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The topic of Sleeping Beauty rendered by elementary school children
NESIBOVÁ, Kateřina
This bachelor's thesis is divided into two parts - a theoretical part and a practical part. The practical part of the work which is conceived as a case study, aims on gaining an insight into how children of different age groups portray the fairytale story of Sleeping Beauty. The main focus is put on characteristics the children's art pieces have. The work aims to capture the interpretive potential of this topic in projective-interventional art therapy with children. The thesis deals with children's renditions of the fairytale Sleeping Beauty in its core part. The works of art were created by children from a smaller elementary school in art education class. Children's pictures are examined from the point of view of selected formal aspects, the greatest emphasis is placed on the depicted stages of the story and the characters associated with them. Short interviews were also held with some of the authors, and these are used as an additional data collection method. The research part is preceded by a theoretical part, in which one whole chapter is dedicated to the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty - the plot of the most widespread variants of the story is presented and these variants are also compared with one another. This chapter also tries to analyze and interpret the individual symbols contained in the fairy tale. The next chapter of the theoretical part of the thesis is devoted to fairy tales in general, especially to their importance in people's lives, and especially in the children's lives. The theoretical part of the work also anchors important concepts related to art therapy, which is presented as a discipline that works with the artistic expression of a person in a specific way. Morever, the theoretival part also deals with the specifics of adolescence, especially from the point of view of developmental psychology and from the point of view of contemporary pediatrics. In the last part of the thesis, possibilities for pedagogical usage of various children's renditions of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty in real work with primary school pupils are suggested.
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