Мястото, ролята и значението на кръжоците по етнография и фолклор в страната
The Place, Role and Importance of Study Circles on Ethnography and Folklore in the Country

Summary/Abstract: In the study circles on ethnography, folklore and folk decorative art the Pioneer schoolchildren are trained to seek out, collect, study and preserve articles of value for museums, and the folklore of the regions, concerning our past and present. They thereby contribute to enriching our culture with new data. The Pioneer children build up in themselves lasting relationships and interest in Bulgarian folk art, which does much for their overall development. The first study circle on ethnography in Bulgaria was founded at the Georgi Dimitrov Central Pioneer Palace in Sofia in 1964, under the scientific guidance of the Ethnographic Institute and Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Similar study circles appeared later in various towns all over the country, including circles on folklore and folk decorative art. Their activity extended into a movement in favour of the use of folk art in school work. That is how conditions came into being for the founding of an Ethnopedagogic Union at the Central Pioneer Palace in Sofia, which now includes more than 800 study circles.

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