Ze2RC_TGK6 Teoretical Geography

Faculty of Education
Spring 2014
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Ing. Libor Lněnička, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Ing. Libor Lněnička, Ph.D.
Department of Geography – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Kateřina Brabcová
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Faculty of Education
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 Tuition: The general acquaintance with theoretical geography as developing and systematizing framework of recognition of spatial aspects of comlex developmental relationship of natural, demographical and social sphere. The consesecutive survey of the development of geographical paradigmas and importance of theirs interdisciplinar reverberation by scientific and social practice. The possibilities of application to professional and educational work with the link to second subject of student's approbation and with the concrete direction at the theme of his (hers) diploma work.
Syllabus
  • The Fundamental Themes of Seminars:
  • 1) Theoretical geography as scientific, its importance and probléms
  • 2) Philosiphical bases of geography
  • 3) Metageography, the development of conceptions of geography and its inner structure
  • 4) Paradigmas and methodological problems of geography
  • 5) System theory in geography
  • 6) Ssynergetics
  • 7) Theoretical problems of component geographies
  • 8) Theoretical problems of regional geography
  • 9) Interidisciplinar chracter of geography and its partial disciplines in theory, social practise and education
  • 10) General problems of the didactics of geography in the contemporary school system
  • 11) General principles of the writing of professional geographical works with special regard to diploma works
  • 12) Selected applications to concrete themes of diploma works.
Literature
  • DEMEK, Jaromír. Teoretická geografie. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1984, 221 s. info
  • MEČIAR, Jozef. Teoretická geografie ve školách? Biologie, chemie, zeměpis. Praha: SPN, 2001, vol. 10, No 5, p. 241-243, 4 pp. ISSN 1210-3349. info
  • DEMEK, Jaromír. Teoretická geografie : principy a problémy. Brno: Geografický ústav ČSAV, 1974, 77 s. info
Teaching methods
The course will be taught by teaching block in the range min. 8 hours + homework theoretical foundations in the range of 20 hours.
Assessment methods
1 individual semester paper and his presentation in seminar. Examitation - oral examination.
Language of instruction
Czech
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: 4 hodiny konzultací.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013.
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