The thesis aims on complex description of environmental features of ZŠ Hostýnská school ground and evaluating its using for teaching biology. In theoretic part the importance of school grounds for educating is introduced, history of school gardens and current state of their using is described. Next part is focused on current using of school ground and description of its environment. Floristic investigation made by author in 2014-2015 is included. In frequent visits author found and determinated 117 species of vascular plants, which is a sign of relatively high biodiversity. Finally using of school ground is compared with school book and key competences. Plans and suggestions for future improvements are given. Five work sheets with methodic suggestions are included.

This final thesis deals with the issue of social skills development of secondary school students in the Economics. The theoretical foundations of this work is to define the term of social skills and is explained his importance to the society. A substantial part of the theory is also devoted to the social skills in connection with the Framework educational program. Within the empirical part, an analysis of the FEP for BA is performed, through which the state of the method concentrated on the social skills of students is determined. Furthermore, through a questionnaire survey, the current state of acquired social skills of selected students from the first years on BA is investigated and their view on this issue. This work is also focusing on whether teachers in the Economics produce sufficient appropriate environment that would allow students to develop their social skills. The final goal is to suggest specific games and activities that allow students to improve these skills in the Economics.

This thesis deals with analysis of the Framework Educational Program for Elementary Education (FEP EE) and finding means to meet the objectives of FEP EE in art education which leads to a concept of seventh grade curriculum. Thesis also reflects the author's personal approach to the formulation of the contents of the curriculum. The theoretical part focuses on examining the FEP EE and finding means to meet objectives in the form of curriculum concept for the seventh grade. The findings of the theoretical part is complemented by comparison of curricular documents for art subjects of Czech Republic and Great Britain. The empirical part describes the procedures for defining the curriculum concept. It includes transmission analysis of the FEP EE objectives to the content of the curriculum, which is based primarily on teaching practice. Analysis is followed by personal perception of the FEP EE requirements in the form of teaching aimed at the creating process and by description of the analyzing process of author`s teaching in connection with the FEP EE concept exploration at selected elementary schools. The didactic part concludes the research process with application of findings in implementation and evaluation of two thematic wholes in art education The output of exploring practical experience and...

This thesis deals with Method Persona Dolls, which evolves children's approach and values, it is pre-eminently focused on empathy development, creativity, self-confidence, positive evaluation of others and forms of pro-social behaviour. The theoretical part is focused on the description of curriculum reforms and characteristic of curriculum documents in general, particularly on Framework Educational Programme for Basic Education. The theoretical part further deals with this method from the point of view of theoretical principles, methods of its use and contribution, but from the point of drawback as well, which can occur when using this method. The method is also analysed from the point of view of curriculum documents as a possible tool for key competencies development. In addition, it is concerned about emotional intelligence and grade-schoolers emotional development, values and emotion description. Furthermore, the concept of value-based education of Cyril Mooney will be concerned as next item. Both methods are compared and I search for possible linkage between Method Persona Dolls and strategies used in value education. The action research will form the research part of the thesis, in which the empathy development and communicative competence of pupils using the Persona Dolls Method is...

Title: Reading as an Instrument for Education of Critical Reading at Lower Secondary School Level Author: Renata Bromová Department: Department of English language and ELT Methodology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University Supervisor: Prof., PhDr. Bohuslav Mánek, CSc. Abstract This thesis deals with the topic of reading as an instrument of critical reading; which enables training of critical reading within teaching English as a part of lower secondary education. Critical reading is consired to be an important part of general education due to the fact that critical reading and thinking as the highest form of work with information gathered from written texts are included in school curriculum and they work as key competences. Research of the thesis maps experience of teachers as well as students with critical reading within English language education and consequently verifies efficiency of systematic work with foreign language text as the means of critical reading. The research is divided into two parts. The quantitative part submits implementation rate of critical reading methods in the English lessons and the qualitative part introduces methodical materials prepared for practical realisation of critical reading practice including mentoring and evaluation of this methodical material. Data collection of both...

Ethic education This diploma work deals with newly implemented school subject "Ethic education" at the school system in the Czech Republic. "Ethic education" has been defined as a project, where main topic is to develop pro-social behaviour. This diploma work specifies elementary educational aims of this project and analyses its particular educational components: contain, methods, style, topics. It also deals with the process of implementation into the Czech school system, in what social context has ethic education has been developing, how it is embodied into Framework Education Programme documents and how psychology as a science looks at moral development of a human being. Author looks at the ethic education through prism of universal principles and outcomes, such as Christian ethics and natural moral law.

