Fairy Tales Research Articles

The Function of the Thing in the Motif of the Path (based on the material of the Kalmyk fairy tale)

The Function of the Thing in the Motif of the Path (based on the material of the Kalmyk fairy tale)

A Scale Development Study to Determine Preschool Teachers' Perception of Gender Roles in the Classroom

The aim of this study is to develop an in-class gender role perception scale for preschool teachers. The study group of the research consists of 493 pre-school teachers working in independent kindergartens, kindergartens within primary schools and kindergartens within secondary schools in Nevşehir, Kırşehir, Niğde and Aksaray provinces of Turkey. The content validity of the scale was ensured by expert opinions. Construct validity was ensured by both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. KMO and Bartlett tests were used to determine the suitability of the created items for factor analysis, and these tests were found to be significant at the p <.05 level. With the factor analysis performed to reveal the factor structure of the scale items, a structure consisting of 4 sub-dimensions and 42 items was determined: "general gender discourses in fairy tales and stories, gender role characteristics, gender-specific behavioral reactions and gender". In the reliability analysis of the scale items, Spearman-Brown and Guttman Split-Half reliability coefficients were calculated and these coefficients were found to be suitable for all sub-dimensions. Cronbach's Alpha (α) values were calculated and the resulting coefficient value was found suitable for reliability. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed and the fit indices confirmed the structure created by the factor analysis.

Miyazaki's Hybrid Worlds and Their Riddle-Stories

<p>“Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict,” famously states Jack Zipes. And yet, this statement does not always seem to apply to non-Western story structures, such as the Asian kishōtenketsu, which implies a story development that does not necessarily revolve around conflicts. In many of Hayao Miyazaki’s movies (e.g., My Neighbor Totoro; Spirited Away, The Secret World of Arietty), it is possible to detect, on the one hand, the kishōtenketsu-based plot, and,on the other hand, the widespread presence of Western fairy-tale tropes. Conflicts in traditional Western fairy tales may sometimes manifest in the form of riddles to solve. Although Miyazaki’s stories do not shun away from riddles, how do these riddles relate to conflicts? How are Western and Asian story structures bound together in Miyazaki’s narratives, and what effects does this hybridization generate in their audiences? This article argues that: 1.) Riddles based on Western fairy tales in Miyazaki’s work do not necessarily involve conflicts, and are recast and re-elaborated in highly unusual ways; and 2.) The employment of these unusual patterns, mixing up together Oriental and Occidental frames of reference, gives rise to stories that puzzle the mind of spectators, working as complex narrative riddles.</p>

Literacy Acceleration: Interactive Learning Through Fairy Tale Video Shows Using Technology Adaptation in Elementary School Education

Literacy Acceleration: Interactive Learning Through Fairy Tale Video Shows Using Technology Adaptation in Elementary School Education

Productive Specialty Eggplant Cultivars Suitable for Small Farms in the Southeastern Coastal Plain

Specialty eggplants (Solanum melongena L.), cultivars with fruit shapes, sizes, and colors different from the typical teardrop-shaped, dark purple eggplant fruit, are an underproduced vegetable commodity in the southeastern United States. Seven cultivars representing seven different fruit types were grown in Charleston, SC, USA, in Spring and Fall 2018 and 2019 to assess cultivar productivity and net return. Despite year-to-year variability, Hansel (Chinese type), Millionaire (Japanese type), and Gretel (white fruit) generally had greater weights of both marketable (US Fancy and No. 1 fruit) and edible (US Fancy, No. 1 and No. 2) fruit than Fairy Tale (Sicilian type) and Patio Baby (Indian type), whereas the globe-fruited cultivars Black Beauty (heirloom) and Rosa Bianca (Italian type), had intermediate yields. Yields of plants after ratooning in the fall were lower than in the spring before ratooning. Prices per carton paid by local food hubs for US Fancy, No. 1, and No. 2 fruit were two to three times greater than wholesale terminal market prices. Nevertheless, fruit weights were a greater determinant of net returns than prices were. Growers in the southeastern coastal plain can maximize net returns from specialty eggplant crops by choosing cultivars that produce high fruit weights.

