Joint thesis entitled Fairy tale as a means of shaping moral values shows a connection between a fairy tale and its possible impact on shaping child´s moral values. Firstly, it was necessary to become acquainted with the theory of values and fairy tales as well as with the stages of child´s development. According to that, the attention was focused on the classification of the above mentioned terms (the most important for the thesis was the classification of fairy tales, which distinguishes between folk tales, classical literary and modern literary fairy tales). Next, a detailed study of both areas concerned followed and furthermore the application of the studied theory to concrete selected fairy tales (in which we looked for the following moral values: love, friendship, safety, diligence, honesty/justness/veracity, respect, patience, kindness, freedom and happiness), folk tales as well as authorial fairy tales, Slovene and foreign ones. The joint thesis is a theoretical one, therefore relevant research methods have been chosen: descriptive, comparative, historical, method of classification, methods of synthesis and analysis, abstraction, concretization as well as methods of generalization and specification, which are described in detail in the methodological part of the thesis. Thesis disclosed that a fairy tale may serve as a means of shaping moral values. Furthermore, it was also pointed to its crucial characteristics which influence on child development, help him to grow up, search after sense and confront with problems in life.
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