Virtue Based Learning in Early Childhood Education: Folklores as the Missing Link

Abstract

 Folklores is one of the ways of making children in early child hood education learn virtues. It is the foundation of social relationships because it teaches the children the socially acceptable virtues. Folklores is a medium through which tradition and language of a society is propagated from generation to generation. Using folklores to teach virtues starts from the home to community and then to the school. Folklores is almost in extinction in the contemporary society and as such the children are drained of good character which makes up people’s personality. This paper looks at virtues, meaning, types, importance and folklores as the missing link.