This document discusses the importance of incorporating folklore into early education. It argues that folklore is an intrinsic part of culture that reflects the moral values of a society. Teaching folklore in schools can provide an effective form of moral education without religious elements. Exposing young children to folklore through songs, stories, dances, crafts, and traditions can help develop their creativity and prepare them for life. Folklore education is most impactful when it involves active participation by the children in exploring and experiencing different folklore forms in a fun and engaging way.

1. Redefining the Role of Folk
Tradition in Education
Przedszkole Samorzadowe
w ZPO w Woli Filipowskiej
On behalf of the Project Erasmus+
„My Culture, Your Culture, Our Culture”

2.  Speaking about cultural education is impossible
without folk issues included.
 Folklore is an intrinsincly part of culture.
 Culture that is not only our personal contact with art.
Culture is also the cultivating traditional and
consuetudinery items.
 And Folklore is an example of that traditional contact.
Folklore as a part of cultural
education

3.  Folklore consists of music, dance, traditions and
art of individual regions of the country. Folklore
is a collective term for the tendency to refer to
the broadly understood tradition, building a
bridge between what has passed and what is
alive, a bridge between grandchildren and their
grandparents.
Folklore as a part of cultural
education

4. Importance of Folklore
in School Education
Early school education is the most important period of character formation.
Education and memories of this period of life is a subtle gateway to the
personality of an individual. It is this period, in which a person learns the values
of life, the society and his surroundings. Folklore and folktales in early school
education can have a number of advantages. In curriculums of schools, tales
and moral stories already forms a minute part. However, it would be a better
approach to education if folklore is made an integrated part of early school
subjects.

5. In the present world, human values and social norms are
deteriorating faster than ever. In earlier days, folktales and
folklore was a part of education at home, where old
grandmothers and grandfathers use to past leisure times with
their grand children. Fairly tales still exist as bedtime stories,
but folk tales are beginning to be regarded even as some
forms of Taboo by a class of people, because they think, it is
only for uneducated and archaic village folks.
Importance of Folklore
in School Education

6. The Importance of Folklore
in Early Education
 Folklore is a representation of culture and tradition. It reflects
the moral value of a particular culture and society. Folklore as a
subject in early school education could be an effective moral
education that is devoid of any religious or spiritual sentiment.

7. Folklore can produce a feeling and a strong sentiment towards
culture and unity. What is more interesting and unique is, this
sentiment is devoid of disadvantages and criticality of patriotism
and competitive nationalism. The reason is: Folklore is about
common human values and they signify universal
characteristics of mankind. They generally signify geographic
locations and identities, rather than using names of exiting
countries and areas.
The Importance of Folklore
in Early Education

8. Folk provides a greater and deeper insight to life and living. An
early education of folklore would be a better preparation of life
for any young child. The best time for folk tales is childhood.
What is more, the Folk tales can be the base to the other
educational process: like education about language, tradition,
customs, philosophy, even maths and science.
The Importance of Folklore
in Early Education

9. Since Folklore and folk stories are lucid and explanatory, they
engage creativity in children. These increase the creative side
of the brain and will make students more productive when they
grow older. They will help students to have vision in their
thought process and make them more responsible persons,
ready for the world.
The Importance of Folklore
in Early Education

10. Folk can be fun!
 Nowadays, young people percive tradition and folk as boring
and old-fashioned subject. However, teaching/learning folklore
among young pupils can be funny and fascinating.
 Picked in a proper way methodology, tasks, aims can make the
folk education playfull and illuminating at the same time.

11. Forms of Folk
in Young Children Education
 Subjects of Folklore met by children:
 Verbal:
 songs, poems, counting rhymes, tales
 Non – verbal:
 plays, music (instruments), cloths (costumes), art (sculptures, paintings,
house decorations, cookware, ambroindings, natural design), craft.

12. Methods of teaching/learning Folk
in Young Children Education
 Methodologhy of teachin/learning folklore among young children does
not differ to the methodology in kindergarten at all. However, as many
scientists discovered and proved only active participation is the most
effective way of teaching proccess. That is why Folklore can be
tought only via personal children’s participaton in every kind of
folklore forms.
 That means, that every of those forms were met by children explored,
tried, crafted, sung, visited and played.

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