Title: Relationship of a child with Asperger syndrome and his family to school Author: Tereza Měšťáková Department: Psychology Supervisor: PhDr. Veronika Pavlas Martanová, Ph.D. ABSTRACT This diploma thesis deals with the relationship of a child with Asperger's syndrome and his family to school. The work aims to map the nature of these relationships and factors that may affect this relationship in specific children with AS and their parents. The theoretical part of the work is divided into two main sections. The first chapter focuses on Asperger Syndrome and its specifics, which are manifested in the school environment, on the relationships of children with this syndrome to classmates and teachers. The second part deals with the relationship between family and school. Attention is paid to the dilemmas of this relationship, the possibilities of its development and the relationship of the family with a problematic child to school The empirical part of the thesis presents qualitative research, which was carried out by the method of semi-structured interviews with five second-graders with Asperger Syndrome educated in ordinary primary schools and their parents. Acquired data was analyzed and interpreted. The results of this research are presented at the end of the text. KEYWORDS Asperger Syndrome, pupil,...

This work focuses on the first comprehensive describing of the history of the school in Mlazice. Everything is set within the wider framework of the development of the village and its immediate surroundings. There are also circumstances that contributed to the establishment of this school. Some chapters summarize the history of Czech education and the historical development of Mlazic and its surroundings, with an emphasis on these circumstances. The school in Mlazice was founded in 1902. Most of the materials are taken from the fund of the district archive in Mělník. Based on the preserved school chronicles from 1902-1973, the development of a small village school is shown. The history of this also reflects the individual specifics of the historical periods that the school went through.At first, only men taught here, and gradually women were added. In the last year, which is carried out in chronicles, only women have taught here. I also tried to highlight more important celebrations and other events. Most of the children of the workers went to this school, so lectures and trips at the beginning were not much organized. Chronicles also contain what donations the school has supported. These gifts were, among other things, used for children of poorer families to be able to be better educated. The...

This diploma work describes educational trial in small village school in the context of inclusive education. It is focused on teaching united classes and teaching pupils with special educational needs. Theoretical part contains characteristic of small village schools, describes their historical evolution, typical features of teaching and position assistant of teacher in these schools. In the following subsections are determined special learning disabilities, theirs causes of origin and regulars pedagogical intervention. And then is focused on theme of inclusive education. Targets of practical part were to find experiences of teachers at small village schools, to choose ideal didactical methods and organizational forms, which are suitable for differentiation and individualization in the teaching, after that to make a proposal of methodical support, that to verify in practise and to evaluate its. KEYWORDS Small village schools, inclusive education, special learning disabilities

The central theme of this diploma thesis is to analyze key stress factors, which foreign background students meet during their integration in the Czech Republic. All respondents are recruited from the Eastern European countries, for instance, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus. Two main groups include: - students who are in the Czech Republic less than one year - students who are in the Czech Republic for more than one year The primary research method was using a semi-structured interview with eight respondents. For measuring acculturative stress level was used the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), which was filled in by 36 students. There were found differences in the adjustment level and language competence among two groups of students. This research has also confirmed the relationship between the length of stay in the Czech Republic a level of acculturative stress. KEYWORDS foreign students, stress factors, integration, public higher education

This thesis examines prerequisites of the implementation of environmental education in the Czech Republic. It identifies fundamental problems of the current implementation of environmental education and presents key points which the policy should focus on in order to improve the quality of environmental education. This is achieved by analysing public documents and a research of the actual execution of environmental education on high schools in Prague. Environmental education is considered to be the primary instrument to apply the concept of sustainable development. The methodology is based on an analysis of primary and secondary qualitative and quantitative data. The theory of implementation is used as the theoretic basis of the thesis. A research of the execution of environmental education on different types of schools is included. There are subtle differences in the way how different types of schools implement environmental education, the most developed education is on technical high schools which provide four-year programmes concluded by graduation. Following issues were found to be the primary obstacles to the effective implementation of environmental education: unclear position of environmental education in terms of the education framework; passive attitude of the state administration;...

