Thematic research group: GEEN
Thesis title: Reading landscape by Czech high school students
Funding: Self
Begun: October 2017
E-mail: tomas.mekota@natur.cuni.cz
tel: +420 603 941 232
Qualifications:
2015-2017 Mgr. in Teaching Geography and Mathematics, Charles University, Faculty of Science
2012-2015 Bc. in Teaching Geography and Mathematics, Charles University, Faculty of Science
Research:
My research focuses on reading landscape skills. I am interested in the current state, strategies, and development of the reading landscape geographically by high school students. I am going to use eye-tracking to find useful strategies of reading landscape and to identify problematic parts of the process. It should give some recommendations to geography teachers to concentrate on specific problems that students have when reading landscapes.
Publications:
Article: MĚKOTA, T., MARADA, M. (2020): The Influence of the Nearpod application on learning social geography in a grammar school in Czechia. Education and Information Technologies, online.
Teaching:
- Praktické aspekty výuky zeměpisu (since 2019)
- Supervisor of the bachelor’s thesis: Michaela Urbanová: Reading Landscape by Elementary School Pupils (2019)