Запознаване, усвояване и предаване на фолклорното знание в училищния проект "Аспарухово - бъдеще за фолклорния свят"
Acquiring, Learning and Passing on the Knowledge of Folklore in the "Asparuhovo - Future of the Folklore World" School Project

Author(s): Zornitsa Prandzheva
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Education, Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Higher Education
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: cultural heritage; education; identity
Summary/Abstract: This research examines one unusual perspective towards the preservation of the cultural heritage through the Bulgarian educational system. It traces the possible mechanisms for inheritance and identification, that relate to the opportunity given to the children to get to know their roots (through fieldwork expeditions), to preserve the knowledge of their own ethnic community (and to become its heralds) and to pass it on to their coevals. The article examines the fact whether it is possible to give an opportunity to familiarise the children with their ethnicity, to preserve their knowledge of it and become heralds of the folklore knowledge, through projects in the realm of education. This research presents one practical attempt in the village of Asparuhovo, to find the answer of the above question. It reviews how the folklore is present in the "Asparuhovo - Future of the Folklore World" school project, what environment it creates, what it means for the participants and how important is it in the educational process. It defends the proposition, that after taking part in it the students change their understanding of the ethnic knowledge and have a basis for a different type of identification.

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