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This piece of digital media, one out of a series, is made by me as part of a UROP effort alongside the Rare and Distinctive Collections at Norlin Library to make a vast fairy tale collection accessible to the public. Pictured in the banner are a variety of illustrations taken from different books being entered into an online database to create a fantastical scene, highlighting parts of little-known tales across cultures. The illustration for this college are taken from the following sources housed on campus: From Europa’s Fairy Book: “The Unseen Bridegroom,” from Histories or Tales of Past Times Written for Children Told By Mother Goose with Morals: “The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots,” From A Selection from Grimm’s Fairy Tales: “The Frog Prince,” “Rumpelstiltskin,” “Hansel and Gretel,” from The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French: “Beauty and the Beast,” and from The Allies’ Fairy Book: “Jack the Giant-Killer” and “The Golden Apple-tree”. This collage also contains images from the independent publication of Cinderella, or, The Little Glass Slipper (1904), as well as Beauty and the Beast (1891), along with a number of illustrations by fairy tale illustrators Edmund Dulac, John Dickson Batten, Alfred Henry Forrester, and Henry Justice Ford (Courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries).

A fairy tale with an unhappy ending: the organizational regulation of “Latina accountant identity” in Spain

PurposeIdentity regulation is part of a management control package. Organizations regulate employees’ self-identity to influence their behaviors. The success of this regulation depends on its trade-off with employees’ work identities and personalities. Organizational discourse nurtures this dynamic and interactive process. We focus on the regulation of an (undesired) organizational identity that is born at the intersection of race/ethnicity, gender, sex and migrant discrimination in accounting-related positions. We aim to analyze how Latina accountants who migrate to Spain perceive that their triple status as Latina, women and migrants affects their careers as accountants and interpret whether this triple intersectional discrimination aims to create a Latina accountant’s self-identity.Design/methodology/approachThis critical study follows a phenomenological approach to analyze the experiences of women born in Latin America who migrated to Spain to occupy accounting-related positions. A thematic analysis of their semi-structured interviews allowed us to examine the challenges faced by Latina accountants in their accounting careers in Spain.FindingsOur interviewees' narratives display an internalization of, even resignation to, a self-identity that we label “Latina accountant identity.” This identity is based on explicit discrimination discourses that cause them to suffer from the intersection of racism, sexism and migrant conditions and is nurtured by the discourses of their senior managers, co-workers and subordinates.Originality/valueTo the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to frame the regulation of an intersectional discriminatory identity that is used to control Latina accountants from the inside, acting on the triple condition of Latinas, women and foreigners, influencing their self-perceptions regarding work and personal lives.

Meaning Reconstruction in Fairy Tales Across Eras: An Intertextual Study on A Grain of Truth and Beauty and the Beast

Intertextuality is a study that observes the relation and connection that text has with other texts. By looking at intertextuality, it can be seen how one text can have resemblances to another text, whether that resemblance is intentional or not. This study uses a story by Andrzej Sapkowski, titled A Grain of Truth as the material objects of the study. It tells the story of a cursed human with a monstrous body who desires to find love to be human again. This research uses qualitative research methods, and the data were analyzed using intertextuality theory to answer the research questions. This paper aims at finding out the intertextuality connection between A Grain of Truth and Beauty and the Beast, through their resemblances in theme and due to the sociocultural enironment erround the stories. The result shows that there are sesemplances in terms of theme, characterization, and symbols in the story. This is related to the collective unconsciousness about the perception of love and curse in fantasy.

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This piece of digital media, one out of a series, is made by me as part of a UROP effort alongside the Rare and Distinctive Collections at Norlin to make a vast fairy tale collection accessible to the public. Pictured in the banner are a variety of illustrations taken from different books being entered into an online database to create a fantastical scene, highlighting parts of little-known tales across cultures. The illustration for this college are taken from the following sources housed on campus: From Europa’s Fairy Book: “A Dozen at a Blow,” “The Unseen Bridegroom,” “The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird,” “The Language of Animals,” and “The Master-Maid”. From The Green Fairy Book: “The Enchanted Snake,” From The Book of Fables and Folk Stories: “Puss in Boots,” From The Yellow Fairy Book: “The Six Swans,” From The Brown Fairy Book: “The Bunyip,” and From The Pink Fairy Book: “Esben and the Witch,” “The Snow-Queen”.

