Monitoring the status ecology education at selected high schools of the Czech Republic.

The aim of this thesis was to monitor the ecology education at high schools of the Czech Republic and to compare them with modern knowledge and overall concept of ecology as a scientific discipline. The survey shows that the majority of high schools teach biological ecology (93.87%) with average 12 hours during the whole school attendance. Materials for lessons are drawn from textbooks, most of which is used Biologie pro gymnázia (Jelinek and Zicháček, 2007). Less than half of the teachers used to obtain information from internet and popular science journals. The textbooks used in high schools generally focus on the standard ecology. Only a small extent occur (or even completely absent) today highly topical issues such as evolutionary ecology, community dynamics or biodiversity and the factors affecting it