Position of a pupil within the clasroom on elementary school

The focus of the thesis is in the relations among children in a classroom. It examines the position of a child in the social group of a classroom on elementary school. The theoretical part of the thesis describes, according to literature, a school classroom and pupils from the psychological and sociological point of view. It engages in psychological development and socialization of child of this age, the school as a social institution and other factors of influence on relationships among the children and last but not least, it introduces cathegories of the position of a pupil in a group. Further point of the theoretical part of the thesis is also an inquiry into a classroom as whole and into a particular pupil. The last topic of the theoretical part is intervention and its methods. A practical part follows. Its aim is to find the social positions of individuals in a particular classroom and the relations the children have there. In the period of one year, I was watching pupil's behaviour in two particular classrooms - third and fourth year - of an elementary school in Barrandov in Prague. For the research I used the method of observation. For achieving the objectives of the thesis I used a sociometrical test. The results of the research are elaborated in table charts and graphs. The information found shows..