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The bachelor's thesis describes the possibilities of linking movement and dance education using drama education. This connection should better comprehensively develop and shape the child's personality. The goal is to find out whether it is possible to connect these aesthetic educations with dramatic education and thus get the most out of the individual educations as much as possible for the comprehensive development of the child. In the theoretical part, my work deals with preschool children, their development and children's play. Children's play is the most natural way to knowledge and education for a child's development. In other chapters, I will describe aesthetic education, which is an integral part of the life of the teacher as well as of the child. It is important to take the work of a teacher seriously and leave nothing to chance. Therefore, in my work, I examine how advantageous this connection is, whether it is functional and, among other things, how it could make their work easier for teachers and better connect the individual areas that we already know from the framework educational program and aesthetic education. In the practical part, I focus on applying the lesson I created, which I apply to several selected kindergartens. The lesson that I created is created in such a way that both...

The diploma thesis is focused on the issue of successful education and communication with a child of preschool age with a disorder of social and emotional development. On the readiness of pedagogues to educate and raise disadvantaged children in this way, but also on the ability of preliminary diagnosis and subsequently the possibility of effective action in the educational and educational process. The introductory chapters deal with the theoretical starting points, which are the basis for the following research part of the thesis. The first part of this work is focused on inclusive education and related concepts. Furthermore, the legislative framework is mapped, which defines pre- school education from a legal point of view, counseling workplaces and some supporting measures related to the law. Subsequently, the healthy development of the child in the social and emotional area is outlined, as well as possible categories of disorders of social and emotional development. In more detail, the diploma thesis focuses on Asperger's syndrome, which is one of the forms of autism spectrum disorders. Next, possible symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are pointed out. In the next chapter of the current work, the personality of the pedagogue is characterized and some prerequisites for...

The bachelor's thesis is focused on speech therapy, it is devoted to the communication skills of children in the compulsory year of preschool education. The aim of the bachelor's thesis is to find out whether there are differences in the area of communication skills among children in the compulsory year of preschool education depending on the length of attendance at kindergarten. The theoretical part introduces the reader to upbringing and educating a child of preschool age and compulsory preschool education, which is closely related to this area. Furthermore, topics related to communication skills are elaborated in the thesis, individual concepts from the field of communication are defined, and the development of communication skills of the child starting primary education is elaborated on. The thesis also discusses speech therapy intervention in all its areas. The research part of the work monitors the communication skills of children in the compulsory year of preschool education, acertains the abilities of speech expression and communication skills of children in the compulsory year of preschool year, possible differences in speech expression and communication skills of children attending kindergarten from the age of 3 and children entering the compulsory preschool year from home environment....

The bachelor thesis focuses on the disordered of lexical semantic level of speech in preschool children with disrupted communication ability. The thesis is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part describes the characteristic of the preschool child, ontogenetic development speech, disrupted communication ability with a focus on the developmental dysphasia and dyslalia. Moreover the theoretical part characterizes the individual language levels of speech with an emphasis on the lexical semantic level of speech, which is described terms of its evolutin, diagnostics, possibilities of its development and aids. The aim of the practical part is to create set of methodical sheets for children with dicrupted communication ability and its verify in practise in working with the selected research sample. The research is based on the observation, interview, analysis of the personal documents and analysis of the collecting data. The results od the research are interpreted in the form of case studies.

The bachelor's thesis is focused on the artistic expression of children of preschool age with mental disabilities. The aim of the bachelor's thesis is to observe children during the course of less than a year while drawing, to record their behavior during drawing and then to evaluate their artistic expression. The thesis is divided into two parts - theoretical and practical. The theoretical part is divided into four chapters. The first chapter deals with drawing, what it is important for children, what function it has for children and what is the importance of colors in drawing. Furthermore, how the drawing develops and which grip of the drawing utensil is correct for the child. The second chapter describes the characteristics of a child in preschool age. It focuses mainly on fine and gross motor skills, laterality, thinking and emotional development of children. The third chapter presents the issue of mental retardation, namely its classification, etiology and education of children with mental retardation in preschool age. The fourth chapter is devoted to the drawing of children with mental retardation. In the practical part, individual drawings of graphic types - figure, house and tree - are presented and qualitatively evaluated.

