Czarodziejskie słowo w czasach pandemii. Bajki, dzieci i rodzice (doniesienia z badań)
Magic word in times of pandemic. Fairy tales, children and parents (research report)

Summary/Abstract: This article adopts the assumption, justified by the literature on the subject, that the use of fairy tales will allow parents to open up new opportunities for their children to cope with a difficult situation, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. It became the basis for the implementation of the research task. Future teachers, students of the preschool and early childhood education at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, created 47 fairy tales about the coronavirus. The writing stimulus included a preference for the recipient of the work – a 5-year-old child. Fairy tales were treated as units of analysis. The aim of the study was to identify, analyze and interpret the key elements of fairy tales written by students. In order to implement it, the material was analyzed in accordance with the principles of the qualitative data analysis method. The procedure of coding the text of 47 fairy tales gave the basis for the distinction of 5 key categories of analysis and interpretation of fairy tales written by students. They are: a main character with the characteristics of a child, a personification of a threat, a dichotomous division of the world, a fair world, a happy ending.

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