Using Dong Ho folk paintings in values education for preschool children

The paper presents requirements on the goals, contents, methods of value education for young children and the artistic characteristics of Dong Ho folk paintings. After a brief review of the situation of using Dong Ho folk paintings and Vietnam traditional artworks in preschool educational activities, the article presents necessary solutions and pedagogical skills to help preschool teachers incorporate Dong Ho folk paintings in value education for preschool children.
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Using Dong Ho folk paintings in values education for preschool childrenHNUE JOURNAL OF SCIENCEEducational Sciences, 2020, Volume 64, Issue 4B, pp. 89-97This paper is available online at http://stdb.hnue.edu.vn USING DONG HO FOLK PAINTINGS IN VALUES EDUCATION FOR PRESCHOOL CHILDREN Vu Thanh Van Faculty of Early Childhood Education - Hanoi National University of Education Abstract. The paper presents requirements on the goals, contents, methods of value education for young children and the artistic characteristics of Dong Ho folk paintings. After a brief review of the situation of using Dong Ho folk paintings and Vietnam traditional artworks in preschool educational activities, the article presents necessary solutions and pedagogical skills to help preschool teachers incorporate Dong Ho folk paintings in value education for preschool children. Keywords: Dong Ho folk paintings, values education, preschool children.1. Introduction The development of countries in the current trend of global integration poses for educationthe task of fostering and forming a younger generation not only intellectually developing but alsohaving a healthy emotional life and able to learn social values to develop comprehensively. Education is considered as an intermediary field. It’s a way to bring values into cultures toset new values for society. On the contrary, art and culture are the treasures that store and preservepriceless values. They are very lively means to help educators convey the values to the youngergeneration and the social community. Using visual arts, especially the traditional visual arts in the education of children in generaland value education, in particular has been of interest to many researchers. When discussing thisissue, author Le Thi Thanh Thuy highly appreciated Vietnamese traditional visual arts,considering it an invaluable cultural heritage that has helped generations of the Vietnameserealize, appreciate, preserve the past and the values of the nation. According to her, traditional artproducts created by the intellectual - emotional crystallization and human ‘s creative works willbe a source of “nutrients” to flourish and nurture in young children love, love of homeland, loveof life,... through familiar content and simple expression of the artworks that scientific insights tohuman concepts of heaven and earth, of the good - evil, beauty- ugliness will enter the childsmind softly; ethical standards – aesthetics, as well as the cause-and-effect mentality of the nationwill gradually penetrate into children, creating a foundation for personal development [1]. In recent years, further researches on the application of arts in early childhood education inFaculty of Early Childhood Education-Hanoi National University of Education (by Le Thi ThanhThuy, Vu Thanh Van, etc) [1,2] has shown that Vietnamese traditional visual art products arediverse in both content and form with unique expressive styles, which can contribute to creatinga rich educational and teaching environment, friendly and really “imbued with national identity”.Received April 11, 2020. Revised April 24, 2020. Accepted May 15, 2020.Contact Vu Thanh Van, e-mail address: nova224@gmail.com 89 Vu Thanh Van The study of exploiting the educational value of traditional arts in Vietnam needs to becarried out more thoroughly in order to contribute to the search for renovating education,improving educational efficiency for the sake and comprehensive development in children.However, at this time there is no research on using Dong Ho folk paintings in value education forpreschool children. Among traditional Vietnamese arts, Dong Ho folk paintings are very attractive to children.It is suitable for the awareness, affection and motor skills of preschool children. We choose to doapplied research issues in aesthetic-ethical emotional education, value education for preschoolchildren. Other researches on Dong Ho folk paintings as a cultural heritage by the authors NguyenKim Than (2017), Nguyen Thi Thu Hoa (2019), An Chuong (1996), Trang Thanh Hien (2019),Maurice Durand (2018), Nguyen Ba Van (2001) will be cultural bases for the research andapplication of valuable education for children.2. Content2.1. Requirements on goals, content and methods of values education for children Values do not appear by themselves, they should be taught to children when they are atpreschool age. When discussing the orientation of value education for children in a family, AuthorTruong Quan Lam said “Value is what people consider important, necessary and meaningful inhistorical social conditions” and according to him “value education is a purposeful activity, withthe content and method of the educator, in order to form in the educated person the thoughts andbehaviors that the educator deems important, necessary, meaningful in specific social andhistorical conditions “ [8]. Values can be taught in all stages, different periods of human life, but value education ishighly effective when taught in preschool, because this is the stage where the early basis ofpersonality is under construction. - Value educational target for children: Along with the aim to educate children, manyresearchers around the world have participated in the Living values Education (LVE) program.According to Tillman. DG et al, the purpose of LVE is to provide principles and guide tools forthe integral development of human beings such as: (1) Help individuals understand differentvalues and the practical meaning of expressing them in relation to oneself, to others, to thecommunity and to ...