Name: Motorical competence level and gender differences in preschool children Objective: The objectives of the bacherol thesis was to determine the level of motorial competencies in a selected group of preschool children using the MOBAK-KG test battery and comparison of their results depending on gender. The partial target was to determine the attitudes of teachers to gender issues in relation to physical activities. These findings are in accordance with the answers of teachers to the questionnaire survey focused on the notion of gender stereotype and the choice of physical activities according to the sex of the child. Research methods: A standardized test battery MOBAK-KG was used to determine the level of motorial competencies in a selected group of children. A total of 24 children were tested, 12 girls and 12 boys. The method of a questionnaire was used to determine the partial goal. Which was attended by a total 13 respondents. Both parts of the research were implemented in selected kindergarden. Results: The results of the test battery MOBAK-KG showed that in handling skills tests the group of boys has slightly better results than the group of girls There were no differences between the group of girls and boys in tests focused on locomotor skills. Overall it can be said, that the differences...

This bachelor thesis is focused on the language development of a preschool child. The theoretical part deals with the development of speech, individual language levels, preschool children, and their education. It marginally mentions the topic of reading pre-literacy and literacy, which a child must develop at a preschool age, so it can build on the acquired skills later in the basic education of acquisition of initial reading and writing. The practical part includes a qualitative survey, which uses a diagnostic battery to determine the language level of children before the start of compulsory schooling. Subsequently, a program to support language and reading pre-literacy is implemented with ten respondents. The results show that if the language area not only develops naturally but also purposefully, the results in the child's speech improve. Children learn their language skills better and use the grammar of the particular language correctly.

This bachelor thesis focuses on the use of song in the development of creativity of preschool children. The aim of the thesis is to characterize and highlight the importance and possibilities of combining musical and dramatic activities of preschool children to develop their creativity. The content of the theoretical part is the definition of creativity, characteristics of the current concept of preschool education with regard to the development of creativity, characteristics of the developmental peculiarities of the preschool child, dramatic education and its definition, experiential and cooperative learning of preschool children through dramatic education and play. The thesis also discusses song, its characteristics and musical activities in the preschool. In the practical part, a program is developed where song is used in the development of creativity of preschool children through the methods of dramatic education and musical activities, taking into account the specificity of preschool education. This program is proven in the practice of kindergarten. During the implementation of activities and subsequent detailed evaluation, the method of observation, interview and analysis of educational materials is used. Each part is reflected in detail with regard to specific educational outcomes for the child.

The thesis deals with the issue of assessment of learning processes of preschool children. The aim of the thesis is to deepen the theoretical knowledge and to implement the Learning Stories method in the Czech Republic. The Learning Stories correspond to the key features of formative assessment, supports individual child's learning, monitors child's progress and develops teachers' pedagogical practice. The theoretical part characterizes formative assessment and its key features. The main part of the theoretical work is devoted to the Learning Stories method. It explains the theoretical foundations of the origin of the method in New Zealand, its benefits, the development of children's learning, the observation of the it's progress and the teacher's work in the process of early childhood assessment. The empirical part of the thesis involved action research in the age homogeneous class of pre- school children. Content analysis of letters (as the output of the Learning Stories method) and questionnaires as feedback from parents were used. The letters were analysed based on the criteria of whether they met the principles of the Learning Stories method, how they influence teacher's evaluation and pedagogical planning. The questionnaires were used to determine, how parents evaluate the benefits of the...

