Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 92 No. 4, 2022.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.53745/bs.92.4.6
Christian and Universal Values in Children's Literary Works. Meetings Dedicated to Croatian Children's Spiritual Works »Stjepan Kranjčić« 2012. – 2021.
Renata Burai
; The Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Tanja Baran
orcid.org/0000-0002-2811-0346
; Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
This study offers a synthesis of expressed values within texts of Croatian elementary school pupils in literary works of poetry, prose, and plays at the competition for literary and visual art works of pupils, titled »Stjepan Kranjčić«; abbreviatedly named »Dječji Kranjčić« (Children's Kranjčić). The values within first ten proceedings of most successful works of the competition (2012 -2021) have been analysed. A quantitative and a qualitative analysis has been carried out. For the purposes of the quantitative analysis of values, the protocol that contained seven classified categories of values and their subcategories was used. In the process of quantitative analysis of the data, statistical procedures of determining frequencies and percentages were used, followed by a determination of the number of published children's literary works in all ten proceedings according to the year of publication, as well as the representation of Christian and universal values in children's literary works, and frequency of appearance of certain values in subcategories. The quantitative analysis of contents of children's literary works allowed us to identify values in the three aforementioned literary genres. On the basis of the sample of 599 published works (poetry 270, prose 275, plays 54), it has been concluded that elementary school pupils expressed predominantly spiritual values such as piety, holiness, and true faith, which confirms the research hypothesis, while the second place of preferred values has been taken by universal values: love, family, home country, good ness. The study draws attention to an excellent example of cooperation between school and association, which, when working together, can have an extremely important role in the development of positive values in upbringing of Croatian youth.
Keywords
»Dječji Kranjčić« (Children's Kranjčić); children's literary works; Christian and universal values; upbringing for values; school; association.
Hrčak ID:
300014
URI
Publication date:
14.4.2023.
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