DEVELOPMENT OF ETHNOPEDAGOGY BY G. N. VOLKOV

The article is devoted to an outstanding representative of the Chuvash people, the founder of a new direction in pedagogical science – ethnopedagogy, Professor G. N. Volkov, the successor to the spiritual heritage of the Chuvash educator Ivan Yakovlev. It analyzes certain aspects of the rich empirical experience of different peoples, described in the works of Academician Volkov, provides an overview of some features of traditional education on the example of certain territories in which the academician found rich factual material illustrating academic provisions, and where he trained pedagogical staff. The work characterizes ethnopedagogy as a phe- nomenon of world civilization, actualizes its position between the past and the future, encourages one to get ac- quainted with its treasures and to harmoniously weave it into modern educational processes