I Sverige har utvecklingen gått från faktabaserad miljöundervisning till undervisning om hållbar utveckling som inte bara ska behandla fakta, utan även värderingar, känslor och de utmaningar som världen står inför. Komplexiteten i att undervisa om hållbar utveckling i kombination med att lärare förväntas inkludera det i sina undervisningsämnen sätter stor press på lärarna, inte minst för att många saknar eller tror att de saknar kunskap om hållbar utveckling och hur man kan undervisa om det. Detta bidrar till att lärare undervisar om hållbar utveckling i mindre grad än vad som förväntas från bland annat de globala målen och läroplanen. Med det som grund har den här studien syftat till att försöka minska glappet genom att ta fram ett övningsmaterial som kan användas ämnesövergripande på gymnasiet. Viktiga didaktiska aspekter och kunskapsaspekter togs fram från intervjuer med verksamma gymnasielärare respektive forskare inom polymerteknik. Från intervjuerna med lärarna framkom det att eleverna ska ges möjlighet att diskutera, se olika perspektiv, att undervisningen behandlar ämnen som eleverna kan relatera till. Det mest centrala som framkom i intervjuerna med forskarna var de konflikter som finns kring plast, som hur avfallshantering ska skötas, fördelning av markanvändning och hur ansvaret för nedskräpningen ska fördelas. Detta tillsammans med didaktisk forskning och aktuellvetenskap om plast blev resultatet tre stycken övningar med intressekonflikter som ett genomgående tema där eleverna ges möjlighet att utveckla flera viktiga kompetenser som behövs för att uppnå de globala målen. / In Sweden, the development has gone from a fact-based environmental education to teachingon sustainable development that will not only deal with facts, but also values, feelings and the challenges facing the world. The complexity of teaching about sustainable development combined with what teachers are expected to include in their subjects puts great pressure on them, because many lack or believe they lack knowledge about sustainable development and how to teach about it. This contributes to teachers teaching about sustainable development to a lesser extent than expected from the global goals and curriculum. With that as a basis, this study aims to reduce that gap by developing an education material that can be used across subjects in high school. Important didactic aspects and knowledge aspects derived from interviews with active high school teachers and researchers in polymer technology. From the interviews with the teachers, it emerged that the students should be given the opportunity to discuss, see different perspectives, and that the teachers should include areas that the students care about and can relate to. The most central that emerged in the interviews with the researchers were the conflicts that revolves around plastic, such as how waste management is to be handled, distribution of land use and how responsibility for littering should be distributed. This, together with didactic research and current science onplastic, resulted in three exercises with conflicts of interest as a pervasive theme where students are given the opportunity to develop several important skills needed to achieve theglobal goals.

The thesis devotes to innovative approaches at the elementary school level and is focused on an education method designed to counter prejudice Persona Dolls. The thesis describes theoretical foundations of the above mentioned method and its contribution to the developmentof students'key competences focused on the communicative competence.The theoretical part of the thesis futher discusses the possible uses of the method Persona Dolls in achieving education goals according to the Framework curriculum, especially focusing on cross-sectional topics. The research part is devoted to investigation of teachers'experience with this method. The author finds out how often and in what ways a particular teacher involves the method of Persona Dolls in his teaching. Primarily, the research investigates the rate of interconnection between the content of cross-sectional topics and topics of this method lessons with relation to ways of planning Persona Dolls lesson by individual teachers. A partial research objective is to evaluate the development of students'communicative competence while using Persona Dolls method. KEYWORDS: Innovation, method Persona Dolls, Framework curriculum for elementary education, key competences, student, deliberate work with prejudice

There is an urgent need to have leaders who are able to strategically transition society towards sustainability. Evidence shows that challenges are mounting up and become increasingly complex. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) aims to educate leaders to become competent to lead within the sustainability challenge we are facing. This thesis explores how leadership education can prepare teachers to become leaders to enable Strategic Sustainable Development (SSD). Based on interviews with ESD experts, the research team identified eight key competencies for leaders to enable Strategic Sustainable Development and eight pedagogical approaches to train such competencies. In addition to that, the research team analyzed how the case study organization Teach for Austria (TFA) integrates the identified key competencies and pedagogical approaches. Recommendations are provided indicating TFA’s opportunities regarding a more thorough integration of the key competencies and pedagogical approaches into their leadership education. These recommendations were then made relevant to the broader leadership education context to prepare teachers to lead. The main outcomes of this thesis intend to serve as a guidance to enable leadership the world needs.

This diploma thesis deals with the Persona Dolls method, which consciously works with prejudices. The theoretical part is focused on the mapping of the changes in the current education that has been practiced in Czech education since 1989. The curriculum documents, which regulate education, have been developed. The second chapter concerns the area of values for which school can be the stimulating environment in which they can evolve. The central part of the theoretical part is the chapter dealing with the Persona Dolls method. It focuses on the theoretical starting points of the method, the goals, the method of working with the method, presents the conditions for realization, then the pitfalls that can prevent the effectiveness of working with the method. The last chapters of the theoretical part are devoted to linking the Persona Dolls and Framework Educational Programs, especially in the area of key competencies. It then deals with the context of the method and values of society. The research part of this diploma thesis is verified by the qualitative action research according to the Korthagen cycle ALACT, whether the method is suitably treated in practice and if the principles of working with the doll are fulfilled, whether the key competencies, attitudes and values are being developed. It also...