This thesis focuses on the topic of Global development education using the pedagogical approach of Philosophy for children. The main objective is to develop its own proposal of educational materials. Which will deal with the possibilities of using this theme to the first grade of primary school. The theoretical part is divided into two parts, the first is characterized by Global development education and the second the Philosophy for children. In the practical part we are shown three draft their own learning activities, which are fully capable of being put into teaching practice of geography at 1st level of basic education, especially for 4th and 5th grade.

This thesis focuses on the topic of Global development education using the pedagogical approach of methodology of project teaching. In the practical part we are shown three own learning activities, which are fully capable of being put into teaching practise of geography at 1st level of basic education, especially for 4th and 5th grade.

Diploma thesis delivers a global education methodology for schoolchildren, designed for teachers and including materials for students. Suggestions are based on theoretical knowledge centred on the comparison of education systems in developed and developing countries, focusing on the Czech Republic and Namibia respectively. The theoretical part of the thesis is the process of developing the concept of global education via a Czech concept known by the acronym GRV. The thesis further develops the theoretical basis of the GRV concept by establishing criteria using suitable GRV material. It also considers the current state of GRV in context of primary education in Czech schools and opportunities for more effective implementation in the Czech educational system.

This qualitative study focuses on the investigation of different actor’s ideas concerning gender and womanhood in a post-socialist nation Bosnia and Herzegovina. The aim of this study is to try to provide experiences and attitudes of one not a new, but definitely one constantly changing phenomenon, trafficking in women for sexual exploitation. The qualitative data is mainly collected through nine interviews with people from Bosnian Governments, International organizations and NGOs during my stay in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The causes to trafficking are complex and intertwined but it directly relates to gender discrimination and attitudes on sexual relationships between women and men. The study sheds light on how the global politics and economics development situation and theirs affectsprovide gender segregation through the traditionally structures where men are seen as normative.

The European Union (EU) is the world’s leading development donor, playing a pivotal role in shaping development norms. This paper aims to investigate the extent to which the EU has been effective in its external aid actorness towards global poverty eradication during the post-Cotonou negotiation period (2000-2020). The theoretical framework of Sjöstedt’s (1977) Actorness Theory  is constructed upon the premises of Social Constructivism. To operationalize “actorness”, Brattberg and Rhinard’s (2012) criteria of context, coherence, consistency, and  capability are utilized. The research triangulates the methods of Discourse Historical Analysis and Thematic Content Analysis to assess the EU’s nom-setting policy discourse. The analysis suggests that the Union scores highly in the context and capability criteria, as it is recognized as a legitimate development actor and possesses mechanisms to reach aid agreements, while lacks  coherence  and  consistency  due to inadequate policy implementation and commitment to McKee et al.’s (2020) Aid Quality Index. The thesis concludes that the EU’s aid effectiveness has decreased due to its actorness being increasingly linked to foreign policy considerations in response to emerging challenges in development cooperation. The research underlines the significance of analysing the empirical linkage between EU’s actorness and effectiveness for the field of International Relations.

In the last two decades, there has been a significant rise in women’s rights Non-Govermental Organizations (NGOs) in Nepal, working on issues ranging from economic and political empowerment to violence against women and discrimination. Most of these local NGOs rely on international funding to pursue their advocacy and project work. This brings up questions of power imbalance regarding decision-making and agenda setting in their relations with donor International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) as the latter wield substantial financial control. Academic and practice-based research on power dynamics between donor INGOs in the Global North and recipient NGOs in the Global South has mainly focused on the benefits of NGO involvement in the development sector. Drawing on postcolonial, transnational feminist theories, this study uses a critical perspective to identify and explore possible power imbalances and explores the following key issues: Funding sustainability, accountability, collaboration, and cooperation between local and international women’s rights NGOs, and finally, local ownership. The inquiry builds upon empirical data from in-dept interviews with local and international women’s rights NGOs working in Kathmandu and the limited available secondarysources on the situation in Nepal. The findings point to clear power asymmetries, with local NGOs having to conform to Western standards in project design, implementation, reporting and monitoring, leaving limited space for flexibility or considering the situation on the ground. Nonetheless, this study also concludes that NGOs are not under the complete influence of their international donors, as suggested by some literature, but rather use the available space to maneuver and push their cause. Finally, based on the insights of this research and considering new initiatives that attempt to transcend the current donor-recipient power dynamics, this study identifies a handful of potential principles to guide more equitable relations between women’s rights NGOs and donors.

