Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of English Language and Literature. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

This diploma thesis deals with contribution of chosen writings by Alois Jirásek and Zikmund Winter. It tries to clarify the term historism and its infiltration into Czech literature, particularly in novels Temno and Mistr Kampanus. The thesis also outlines the period after the Battle of the White Mountain. Its consequences dramatically influenced political, religious, social and cultural conditions in the Czech lands. It defines terms historical novel and historical short story to specify the border between this genre and the other proses of the then time. The practical part gives a concrete form of a complex interpretation of novels Temno and Mistr Kampanus. It introduces a dispute over historism between Alois Jirásek and Zikmund Winter. With the aid of content analysis of chosen readers for primary and secondary schools the thesis finds out the frequency of extracts by mentioned authors in schoolbooks. In closing the thesis focuses on evaluation of searched extracts in readers and mentions also FEP.

Video games have suffered a negative reputation regarding their influence on children and adolescents, in comparison to its “well-behaved” counterpart, books. Nevertheless, the world of video games is much more diverse than imaginable – from fantasy to reality – and it is possible that different types of video games have different effects on human cognition and behavior. To fill a gap in research, fantasy and non-fantasy genres were the focal point of the correlational study. In this study, we analyze how video game playing habits, video game genre preference, book reading habits and book reading preferences are correlated with creative thinking. Construal level theory explains the importance of psychological distances in enhancing creativity. Fantasy and fiction content, as well as role play, are theorized to be part of creativity due to generation of distance and abstract thinking. Creativity was measured by insight problems and a categorization task. Abstract thinking was also measured by the Behavioral Identification Form. The questionnaire was given out to 154 students during lunch hours at a university in Sweden, throughout the period of March 2019. The results indicated that preference in a genre, whether gaming or literature, did not indicate significant differences in creative thinking. However, the consumption and habit of playing role-play games showed a significant correlation to creativity in comparison to its “rival” – action games. Results showed the same effects for fiction literature versus non-fiction. Theoretical and practical implications for organizations and the workplace are discussed, as well as limitations of the study.

