SUMMARY Topic of Investigation: Socio-Educational Discourse of Children Summer Holidays (as a kind of leisure and recreation forms). Author of the Work: Ruta Palubaityte, student of Educology Program of Studies EMM-03 (specialization: leisure pedagogy and basics of recreation) Siauliai University, Educology Faculty. Urgency of the work. According to the data of the State Youth Affairs Council (2004), “having much leisure” if the most important feature of the youth. One fifth of the interviewed youths maintain such opinion.However almost every seventh young person (15 per cent) state they are too little occupied and have too much leisure, almost every sixth (17 per cent) noted lack of occupation as youth’s problem.Most of the (over 65 per cent) 14-29 aged youths spends leisure watching TV, meeting friends or listening music. Large part of their leisure is spent for chores, work with PC or Internet and sports (http://www.vjrt.lt/apie_jaunima/laisvalaikis). Most of the data covers leisure of the teenagers and youths. There is no generalized statistics about leisure of the children (preschool and school-aged) in Lithuania. Children leisure camp attendance reports are the only available sources. However information, covering another leisure forms, is lacking. In Lithuania only children leisure forms and methods undergo analysis. Subject of Investigation: Socio-Educational Significance Discourse of Children and Adults Summer Holidays. Target of the Work: the work is aimed to... [to full text]