DIDACTICISM OF PARENTS’ ROLE IN FOLK PEDAGOGY OF ABKHAZIANS

The paper considers the role of parents in the children upbringing from the perspective of Abkhazian folk pedagogy. The author presents the reasons of national originality of upbringing and gives the overview of the lifestyle peculiarities demonstrating most brightly the behavioral distinctions of a father and a mother in parenting children, in the distribution of routine duties formed and fixed according to the specificity of folk customs, traditions, and national mentality. Such differentiation is caused not only by the natural conformity and by vital necessity but by the attempts to bring up children with the definite ethnos characteristics as well. To the author’s opinion, only parents following the national-cultural values and togetherness in their children education are able to implement this task. Folk pedagogy studies such methods and methodologies of educative influence on the rising generation with the application of educational experience of the ancestors. Within the frames of the study of Abkhazian ethnic education special features, the author detected the significant role both of the society and the family in the formation of folk education principles. It is considered natural that the most mistakes of upbringing are made in the family as all social changes impact on it and its practice changes respectively. According to the above said the consideration of specified and established educational roles of a father and a mother in Abkhazian folk pedagogy is topical today. The analysis of the father and mother’s behavioral patterns in Abkhazian family from the perspectives of ethnic education is new and not investigated before. In the conclusion, the author gives the recommendations and requirements to the parents existing in Abkhazian folk pedagogy and acceptable due to their wisdom and humanism nowadays as well.