The Use of Elements of Scouting to Socialize the Child in Kindergarten

The aim of the bachelor thesis was to verify elements of scouting in the socialization process of four-to-fiveyear-old children in kindergarten. The secondary aim was to create an intervention programme focused on the use of scouting in kindergarten. Four-to-five-year-old children from a particular kindergarten were selected for the research and were randomly divided into two groups. Once per week the experimental group completed an intervention program with elements of scouting for three months. This group was tested three times during this time. The control group did not join the intervention program; the group only participated in the testing three times. The used methods were the Vineland Social Maturity Scale (Kožený, 1973) and the Developmental Social Skills Scale (Bednářová & Šmardová, 2015). In evaluating the Vineland Social Maturity Scale (Kožený, 1973) the thesis focuses on children's social inclusion competence. At the end of the intervention program the experimental group demonstrated 2,5 points better social integration than the control group according to the Vineland Social Maturity Scale (Kožený, 1973). When assessing the Developmental Social Skills Scale (Bednářová & Šmardová, 2015), the experimental group achieved a bigger increase in "handles independently" responses by 6 social skills items compared to the control group. Although both groups were continuously developing socially throughout the period, the intervention programme with scouting elements resulted in more remarkable results in the socialisation of four to five years old children