Kinesiology, Vol. 30 No. 1, 1998.
Original scientific paper
Analysis of the way primary and secondary school students in the republic of Slovenia spend their summer holidays
Jože Štihec
; Faculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Janko Strel
; Faculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract
In the research we tried to analyze the way in which primary and secondary school students spend their summer holidays. The study included 1289 boys and girls - the third, fifth and seventh graders of primary school, and 1601 students from all four grades of secondary schools in Slovenia. The subjects for the sample were systematically chosen according to stratification criteria in order to equally cover the whole area of the Republic of Slovenia. The schools were from urban, industrial and rural environments. Secondary schools were of all types. The results showed that Slovenian students do not use their holidays as we might have expected. They waste too much time watching TV and playing with videogames or a computer. They do engage themselves in some sport activities, but time spent on them is too short. Students complained that the school is totally inactive; namely, during the summer holidays it offers hardly any programs for them. The youngsters’ declining attitude towards the useful, active and healthy way of spending their spare time will strongly affect their adulthood lifestyle. A negative approach to the active use of free time, as a personal system of values created in youth, may continue to exist in the future as a bad influence or example for the next generations. Therefore, one of the main roles of the sport education process (during the holidays also) is encouragement of children to participate in sport activities. Children should embrace the idea that sport can make life brighter and richer, and that it can neutralize the negative effects of the contemporary style of living.
Keywords
primary school pupils, secondary school students, summer holidays, spare lime activities
Hrčak ID:
256522
URI
Publication date:
26.4.1998.
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