Culture-specific items in the source and target literary texts: Classification of translation strategies

The study deals with the representation of culture-specific items in Jojo Moyes' novels 'Me Before You', and 'After You' and their rendering in Ukrainian translations. The article specifies the role of culture-specific vocabulary as a means that adds necessary socio-cultural details to the setting making the above mentioned novels facts of the English-language (mainly British and American) culture. The research proves that numerous in number are the following groups of culture-specific items: toponyms; types of food, drinks and places to eat; anthroponyms naming famous people, film and fairy tale characters; companies, brands and organisations; mass media. Low in number are items designating education phenomena, persons’ titles and nominations, measurement, dwelling, sports, events, toys, and currency. The research also employs the notions of translation strategy and distinguishes between domesticating and foreignising ones used in order to render culture-specific lexis in a literary translation. Translation techniques of transference (direct borrowing, transcoding, transcoded substitution) and calque are viewed as components of foreignising strategies, whereas generalisation, descriptive periphrasis, cultural equivalent alone or accompanied by a footnote are viewed as implementation of domesticating ones. The study demonstrates that translation techniques representing domesticating and foreignising strategies can be combined in order to preserve their balance in the target text.

Studi Identifikasi Nilai-nilai Karakter dalam Cerita Rakyat Masyarakat Rejang Kabupaten Lebong

This study aims to describe the types of folklore that developed in the Rejang society, Lebong Regency, and describe the character values in folklore identified in Lebong Regency. This research uses qualitative research with survey method. The main instrument in this study is the researcher himself and is assisted by supporting instruments in the form of interview sheets and documentation. Data collection techniques used in this study were interviews and documentation. The data obtained were analyzed through data reduction, data display (data display), and drawing conclusions. The results of the study collected fourteen folk tales found in three areas in South Lebong District. Based on the identification results, it can be concluded that, from fourteen folk tales adapted to the types of folklore, they were obtained, namely: four folk tales with the type of myth, five folklores with the type of legend, and five folklores with the type of fairy tale. Based on the results of the identification, it can be concluded that the character values found in the folklore of the Rejang society, Lebong Regency, obtained nine character values, namely: honest, hard work, creative, democratic, curiosity, respect for achievement, care for the environment, social care, and responsibility.Keywords: character values, folklore, Rejang society

The Role of the Proxemic Factor in the Implementation of the Cooperative Strategy of Communication in the English Fairy Tale Discourse

The functional and communicative potential of proxemic components is investigated in this article on the basis of the English fairy tale discourse. The interaction of proxemic components and verbal communicative components is taken into consideration. The regularities of the influence of proxemic means on the fairy tale speakers’ achievement of communicative goals within the cooperative communicative strategy are established, and the discursive personality’s tactical toolkit for its implementation is identified. The modulation of distance between fairy tale speakers and the change of a fairy tale speaker’s posture in relation to his/her communicative partner are the most communicatively significant and effective proxemic means used in the process of communication. Insufficient diversity in the repertoire of proxemic components in comparison with other nonverbal components is their characteristic feature. As a result, proxemic components are frequently used in combination with kinesic and prosodic communicative components, accompanying the verbal components in the utterances of fairy tale speakers. In this way the strengthening of the semantic load of a fairy tale speaker’s utterance takes place. The proxemic components are also used by a fairy tale discursive personality for more effective implementation of various communicative tactics within the frames of the cooperative communicative strategy in the English fairy tale discourse.

Research on Transformation of Man and Beast in Grimm's Fairy Tales

Based on the fantasy of the fairy tale itself, the animality of children's thinking, and the closeness of the relationship between man and beast, human-animal transformation appears in Grimm's Fairy Tales. These fairy tales of human-animal transformation have common characteristics such as human-animal transformation mode and growth-oriented transformation type, reflecting the miracle of life achieved by human beings through the mode of "transformation-tribulation-redemption", and implied the intention of punishing evil and promoting good, the idea of equality of all things and other ideological connotation.

The Phenomenon Of Doom That Befell The 'Ad In The Qur'an (Thematic Method)

The Qur'an is the greatest miracle revealed by Allah SWT to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) as a guide for mankind. One of the main focuses of the Qur'an is to teach people about the worship of Allah, to warn against sins, and to give instructions for doing good in personal and social life. The phenomena and stories contained in the Qur'an are not just fairy tales but are a source of wisdom and knowledge that can be taken by humans. Through observation and understanding of the verses of the Qur'an, people are invited to draw closer to Allah and learn from the stories of the previous people. One example of the story recorded in the Qur'an is the destruction of the people of 'Ad, whom the Prophet Hud sent to warn them against idolatry. Despite warnings, the people of 'Ad remained in defiance, so Allah inflicted torment on them in the form of dark clouds that brought no rain, but strong winds and destruction.

