The pupils’ notebooks as a tool in long-term research and in education

Abstract

Czech language education contains the Literary education, its function lies mainly in making the literature of art accessible to pupils via literary excerpts and their interpretations. The literary text interpretation can be thought of in several ways, including the use of pupils´ notebooks. The paper will also show us how the notebooks can be used in literary education, what roles can they fulfill, what forms can they take and what the teacher has to make sure of to make the notebook method accepted by his or her pupils. Then, we will focus on the use of the notebooks in the long-term research project, which is being realized within the boundaries of literary education in two elementary school classes in the Czech Republic. We will outline the objectives of this research, we will delimit four basic phenomena, which we have observed during our analysis of the pupils’ notebooks. We will also be presenting actual results of the analysis of pupils’ notebooks. Our text also covers presentation of noted advancements in pupils’ reading reception and interpretation. At the conclusion, we will sum up the benefits of the use of the pupils’ notebook in educational practice.