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Lecturer(s)
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Veselá Petra, Mgr. Dr. rer. nat.
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Kneifl Roman, Mgr.
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Course content
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Content of lectures: 1. Timeless and innovative principles of teaching and learning geography. Strategies useful to support critical and creative thinking skills. 2. Teaching scientific methods of problem solving: analogue modelling of natural processes. 3. Teaching scientific methods of problem solving: experiments in classroom. 4. Illustrative methods in teaching geography and cooperative learning. 5. Project-based learning as an activating form of geographical education. Engaging students and teacher-colleagues in globally or locally meaningful school-projects. 6. Fieldwork skills and outdoor training in geography. 7. A place where we live ? methods for engaging lessons on local area's geography. 8. Demographic transition in its historical context. 9. Structural changes in global economy in 20th and 21th century. 10. Changes of political map of the world since 1945. 11. Core regions of the world ? definition and structure. 12. BRICS ? potential and specifics of emerging economies. 13. Peripheries of the world, their recent economic development. 14. Regional geography of the Czech Republic. Content of seminar: 1. Inspiring educational projects in geography from around the world. 2. Analogue modelling of geodynamic processes in the classroom. 3. Earth science experiments and activities in the classroom. 4. Illustration techniques in teaching (transferring of knowledge to practice and vice versa). 5. Cooperative and problem-based learning projects. 6. Fieldwork methods. 7. Fieldwork projects. 8. Project ?Island? ? a way to define basic terms. 9. Economics of the world ? impact on the environment of the planet Earth. 10. Polarization of the world, the role of the UN in the process of self-determination of countries. 11. Core regions of the world ? their transformation, global importance, and influence. 12. BRICS economies ? common features and different position in the world. 13. Peripheries ? use of ?Dollar Street?. 14. The Czech Republic ? applications in project-based learning.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The objective of the course is to prepare graduates with Bachelor degrees in Geography for teaching professions. Students should learn to use their theoretical and empirical geographical knowledge and to teach it effectivelly. At the same time they should learn to implement the knowledge gained by contemporary science into the curriculum of given level of schools.
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Prerequisites
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Bachelor?s degree in Geography is required.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Participation in lectures and seminars, processing of practical project on given topic and its presentation in an oral exam.
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Recommended literature
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Bičík, I., Janský, B. Příroda a lidé Země. NČGS.
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Bičík, I. Makroregiony světa. NČGS, 2019.
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Jeanette L.Drake et al. New Trends in Earth-Science Outreach and Engagement. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazard Research. Springer 2014.
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Kestler, F. Einführung in die Didaktik des Geographieunterrichts. Klinkhardt, 2014.
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Pomůcky:. Česko - školní atlas. Kartografie Praha, 2022.
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Pomůcky:. Školní atlas světa, Kartografie Praha, 2022.
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Schallhorn, E. Fachmethodik: Erdkunde-Methodik: Handbuch für die Sekundarstufe I und II. Cornelsen, 2007.
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