Ethno-cultural education in Kazakhstan, civic values and self-identity: Findings from a survey of undergraduates

The article discusses methods and ethno-pedagogical approachesinKazakh customs, traditions, rituals of creative work, pedagogical competitions where students get the opportunity to demonstrate theoretical knowledge, erudition, and originality of thinking. This is a comprehensive monitoring study to show the experiences of teaching students ethno-pedagogical and other pedagogical approaches for forming a civil and patriotic worldview among students and preserving ethno-cultural traditions. Dialectical principles were used as the methodological basis of the study, making it possible to identify the main characteristics of the studied phenomena and processes in their interconnection for determining the trends in their formation and development. The results of the study shows the pedagogical potential of the ethno-cultural traditions of the Kazakh people is determined in its value -semantic aspect in the patriotic education of university students, taking into account modern socio-cultural conditions, traditions of the Kazakh people. Keywords: patriotism, folk pedagogy, traditions, customs, patriotic education, university.