WEEK 35 - Ainhoa Merino

Hello everybody!

We are Group 1 formed by Eva, Ainhoa, Petra and Paul. In this blog, we are going to talk about our experience in this course called "Fairytales and Creativity". 

AINHOA MERINO

To start with, I need to talk about my first impression of the course, the first day. We know that, as future teachers, storytelling is very important because thanks to this we can transmit a lot of things such as: social and cultural skills, knowledge, information... That's why this course seems to us very necessary and interesting for our future, which is to be teachers.

If I talk about music, we all know that it is a very powerful tool in the world of storytelling. Because, thanks to the music itself we can tell many stories, experience emotions, transmit them... at the same time that we give or take away intensity when telling a story if we use this important tool. If I think back I remember that music has been of great importance since my childhood, or so I think. Always, or almost always, when I relive a memory there is music in the background: like when my mother used to take us to school, or when my grandmother used to cook us lunch... Maybe that's why each song reminds us of something or someone or makes us feel one thing or another, because of the memories that each note carries in it. And, at the same time, that is why we must give it the importance that music has in the education we want to give to our children.

Speaking of fairytales and tales, could we say that jokes are such? After all, what is a tale? Could we consider any story that is told as a tale? I don't know if I would dare to say that jokes are stories. I have never understood it that way. At first, and until now, I have believed that a story has a story behind it, a history. But, if we think about it... the joke also has a story, doesn't it?

"MUUUUUU... said a cow to another cow. The other replies: WOW interesting! I was about to say the exact same thing!"

But, what does this entail? That there were once two cows, and they started talking... that is: it has a story behind it. After all, I would say that I still don't dare to take a position on this question; but as the course progresses I will clarify my ideas and (I hope) give a concrete answer to this question.

Last but not least, we would like to talk about Folk Tales. But what are Folk Tales? As we know, a Folk Tale is a story originating from popular culture, typically passed on by word of mouth. And if we talk about Norwegian folk tales, it seems impossible not to talk about Asbjørnsen and Moe. Considered national heroes, authors Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe set off across Norway in the 1800s and collected the folk tales of their people. Regarding this type of stories, like the ones we read such as "The Ask Lad and The Good Helpers”, “Tatterhood” or “The Lads Who Met The Trolls In The Hedale Woods”, we can say that they are basic in school when transferring, especially in the case of folk tales, cultural information, since, as we know, these stories are based on the cultural past of each place.