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Childern's reading as an indicator of background and development of child and society
VáclavíkováHelšusová, Lenka ; Šubrt, Jiří (advisor) ; Havlík, Radomír (referee) ; Horák, Josef (referee)
Text deals with reading as one of components indispensable for an individual's existence in the modern society. The focus is mainly on the children's reading as a demonstration of acquiring reading habits, which one keeps from childhood for their future life. The author defines reading as a set of skills, habits and attitudes, which are treated in the main body of the text. The first part of the work presents several aspects typical of today's society using some select theories, which show the importance of the reading literacy of the individual. This means mainly theories focused on informational or cognitive nature of the society, its cognitive structure and reproduction of learning. Next, the gender differentiation in cognitive structure is presented and also the issue of leisure time - themes, which are important for the subsequent treating of the analysis of the children's reading status. Concluding the first part the author presents the functional literacy concept as the basis, out of which the children's reading literacy is taken for the following analysis. The part two analyses explicitly the state of children's reading in the Czech Republic in the sense of identification of basic elements, which form it, and contexts, in which it is generated. The analysis uses available sociological data, which...
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