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Attitudes of future teachers to chemistry
Pospíšilová, Barbora ; Teplý, Pavel (advisor) ; Šmejkal, Petr (referee)
1 ABSTRACT The diploma thesis deals with the attitudes of university students, who will become chemistry teachers, to chemistry and their views on various areas related to chemistry. This work follows the author's bachelor thesis, in which the public's opinion to chemistry was ascertained using a questionnaire survey. In the diploma thesis we focused on finding out attitudes of a group of future chemistry teachers through interviews. The theoretical part deals with the role of chemistry in today's world, chemophobia and the topic of attitudes. The practical part is based on interviews with respondents. This part contains basic information about the research - selection and number of respondents, questions used in the interview, the procedure for data collection and data analysis. One of the key findings was that respondents often lack the perspective and vision of chemistry in context. These are important qualities and skills that a chemistry teacher should have. Furthermore, the importance of teachers in the process of forming a relationship/attitude to chemistry was confirmed - teachers with a broader perspective lead students to a positive relationship to chemistry and they are able to enthrall pupils by chemistry. Key words: chemistry, opinion, attitude, chemophobia, interview, chemistry teachers
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Chemistry in food TV advertising and its use in media education
Matějčková, Veronika ; Teplý, Pavel (advisor) ; Janoušková, Svatava (referee)
The following bachelor thesis deals with the topic chemistry in advertising. It focuses especially at food TV commercials and claims appearing in them, which directly or indirectly concern chemistry, chemical substances or chemical processes. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first part addresses advertisement, its definition, aims, history, the tools of advertising and the supervision of advertisements. In the next chapter of this part media education is explored, namely to how and to what extent is media education incorporated into Framework Educational Programmes and subsequently in School Educational Programmes of selected schools. The second part of the thesis presents an analysis of selected TV commercials and it also contains an analysis of specific claims, which were stated in the commercials and concern chemistry. The claims are classified into several categories and afterwards, they are evaluated on their correctness, meaning and utilization for creating a teaching material, a worksheet, which could be used for teaching media education in Chemistry lessons.
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Chemistry through the eyes of the public
Pospíšilová, Barbora ; Teplý, Pavel (advisor) ; Teplá, Milada (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the public view on chemistry. It has two parts: theoretical and practical. In the first chapter of the theoretical part I briefly describe the development of chemistry in six epoches from the oldest one to the modern period. The second chapter is devoted to the roles of chemistry in today's society. The third chapter is focused on the public view of chemistry or chemical products. In this chapter I am discussing the public's fear of chemistry, position of chemistry as a school subject, attempts to reduce the chemistry position in some industrial fields (replacing standard food with organic food and classical plastics with bioplastics) or who influences the opinions on chemistry. In the fourth chapter of theoretical part I deal with the attitudes and their evaluation. The practical part is based on a questionnaire survey realized using an electronic questionnaire. The basic information about the respondents and more detailed analysis of some of the respondents answears are presented in the evaluation of this questionnaire. There is also the analysis of the correlation between the individual answers. Key words: chemistry, opinion, attitude, chemophobia, questionnaire, chemical industry, organic food
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