The target of my diploma work is to describe the specific forms of deviant behavior which are characteristic of leisure time of contemporary teen-agers in particular and on the basis of empirical investigation to determine the extent and circumstances, which are typical for these specific forms of deviant behavior occurring in the leisure of teen-agers. The theoretical part of this diploma work, which is based on thematically related specialized literature, deals with theoretical approaches to the problem of specific forms of deviant behavior, and the problem of free time. The practical part of the diploma work is based on my own empirical research, which subject is a sample of pupils 9th classes of primary schools. The conclusion of my diploma work is trying to compare the extent and circumstances under which are the specific forms of deviant behavior occuring in fact, with the theoretical assumptions.

The work is concentrated on musical functions in children´s and youth´s life in their leisure time and especially musical listening activities. It describes different attitudes to meaning and character of music in history. It concerns in advantage of listening activities in the area of personal children´s and youth´s development. The work notices possible risks which are connected with aversion of parents and teachers to do this leisure-time activity. The last part deals with possibilities of cultivation of listening experiences which are connected with children and youth in their leisure time.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:40:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Fernanda Thome Rizzo.pdf: 432494 bytes, checksum: b71fedde3f8a40e50e1328f10c9077de (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-08-29 / Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) presents itself as the main cause that leads children and teenagers looking for mental health ambulatories. It is well known that a lot of individuals that do not fill diagnostics criteria s, presents a lot of symptoms related to hyperactivity and attention deficits and also feel functional failures. Through a random sample of adolescents of low income families localized in the metropolitan region of São Paulo this study investigated the association between the Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Symptom (ADHS) and the human relations difficulties, their relation with sportive practices and leisure time. The ADHS sample was analyzed with and without mental health problems (MHP). The following instruments were used for this evaluation: Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, Brief Impairment Scale and the Questionnaire about Brazilian Economic Classification Criteria. The main results obtained pointed out that these adolescents with ADHS have socialization difficulties with their parents, teachers and colleagues beyond unsatisfactory school performance. The result of this research turn possible to detect aspects about the relation between these teenagers with ADHS and some MHP involved. Additionally appointed the importance and benefits that the motor intervention and the sportive practice since their infancy can bring to these teenagers life s with ADHS, helping them in their socialization and leisure time. / O Transtorno de Déficit de Atenção e Hiperatividade (TDAH) apresenta-se como uma das principais causas de procura de ambulatórios de saúde mental de crianças e adolescentes. Sabe-se atualmente que muitos indivíduos que não preenchem critérios diagnósticos apresentam muitos sintomas relacionados aos sintomas de déficits atenção e hiperatividade (SDAH) e também sofrem prejuízos funcionais. Numa amostra aleatória de adolescentes de uma área de baixa renda da região metropolitana de São Paulo, o presente estudo investigou a associação entre SDAH e dificuldades de relacionamento, relações com as práticas esportivas e de lazer. Os SDAH foram analisados com e sem problemas de saúde mental (PSM). Para a avaliação, foram utilizados os seguintes instrumentos: Strenghts and Difficulties Questionnaire, Brief Impairment Scale e o questionário de Critério de Classificação Econômica Brasil. Os principais resultados desta pesquisa foram que adolescentes com SDAH possuem dificuldades de relacionamento com seus pais, professores e colegas, além de possuírem aproveitamento escolar insatisfatório. Estes achados possibilitaram destacar aspectos sobre a relação existente entre este jovem com SDAH e alguns PSM envolvidos. Também, propôs apontar a importância e os benefícios que a intervenção motora e a prática esportiva feita desde a infância podem trazer para a vida destes jovens com SDAH, auxiliando também na sociabilização e no lazer.

Abstract The aim of this study is to investigate attitudes to leisure-time reading among pupils in grade 5. A subsidiary aim is to examine whether there is a difference between how boys and girls relate to reading books. The method used in the study is questionnaires and a focus group interview. The result shows a clear difference between boys’ and girls’ reading habits in leisure time. The girls devote more time in general than the boys to leisure-time reading, but sports activities and the computer are two phenomena that the pupils choose in preference to reading. In the study one can see a link between reading literature relatively frequently in leisure time and having a positive attitude to reading in school, which applies to both sexes. The pupils who seldom or never read in their leisure time are also more negatively disposed to reading in school, which applies chiefly to the boys.