This diploma thesis focuses on school maturity and preparedness from the perspective of speech-language therapists. The theoretical part focuses on the preschool child, his characteristics, and growth in all areas, including speech. Furthermore, it introduces speech disorders in preschool children by describing what impaired communication skills are and also discusses the most common speech disorders among preschool children. The thesis also presents information about speech therapy prevention, stating what its principles are, and also introduces preschool education in the context of speech therapy prevention. The last chapter deals with the child's preparation for entering the first grade, explains the difference between school maturity and school preparedness and introduces school immaturity and school deferrals. The practical part is prepared with the help of a qualitative research investigation, where a structured interview with open questions was used. The respondents consisted of speech therapists working in the health or education department. A total of 12 interviews were conducted. The aim of the work was to find out how to appropriately support the child's school maturity and preparation for the first grade so that he/she can manage everything without difficulties. As a partial result, a...

The Bachelor thesis focuses on the use of fairy tales as a tool in the development of kindergarten children. The aim of the thesis is to demonstrate and verify in practice that fairy tales have a potential to educate children in all educational areas listed in the Framework Educational Programme for Preschool Education. The theoretical part of the work defines the term fairy tale, folk tale and its genre variants, looks at the child's world and its connection to fairy tales, investigates the possibilities of solving problems with the help of fairy tales, looks into the story of "Little Red Riding Hood" in terms of psychology, and focuses on storytelling and reading fairy tales in kindergartens. It also analyses preschool children and describes their motor, cognitive, emotional, and social development. The practical part introduces the proposed project "Little Red Riding Hood" which describes activities related to the fairy tale. The project is implemented in a kindergarten environment and aims to help develop key competencies established in the Framework Educational Programme for Preschool Education. The evaluation draws attention to possible issues of the project.

The diploma thesis deals with kindergarten teachers who devote themselves to children from socially disadvantaged family backgrounds. It monitors the influence of teachers on a preschool child from this environment. The theoretical part elaborates on professional knowledge about preschool children, and the approach of kindergarten teachers to preschool children in the environment of kindergarten. It also concerns the socially disadvantaged family environment and its characteristics. It monitors the importance of kindergarten for these children. It processes information on the social and legal protection of children. Last but not least, it considers the issue of other helping professions. The practical part is focused on examining the experience and attitude of kindergarten teachers towards children from the environment mentioned above. It reveals the view of teachers on children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds in terms of the characteristics of the environment. It deals with the attendance of children in kindergarten and its importance for preschool children. It monitors the cooperation of teachers with OSPOD and other organizations involved. In my work I focus on the approach of teachers to these children and their families, I follow the experience and understanding of this issue from...

This bachelor's thesis deals with the development of musical skills and abilities in preschool children with the help of a piece of music. The aim of this thesis is an educational program that will present the possibilities of developing musical skills and abilities through a musical work - opera. The thesis consists of two parts. The theoretical part is focused on the characteristics of the current concept of music education with regard to the requirements of the Framework Educational Program for preschool education, focusing on musical activities in kindergarten, division into categories and their description. Furthermore, the theoretical part characterizes the developmental peculiarities of the preschool child with regard to the development of musical skills and abilities. Subsequently, the text is also devoted to the topic of opera and fairy tale as a motivating factor. The practical part contains a curriculum focused on musical activities, where singing, instrumental, listening and musical movement activities are motivated by the musical work Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák. The educational programme is tested in practice in a kindergarten. The methods of observation and analysis of educational activities were used for evaluation.

This diploma thesis deals with communication of preschool children, in particular with analysis of communication functions of utterance. The aim of the research is to find out which types of communication functions preschool children mainly use. The theoretical part describes communication skills, language levels or ontogenesis of speech development. However, the key is to introduce the issue of each type of the communication utterance functions. The practical part is focused on the analysis of six audio recordings which have 30 minutes each. Within the recording with a voice recorder, dialogues among three research subjects were recorded. The dialogues were later on transcribed through the CHAT transcription method. Afterwards, types of the communication utterance functions were determined. The results of the qualitative research found out that the subjects primarily used the assertive, permissive or concessive functions (furthermore interrogative, directive, expressive and satisfactory function). All of these communication functions of utterance were stated directly. KEYWORDS communication competence, children's speech, communication function of utterance, preschool child, acquisition of the Czech language, dialogue

