The purpose of the Master’s Thesis is to minutely define fairy tales and their history in the theoretical part, as well to present their significance and influence on children and on their imagination. We also added a chapter on reading, where we write about how to raise children into readers, reading development and about the importance of reading. An extensive part is also intended for cartoons or animated films that we defined and presented their history. We wrote about the role they have in education system, how literature is changing at the time of media domination and what kind and which exactly the animation techniques are. In the end we also mentioned the curriculum for Slovenian language and teaching approaches, which can be used by teachers while teaching about fairy tales.
In the empirical part we were interested in the attitude that third grade pupils have to reading and watching cartoons, our intention was also to find out, if cartoons inhibit their imaginative images and if there are content differences between fairy tale in a form of literary text and it’s visually supported narrative. Together with pupils we have also made an excerpt of the discussed cartoon. The research involved 26 pupils of the 3rd grade of primary school Vič (14 boys and 12 girls). The questionnaires were processed in the SPSS program for statistical analysis, the results of imaginative images were obtained by comparing pupil’s illustrations, and we edited the animated film in program Filmora.
We came to the conclusion that on average pupils read at home several times per week, while they watch cartoons every day, therefore twenty-three of twenty-six pupils prefer to watch a cartoon instead of listening to a literary text and only one of the respondents was able to imagine how to create an animated film. We can also conclude that cartoons inhibit the development of pupil’s imaginative images.
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