For the fifth year running, personal and social education (PSE) has been a part of primary school curriculum in the Czech Republic. This study examines how this cross-curricular subject is dealt with in six different primary schools. The theoretical part describes the history of PSE, its objectives, methods of implementation, principles, its position in primary school curriculum and its relationship to other cross-curricular subjects. The research part contains a study of the school curriculum of six primary schools from the point-of-view of PSE, an analysis of questionaires for observer of educational units working with PSE objectives and an analysis of self-examining questionaires for the teachers of these units.

O objetivo desse estudo foi avaliar a implementação da Odontologia para Pacientes com Necessidades Especiais como especialidade odontológica e sua projeção institucional na região metropolitana de São Paulo, no que diz respeito à formação de profissionais e provisão de serviços nessa área. Espera-se com a descrição e análise dos serviços avaliados, contribuir para o desenvolvimento de rotinas de atendimento aos pacientes com necessidades especiais, por parte de entidades e profissionais, bem como incentivar instituições formadoras a incrementar a oferta de recursos didáticos e motivar as entidades que não disponibilizam essa atividade aos seus educandos que o façam. Foram analisados três ambientes, nos quais o paciente com necessidades especiais pode receber atendimento odontológico e estudantes e profissionais formados podem receber educação odontológica na especialidade doze faculdades de Odontologia, três cursos de especialização e três centros de atendimento especializados. Em função da amplitude temática e institucional envolvida, propôs-se o seguinte recorte: pacientes com paralisia cerebral (representando o grupo de pacientes com deficiências neurológicas ou psicomotoras), pacientes com aids (representando o grupo de pacientes com doenças infecto-contagiosas) e pacientes com diabetes (representando o grupo de pacientes com doenças crônicas). Por meio de entrevistas semi-estruturadas, professores, gestores e cirurgiões-dentistas foram convidados a fornecer informações sobre as estruturas de suas unidades e o modelo educacional proposto a seus orientandos. Concluiu-se que a Odontologia para Pacientes com Necessidades Especiais é uma realidade no contexto urbano pesquisado. As instituições estudadas proporcionam serviços relevantes aos pacientes com necessidades especiais, porém o sistema educacional nessa área emergente da Odontologia ainda não supre as necessidades odontológicas desses pacientes, e as faculdades não contemplam adequadamente a formação de seus alunos com uma visão holística desses pacientes, deixando a desejar no cumprimento de sua obrigação social de integração e inclusão dos pacientes com necessidades especiais. Propugna-se que a Odontologia para Pacientes com Necessidades Especiais deva ser inserida nas grades curriculares das faculdades de Odontologia como uma disciplina essencial na formação técnica e humanística do futuro cirurgião-dentista. / The aim of this study was to evaluate the implementation of Special Care Dentistry as dental specialty and its institutionalization in the metropolitan region of Sao Paulo, as regards professional training and the provision of services in this area. It is hoped that the description and analysis of evaluated services, contribute to improve the provision of services aimed at these patients by institutions and professionals, as well as encouraging educational institutions to increase the supply of teaching resources and motivate entities that do not offer this activity to their students to do so. We analyzed three environments in which the patient with special needs can receive dental care and dental students and professionals can receive dental education in the specialty - twelve dental schools, three courses of specialization and three specialized centers for dental services. In accordance with the scope and institutional themes involved, we selected patients with cerebral palsy (representing the broad group of patients with neurological or psychomotor deficits), AIDS patients (representing the broad group of infectious diseases) and patients with diabetes (representing the broad group of chronic diseases). Managers, teachers and dentists were asked to provide information about the structures of its units and the educational model proposed to their students by answering to semi-structured interviews. We concluded that the Special Care Dentistry is a reality in the urban setting researched. The institutions studied provide relevant services to patients with special needs, but the educational system in this emerging area of dentistry does not meet the needs of dental patients, and colleges do not address adequately the education of its students with a holistic view of these patients, and do not fulfill their social obligation to integrate and include patients with special needs. We advocate that the Special Care Dentistry must be included in the curricula of dental schools as an essential discipline in the humanities and technical training of future dentists.

Zdeňka Meira da Rocha: Interdisciplinary connection of Art and Media Education. ICT as a support tool in Art Education. Abstract This PhD thesis reflects the requirements for changes in education related to the current needs of digitization of all areas of society. On the structure of newly required skills the emphasis is put on the ability to work with information and digital technologies, the development of critical thinking, creativity and the capability to solve problems. The presented PhD thesis considers above mentioned issue from the position of visual and media studies which penetrate into education through the educational field of Art education and the cross-curricular topic of media education. Its aim is to map the intersections of art and Media education on a theoretical and curricular level and to examine the conditions of their interconnection in educational practice. The main means of fulfilling this goal: (1) study of curricular documents (2) qualitative- quantitative questionnaire survey of the current situation in practice, (3) qualitative method of action research which aimed to map appropriate ways (strategies, forms and methods) Art education at upper secondary schools. The research findings are supplemented by interviews with upper secondary school teachers who connect Art and Media...