This diploma thesis is especially pedagogical oriented, it is focused on matters of speech therapy. In theoretical part, there are described issues of intact speech development and language skills of children, and also early literacy and malfunction of communication skills of pre-school children. This work is comparing two types of pre-school education. One of them is classic pre-school, the second one is alternative Montessori pre-school. Empirical part was realized with MABEL test battery. MABEL is diagnostic battery for evaluation of early literacy and skills for development of early literacy. There were used tests of elision and isolation of phones, fast naming of colours and pictures, writing of easy words and phones composing. Research survey was placed in two pre-schools. Respondents were early aged children, who attend these schools. The main objective of this work was to find and compare early literacy of pre-school children. The results were compared to standards from diagnostic battery and they showed, that Montessori respondents got slightly higher score in comparison to children of classic pre-school. However, results are little bit disorted, because of low number of total respondents.

Title Centers for Pre- school Children - Descriptions of the Intentions of the Municipality of the Capital City Prague 2009 - 2010 Author Petra Martinovská Department The Department on Primary Education of Charles University of Prague Supervisor doc. PhDr. Eva Opravilová CSc. Abstract The thesis deals with a new form of pre- school education. Centers for pre- school children (further only CPD) have started their operation in the year 2009 - 2010 on the initiative of the founder of Prague's Houses for Children and Youth (further only DDM) the Municipality of the Capital City Prague (MHMP). There is described the intention of MHMP in the thesis, the creation of CPD and the first school year of its existence, the perspective and other possibilities of its development in the future. In the theoretical part of the thesis there are formulated areas that create the basis of the description and evaluation of the project from the pre-school education point of view where is the main source Framework Program of Education for Pre-school Education (further RVP PV). Through the SWOT analysis from the possible implementer point of view there are formulated opportunities and strengths, possible risks, weaknesses of the intention of the project itself, or critical moments. The practical part of the thesis deals with the...

Text in Afrikaans / The researcher is qualified as a pre-school teacher and experiences that pre-schoolers behave negatively at times. The researcher was exposed to playtherapy techniques in post-graduate studies . These techniques could be used by pre-school teachers to handle negative behavior. The question arises if pre-school teachers are already applying these techniques . This question is researched in this study by using research questionnaires . The study was done in and Tshwane. The dissertation consists of five chapters. In the first chapter the research proposal is discussed. The second chapter covers terms like play and playtherapy with reference to the pre-schooler . Chapter three looks at the pre-schooler, pre-school education and negative behavior. In chapter four the results of the research are presented and discussed. In the last chapter, chapter five, conclusions, recommendations, a general conclusion and a closing remark are made. / Social Work / M. Diac. (Play Theraphy)

Darbe atlikta teorinė tėvų pasitenkinimo logopedo teikiamomis paslaugomis bei pagalba vaikui ir šeimai ikimokykliniame amžiuje probleminių klausimų analizė Lietuvoje ir lyginimas su kitomis Europos šalimis. Tyrimo tikslas – įvertinti tėvų, auginančių ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikus, pasitenkinimą logopedine pagalba. Taikyti teoriniai (mokslinės literatūros ir dokumentų, antrinių dokumentų analizė), empiriniai (anketinė apklausa ir interviu) bei statistiniai metodai. Statistinėms tendencijoms nustatyti, taikyti aprašomosios statistikos metodai (absoliutiniai ir santykiniai dažniai). Anketinėje apklausoje dalyvavo198 tėvai, auginantys ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikus, kurie gauna logopedinę pagalbą ikimokyklinėse įstaigose. Interviu raštu dalyvavo 4 respondentai (N=4), siekiant išsiaiškinti nuomonių bei nuostatų į teikiamą pagalbą ir pasitenkinimą ja turiniui atskleisti. Svarbiausios empirinio tyrimo išvados: 1. Mokslinės literatūros bei dokumentų analizė rodo, kad Lietuva, orientuodamasi į Europos Sąjungos švietimo politiką, pereina nuo orientacijos į siaurą pagalbą vaikui, grindžiamą tradicine institucine logopedo pagalba vaikui ugdymo įstaigoje, prie sisteminio ugdymo modelio, kai pagalba teikiama ne tik vaikui, bet ir šeimoms, įtraukiant jas į vaiko ugdymą. 2. Tyrimo rezultatų analizė leidžia teigti, kad dauguma tėvų teigiamai vertina logopedinę pagalbą vaikui. Itin gerai vertinamas bendravimas su vaiku bei logopedo taikomi pagalbos būdai. Tyrime dalyvavę tėvai teigiamai... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The theoretical part of the research analyses the main focuses concerning parents' satisfaction with the services provided by speech therapists and support to their children as well as to the families in pre-school in Lithuania as well as in other European countries. The aim of the research is to assess the parents’ raising up pre-school children, who need speech therapy, satisfaction with speech therapy support. There were applied the theoretical analysis of literature and documents, secondary analysis of documents as well as empirical (questionnaire and interview), and statistical methods. Methods of descriptive statistics (absolute and relative frequencies) were applied for statistical analysis. The sample of research (questionnaire survey) consists of 198 parents with pre-school children, who receive speech therapy at pre-school, as well as 4 respondents who took part in an interview in order to ascertain the views and attitudes towards the given support and its contents. The main conclusions of the empirical part of the research: 1. The scientific literature and analysis of documents show that Lithuania, focusing on the European Union's education policy, shifts from a narrow orientation to the child‘s and the support to him/her, based on the traditional institutional assistance of a speech therapist to a child in educational institution, to a systemic educational model focused not only on a child but also on a families, involved into the child's education. 2. The... [to full text]

