Foglar v nás: Záhada hlav a lomu

Abstract

The presentation of the personality, work and influence of Jaroslav Foglar is not limited to a historical biographical sketch, but seeks, among other things, on the basis of an empirical survey (n = 1174), to provide a comprehensive professional treatment of a relatively complex social phenomenon. The evidence of the influence of the reading experience usually acquired in childhood on the whole future life, as well as the interest of several scientific disciplines (comic studies, literary science, religious studies, pedagogy) in the specific methods of the scout educator, writer of boys’ literature and editor of several children’s magazines is thus the first book venture going beyond theoretical considerations and hypotheses towards evidence based on surveys of readers and fans of Foglar’s texts.

Gender Themes in Czech Books for Children of Younger School Age

“…This author was quite deliberately writing about and for boys; his construction of intersexual relations is heavily unbalanced. And yet, the readership of these stories is consistent for both genders, as is the researchconfirmed effect of reading on readers regardless of their gender self-identification (Jirásek, Macků, & Němec, 2021).…”

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

“…an appeal to a healthy lifestyle (especially without smoking and alcohol), correct character behaviour, often associated with a call to help the weak, but also to voluntary work, inspiration for spending time and camping in the open air, etc. These areas, resulting from a thorough content analysis of Foglar's work have been described previously in partial studies (Hošek, 2017; Jirásek, 2007; Sohr, 1968; Zachariáš, 2007; Zapletal, 2007) and therefore we were able to transform and operationalise them into individual scale items of a questionnaire and present them to the respondents in order to describe their attitudes and answer the questions posed above.…”

Informal education for boys only? The theme of gender in the work of Jaroslav Foglar

“…To collect the data, we designed a questionnaire containing mainly categorical and scalar items based on published studies that had analysed and discussed the content of Foglar's work and its possible influence on readers' personality development (Hošek, 2017;Jirásek, 2007;Sohr, 1968;Zachariáš, 2007;Zapletal, 2007). We asked, among other things, what respondents' impressions were of his work, which areas (themes) they liked and which ones they applied in their daily lives.…”

“…His writing continues to attract interest despite the very different social conditions. The rich secondary literature presents detailed accounts of his books (Nosek-Windy, 1999), the influential work of reading clubs (Pírek, 1990), and summarising his life and influence on diverse social groups and individuals (Jirásek, 2007;Zachariáš, 2007;Zapletal, 2007), and on outdoor education and experiential pedagogy (Gintel, 2019;Jirásek, 2019). Some of it focuses, for example, on Foglar's activities in the Board of Trustees for Youth Education, an extracurricular organisation in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia through the Second World War (Bauer, 2018), the literary analysis of his work (Dvorský, 2011;Vučka, 2015), the religious aspects of his writing and the social phenomenon of foglaring (Hošek, 2017(Hošek, , 2018.…”