UZCJA071 Creative Writing for Teachers

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Eva Zachová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This optional seminar is designed for those interested in using the techniques of creative writing both in school and off-school education or in preparing for educative practice.
The techniques practiced in the seminar will be divided into several groups:
1. exercises aimed at expanding students language abilities
2. exercises aimed at excpanding literary abilities
3. exercises aimed at criticism and interpretation of texts
4. playing with texts (onomatopoeic texts, completing texts, textual experiments)
5. texts for private use (diary, methods of unblocking)
6. projects, workshops, text presentation
7. working with school (textbook) teaching texts; making use of them in school and home work.
At the end of the course students should be able to create various simple literary and non-fiction texts and understand and explain the process of their creative writing.
Syllabus
  • The participants to the seminar will practice creative techniques according to instructions and will solve pedagogical problems connected with reading and composing texts in different areas, e.g. in teaching Czech as a mother tongue or as a foreign language, teaching literature and composition, creative work in humanities. The seminar will point at pedagogic and educational specifics of creative writing and at the possibilities of their use; the participants will suggest new tasks and their solutions appliable in educational practice.
Literature
  • BRHELOVÁ, Eva. Tvorba dramatického textu a její pedagogické aplikace. Vyd. 1. Brno: Janáčkova akademie múzických umění v Brně, 2006, 285 s. ISBN 8086928179. info
  • FIŠER, Zbyněk. Tvůrčí psaní - klíčová kompetence na vysoké škole. Sborník příspěvků z mezinárodní konference. (Creative Writing - a Basic Competence at University Lavel.). In Tvůrčí psaní - klíčová kompetence na vysoké škole. 1st ed. Brno: Doplněk, 2005, 184 pp. ISBN 80-7239-182-8. info
  • FIŠER, Zbyněk. Tvůrčí psaní pro dospělé v teorii a praxi. (Creative writing). 1st ed. Brno: Vzdělávací a poradenské centrum Masarykovy univerzity, 2005, 32 pp. Univerzita třetího věku. info
  • CHOLASTOVÁ, Jitka. Tvůrčí psaní třikrát jinak. Česká literatura : časopis pro literární vědu. Praha: Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, 2004, vol. 2004, No 5. ISSN 0009-0468. info
  • FIŠER, Zbyněk. Tvůrčí psaní. Metodický materiál. (Creative Writing.). Praha: Výzkumný ústav pedagogický., 2003. Rámcový vzdělávací projekt gymn. vzdělávání. URL info
  • BERÁNKOVÁ, Eva. Tvořivá hra jako cesta k pochopení literárního díla. 1. vydání. Plzeň: Fraus, 2002, 106 stran. ISBN 8072381822. info
  • FIŠER, Zbyněk. Tvůrčí psaní: malá učebnice technik tvůrčího psaní. (Creative Writing.). 1st ed. Brno: Paido. Edice pedagogické literatury., 2002, 164 pp. ISBN 80-85931-99-0. info
  • KOŽMÍN, Zdeněk. Interpretace básní. Vyd. 2., přeprac. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1997, 186 s. ISBN 8021016949. info
  • MINÁŘOVÁ, Eva. Slohové vyučování (Composition teaching). In Slohové vyučování. Brno: PdF Masarykovy univerzity, 1996. ISBN 80-210-1006-1. info
  • KOŽMÍN, Zdeněk. Tvořivý sloh :malé traktáty a malé scénáře. 1. vyd. Praha: Victoria Publishing, 1995, 102 s. ISBN 80-7187-037-4. info
  • BERNE, Eric. Jak si lidé hrají. Translated by Gabriela Nová. 2. vyd., v Dialogu 1. vyd. Liberec: Dialog, 1992, 193 s. ISBN 80-85194-52-X. info
Assessment methods
Active cooperation in the course, class discussion, individual writing exercise;
portfolio with didactic commentary on owen texts and exercise.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every week.
General note: Max. počet účastníků 12.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2008, Spring 2017, Spring 2019.
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