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Developing environmental sensitivity through the fine art
Vaněk, Jan ; Hůla, Zdenek (advisor) ; Kitzbergerová, Leonora (referee)
The thesis is focused on searching for the ways, how to develop environmental sensitivity through the fine art, specifically painting or drawing and work with own body. Author strives about how to perceive own everyday surroundings more sensitively, to experience own presence in it more deeply and also to be able to rationally reflect own experience. This should make in a man personal relationship to the environment and stimulate pro-environmental behavior. The work is directed through theoretical excursion to the issue and author's art research to development the art method that author applies in his art-experiential action.
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Environmental ethics in practice - Research on ethical thinking and perceiving nature by the animal rescue stations staff
Kopáčková, Radka ; Novák, Arnošt (advisor) ; Hošek, Michael (referee)
2 ABSTRACT The thesis deals with ethics-relevant thinking and attitudes of workers at animal rescue stations, with the way they perceive nature as a phenomenon, and aims at discovering the various reasons that lead to the workers' choice for their job. Animal rescue stations are an example of protection of nature via voluntary work; thus, discovering the attitudes of workers at these facilities might lead to better understanding of their motivations for this job. The theoretical part of the thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter introduces concepts of environmental ethics focused on ethical behaviour of humans towards animals. The second chapter discusses the approach to nature, presented in the book Contested Natures by Phil Macnaghten and John Urry, together with that of environmental psychology. The last chapter is focused on animal rescue stations themselves and their activities. The practical part of the work presents a research on the topics above that took place at animal rescue stations and was done by interviewing their staff. The data acquired from these interviews are set in a theoretical framework, accordingly elaborated on and further categorized. It can be seen how the statements of the respondents correlate with the concepts presented in the theoretical part. Key words: animal...
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Developing environmental sensitivity through the fine art
Vaněk, Jan ; Hůla, Zdenek (advisor) ; Kitzbergerová, Leonora (referee)
The thesis is focused on searching for the ways, how to develop environmental sensitivity through the fine art, specifically painting or drawing and work with own body. Author strives about how to perceive own everyday surroundings more sensitively, to experience own presence in it more deeply and also to be able to rationally reflect own experience. This should make in a man personal relationship to the environment and stimulate pro-environmental behavior. The work is directed through theoretical excursion to the issue and author's art research to development the art method that author applies in his art-experiential action.
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Comparison of restorative effects of different outdoor environments
Radovnická, Kateřina ; Kebza, Vladimír (advisor) ; Šípek, Jiří (referee)
The diploma thesis is based on research findings that the natural environment can help restore depleted emotional and cognitive resources. Theoretical part summarizes the results of research studies in this area and provides a sufficient number of studies which have confirmed the above mentioned phenomenon. In the empirical part I am devoted to ascertaining whether the picture of environment can have restorative effect on cognitive and emotional resources, and compare the effects of three different outdoor environments. The research was conducted by experiment, respondents were exposed to visual stimulus material with motives of natural environment, park or urban environment and then was measured their attention and mood.
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The Basis of Environmental Psychology for Outdoor Education (The Influence of Nature on Mental and Social Well-Being)
VRBOVÁ, Zuzana
The work deals with theoretical research of basis of Environmental Psychology for Outdoor Education. It answers two questions ? why in the conceptions of Outdoor Education is nature the preferred environment and what are the benefits of nature for physical, mental and social health. The answers to theses questions are in the work described through theories of environmental preference and restorative effects of nature. There are three major sections of the work. The first part discusses the basis, principles and contents of Environmental Psychology and Outdoor Education, the core terminology of the work, and the nodal points of Environmental Psyhcology and the theory of Outdoor Education. Second part describes those theories and concepts of Environmental Psychology which are related to the primary and subsidiary research questions. The third part evaluates the impacts and relevance of environmental-psychological knowledge on concepts of Outdoor Education.
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