Folk Games as an Effektive Pedagogical Tool and Factor in Education

Abstract

This article addresses the role of folk games in shaping young people’s physical and professional skills and in their upbringing. Children's games serve as a means and factor of education, facilitating mutual understanding, social bonding, and interaction among youth across all spheres of social life, providing a universally comprehensible language for fostering socialization. Since folk games are primarily played outdoors and in groups, they are presented from an ethnopedagogical perspective as one of the most accessible and voluntary sources for educating today’s generation in intellectual, physical, spiritual, moral, and aesthetic aspects.