The aim of the thesis is to describe and to reflect basic terms and contexts of healthy lifestyle and its importance to people and their quality of life. The thesis can also contribute to edification in the field of health education and in the field of free time, that is closely related to lifestyle. The first chapter deals peripherally with a human being's nature, his position in the world and in the society. The second chapter describes basic terms concerning health, including definitions and factors threatening the human being's health. Diseases and spiritual value of health are also meant. The third chapter clarifies the terms of lifestyle, way of life and living conditions, that play an important role in everyone's life, equally as free time of a human being included in this chapter, too. Health education and healthy lifestyle education is a topic of the fourth chapter. Several possibilities of supporting and maintaining the health of a human being are covered there. The last chapter summarizes the whole thesis, its aim is to realize the value of health and how to be a free and responsible person having healthy relationships with other people.

The work deals with ethical education, which can be used in different areas of child's life through the program of Philosophy for Children. The theoretical part characterizes the child in a period of younger school age, describes his cognitive and moral development including important psychological aspects. Psychological knowledge becomes an important starting point for the practical part of the work. Education in different areas of child's life carries specific features of the environment. Educational subjects, such as family, school, leisure time, can participate in the upbringing of moral behavior. The development of children's moral reasoning can be supported by the knowledge of different ethical systems. Ways to work in Philosophy for Children can become a means of ethical education. The role of teachers, parents and leisure teachers has an important place in this educational process, especially in the implementation of ethical dialogues. The practical part offers three philosophical stories, with the main ideas and plans for discussion. The stories serve as an inspiration for cultivating the morals of children in different environments of their lives.

The thesis deals with possibilities of using literary text under the pedagogy of leisure time when mainly working with children in the elementary school. The theoretical part deals with key concepts of the research particularly in literary education, literary text, choice of text and literary education in leisure time. This part presents also the suitable methodical procedures when working with literary text in the school environment and leisure time activities focused on achieving esthetical experiences and development of key competencies. The practical part includes characteristics of chosen standard and activating educational methods. These methods represent the practical side of specific examples of children's and youth literature. The other part of thesis is also anthology of literary works, which can be used by leisure time teachers in educational process.

Pre-school age is a very important period for all children because at this time they gain most of their basic skills, knowledge, habits and experience. The fundamentals of their lifestyle and free time spending is made up in this period too. In my thesis I would like to highlight the big importance of leisure time education as the essential means of an art creativity development for pre-school children. In this work I specialize in an art creativity development in particular. My work is devided into two parts {--} the theoretical and the practical one. In the theoretical part I aim generally at the education and upbringing of pre-school children. Here I deal with children´s development of the aesthetic education, creativity and fantasy. I try to penetrate more into the world of children´s free time, interests and visual games. I also remembered to mention the children´s motivation and the necessity of a suitable setting for doing their free time activities. Further I give description on general rules of children´s development, their socialization and temperament. I shortly deal with the pedagogues´characters, their relation-ships to children and visual art and the way of their teaching as well. The core of my thesis is the second - practical part, in which all findings are demonstrated in the creative project About the air (O Vzduchu). The project should contribute to children´s development of positive approach to the nature and coun-tryside and to more prosperous emotional apprehension and experience. I try to use the features of an aesthetic, motoric, literary and dramatic education in all my project. In the thesis conclusion I state all results discovered in the course of the project implementation.

The work deals with free time, history of education during free time, further it describes some of the factors that influence the children´s spending of free time (family, school, other educational institutions outside school), it introduces a church youth organization Dona Bosca and it particulary focuses on free time work in two chosen salesian centres in Germany and in the Czech Republic. The practical part contains the charakteristic and comparison of two chosen facilities: Don Bosco centre Regensburg and Don Bosco centre Plzeň and mainly the activities of their clubs, which work with older youth (Jugendtreffpunkt and Vzduch-loď). They are well led and provide a good quality free time spending possibilities for the youth. Even though the two clubs are different in a certain point of view, for exampe, financial possibilities, space facilies, etc., they compound in the wide supply of activities for youth, which contribute to the prevention of morbid free time spending. The work also captures the future visions of the two clubs.

The work deals with the social-psychological aspects of old age. The first part characterises these basic terms : old age, the needs of elderly people and different types of senior care. In the part {\clqq} Illnesses of elderly people`` it deals with the most common illnesses and their effects on the social {--} psychological life of elderly people. It describes the separate views of society on old age and the influence of illnesses on elderly people. It goes on to describe the violence commited against senior citizens and the need they have good social relationships (family, friends).It also suggets different leisure time activities and ways for the elderly to utilize their time. In the next part there are different examples from various senior citizens in which they tell the story of their life, about their joys and problems. The practical part includes the research about the common life of elderly, which we can see every day. I have seen both positive and negative things, which come with old age. There I compare the leisure time activities of elderly men and elderly women.

The graduation thesis deals with possibilities of musical education in the homes of children and youth in South Bohemia. We focused on the offers of music activities, material equipment, kinds of teaching, and how could we present the results of the work. Next, the graduation thesis demonstrates the comparison of the private musical school, Yamaha, which works in five South Bohemian towns, and the competition of the musical teaching in the homes of children and youth. In the enclosure, we show photos and other materials, which specify the reviewing theme.

In my work, I focus on education, primarily the education in the leisure time. I deal with nature and its possitive influence on people´s progress, the relationship between people and nature, why people take interest in nature, what nature brings them and how it enriches them. I describe the environment in which people spend their lifetime {--} the family, the school and various organizations chosen according to their interests. By using the three above-mentioned educational organizations, Junák {--} the Czech Scout Association, the Pionýr and Sokol Organization, as examples, I describe various approaches of these organizations to education and methods of work with their young as well as adult members. I provide a brief description and comparison of these methods, with respect to the people´s favoured environment, where most of their activities take place. I also analyse their choice of places to achieve their aims, be it nature or the environment created by people.

The diploma thesis focuses on the definition of intercultural education and its key concepts and methods of its application within formal and informal education. It surveys the present situation in the area of intercultural education in Europe and in the Czech Republic. The thesis closes with a brief outline of possible applications for intercultural education within free time of present-day youth.

My final thesis describes ways of development of cultural properity, trainings of mind and possibilities of motivation in frame pedagogy free time specialized on a Primary School. Theoretical part contains and explains terms culture, palate (taste), elegance, arts, motivation and free time. Also specify primary school education, creative discourse, in this period and shows the use plastic art in public nursery like one of the key options of spending free time. Practical part focus on a project of plastic arts divided into creative activities realized in the public nursery of the pupils of primary school. Each activity containt detailed motivation, described procedure, conclusion and evaluation of children. This part contains also relationships and dependences between all cultural subjects such as arts, dramatization, music, and gymnastics. Explain as well the structure, application for needs of primary school. Particularity of the work of children in the age of primary school is creativity, spontaneity, unprompted action, enthusiasm, positive stance. When the children are properly instructed they cooperate with their equal, tolerate them and are very help full to each other.