https://doi.org/10.21697/ucs.2020.26.2.05
The calendar of preschool celebrations and events plays an essential role in the process of a child’s upbringing and socialization. According to it, all holidays are the basic form of cultivating tradition and maintaining rituals. For the preschool community, these moments are understood as suspending the normal, established order of everyday life and entering a festive, symbolically saturated time. Repeated and celebrated in the annual preschool rhythm, they can be interpreted as ritual events. The report contains an empirical verification of part of the author’s research on the number, types and significance of rituals occurring in the calendar of events in the Rzeszów kindergartens. The quantitative analysis of pre-school celebrations and holidays was carried out using a standardized categorization key in which rites of passage, cyclical rituals and occasional rituals were distinguished. The results clearly indicate a significant presence of rituals in the functioning of the kindergarten.
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