Thrown into reality: Beginning teachers'expectations confronted with professional practice (radio documentary)

This practical bachelor's thesis, which includes a 16-minute radio documentary titled Thrown into Reality, deals with the study preparation and professional beginnings of graduates in teaching disciplines and their original expectations compared to the reality of pedagogical practice. Given the ambiguity of the radio documentary genre, which oscillates on the border of journalistic and artistic style, one of the goals of this theoretical part of the work is to provide insight into this genre in comparison with other journalistic genres, which are very close to its definition and characteristics (feature, band, reportage). The primary way of obtaining information for this document - a dialogue or interview - is also shortly described. One of the subchapters presents several examples of contemporary Czech radio documentaries. In the second part, the topic of radio document itself is introduced, namely the most common issues of beginning teachers and the introduction of recent graduates to their first job position, followed by author's reflection of the work. The radio documentary consists of authentic testimonies of beginning teachers and statements of other relevant respondents connected by the entries of the moderator. The aim of this entire thesis is to provide the listener with the life..