Diploma assignment is focused on movement activitites preferences of pedagogical fakulty students on South Bohemia University in České Budějovice, subject first grade teaching on primery schools. Research was carried out on a group of chosen university students from the 1st. {--} 5th. year, aged 19 {--} 25, in period October {--} November 2006. PA questionnaires were used for answers. In theoretical part of assignment is worked with movement activities, its influence on health and place in everyday life of contemporary humans. Research part shows records of the study by tables and charts. Students are devided into several groups (eg. men, women) for comparing. Result summary and comparison are mentioned in discusion and conclusion part.

The purpose of this study is to visualize and understand the teachers' perceptions of the concepts of movement activities and health in the preschool. This study will also include the parents’ point of view and expectations. The questions of the study are: How do the teachers perceive the concepts of movement and health from the curriculum? How are the concepts used in the preschool? How do the teachers complement the parents when it comes to their children's movement activities? The study was conducted by four interviews with teachers working in a preschool south of Stockholm. A survey was also handed out to the parents in order to collect data. For the results and analysis, a phenomenografics approach was used to find variations in the data. The results show that there are variations in teachers’ perceptions about how they work according to the curriculum. The teachers find that they can influence their work and that there is big potential in working with movement activities. A potential obstacle for this is lack of time, lack of staff or that the group is too big. The teachers gave examples of the goals from the curriculum, but far from everyone knew all of them. The survey from the parents show that most of them where satisfied with the work in the preschool regarding movement activities. The result also show that the most active families wanted more challenging activities in the preschool and the less active parents wanted their children to spend more time outdoors regardless of the weather.

The purpose of this study is to map preschool teachers' views and knowledge about children's movement activities in preschool and to apply it to the paper's aim from the perspective of preschool teachers. The questions that form the basis of the study is based on pre-school movement activities and how the pre-school teacher's activities are applied. The study has used relevant literature from previous research. A qualitative survey method in the form of interviews was used to unify the empiricism. The qualitative method was implemented at three different preschools in Skåne with six (6) preschool teachers. The results of the study showed that the educators work with different movement activities that differ in their views, working methods and purpose. At the same time, educators work with planned and spontaneous movement activities in the indoor/outdoor environment. The preschool's location and layout affect the educator’s possibilities to carry out different activities. Finally, the educators' education, interest, knowledge and their views on the curriculum influence the work with children’s movements.

Movement and motor development for children is a current issue. Research shows that children are becoming more sedentary in front of the television, computer, iPad, etc. The purpose of my thesis is to study how pedagogues work with movement and motor development in the preschool yard. In my attempt to investigate this, a qualitative research in the form of face-to-face interviews was performed. Qualitative interviews is the chosen method for my research to provide as extensive and detailed answers as possible. Six preschool teachers (both with and without pedagogic education) from three different preschools participated in the research. The results show that none of the teachers worked with planned movement activities to support the development of children’s physical development. However, they all felt that movement and motor development are important for the children and that a lot of movement and motor training are already performed naturally in the outdoor stay. / Rörelse och motorisk utveckling hos barn är idag ett mycket aktuellt ämne. Forskning visar att barn nu för tiden blir alltmer stillasittande framför bland annat tv, dator, Ipad. Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur pedagoger arbetar med rörelse och motorisk utveckling på förskolegården. För att undersöka detta gjordes en kvalitativ undersökning i form av kvalitativa intervjuer. Totalt intervjuades sex pedagoger (både barnskötare och förskollärare) från tre olika förskolor. Resultatet visar att ingen av pedagogerna har arbetat med planerade rörelseaktiviteter för att främja barns motoriska utveckling. Däremot ansåg de intervjuade pedagogerna att rörelse och motorisk utveckling är viktigt för barnen och att det till stor del sker naturligt i utomhusvistelsen.

The diploma thesis deals with the issue of movement of pre-school children in free play in kindergarten. The main goal was find whitch conditions are in chosen kindergarten in free play and by experiment find that modify conditions intensify movement but keep safety in kindergarten. The thesis is divided to theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part describes the characteristic of pre-school child, the need and importance of movement at this age, the definition and types of games and finally the problém of free-play conditions in kindergarten. For the practical part ithree methods were chosen. These include observing morning free play in four kindegartens, questionnaire for teachers from these kindergartens and experimentally checkiing the availability of three aids with one group od children in free play. The results of the diploma thesis show that the free movement of children in normal kindergarten according to the teachers complicates mainly the size of classroom spaces and the number of children in the classroom. Unfortunately during my observation in 75 % of cases children were not allowed to spontaneously move in classroom. Observation and results of questionnaire showed that the division of the class for rest activities and movement is desirable but this is not a common practice....

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BOYS AND GIRLS IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES AT PRESCHOOL AGE Abstract This thesis deals with the gender analysis of physical activity of boys and girls at preschool age who are attending kindergarten in Prague 4. The aim is to explore whether the physical activity of boys and girls can be load by gender in preschool age. For collection of the data has been used a questionnaire survey. This thesis in the theoretical level deals with the issues of gender, movement and motor activity with focus to the preschool age and preschool education in the Czech Republic. In the practical part it looks into relationship of preschool children towards to physical activity and compares them by gender, it also examines whether the views of parents are loaded by gender stereotypes and verifies the family influence on the movement of children. Keywords: Gender, physical activity, preschool child, boy, girl, kindergarten, movement, family, gender stereotypes.

