Ethnic Pedagogy as an Integrative, Developing Branch of Pedagogy

Abstract

The article presents the author's concept of the Kazakh ethno-pedagogy, developed on the basis of many years research. Devoted to disclosing theoretical and methodological foundations of ethno-pedagogy and Kazakh ethno-pedagogy, substantiation of its scientific status and place in the system of the human sciences. In the article, ethno-pedagogy is seen as an integrative branch of pedagogy, which was formed in the womb of pedagogy, at the junction of ethnic psychology, ethno-philosophy, ethnology, and ethnoculturology, which has its object and subject of research and conceptual and terminological apparatus. The introductory part of the article provides a brief analysis of the historical-pedagogical and scientific-theoretical assumptions of ethno-pedagogical ideas in Kazakhstan. The final part of the article presents ethno-pedagogical development tendencies, prospects of research, and ethno-pedagogy as a science and academic discipline.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n1s1p612