Prototype for Digitizing the Sato Kewan Fairy Tale as A Javanese Language Education Media

This research aims to develop and validate the digitalization product of the Sato Kewan fairy tale as a Javanese language educational medium for elementary school students. This research uses the development method (Research and Development) with the ADDIE model to design a learning system. This development model goes through five steps: Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. The validation questionnaire for linguists and media experts is a research instrument. Data analysis techniques include qualitative and quantitative descriptive analysis. Based on data from validity results by linguists and media experts on the stop motion animation video of Sato Kewan's fairy tale, the media is a suitable criterion for use. For the language aspect, the language expert scored 75%, and the content aspect was 80%. The visual aspect got 75%, the audio aspect 83%, and 83% effectiveness.

Translating the realities of a German fairy tale as a means of improving translation competence

Translating the realities of a German fairy tale as a means of improving translation competence

Effective Strategies in Developing Critical Thinking Skills in Elementary School Age Children

This study aims to identify and evaluate effective strategies in developing critical thinking skills in elementary school-age children through a literature review method. Taking into account the complexity of cognitive development at this stage, this study investigates various learning strategies that are suitable for the characteristics of elementary school-age children. Through in-depth analysis of relevant literature, this study identifies that the use of stories or fairy tales, problem-based approaches, and social interaction are effective strategies in developing critical thinking skills in elementary school-age children. Stories and fairy tales can stimulate children's imagination and reflection, while the problem-based approach encourages them to identify and solve problems critically. Social interactions, such as group discussions and teamwork, also help expand children's perspectives and hone their critical thinking skills. This study provides insights into the importance of developing critical thinking skills in elementary school-age children and offers practical guidance for educators and policymakers in designing effective learning strategies.

ЛИНГВОДИДАКТИЧЕСКИЕ ОСНОВЫ ВОСПРИЯТИЯ СКАЗОК МЛАДШИМИ ШКОЛЬНИКАМИ

The Linguistic and Didactic Foundations of the Perception of Fairy Tales by Younger Schoolchildren Summary The article reveals the linguistic and didactic features of the perception of a fairy tale by younger schoolchildren, the stages of perception of a literary work by children of primary school age. Russian folk tale is considered for the first time in the Azerbaijani primary school as an educational material, which causes the accumulation of informative and valuable information on Russian studies in the communicative activities of students in Russian. The author notes that fiction is the main means of developing a child's personality. It is possible to reveal the rich potential of works of fiction, provided that the work is fully perceived. One of the tasks of an elementary school teacher is to create conditions for a child to perceive an artwork emotionally, correctly. The analysis of the article leads to the conclusion that fiction is one of the means of forming a common human culture. Key words: linguodidactic basis, undergoes processing, native speaker, authentic texts

Borrowing and Historical Evolution of Tales and Fables about the Wonderful Hero in the Folklore Traditions of Vietnamese Peoples

The article is dedicated to the analysis of the fairy-tale plot about a wonderful child in the form of a theriomorphic or phytomorphic creature in the folklore of the Viet, Hmong, Cham, Sedang, Stieng, Thai ethnic groups inhabiting the territory of modern Vietnam, as well as in folklore of other peoples of the Far East. Through the study, the methods of structural, typological and comparative analysis of plots, motives and heroes of folklore narratives are used. Hopefully, this approach will help to make assumptions about the ways of borrowing and transforming significant elements of fairy tales in the region. The article examines three Vietnamese fairy-tale texts – “Man Round as a Coconut”, “Magic Turtle” and “Little Turtle”, each of which is compared with both geographically close and distant versions of the narratives.

“She is the Great Outside”: Ecofeminist Potentiality in H. G. Wells’s The Sea Lady

Abstract H. G. Wells’s serial fable The Sea Lady (1902) offers a satirical commentary on the Victorian Age: It draws a societal allegory that criticises both a cohesive conception of the natural world, and Victorian notions of the domestic realm – in the private and national sense of the term. Yet the story has long been regarded as an oddity in the author’s oeuvre. Wells’s Victorian contemporaries criticised its lack of scientific detail so characteristic of his more successful scientific romances. The reason for this appears to be the story’s eponymous central figure – a mermaid, supposedly rather the stuff of legend, folklore and fairy tales. However, by opening up a utopian realm in which ‘better dreams’ await, the figure of the sea lady destabilises Victorian moral orders as a potential discovery of the future lingers on the horizon of the century’s turn. In this article, I foreground the story’s ecofeminist potential by analysing the intersections between its unconventional form, the ‘untameable female’ protagonist at its centre, and the specific oceanic and littoral environments it presents.