The purpose of this study is to examine some after-school teachers’ perceptions about the outdoor stay at the after-school care centre in the schoolyard and in the leisure- environment. Five semi-structured interviews were conducted with the after-school teachers at five after-school care centres in the Stockholm area. In the theoretical part presents the leisure- governance and ongoing research on outdoor learning, research on the school playground and kindergarten local environment affects children in their development and learning, and after-school teachers’ professional identity. The theoretical foundation is based on the phenomenographic approach. The questions are: • What is outdoor education according to the after-school teachers? • According to after-school teachers, what educational opportunities are provided by the schoolyard and the local environment? • How do the after-school teachers use the schoolyard and local environment? The result shows that outdoor education can be a knowledge invigorating complement to the indoor teaching and a way for the after-school centre to supplement the compulsory schoolday. The play outdoors can help to increase children's social development, creativity and imagination. The after-school teachers used the schoolyard and local environment for various purposes which may be due to different circumstances, knowledge and experience to carry out educational activities outdoors. But it may also depend on whether the after-school teacher focuses on the regular school day or in the afternoon at the after-school care centre. / Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka några fritidspedagogers uppfattningar om fritidshemmets utomhusvistelse på skolgården och i närmiljön. Studien avgränsas till fem fritidshem i Stockholmregionen.  Denna studie utgår från tre frågeställningar. Dessa är:  • Vad är utomhuspedagogik enligt fritidspedagogerna? • Vilka förutsättningar ger skolgården och närmiljön enligt fritidspedagogerna? • Hur använder fritidspedagogerna skolgården och närmiljön? I det teoretiska avsnittet redogörs för fritidshemmets styrformer och aktuell forskning som berör utomhuspedagogik, forskning, hur skolgården och fritidshemmet närmiljö påverkar barnens utveckling, lärande samt fritidspedagogens yrkesidentitet. Den teoretiska grunden utgår från den fenomenografiska ansatsen. Resultatet visar att utomhuspedagogik kan vara ett kunskapsstärkande komplement till inomhusundervisningen och ett sätt för fritidshemmet att komplettera skolan. Leken utomhus kan bidra till att öka barnens sociala utveckling, kreativitet och fantasi. Fritidspedagogerna använde skolgården och närmiljön för olika ändamål som kan bero på olika förutsättningar, kunskaper och erfarenheter av att utföra pedagogisk verksamhet utomhus. Men det kan även bero på om fritidspedagogen lägger fokus på den ordinarie skoldagen eller på eftermiddagarna på fritidshemmet.

Abstract This dissertation is aimed at exploring the utilization of select works by children's book author Markéta Zinnerová in literary education. The selected texts all feature a child protagonist in a difficult life situation with regards to their immediate or wider family circle. The vantage point was primarily the ouvre of M. Zinnerová, particularly the titles Indiáni z Větrova ('The Indians from Větrov'), Tajemství proutěného košíku ('The Secret of the Woven Basket'), and Kde padají hvězdy ('Where Stars Fall'). The dissertation is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part contains first a description of the general characteristics of narrative prose from the life of children with an emphasis on the issues of personal and social education. Furthermore, it focuses in detail on the utilisation of prose in literary education in primary schools, the methodology and different types of literary analysis and the insertion of all these activities into the relevant curriculum. The practical part deals with concrete classical and activising methods of application with regards to select texts from M. Zinnerová's works. The aim of the dissertation was to create work sheets based on excerpts from the prose of this author and to test them in practice in the environment of an after-school care centre where primary school children were to engage with them. This part of the dissertation describes said work sheets as well as the procedural methodology and the reasoning behind their creation. The work sheets were used when working with 3rd -grade school children in an after-school care centre. The ways in which they cooperated with us and were captivated by the texts, as well as the precise way in which the activities involved in working with the proposed sheets proceeded are described in the following chapter of the practical part. The concluding reflection upon the utilisation of the work sheets proposes certain possible corrections, expansions or other possible uses of these work sheets.