THE EDUCATIONAL POTENTIAL OF FOLKLORE IN THE COGNITIVE AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNGER ADOLESCENTS

Abstract

The article deals with folklore as a means of education and personal development. The relevance of turning to folklore as a means of educating younger teenagers is due to the fact that modern teenagers are in the conditions of a significant transformation of social values, the influence of foreign cultures, which negatively affects the development of the individual. The research problem is to identify the educational potential of folklore as an element of folk pedagogy. The results of the study are expressed as follows: 1) it is shown that the younger adolescence is a period of active social development of the individual; 2) the educational impact of folklore in the development of the individual (the formation of a worldview, patriotism, citizenship, ethnic self-identification, the adoption of folk culture, etc.) is determined; 3) the functions of folklore are presented and described: educational, aesthetic, cognitive; 4) the importance of using various types and genres of folklore, the integration of which to the maximum extent is able to have an educational impact. The conclusions of the study are presented in the form of generalizations, showing the importance of the modern appeal to folklore as a means of educating and developing a personality in early adolescence.