The topic of the thesis is The benefits of fairy tales for preschool children. The objective of the thesis is to find out how children perceive the message of the induvial fairy tales. The thesis is divided into the theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part is divided into three chapters. In the first chapter it deals with the fairy tale, its definition, development, types and its motives. The second chapter deals with the benefits of fairy tales for a preschool child, especially with how the child understands and perceives fairy tales. For this purpose, I analyzed four classical fairy tales where I also mentioned their psychological significance for a preschool child. In the third chapter I remind that preschool age is a foundation for future reading. The practical part contains the suggestion and realization of the weekly project of two fairy tales: Little Red Riding Hood and Gingerbread House. During the realization I was trying to find out which messages children perceive in fairy tales.

The bachelor thesis is focused on finding out children 's knowledge in the field of waste sorting. The main goal of this work is to compare the awareness of children from the village and city kindergarten about the existence of recyclable materials, containers for sorted waste and the possibility of their further use. The theoretical part consists of a search of selected literature and specifications of individual terms related to the issue of environmental education. It also describes the specifications of a preschool child. The next chapter is devoted to the types of waste and their subsequent processing. The practical part consists of qualitative research in the form of a controlled in-depth interview with the head teachers of selected classes in each of the two types of kindergartens. Last but not least, a weekly plan on this topic is proposed. At the end of this part, the activity was carried out directly in kindergartens with children led by a student. The activity consists in sorting the brought clean waste into boxes marked with the appropriate color.

This bachelor thesis deals with the theme of autism spectrum disorders, social life of healthy children in comparison with children with autism spectrum disorders, triad of damage of this children - communication, social behavior and imagination. It also describes the social life of families with ASD or the view from other people of children with this disorder and their families. The empirical part deals with the study of the social life of two families in which preschool boys with ASD are. Data will be obtained through semi-structured interviews. This bachelar work wants to describe the social life of preschool children with ASD.

The bachelor's thesis "The role of an author's fairy tale in the development of musical skills and personality of a preschooler" deals with the author's fairy tale for preschoolers the typical feature of which are based on the development of musical skills and of personality in the child's education. The work on this thesis also involved a qualitative research where ideas of musical trans-didactics were applied. The research was targeted at one experimental group. The thesis was written with respect to pedagogical adequacy, aesthetic expression and ethical principles in education. Keywords author's fairy tale, preschool child, personality concept in education, musical skills

I create a diploma thesis with a combination of quantitative and qualitative research, which examines the process of integrating children into the environment of kindergartens. In this work, I comprehensively find out how the kindergarten team participates in the process of inclusion of socially disadvantaged children. In the theoretical part I characterize social pedagogy and groups of socially disadvantaged children, including the legislative definition. I mention documents relating to pre-school education and mention counseling services that serve teachers, parents and children in the field of social disadvantage. I divide the practical part into two phases of research. For the first phase of the empirical part, I choose quantitative research, where I find out by the method of a questionnaire survey, general information of teachers in the given issue, basic orientation in school documents and different methods of work. In the second phase of the practical part, in the form of qualitative research, I create unstructured interviews. Through the interview, I supplement the information obtained from the questionnaire survey and obtain comprehensive data on the process of integrating socially disadvantaged children into kindergarten. By setting the main goals of the diploma thesis, I find out the...

