Ethnopedagogy: The Term and Content

Abstract

Introduction: This study reviews the most commonly used Hungarian terminology of pedagogical folklorism terms, their interpretations and the conceptual debates around them, as well as the possible imprecisions related to them. With the help of Hungarian and international examples, it places the technical terms of the ethnography-folk tradition-pedagogy triangle into a system and finally, it gives recommendations on the scientific terminology to be used to describe the phenomenon.

Keywords

• terminology
• pedagogical folklorism
• folklore education
• ethnographic knowledge
• folk tradition
• safeguarding and bearing traditions
• educanthropology
• ethnopedagogy