objective of this thesis is to describe main changes that happened within in several South Bohemia early intervention centers in the last 10 years. This goal should provide a summary of both operational and financial challenges as well as new early intervention methods for better work with client himself. The practical part of this uses a qualitative approach. A semi-structured interview consisting of 10 questions is employed, with 5 professionals from early intervention care from 3 centers in South Bohemia as respondents. Their professions are described in order to compare differences between opinions of administrative workers and care assistants. The interview was most concerned with changed made because of new trends, and whether those were concerned to be positive or negative. Answers were analyzed with the use of clustering method. In conclusion, vast differences were observed in early intervention field 10 years ago and today. Both methods of financing and education of assistants as well as enlargement of number of workers or capacity of centers changed greatly within the past decade. The results could be used as feedback for early intervention centers and students concerned with this particular field of social care.
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Analysis of the development of global capture fishery and aquaculture production
Algayd, Abdelhamid Alhadi
Global production from capture fisheries and aquaculture and the food fish supply is currently the highest on record and remains very significant for global food security. This study is focused on the contribution of the aquaculture to the global production of fish, crustaceans, molluscs, and other aquatic animals in the short-time observation from 2000- 2008. The aim of the presented PhD. Thesis title "Analysis of The Development of Global Capture Fish and Aquaculture Production (200-2008)" seeks to describe in the fist part of the work study provides basic information about the development of the Global fishery and aquaculture as a branch of human knowledge. The next part describes the characteristics of Global fishery growing and fish-production development, and focused on the analysis of contribution of aquaculture production by environment in total fish production within the defined reference period 2000-2008. Statistical methods were applied to evaluate the state of aquaculture production including mean coefficient of growth and mean coefficient of change. There is also presented shorttime point and interval extrapolation prediction of studied events. Methods of regression and correlation analysis and development trends were applied for the mathematicalstatistical analysis. The main objective of this study is to present prospective analysis to help both policy maker and technical specialist to improve the development of national fishery and aquaculture sector.
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