The diploma thesis deals with the issue of distinguishing and denominating of geometric models by children aged five to six years. The aim of the work is to find out to what extent children are currently able to distinguish the world of the plane and the world of space and to what extent these two worlds merge for children. There are three hypotheses. H1: "Children are able to identify at least half of objects from a set of spatial bodies selected from a construction set.", hypothesis H2: "More than a half of children are confused naming planar and spatial objects." and hypothesis H3: "When identifying some of the objects familiar to children, they come up with their own names for them." To verify them, quantitative research was used, which also used audio recording to get data and to be able analyze the observed phenomena. The research confirmed all of those three these hypotheses. Two thousand two hundred data were analyzed. The work on a sample of hundred children shows what the level of object distinction and naming them is currently among preschool children in the Pilsen region. It opens up a number of other areas that need to be further addressed and lots of questions to be answered. These include mixing the world of space and the plane. KEYWORDS Space; plane; identification of 3D objects;...

The bachelor thesis is focused on the use of artwork as an inspirational source of activities for children in kindergarten. The aim of this thesis is to develop thematic units, which are being focused on different eras, as well as from various artworks, and the artistic movements of their representatives. The theoretical part is dedicated to the period of preschool age and its specifics, on bringing the selected eras of fine art for working with children closer. In the theoretical part is also in the relation to the observation, outside of the developing of units, reflectively described the perception of fine art by child participant.

The diploma thesis deals with the problematic of education of children with socially disadvantage in nursery schools. The theoretical part elaborates the definition of the social disadvantage, its reasons and types. The text also deals with the social exclusion and the economical and demographical situation in Klatovy region. There thesis mentions also the laws and regulations relating to the children with special educational needs. The theoretical part deals with the possibilities of the support for the children with social disadvantage. I focused also on the institutions and organizations that can help the teachers as well as the families to solve different life situations. The research part focuses on teachers and assistant directors of the nursery schools in Klatovy region who meet and educate children with social disadvantage in the nursery schools. For research, I used the questionnaire and interview method. The main goal of the research inquiry was to find out the attitude of teachers to the education of the preschool children with social disadvantage in Klatovy, the prevailing types of social disadvantage and the experience of teachers with the supportive measures in practice. Thanks to the research performed, I found out that the occurrence frequency of children with social disadvantage in...

This Bachelor thesis is focused on literature for children which is viewed as a valuable information source for the development of kids empathy. The aim of this thesis is to examine this development and offer the opportunity to use it in kindergarten. The theoretical part is aimed at the historical chain of events in the area of development of children literature, literature awards and empathy which is defined and observed during the development of a child. The practical part is aimed at collecting quality children literature that supports the development of empathy from which is one book used in a topical part that couldn't have been realised due to the problems with the pandemic. Therefore, it was evaluated with the help of pedagogues from kindergartens, and it is going to be realised in the first chance possible.

The bachelor tesis is focused on movement activities of preschool aged children who are motivated by fairytale's stories. The main goal was to create a set of movement activities and also to highlight the possible connection between movement activities and fairy tales. The thesis consists of two parts. The theory part deals with a brief description of prechool age. It defines child's movement, their movement skills and abilities. If focused on the actual understanding of physical education with regard to the requirements of the Framework prechool education programme. It i salso directed on the importance of fairy tales stories in the child's life. The practical part consists of motoric activities and movement games suitable for a group of preschool aged children, that were included in the set. These activities are related to a specific fairy tale. The pilot programme has been teste dat the nursery school setting. Self reflection on the children as well as the teacher after each acitivity has been used for the evaluation of the project.

This bachelor's thesis is focused on the concept of art activities based on experiential learning in practice in preschools. The theoretical part contains five basic parts. The first part deals with the concept of preschool children and their development. The second part goes on to describe artistic activities and methods for managing them, while the third part is focused on developing children's drawing skills. The fourth part is focused on art techniques, which are further divided into traditional techniques and non-traditional techniques. Finally. the fifth part deals with experiential learning and its features. The research part contains practical instructions for implementing art activities, including experiential learning, with Individual activities being divided according to the age category of children.

