Ze0123 Foreign Fieldwork - Europe

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2019
Extent and Intensity
0/0/3.6. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. PaedDr. Eduard Hofmann, CSc. (seminar tutor)
prof. RNDr. Jaromír Kolejka, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Bc. Darina Mísařová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. PhDr. Mgr. Hana Pokorná, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
RNDr. Hana Svobodová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Bc. Darina Mísařová, 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 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 course is conceived as a demonstration of fieldwork in model regions (macro-regions) of Europe. The goal of this course is to demonstrate the selected region of the Earth in its natural, economic and social context, and given its history and the current political situation. Students prepare in advance selected topics related to the visited region, so that together cover the entire spectrum of geographic issues. Students will understand the situation in the visited region can organize a similar event for their future students for the workplace. They can deal with people in a foreign language in the region with regard to its peculiarities.
Learning outcomes
After a course of instruction the student will be able to: - Define a model territory through geographic and cartographic methods. - Use the information in other geographic objects. - Use geographic synthesis in practice. - Interpret knowledge through analytical thinking. - Describe the spatial distribution of socio-economic activities in the model region in relation to the natural conditions of this region. - Demonstrate knowledge of the region through the final presentation. - Evaluate the formulation of expected outcomes in the Framework educational program and subsequent possible use in the classroom.
Syllabus
  • - Preparation of foreign field work - organizational principles, security, contents, route. - Development of support materials - finding, division of topics, processing and presentation. - The division of tasks during field work. - Implementation of a foreign field practice. - Drafting of individual reports from foreign experience. - Creating a joint presentation and its publication.
Literature
    required literature
  • Mapa makroregionu (regionu, státu) podle místa konání praxe.
  • Školní atlas světa. Praha: Kartografie, a.s., 2014. 176 s.
  • 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
  • KRÁL, Václav. Fyzická geografie Evropy. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1999, 348 s. ISBN 8020006842. info
  • KUNC, Josef, Václav TOUŠEK, Jiří VYSTOUPIL, Petr DANĚK, Pavel KLAPKA, Ondřej MULÍČEK, Daniel SEIDENGLANZ, Zdeněk SZCZYRBA, Michal VANČURA, Antonín VĚŽNÍK, Milan VITURKA and Petr TONEV. Ekonomická a sociální geografie (Economic and social geography). 1. vydání. Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, s.r.o., 2008, 411 pp. učebnice vysokých škol. ISBN 978-80-7380-114-4. info
    recommended literature
  • BINGHAM, Jane, Fiona CHANDLER and Sam TAPLIN. Ilustrovaná encyklopedie historie světa s internetovými odkazy : pravěk, starověk, středověk, novověk. Translated by Renáta Janů - Romana Neumanová - Kamila Šírová-Motyčková. 1. vyd. Havlíčkův Brod: Fragment, 2003, 414 s. ISBN 8072007793. info
  • Regions and regionalism in Europe. Edited by Michael Keating. Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar Pub., 2004, xv, 692. ISBN 1843761270. info
  • DE BLIJ, Harm Jan and Alexander B. MURPHY. Human geography : culture, society, and space. 6th ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999, xii, 508. ISBN 047135595X. info
Teaching methods
Lecture is gioing in blocks 1 per semester in the form of personal involvement in the international field practice for the coordination of activities of the responsible teacher. Students provide partial entrusted the organization, performance and educational tasks (incl. Presentations treated subjects). Credit is awarded based on the presentation topic and processed reports from practice.
Assessment methods
- Processing of Excersices. - Processing case study - field plan. - Active presentation of field plan.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 6 dní.
Teacher's information
Use in elementary school curriculum. The subject falls primarily into the educational field "Man and Nature", the educational field "Geography". The subject concerns expected outcomes of the thematic units a) Europe and the world, b) people around us, c) man in society, d) man state and economy, e) geographic information, data sources, cartography and topography and f) natural image of the Earth. Cross-curricular topics: environmental education, thinking education in European and global contexts. Cross-curricular links: history, natural history, civics
The course is also listed under the following terms autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2019, recent)
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