The development of professional competencies of children and in institutional care in the context of preparation for living their lives independently

Autor	Mgr. et Mgr. Věra Linhartová
Organisation	Masarykova univerzita, Pedagogická fakulta, Katedra speciální pedagogiky
Year	2015
Research type	Ph.D. thesis
Annotation	The present thesis deals with the development of professional competencies of children and adolescents in institutional care in the context of preparation for living their lives independently. The theoretical part of the thesis presents a comprehensive theoretical and empirical analysis of children and young adults placed in residential care facilities from the perspective of multiple disciplines (especially in the field of pedagogy, particularly special education - special education of children with behavioral disorders and social pedagogy, psychology, particularly the personality psychology, developmental and social psychology). It is divided into four thematic chapters based on both Czech and foreign sources. The empirical part of the thesis looks for points of contact between the offer of education, opportunities (offered in residential care) to develop key competencies for gaining career opportunities, and practical demands of employers in the labor market. e key competencies to enter the labor market were mapped. The research identified the following key topics: deficit and functional professional competencies, pitfalls in targeting related interventions, and a low efficiency of untargeted interventions. It also described the phases, principles, and supportive elements of the process of professional competencies intervention. In the second phase, a questionnaire was distributed to all educational institutions in the Czech Republic, in the school year 2014/2015 it is 28 facilities. Total set of quantitative part (questionnaire survey) of competences 134 respondents.
Keywords	children, institutional care, professional competencies, independent life, education
Research type	quantitative
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Obor	AM Pedagogy, education
Email	linhartova@ped.muni.cz
Availability	available in the NRVDM electronic library
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Organisation	Masarykova univerzita, Pedagogická fakulta, Katedra speciální pedagogiky
Possible connection	Children and Youth Ratio in population Number of children and young people Expected numbers of children and young people Number of children and young people in institutional and protective education facilities Pre-school education - number of schools, classes, children