Original scientific paper

FREE TIME STYLES OF HIGHSCHOOL STUDENTS IN SLAVONIA AND BARANJA

Vesnica Mlinarević ; Visoka učiteljska škola Sveučilišta J. J. Strossmayera u Osijeku

Abstract

This article deals with the contents dimension of high school students’ free time which defines their recognizable life-style. The styles of high school student’s free time throw light not only on their behaviours and life orientations, but also on the specificity of the social context in which they are growing up. The point of reference is found in studies showing that active and meaningful spending of free time contributes to the personality development. As the free time serves not only the purpose of self-actualization, rest and recreation but is also important for education, in this article we consider it from the pedagogical point of view. The aim of this study was to establish the appearance of different styles on the bases of contents that high school students prefer in their free-time space. The results of the investigation show that the free time of high school students from Slavonija and Baranja is not an integral and pedagogically organized space. High school students prefer free-time styles: elite, hedonistic, sportive/recreational and traditional-(non)conventional. Slavonian high-school students are neither non-specific nor unrecognizable; they express their free time culture by elite, recreational, and traditionalnon)conventional styles. We can divide them on those who are modern, those who are traditionally oriented and those who are drowned in consumerism and hedonism in the hedonistic style.

Keywords

free time; education for free time; motivation; behaviours of young people; free time activities; lifestyles of the young; free time culture

Hrčak ID:

139361

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/139361

Publication date:

22.12.2004.

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