ZAVIČAJ U ODGOJU I OBRAZOVANJU DJECE PREDŠKOLSKE DOBI
REGIONAL CULTURE TEACHING IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN'S EDUCATION

Summary/Abstract: With the purpose of understanding, respecting and preserving regional creativity, as well as awakening the interest for and inciting the development of regional identity from the preschool children's earliest age, the aim of this paper was to do a research, based on preschool teachers' attitudes, on the use of the regional wealth and tradition in the educational process at preschool institutions. For the purpose of this pilot research a specially construed questionnaire named Regional Culture Teaching in the Kindergarten was used, for which reliability and acceptance for further research was established. It was determined that, through various activities, preschool teachers often used the linguistic and music heritage and traditional crafts and customs adapted to the children's age, and that they encouraged them to use regional speech, as well as to develop positive attitudes to culture, the traditional heritage and regional values. A difference in attitudes was not determined regarding the preschool teachers' socio-demographic characteristics. The obtained results are encouraging and indicate the need for a continuous education of preschool teachers about contents linked to the wealth of a region with the aim to acquire new knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for the conduction of activities which include regional elements in all preschool institutions

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