The Impacts of Children’s Literature on The Character Building Case Study of Mohammad Baadj Middle School Students

Abstract

This study was conducted in order to highlight the impact of children’s literature on the character building. The main purpose of this study is to investigate how this literary genre affect the child’s personality, tendencies, choices, values, and even culture. This research is divided into two main parts. The first part focused on providing the needed information about the two variables: children’s literature and the character building. The second one is mostly devoted to the fieldwork in order to approve or disapprove the hypothesis. The theoretical part of this research includes two chapters. The first one is mainly about the theoretical study of what is children’s literature, what is the purpose of this genre, how did it develop through history in addition to the main writers and major works of it in both Europe and Arab world. The second chapter concentrated mainly on how could children’s literature be related to the character building of the child, how it could influence his/her tendencies and choices and the wellbeing of the child in school and life as a whole. The third chapter is devoted to prove or reject the hypothesis. This part itself is consisted of two sections; the first is about the research methodology, which includes a questionnaire. The second section exposed the discussion and interpretations of the founded results. The research was conducted in Mohammed Baadj middle school in Laghouat, Algeria. A questionnaire directed to the sample of the study that includes teachers who teach literature in this school.