The role of national spiritual values in children’s reading-teaching (based on Nakhchivan Children’s Folklore and new teaching methods)
RPGE – Revista on line de Política e Gestão Educacional, Araraquara, v. 27, n. 00, e023024, 2023. e-ISSN: 1519-9029
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22633/rpge.v27i00.18063 6
includes layla (lullabies), nazlama (indulgency), sanama (counting games), children's songs,
fairy tales, riddles, etc. As the first classification of Azerbaijani children’s folklore,
Mammadhusein Tahmasib said that genres such as children’s games and riddles are important
for the development of a child’s logical thinking, artistic and aesthetic taste.
In the field of folklore studies, a special place is occupied by the study of children’s
folklore. In the article “Attitude to folklore in a school magazine” Mammadhuseyn Tahmasib
collected and researched children’s folklore materials, and also analyzed folklore as one of the
primary sources of children’s literature. Speaking about the collective activity of children’s
magazines, Tahmasib noted that publication of folk games on the pages of “Rahber” magazine
(“Blindfolded” in the 1st issue, “Sea waves”, “Hoppan-huppan” in the 2nd issue, and others) is
important in the process of their transmission to future generations (TAHMASIB, 1977). The
author published as Alakbar (Garib), Alakbar Abbasov, and Alakbar Nakhchivanki, publishing
folklore texts in the journal “Mekteb” (The school), which also included the song “Akil-Bakil
was a bird” in his story “Sister and Brother” and Agabay Israfilbayov used the songs “Raise,
the sun, raise, raise”, and “I am the mother’s firstborn” in the story “Novruz Holiday”, which
serves to form the children’s worldview as examples of children’s folklore (Azerbaijani
folklore).
History of childlore
The formation of individual genres of children’s folklore has passed a long way and has
a great history. Childlore is a multi-genre system consisting of prosaic, fabulous, song and game
works (EFENDIYEV, 1994). Childlore is first of all understood as samples of oral folk art
created by adults and children, which is formed in such a way that could express life, games,
entertainment, recreation, activities, desires, aspirations of children, as well as the themes,
ideas, forms, content, style, even the choice of words, style of expression here should be adapted
to the tastes, knowledge, worldview, age, psychology of children (GAFARLI, 2013). Childlore
has retained the traces of the world view of different periods and has expressed the tendencies
of modernity. The term “Folklore” comes from the English, which means the wisdom of the
people. That is widely used in international scientific terminology. The term was first
introduced in 1846 by the English archaeologist W.J. Thomson. It was first official scientific
concept adopted by the English Folklore Society, founded in 1878. In the 1800s-1990s, this
term came into scientific use in many countries of the world (KHALIL, 2008). The expression