Family camping: a case study of the potential for personal development

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the family camping phenomenon and its educative potential in education between generations. The study focused on the tradition of family camping in the Czech countryside and it shows the club Veteran Green as a typical Czech example of this leisure activity. This study used a sequential combine design of empirical research based on an autoethnographic examination and survey of both adult (n = 14) and children (n = 14) participants (together from 9 families) of a family camp in the Czech Republic. The paper indicated four dimensions of the leisure experience: the phenomena of family, community, nature and spirituality.

Keywords

• family camping
• Veteran Green
• family
• nature
• community