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The bachelor's thesis focuses on the use of experiential pedagogy at a summer camp for children. The theoretical section deals with children's camps, experiential pedagogy, and its applications in the field of free-time pedagogy for the social development of students. The study focuses on the adaptation of new students and their relationships with future classmates at a summer camp for children aged 15 to 18. The analysis also applies to the camp program's use of experiential pedagogy methods. In summary, it appears that the new student camp assisted in the formation of multidisciplinary relationships as well as orientation in the school's climate and the establishment of rules.

The bachelor's thesis deals with the growth of interest in creative activities within photography. The theoretical part deals with the concept of leisure, which is divided into subsections on leisure pedagogy, interest, animation and the leisure educator. It then focuses on the history of photography in the 20th century and the relationship between photography and leisure. It further discusses the portrait, which was a central theme for human photography, and photographing it in the natural light of a window, outdoors, or with studio artificial lighting. The practical part is devoted to an educational project that was organized in three photographic blocks in DDM with children aged 10-13. The method sheets describe the realized blocks including the theme, task, educational goals, motivation, technique, material, time allocation, course of the activity, assessment and reflection of the realized activity.

The work deals with the theme of death and hospice care. Its outcome is creation of suggestion for didactic programme about death and hospice care for age-group from fifteen to eighteen. The work introduces value-oriented education and hospice institutions. Further it shows different perspectives on death. It also deals with perceiving of death during life. In the last part it analyses interviews about death that are further used as base for the didactic programme.

Bachelor thesis is focused on differences in spending free time youth after World War II and today. The theoretical part is focused to the development of free time and on its theoretical principle. In the theoretical part consist of basic concepts and sciences, which deal with free time. The practical part is processed using a questionnaire. Research results show how young people spent their free time after World War II and how young people spend today.

The main topic of the presented thesis is to make the reader acquainted with the basic terminology of the free-time issues and to make clear the forms, methods and techniques of the literature-drama education and their possible usage in practice at the leisure education. The first chapter of the thesis deals with the issues of leisure time and with science disciplines that consider free time. In the second chapter the following terms are mentioned: the interest, the game and the leisure activities. These terms are divided with specialization in aesthetic-educational leisure activities. The principal part of the thesis is the third chapter which describes the application of literature and drama education in leisure time. The project method and project types are described in the fourth chapter. The planning, the realization and the evaluation of the project make another part of this chapter. The Appendix I contains the project photo- documentation. The application form of The parents´ permission to publication of children´s photographs is presented in the Appendix II.

This final thesis introduces empathy like one of the target of education and learning. It defines the terms emotion and emotional intelligence. It gives information about the notion education in the free time ? its characteristic, targets and methods. It deals with possibilities of development of empathy during the education in the free time. It describes the targets of the education in preschool and school age. It deals with the historical development of the term, evolutional conditions to empathy and the connections with the moral cognizance in the chapter about empathy. It describes some of the factors that can develop the empathetic behaviour in the last chapter.

This thesis focuses on art activities as part of the socialisation of young adult prisoners within a social work setting. It is divided into two parts: theoretical and practical. The first part defines some basics terms, the characteristics of the target group with an emphasis on the prison sentence and activities necessary for incarceration. It also delimits pedagogy and the pedagogical disciplines related to imprisonment. Also in the theoretical part concepts connected with art activities are divided: art and socialization and their meaning in human life. The practical part was carried out in the prison in České Budějovice and was focused on young adults serving sentence. The knowledge from the theoretical part was applied with particular reference to the author´s project: ?Putování malého prince?, which was focused on the development of creativity and cooperation in the framework of socialization. It offers one of the possibilities how imprisoned people can spend their free time meaningfully.