Književna vzgoja kot profesionalni izziv bodočih vzgojiteljev/vzgojiteljic in učiteljev/učiteljic

slovenian

2006

volume 17, issue 1/2

young adult literature    curriculum 

Slovensko društvo raziskovalcev šolskega polja
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

Initial studies for the teaching professions provide an academic basis and a vocational qualification; the emphasis in university-level studies is on the professional skills needed by teachers in contemporary society such as masteryof educational processes and in-depth knowledge of a specific (subject)area. The article sheds light on the importance of research into children's relationships with juvenile literature in the undergraduate education of future teachers as a way of improving reading culture and literacy in the child's pre-school and school phases. The author bases her argument on the communicative role of juvenile literature and the reception capacity of younger children. In the research carried out by undergraduates she emphasises the use of literary studies findings relating to juvenile literature genres, particularly fairytales (V. Propp, A. Goljevšček, M. Kobe) and picture books (M. Nikolajeva, M. Avguštin), and consideration of the reception processes of the young recipient (W. Iser, H. R. Jauss, M. Kordigel). This means a starting-point for the stimulation of the process by which the child makes sense of textual and artistic worlds, as outlined by literary teaching models aimed at a convergence of quality literary productionfor children in an age of relentless pressure from trivial juvenile literature and modern media. The aim of the undergraduate research summarisedin the article is to show how the testing of new theoretical starting-points from both pedagogical/psychological and subject spheres in an authentic learning environment opens the way to finding new knowledge that facilitates successful work with children.

09.08.2012