Browsing by Subject "Prososiaalisuus"

The subject of this bachelor’s thesis is strengthening prosocial skills of children aged 6-7 with new children’s literature. This study aims to report what kind of prosocial behavior Finnish children’s literature made for children aged 6-7 contains. This study also explores what kind of themes there are with prosocial behavior in the books and how the children’s book separates from each other from view of strengthening prosocial skills. The thesis studies children’s literature that contain four top seller books from the year 2018. The material of this thesis is analysed with theory-based content analysis. Theory-based content analysis is suitable for studying written material and pictures. The material is being studied from the view key element of prosocial behaviour: helping, comforting, taking others into consideration, cooperation and encouraging. The results of this thesis show that key elements of prosocial behaviour are found from the children’s book, that construct the material of this study, Number of elements vary between books. Structure of books has impact on results. Children’s novel has the most of elements. Common themes with prosocial elements in every book are friendliness, friendship and family. Books differ from each other how elements have divided between books. Stories and themes of books explains that. The study shows that new children’s books contains elements of prosocial behaviour. These elements need to be highlighted so that they are in any help of strengthening children’s prosocial skills. Educator needs to be involved and familiar with the issue. Reading times together with children are just not enough.