Children's literature as a motivational factor for physical activities through the example of Jaroslav Foglar

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JIRÁSEK Ivo MACKŮ Richard NĚMEC Jiří

Rok publikování 2024
Druh Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj Children & Society
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU

Pedagogická fakulta

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www https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/chso.12746
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/chso.12746
Klíčová slova ethics; fiction; healthy lifestyle; holistic development
Popis Despite many philosophical and scientific appeals, phys- ical inactivity, especially in children and young people, remains one of the most serious problems of contempo- rary civilisation. In our sub-study of wider research, we focus on the use of Czech fiction and comics by Jaroslav Foglar as a motivational factor to increase readers' physi- cal activity. The respondents (n=1174) were mostly adults who had spent their childhood or adolescence reading the works of Jaroslav Foglar. These people val- ued exercise (70%) in this reading, with a high correla- tion (0.73) to a healthy lifestyle (abstinence from alcohol and smoking). For 57% of the respondents, these values from reading also become an inspiration for application in life (there is a causal link between the degree of aware- ness of being influenced by the work and the actual ap- plication of the physical activity), with even higher values recorded for camping and being in a natural envi- ronment, as well as moral behaviour, ethical principles, and helping others. Thus, we can confirm that the in- spiration of the fictional world of literature can become a motivational impulse to increase physical activity in the real world, moreover in the context of a very strong awareness of ethical values and moral behaviour.

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