In my diploma thesis, I researched how often books are used as a therapeutic tool in kindergartens. In the theoretical part, I described child development and focused on emotional and personality-social development. I emphasized the importance of books to children and described the term bibliotherapy. I described the goals, effects and types of bibliotherapy and presented some research in this area. I described the bibliotherapeutic process and the implementation of bibliotherapy. I emphasized the importance of material selection, focusing on fairy tales and their impact on children. Finally, I presented how important it is to implement bibliotherapy in kindergartens.
The goal of the diploma thesis was to determine how often educators use books as a means of resolving conflicts or addressing taboo topics.
I discovered this through a questionnaire consisting of 20 open-ended and closed-ended questions, the data of wich I presented and interpreted in the empirical part. The study included 60 kindergarten teachers and assistants from kindergartens in Slovenia. Through the questionnaire, I found out that most of the surveyed teachers use books as a therapeutic tool, while very few of them implement the bibliotherapeutic process.
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