Tautodailė – etninės kultūros ugdymo prielaida
Folk Art as the Precondition for Developing Ethnic Culture

Summary/Abstract: Folk art is part of ethnic culture consisting of cultural heritage and living traditionsand reflects the experience which has been accumulated by most people of the nation since theancient times. The present-day transfer of values of traditional ethnos from generation to generationdepends on the succession of education, customs and traditions, hence, the significance ofethno-cultural education for the preservation of national identity is emphasized in the GeneralProgrammes for Secondary Education. The youth’s negative attitude to upholding ethno-culture,their treatment of folk art as a “relic” determined the goal the research – to review the 11th–12thformers’ cognition of folk art as the precondition for the development of ethnic culture. The paperpresents the data of the survey which included the 11th and 12th formers (N = 534) of fourteengeneral education schools in Lithuania and reveals the learners’ attitude to folk art. The interviewwith teachers of art (N = 25) demonstrated that they identify the cognition of folk art with ethnicart, and notice a lack of attention for this topic in the programmes of art education

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