The work deals with personalities that are among the more significant in this field in our country. The aim of the research is to discover and to describe these individuals. Then to show, where and in which organization and association they work, from which position they are known, what have achieved education, what they propagate or hold. Will be presented their published posts and will be summarized their overall work.

This thesis deals with the personality and social development of the child, focusing on interpersonal relationships. The theoretical part describes the environment, methods, games and forms that are important in education. The practical part includes creative drama lessons that were created on the basic of theoretical knowledge. The project aims to strengthen personal and social development of children and identify changes in human relations school center, including questionnaires and observation. The thesis is to verify each part of the project in practice. The youth center, as facilities for children?s leisure time, the development of personality to social conditions and education to prepare the to implement the various project tasks.

Kirs, P. Leopold Auers legacy in his students , Prague 2014. Diploma thesis. Academy of performing arts in Prague. Music faculty The goal of this diploma thesis is to describe genesis of violin school in Petersburg, which is mainly connected with the name of Leopold Auer. I focus on his musical and pedagogical ideas. Subsequently I acquaint the readers with the most significant students of him and i want to clarify by analysis of their playing, why they became so successful.

Submitted thesis tries to grasp philosophically the phenomenon of sport. Attention is devoted to its historical roots, etymology, original meaning and early forms. Also, the relationship between traditional and modern sport is introduced. With respect to distant and recent past the author identifies two fundamental features of sport, which are game together with play and physical movement. Both features are elaborated in detail and captured philosophically. The focus of this thesis is put on sport with its formal aspects as well as on a sporting athlete. The author then presents a discussion regarding the definition of sport and his own position with respect to this topic. This text also deals with the role of sport in human life. The thesis offers reader an opportunity to become acquainted in detail with sport and its philosophical dimension.

Music is integral to our lives, whether by listening to it, singing, or playing an instrument. In addition to this, music has effect on brain development and language learning. The aim of this thesis is close evaluation of relation between the development of musical and foreign language skills in case of primary age students. Through conducting an examination of the ability to gain foreign language skills using different ways of teaching musical education. 5th grade students who participated were divided into 3 groups. They differed in intensity and approach to music education. The first group had one singing lesson per week. The other two groups had as part of their lessons singing and also playing instruments such as flute and Orff instruments, and had movement education as part of their lessons. These two groups differed in intensity - 1 and 3 lessons per week. To note most of the students that had higher intensity of music education focused to music also in their after school activities. The three groups had the same amount of English lessons in all grades. Students were tested via Cambridge test "Movers" in listening, reading and writing. Analysis of data emerged generally better results in English test in case of students experiencing extended musical education. KEYWORDS teaching music,...

The thesis deals with the theme of modern board games and the interactions of a small social group. The thesis is divided into two parts, theoretical and empirical. The theoretical part provides an introduction to the theory of play as such with a more detailed understanding of two play concepts. I also deal with the definition of board games and the differences between classical and modern board games. I devote more space to the modern board games with emphasis on three aspects, namely the social dimension of the play, the existence of the board as a meaningful game space and specific game material. The theory also includes the introduction of a method Interaction Process Analysis of F. Bales and a selected typology of group roles that are both used in the empirical part of the thesis. In the practical part is presented a research of qualitative methodology consisting of observation of three game groups during the part of a concrete modern board game (Dead of Winter). An audio record was taken from each observed game. The collected data was then encoded and processed according to the method of the Interaction Process Analysis and subjected to further analysis. The output of the work is mainly the characteristics of player interactions, the description of their group roles as well as the so-called...

The work deals with preschool age and the M. Montessori view of the education. The aim is to point out the contributio24n of montessori materials and their use in nursery schools. The theoretic part describes the historic evolution of preschool education, psychological and sociological development of a child of preschool age, game and alternative programmes. I focused mainly on the M. Montessori pedagogy and described it theoretically. The practical part contains comparison of three chosen schools: NS Vokovická Praha 6, Montessori class in NS Meteorologická Praha and Montessori class in Tábor. In all these schools the montessori pedagogy principals are being applied. In these schools they work, not only, with original montessori materials, but also with other materials, which fulfill certain standards and also with some that were made by teachers themselves. In NS Vokovická toys are also being used. Despite some differences all of the schools agree on the basic thought: they put the child in the first position just like M. Montessori used to do.

The aim of this diploma work is to create a set of games through which will be taught the basic of playing activities (passes and catches, shooting, dribblink, movement without a ball), to test whether it is better to practise basic playing activities by means of classical preparatory exercises or by means of games. We suppose that practicing these activities will get quicker, more precese and more attractive for pupils throughplaying games.

The thesis is searching for the possible connection between philosophy, theology and sports.

The topic of this work is "Playing in Heterogeneous Classes - Comparative Study on Kindergartens of Common versus Waldorf Type". The theoretical part deals with the definition of the pre-school aged children's need of playing, the development of playing, the need of a playing partner and the function of toys. Then it focuses on playing in the General Educational Plan for Pre-School Education, playing integration into the daily routine of a kindergarten and benefit of playing for a child and a teacher. It describes the specific features of a heterogeneous group of children and their relationship to playing. It also discusses the characteristics of a Waldorf kindergarten. In the end of the part the School Educational Plan of the studied schools is shown. The practical part of this work is based on monitoring children during their free playing time in the chosen kindergartens. The time daily devoted to free playing, the ways the teachers react to free playing and which types of playing are most common were the objectives of the research. The work then names toys recommended for a heterogeneous class by the teachers, toys chosen by children, how younger children are integrated into the older children's playing and vice versa. Then, by using a questionnaire, following data will be obtained from parents...