This thesis was focused on culture and climate of selected public universities in the Czech Republic in the form stated in strategic materials. The goal was to analyse and compare key aspects of strategic materials of selected universities that influence their culture and climate. Selected strategic materials included vision, mission, values, long-term intent of the university and educational faculty, annual activity report and code of ethics. The sample consisted of eight universities whose part was an educational faculty. The method of quantitative content analysis was selected for the analysis of the documents. There were six priority areas identified through the analysis of the documents of the Ministry of Education and key words related to these priority areas. The analysis of university documents showed that organizational culture and climate are not much explicitly covered in their strategic documents, the most frequently emerging feature of organizational culture were values, therefore mainly aspects determining culture and climate were tracked. The main focus of university strategic documents were the following three areas: quality, international aspect and research. Although universities shared a common ground stated by the Ministry of Education there was considerable diversity among...

Strong development of suburbanization in the bigger towns of the Czech Republic, coupled with the arrival of younger families with kids in suburbia, leads to the need to increase the capacity of primary schools serving these facilities, respectively suburbia. In contrast, the peripheral rural areas are faced with the opposite problem. This thesis is devoted to basic education in the territory MEP České Budějovice. It monitors the deployment, how full a capacity of primary schools fully and not fully organized, distribution of child (pupil) of the population, declared a real school catchment of individual settlements to individual fully and not fully organized elementary schools and public transit options pupils in basic schools. Additionally, also evaluates the skills of individual primary school and their construction and urban characteristics. As a result, the issue is synthesized and implemented optimization proposal territorial organization of basic education in selected area.

Occurrence of Child Abuse and Neglect (CAN) has recently become quite frequent. Even though the number of experts dealing with this issue is increasing and there is a lot of professional literature available, the numbers of children abused and neglected are on increase. Traumas and pathological behaviour, which children experience in their families, are often carried over to adulthood and new families in the form of behavioural patterns. Basic school teachers, who spend substantial part of the day with children in the classes, play an important role not only in prevention, but also in detecting CAN cases. The objective of the diploma thesis was to observe the level of awareness among teachers regarding CAN and related issues and to find out whether they know what to do in case a child is suspected of being abused or neglected. Also, it was aimed at learning whether the awareness is influenced by microregion the teachers live in and respondents? age. The hypotheses were established to observe whether the teachers of basic schools in Jindřichův Hradec have better awareness of the issues relating to CAN than the teachers of basic schools in Třeboň, and whether the teachers of basic schools in Jindřichův Hradec have better awareness of the issues relating to CAN than the teachers of basic schools in Dačice. Next hypothesis dealt with whether basic school teachers under 40 years of age demonstrate better CAN awareness than teachers above 40 years of age. A quantitative research using the method of interview and technique of questionnaire was used to verify the hypotheses. The research corpus comprised of teachers of basic schools in the microregions of Dačice, Jindřichův Hradec and Třeboň. The finite corpus comprised of 193 respondents. The teachers of basic schools in the microregion of Jindřichův Hradec did not demonstrate better awareness of the issues relating to CAN than the teachers of basic schools the microregions of Třeboň and Dačice. Also, the teachers under 40 years of age did not demonstrate better awareness of the issues at hand than the teachers above 40 years of age. Analysis of the outcomes retrieved from the performed research did not confirm validity of the hypotheses H1, H2 and H3. The outcomes of the thesis imply that awareness of the basic school teachers, who were included in the research corpora in the given microregions, regarding the issues relating to CAN do not relate either to given microregions, where teachers work, or the age of the respondents. In general, respondents showed substantial awareness of CAN. It should be noted that CAN is very serious social problem and each society should pay proper attention to it.

The work deals with education technology in the specific environment of Waldorf school with an emphasis on pedagogical traits of this school type. The theoretical part includes the explanation of the term {\clq}qeducational technology``, the brief characteristics of alternative schooling, its rise and development. The main accent is put on the Waldorf pedagogy, its recourses, contents, aims, specifics and history in the Czech Republic and Waldorf education worldwide. The practical part includes records from inspections of Waldorf classes and then a comparison of theory and praxis. Then this work compares a social climate of the Waldorf class and the class with a classical way of education by questionnaires to find out objective positives of Waldorf education.

This master's thesis deals with various views of potential school directors and headmasters of the school director selection procedure. The work is divided into the theoretical and the research part. The theoretical part analyses the legislation relevant to the selection procedure for the school director, i.e. The School Law and law No. 82/2005. In the practical part author used the questionnaire to find the ideas of potential school directors and headmasters of the selection procedure and of The School Law novelisation. The goal of this thesis is to find how differs these ideas. The conclusions of this work can be used for the improvement of the school director selection procedure in the Czech Republic. The work is based on the literature listed at the end and on the questionnaire survey, which was performed with 115 potential school directors and 13 headmasters. KEYWORDS school director, headmaster, selection procedure, novel No. 472/2011, selection board

This thesis is focused on the form of theoretical and practical preparation of teachers of primary and secondary schools in Bohemia in the second half of the "long" 19th century. Acquainted with contemporary legislation, curriculum of teacher-training institutes, primary and secondary schools and addresses the contemporary teaching methodologies whose knowledge was requirement for completing teacher-training institutes and teachers qualification exams. These sources are also linked with the written legacy and memories of five contemporary teachers. Keywords teachers, teacher-training institutes, teachers qualification exams, primary school, secondary school, methodical manuals

This thesis focuses on quantitative and mainly qualitative differences between graduates of private and public economic universities and on perception of such differences by employers. Described is the relationship of human capital and education as well as the development of higher education in the Czech Republic over last decades. The central hypothesis of this thesis, i.e. that in the field of economics, graduates of public universities are viewed by employers as "superior" to those from private schools, has been confirmed using the method of questionnaire survey.

This master thesis deals with the problematics of marketing in education. It analyses and compares marketing tools used in education, methods of implementing marketing activities in secondary schools in Slovakia, it examines how schools percieves problem of school massification of the education. Thesis consists of two parts. In the first part are defined basic concepts and theoretical foundations related to marketing and to the issue of massification of education. The second one is a research. Methodology characterizes research methods, methods of selection and a description of respondents. This is followed by evaluation and presentation of results. The conclusion is the summary of point key elements and it describes and evaluates the obtained knowledge.

The thesis deals with the history and the present of waldorf schools founded by Rudolf Steiner. Also describes media literacy with an emphasis on new media. It covers the way how the new media education is embedded in the Czech educational system. As a particular example served curriculum of the school subject Information and communication technology of the waldorf secondary school in Prague. The thesis also describes the way of media education in Germany. In the second part of this thesis can be found an evaluation of the questionnaire made in secondary waldorf schools in Prague and Semily which had to learn the status quo of (new) media literacy of the students and their relationship with modern technologies. The end of the thesis deals with the suggestion of improvement of the tuition based on the German model.

The thesis deals with alternative approaches to education at high schools in the Czech Republic. The starting points of the thesis are mainly the historical context of alternative education and the characteristics of the Czech high schools and their students with a focus on private schools. The main areas of interest are some didactic principles, selected forms and methods of teaching, formative assessment and specific position of a teacher, which are stated as crucial, based on the research findings. The thesis also provides a brief overview of high schools in Prague which are considered innovative. Two such high schools are examined in detail in the empirical survey. Their stories are comprehensively processed using the multiple case study method. Key words: Alternative Approaches to Education, Alternative Schools, High Schools, Innovations in Education, Case study