CJp311 Chapters from Literature Methodology for Secondary Schools

Faculty of Education
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jitka Zítková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Milena Šubrtová, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Petra Rozbořilová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course deepens the theoretical basics of literature teaching didactic, by further discussing the issues of teaching literature at secondary schools, the questions of the course’s goals, contents and its structure and above all, discussing its methods. Students will undestand the process of literary education at secondary schools in the general and curricular sense, they will understand the issues of the interpretative and teaching methods of teaching literature, the role of creativity, the functions and methods of assessment.
Learning outcomes
Students will be able to explain and assess the literature teaching approaches in the general and curricular sense, they will be able to explain the basic issues of using the traditional and modern teaching methods and forms of activation for teaching literature at elementary schools, the roles of creativity and creative thinking, they will be able to explain the methods of evaluation and classification.
Syllabus
  • 1. The past opinions on teaching literature at secondary schools. 2. The conception of the objectives and the curriculum of literary education in current educational programs. The objectives and content of teaching literature in the curriculum. 3. Course specification in the school programs, the concept of the maturita exam. 4. Models of the literary education, methodical systems of teaching literature as viewed by the current theories of teaching literature. 5. The methodology of teaching literature at secondary schools. Classification of teaching methods. 6. The relationship between methods and phases of a combined literary education lesson. 7. The specifics of the didactic interpretation of text, interpretation as a solution to problematic situations. 8. Interpretative methods and approaches at secondary schools, the types of problematic tasks. 9. Examples of problematic tasks – the relationship between generic and specific. 10. Student’s involvement in the teaching process, peer teaching, report papers, guided discussion. 11. Evaluation, testing, and classification in literary education. 12. Researches of reading, of reading literacy and of reception of the reader. Research methods and possible uses of the results.
Literature
  • GEJGUŠOVÁ, Ivana. Komplexnost ve výuce literární výchovy. Ostrava: OU, 2008.
  • VALA, Jaroslav. Poezie v literární výchově. Olomouc: UP, 2011.
  • VALA, Jaroslav. Poezie, studenti a učitelé. Olomouc: UP v Olomouci, 2013.
  • LEDERBUCHOVÁ, Ladislava. Literatura ve škole. Plzeň: ZČU v Plzni, 2010.
  • HNÍK, Ondřej. Didaktika literatury: výzvy oboru : od textů umělecké povahy k didaktice estetickovýchovného oboru. Vydání první. Praha: Karolinum, 2014, 179 stran. ISBN 9788024626260. URL info
  • ZÍTKOVÁ, Jitka and Naděžda SIEGLOVÁ. Handicap and educating pupils with special needs from the viewpoint of language and literary education. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2013, 115 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-6281-8. info
  • SKALKOVÁ, Jarmila. Obecná didaktika. 2., rozš. a aktualiz. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2007, 322 s. ISBN 9788024718217. URL info
  • NEZKUSIL, Vladimír. Nástin didaktiky literární výchovy : (čtyřletá gymnázia a vyšší třídy víceletých gymnázií) : z praxe pro praxi. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Pedagogická fakulta, 2004, 165 s. ISBN 8072901605. info
  • MAŇÁK, Josef and Vlastimil ŠVEC. Výukové metody. Brno: Paido, 2003, 219 stran. ISBN 8073150395. info
Teaching methods
Taught as: lectures Methods: lecturing, discussions of selected professional questions
Assessment methods
Course completion: credit Requirements for completing the course: successful completion of two test during the semester, final professionally focused essay.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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