Ze0118 Field Practice in Social Geography

Faculty of Education
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/2.6. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jozef Lopuch (seminar tutor)
RNDr. Hana Svobodová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
RNDr. Hana Svobodová, Ph.D.
Department of Geography – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Kateřina Brabcová
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Faculty of Education
Prerequisites
Preconditions are represented by good knowledge from individual socio- and economic-geographical sciences.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to acquire practical skills necessary for the application of socio- and economic-geographical topics in everyday life and to transform them into teaching at school. The prerequisite for this is the use of traditional geographical methods of fieldwork.
Learning outcomes
After the course the student will be able to:
- analyze and evaluate current problems of social and economic development,
- implement of the results of field research into teaching at a elementary school.
Syllabus
  • Students work individually on specific case problem from social and economic geography, which includes analysis of the territory and the subsequent synthesis and presentation of the results. Within the output processing using conventional methods such as geographic research. Questionnaire survey, controlled interviews with selected representatives in the visited area, suggest possible improvements and measures suitable for the development of the locality or region. Students can pre-prepare relevant documents for a specified topics related to the visited location / region, so that together cover the entire spectrum of socio-geographic issues.
Literature
    not specified
  • HOFMANN, Eduard, Pavel KORVAS and Petr POLÁČEK. Multimediální učebnice pro terénní výuku (Multimedial textbook for fieldwork). Brno: Pedagogická fakulta, Masarykova univerzita, Brno, 2008, 23 pp. info
Teaching methods
Fieldwork, individual work.
Assessment methods
Submission and defense of the thesis according to the criteria specified at the introductory seminar (the topic of the practice varies each year).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 4 dny.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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