TITLE: Development of singing skills of 1st grade pupils at elementary school AUTHOR: PaedDr. Dana Martinková DEPARTMENT: Department of musical education SUPERVISOR: Doc. PaedDr. Marie Slavíková, CSc. ABSTRACT: Work deals with possibilities of the development first year pupils' singing skills at elementary school on the basis of applying motivation elements of singing activities and the development of the pupil's interest in singing activity during the first year at elementary school. After sketching of the development of opinions on a younger pupils' singing education the author characterizes younger pupil's specialities, deals with a human voice including the development of the child's voice. After defining essential musical terms and a characterization of singing skills deals with a motivation and its applying in a school and in a musical educational process. On the basis of the suggested educational model the largest part of work is devoted to a methodology and a research organization and first of all an evaluation and a presentation of results given questionnaires for pupils' parents, interviews with pupils, tests of musicology and singing skills, found out their voice volume and evaluation of pupils' taking part in singing and other musical activities. The research verified given hypothesis and...

TITLE:Family and School Socialization of Children with ADHD AUTHOR: Zuzana Bílková DEPARTMENT: Department of Psychology SUPERVISOR: Doc. PhDr. Isabella Pavelková, CSc. ABSTRACT: The thesis is focused on the process of socialization of children with ADHD in family and school setting. We present the overview of current research about etiologies, symptoms and therapy of the syndrome. The socialization is defined as the process of interactions between individual and his social and cultural background. ADHD symptoms are considered to be an important factor in socialization process, particularly as the factor affecting the relationships with parents and teachers. The research is focused on children of preschool and school age. We pose research questions concerning the influence of setting the diagnosis, the influence of ADHD on child's relationships with educators and the influence of the diagnosis on the relationship between family and school. Data were collected during interviews with parents and teachers of children with ADHD and during observation of children in their home or school. Data were analysed by qualitative analytic methods. Research outcomes point out the importance of educators' attitudes towards the problem, the importance of early setting a diagnosis and important role of motivational...

The main aim of this thesis is to look at school as a place where children learn values con-nected with civil society. It tries to answer the question "How can schools prepare their students for participation in civil society with regard to values". This answer will be an-swered by studying of literature focused on this issue and by a research at chosen elemen-tary school. Design of research is taken from study of Klaassen and Huwae (2006) which has been done recently at Netherland elementary schools. There is no study like that in the Czech Republic and this thesis should bring basic information about this issue.

TITLE: Peer Review of Vocational Education and Training Schools AUTHOR: Stanislav Michek DEPARTMENT: Department of Primary Education, Charles University in Prague SUPERVISOR: prof. PhDr. Karel Rýdl, CSc. ABSTRACT: The subject of the research of the thesis is the issue of external evaluation, particularly technical and vocational schools by partners at the same level (peer review). In the theoretical part is paid attention to concepts associated with the development of the school, the peer review is set in the context of other forms of external evaluation in education in general level and then describes the current state of the external evaluation of schools in the Czech Republic. For the empirical research was designed mixed methods design. When the research was, along with other research methods effected multiple case study - fed 4 specific stories of peer review in the Czech Republic. From the findings have been identified following supportive factors peer review: attitudes toward evaluation, condition, experience with evaluation, competency of the participants, of the interaction rated the school and peers and support peer review. At the end are suggested other possible ways of research and recommendations for educational policy. KEYWORDS: peer review, external evaluation, mixed methodology, school, teachers

The current thesis deals with proces od adaptation of headmasters in its working position. In the theoretical part is focused on the presentation of the school as a system, the specifics of education system and its management, the actual work of heads of schools and the process of adaptation of headmasters. In the practical part I focused on the beginning of the headmasters career, and the process of adaptation of the headmasters on the professional role. I was looking for phenomena that are typical start headmaster career, how they affect the process of adaptation but also the rest of the headmaster career. To obtain the necessary data, I chose a qualitative research, namely the form of interviews that I conducted with ten directors of elementary schools in Praha and in Kraj Vysočina. Keywords: school, primary school headteacher, adaptation, interview