CompetenceThe ispaper emphasizes the need for continuous, thoughtful, and intensive implementation of children's literary texts in elementary school teaching. Additionally, it highlights the importance of children's literature courses within teacher studies. In doing so, it focuses on German as a termforeign thatlanguage. isWe often mentioned in modern education, and it applieswant to both students and teachers. In 2011,underline the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports adopted the "National Framework Curriculum for Preschool Education and General Compulsory and Secondary Education", and that is when the Republic of Croatia began to talk about competence-oriented education, and it continues with the adopted curriculum of teaching subjects in 2019. This work aims to investigate the role of literary competence in modern education, how it is acquired during primary school education, to what extent it is represented, and how it is evaluated in teaching according to the curriculum for the subject Croatian language. The analysis of the curriculum concludedadvantages that the representationimplementation of literatureGerman teaching is statistically satisfactory, but it cannot be asserted with certainty that the quality is equally satisfactory. The quality of teachingchildren's literature andbrings to teaching.
It enables the development of reading and literary competenceskills amongas teacherswell dependsas onintercultural skills, which numerous authors and educational documents (PISA) cite as key skills for successfully overcoming the literary competencechallenges of the teacher. Given that the educational system relies on the competences of teachers, the educational policy should be harmonized with teacher education and provide existing teachers with the opportunity for continuous training and education to acquire additional and further develop already acquired competences forfuture, the development of theirone's own potential and knowledge, and the achievement of a quality life in a multicultural society, with the right to "free expression of personal, national and cultural identity" (Rosandić 2003, p.40), but also allowing others to express themselves freely. Such an attitude towards life, oneself and others develops in children from an early age and within the foreign language lessons.
The paper will provide concrete examples of how suitable literary competencestexts can be used to foster students' free development of their personality, cultivating qualities such as curiosity, critical thinking, responsibility, creativity, and language, art, dance, music, and stage expression. Examples from language lessons will show how German language students develop their creative potential, intercultural competences, critical thinking, etc. using children's literary competencescontent.
By actively participating in the processing of students.these works, students themselves can experience the benefits and advantages that creative expression provides for personality development and decide to apply them in class. Otherwise, the advantages and potentials offered using children's literature in teaching, unfortunately, often remain unused.
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