Evaluating the social impacts of engineered products, or effects products have on the daily lives of individuals, is critical to ensuring that products are having positive impacts while avoiding negative impacts and to learning how to improve product designs for a more positive social impact. One approach to quantifying a product's social impact is to use social impact indicators that combine user data in a meaningful way to give insight into the current social condition of an individual or population. However, determining social impact indicators relative to engineered products and individuals in developing countries can be difficult when there is a large geographical distance between the users of a product and those designing them and since many conventional methods of user data collection require direct human interaction with or observation of users of a product. This means user data may only be collected at a single instance in time and infrequently due to the large human resources and cost associated with obtaining them. Alternatively, internet-connected, remote data collection devices paired with deep learning models can provide an effective way to use in-situ sensors to collect data required to calculate social impact indicators remotely, continuously, and less expensively than other methods. This research has identified key principles that can enable researchers, designers, and practitioners to avoid pitfalls and challenges that could be encountered at various stages of the process of using remote sensor devices and deep learning to evaluate social impact indicators of products in developing countries. Chapter 2 introduces a framework that outlines how low-fidelity user data often obtainable using remote sensors or digital technology can be collected and correlated with high-fidelity, infrequently collected user data to enable continuous, remote monitoring of engineered products using deep learning. An example application of this framework demonstrates how it can be used to collect data for calculating several social impact indicators related to water hand pumps in Uganda during a 4 day study. Chapter 3 builds on the framework established in Chapter 2 to provide principles for enabling insights when engaging in long-term deployment of using in-situ sensors and deep learning to monitor the social impact indicators of products in developing countries. These principles were identified while using this approach to monitor the social impact indicators of a water hand pump in Uganda over a 5 month data collection period. Chapter 4 provides principles for successfully developing remote data collection devices used to collect user data for determining social impact indicators. A design tool called the "Social Impact Sensor Canvas" is provided to guide device development along with a discussion of the key decisions, critical questions, common options, and considerations that should be addressed during each stage of device development to increase the likelihood of success. Lastly, Chapter 5 discusses the conclusions made possible through this research along with proposed future work.

