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Health and social activities of elementary schools in the region České Budějovice
PLCHOVÁ, Eliška
Today, school is viewed as a social institution whose traditional function is that of providing education to pupils of appropriate age groups. The concept and functions of school are subject to changes of social needs. Accordingly, health education is now gradually making its way into the curriculum: it is a subject that permeates many a school subject and various school activities. At the same time, the school has become a place where pupils socialize and it is also a place that supports their personalities and social development, preparing them for their personal, work and civic life. These two aspects ? health and social ? are not substitutable and complement each other. The objective of the present bachelor thesis is to describe the activities performed within the social sphere by primary schools in the region of České Budějovice. On the basis of a selected sample of school prevention methodologists, its aim is to ascertain the means, possibilities, goals and visions for the future these methodologists have, and what prevention programmes they support. Furthermore, the objective of the thesis is to discover who they cooperate with and if any changes are needed to remedy situations that prevent them from the realization of their plans. The theoretical part examines health and social activities that can be implemented by primary schools. Moreover, this part focuses on school prevention tools and how these problems can be communicated and integrated in classes. The last chapter delves into the arrangement of counselling at schools, and specifies the function and activity of the school prevention methodologist. Within the framework of the present bachelor thesis, research was conducted which was realized by means of a semi-guided interview with school prevention methodologists in 7 selected schools. These schools included the primary schools of Trhové Sviny, Borovany, Nové Hrady, Nedabyle. The following schools were selected in České Budějovice: Primary school of Vl. Rada - Madé, Matice školské and Kubatova. The findings of the said research have been processed into two categories, i.e. health and social school activities. These categories have been further divided into four equal sub-groups. The first sub-group gives the summary and description of activities of the aforesaid schools, the second sub-group examines the method of realization of health activities in schools, while the third section focuses on the cooperation between organizations and schools, and the last section explores plans and visions for the future. Within the present bachelor thesis, three research inquiries were postulated. ? Do primary schools prefer health acitvities to social activities? ? When implementing preventive programmes, do primary schools prefer cooperating with organizations to performing activities on their own? ? Do primary schools create and support activities for both pupils and their parents? The results of the present bachelor thesis may be utilized for further research in the given sphere. I believe that my bachelor thesis will become an information source for primary schools in the health and social sphere. I hope that the resulting data will be utilized by experts working with pupils in primary schools for the realization of other activities pertaining to the given problems.
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