The study used Social Cultural Theory as an analytical framework to understand the professional preparation of kindergarten teachers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). A multi-method approach to data collection was adopted, involving a questionnaire, interviews and documentary analysis of both the pre-school curriculum in KSA and the programme content. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches were therefore employed to achieve the research objectives. The research methodology was based on the interpretive approach and included a case study. The participants were student-teachers studying on the four-year teacher training programme at one of the universities in KSA. Responses to four hundred and nineteen questionnaires completed by student-teachers across the four years of the programme were analysed, and a detailed case study involving 32 student-teachers was carried out. These student-teachers were interviewed three times each over three terms, with a focus on the nature of their knowledge and beliefs. The quantitative and qualitative data were analysed using SPSS to summarise the results of the closed questions in the questionnaire and to compare the differences between the student-teachers’ perspectives in each study year. All interviews were taped and transcribed. The data were coded and recoded several times using the continuous comparative process. When broad categories/themes emerged, these created sub-categories. Similarly, the data gained from the questionnaire’s open-ended questions were also analysed qualitatively. The findings focus on the results from the questionnaire for each study year, followed by a direct comparison of student-teachers’ knowledge and beliefs across the four years. The findings from the interviews with student-teachers are presented separately for each study year in order that the development of their knowledge and beliefs over the four-year programme can be seen. The findings revealed that student-teachers’ beliefs and their knowledge were closely linked. Although student-teachers’ knowledge developed as a result of their learning, some of their beliefs about Early Childhood Education (ECE) in general seemed to remain stable over the period of their university course. Many factors influenced the training of the student-teacher within Saudi culture and practices, such as the cultural context, the society, national policy, religion, module content, styles of teaching, visits to kindergarten, self-learning, and others’ knowledge/experience and support. These others included friends, other student-teachers, and relatives who were studying on the kindergarten programme or worked in the field of ECE. The findings showed that student-teachers built their teaching identities on the wider social-cultural purposes of education in Saudi society, which were consistent with expectations of their roles in society. However, various constraints related to the university context, to the kindergarten context and to the social-cultural context influenced their preparation as teachers. The study indicated many limitations to the current apprenticeship approach, due to the predominantly transmissive style of education at university. Student-teachers were not progressively immersed in a more fully developed apprenticeship model in which teachers learnt about the cultures and practices of ECE within the contexts of practice. This study strongly challenges a system where student-teachers only have one term of teaching practice. It is argued that teaching practice should start much earlier in the programme and be extended. A model for developing professional preparation programmes of Initial Teachers (IT) in the field of ECE is presented. Implications arising from this study and recommendations which could improve Teacher Education (TE) in KSA are outlined. Finally, suggestions for further research are presented.

The theoretical part has two main aims. The first one is to clarify terms related to multiculturalism using professional literature. The second very important aim is to introduce the Japanese culture, the evolution of Japanese family and the status of a child in society. Also there is the outlook on Japanese preschool education institutions. These information comes basically from the interview with the Japanese national, nevertheless some additional information comes from literature. The aim of the practical part is analysed the stay of seven Japanese children in the kindergarten in one class during approximately three years. Then it introduce integration program of Japanese children to typical Czech kindergarten which is based on practical experiences. Also the practical part describes the preschool attendance of the foreign children in one kindergarten during 10 years. The research has proved the attendance of the foreign children to other kindergarten in Prague parts Břevnov, Dejvice and Hanspaulka. As well the research presents teacher's experiences with multiculturalism and multicultural education.

The thesis deals with the issue of the movement activities of pre-school age children. Movement is built into the plane of an important aspect in the holistic development of the pre- school age child whose absence may endanger this development. In the theoretical part are defined terms of movement, basic motor skills and mapping their development with a focus on the specifics of pre-school age. Also the position of the movement activity is approaching in pre-school education. The practical section compares the results of motor test pre-school age children from selected kindergarten and evaluated in relation to their conditions.

