This diploma thesis concerns the topic of pre-primary education in the Czech Republic with a special focus on the school-family relations. The general aim of this study is to examine and describe the relations between kindergarten (principals/teachers) and family (parents of children) in the contemporary reality of these schools. Moreover, this text deals with the relations between mentioned stakeholders from the perspective of partnership and accountability which constitute its theoretical background. The objectives are fulfilled via qualitative research, particularly twelve semi-structured interviews with principals/teachers of public kindergartens, and analysis of relevant public policy documents. Based on the qualitative research among these respondents, it concludes that the relations between the actors involved correspond more to the concept of accountability than partnership. The text also indicates that accountability and partnership are rather contradictory concepts. The principals/teachers feel accountable to the parents and they also declare very strong responsibility towards the children themselves. The research findings also show in more detail the discrepancy between the strongly reflected interest of respondents in a partnership and its absence, with a particular attention paid to the reasons...

Diploma thesis "Teaching assistant and his application in preschool" discusses the profession of a teaching assistant, his work in educating not only children with special educational needs, but also children without special educational needs and his collaboration with other educators. It deals with everything that an assistant should do and it also provides a summary of opinions and practical experiences of teaching assistants. The thesis is divided into theoretical part and empirical part. Theoretical part consists of five chapters and research part consists of four chapters. The first chapter defines the concept of a teaching assistant, the second chapter points out the differences between personal assistant, teaching assistant and school assistant. The third chapter is dedicated to the importance of a teaching assistant in inclusive education and the fourth chapter deals with cooperation between teachers and teaching assistants. The empirical part contains of the research carried out from a combination of qualitative method, which has the form of a semi-structured interviews, and quantitative method, which was done through a standardized questionnaire. A qualitative method was carried out with selected teachers and teaching assistants, whereas parents attended quantitative method too. A method...

This research study investigated the effectiveness of the application of child-centered play therapy procedures and skills by trained fifth grade students in play sessions with kindergarten children who had adjustment difficulties. Specifically, this research determined if play sessions with trained fifth grade students facilitated change in kindergarten children's self concept, internalizing behavior, and externalizing behavior and their parents' stress level.

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The diploma thesis is focusing on the pedagogical speech therapy topic. Thesis deals with the development of vocabulary in ordinary kindergarten for preschool children. Vocabulary is important to develop from an early age, as it has a significant impact on a child's future skills and abilities. Special importance should be given to children under the age of 6, as they have different levels of vocabulary. The main goal is to analyze the lexical level in kindergarten. The survey was conducted in the form of an interview. The thesis is focused on the active and passive part of vocabulary, which is evaluated in their own speech and the supply of vocabulary probands. The results helped to examine the language expression of preschool children and shows that for children is problematic to use the word types and they use vocabulary from everyday communication the most. KEYWORDS Speech, communication, children, vocabulary, kindergarten

The topic of the master thesis is music therapy and its effect on preschool children. The master thesis consists of four chapters, whereby the first three being the theoretical part and the fourth the practical part. The theoretical part pays attention to music therapy from a historical point of view but it also examines the current theoretical and practical concept. The theoretical part offers basic information about pre-school education, including a description of teachers, children and an institution called a kindergarten. In that respect, there is also a brief mention of the Štíty kindergarten, from which the research sample comes. Furthermore, the theoretical part also focuses on art therapies in general. It is mainly focused on the music therapy. However, a brief description of three other art therapeutic disciplines, such as art therapy, drama therapy and dance-movement therapy, is also included. The main aim of the theoretical part was to offer comprehensive overview of knowledge and the facts in order to help the understanding of important facts about music therapy and preschool education. With the focus on the interconnection of these two key areas. Finally, a brief introduction of art therapies and its other specializations is included. All the included information is based on the study...

Seit einigen Jahren findet in der Transformationsforschung eine Fokusverlagerung von den politischen und wirtschaftlichen Institutionen hin zu den ostdeutschen Beschäftigten als Akteur:innen der Wendezeit statt. Der vorliegende Beitrag fragt nach den Erlebnissen von Frauen im Systemwandel der 1990er Jahre. Konkret wird das Erziehungswesen als weiblich dominierter Beschäftigungssektor betrachtet. Anhand der Auswertung von Zeitzeuginnen-Interviews wird näher beleuchtet, wie Erzieherinnen die Umstrukturierung des ostdeutschen Erziehungswesens erlebten. Der Umstand, dass die nicht-private Kinderbetreuung als Sorgearbeit auf besondere Weise vom Systemwechsel betroffen war, stellt eine zentrale Erkenntnis dieser Untersuchung dar. Die Erzieherinnen berichten nicht nur von einem massiven Stellenabbau und veränderten Arbeitsbedingungen, sondern auch einer zunehmenden gesellschaftlichen Entwertung ihres Berufs.

