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SENIORS IN THE EYES OF PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS IN THE CONTEXT OF RESEARCH

Sona Divilova

Abstract

Youth and old age are very important stages of human life, which are different but which should be perceived to be of equal value. The research conducted in the Czech Republic indicates that the largest intergenerational gap lies between the young generation and the older population. This gap has continuously been widening, especially in connection with the entirely different ways of life of these two generations. The Czech society has not yet desisted from various negative prejudices and claims concerning seniors. Such attitudes are formed as early as school age and are affected by all sorts of factors. The paper introduces the project entitled “Seniors In The Eyes Of Children”, which aims at the verification of the research tools by means of which the attitudes of pupils towards old age and seniors will be examined. The project is focused on the dissertation thesis pre-research, therefore it is primarily concerned with the verification of the research methods in the field, the evaluation of the pre-research results, and possible corrections of the research tools used so that the modified tools can be used to achieve the objectives of the dissertation thesis. The examination will take the form of quantitative research based on the semantic differential method. The respondents will consist of 6th-grade and 9th-grade pupils of elementary schools in the Olomouc Region.

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