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The role of graphic aids in school work with narrative text
Pospíšil, Albert ; Vojtíšek, Ondřej (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
The thesis explores the ways in which various visual tools, aids and organizers can be used to represent selected elements of narrative text in the school classroom in ways that aid comprehension of the text as well as its interpretation without constituting it themselves. Such aids include various maps, graphs, diagrams, but also text restructured in various ways in space, whether in the form of trees, clouds or various formulae, for example. The text is introduced by a theory of visual aids, their contribution to teaching and the ways in which they are conceived and understood in the context of aiding comprehension. On this basis, it then builds a basic categorization of the visual aids that may be encountered. This is followed by an analysis of some of these aids and tools and an assessment of their contribution to school teaching. The following section discusses some of the literary-theoretical concepts that help to illuminate the sub-issues of the tools analysed and also form the basis for the practical treatment of these tools in school work. The practical section then focuses on two texts: Božena Němcová's The Grandmother, where the it is viewed from the perspective of space and its boundaries, and The Brooch, a short story by American writer William Faulkner, which attempts to capture both...
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By the Paths Through the Text: Didactic Interpretation and Interpretive Tasks in Secondary School Literature Teaching
Vojtíšek, Ondřej ; Králíková, Andrea (advisor) ; Koten, Jiří (referee) ; Vojtěch, Daniel (referee)
Literary work as a landscape - interpretation of text as setting a path in it - a didactic interpretation as providing a map. This (largely familiar and well-established) metaphor is at the heart of the work entitled By the Paths Through the Text: Didactic Interpretation and Interpretive Tasks in Secondary School Literature Teaching. Even with the help of that image (but mainly underpinned by reception and semiotic literary theories), the text in its first chapters establishes and elaborates such a conception of interpretation (the formulation of meaning in relation to a particular reader) and its didactic attribute (its own potential to teach interpretation), which seems to be advantageous for thinking about interpretation- oriented teaching (and interpretation taking place in dialogue more generally) and about the possibilities to assess (especially with closed tasks) the degree of students' acquisition of the process of interpretation, in the last chapters. To this end, it puts the theoretical concept of 'interpretation skills' - the possibility of segmenting the act of the journey towards interpretation into potential steps that can be intelligibly named, taught and (relatively separately) tested - at the centre, and even attempts a tentative enumeration of these. This list, then, is not meant...
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Textual Transformations of Czech Cover-versions of Foreign Lyrics
Kácová, Barbora ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Vojtíšek, Ondřej (referee)
(in English) This bachelor's thesis deals with Czech cover versions of English songs created during the period of normalization. In the first part of the thesis, a more general cultural framework is defined, in which the cover version is understood as a set of mechanisms of cultural transfer. It is therefore also necessary to take into account the socio-political context (i.e. especially the adaptation to the needs of the past regime's ideology). Although, this thesis is primarily literary-theoretical, it also takes into account historical and musically-theoretical interpretations. The second part of this thesis mainly focuses on the actual comparison of individual text pairs, which is carried out on the basis of an analysis of the preservation of the factual content of the text components (narrative and phonetic components, metaphorical apparatus).
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Processes of adaptation of Czech singer-songwriters' poetics in the 1990s
Matys, Tomáš ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Vojtíšek, Ondřej (referee)
The bachelor thesis focuses on the phenomenon of Czech singer-songwriting in the context of continuities and discontinuities of the 1990s, which have been rather neglected by previous research due to its centre of gravity in the preceding period. Through a motivic analysis of the contemporary song production of selected singer-songwriters ("poets-with-guitars", "folk- poets", but also "folk-outsiders"), it reflects on the possible transformation of their authorial poetics and the search for new themes, or, on the contrary, shows the process of canonization and the contextual attachment of the personality and its production to the past regime. Part of the work, therefore, is to trace the filling of the free media space by the peculiar market production of the chosen singer-songwriters on the background of Bourdieu's concept of the literary field. It is precisely the research into the content of music and book media that is meant to illustrate who was releasing new and who was merely "recycling" old, but period-rooted hits. Keywords: singer-songwriter - poet-with-guitar - folk-poet - folk-outsider - long nineties - half-time - adaptation - canonization - production - literary field
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Interpretation of fairy tales authored by Josef Štefan Kubín
Vojtíšek, Ondřej ; Vaněk, Václav (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
Interpretation of fairy tales authored by Josef Štefan Kubín Ondřej Vojtíšek Abstract: This bachelor's thesis deals with interpretation of Josef Štefan Kubín's author fairy tales both in theory and application. Its goal is to describe options of interpretation of children's literature and to demonstrate these options by means of Kubín's literal work. As a result, this bachelor's thesis also highlights semantics riches and valuable qualities of this part of Kubín's work, which is being neglected by publishers nowadays. In its theoretical part, the thesis addresses several issues: different ways of interpretation of fairy tales, specification of the term "author fairy tale" and the different forms of Kubín's fairy tales. As a method of interpretation, synthesis of several approaches (Franz, Šmahelová, Urbanová, and others) was used and each of these approaches was described by one example. This synthesis provides insight into the meaning of fairy tales that can be therefore understood as representation of situations outlined not only with help of motives but with help of specific expressions as well. Collections of fairy tales authored by Kubín are analyzed in respect to the amount of Kubín's own invention compared with the quantity of folk motives. This analysis is accompanied by brief Kubín's biography and...
