Gappoeva, Larisa A.
Kavkaz Forum. 2020. Issue 2.

Abstract:
The article outlines the urgent problem of developing intercultural competence
among citizens, which can lead to interethnic harmony. The author has proposed
the option of achieving good results of interethnic understanding of peoples by
introducing national literature into the educational process of primary schools.
Works of national authors and an epic about Narts are offered as educational
material, as an invaluable material containing ideas about traditional culture,
national heroes, folk games, holidays, national clothes, cultural objects, and the
history of the people. The article contains a description of the unique experience
in studying Nartiada with students — future primary school teachers at the NOSU
Faculty of Education on the basis of the theory of formation of the type of correct
reader activity. The course «Problems of professional organization of the circle
of children’s reading» is designed for students who do not speak the Ossetian
language. The author lists the problems that had to be encountered during the
implementation of this program. Among the main ones, the author points out
the complexity of the text of the national epic, due to the interdisciplinarity of
the information that he carries, as well as the insufficient development of the
methodology for mastering Nartiada in elementary school. The author connects
the prospects for studying this folklore material with the multilingual education
system of North Ossetia-Alania and the work of a group of scientists from the
North Ossetian Institute for Humanitarian and Social Studies. In general, the
importance of implementing the developed course at the Faculty of Education
is enormous. The study of the national epos by future teachers at the university,
as noted by the author of the article, contributes to the desire to cognize and
comprehend oneself as part of the ethnic group and part of the general culture
of mankind.

Keywords: Narts epic, kadag, university studies, literary education, multicultural

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