Specifics of first aid education at primary schools

Title: Specifics of first aid education at primary schools Summary This diploma thesis deals with issues of first aid education at primary schools. Motivation for working on this topic is described in the introductory part. Aims, which were set for this thesis, follow. The theoretical part pays attention firstly to educational documents and programmes which look into teaching and learning first aid at primary schools. It describes theoretical basis for first aid education in detail. This basis includes definition of the term first aid, differences between injuries and illnesses, emergency services, materials used for first aid, types of injuries (illnesses) and first aid related to them, bandage techniques and last but not least prevention. Didactic view of first aid education is a very important chapter of this part. It offers useful advice for creating an effective teaching and learning process both organizationally and methodically. It describes briefly important aspects of teaching and learning process such as aims, motivation, didactic principles, methods and forms of organization. The empirical part follows. Its aim is to give a detailed description and evaluation of a project of first aid education at ZŠ Ledeč nad Sázavou. It describes planning, progress of the spring and summer part and evaluation..