ISKM60 Literature for Children and Youth

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Synchronous online teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Pavlína Mazáčová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Pavlína Mazáčová, Ph.D.
Department of Information and Library Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Alice Lukavská
Supplier department: Department of Information and Library Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 14:00–15:40 B2.44, except Mon 18. 11. to Sun 24. 11.
Prerequisites
The course has no prerequisites.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 25/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course is a contextual part of the curriculum. It follows in a functional way the compulsory subjects of cultural, educational and philological orientation. Learning outcomes of the course unit The aim of the subject is to provide the students with the knowledge and understanding of specific areas of literature and reference, competence for work with children's readership research and children's and adolescent readers, the ability to reflect subjects in the form of a project or a scientific text. In the context of the field of Information Studies and Librarianship, the course is focused on application of knowledge mainly in non-formal educational environment of libraries and other memory institutions.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course student:
- has an overview of both Czech and foreign literature for children and teenagers as well as marketing related;
- understands child readership in the information society;
- has the ability to work with the children's book as a tool for education, therapy and cultural development;
- is able to apply the knowledge gained in the practical plane;
- can critically reflect the topic of the subject in the form of written communications
Syllabus
  • 1. The concept of children's literature and children's readership;
  • 2. Outline of the development of literature for children and youth in the Czech Republic and abroad before 2000;
  • 3. Outline of the development of literature for children and youth in our country after 2000;
  • 4. Outline of the development of literature for children and youth abroad after 2000
  • 5. Famous Czech and world illustrators of children's and teens' books focusing on the 2nd half of the 20th and 21st centuries;
  • 6. Market (Publishing) of children's and teens literature;
  • 7. Thematic composition of contemporary literature for children and youth in the cultural and social context;
  • 8. Reader preferences of children (researches, surveys), preference effects;
  • 9. Literature and teenagers;
  • 10. Children and teens literature, technology and the media;
  • 11. Forms and tools for working with children and teens by the reader;
  • 12. Information sources on children's and teens literature;
  • 13. Final reflection of the subject and activities of the students
Literature
    recommended literature
  • http://ipk.nkp.cz/docs/jakctouceskedeti.pdf
  • PRÁZOVÁ, Irena, Kateřina HOMOLOVÁ, Hana LANDOVÁ and Vít RICHTER. České děti jako čtenáři. První vydání. Brno: Host, 2014, 135 stran. ISBN 9788070506530. info
  • SLADOVÁ, Jana. Dětství a dospívání v současné literatuře pro děti a mládež. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2014, 120 s. ISBN 9788024440255. info
  • KLÍMOVÁ, Magdalena. Šubrtová, Milena a kol.: Slovník autorů literatury pro děti a mládež II. - Čeští spisovatelé. Praha: Libri, 2012. Masarykova univerzita, 2013, vol. 2013, No 1. info
  • ŠUBRTOVÁ, Milena. Pohádkové příběhy v české literatuře pro děti a mládež (1990-2010) (Fairy tales in the Czech literature for children and youth (1990-2010)). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2011, 327 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-5692-3. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-5692-2011. info
  • ALCHAZIDU, Athena. Slovník autorů literatury pro děti a mládež. Edited by Ivan Dorovský - Vlasta Řeřichová. 1. vyd. Praha: Libri, 2007, 847 s. ISBN 9788072773145. info
  • ZORMANOVÁ, Lucie. Genderové stereotypy v literatuře pro děti. Vychovávatel. Bratislava: Educatio, 2006, vol. 53, No 10, p. 30-31. ISSN 0139-6919. info
    not specified
  • https://www.goethe.de/resources/files/pdf54/12557500-STANDARD.pdf
Teaching methods
Combination of lectures and seminars;
Individual or group project;
Discussion;
Individual reading and critical text work;
The course is designed for both full-time and part-time students.
Assessment methods
Colloquium;
Attendance according to predefined criteria;
Active approach to teaching;
Completing ongoing tasks
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023.
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