About the interview and narrators.

Welcome to our blog again!

Here we are once more.

Today we decided to do another entry; this one is about the finding and the answers our narrators gave us during this Oral History Project. 

We are going to share with you some audios answering to 2 questions that we have focused on.

Also we will give you a summary from the rest of the interview.

In one hand, Mari Paz told us that:

• She went to the primary schools from 5 to 10 years old.
• About these primary schools she attended in Madrid, she told us that her classes were few and small; where there were both boys and girls and all of them wore uniform.

Classes had around 10 desks (pupils sat in pairs), a blackboard and the teacher’s table.

Schools didn’t have playground and they passed their brakes in the street under a teacher’s watch.

We would like to share an interesting anecdote; she said “I like school but not doing homework".

After the primary school she continued her studies but she didn’t go to the University because she wanted to work. So, she did some shorthand and typing courses and she also studied French and English. All of this with the aim of working as “Administrativo”.

On the other hand, Isabel told us that:

• She went to primary school from 6 to 14 years old in Galicia; she finished school at 14 years because when the students had this age the school is over for them.
• About the school she attended in Tuxe, she told us that the school was only a big class where all the ages were together and the school was only for girls and in the class was from 20 to 30 girls.  The class had desks (small and big) with an inkwell, a blackboard where they have to copy from.

She told us an interesting anecdote “every morning we had to say “Viva España” and sang the national anthem in front of the photo of “Francisco Franco” and “Primo de Rivera”.

After the primary education she continued studied two years at a teacher’s house because her parents paid for her and her brother Luis to take them.

When she was 16 years old she moved to France with her aunts and there she studied French in a school and took care of an American child.

When she was 18 years old she moved with her aunts to Madrid to study hairdressing.  

Now we want to share with you some audios of these interviews that have been interesting to compare in our project:

•  The first audio is about the characteristics of their teachers and it’s also about the relationship among them

  

• The last one is about how they worked; and the methodology they used at school.

We have asked our narrators a final question: Where you would like to have received the education in a small village or in the city? So, they answered this:

• Isabel said that she would like to have received the education in the city; and Maria Paz the same, too.

We hope you find it interesting. 

Best regards.