The thesis, entitled Children's folk heritage through creative movement with the youngest kindergarten children, consists of a theoretical and an empirical part.
The theoretical part presents national folk heritage (songs, dances and games), focusing on children's folk heritage in songs, dances and games. The content in question is adequate for children from the first age group. The thesis describes dance and movement development of the child, dance and movement folk games for children aged from 1 to 3 years, and their significance for the child. It also describes cultural heritage as provided for in the implemented kindergarten curriculum.
The empirical part of the thesis first discusses the purpose, goals and research questions related to the introduction of folk games through creative movement in a group of the youngest kindergarten children. My goal was to determine which antique objects, customs, dances and songs children already know, which folk games they play with their parents, how children engage in folk games, dances and songs and how they respond to them.
After month-long planning and research on education in the first age group, I proposed a new way to integrate dance education and children's folk heritage into all areas of activity.
The thesis also contains a description of the implementation of the activities and their assessment.
The assessment of the educational tasks indicates that children from the first age group are more eager to embrace folk heritage through dance and movement activities. The process is smoother and children can further enhance the heritage at their own initiative during free play without being led.
I opted for this topic because many undergraduate theses have already discussed dance folk heritage in older kindergarten groups, but not the youngest.
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