FORMATION IN YOUNGER SCHOOLCHILDREN OF IDEAS ABOUT FOLKLORE AS A SYSTEM OF MORAL VALUES
The transition of Russian education from a knowledge-functional to an activity paradigm requires a review of the organization of the educational process. One of the current trends is the formation at students of ideas about folklore as a system of moral values. The question of the fundamental role of the formation of spiritual and moral values, the development, and formation of personality and education was recognized and raised from the very beginning of the development of pedagogy as a science. Folklore plays an important role in the preservation and transfer to new generations of moral knowledge and progressive experience of traditional folk education. The formation and development of the personality, based on the material of Russian folklore, allow us to preserve the continuity of generations through the transfer to them of moral knowledge and experience of education. Close attention in article is paid to children's folklore (lullabies, pestushka, a nursery rhyme, a humourous catchphrase, the counting rhyme, a teaser, a tongue twister, a riddle, a proverb and a saying, fairy tale, etc.). The purpose of this study is to determine the level of knowledge of ideas about folklore as a system of moral values among younger schoolchildren. As a result of the study, the authors presented the following provisions: folklore, being one of the forms of knowledge of the world, gives the child rich ground for mental activity, prompts him to observe, analyze, reason and fantasize.