Ethno-cultural Education and Development of Pre-school Children

Author(s):

Kristina Stankeviciene

Conference:

ECER 2010

Network:

11. Educational Effectiveness and Quality Assurance

Format:

Poster

Session Information

MC_Poster, Poster Session Main Conference

Main Conference Poster Session

Time:

2010-08-27

12:15-13:15

Room:

2nd Floor Hall (M.B)/ II KRS AULA, Päärakennus / Main Building,

Chair:

Contribution

The national material and spiritual values passed from generation to generation have to be constantly renewed and tailored to contemporary way of life. It is important to develop person’s creative relation with cultural values and stimulate the search for new at the same time making an attempt to remain unique. Pre-school educators supplement the function of the family: they help to pass national cultural traditions from generation to generation and are involved in creating and protecting nation’s spiritual values. National art enables the educators to develop a sensitive and creative personality and to enrich the concept of ethnic culture.

Method

In order to identify the possibilities for 4-6 year old children’s ethnic education and development, a research was conducted and during which a special model was applied in the educational process. The model embodied: inclusion of folk art into general educational programmes, synthesis of purposely selected and accessible to children content of folk art and modern technology of developing children through folk art; involvement of children into the activities developing experience of ethnic art (visual creation, communicative and verbal creative expression, creative games, cognition through exploring, activity close to folk art).

Expected Outcomes

The results showed that the development and education of 4-6 year old children, employing accessible to them folk art values and methods, which stimulate creative experiments, are efficient for accumulation of folk art experience, for development of their national peculiarity sensation and display of children’s creativity. The children become more interested in folk art, they cognize its works, especially decoration. The accumulated folk art experience enhances the need for beauty and good and stimulates child’s creation that is close to folk art. The works of art of children are enriched with mythological ideas, they easier recognize national Lithuanian works and start reasoning in an unusual, for their age, way. Such experience enhances acquisition of national peculiarity sensation.

References

1. Geertz, C. (2005). Kultūrų interpretavimas. A.Sverdliovas (sud.). Translated from: Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays, 1973; Clifford Geertz, Local Knowledge: Futute Esseys in interpreative Anthropology, 1983. Vilnius: Baltos lankos. 2. Giddens, A. (1996). Modernity and Self-Identity. Self and Society in Late Modern Age. Great Britain: Polity Press. 3. Prentice, R., Matthews, J., Taylor, H. (2003). Creative Development: Learning and the Art. Riley J. (ed.). Learning in the Early Years. The Guide for teachers of children 3 – 7 . London: SAGE Publication Company. 4. Stankevičienė K. Ikimokyklinio amžiaus vaikų kūrybiškumo ugdymas tautodaile. Doctoral Thesis. Vilnius, 2001

Author Information

Kristina Stankeviciene

Vilnius Pedagogical University

Childhoodb Studies Department

Vilnius

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