Nos últimos anos, ampliaram-se significativamente os espaços de produção em história da educação no Brasil, provavelmente, em decorrência do crescente número de pesquisadores voltados a estudos que abarquem universos educacionais e escolares. Um balanço das pesquisas mais recentes nesse campo permite observar que as discussões historiográficas sobre a educação se estendem para além das fronteiras dos fatos e dados históricos e evidencia o grande interesse sobre temas voltados a desvendar práticas que constituíram o arcabouço do nosso sistema educacional e pedagógico contemporâneo. Um recurso investigativo reside na análise de materiais didáticos manipulados por professores e alunos que, por estarem presentes no interior das salas de aula, oferecem indícios do que acontecia na escola além do discurso. Desse modo, o trabalho aqui apresentado, pretende analisar Livros de Leitura produzidos entre os anos de 1907 e 1945 basicamente em duas perspectivas: como objeto de estudo e como fonte. No domínio da investigação que considera os materiais didáticos de leitura como objeto de estudo, propõe-se como uma das possibilidades de aprofundamento a melhor compreensão da sua materialidade, destacando o lugar do autor e do editor no contexto de sua produção e circulação. No que diz respeito à análise de conteúdos, firmam-se dois objetivos. O primeiro consiste em verificar e atribuir sentidos às imbricações entre o modelo pedagógico contemplado nas Primeiras Lições de Coisas (de Norman Allison Calkins, traduzido por Rui Barbosa) e uma possível permanência da sua perspectiva epistemológica nos materiais mencionados, visto que os Livros de Leitura podem ser considerados manuais escolares produzidos com o objetivo de oferecer subsídio ao professor no exercício da docência sob a égide de uma nova proposta educacional: a educação pelos sentidos ou método intuitivo. O segundo reside na análise de grupos de conteúdos presentes nos Livros de Leitura selecionados para a análise, são eles: Leitura, Nossa terra/nossa gente, Ensino religioso/ensino moral e Corpo Humano. A pesquisa se faz importante na medida em que verifica a pouca produção sobre a inserção dos livros didáticos de leiturana escola, seus autores, sua produção e circulação, seus preceitos epistemológicos, sobretudo, no que pode contribuir para a compreensão/constituição do campo da História do Ensino de Leitura no Brasil. / The last few years a significant increase in the amount of time has been devoted to research on Brazilian History of Education, probably, as a result of the increasing numbers of researches focusing on educational environment. An overview of the most recent researches in this field, allows us to observe the historiographical discussions about extension beyond the factual border, as well as historical data showing a great interest in themes related to discovering new practices, which constitute our contemporary educational and pedagogical system. One investigative resource can be found in didactic materials used by teachers and students, once they are present in the classrooms, so that they offer signals to what actually happens in the school apart from the discourse. Thus, this paper intends to analyze Reading Books produced between 1907 up to 1945 basically in two different perspectives: as the subject of the study and as the source of it. In the investigative area which considers material for reading as a subject of study, it is proposed, as one of the possibilities for fully understanding the materiality, highlighting the authors place and the editor in the context for their production and circulation. Referring to the analysis of the context, there are two main objectives: the first consists in verifying and attributing meaning to the imbrications between the pedagogical model contemplated in Primeiras Lição de Cousas (by Norman Allison Calkins translated by Rui Barbosa) and a possible permanence of its epistemological perspective in the above mentioned materials, pondering that the Reading Books might be considered school manuals produced aiming at offering support to teachers exercising their profession under a new pedagogical proposal: education by intuition or intuitive method. The second lies in the analysis of contextual groups presented in the Reading Books previously selected which are: Reading, Our land/our people, Religious education/teaching moral e Human body. The importance of this research shows the poor production in the insertion of didactical Reading Books in schools, its authors, production, circulation and epistemological pretenses mainly in what we can contribute in comprehension/constitution in the field of Reading Education in Brasil.

Thesis PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Alberta, 1997. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of English, General Literature, and Rhetoric. / Includes bibliographical references.

The thesis focuses on the character and the structure of reading literacy and reading books by pupils from the age of twelve to the age of 15. The thesis consists of two parts. The theoretical part explains the most important terms related to the literacy and summarises pieces of knowledge which have been gained on the basis of different sociological surveys. The empirical part concerns own research in the area of children`s reading activities and their reading motivation, the position of a book in the world of media and the role of libraries as a support of reading literacy. This part presents the results of the questionnaire survey proceeded in the second grade of primary school.