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Children's prose by Petra Soukupová
Černovská, Tereza ; Segi Lukavská, Jana (advisor) ; Vojtíšek, Ondřej (referee)
(in English): In the bachelor thesis we analyse use of the child aspect within the intentional children's literature of current Czech author Petra Soukupová. We carry out the analysis of the following chosen titles, fitting to the category of children's literature: Bertík a čmuchadlo (2014), Kdo zabil Snížka? (2017) and Klub divných dětí (2019). The target of the first part of this thesis is definition of children's literature (LPDM), a child aspect and an (child) implied reader. In the second part of this bachelor thesis we use the concepts defined in the previous theoretical part and we already apply these concepts in overall analysis of titles. After we defined the theoretical concepts, we find out that the concept of the child implied reader closely relates with the child aspect and hence we consider them as interchangeable in this bachelor thesis and it is not needed to develop child implied reader as an individual concept in the practical part. In the closing section we evaluate the results of the interpretation and the extent of application of the child aspect within the analysed titles.
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Interpretation of texts in secondary school reading-books
Výborná, Adéla ; Vojtíšek, Ondřej (advisor) ; Králíková, Andrea (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the interpretation of snippets of literary works contained in secondary school reading-books and examines the extent to which texts of reading-books can represent the literary works. We start from the premise that short snippets in reading-books cannot contain all the dominant interpretative directions of the whole work and students may get the wrong impression of the meaning of the whole piece. We therefore want to examine to what extent and how these snippets can be misleading, how much can they lead to inadequate interpretations, whether a trend in selecting snippets by the authors of reading-books can be observed, or if the reading-books differ substantially in their choice of snippets. We proceed firstly by always interpreting the whole work, analysing its individual motives and inferring possible interpretative directions. Then we do the same with individual fragments of the work from our selected reading-books. We focus on what interpretative directions the texts of the reading-books tend to have and what impressions they can create in the students. In conclusion, we formulate the result of our analysis and propose solutions for creating snippets that would be more suitable representations of such works without suppressing other functions (e.g. motivational...
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"National revival" as a didactic problem
Paulus, Petr ; Králíková, Andrea (advisor) ; Vojtíšek, Ondřej (referee)
This thesis concern with the teaching of the literature of the czech national revival at the secondary school. Its aim is to analyze selected textbooks and manuals used in secondary schools and based on this analysis it tries to characterize the most important aspects of this period. It describes how the term "national revival" is explained to high school students, what is the time range of this period, which authors of this section of czech literary history are included in individual textbooks and also in the canon of works required for the final school- leaving examination. It compares individual aspects with the starting points of the professional literature. The work raises the question of whether and to what extent textbooks create an image of this topic for school purposes, how they affect students' awareness of the topic. Finally, it proposes specific procedures and activities that can be used in teaching the literature of the czech national revival at secondary schools and grammar schools.
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The Comparison of Selected High School Textbooks of Czech Literature from the First Half of the 20th Century
Bendová, Klára ; Merhaut, Luboš (advisor) ; Vojtíšek, Ondřej (referee)
The topic of the presented thesis is a comparison of selected high school textbooks of Czech literature, which were created and used during the first half of the 20th century, in terms of sociopolitical changes (i.e. notably changes in education related to transformation of the system of government in 1918, 1938 and 1948) and changes in the discourse of Czech literary historiography (especially in view of the major literary-historical works of the period). The thesis aims to examine the extent to which the image of Czech literature presented in high school textbooks has changed with respect to the named factors and, on the contrary, to what extent continuity has been maintained within the concept of teaching literature. The thesis is therefore mainly focused on the choice of taught material, its structure, resp. interpretation in the analyzed textbooks. In the introductory (methodological) part of the thesis major literary-historical works, resp. theories of the given period (with regard to the changes of high school literary teaching in the first half of the 20th century) will be briefly introduced and selected thematically related works will be reflected. In the practical part of the thesis the comparison will be made on the basis of defined aspects.
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The Ways of Interpreting "Authorial Fairy Tales" at Secondary School
Vojtíšek, Ondřej ; Vaněk, Václav (advisor) ; Králíková, Andrea (referee)
The goal of diploma work "The Ways of Interpreting 'Authorial Fairy Tales' at Secondary School" is to present various ways how to interpret fairy tales with students of literature at secondary schools. This goal is reached by means of two endeavours. First, the role of fairy tales and frequency of their usage in teaching of literature at secondary schools are analyzed. Such analysis is important as fairy tales seem to be a rather neglected and less studied genre among those used as teaching tools at secondary schools. Second, ways and methods of interpretation suitable for secondary schools are proposed. This endeavour is motivated by the current societal need to cultivate and develop test questions that verify abilities of students to interpret texts. These two lines of research run separately through the diploma thesis at first and come together not until the final part of it. The analysis of the role of fairy tales in teaching of literature at secondary schools forms the first part of the diploma thesis. Data for analysis have been gained from secondary school teaching manuals, from lists of books needed for final exams, and from Internet survey conducted among teachers. At the very beginning, the educational advantages of using fairy tales when teaching interpretation, such as clarity of text,...
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