The purpose of the master's thesis is to explore how literary texts are accepted in the three central high school educational programs: in gymnasium, 4-year secondary technical school and three-year vocational school. Since these students' characteristics vary greatly, it is important to know the capabilities of all three groups. Adapting to the objectives, contents and methods of teaching to the interests and abilities of certain groups of students is called differentiation, on which the study is based. We explore the reaction of high school students in the empirical part using worksheets, namely within five thematic clusters: (prior) knowledge, spontaneous first impression (experiencing), understanding the content, understanding the form and evaluating. A survey was carried out on 147 students of the second year. Out of each program two classes are selected, in which a lesson of literature is carried out in methodical system of school interpretation - the same for all groups. The learning unit lesson is the poem To the Girls by Preseren. The survey results show that knowledge (of literary history) of gymnasium pupils is good, slightly worse with students of technical schools and very poor with vocational school students. This probably means that teachers set the criteria too low. All students (including vocational schools) experienced and evaluated the poem very well on the basis of several criteria. Understanding the content was acceptable, though understanding the form through knowledge of literary theory was very poor, especially with the students of technical and vocational schools. Reading with understanding, without which it is difficult to understand in depth the complex classical texts, is given too little attention in class. The lower levels, ie. the level of verbal comprehension and so-called interpretative understanding (comprehension of the main ideas of the text, linking the interdependent parts, etc.) are being neglected. It was found that the school is still relatively reproductive, in all secondary programs. Results of the worksheets show also that there are significant differences in knowledge between individual classes within the same educational program, and that the boys' classes, unlike in some previous research, are slightly better than girls' classes.
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