EVALUATION OF CHILDREN'S THEATRE TEXTS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SENSITIVITY EDUCATION

Abstract

The hive of children’s literature is the concepts of child and childhood. Several researchers have determined that children's literature contributes to the child's cognitive and affective development. Children's literature represents a transition period that contributes to the child's sensitive transition to adulthood and prepares him/her for adulthood. It also structurally includes these features. Therefore, children's theater texts occupy an important place in children's literature. The purpose of this study is to evaluate children's theater texts in terms of sensitivity education. The research was conducted with a descriptive survey model and was limited to Ayla Çınaroğlu's books titled "Empty Tortoise", " Helmet", "Paper Festival", "Welcome Muse" and "Tini the Lazy Mouse". Children's theater texts are generally works read by adults to be staged and most of them have not been published as books. From this perspective, it has been found out that Ayla Çınaroğlu's children's plays, which are offered to the reader in the form of books, send implicit messages to the intended age group with both theatrical plot and the sensitive topics they contain. In addition, the books examined are thought to have significant value in terms of setting an example for young writers.