My scientific essay is about how I as a recreational activities teacher deals with failure in my profession and how that approach affects the students. I takes its starting point in a self-perceived tale where I act as recess monitor. Suddenly I realize that a colleague and I are the only ones outside during recess with hundreds of students. The students will meet an educator who is unconcerned, stressed and irritable instead of the engaged recess monitor they are used to. I feel like a failure in my mission as a recess monitor and begins to question my professional identity. I try to find someone to blame but realize that the feeling of failure also depends on that I have a hard time accepting my own lack of skills. My questions at issue are, how can a recreational teacher relate to failure in the profession? And, how are the students affected by the pedagogue’s approach to failure? The method I have used is scientific essay form which has given me the opportunity to deepen my reflections connected to literature by philosophers and scientists within the educational area. I also use the governing documents which decides how I should exercise my profession. These are Curriculum for the compulsory school, preschool class and the recreation centre 2011, The General advice for the recreation center and The Education Act. I have based on the reflections investigated how I could have behaved different, how my behavior affected the students and how the recreational teacher is able to develop through failure. I have examined my question at issue in dialogue with theories and reached a conclusion how to work with failure can proceed from the maturity theory, symbolic interactionism, differentiation of self and deontological ethics.

Strategic human resource management is an approach that is closely related to the strategic organizational management, thus it is in accordance with the given objectives and goals of the organization leading to its permanent development and efficiency as a whole. The diploma work aims to find out whether the leisure time centres in the Czech Republic are in terms of human resources managed strategically. The theoretical part of the diploma work defines the terms concerning personnel activities and strategic organizational management in the context of specifications of an educational institution like a leisure time centre and/or similar one. The research deals with the interconnection between the personnel activity performance in an organization and an organizational strategy. Further on, it discloses aspects and features of the strategic human resource management in a leisure time centre and/or organizations of a similar type. It also focuses on possible agreement between the human resource management policies in the investigated organizations and the chosen human resource management models. The quantitative research method, i.e. a questionnaire, is used for the purpose of the research. Another research method applied is the structured interview, which serves to gain a larger scale of information...

Leisure time is an important part of young people’s lives. Despite this, leisure-time settings have hitherto had only a minor role in setting-based health-promotion initiatives. Improving adolescents’ quality of leisuretime activities can reduce social differences in health, thus youth-centers can be appropriate settings for promoting health. However, young people with immigrant backgrounds participate less in organized leisure-time activities. The overall aim of this study is to explore young people’s leisure time as their health-promotion setting in two NGO-run youth-centers in multicultural, socially deprived suburbs in Sweden. This study took a practice-based approach using a mixture of methods in close collaboration with the youth-centers. Data collection was done through surveys with young people (n = 207) and interviews with young people and leaders (n = 16). Study I, about who participates in youthcenter activities, used an explanatory mixed method. Study II, about the youth-centers’ strategies, used an explorative qualitative method with an inductive content analysis. This study shows that youth-centers have great potential to be a healthpromotion setting if their strategies include some important factors, both in theory and in daily practice. To be a health-promotion setting, a youthcenter needs to be open and inclusive for its target group, foster supportive relationships, emphasize youth empowerment, and integrate family, school, and community in its strategies. Local knowledge about young people's backgrounds, needs, interests, and motivations to attend youth-center activities – as well as good contact with young people's families – is important because it can increase participation in leisure-time activities for young people in multicultural and socio- economically disadvantaged neighborhoods and can thus help to reduce social inequalities in health.

Research of children's participation in sport clubs, individual sports and children's interest in various physical activities. The thesis maps the specific sport activities of children in various sport clubs, individual sport activities in their free time and interest of children in various sport activities. It determinates the range of available sport activities (hobby groups, sport teams, clubs, etc.) in the area of interest and it compares it with interest of children. It sets conditions for the functional, ideal sport club and it sets its content based on the interest of children in concrete activities, realizing these activities in experimental sport club and its verification.

