CRIMEAN TATAR FOLKLORE AS A MEANS OF EDUCATING THE YOUNGER GENERATION

The article deals with the Crimean Tatar folklore as a means of educating the younger generation. Folklore refers to ethnopedagogical means of promoting not only love towards the native language, but it also contibutes to development of personal qualities and competencies. Folklore of the Crimean Tatar people contains a variety of proverbs, tongue twisters and riddles, songs and recitations, tales and legends, stories and epics. Folcloric works contain elements of ancient Turkic Muslim stories and beliefs. The characters are unique and non-plain: historical (Mengli Giray. Sultan Suleiman the Great), mysterious (Adzherkha - a giant serpent, the dragon), the ones associated with the Muslim religion (Luqman Hakim - sage, Shaitan - hell, Iblis - gin), animals (Tilke - sly fox, Kashkyr - brave wolf, Yilan - wise snake). Folklore as means of education contains a huge educational potential to be referred to in the modern educational process, for example in the schools with the Crimean Tatar language as the main language for introducing the national and universal culture. In the future, the Crimean Tatar folklore should become part of each class. In this aspect it is necessary to solve the following problems: collecting the Crimean Tatar folklore, most of which was lostin the period of the deportation; providing students - future teachers - with folkloric material; development of methodology for application of knowledge about oral folk art in the educational process. Only then folklore as a means of education will help restore the moral and personal value of education, as well as personal features based on the tradition of spiritual education of people and the preservation of national identity.