Youth is an extremely relevant phase in a person˙s life, since it represents the transformation from childhood into adulthood, and it`s interesting to observe adolescents in their everyday life in their most autonomous field: leisure time. In my graduate thesis entitled Adolescents in leisure time activities: an example of Ledina High School students I will first theorethically, and later empirically, research young people`s views on their leisure time. In theoretical part I will present different definitions of youth and leisure time, examine their concepts, and specifically expose characteristics of these in Slovenia. In empirical part, in interviews, I will try to understand what is the meaning of leisure time for youth, how they spend it, what is their attitude towards it, etc., and recognize young people`s needs, values, characteristics, habits, (self)identities and young people in general, which is primarly my goal. My findings will be presented in the analysis, where I will compare them to previous resarches conclusions about adolescents` free time. In conclusion I will either confirm or deny hypotheses, which I made in the introduction and also reflect my ideas about the future of youth in free time from critical perspective.
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