Esta Tese tem como objeto de estudo a criança cega congênita com problemas na constituição da subjetividade e do desenvolvimento e sua inclusão educacional e escolar. É composta por um estudo de caso de um menino cego, no período em que ele se encontrava com cinco e seis anos de idade, com o objetivo de conhecer as especificidades dessa criança no modo como se instauraram os graves problemas de desenvolvimento, identificando singularidades e condições nas quais ela manifesta possibilidades de tornar-se sujeito e desenvolver-se, viabilizando também a inferência em relação a outras crianças cegas que mostram problemas semelhantes, sem compará-las à criança vidente. Além desse estudo apresentamos o levantamento de dados de outros dois casos para corroborar a análise e reflexões do primeiro. Estudar essa problemática, com o foco no âmbito educacional, poderá colaborar com os educadores na criação de condições necessárias à efetiva participação dessas crianças no contexto escolar. As referências teóricas que apóiam este trabalho estão pautadas em conceitos fundamentais da Psicanálise que abrem perspectivas para pensar essa criança, tais como as noções de corpo para além do dado orgânico na implicação da constituição de sujeito e a noção de olhar constituinte do sujeito, capaz de ver a criança além da deficiência. A abordagem da Psicanálise com a Educação, as especificidades da Educação Especial com foco na deficiência visual e os debates acerca dos paradigmas que atravessaram a Educação Especial até a Educação Inclusiva também deram suporte teórico à questão estudada. Os procedimentos metodológicos adotados foram a observação participativa da criança em atividades em uma instituição especializada e a entrevista com a mãe. Para análise dos dados foi adotado o método de Análise de Discurso em três níveis, a saber: 1) das condutas, falas, emoções, expressões corporais e modos próprios da criança; 2) do discurso de sua mãe; e 3) da inter-relação dos elementos significativos do discurso da mãe e das manifestações da criança. Os dados obtidos nesta pesquisa confirmam que a cegueira não é fator determinante nos desvios e comprometimentos no desenvolvimento, apesar de ter valor fundante na estruturação psíquica. A criança que nasce cega tem plenas condições de constituir-se sujeito, bem como de desenvolver-se. Mas ela poderá ter seu caminho impedido dependendo de como seus pais se sentirem afetados em sua fantasmática acerca da cegueira. São as dificuldades na interação mãe-bebê que poderão causar problemas para essa criança se desenvolver. Sua cegueira pode ser um limite ao desenvolvimento e à constituição, mas não a causa de possíveis desvios. É a preocupação com a inclusão educacional e escolar que dá sentido a este mergulho junto à mãe e à criança que estudamos para compreender o conflito referente à deficiência que se instala na família, o qual se estende a toda sociedade, da qual a escola é uma parte fundamental. / This thesis concerns a congenital blind child with problems in his subjective constitution and development. It is a case study of a blind boy between five and six years old. It has the objective of studing the specific characteristics of this child and how he develops his severe problems of development, identifying singularities and conditions that he manifests. This research permits comparison with other blind children with similar problems, without comparing them with sighted children. In addition, we discuss the data of two other cases, to confirm the analysis and reflection about the first one. This study, in educational perspective, can aid teachers create the necessary conditions to the effect participation of these children in the school ambient. The theoretician references that support this research are based on the fundamental concepts of Psychoanalysis that open perspectives to think about this child, notions of the body, (not only the organic body) the subjective constitutions, the recognition of the subject beyond of the deficit. This research is supported by Psychoanalysis and the Education approach, the specific characteristics of Special Education that refers specially to the blind and the debates of the paradigm that crossed the Special Education until the Inclusive Education supports this research. The methodological procedure adopted were the participative observation of the activity of the child in the specialized institution and an interview with the mother. The data analysis used the analysis of discourse in three levels: 1) the attitude, the speech, the emotions, the body expression and the particular ways of the child be in the world; 2) the discourse of the mother; and 3) the interaction between the meaningful elements of the mother\'s speech and the manifestations of the child. The obtained data of these research confirms that the blindness is not a determinative factor on the problems of development, but it has a structural value on the psychic structure. The child that born blind has all the conditions to be a subject and to develop; however the child\'s development can be difficult, depending upon how the parents feel affected about blindness. But she can find difficult in her development depending how the parents be afected about the blindness. Difficultties in the relationship between mother and child may cause problems for the development of the child. Blindness can be a limit on development, but not the cause of the problems. It´s the concern about the child entering the school and social environment that explains our motivation of this study - the relationship of mother and child to understand the conflict about the handicap inside the family, that can be extend to all society, and to school, which is an important part of the life of the child.

