Methods used by teachers of literary education working with texts in the Shoah theme

Abstract

The paper presents partial results of a quantitative research survey, the research tool of which was a non-standardized questionnaire. The main aim of the research is to find out the opinions of teachers of Czech language and literature at the second grade of primary schools on the implementation of the Shoah theme in the teaching of literature. Within the quantitative phase of the research, a total of eighty teachers of a defined educational field were tested in full-time primary schools in the Vysočina Region. The region was chosen mainly because there is no college in the area of education of future teachers, which led to our willingness to increase the willingness of the potential respondents to participate in the research. This assumption has largely been fulfilled. In the article we present the views of the sample of respondents in the area of the methods used in literary texts dealing with the theme of Shoah as part of the teaching of literary education. The most common answer (75%) was the understanding of the text (unknown words, etc.), discussion (71.3%), and the search for information related to the art story (51.3%). The presentation of these results can lead to some improvement of the situation for the pedagogues working with Shoah texts, thus increasing the effectiveness of the educational activities of the defined texts on the recipients.