This dissertation was initiated to investigate the preprimary teacher's role in identifying and assisting learning disabled preprimars. The literature section consists of a study of the normal process of child development and the phenomenon of learning disability and its manifestation in preprimars. The philosophy of inclusion and a number of existing programmes for learners with learning disabilities were examined. The empirical research assessed the responses of preprimary teachers from the Eastern Cape to a questionnaire, their experiences in dealing with preprimars with learning disabilities in a typical preprimary group were analyzed and a summary of the findings was made. Recommendations have been given to teachers regarding the identification of learning disabilities in preprimars, the assistance and support needed to enable the teacher to assist the learning disabled preprimar and the need for additional training to equip her to do so. / Educational Studies / M. Ed. (Orthopedagogics)

The diploma thesis deals with the director's function in pre-primary education. The aim of the diplom thesis is to analyze and evaluate processes and management in the concept of preschool education, emphasizing the role of the headmaster of the kindergarten as the governing body responsible for the quality of educational processes. The preschool headmaster works closely with other pedagogical staff and deputy directors whose functions are also mentioned, here. The pedagogical staff are indispensable in the educational process of the school. The concept of pre-primary education is characterized in the theoretical part by its legislation. It focuses on the work activities of pedagogical staff - teachers, deputy director and director. It introduces the functions of the kindergarten, represents individual activities in kindergarten mode and mentions the obligatory documentation, which is necessary for the functioning of preschool organization. It explains the management within the studied field and describes the individual management processes and functions. The practical part is based primarily on the questionnaire survey and secondly on the conducted interviews with the directors of the public kindergartens in Prague 4. The results of the questionnaires analyze the defined areas within the framework...

OF THE THESIS Author: Bc. Anna Hrudková The diploma thesis deals with the topic The impact of changes in school legislation on management of pre-primary education. The theoretical part deals with the explanation and definition of concepts in the field of management, management of educational institutions (pre-primary education) and school legislation and its amendments. In the practical part, the work deals with the analysis of the collected data from the questionnaire, data were collected from the directors of nursery schools in the Central Bohemia organized by the municipalities. There is a correlation between changes in educational legislation and changes in the workload of nursery school directors and the functioning of these schools. The aim of my final thesis is to find out whether the current changes in school legislation (focusing on pre- primary education) have a significant impact on the management of kindergartens, how and in what areas the impact of these novelties was influenced. The conclusion of the diploma thesis is the evaluation of the collected data and the proposal of the institution dealing with the legislation of education. KEYWORDS Management, manager, organization, pre-school education, school principal, legislation.

This dissertation was initiated to investigate the preprimary teacher's role in identifying and assisting learning disabled preprimars. The literature section consists of a study of the normal process of child development and the phenomenon of learning disability and its manifestation in preprimars. The philosophy of inclusion and a number of existing programmes for learners with learning disabilities were examined. The empirical research assessed the responses of preprimary teachers from the Eastern Cape to a questionnaire, their experiences in dealing with preprimars with learning disabilities in a typical preprimary group were analyzed and a summary of the findings was made. Recommendations have been given to teachers regarding the identification of learning disabilities in preprimars, the assistance and support needed to enable the teacher to assist the learning disabled preprimar and the need for additional training to equip her to do so. / Educational Studies / M. Ed. (Orthopedagogics)

Doctor Educationis / The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between identity and differential academic performance in a cohort of preprimary teachers-in-training. The study draws on indepth interviews with, and detailed observations of, nineteen students and five of their lecturers at a college of education in Cape Town in the late 1990s. Through an analysis of the narratives of academic performance of these students, this work argues that students constructed narratives of academic performance framed by their expectations of what they considered possible for people of their particular identity. Thus as a consequence, students who shared common identities and social locations tended to share common narrative threads. This was most evident in the way in which three broad narrative perspectives emerged - framed by shared social locations of race, class, and gender, and common understandings of religion and cognitive ability. However, within each broad grouping .individual agency nuanced how each student interpreted his or her personal history and particular social locations through the discourses to which he or she had access. This work presents a. challenge to the dominant metaphor of reproduction in the field of educational studies. It is clear from analysis of the students' narratives that as active agents they were not unproblematically reproduced by the teacher college as classed, raced, and gendered subjects. Rather, they produced themselves within existing, and often potentially contradictory, material and discursive contexts. In explaining differential academic performance, this work examines the way in which narrative understandings introduce people into particular ways of life through their authorial voice and legitimating functions. More specifically, it explains how subjective narratives of academic performance introduce students into particular social actions that result in 'objective' differential academic performance as recorded on year-end mark schedules. However, in selecting narrative analysis as a conceptual framework for the work, it has been possible to motivate for an explanation that goes beyond an analysis of academic achievement and failure. In successive chapters evidence is marshaled to frame an argument that students' narratives shape their social action as agents of history, and are implicated in the distribution of privilege within society. The framing of the research question was premised on the assumption that a relationship exists between educational outcomes and access to life chances. While evidence is presented that signals how subjective narratives of academic performance are 'lived out' as 'objective' academic performance, a linear relationship between marks as academic performance and life chances is raised as problematic. It is argued that rather than merely shaping academic performance, narratives as theories of social reality frame all understandings of the social world including access to socio-economic privilege. It is these understandings that get 'lived out' in the choices that students make about their futures. A significant thread to the argument is the extent to which lecturers are implicated in the narrative understandings that students construct, and consequently in the unequal distribution of privilege in society. While seeking to explain academic performance, the study comes to the significant conclusion that narrative understandings, rather than academic performance, are implicated in the distribution of privilege in society.

