The dissertation is historical probe into the significant period of the development sociology of leisure (1965-1972) at that time ČSSR, comes from the epoch definitions of the term "leisure", which mutually differ in the attitude, in which is this term delimited, further it contains the then specification and separation of the leisure activities, the characteristics and functions of leisure. The dissertation describes the position and development of sociology as a scientific discipline in the post-war years, presents the knowledge about the most offten themes and methods in sociological research of leisure used during the examining period. The solution for determination of the themes and used methods are particularly the studies of Czech sociologists Disman and Filipcová. Since this is a study which is processed on the department of Pedagogy, the knowledge development of leisure sociology is embed into wider context and one charter is devoted especially to the leisure of the youth. The dissertation in general evaluates the contribution of sociology for the research and pedagogy of leisure in the examining period.

This thesis deals with the recreational function of free time for students of the Faculty of Theology of the University of South Bohemia. The thesis is an analysis of the literature on the matter, stating kinds of recreation and brief historical overview in the context of free time. It is an analysis of recreation and active lifestyles including previous research studies. The central section is defined by the concept and function of free time period described in university education, recreational activities and leisure time of students, stating research studies. One whole chapter in the end of the theoretical part is focused on student from Faculty of Theology of the University of South Bohemia with the analysis of gender problem and gender statistics at the University of South Bohemia. The main goal of the research is to determine with the method of non-standardized questionnaire, how students the Faculty of Theology of the University of South Bohemiao use leisure time for recreation, pertinently to find proposals to improve the recreational function of free time. The data obtained from non-standardized questionnaire are compared by gender, kind of study and individual fields of study the Faculty of Theology of the University of South Bohemia, the main goal is to make an evaluation and recommendations for practice.

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This thesis deals with the lifestyles of mothers on parental leave, living in small municipalities in the Třeboň region. It maps various aspects of their lives such as leisure time, personal hobbies, activities with children, social contacts, the options for various activities at the place of residence, personal development, social support, and satisfaction with the current period of life. The thesis is divided into two parts a theoretical one and an empirical one. The theoretical part is divided into six areas the first one deals with the definition of the concept of family, with the ways families have evolved to their current form, and with its function. The second area defines parenting; it deals with the changes that childbirth brings to the family, with the needs of the child, with maternity and parental leave. The third area describes the ways of combining childcare and work; it focuses on the options of institutional care for children; it deals with gender stereotypes and division of work in the family. The fourth area defines the lifestyle and related concepts such as leisure time, ways of spending it and the lifestyles of mothers on parental leave. The fifth one defines a village, the Třeboň region; it deals with the social isolation of mothers living at villages. The sixth area describes the theoretical background; it focuses on the social support for mothers on parental leave and a socio-ecological model. At the beginning of the empirical part, the objectives of the thesis are defined. The cognitive objective is to find out how parenting affects the lifestyles of contemporary mothers on parental leave, living in small municipalities and what factors have an impact on spending their leisure time. The data was collected using the qualitative research strategy and the chosen technique was semi-structured interviews. The basic group consisted of mothers on parental leave, living in small municipalities boroughs Třeboň: Břilice, Přeseka, Stará Hlína, Nová Hlína, Holičky, and Branná. The research group members were selected using the 'snowball' method when the researcher selected one respondent and she recommended the others. A total of 15 women participated in the research. The records of the interviews were transcribed into text. In accordance with the research questions, ten categories were established: leisure time, hobbies before childbirth, hobbies after childbirth, social contacts, activities with children, options for activities in municipalities, deficiencies in municipalities, personal development, social support and satisfaction. The discussion compares the research results with the views of other authors dealing with the issue. The research showed that parenting affects fundamentally the lifestyles of mothers, especially in terms of leisure time, personal hobbies, self-fulfilment and personal development. In general, the conducted research makes it possible to put together a picture of ways mothers on parental leave live in small municipalities in the Třeboň region. It outlines the ways these women spend their leisure time and days with their families, what their needs, possibilities, wishes and relationships with the others are. Therefore, the objective of the thesis has been met. The thesis can be used as informative material for mothers-to-be, parents of small children, for students and, last but not least, for the staff at the public administrations of the municipalities concerned.