State standards require kindergarten students to produce expository writing, but little research has been done regarding their abilities in this area. This study describes expository writing samples of 47 typically developing (TD) kindergarteners and 43 kindergarteners with developmental language disorder (DLD). The Expository Language Measures (ELM) Flow Chart and the Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts (SALT) software were used to detail the language complexity and text structure features the children in the sample produced. When comparing TD and DLD children's expository written samples, no significant differences in the language and text structure measures were found. It is important to continue acquiring data regarding young children's abilities to produce expository written language. Identifying norms and areas of weakness promotes the creation of more specific and effective teaching and intervention methods.

Det hela började med en väldigt grundläggande tanke om en säker förskola. Trappor är farliga och bör undvikas. För många våningar blir lätt problematiskt. Avgörande för projektet blev det att barnen ska kunna spendera hela dagar på ett och samma våningsplan. Därmed är barnens avdelningar helt placerade på sina respektive envåningsplaner. De omsluter gemensamt samlingsrum och gård. På övre plan finns de yngsta barnens avdelning med direkt tillgång till takterrass. Planlösningen följer en upprepande modulenhet, där rummen är glasade mot söder. På så sätt efterliknas den enkelhet som finns i modernistiska paviljonger, samtidigt som en tydlig framsida definieras. En förlängning av rummen bildar en passage som går genom hela byggnaden, både interiört och exteriört och på bågge våningsplan. Detta skapar ett "mellanrum" i ett försök att överbrygga den annars skarpa gränsen mellan inne och ute. Jag tror att denna utformning med upprepande rumsindelning, samt lätthet och horisontalitet i arkitektoniskt uttryck talar ett språk som klargör för hur förskolan ska brukas. / It all started with a very essential idea for a safe kindergarten. Staircases are dangerous and are better avoided. Too many levels easily become problematic. Crucial through the project was that the children could spend full days on a single storey plan. Consequently the childrens' sections are fully placed on their respective single level plans. These enclose a common room and playgrounds. On the upper level you will find the youngests' section directly accessing roof terraces. The floor plan follows a repetitive module, where rooms facing south are glazed in that direction, resembling the simplicity of modernist pavilions, yet defining a pronounced front. An extension of the rooms towards the playgrounds, a passageway, runs through the whole building, both indoors and outdoors and on both levels, creating a linking "room" in the middle. I believe that this type of layout with repetitive modules and simplicity and horizontality in architectural expression makes it clear how the kindergarten is best operated.

Kandidatprojekt vilket syftade till att rita en ny förskola i området Vasalund, i Solna strax norr om Stockholm. Den tomt som var aktuell låg vackert bland uppvuxna fruktträd och syrener bland 20-tals villlor i nyklassistisk karaktär med en dov färgskala och enkel symmerti.  Förskolan Gröna Villan utformade för att i uttryck ovh skala smälta väl in i den nyvarande bebyggelsen men byggnaden får samtidigt en stark karaktär av det branta valmade taket och de rundade takkuporna. Förskolans gröna plåttak och fasader i plywood spelar väl med de omgivande huset och trädgårdens grönska.  Invändigt har förskolan enkla vackra rund för såväl introvert lek eller vila som extroverta miljöer som uppmanar till kreativitet, rörelse och samvaro. Centralt i byggnaden, som ett vartikalt nav,  ligger de gemensamma rummen för lek, byggande och konstnärliga aktiviteter och kring de de tre avdelningar, kök och personalutrymmen.  Trädgården är ett viktigt komplement till inomhusmijlön och den är av halvvild trädgårdkaraktär med plats för såväl pedagogisk lärande kring naturen, kojbyggande, aktivitet och lugna stunder i alla väder. / Project based in Vasalund, close to Solna i north surburb of Stockholm. My project was a kindergarten in an area with villas from 1920's with beautiful old gardens and fragments from classism and charataristisc colours and elements.  Kindergarten Green House is well adapted both for its content and surroundings in scale and charactar. Its green colour, the steep roof and the rounded windows are examples of how the new building fits its area.  The interiors is characterized by simlicity, beautiful materialial as birch and limestone and rooms in a scale and logic that is adapted and understandable for children. The shared spaces as studios and workshop in located in the center surrounded by the three departents. The garden around Green House is an important complement for the interior rooms, the garden have space for pedagogic learning about nature, playing and have food outside in all kind of the swedish weather.