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.

Introducing our narrators.

Hello, 

On this post we are going to introduce you our narrator for this projetc. 

We have chosen these narrators because we thought they can be very useful for our study.
We mean that they can help us to understand the context during the 50’s and 60’s. 

They also can provide us lot of information about the education, in a small village and in the city, during that period such as how was the school, how was the relationship with their teachers, or the methodology they used. 

All of these because they have lived in this society they have experienced the education in this moment.

So here they are:

Maria Paz, was born in Madrid, on November the 13^th of 1959. Now she is 55 years – old, married and with a daughter.

She is from a middle class family, lived in a working class neighborhood, in Madrid. Maria Paz is the oldest of three; her parents had the elementary education. Her father worked driving ambulances and her mother was a housewife.

Regarding the education she had; we can share that she went to school from 5 to 18 year – old. Some of the schools she went are “ Colegio Vilaflor”, “ Colegio Santa Cruz”, etc.

She always had in mind that she did not wanted to do a university degree, but in case she would have done one, it would be English Philology.

She studied shorthand, typing and French during the BUP studies and English once she finished the COU studies, in an academy because she wanted to prepare as an “Administrativo”.

When she was 20 year – old she had her first job as a doctor secretary.

Nowadays, she is working in Endesa since she was 23 year – old, in the Civil Engineering department as a secretary. 

Isabel was born in Tuxe (Galicia), on September the 8th of 1947. Now she is 68 years – old, married and with two sons and five grandchildren.

She is from a working class family, lived in a small farmer village, in Galicia. Isabel is the oldest of three; her parents had the elementary education. They have worked as farmers of their fields and taking care of their cattle.

Regarding to the education she had; we can share that she went to school from 6 to 14 years old. She went to “the girl’s school” in the village because boys were in another building. She used to help her parents with the land and the animals and she also took care of her little brother.

She went out of the village because she thought that it wasn’t a good life. So, when she was 16, she moved to France. There she studied French and worked as a babysitter of an American’ child. Then she moved to Madrid, she studied the hairdresser trade but she worked for forty years in her own dry cleaner.

Nowadays, she is retired. So, she travels a lot and takes care of her grandchildren.

Thanks, see you in another post.