The phenomenon of love for children in the ethnopedagogy of the Crimean Tatar people

Abstract

Within the framework of humanistic pedagogy, it is considered necessary to build subject-subject relations between participants in the educational process, both in the family and in educational organizations. The disclosure of the phenomenon of love for children from the standpoint of ethnopedagogy will allow paying attention to the transformation of relationships between adults and children in folk culture. Due to insufficient research in the ethnopedagogy of the Crimean Tatar people, the author, based on the analysis of psychological, pedagogical, ethnographic and folklore sources, defines the concept of «love for children», characterizes the phenomenon under consideration from the point of view of building adult-child relations and value attitudes in the pedagogical culture of the Crimean Tatars. Despite the socio-economic transformations that the modern world is undergoing, the main ideas and values of the traditional Crimean Tatar culture associated with the attitude to the child continue to be cultivated and have practically not changed. They trace a commonality with the views of other peoples and supporters of humanistic pedagogy, where coercion and violence are categorically unacceptable, and the combination of respect for the child with reasonable exactingness is promoted. The specificity of the manifestation of love for children in the ethnopedagogy of the Crimean Tatars is that it is considered as a quiet feeling, which, if shown excessively actively, is regarded as bragging.