Ekonarathology Thesis deals with the history, goals and using modern theories of narrative in an interdisciplinary environmental education in pre-school environment. It describes the importance and potentiality narratology as an approach to children's understanding of the outside world and increasing environmental sensitivity. The aim of the research was to verify the narrative paradigm (Fisher, 2000, Bruner 1996) for preschool children and establish a closer relationship between children and nature by creating more authentic stories about nature, which the children themselves invented. The second part focuses on research among teachers in nursery schools. The task was to write books about nature, which in its practical use. From this list, then formed the top ten most popular children's books about nature. The work also offers a list of suitable books for ekonarathology method for preschool children. The result was the finding that children aged 4-6 years will naturally remember more when they hear the information in the form of storytelling, and that they are able to listen to nature and its manifestations.

The topic of the thesis is econaratology in conjunction with folk songs, which is subject to the laws of nature and forms a sort of mind set of the of nature life. Singing songs is an integral part of the narrative approach, narrative is complemented by tones and melodies for better memorization. The theoretical part defines the terms: narration, econaratology and folk song. I am interested in what place there the narrative approach in environmental education takes and what are its benefits. I allude to the use of narrative and folk songs as a means of education in practice. The aim of the thesis is based on research findings to determine the extent to which children are able to follow recordings of sound recording recognize and identify vocalizations of domestic or wild animals and industrial sounds of outside world. The research findings are utilized qualitative research, supplemented in some parts of quantitative research. Research tools are the individual interviews over the audio material, which I apply in preschool children. Keywords: narration, econaratology, folk song, nature sounds, folk traditions, research.

In the eighties of the twentieth century society returns to narrative, which is known as "narrative turn". In connection to that started to develop the so-called interdisciplinary narratology in the nineties, from which as a subdiscipline is based a new field econaratology. The theoretical part of the thesis shows where the field has its roots in the context of literary theory of narrative and environmental education. Econaratology is a field that examines the potential of stories for the development and realization of environmental education's topics. It uses stories through which it develops environmental sensitivity, meets the objectives of environmental education and develops inner motivation of students to take care of the nature. The practical part of the thesis introduces the specific use of econaratology in practice. In a qualitative study were used semistructured interviews with the persons of selected environmental education centers and selected forest pedagogues. The aim of the research was to understand the question of how the selected centers do work with the narrative method. Keywords: environmental education, econaratology, environmental education centre, forest pedagogy, narrative theory, story, narration