The thesis deals with creativity of the older school age within the leisure time edu-cation. The theoretical part shows the different points of view to the phenomenon of creativity and basic methods of its developement. It describes the specifics of the older school age stage emphasising the way of spending their leisure time. The practical part puts the theoretical knowledge into practice through preparation and realization of the one-week project for the older school age children. The individual activities are linked with a compact game.

This dissertation deals with the options of livelong education in Czech republic. The theoretical part describes the livelong education from the historical and nowadays view. It mentions circumstances of education due to membership in European union, later on, conditions and opportunities of education in Czech republic. On the tail end of disertation it deals with pedagogues of free time and their profesional growth possibilities The practical part consists of research, which goal is to analyze factors and circumstances that can affect the pedagogue of free time proffesional growth. It speaks about qualitative empirical research. Due to interview metod it probes how the pedagogues of free time deal with education. It probes which factors can affect the education.

The thesis deals with comparison of mother centers' development in Germany and in the Czech Republic. The first part defines mother centers, characterizes their principles and role in the society. In the next part the process of mother centers' establishment is described and problems which may occur. The main part of the thesis contains characterization of mother centers' development in Germany, where these centers were founded, and their development in the Czech Republic. A concrete example illustrates M-CENTER FOR YOUNG FAMILY in České Budějovice. German and Czech mother centers experienced similar progress and differ only in offers of activities. The last part of this work concentrates on the importance of mother centers for mothers, fathers, children and our society. Main benefit for mothers is the possibility to come out of isolation where they end up after their all-day-long care of babies. Mother centers significantly contribute to development of civil society.

The eyesight is one the most important human senses which supplies us with 80% - 90% of information about the surrounding world. It?s loss or a serious damage brings big and fundamental changes into life of the affected person and his surroundings. The social rehabilitation constitutes a very important vehicle for the re-integration of the visually impaired persons through it?s fundamental methods which are the re-education and making compensations for the lost sight. The compensation devices alone have a paramount importance in the lives of people with the visual impairment. At the present time, the market offers a lot of optical, non-optical or electronic gadgets for the visual compensation. The guide dog presents itself as one of the best working compensation solutions in the field of the space - orientation and movement. The first documentation about training dogs that would help the blind come from around year 1780 from a Parisian hospital for the blind. The account of the first trained guide dog come from the 80s of the 18th century; a blind Viennese Josef Reisinger himself has trained a guide dog then. The first news about training guide dogs in Czech Republic come from the years 1922 - 1924. In Czech Republic the guide dog training as a compensation help for the blind or visually impaired people has been established in 1991. This work is oriented at mapping out the possibilities of the entry of a guide dog into public buildings (restaurants, health clinics, schools, public offices etc) and it?s further use for the free-time activities from the point of view of the guide dog owners and of the public. Further, this work deals with the statistics of the number and the territorial division of guide dogs in South Bohemia between the years 2008 - 2011. While looking for the experience of the guide dog owners with their entering public buildings and organizing free time together with their dog, the individual in-depth interviews, the data from the focus groups and experiments have been used. To learn the views of the interviewees about their use of the guide dogs in public places, all the documentation obtained from the subjects who trained the guide dogs, the fact sheets from the focus groups and the individual in-depth interviews have been analysed. To learn the views of the public about the guide dogs entering public buildings and their use for their free time activities printed questionnaires had been used. This work may be used as a basis for the argumentation in the forming of the uniform conditions in the guide dog training in presenting them and in forming the proper laws for using the guide dogs by their owners. This work also shows the possibilities in use of the guide dogs in their free time.

This thesis deals with the free time of children younger than school age. The theoretical part deals with the development of a child under school age, the effects of environmental problems on the pupil, which applies especially to family, peers, environment and functions, and special interest activities. The third chapter is devoted to education outside the classroom. The practical part is based on research spacecraft, which was conducted in two elementary schools, examined how different leisure time activities for children from a small town and larger cities. Differences between girls and boys. And how would the children want to spend their leisure time dream.

The main aim of the thesis is to answer the question whether rock climbing, as a sport leisure time activity, can offer values substantial for life. The fundamental chapter, which is focused on rock climbing values, consists of two parts. The first theoretical part presents a few examples of values that are important for rock climbing. The practical part is based on a survey carried out among rock climbers. Both parts come to the conclusion that rock climbing is inspiring for rock-climbers as well as non-climbers. However, it is the courage to take responsibility for life that is essential for it to be fully-fledged, and only for such a person is rock climbing an inspiring activity.

Free time is one significant phenomenons of young people's life. The attitude which young people have to free time depends on their subjective meaning of it. The author builds on the theory of Charles Osgood and tries to find the meaning from free time using the semantic differential as a method of research and the result compares with the definition of free time in literature.

Theoretical part of my graduation work is focused on defining terms of a mentally ill client, mental retardation, activities of clients with mental retardation and leisure time at the Centre of Accomodation and Outpatient Social Services Bobelovka. Research is divided into two parts: a quantity part with a questionnaire used for collecting data from the staff of the Centre, and the other questionnaire for the management of the Centre. In a quality research was used an interview with the clients´parents and the clients. The aim of this work was to map and evaluate activities of the clients at the Centre of Accomodation and Outpatient Social Services Bobelovka Jindřichův Hradec (Aim 1), finding out parents opinions on the clients´ activities at this Centre (Aim 2), and upon the findings to describe and evaluate the present status of activities at the Centre (Aim 3). All the aims were fulfilled. For the quantity research were determined two hypotheses in advance. The First Hypothesis, that the offer of activities at the Centre Bobelovka does not cover entire concern of the clients, was not affirmed. The Second Hypothesis, that the management of the Centre considers activities of the clients to be adequate and of a good quality, was affirmed. Upon the quality research were determined hypotheses III and IV. The Third Hypothesis states the clients´parents´satisfaction with the activities offered by the Centre Bobelovka. The Fourth Hypothesis states the clients´satisfaction with the activities at the Centre.

The thesis deals with general creativity and creativity development of adolescent children by the means of project method. Theoretical part describes creativity as a term, its factors and levels. It further characterizes these terms: creative activity, creation, creative thinking, brainware, and creative experience. Further it analyses creativity importance for an individual person and society as a whole. It also characterises creative type of personality, describes pedagogical creativity and offers ways and means of creativity support. Next part draws up creative thinking development possibilities and development possibilities of qualities important for creative personality development. Next chapter pursues project method character. It describes case-history, then it targets the project-problem relation, highlights project education effects and basic principles. It focuses on phases of the project process and project pattern overview. In following chapters school subject art education, its characteristic, its main goals, and art education pedagogy methods and forms are described. Artistic expression development and crises of artistic expression are described, too. The thesis further concerns leisure time, extracurricular education and its institutions, relations of leisure time, lifestyle and focus on social values. Last chapter considers adolescence. Practical part contains description of an art project, which is divided into several creative activities. This part is focused particularly on spontaneous expression of a group supporting.

The work deals with recreational activities of children in facilities for children in the institutional education. The theoretical part describes leisure, function and mission of special education. It also describes the principles and methods suitable for training and education in leisure time, explains term institutional care and identifies differences in educational work among children's home and children's home with school.The aim is to analyze offers of interest activities and leisure time activities for children aged 11 to 17 years in institutional care facilities and subsequent comparison of leisure-time activities of children between two selected devices.