Game-Based Acqusition of Cultural Norm Manners and Etiquette with 6 – 7 Year-Old Children
Game-Based Acqusition of Cultural Norm Manners and Etiquette with 6 – 7 Year-Old Children

Summary/Abstract: The acquisition of natural and truly courteous manners in accordance with contemporary etiquette, freed from the artificiality of eras long passed, is the prerequisite for a successful, independent and creative individual. The hereby presented survey is theoretical-experimental research in four parts. The first part deals with the theoretical analysis and brings forth several aspects of the study. It also examines the specificity of the acquisition of good-manner rules as well as decent behaviour at pre-school age as a significant part of the whole educational process. It focuses on play-learning as a strategy for the implementation of the above-mentioned. The synergetic character of play-learning, being in full accordance with a certain leading activity, age peculiarities and pedagogical strategies for the amplification of a child, is brought forth. The second part determines the importance of the issue among various current kindergarten curricula by means of comparative analysis. The third part presents the results of an interview with 21 kindergarten teachers from small towns and villages. The fourth part realizes the diagnostics upon the level of cultural norms and etiquette acquisition among 20 children and presents a model for stimulating cultural norm manners and speech etiquette based on play-learning in kindergarten environment.

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