Leisure Activities in the Institutions for Institutional and Protective Education in South Bohemian Region

I devided the theoretical part of my bachelor thesis called Leisure Activities in Facilities for Institutional and Protective Education in South Bohemian Region into five main chapters. First I briefly describe the concepts of special education and ethopedy that institutional and protective education deal with. The first chapter deals with the conditions under which children can get into the facilities. In the second chapter, there is a description of all kinds of facilities for institutional and protective care. The third chapter deals with the general description of behavioral disorders, causes a brief rundown of individual and selected the most common behavioral disorders. The fourth chapter is devoted to the concept of leisure, factors influencing leisure. For quality research, I chose the form of semi-structured interview that I realized with the facilities employees . The aim of the research part of my thesis was to find out what leisure activities facilities offer for institutional and protective education in the South Bohemian Region and how they are used by clients of those facilities. I arranged the research questions in such a way to find out what kind of leisure the facilities offer to the clients from children´s homes, children's homes with school, or in the diagnostic institute or other educational institutions, and which leisure activities are most used by clients. First, I analyzed available materials about individual devices. I used the annual reports, web pages and not least the inspection report of ČŠI of the Czech Republic. The aim of this analysis was to identify the official information about leisure activities in the surveyed facilities. Then I contacted all 11 facilities for institutional and protective education in the South Bohemian Region. I cooperated with 9 facilities. The most respondents consisted of children´s homes and further diagnostic and educational institutes. On the base of above mentioned facts, I found out that leisure activities in the facilities or outside them is very varied and depends on the location of the facility, the size of the town and its offerings, facilities and equipment at the focus of the teaching staff. The research shows that facility clients have many activities that do not use either, as the interest of today's children is short-lived. The sports activities are used most of all, because the most of facilities are well equipped for sport both in gyms and on the outdoor playground. The girls are interested in ceramics first of all. In most facilities, there is their own workshop, where the pottery is done and where there is a ceramic kiln too. The most of facilities has for children a large choise of interest groups in the facility and outside it at the beginning of the school year. Children can choose at least one activity. If a child is interested in an activity that is not in the choise, it is possible to arrange it for him/her, if there is something similar in the surroundings. The facilities try to allow children as much as it is possible and affordable. The most of the facilities pay the activity in groups and clubs six months or a year in advance which they do not like. The reason is the children are keen on the activity at the beginning but after a few months, they want to end up with an activity. They often prefer separate walks and smoking. The research also shows that the greatest interest of children coming into the facilities is undesirable peer group and related issues. Therefore, children in the facilities prefer separate walks where you can go off-campus to smoke. My bachelor thesis can serve as information material to the public and especially for students of special pedagogy. The educationalists dealing with behavioral problems could find here something useful