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Focusing on the need to familiarize students with the traditions and values
of their native land, the educational process of an elementary school cannot be
built without taking into account the specifics of the nearest historical and
cultural environment of a small homeland. Studying the history and culture of the
native land is an effective means of cognitive, moral and aesthetic development
of younger schoolchildren, the most important
means of forming patriotic
feelings and spiritual principles of the individual.
Key words
: local history, primary
school students, personality - orientation
orientation,
research, cognition, value, form, thinking, personality.