Death mediated to pupils through children's literature

This diploma thesis deals with the topic of death and its mediation to pupils of younger school age. The aim of the thesis is to find and introduce appropriate literature for younger school-age pupils and to offer ways of conveying a complicated topic through the literature to younger school-age pupils. The theoretical part of this thesis deals with the definition of death and the concepts related to it. It also defines the concept of the younger school age and describes the emotional development of the child at this age. The thesis also provide space for the definition of literature for the younger school age and for the characteristics of publishing houses concerned with publishing the books with the theme of death for children of younger school age. The theoretical part also introduces, through brief annotations, selected titles of literary works conveying the theme of death. At the end of the theoretical chapter of this thesis, the background of the RWCT program is described, the methods of this program are introduced, and the three-phase E-U-R learning model used in the preparation of the lessons of the practical part of the thesis is specified. The practical part then defines the objectives of the research, which are: to select suitable titles for the research, to design teaching lessons with..