Syllabus
Lectures:
1. Educational psychology, main aims and approaches
2. Personality of students and pupils, developmental processes
3. Assesment of students
4. Contemporary aproaches to education
5. Student coping strategies, psychosocial stress
6. Learning, senzorimotor learning
7. Clasroom climate, psychological approaches
8. Sport psychology, movement and psyche
9. Psychological analysis of sport activity
10. Cognitive function in sports
11. Personality, development in the sport context
12. Emotion, motivation, volition in the sport context
13. Social interaction, social facilitation, social groups in sport
14. Agression in sport context, sport spectators, doping Semináře:
1. Methodology of psychology
2. Cognitive strategies in sport (interview, qualitative research)
3. Competitive anxiety (observation, questionnaire methods)
4. Classroom as a social group, sport team (sociometry)
5. Imagination - development of training schedule (experiment)
6. Attention, attention assessment(psychofyziological measurement)
7. Health psychology, well-being
Annotation
The course focuses on an application of psychological knowledge to educational practice, providing future educators with basic knowledge and skills related to effective educational and psychological interventions. The course also provides students with knowledge about psychological aspects of movement and explains the role of psychology in motor skills development.
It also focuses on a positive experience of physical activity as a background for life-long physical activity participation.