The Role of Folk Narratives in Moral Education: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Abstract

The analysis investigates how traditional community stories function in educational moral growth using multiple scientific approaches. Through their wide range of traditional literature from oral history to myths and fairy stories to folktales folk narratives significantly contribute to moral learning while building social propriety. The research evaluates ways that these stories work within the process of moral development by collaborating psychological approaches with anthropological findings alongside literary and educational methods. The research adopted qualitative methods through studying educational cases and interviewing educators while performing content analysis on folk narratives. The integrated method permitted researchers to deeply examine what occurs at emotional, cognitive and cultural levels when educational morals are taught using folk narratives. The investigation analyzed repeated moral teachings through thematic methods while conducting cultural cross-examinations of these narrative materials. The analysis found that traditional folk storytelling expands moral education since stories grant characters notable moral conflict situations and teach crucial values based on honest behavior as well as justice and empathy skills. The interdisciplinary methodology allowed researchers to uncover better methods through which folk narratives utilize emotional components to activate thinking processes. The research highlighted three main conceptual elements which focus on ethical challenges along with moral rewards together with communal impacts towards redemption. Research established that folk narratives work to develop the cognitive aspects of morality as well as emotional aspects of development. The publications confirm that folk stories succeed as effective methods to develop moral thinking capabilities while building emotional capabilities. Modern educational institutions might encounter difficulties implementing these stories because they contain cultural principles that have become outdated and do not provide sufficient depth regarding complex ethical matters. A combined knowledge approach showed vital importance for comprehending the multiple educational effects which result from folk narrative usage across multiple environments. Scientists should undertake research to measure how folk narratives affect society both in the long term and in present-day media fields and educational curricula.