Abstract:

Children's literature covers all literary products from childhood to early youth and presented to the child during this period. In this regard, the child’s familiarity with literature, the foundation of reading love and interest is found in the beginning of the school. Vaccinating the love of reading to the child, awakening language pleasure and awareness in the child, ensuring that the child is connected with books are among the main tasks of class teachers. In this context, it is important that a class teacher is interested in child literature and that the level of awareness of the characteristics of this field is advanced. This study aims to identify the level of awareness of class teacher candidates. For this purpose, the study is designed according to the quality research patterns of the state study. The work group is created according to the sample, the class teacher’s candidates have not received the child literature course. The data is collected through the interview form. In order to measure the level of awareness of children's literature, the teacher's candidates were asked by the researcher by preparing five questions. The data is analyzed through content analysis. According to the research, although they have not taken the child literature course, the class teacher candidates have the scope of child literature, the characteristics they need to carry, the characteristics they need to find in the child literature writer, the fields that child literature develops and their awareness of the kind and products of child literature. However, it has been found that the teaching candidates are more focused on stories and fairy tales in relation to children's literature products, and they have no awareness of other literary species. It has also been seen more classical, they know the translation works, they have no awareness of new writers and products. Finally, the attention to the consistency between visual and written in children's literature products, the preservation of aesthetic elements, the lack of awareness of the teaching candidates in the size of "love", "excellence" of children's literature.

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