DEVELOPMENT OF MORAL BEHAVIOUR OF PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN BY ETHNO-MUSIC: PARENTS’ AND TEACHERS’ APPROACH

Abstract

The article analyzes a currently topical problem – moral education of children. Scientists and educationalists, having explored the issues of children’s moral education, acknowledge that the development of a person open to moral values as well as his/her moral consciousness, and the formation of moral behaviour necessitate both rational and intuitive fundamentals of a personality invoked by ethno-music. Theoretical analysis discloses the relevance and impact of ethno-music on the moral education of pre-school children. Children’s moral education is based on children’s experience and closely related to their personal problems and the ones of the surrounding environment, which ensures the formation of a moral personality. It is maintained that special attention should be paid to the development of emotions and feelings, which is significant in education children’s moral behaviour. KEY WORDS: pre-school children, development of moral behaviour, values of ethno-music, parents, teachers.