Published: 2016-11-12

CALL FOR SELF-ACTIVITY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SELECTION OF BOOKS FOR CHILDREN BY TEACHERS

Emilia Śmiechowska-Petrovskij
Pedagogical Forum
Section: Topic
https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2011.2.13

Abstract

A book is an important mean of cultural message, a source of knowledge which shapes needs and aesthetic assessments. Child’s contact with a book requires a strong adult intermediator, because the manifestation of reading requirements is not obvious for children’s development; this is the consequence of the initiation process, where a book is brought within personal experiences of a child and a literary contact. The main objects of the article is: to describe mediating adults in the contact between a child and a book as the effect of the decisions and choices of adult intermediaries, to present criteria for selecting books of children’s literature published in scientific publications and to report the research results about reading preferences of intermediaries. The conception of the article is based on theory formulated by Dietrich Benner about call for self-activity as a pedagogical activity. In this context article discusses the possible impact of pedagogical activity through the selection of books for children and shows the child’s contact with the book as an area of teaching the awareness of the different cultural proposals and skill of individual selection from existing options.

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Śmiechowska-Petrovskij, E. (2016). CALL FOR SELF-ACTIVITY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SELECTION OF BOOKS FOR CHILDREN BY TEACHERS. Pedagogical Forum, 1(2), 281–301. https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2011.2.13

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