Hierdie studie handel oor die Klasmusiekopleiding van die Junior Primereonderwysstudent. Studente wat vir Junior Primere opleiding aan onderwyskolleges registreer, is verplig om opleiding in Klasmusiek vir een van die vier studiejare te deurloop. Navorsingsbevindinge toon egter dat die opleiding nie die gewenste resultate in die praktyk fewer nie. Om probleme en tekortkominge voortspruitend uit die opleiding te identifiseer is 'n literatuurstudie aan die hand van die volgende aspekte gedoen: (1) 'n Besinning oor die struktuur van die kurrikulum en formulering van kurrikulumkriteria vir die samestelling van 'n sillabus. (2) ldentifisering van die struktuur van musiek en van Klasmusiek. (3) Eksemplariese analise van sillabusse vir die Klasmusiekopleiding van die student ten einde bevindings en aanbevelings wat as riglyne vir herkurrikuleringsaksies in die toekoms mag dien, te formuleer. / This study deals with the education of student teachers for Class Music in the Junior Primary phase. Students who enroll for a Junior Primary Course at Colleges of Education have to follow a compulsory course of at least one year in Class Music during their four year training. Research has indicated however that the training of these students does not bring about the desired results in practice. To identify problems and shortcomings stemming from the training in Class Music, a literature study was undertaken in which the following aspects were dealt with: (1) Consideration of the structure of the curriculum and the formulation of curriculum criteria for the compilation of a syllabus. (2) Identification of the structure of music and Class Music. (3) Analysis of examples of syllabuses for the training of students in Class Music to formulate findings and recommendations to serve as guidelines for curriculum review and restructing in future. / Educational Studies / M. Ed. (Didactics)

Hierdie studie handel oor die Klasmusiekopleiding van die Junior Primereonderwysstudent. Studente wat vir Junior Primere opleiding aan onderwyskolleges registreer, is verplig om opleiding in Klasmusiek vir een van die vier studiejare te deurloop. Navorsingsbevindinge toon egter dat die opleiding nie die gewenste resultate in die praktyk fewer nie. Om probleme en tekortkominge voortspruitend uit die opleiding te identifiseer is 'n literatuurstudie aan die hand van die volgende aspekte gedoen: (1) 'n Besinning oor die struktuur van die kurrikulum en formulering van kurrikulumkriteria vir die samestelling van 'n sillabus. (2) ldentifisering van die struktuur van musiek en van Klasmusiek. (3) Eksemplariese analise van sillabusse vir die Klasmusiekopleiding van die student ten einde bevindings en aanbevelings wat as riglyne vir herkurrikuleringsaksies in die toekoms mag dien, te formuleer. / This study deals with the education of student teachers for Class Music in the Junior Primary phase. Students who enroll for a Junior Primary Course at Colleges of Education have to follow a compulsory course of at least one year in Class Music during their four year training. Research has indicated however that the training of these students does not bring about the desired results in practice. To identify problems and shortcomings stemming from the training in Class Music, a literature study was undertaken in which the following aspects were dealt with: (1) Consideration of the structure of the curriculum and the formulation of curriculum criteria for the compilation of a syllabus. (2) Identification of the structure of music and Class Music. (3) Analysis of examples of syllabuses for the training of students in Class Music to formulate findings and recommendations to serve as guidelines for curriculum review and restructing in future. / Educational Studies / M. Ed. (Didactics)

The thesis deals with non-financial remuneration of teachers in pre-primary education . The introductory part is devoted to a general definition of basic concepts, the theory of human resources and remuneration. The next section is characterized by financial and non-financial forms of remuneration . There are specified the different types of rewards . The final section analyzes the choice of the most efficient and preferred forms of non-financial reward teaching staff of pre-primary education . It compares the views and preferences of headmasters and teachers.

The thesis deals with non-financial remuneration of teachers in pre-primary education . The introductory part is devoted to a general definition of basic concepts, the theory of human resources and remuneration. The next section is characterized by financial and non-financial forms of remuneration . There are specified the different types of rewards . The final section analyzes the choice of the most efficient and preferred forms of non-financial reward teaching staff of pre-primary education . It compares the views and preferences of headmasters and teachers. KEYWORDS Human resources, human resources work, human resources management, human resources activities, remuneration, direkt financial and nonfinancial compensation, preprimary education

The aim of my thesis is the remuneration of teaching staff in pre-primary education. Remuneration is a part of personnel activities in the organization, so in the introduction of the theoretical part I deal with the general definition of basic terms relating to human resources and personnel work in organizations and here I outline the development and changes in human resources. In the next part of the theory I devote myself mainly to the most important personnel activity, which is remuneration. In addition to describing the basic concepts, the individual forms of remuneration are characterized in detail, both financial and non-financial. In my diploma thesis I deal with them more specifically at the level of pre-primary education and I also describe here the personal activities of the headmistress in kindergarten. The final part deals with the research, whose aim was to map the situation in the area of remuneration and subsequent satisfaction with remuneration, financial and non-financial. The survey was conducted in the form of questionnaires for teaching staff and interviews with two headmistress of kindergartens. Based on the results of selected questionnaire questions, I suggested recommendations for remuneration practice in pre-primary education. The importance of the thesis is to extend...