Title Use of a literary text in a dramatic project Summary The work deals in its theoretical part with definition of dramaturgy; means, approaches and methodology of creative dramaturgy. What is more, it deals with possibility of using the literature (fairytale) in work with prep school children. The practical part deals with a project, which applies the fairytale text in dramaturgy in educational announcement of a prep school. It applies different dramatics, feelings and sense, pantomimic and other plays during February. The project is finally assessed with focus on affectivity of applied means, approaches and methodology of creative dramaturgy with respect to personality of the prep school children. Keywords Creative dramatist, literary text, pre-school age, drama, dramatization, pre- school education, nursery school.

Esta pesquisa tem como objetivos principais: discutir a noção que crianças de cinco anos desenvolvem, ao final da aplicação de um programa, sobre o que é Educação Física, contrastando-a com aquela originalmente apresentada pelo aluno no início da pesquisa; bem como investigar e discutir o envolvimento dos alunos nas atividades propostas pelo programa de Educação Física que serviu de base a este estudo. Uma turma, composta por vinte e cinco crianças de cinco anos, de uma escola da Rede Municipal de Educação Infantil de São Paulo, teve um total de 32 aulas de Educação Física, de 50 minutos cada, duas vezes por semana. Essa turma foi submetida a uma entrevista no início e no final do programa visando avaliar a noção que apresentavam sobre o que é educação física. A entrevista foi interpretada mediante a metodologia de análise de conteúdo (TRIVINOS, 1987). Os resultados evidenciaram mudanças significativas e positivas no grupo quanto ao conceito sobre o que é Educação Física. Metade da turma foi selecionada, aleatoriamente, para ser filmada em sete aulas do programa. Para análise das filmagens, utilizou-se a Escala de Envolvimento para crianças pequenas, desenvolvida por Ferre Leavers, que apresenta uma lista de oito sinais ou indicadores de envolvimento: 1) concentração; 2) energia; 3) complexidade e criatividade; 4) expressão facial e postura; 5) persistência; 6) tempo de reação; 7) expressões verbais; e 8) satisfação. A partir desses indicadores, foi medido o nível de envolvimento das crianças nas atividades, classificando-o em uma escala de 1 a 5, em que: a ) Nível 1: sem atividade; b) Nível 2: atividade interrompida freqüentemente; c) Nível 3: atividade mais ou menos contínua; d) Nível 4: atividade com momentos intensos; e) Nível 5: atividade intensa mantida. Com a escala foi verificado o nível de envolvimento das crianças nas atividades, além disso, constatou-se também que o instrumento utilizado pode ser uma importante ferramenta de apoio para o professor na investigação e na melhoria da prática pedagógica, pois permite analisar a adequação do ambiente preparado, a escolha dos materiais, a interação do professor com as crianças, a interação entre as crianças, entre outros / The main aims of this research are: to discuss the conception that five years old children have about what Physical Education is when a program about it is offered to them, and the way this conception changes after the program, as well as investigate and discuss the students´ involvement in activities proposed by the Physical Education program which is the base of this study. One of the groups, composed by 25 five years old children from a municipal São Paulo City puerile school, had 32 fifty minutes Physical Education classes twice a week. This group was interviewed at the beginning and at the end of the program and the aim of this interview was to evaluate the conception they previously had about what Physical Education is. The interview was interpreted in the light of content analysis methodology (TRIVINOS, 1987). The results highlighted positive and meaningful changes about the groups point of view about what Physical Education means to them. One half of the group was chosen, randomly, to be filmed during seven program classes. To analyze these classes, the Movement Scale for young children, proposed by Ferre Leavers, which presents a list of 8 involvement signs, was used. These 8 signs are: 1) concentration; 2) energy; 3) complexity and creativity; 4) facial expression and posture; 5) persistence; 6) reaction time; 7) oral expressions; and 8) satisfaction. These mentioned characteristics (signs) were used to point out these young childrens involvement level and, besides, were a very useful methodological tool for classifying, from 1 to 5, the childrens involvement level: a) Level 1: no activity; b) Level 2: frequently interrupted activity; c) Level 3: more or less continuous activity; d) Level 4: intensive movements activity; e) Level 5: continuous intensive activity. By using the Movement Scale, the childrens involvement level in the activities was checked. Moreover, it was evidenced that the used methodological tool can be an important support to the teacher who wants to investigate and get better pedagogical practices, because it allows a wide variety of ways to analyze whether the environment is appropriate or not, what kind of interaction does the teacher have with children, what kind of interaction do they have with each other, and so on

The aim of the diploma thesis is to analyze the manifestations in the lexical-semantic language level in pre-school children. The theoretical part has three chapters dealing with communication and communication process in general, phylogenetic and ontogenetic development of speech, linguistic levels, linguistic theories of language acquisition, methods for vocabulary diagnostics, methods of vocabulary development, pre-school education organization, program for pre-school education, its aims, educational areas of key competence and expected outcomes. The practical part of the diploma thesis is realized through qualitative research with quantitative elements. The research was conducted in a nursery school in two classes for pre- school children. In the framework of the survey, the active and passive vocabulary of children and the overall speech from the point of view of content were monitored.