L’objet de cette thèse porte sur l’éducation aux valeurs à l’école primaire à travers un dispositif articulant des pratiques littéraires à celles de la philosophie pour enfants. Partant de l’idée que dans l’élaboration du jugement moral l’affectivité précède le travail de la raison nous avons voulu vérifier le rôle essentiel joué par l’imagination et l’empathie. Dans cette perspective, la littérature constitue une médiation privilégiée. Cette recherche s’appuie sur des séances menées dans des classes de cycle 3 à partir du mythe platonicien L’anneau de Gygès et s’attache à répondre à deux hypothèses principales : 1ère hypothèse : La discussion à visée philosophique, lorsqu'elle s'amorce à partir des fictions littéraires, développe chez les élèves, grâce au ressort de l'empathie envers les personnages de fiction et à la médiation de l'enseignant, des exigences éthiques et une capacité de réflexion approfondie sur les valeurs. 2ème hypothèse : Le rôle médiateur de l’adulte et la qualité de ses gestes professionnels est une des clés de ce développement. L’enjeu est de mettre à jour les conditions qui favoriseraient « la formation de la personne et du citoyen » afin que la littérature mérite de figurer dans le pilier « Culture humaniste » du socle commun de l’école primaire. / The objective of this thesis concerns the education of values at the primary school through a system combining literary practices to those of the philosophy for children. Guided by the idea that in the elaboration of moral judgement, the affectivity precedes the work of the reason, we wanted to verify the major role played by the imagination and the empathy. In this perspective, the literature held a privileged place in the mediation. This research is based on sessions organized in classes in the 3rd cycle as from the platonic myth : ‘the Ring of Gygès’ and tries to answer to two main hypotheses : 1st hypothesis : when the discussion with philosophy aims begins with literary fictions, the pupils tend to develop ethical requirements and a capacity of deep thinking on values thanks to the empathy they have for the fictive characters and the teacher’s mediation. 2nd hypothesis : the mediation played by the adult and the quality of his professional gestures is one of the key of this development. The issue is to demonstrate the conditions which would favour the ‘education of the person and the citizen’ in order that literature deserves to appear in the pillar ‘Humanist Culture’ of the common teaching of the primary school.

In the theoretical part, this diploma thesis deals with a literary analysis and comparison of books Momo, Timm Thaler, or the Traded Laughter and The Thief Lord. The pieces of work are analysed on the basis of their common features. Such features include the main characters, and the magical motifs which affect real life situations. The partial subjects of observation are film versions of the works. The thesis is concluded by the practical part addressing a didactic adaptation of the novel Momo; including worksheets and other teaching aids designed for pupils of elementary schools and grammar schools. The teaching aids are based on the theory and involve a didactic analysis, methodical analysis and time plans for their utilization in German language classes. KEYWORDS Children's literature, Momo, Michael Ende, Timm Thaler, James Krüss, The Thief Lord, Cornelia Funke, magic elements in literature, The didactics of children's literature.

The main aim of this thesis is to show the didactic potential of the Apocryphal Tales by Karel Capek as well as to suggest the possible ways to include it in the high school literature education. The theoretical part of this thesis mainly deals with the author - Karel Capek and the concept of the Apocryph. These theoretical chapters study the Apocryphal Tales in detail, especially, focusing on the origin of the book and the existing editions, content and formal analysis, author's work with the intertexture and artistic progress used by Karel Capek. The special part is dedicated to the possible reasons of underestimation of the Apocyrph within author's other works. The practical part targets the didactical potential of the Apocryph. There are described the possibilities of the work with all the texts and possible ways how to work with the idea of Apocryph. The crucial part shows the detailed analysis of the didactical potential of seven selected texts integrated with extended commentary to the structure of this chapter. Another very important part pursues the verification of didactical potential of one of the Apocryph in the framework of secondary school education. This part contains the commented version of the preparation for the high school lecture and its concluding reflection that comments on the...