Integration of ethnopedagogical sports games into the training of primary school teachers: methods and practice

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to identify new methods in the integration of ethnopedagogical sporting games in training the primary school teachers in higher professional training. The study combined theoretical and empirical methods, including historical analysis, surveys of over 350 respondents, and a course program at Korkyt Ata University. The developed model integrated ethnopedagogical ideas into teacher training, emphasizing goals, diagnostics, developmental stages, and criterial assessment to promote health culture and national traditions. The result of the study revealed that, at present the ethnopedagogical science has accumulated a certain theoretical and practical observation of the sissues under study. This makes it necessary to build methods and approaches based on the integrating the training primary school teachers using ethnopedagogy in higher professional education context. The research outcomes were determined to the integration of ethnopedagogical sporting games in the school practice of training the primary school teachers.