Bachelor's thesis deals with the development of fine motor skills and graphomotor skills in the forest kindergartens from the perspective of people who work there. Based on the information provided and from personal experience, a "program" for the development of fine motor and graphomotor skills in the forest and outdoor environment is crated. The theoretical part includets chapters abou the history of forest kindergartens in our country and abroad, their operating conditions and philosophy. The child's motor development with a focus on fine motor skills and graphomotor skills is being discussed and examined with regards to the development of child's graphic expression, work habits, graphomotor exercises and the causes of graphomotor difficulties. The last chapter is examining the natural environment influences on child's development. Practical part is created from the research survey, it includes answered questions related to the aim of this work and a "program" for the development of fine motor and graphomotor skills in the forest and outdoor environment.

This bachelor thesis aims to characterize the relationship of preschool children to the issue of old age. The thesis consists of two parts. The first part is theoretical which, summarizes the knowledge in the areas of preschool age and old age, characterizes the relationship between children and seniors, works with the family environment, and in the last chapter deals with children's literature presenting the topic of an old age.The practical part of the thesis is based on instructional videos, which operate with the book Anna and Anička. Based on videos for distance education of preschool children, it was found out how children understand the issue of old age and what attitude they take towards it. Observations of children, interviews, and self-reflection of the teacher after each video are used for evaluation. In the practical part, there is also a supplementary questionnaire survey, which purpose was to find out whether and how kindergarten teachers work with this topic.

The Bachelor's thesis is focused on fine techniques and their application in kindergarten. The aim of this thesis is to find out what affects the choice of fine techniques and their incorporating by a teacher in the kindergarten. The thesis is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part is focused on current approach to fine techiques in context of Framework educational programme for preschool schooling. Moreover the characteristics of preschool child is defined, its progress from three to six years with orietation to art expression. There are quantitative questionnaire researches in practical part if this thesis. The issue is the survey questionnaire research focusing on factors which influence the choice of fine art by the teacher in kindergarten. The questionnaire survey is intended for pedagogs in kindergarten. The results of surveys are the base for creating themes of concrete activities for preschool children.

The goal of the bachelor thesis is to create authentic educational program for children in pre-school age "The Secret of Jeronym the Monk". Theoretical part addresses definition of pre-school period of children, their abilities and development of cognitive skills. It further contains methodology of gallery and museum education including a brief history Vyssi Brod monastery from 13th century to presence. Practical part describes specific program created for children. Entire story takes place on premises of Vyssi Brod monastery in the interiors available for "regular" tours. This children tour takes approximately 30 to 45 minutes. Thesis contains specialy designed worksheets, puzzles and stories which guides children during the entire tour. Children obtain at least one worksheet in every room of the monastery which they fill inmediately. Children visit 4 widespread spaces of the monastery in total.

This thesis deals with the development of social skills in preschool education using drama education methods. The thesis consists of two parts. In the theoretical part one can find the characteristics of the current concept of preschool education with regard to drama education, the definition of the term, as well as its principles, methods, forms, means. The thesis also deals with drama education as a means for social and cooperative learning.It deals with play and free play. Part of the practical part is the structure of the lesson, according to which there are 15 lessons focused on the development of social skills using drama education methods. All lessons are linked to the season and some are motivated stories. Each lesson includes objectives for the development of social skills which are linked to the national framework educational plan. For the lesson evaluation I used the method of observation, pupil evaluation and the teacher self-reflection.

This Diploma thesis is dealing with problematics of architectural solution of working space within kindergarten in context with conception of contemporary preschool education in the Czech Republic. The goal of the thesis is to analyze architectural and spatial conditions within selected kindergartens in the Czech Republic. The thesis is divided into two parts. Theoretical part is focused on preschool child, kindergarten, laws regulating architectural space solutions in kindergartens in the Czech Republic, and architectural and spatial parameters for kindergartens. The goal of thesis' practical part is to analyze how different spatial dispositions affect ongoing educational processes in examined kindergartens. Practical part states objectives of the thesis, research questions and methodological tools, applied during research phase of the thesis. It focuses on selected faculty kindergartens with different disposition solutions and analyzes their spatial disposition in relationship to educational processes and child's play. Then analyzes and compares different points of view to the problematics from selected professional educationalist and architects. Further the thesis summarizes recommendations on spatial arrangements, so they suit well all the needs of those participated in educational process. The...