The diploma thesis deals with free-time reading and is conceived in two parts. The theoretical part deals with reading, leisure time, pubescent readership, influences on children's readership, and support for leisure reading. It also deals with readers' clubs and research in the field of reading. The practical part consists of research in the readers' clubs at elementary schools and kindergartens in T. Šobra in Písek, J.K. Tyl and Záhoří in order to discover what kind of relationship children had to reading prior to attending the reading club and what reading relationship they have after a certain period of time of visiting such a club.

The thesis focuses on educational methods and principles of those working with children with autistic spectrum disorders. The theoretical part describes the typical symptoms of autism, reasons for development of autism. Also, It covers the conditions of inclusive education and the influence of children's free/quality time on their educational process. The empirical part describes the specifics of the work of special educators and peda?gogických staff working with children with autism spectrum disorder after-school club. The research joined seven respondents from primary/secondary schools in Prague. The aim of this part is to set particulars for educators working with children with autistic spectrum disorders. The research can be determined that the communication skills of children with autism spectrum disorder, require the teacher to preserve a coherent communication style with the principle of structuring communication. Social behavior in children with autism spectrum disorders is distorted. Based on respondents' answers the need for the teacher in the educational process, enable the child to integrate into a group of their peers. Recreation and leisure activities include the development of children and youth with autism spectrum disorder. The principle of voluntary and elective underpins formal and informal education of children.

This work deals with finding out the opinions and experiences of children from the asylum house to addictive substances and mapping the occurrence of other risky forms of behavior. Another aim of this work was to investigate and describe the risk and protective factors involved in risk behavior. The starting point for this work is that many researches point to the occurrence of risk behaviors among children and adolescents, and to the growing number of single-parent children,often ending in shelters. The theoretical part deals with the description of the use of addictive substances and the occurrence of risk behavior in the school population, as well as explanation of terms such as risk behavior and risk and protective factors. In addition, the individual chapters in the Theory are dedicated to family, school, peers, social exclusion and asylum homes. The practical part describes the process of the survey itself. The research group consisted of three children aged between 9 and 11 in one asylum house, a case study. The research set was chosen by the method of deliberate institutional selection. Half-structured interviews were used in the research, which was subsequently analyzed by encoding, segmentation and categorization of data. There were eight categories that emerged from interviews with...

This thesis deals with the negative influence of media on children, youth and their free time. The paper is divided into theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part treats mass media and how children and youth spend their free time. The basic characteristics of media, their functions, relationship to society and different negative impacts on individuals are described. The practical part is composed of a research investigation that was carried out at two primary schools, including 125 pupils. This survey tries to find out the relationship of pupils to media and get some information about the activities in their free time. All results of this research are graphically depicted and evaluated.

This thesis deals with the topic prevention of social-pathologic phenomenon at elementary school. By mutual consent with the supervisor of my thesis we aimed not only at the influence of atmosphere at elementary schools but also at the relationship between leisure time and the emergence of social-pathologic phenomena. The first section of this thesis is devided into three main parts, which are related to three main topics - leisure time, social-pathologic phenomena and primary prevention of social-pathologic phenomena. The first part applies to the topic of leisure time and its main characterization and parting. The topic of social-pathologic phenomena is described in the second part and the last part targets the important area of primary prevention of socio-pathologic phenomena. In the second section a method of time screening was used to find out the structure of pupils´ leisure time activities during the whole week. The research was made with pupils at the second level of elementary schools in cities with different number of inhabitans. To get the information about the presence of social-pathologic phenomena I have interviewed all methodist at each grammar school.

In the theory part of the Diploma work I deal with students´ interest activities and factors that influence them. In the empirical part of the Diploma work I tried to find out the information about the students´activities in their free time, satisfaction with the interest activities organised by nursing colleges and students´participation in these activities. The objective of my work was to find out which of the interest activities are popular and unpopular. I formulated three hypotheses. I chose the questionnaire as a research technique. The research was taken in nursing colleges. The objectives of my Diploma work were fulfilled. The three stated hypotheses were confirmed.