Problems of Standalone Nursery School Managers in the Course of Their Professional Career

TITLE: Problems of Standalone Nursery School Managers in the Course of Their Professional Career AUTHOR: Hana Sedláková DEPARTMENT: Center of Educational Management SUPERVISOR: PhDr. Václav Trojan, Ph.D. ABSTRACT: The thesis deals with the problems which nursery school managers have to face within the course of their professional career and which have not been addressed in specialized literature. The foundation of the thesis is based on the results of the research of different stages in professional career of primary school managers in the Czech Republic which enabled to reveal the characteristic features. The theoretical part of the thesis is dedicated to the existing knowledge of the particular phases of professional career of school managers both in the Czech Republic as well as abroad. It also focuses on their needs and the difficulties they face; in the meantime it treats the issue of managers of independent legal subjects - nursery schools in the Czech Republic. It summarizes and evaluates their position within the Czech educational system bearing in mind the most important characteristics of nursery schools which may be the cause of specific problems occurring within the course of the career of their managers. The empirical part of the thesis is divided into three basic areas: internal, external and..