This thesis deals with the issue of geography curriculum for the secondary vocational education program (SSI) and a proposal for its changes derived from the findings. The valid curriculum has not been updated for 15 years, so it is not surprising to find that it is outdated and, in some parts, inappropriate, especially from the perspective of learning goals, development of competences, abilities and skills, as well as in the learning content. In the Proposal for the renewal of the curriculum, we thus removed all the parts that we consider inappropriate, and the entire curriculum was structurally renovated and upgraded. The removed components were later replaced with new content. Furthermore, in the school environment, we conducted several lessons in the school environment designed according to the proposal for the renewal of the curriculum and, with help of a survey, compared it with lessons with the same learning topic, which we conducted according to the valid curriculum. The results of the survey showed that students performed much better in the presentation of factual knowledge from the lesson derived from the valid curriculum. On the other hand, the students who were present at the lesson conducted according to the Proposal for the renewal of the knowledge catalog demonstrated a wider conceptual, procedural and metacognitive knowledge.
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