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Impartiality and value-based education in the teaching of political geography in high schools in Czechia: The case of the war in Yugoslavia
Gáthy, Zuzana ; Hána, David (advisor) ; Nováček, Aleš (referee)
According to the Education Act the education is supposed to be apolitical, but at the same time the teacher is supposed to educate students about values. The question is how far it is better to remain impartial in order to avoid influencing students and how far it is better to present personal opinion for the purpose of value-based education. The aim of the thesis was to find out how high school teachers in Czechia perceive the need and possibilities of impartial teaching of political geography and related value-based education. The second objective was to propose suitable methods for impartial teaching of political geography in high school geography classes. Part of the thesis is specifically focused on the teaching of the war in Yugoslavia and the discussion of the impartial conception of this conflict. The research involved a quantitative survey involving 277 respondents from among high school teachers, followed by 9 qualitative interviews with high school teachers. The core of the work is the results of the research, which are compared with each other and presented in the form of graphs, tables and excerpts from interviews. Czech high school geography teachers support impartial teaching of political geography and try to achieve an impartial approach. However, value-based education is a more...
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The water resources of the Nile basin in the context of conflicts and peaceful cooperation
Hošková, Lucie ; Jelen, Libor (advisor) ; Frajer, Václav (referee)
This thesis deals with the issue of water resources in the Nile basin in the context of conflict and peaceful cooperation. The main aim of the work is to assess the hydropolitical potential, whether conflictory or rather cooperative is relevant. Following this goal, subsequently identify the main geopolitical actors in the Nile basin and see if the two tributaries of the Nile, blue and White Nile, differ in terms of hydropolitical potential. The theoretical framework of the work is defined by international-political concepts of neo-realism, i.e. whether disputes are primarily between states in the form of the demarcation of interests and power, or neoliberalism, which presupposes mutual cooperation in the framework of the management of resources. Furthermore, the thesis deals with the definition of the geographical-historical context with a focus on the East African region and the Nile basin following its character and history. A systematic review was chosen as the method of processing this work.
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Central Africa : Transnational Region in Political Geography
Kučera, Josef ; Riegl, Martin (advisor) ; Romancov, Michael (referee)
The primary aim of this thesis is a question about existence of the transnational region of the Central Africa. The second aim is : if the Central Africa exist as a region, where are regional current borders. Definition of the Central Africa transnational region is based on five levels of geography and various variables. The thesis improves the understanding what types of approaches are usable for description of the region with minimal distortion. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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China in Global and Regional policy in the 21st Century- Geopolitical Clash with Japan, India, USA, Russia, and Europe
Petrtýl, Martin ; Hnízdo, Bořivoj (advisor) ; Kofroň, Jan (referee) ; Andělová, Petra (referee)
CHINA IN GLOBAL AND REGIONAL POLITICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY - GEOPOLITICAL CLASH WITH JAPAN, INDIA, USA, RUSSIA AND EUROPE Mgr. Martin Petrtýl Supervisor: Doc. Dr. Bořivoj Hnízdo, PhD. Institute of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences This dissertation discusses the current and future role of China in the 21st century. I worked with the idea to prepare a systematically detailed analytical study of the country in relation to its surroundings as well as its internal environment for more than 8 years, including many interruptions. I, above all, contemplated about the way how to truly scientifically, i.e. credibly, it means in the maximum possible the limits of verifiability, develop a full work that could hold up to the colleagues from the scientific community and myself. It is logical it was and is my attempt to allow minimal possibility of any criticism of this work for its formal, content, or other deficiencies. First, I decided to analyse in some detail the currently known theoretical approaches and methods of study, not only in political sciences, especially those used by political geographers, but also in other related fields, especially in the field of study of international relations, sociology, political science or general security studies. I did not want to study the issue is the...
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Central Africa : Transnational Region in Political Geography
Kučera, Josef ; Riegl, Martin (advisor) ; Romancov, Michael (referee)
The primary aim of this thesis is a question about existence of the transnational region of the Central Africa. The second aim is : if the Central Africa exist as a region, where are regional current borders. Definition of the Central Africa transnational region is based on five levels of geography and various variables. The thesis improves the understanding what types of approaches are usable for description of the region with minimal distortion. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Macroregional structures of the world: representation, preception, and objectivisation
Polonský, Filip ; Novotný, Josef (advisor) ; Bičík, Ivan (referee) ; Baar, Vladimír (referee)
The thesis brings insight to the problem of geosocietal differentiation of the world and its interpretation in the schemes of (major) world regional structures. These schemes are matter of different presentation and representation and have utility in organization of both scientific and non-scientific practices. A more detailed analysis and discussion of academic approaches to global macroregionalization was provided, which was followed by an analysis of the views of so-called global actors. Assessed was also situation in Czech and Slovak education (geographical textbooks). Perceptions of regional schemes are represented by views of geography students. Struggles with objectification were related to several-variant-based consideration of internal homogeneity and external heterogeneity of macroregions. Also assessed were world economic flows, distribution of integrated power potential and its development (1950 - 2008). Conclusions bring synthesis of the findings, as well as an outline of possible future research topics.
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Political geography of European union: economic connections
Chaloupková, Kamila ; Vošta, Milan (advisor) ; Kašpar, Václav (referee)
Bachelor thesis "Political geography of European union: economic connections" is an analysis of the European union space from political and geographical point of view. There are theories of political geography in the introduction and they just explain what political geography is. Detailed analysis of the state as of the geopolitical unit, of borders and of European union's political map development follows in the principal part. To finish, there is analysis of demographic and territorial factors and of their influence on economy and on politics of the European union from the point of view of space where these factors have impact.
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