Syftet med denna studie har varit att öka kunskapen om hur förskollärare arbetar med fysisk aktivitet och rörelse samt synliggöra huruvida det arbetet kräver planerade rörelseaktiviteter eller inte. Problemområdet omfattar olika perspektiv. Dessa i sin tur kan påverka arbetet med fysisk aktivitet och rörelse ifall de betraktas som viktiga i förskolan dvs. dess betydelse i arbetet med barnens motoriska, kognitiva och sociala utveckling. Tidigare forskning i studien är baserad i utvecklingspsykologin men även i ett socialiserings- och inlärningsperspektiv, där det betonas att fysisk aktivitet och rörelse ska vara organiserad inom förskoleverksamheten. Sju förskollärare med minst fem års yrkeserfarenhet på tre olika förskolor har intervjuats om sitt arbete med fysisk aktivitet och rörelse i förskolan. I analysarbetet har svaren från intervjupersonerna jämförts och därefter kategoriserats utifrån innehåll. Resultatet påvisar att fysisk aktivitet och rörelse kan se olika ut i förskolan. Samtliga av de intervjuade förskollärarna påtalar vikten av planerade rörelseaktiviteter. Samtidigt framställs den spontana rörelsen som en viktig del i verksamheten. De intervjuade lyfte fram behov av planerade rörelseaktiviteter med det specifika målet att främja barns motoriska utveckling. De intervjuade framhåller att de planerade rörelseaktiviteterna gav barnen bättre möjligheter till att träna sin motorik. Detta genom att förskollärare då såg barnens behov och utifrån dessa gav barnen lagom stora utmaningar. Studiens slutsats blev att förskollärarens eget intresse och kunskap om ämnet fysisk aktivitet och rörelse utgjorde en betydelsefull faktor som underlättade och förbättrade arbetet med fysisk aktivitet och rörelse i förskolan. / <p><strong>Fastställt via akademichefsbeslut HIG-STYR 2019/7 den 2019-01-07</strong></p><p><strong> </strong>Daniel Petterson, fil dr, univ. lekt Pedagogik och Erika Björklund, fil dr, univ. lekt Pedagogik går in som examinatorer på PEG700 under veckorna 1 till och med 3, 2019 då Peter Gill, prof. Pedagogik, gått i pension från och med 2019-01-01.</p>

The thesis is structured into the theoretical part, which deals with the needs of children in relation to the pre - school facility garden. Large part is aimed to movement and play. Thesis also deals with natural gardens and a list of natural game elements. The practical part describes in detail the current state and equipment of the school garden belonging to the faculty pre - school facility called Sluníčko pod střechou which is connected to Faculty of Education of Charles University. The analysis of the conditions of this garden is based on research methods of direct observation, questionnaire survey with teachers, and then method of interview with the school head. Furthermore, this part of the thesis is also devoted to research aimed at finding out what children's ideas about the equipment of this garden are. The research was based on the work of children with a pre - prepared research tool. Research has shown that the teachers are happy with the current look of the garden. They would only add to it some small gaming elements. Children like elements that are part of the current garden design. They prefer them to the new modern ones. From the point of view of small toys and aids, the conditions of the kindergarten are less suitable. Children mainly mentioned things that are not a regular part...

The thesis deals with possibilities and ways of child's development in their preschool age. The aim of this thesis is to prove a positive effect of controlled kinetic activities on the development of children's abilities, skills and knowledge at the age from two to four, namely in the frame of all five educational spheres RVP PV. There was used the method of an experiment consisting in a realization of a fourteen-day-search based on a schooling program using both kinetic and non- kinetic activities, on an input and output measuring the level of the same partial abilities, skills and knowledge for two eight-member-groups of children and also comparing acquired results. It was found out that kinetic activities of preschool children can be used within the educational process as one of its elements with comparable effect to using non-kinetic activities. Keywords Movement, ontogenetic evolution, child's development, preschool age, play

The main theme of this diploma thesis is the development of musicality and musical movement activities through piano compositions of children at the younger school age. The thesis consists of theoretical and practical part. Theoretical part is based on ontogenetic, physiological and psychological patterns of this period. Furthermore, it deals with the means of musicality influence of the child and at the end of this part the relationship of piano music and movement is described and the basic musical movement activities and their important aspects are listed. The second part of the thesis, which is a practical part with the choice of qualitative research approach, is based on these theoretical findings. The practical part deals with piano compositions and their content for movement expression. Objectives, research questions, methods and research techniques are identified. Three pieces by P. Eben and Dreaming by Schumann were chosen for the research. Before each musical movement activity, appropriate motivation was chosen and training exercises were included. Each song is focused on a variety of issues where children can better understand issues in the songs. For musical and physical activities, common activities have been chosen, based on the natural child world. Research results are recorded in...