Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies

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Ethnic Narratives in Education: The Role of Kazakh Epics in Preserving Cultural Heritage and Identity
(Modestum Limited, 2025-01-31)
A.M. Toibazar
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Gulnaz Dautova
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Yerbol Aliyev
;
Talgat Turdali
;
Kanagat Zhalgasbayeva
The study examined the effects of teaching activities, including Kazakh Epics and mythopoetic images, on the participants’ national value achievements and attitudes towards the course in literature courses in Kazakhstan. This study used a quasi-experimental design with a pre-test, post-test, and a control group. The dependent variables were the national value achievement scale and literature course attitudes. The independent variable was the teaching activities based on Kazakh Epics and mythopoetic images in the second-year courses of the literature department of a university in Almaty. The national value achievement and attitude scales were used to collect data, which were analyzed with covariance analysis. The results showed a statistically significant improvement in students’ national value achievement scores in the experimental group exposed to Kazakh Epics and mythopoetic images. The study’s findings pave the way for recommendations for integrating culturally meaningful narratives into education. First, culturally rich content such as Kazakh Epics should be included in Kazakhstan’s literature departments’ curriculum, and policymakers and curriculum developers should prioritize the creation of teaching materials that emphasize these epics’ historical, ethical, and literary aspects. Second, the accessibility of these materials should be increased, and their compatibility with contemporary educational goals should be ensured. Third, teacher training programs should be reorganized to emphasize culturally sensitive pedagogical approaches. Though this study was localized, the research results can be applied to education systems in different geographies to develop cultural identity and values.
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The Literary Function of The Tongue Twisters in The Literature of The Turkic Peoples' Common Motifs and Ethnocultural Codes
(Modestum Limited, 2026-02-02)
Tursynbay Dautuly
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F.T. Kurmangali
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Майнура Абильтаевна Бурибаева
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Gulnar Mamayeva
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Gulbakhram Kulnazarova
Tongue twisters are among the most important features of oral cultural heritage and folk literature. These texts reproduce and reinforce social norms and values in an entertaining, memorable form. This study examines the literary functions, structural features, and thematic elements of tongue twisters in Turkish folk literature. It aims to reveal the reflections of common motifs, sound and rhythm elements, and geographical and cultural differences in these tongue twisters on the value system, worldview, and cultural memory of a society. This research adopted a systematic review, a qualitative research method. Within the scope of the analysis, relevant studies in Turkic and English published in Scopus, Web of Science, and TR Index databases between 2000 and 2025 were examined, and 27 studies were included in the research. The study revealed that tongue twisters, in the context of Turkic people, are folkloric products with multi-layered and deep functions, far beyond the generally accepted perception of language games. The findings of the reviewed studies strongly suggest that tongue twisters function as condensed cultural texts that reflect the cultural memory, worldviews, and value systems of the society to which they belong. In light of these findings, a systematic and comparative study of the motifs in tongue twisters with the motifs of other folkloric genres in the Turkic world may open new horizons on how cultural memory works. This study contributes to ethnic and cultural studies by demonstrating how tongue twisters function as carriers of cultural memory, social values, and ethnocultural identity among Turkic communities.
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