Studie se zaměřuje na pilotní ověření pozorovacího archu COR Observation Items - Preschool Child Observation Record (2003) přizpůsobeného českému prostředí a představuje pilotní analýzu sociálních dovedností dětí na vybraných mateřských školách. Pro analýzu byla použita data z pozorování 153 dětí z vybraných mateřských škol. Studie potvrzuje možnost použití nástroje pro diagnostiku sociálních dovedností dětí v mateřské škole, nástroj citlivě reaguje na věkové a genderové odlišnosti dětí a homogenitu třídy. The study focuses on the pilot verification of the COR Observation Items - Preschool Child Observation Record (2003) adapted to the Czech environment and presents a pilot analysis of the social skills of children in selected kindergartens. Data from observations of 153 children from selected kindergartens were used for the analysis. The study confirms the possibility of using the tool for diagnosing children´s social skills in kindergarten. The tool responds sensitively to the age and gender differences of children and class homogeneity.

The aim of this bachelor thesis with the title "Theme of the Way in art-project pre-school educational activities in the kindergarten" is to design a set of creative activities linked to the Way in the context of art and environmental education in the kindergarten. In the theoretical part, the goal is to describe a characteristic of a pre-school child in the context of the cognitive functions development and to reflect a pedagogical potential of the topic - the phenomenon of the Way and its meanings related to the educational area The Child and the World. Didactical analyses also include an overview of the Way as the central theme in the fine arts, with an emphasis on the environmental art. The practical part consists of the design, realisation and documentation of my own series of intermedia creative art activities realised in the exterior of the forest kindergarten. The art project is comprised of 7 thematical parts.

The aim of my bachelor thesis is to map the emotion recognition skills of pre-school children. The theoretical part initially contains a basic definition of emotion and afterwards also deal with face databases and then the basic emotions, that are also a part of the empirical part of the thesis, are defined. The development of a pre-school child and its important milestones are also presented. Last but not least, the topic of emotion processing is explained, specifically the processing of facial expressions. The empirical part includes interviews with two kindergarten teachers including the headmistress, and a sample of 16 children (N = 16). The children are then divided into groups, based on the teachers' assessment, whether they have a problem with discipline or not and whether they come from a complete/incomplete family. Furthermore, they are compared with each other. The sample of children ranges from 4 to 5/6 years.

The bachelor thesis is devoted to the issue of death of domestic animals from the perspective of preschool children and their parents. The theoretical part focuses on the importance of animals in the lives of children, briefly presents the development of how children understand death and the specifics of their mourning. Finally, there are stated ways how we can help them overcome the grief of when their animal dies. The aim of the practical part is to map out the experiences and attitudes of parents and their children with the issue of death of domestic animals. Within the qualitative research, semi-structured in-depth interviews with six parents and their children were used. These interviews mainly concerned the children's reaction to the death of a pet, the parents' attitude to death and the way children interpret the death of their pet. It turned out that it is very difficult for the parents to explain the topic of death to the children. Parents shouldn't be afraid to talk to children, answer their questions and, above all, show them by example how to cope with difficult life situations.

The work is an empirical qualitative study dealing with the ways of spending leisure time in families with preschool children in rural areas. The theoretical framework provides the connection of three subfields of sociological research, sociology of family, way of life and rural sociology - while continuing a current debate, especially in the Czech social sciences. The empirical part presents a case study in a selected region of Český Krumlov, which tends to have lower population density and is characterized by rural way of life. Data will be obtained through semi-structured interviews. This diploma thesis wants to answer the question about ways of spending leisure time of parents with children in rural environment. The work will be processed according to the Methodical Aid for the processing of final theses.