The aim of this paper is to encourage preschool children to listen to stories based on traditional Japanese storytelling using pictures or in other words the kamishibai. First, the theoretical part describes the history of kamishibai and some characteristics of kamishibai in Slovenia. Kamishibai is a different kind of storytelling, where pictures are used, which is why I was interested in finding out how the children would accept and react to it and how I could enrich and upgrade the storytelling.
In the empirical part, I tested my performance in different school and after-school activities, school enrichment activities (active holidays) as well as outside school, in the library and on a festival. I included my findings in the activities that I performed in kindergarten. In my performance, I encouraged the children to concentrate, to focus on their inner experience and to recreate what they experienced in their own way, which exceeds the everyday, functional, technical items.
The data were gathered using the pedagogic qualitative research method with observing the children. The results show that kamishibai encourages the children to concentrate, to focus on their inner experience and express what they experience in different ways; furthermore, kamishibai can be used in various situations with simply adjusting the goals and modes.
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