Nos últimos anos, ampliaram-se significativamente os espaços de produção em história da educação no Brasil, provavelmente, em decorrência do crescente número de pesquisadores voltados a estudos que abarquem universos educacionais e escolares. Um balanço das pesquisas mais recentes nesse campo permite observar que as discussões historiográficas sobre a educação se estendem para além das fronteiras dos fatos e dados históricos e evidencia o grande interesse sobre temas voltados a desvendar práticas que constituíram o arcabouço do nosso sistema educacional e pedagógico contemporâneo. Um recurso investigativo reside na análise de materiais didáticos manipulados por professores e alunos que, por estarem presentes no interior das salas de aula, oferecem indícios do que acontecia na escola além do discurso. Desse modo, o trabalho aqui apresentado, pretende analisar Livros de Leitura produzidos entre os anos de 1907 e 1945 basicamente em duas perspectivas: como objeto de estudo e como fonte. No domínio da investigação que considera os materiais didáticos de leitura como objeto de estudo, propõe-se como uma das possibilidades de aprofundamento a melhor compreensão da sua materialidade, destacando o lugar do autor e do editor no contexto de sua produção e circulação. No que diz respeito à análise de conteúdos, firmam-se dois objetivos. O primeiro consiste em verificar e atribuir sentidos às imbricações entre o modelo pedagógico contemplado nas Primeiras Lições de Coisas (de Norman Allison Calkins, traduzido por Rui Barbosa) e uma possível permanência da sua perspectiva epistemológica nos materiais mencionados, visto que os Livros de Leitura podem ser considerados manuais escolares produzidos com o objetivo de oferecer subsídio ao professor no exercício da docência sob a égide de uma nova proposta educacional: a educação pelos sentidos ou método intuitivo. O segundo reside na análise de grupos de conteúdos presentes nos Livros de Leitura selecionados para a análise, são eles: Leitura, Nossa terra/nossa gente, Ensino religioso/ensino moral e Corpo Humano. A pesquisa se faz importante na medida em que verifica a pouca produção sobre a inserção dos livros didáticos de leiturana escola, seus autores, sua produção e circulação, seus preceitos epistemológicos, sobretudo, no que pode contribuir para a compreensão/constituição do campo da História do Ensino de Leitura no Brasil. / The last few years a significant increase in the amount of time has been devoted to research on Brazilian History of Education, probably, as a result of the increasing numbers of researches focusing on educational environment. An overview of the most recent researches in this field, allows us to observe the historiographical discussions about extension beyond the factual border, as well as historical data showing a great interest in themes related to discovering new practices, which constitute our contemporary educational and pedagogical system. One investigative resource can be found in didactic materials used by teachers and students, once they are present in the classrooms, so that they offer signals to what actually happens in the school apart from the discourse. Thus, this paper intends to analyze Reading Books produced between 1907 up to 1945 basically in two different perspectives: as the subject of the study and as the source of it. In the investigative area which considers material for reading as a subject of study, it is proposed, as one of the possibilities for fully understanding the materiality, highlighting the authors place and the editor in the context for their production and circulation. Referring to the analysis of the context, there are two main objectives: the first consists in verifying and attributing meaning to the imbrications between the pedagogical model contemplated in Primeiras Lição de Cousas (by Norman Allison Calkins translated by Rui Barbosa) and a possible permanence of its epistemological perspective in the above mentioned materials, pondering that the Reading Books might be considered school manuals produced aiming at offering support to teachers exercising their profession under a new pedagogical proposal: education by intuition or intuitive method. The second lies in the analysis of contextual groups presented in the Reading Books previously selected which are: Reading, Our land/our people, Religious education/teaching moral e Human body. The importance of this research shows the poor production in the insertion of didactical Reading Books in schools, its authors, production, circulation and epistemological pretenses mainly in what we can contribute in comprehension/constitution in the field of Reading Education in Brasil.

In primary school reading-books in Swedish language is something that students come across early in school and have done ever since the 1800s. After World War II there have been major changes in society. 1962 there was a school reform where the school turned into a nine-year system of compulsory education. That is why it is interesting to see what reading books contain with regard to notions of children, family and class and how the developments have been from the 1950s until the present time. This study aims to analyze and compare the different aspects of how notions of children, family and class are produced in the reading books for primary school for pupils in third grade, between 1950 and 2009. The research questions were: What are the notions of children, family and class in the reading-books? What differences/similarities exist in the reading books from the 1950s to the  recent decades? What could be the reason? I have chosen to apply qualitative text analysis originating in idea analysis. Because my focus was based on an attempt to track, analyse and compare the concepts, perceptions and representations of the reading books for third grade. My results shows that the children portrayed in the books from 1950-1965 are well mannered. And their relationships with the adults are strong and they learn from their parents, grandparents and relatives. The study also shows that the children portrayed in the reading books from 1976 and forward, make their own choices and play more major roles in the stories. The results show that the nuclear family is seen as an ideal. The study also shows that there are children in the book from 2009 who are experiencing economic inequalities in the form of clothes and other belongings. Overall, in the books i think that the middle class shows strongest but the markers seen in the stories are relatively vague to be seen in the stories.