The Educational Content of Traditional Games and Their Impact on Social Upbringing (A Socio-Anthropological Study in a Village in Southern Algeria)

This study aims to highlight the impact of traditional games as one of the educational meth-ods adopted by many human societies in the process of raising their individuals and instilling in them the values and customs of the community. Particularly, these traditional or heritage games, with their educational contents rooted in the characteristics and culture of the society, are akin to hidden curricula that exert their influence on these young children. To this day, traditional games remain among the most common and widespread games within rural, nomadic, and especially de-sert environments, where the characteristics of these environments have made them suitable spac-es for such a type of human activity. A village or "badiya" (Ghamra) in the vicinity of the southern province of Touggourt represents one of these environments where these games are prevalent as methods of social upbringing. Through this study, we have attempted to explore the types of these prevalent games, their characteristics, their relationship with the natural and social environment of the village, and to uncover the educational contents within them and their impact on the social upbringing of the village's individuals.