Arousing love of national culture in schools

*The Folk Culture Festival of the 2024 - 2025 school year was enthusiastically participated in by students of Nguyen Chon Secondary School. Photo: DOAN HAO LUONG*

Da Nang is a city with many folk cultural heritages that contribute to the identity and people here. To promote and preserve the value of cultural heritage, many schools in the area regularly include folk culture and arts in school activities, thereby contributing to arousing the love of national culture for students.

Integrate into extracurricular activities

Researcher Dinh Thi Trang, President of the City Folk Arts Association, analyzed: “The formation of human morality, lifestyle, and way of life through the environment of the family, community groups in society, schools, mass media systems... If children are born listening to lullabies and folk songs with educational values, they will gradually absorb and follow them for the rest of their lives. Behavior in the family, community groups and society plays a very important role in the development of a person.”

With this meaning, in recent times, many schools in the city have regularly included folk culture and arts in school activities.

Teacher Phan Tran Duy Lam, Principal of Nguyen Chon Secondary School, said that recently, the school has regularly organized many cultural and folk art activities in the school's extracurricular activities.

In addition, the school also lets students attend the annual fishing festival held in Thanh Khe ward. In particular, recently, on the occasion of celebrating the 94th anniversary of the founding of the Youth Union and the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of Da Nang City, the school organized the Folk Culture Festival for the 2024-2025 school year, attracting a large number of students to participate.

“The festival has many meaningful activities, aiming at the goal of comprehensive education for students. Students are free to express themselves through competitions: Folk dance, recycled fashion , folk game exchange, food stalls and folk song and dance performances. Through that, students can develop their talents, experience folk games such as cooking rice with firewood and rustic dishes, using reasonable spending when going to the market..., and teach them life skills”, teacher Phan Tran Duy Lam shared.

In Hai Chau ward, Ngoc Lan Kindergarten transforms folk art and culinary activities into a form of learning while playing. The school regularly lets children experience folk activities such as rowing baskets in the Bay Mau coconut forest, rowing baskets while listening to Quang Nam folk songs. In music education activities, teachers sing folk songs to the children and listen to the flute playing the melody of the song.

Sharing about this meaningful activity, teacher Nguyen Quoc Thu Tram, Principal of Ngoc Lan Kindergarten said: “Folk activities are always integrated into learning activities by teachers in the school in a reasonable and flexible way, thereby not only helping to enrich the learning content, but also helping children to be more interested, remember the learning content deeply and thoroughly. Besides, it also enriches the national cultural identity in the children's souls, helping them grow up every day in joy and health but still nurturing the cultural beauty of the region where they live”.

Raising awareness of conservation

Folk culture is not only a “treasure of the past” but also the foundation for contemporary creativity and sustainable development.

*In school activities, Le Dinh Chinh Primary School always encourages students to include folk art performances. Photo: DOAN HAO LUONG*

In teaching and learning activities, Le Dinh Chinh Primary School (Hoa Cuong Ward) encourages students to include folk genres in flag-raising performances or school activities. On average, the school organizes 1-2 classes to perform folk art performances each week.

According to teacher Huynh Thi Thu Nguyet, Principal of Le Dinh Chinh Primary School: “This is a healthy collective activity, with many students participating. By encouraging the inclusion of folk art performances in schools, in addition to preserving the national cultural identity, the school also hopes that all students will look back to their roots and understand more about the unique values in traditional national culture. This is also one of the criteria in educating students' abilities and qualities according to the 2018 General Education Program”.

At the university level, the inclusion of folk culture and arts into activities is also of interest. In the process of teaching the two subjects of Vietnamese Cultural Foundations and Han Nom, the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (Duy Tan University) has applied a number of new teaching models to help students majoring in tourism culture, travel tourism, Chinese tourism, English translation and interpretation, multimedia communications, etc., change their perception of national culture, especially Da Nang folk culture.

MSc. Nguyen Thi Kim Bai, an officer of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Duy Tan University, said that when teaching issues related to festivals, beliefs, vocal arts, traditional houses, etc., lecturers integrate the introduction of Da Nang culture such as the fishing festival, the worship of gods in Da Nang people's homes, the art of singing Bai Choi, ancient houses, etc.

“Integrating knowledge about folk culture in the city where students live and study not only arouses interest in real-life experiences but also inspires students’ sense of responsibility for national cultural values,” said MSc. Nguyen Thi Kim Bai.

Source: https://baodanang.vn/khoi-day-tinh-yeu-van-hoa-dan-toc-trong-hoc-duong-3300002.html