Esta Tese tem como objeto de estudo a criança cega congênita com problemas na constituição da subjetividade e do desenvolvimento e sua inclusão educacional e escolar. É composta por um estudo de caso de um menino cego, no período em que ele se encontrava com cinco e seis anos de idade, com o objetivo de conhecer as especificidades dessa criança no modo como se instauraram os graves problemas de desenvolvimento, identificando singularidades e condições nas quais ela manifesta possibilidades de tornar-se sujeito e desenvolver-se, viabilizando também a inferência em relação a outras crianças cegas que mostram problemas semelhantes, sem compará-las à criança vidente. Além desse estudo apresentamos o levantamento de dados de outros dois casos para corroborar a análise e reflexões do primeiro. Estudar essa problemática, com o foco no âmbito educacional, poderá colaborar com os educadores na criação de condições necessárias à efetiva participação dessas crianças no contexto escolar. As referências teóricas que apóiam este trabalho estão pautadas em conceitos fundamentais da Psicanálise que abrem perspectivas para pensar essa criança, tais como as noções de corpo para além do dado orgânico na implicação da constituição de sujeito e a noção de olhar constituinte do sujeito, capaz de ver a criança além da deficiência. A abordagem da Psicanálise com a Educação, as especificidades da Educação Especial com foco na deficiência visual e os debates acerca dos paradigmas que atravessaram a Educação Especial até a Educação Inclusiva também deram suporte teórico à questão estudada. Os procedimentos metodológicos adotados foram a observação participativa da criança em atividades em uma instituição especializada e a entrevista com a mãe. Para análise dos dados foi adotado o método de Análise de Discurso em três níveis, a saber: 1) das condutas, falas, emoções, expressões corporais e modos próprios da criança; 2) do discurso de sua mãe; e 3) da inter-relação dos elementos significativos do discurso da mãe e das manifestações da criança. Os dados obtidos nesta pesquisa confirmam que a cegueira não é fator determinante nos desvios e comprometimentos no desenvolvimento, apesar de ter valor fundante na estruturação psíquica. A criança que nasce cega tem plenas condições de constituir-se sujeito, bem como de desenvolver-se. Mas ela poderá ter seu caminho impedido dependendo de como seus pais se sentirem afetados em sua fantasmática acerca da cegueira. São as dificuldades na interação mãe-bebê que poderão causar problemas para essa criança se desenvolver. Sua cegueira pode ser um limite ao desenvolvimento e à constituição, mas não a causa de possíveis desvios. É a preocupação com a inclusão educacional e escolar que dá sentido a este mergulho junto à mãe e à criança que estudamos para compreender o conflito referente à deficiência que se instala na família, o qual se estende a toda sociedade, da qual a escola é uma parte fundamental. / This thesis concerns a congenital blind child with problems in his subjective constitution and development. It is a case study of a blind boy between five and six years old. It has the objective of studing the specific characteristics of this child and how he develops his severe problems of development, identifying singularities and conditions that he manifests. This research permits comparison with other blind children with similar problems, without comparing them with sighted children. In addition, we discuss the data of two other cases, to confirm the analysis and reflection about the first one. This study, in educational perspective, can aid teachers create the necessary conditions to the effect participation of these children in the school ambient. The theoretician references that support this research are based on the fundamental concepts of Psychoanalysis that open perspectives to think about this child, notions of the body, (not only the organic body) the subjective constitutions, the recognition of the subject beyond of the deficit. This research is supported by Psychoanalysis and the Education approach, the specific characteristics of Special Education that refers specially to the blind and the debates of the paradigm that crossed the Special Education until the Inclusive Education supports this research. The methodological procedure adopted were the participative observation of the activity of the child in the specialized institution and an interview with the mother. The data analysis used the analysis of discourse in three levels: 1) the attitude, the speech, the emotions, the body expression and the particular ways of the child be in the world; 2) the discourse of the mother; and 3) the interaction between the meaningful elements of the mother\'s speech and the manifestations of the child. The obtained data of these research confirms that the blindness is not a determinative factor on the problems of development, but it has a structural value on the psychic structure. The child that born blind has all the conditions to be a subject and to develop; however the child\'s development can be difficult, depending upon how the parents feel affected about blindness. But she can find difficult in her development depending how the parents be afected about the blindness. Difficultties in the relationship between mother and child may cause problems for the development of the child. Blindness can be a limit on development, but not the cause of the problems. It´s the concern about the child entering the school and social environment that explains our motivation of this study - the relationship of mother and child to understand the conflict about the handicap inside the family, that can be extend to all society, and to school, which is an important part of the life of the child.

The master thesis deals with the issue of the Global Development Education. It is focused closer on the description of the implementation methods of this topic into the Czech education system. Global Development Education is not mentioned directly in the Framework Education Programmes of the Czech Republic. Nevertheless the Framework Education Programmes contain it. Global Development Education goes across the Cross-curricular Topics. However that could be the reason why the schools don't pay to it as much attention as it deserves. This thesis describes the ways of implementation of the Global Development Education into the Czech education system and into the teaching in the Czech schools. This work is divided into two parts. The first part is theoretical and it tries to briefly outline the theoretical background, beginnings of the Global Development Education in the Czech surroundings, curriculum and strategic documents that deals with the issue of the Global Development Education. In the first part there are also mentioned the possibilities how to integrate this topic into the school education programs and into the teaching as well. The second part of this work is based on the empirical research among five Czech schools. It is built on the qualitative analysis of the school education programs...