PdF:CORE039 European Children & Teen Lit. - Course Information
CORE039 Strolling through Europen Children and Teeage Literature
Faculty of EducationSpring 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Milena Šubrtová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Milena Šubrtová, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education - Timetable
- Thu 8:00–9:50 učebna 30
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- ! PROGRAM ( B - CJ3S ) || ! PROGRAM ( N - CJ2 ) || ! PROGRAM ( N - CJC2 ) || ! PROGRAM ( M - ZS15 )
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 100 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 67/100, only registered: 0/100, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/100 - Course objectives
- The aim of the course is to provide students (only within the study programs) with an analysis of literary works on literary historical development and reception dynamic European literature for children and youth, their interpretive competencies and their independent thinking about intergenerational cultural connection and common aesthetic and ethical values, which are stored in books for children and young people and contribute to the formation of national identity and a common European cultural framework. Studying literature for children and young people means focusing not only on the values we have inherited, but above all on those we want to pass on.
- Learning outcomes
- Students will be able to independently interpret and critically evaluate the world literary production intended for children and youth on the basis of the knowledge of literary-historical topics. They will perceive the continuity and interaction of literary works in a world context across national literatures and epochs. They can orientate himself in the book offer and they select suitable titles for his own literary work and for use in interdisciplinary overlaps.
- Syllabus
- The beginnings of European literature for children and youth, the Robinson myth versus pedagogical novel.
- What did children read 200 years ago?
- Theory of the origin of folk tales and their path to literature for children.
- Hans Christian Andersen and others - successes in the field of artificial fairy tales for children despite the original author's ambitions.
- Pinocchio as a metaphor of childhood and adolescence and its adaptive forms from the 19th to the 21st century.
- Excursion to the land of nonsense from Alice in Wonderland to Winnie the Pooh.
- Petr Pan as the myth of eternal childhood.
- Is the Little Prince a philosophical fairy tale for children?.
- Astrid Lindgren provocative, revolting, comforting, ballad.
- Jostein Gaarder, David Almond and others who are not afraid to talk to children about death.
- Timothée de Fombelle and his fictional worlds near and far.
- Picture narratives - books for which we do not need a translator, but an interpreter.
- Literature
- required literature
- MANDYS, Pavel. 2 x 101 knih pro děti a mládež : nejlepší a nejvlivnější knihy. 1. vydání. V Praze: Albatros, 2013, 430 stran. ISBN 9788000033365. info
- recommended literature
- Slovník autorů literatury pro děti a mládež. Edited by Ivan Dorovský - Vlasta Řeřichová. 1. vyd. Praha: Libri, 2007. 847 s. ISBN 9788072773145.
- not specified
- ŠUBRTOVÁ, Milena. Tematika smrti v české a světové próze pro děti a mládež. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2007, 127 s. ISBN 9788021044135. info
- časopis Bookbird (www.ibby.org)
- Časopis Strenae; viz https://journals.openedition.org/strenae/
- SALTER, Colin. 100 children's books : that inspire our world. Edited by Hetty Hopkinson. London: Pavilion, 2020, 224 stran. ISBN 9781911641087. info
- Teaching methods
- Students will be led by lectures to think about the potential of literature for children and youth, to develop their literary knowledge and in subsequent discussions to refine interpretive skills.
- Assessment methods
- Type of instruction: lecture. Requirements for completion: the course ends with a colloquial discussion or written reflection (in the range of 3-5 pages) of one of the topics chosen by the student, which was lectured.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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