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This bachelor work is focused on the institutional care of pre-school children. The theoretical part describes the basic aspects of orphanage accommodation and the history and development of protective institutional care. It also highlights the causes and processes of "taking the child away" from his biological family and later, his placement in an orphanage. The theoretical part also emphasizes the positive changes currently taking place in the Czech institutional care system. In the practical part of the work a detailed case study is presented of the Zvíkovské Podhradí orphanage. Here, characteristics are described of the pre-school children currently living in this institution.

The focus of the presented bachelor thesis is the position of preparatory classes in the Czech system of education. The thesis also tries to answer whether the aim of the existing preparatory classes is in accordance with their legislative anchoring in the Education Act. The work primarily focuses on preparatory classes in the view of their organizational incorporation into the system of education of the Czech Republic with respect to meeting the objectives and outcomes of education. It offers an outline of historical development of preparatory classes in the Czech Republic and a survey of foreign systems of education, all this with the intention of comparing what measures are taken in different countries to prepare children for compulsory education. The main objective of the work is to offer insight into existing preparatory classes and into their role in the Czech system of education. This is based on a survey among stakeholders responsible for the form of these preparatory classes - school administration, establisher of the school, parents of pre-school children attending these classes. The findings of the survey clearly show that the existing preparatory classes do not meet their original legislative purpose. However, they are meaningful as they represent a choice for children with deferred...

The thesis presents the Bernstein's Deficit Theory of Language. In the first part, it deals with the introduction of the social determinants of the education by defining so-called linguistic codes. The following chapters address the question on how the present findings affect the process of education and the question of making the school education available to lower social strata. The last chapter presents the critique of this theory including its validation in the Czech Republic.