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. 

The interview.

Hello everybody and welcome againg to our blog.

On today's entry we bring you both interviews, the first one we leave you is María Paz.




What an interesting interview!! Now it's time for Isabel's.




We hope you liked it as much as we did.

Thank you so much.

The topic & The Interview.

Hello everyone.

On this new post we would like to talk about the questions we want to ask during our interview. For that we have chosen a topic, which is Primary Education in the 50’s and 60’s. 

To know what questions we are going to ask, we decided to do a "topic list" to help us to guide us to write the questions. 

That list is next one:

·         Personal life:

·         Place and date of birth

·         Family

·         Lifestyle

·         School (start and end of studies):

·         Primary Education:

·         Type of school

·         School structure

·         Teachers (characteristics, relationship)

·         Punishments

·         School methodology (how teachers taught)

·         Subjects

·         Educative price

·         After the studies

·         Education in a small village or in the city

According to these topics, we have designed the next questions that we are going to follow to interview our narrators:

THE INTERVIEW

Good morning, we are students of the 2^nd Childhood Education degree of CES Don Bosco University. We are carrying out a project for the subject of Social Sciences. It is about the differences between the primary woman education in a small village and in the city, during the 50’s and 60’s.

First of all, thank for your time and your help for this project; we are going to start:

1. What is your name?
2. What is your place and date of birth?
3. Could you talk a little bit about your family?
4. How was your lifestyle; your day-to-day?
5. When did you begin the school?
6. What schools did you attend in your primary stage? (In case they have attended more than one school) Why did you change from one school to another?
7.  What did you do when you didn’t go to school?
8. Did you like going to school?
9. How was your primary school? And how were its classes?
10. How many children went to your class more or less?
11. How were your teachers? How was your relationship with them?
12. How were the punishments? Have they used to punish you?
13.  How did teachers work at school; which methodology they used?
14. Did teachers set you homework?
15. What subjects did you study in that moment? Which was your favourite? Why?
16.  I don’t know if you can remember it but… How much the education did cost in that moment more or less?
17.  When did you finish the Primary Education? And when did your finish your scholar studies? Why did you finish them with this age?
18.  What did you do after your studies? Why?
19. Would you like to receive the education in a small village/ in a big city?

Ok, we have just finished. Thanks so much for your attention and your time again. Good-bye.

These was our questions, we hope you found them as much interesting as we do.

See you in another post.

Goodbye.