1. Injury prevention in pre-primary and primary education : an analysis of teachers' perspectives and expertiseBarbora Loudová Stralczynská, Kateřina Chroustová, Martin Bilék, Vlastimil Chytrý, Tereza Krčmářová, Jana Krátká, 2025, original scientific article Abstract: The article presents a study focused on the teaching staff and the impact of their occupational health and safety (OHS) teaching on pupils in pre-primary and primary education. A questionnaire survey was conducted among 227 teachers from eleven pre-primary and primary schools in Prague, Czech Republic in 2021. Pre-primary teachers rated themselves as more competent in OHS than teachers of primary education, although pre-primary children had a higher rate of injuries. More frequent OHS training did not affect teachers' self-assessment but reduced child injury rates, especially if such training was completed more than once a year.
Keywords: children’s injury prevention, injury incidence, occupational health and safety, preprimary school, primary school, teachers
Published in DKUM: 16.07.2025; Views: 0; Downloads: 5
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2. Forgotten nature? Experiences with and knowledge of nature among schoolchildren : a pilot study in central SwitzerlandJürgen Kühnis, Désirée Fahrni, 2021, original scientific article Abstract: This pilot study investigates the extent of familiarity among primary school children (6th grades, n = 142, 55,6 % boys) with common local animal and plant species and whether this knowledge differs depending on selected context variables. As the analysis shows, nature is of great importance, and most children already have gathered some basic experience of nature. On average, they correctly identified 51,2 % of the animals and 36,2 % of the plants, but there were obvious gaps in their knowledge. The present results showed a clear connection between the knowledge of native animal and plant species depending on the child's nationality, whether they have a garden at home and how their parents stimulate their interest in nature.
Keywords: species knowledge, primary school children, Central Switzerland
Published in DKUM: 27.06.2025; Views: 0; Downloads: 6
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3. Involvement in sports clubs and informal sport activities of primary and secondary school children in LiechtensteinJürgen Kühnis, Beat Wachter, Christian Frommelt, 2016, original scientific article Abstract: Sport involvement among children and adolescents has been a central field of research in sport science since years. This paper documents the participation of 11- to 15-year-olds in sport clubs and informal sport activities in Liechtenstein and examines possible gender- and age-specific differences. The analysis is based on four cross-sectional studies from 2004 to 2015 and includes the data of 1262 children in primary (5th grade) and secondary (7th and 9th grades) school. According to our findings sports and exercise are considered to be one of the main leisure-time activities for all school levels (irrespective of gender). The percentage of fully sport-abstinent adolescents by 11- and 13-year-olds is about 5 %; by 15-year-olds is around 10 %. The culmination of sports club membership (with current 84.7 %) appears to be at the age of 11 (5th grade). After the switch to secondary school the sports club commitment tends to decrease, while the high attendance of the informal sport activities (>85 %) shows relatively stable age development. In contrast to other child and youth studies, our data indicates a levelling tendency and dissolution of classic gender differences not only in sports club commitment but also in informal sports among girls and boys.
Keywords: sports club, leisure-time activities, school-aged children, Liechtenstein
Published in DKUM: 21.09.2017; Views: 1309; Downloads: 129
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4. LEARNING AND USING FOREIGN LANGUAGES AT A DIDACTIC FARMSimona Eder, 2015, undergraduate thesis Abstract: Learning and using foreign languages in a natural environment, in real-life situations at the didactic farm (at the Eder farm) is the theme of this diploma thesis. Nowadays primary schools are more and more aware of teaching different real-life skills outside the school’s own four walls. They do not expect their pupils to learn just for good grades, they want them to learn and prepare for possible situations in their future life.
The first part of the thesis presents the history of teaching and learning outside the classroom, defines the meaning of the term "didactic farm" and presents the Eder didactic farm, its history, ethnological collection, offers, target groups, possible types of visits and topics.
On the basis of four possible foreign language courses during the visits to the didactic farm the results, advantages and disadvantages of teaching foreign language at the didactic farm, responses of children, teachers’ opinions and possibilities of further developments are presented. The hypotheses have all been confirmed, with the remark, that the children have fewer difficulties coping with new ways of FL learning and using then teachers.
The primary aim of the thesis was to find possible improvements for the integration of didactic farms and schools in the local or wider school district. Another goal was to invite them to learn and use foreign languages at a didactic farm that provides appropriate offers, attractive and diverse themes and contributes to the greater prevalence of such foreign language learning in natural environment.
Keywords: Learning and using foreign languages, real life skills, didactic farm, kindergarten and school children, natural environment
Published in DKUM: 07.10.2015; Views: 1722; Downloads: 146
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