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The Use of Fairy tales and the Development of Pre-literacy Through the Eyes of Parents
Jindrová, Vendula ; Ferklová, Alžběta (advisor) ; Loudová Stralczynská, Barbora (referee)
This Bachelor Thesis deals with the use of fairy tales and the development of pre-literacy by parents of preschool children. The thesis is dividend into a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part focuses on fairy tales, their origin, characteristic features and their influence on children's development. It also focuses on pre-literacy and its developmnet in children of preschool age. In the practical part, answers to research questions will be sought in the form of questionnaire for parents of preschool children. The goal is to find out how and how often parents of preschool children use fairy tales at home. Furthermore, the goal is to determine whether parents only use fairy tales passively or actively, and to investigate whether parents are aware of the influence of literature on children's development. Then, based on the answers obtained, create methodical material - a manual with suggested activities that parents could apply to (almost) any fairy tale and which supports better use of fairy tales in a family environment. With the help of this supportive material, parents would be able to work with fairy tales better and more efficiently, and thus would specifically support the development of pre- literacy in their children. The effectiveness of this tool in the family environment...
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Fairytale
Lázničková, Klára ; Babáková, Bernardeta (referee) ; Klímová, Barbora (advisor)
The diploma project Fairy Tale involves performative works with the poems as a diary record and its sharing. As part of my project, I offer my narrative poems written in a fairy tale language, as an act of sharing and therefore engagement with the readers and audience as participants. The poems were written spontaneously, reflecting a particular time in my life. They carry the sadness and suffering of the archetype the princesses and are an authentic description as well as an attempt to cope with a particular traumatic situation through different periods of time. The individual poems can serve as different perspectives on a given situation and reveal my ability or inability to look more consciously at unpleasant life situations. For me, the fairy tale world carries a stubbornness and underlines the painfulness of the illusions created; through it, I encounter stereotypical views of gender roles in the poems, observing my patterns of behavior and the sources of painful emotions. I associate the fairytale world of princes and princesses with the first great frustration and lies carrying confusion over the functioning, form and course of interpersonal partner relationships. I would like to dedicate my thesis to the sharing of intrinsic emotions in all their forms, mistakes, pains, smallness and strength and to interpersonal bonds, reciprocity, the ability to share, self-reflection, communication and sensitivity.
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The classical and modern form of the fairytale: K. J. Erben and J. Mahen
POKORNÁ, Zuzana
This bachelor's thesis aims to compare two forms of the author's fairy tale, the classic of Karel Jaromír Erben and the modernist of Jiří Mahen. First, we focus on the individual identical and different elements between the fairy tales examined. The work Morphology of a Fairy Tale by V. J. Propp and other professional literature will help us with our analysis. The following theoretical chapter is devoted to a deeper acquaintance with individual publications. In the end, we will summarize all the findings.
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Working with a Fairy tale in a Kindergarten
MAXEROVÁ, Šárka
The Bachelor thesis focuses on the use of fairy tales as a tool in the development of kindergarten children. The aim of the thesis is to demonstrate and verify in practice that fairy tales have a potential to educate children in all educational areas listed in the Framework Educational Programme for Preschool Education. The theoretical part of the work defines the term fairy tale, folk tale and its genre variants, looks at the child's world and its connection to fairy tales, investigates the possibilities of solving problems with the help of fairy tales, looks into the story of "Little Red Riding Hood" in terms of psychology, and focuses on storytelling and reading fairy tales in kindergartens. It also analyses preschool children and describes their motor, cognitive, emotional, and social development. The practical part introduces the proposed project "Little Red Riding Hood" which describes activities related to the fairy tale. The project is implemented in a kindergarten environment and aims to help develop key competencies established in the Framework Educational Programme for Preschool Education. The evaluation draws attention to possible issues of the project.
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Working with a fairy tale book in kindergarten.
HÜTTNEROVÁ, Šárka
The bachelor's thesis focuses on the development of language skills through the use of stories made of cubes using fairy tales. The aim of the thesis is to characterize the fairy tale as a means of developing the child's personality in the area of preliteracy and language skills development in preschool children. The theoretical part deals with preliteracy and reading strategies. It characterizes the current conception of preschool education and the developmental peculiarities of the preschool child with regard to the development of language skills and reading preliteracy. In the practical part, a program based on reading continuation was designed to develop children's reading preliteracy using reading strategies. Stories were created with the children using blocks, thus developing their language skills. Observation, interview and analysis of educational materials were used during the implementation of the activities. Reading activities that promote children's interest in books and related activities proved to be appropriate. The children expanded their vocabulary, and improved their expressive skills.
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Reading as Psychotherapy and the Role of Imagination in the Work of Catherine Storr
FIALOVÁ, Veronika
The aim of the bachelor thesis is a detailed analysis of Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr focusing on the psychological meaning and therapeutic role of children's literature. The theoretical part of the thesis connects the issues of fantasy literature and psychology with respect to the role of psychotherapy, which is related to the escape from the reality, liberation through imagination, as well as the topics such as time travel and dreams travel. Particular attention is paid to the personal, literary and professional experience of the writer and psychologist Catherine Storr. The literary analysis of the novel, which links reality with fantasy, deals with the following issues: the portraits of the child and adult characters, the relationships between children, the role of particular motifs (bicycle, one-eyed stones, grid, etc.) and themes (illness, liberation, etc.). The conclusion sums up the representation of traumatic experience, recovery and renewal, and the moral meaning of the story. The thesis includes a questionnaire research dealing with the parents reading to their children, inspired by Catherine Storr's ideas and related to the importance of passing literature to children. This online questionnaire is processed through graphs.
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Once Upon a Time, or, Fairy-tale motives in The Witcher?
HRADECKÁ, Simona
Bachelor thesis is dedicated to the fantasy cycle The Witcher, written by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski. Thesis points out fairy tale motives. Andrzej Sapkowski has inspired himself by other worldwide known writers, such as brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen or Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. These motives are most evident in the part of the cycle regarding the stories. Thesis focuses on stories in which are individual fairy tale motives very apparent and on those where the motives are seen only marginally. The main source for my bachelor thesis are classical fairy tales, Andrzej´s Sapkowski´s stories and scientific publications defining the genre of fantasy and fairy tales. First part of the thesis is dedicated to both of the literature genres, where their general characteristic is outlined. Bachelor thesis serves as a basic reflection of the fairy tales motives in The Witcher, by which Andrzej Sapkowski has inspired himself in classical fairy tales and incorporates them into concrete stories.
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The importance of fairy tales for children in elementary school - analysis of selected stories
JÍLKOVÁ, Michaela
This bachelor's thesis aims to explore the effect of fairy tales on adolescent pupils in primary school. Theoretical part concerns about meaning of fairy tales, symbols,romani culture and children's art. Practical part contains research of school children's art, its interestingness and of similarities and differences in children's artistic expression. Twenty 7th grade pupils from two different classes participated in the research, with one class having history of good marks while the other consists of romani children with bad marks, who repeated a year. In the conclusion part the results of the research and of children's art analysis are summarized.
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Selected Fairy-tale Creatures and Their Stereotyped Perception of Attributes by Czech Children
TANCEROVÁ, Kristýna
This Bachelor thesis deals with stereotypical perception of fairy tale characters by Czech children. It analyses the concepts of stereotype and folklore. The characters which are being observed are specifically the princess and the witch. Those characters are defined according to czech dictionaries. Moreover, they are presented with the aid of literature writings by concrete authors. Practical part is composed of survey interview which provides information about how are the fairy tales character's attributes, activities and status percieved by Czech children based on their knowledge of Czech fairy tales.
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