The physicality of sports and outdoor life offers great opportunities for intensive experiences – participants ”feel” the happening in their bodies. As well as looking upon physical activity mainly as something instrumental, as for example in competitive sports and exercise culture, other aspects can also be central, for instance the pure joy of movement. The existential or expressive side of physical activity is examined in this doctoral thesis. In order to study such experiential quality more thoroughly, the author’s attention turns to adventure sports participants, as they appear to have a capacity for becoming highly involved and seeking very intense experiences. Who is involved in adventure sports? Why are they engaged in a sport that demands such great hardships and risk-taking? What do they get out of it? The overall objective of the thesis is to shed light on adventure sports as a practice and to discuss the educational significance of flow and other experiential qualities in adventure sports and in schools. The analyses are based on three empirical sub-studies. The first began with a questionnaire that 161 adventure sports participants responded to. This was followed by an interview study of eleven men and three women, all of whom had extensive experience in adventure sports. The categories of sport were evenly divided between climbing, off-piste skiing and hang gliding. In the second sub-study a detailed investigation of climbing was carried out. A notable sportification has brought about a very clear and interesting change in parts of this activity. Six traditional/adventure climbers and six sport climbers were interviewed, of which half were men and half women. All the climbers were experienced and very much involved in their sport. The aim of the third sub-study was to seek an answer as to whether pupils have experiences in their daily school life that are similar to those of adventure sports participants. An ESM (Experience Sampling Method) investigation was carried out with 60 pupils in compulsory school year nine (corresponding to UK schools’ year eleven) from four different schools. The pupils’ parents answered a special parent questionnaire including questions about academic and professional backgrounds, living conditions, habits, interests, attitudes and leisure time activities. The results were analysed taking into consideration the phenomenological perspective and structuralistic or more correctly expressed the cultural sociological perspective. Mihály Csikszentmihályi’s theoretical argument on optimal experiences, which in turn is based on the flow concept, constitutes the phenomenological foundation. Pierre Bourdieu’s concept apparatus and theories were used to closely examine the participants’ backgrounds, life histories and current living situations. The study shows that a preference for adventure sports is clearly linked to the participants’ backgrounds and earlier life experiences. A behavioural pattern is incorporated and developed into an embodied capacity to master a practice, a result of a long learning process. Participants were clearly concordant in these respects. Participants emphasise the abundant opportunities for intensive experiences that arise from adventure sports. It is a matter of something multidimentional: the active body, outdoor life in natural surroundings, exacting and clear goals, total focus, and about exercising control. This approach presents a model for identification of content qualities, which together create the dynamics that form the meaningful rewards that result from participation in adventure sports. The dimensions include flow experiences, but also go beyond them. The deep sense of presence, the physical involvement, the fact that they can choose the path and increase the degree of difficulty themselves – and simultaneously counter this new challenge with increased capacity so that they are engaged at the ”right level” – also provide favourable conditions for a stimulating and successful learning experience. The observation was made that it was primarily in the practical and aesthetic subjects that school pupils had the same deep feeling of presence together with a meaningful and pleasurable holistic experience as the adventure sports participants had. Here they were actively involved with their hands or with their whole bodies, and they could make their own choices and be in control of the activity, which for most pupils led to a strong feeling of satisfaction.

This study aims to examine through qualitative interviews leisure-time teachers view on their work environment and work situation, how they are affected by it and whether they believe it can be influenced. In the study, five active leisure-time teachers at different schools are interviewed about their professional practice and work situation. In the analysis of the empirical material, Aaron Antonovsky's theory of sense of coherence or SOC with comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness is applied. The result shows that leisure-time teachers consider that shortcomings in their physical work environment and finances limit the conditions for carrying out their work. What mainly limited and affected the leisure-time teachers was the psychological work environment where their workload was heavy and they felt they constantly needed to be in line with the primary school teacher and be available. This caused various symptoms of stress and frustration. Finally the leisure-time teachers present different approaches for influencing their work situation. / Denna studie syftar till att genom kvalitativa intervjuer undersöka hur fritidslärare ser på sin arbetsmiljö och arbetssituation, om hur de påverkas av om den samt om de anser att den går att påverka. I arbetet intervjuas fem verksamma fritidslärare på olika skolor om deras yrkesutövning och arbetssituation. I analysen av det empiriska materialet tillämpas Aaron Antonovskys teori om känsla av sammanhang eller KASAM med begriplighet, hanterbarhet och meningsfullhet. Resultatet visar på att fritidslärare anser att brister i den fysiska arbetsmiljön och ekonomi begränsar förutsättningarna att genomföra deras arbete men att det som främst begränsade och påverkade fritidslärarna var den psykosociala arbetsmiljön där arbetsbelastningen var hög och de ansåg att de ständigt behövde förhålla sig till klassläraren och vara tillgängliga. Det orsakade olika stressymptom och frustation. Avslutningsvis presenterar fritidslärarna olika tillvägagångssätt för att påverka sin arbetssituation.