Culture, Language and Education

Culture, Language and Education

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Introduction

To be part of a community is not only to belong to it but to preserve its cultural traditions since they have their most important roots that over time have been lost due to the new technological developments that have taken place throughout the world. . Oral traditions make us have a deeper culture essence, which is good to feel not only the story, or a story told by our grandparents but to find those feelings that make us unique and special to the rest of the world.

It is high time that we as teachers, youth and listeners of our traditions consider these things that we sometimes see so simple but that are completely important in the development of the culture of all human beings.

 

The oral cultural traditions of some countries

Uganda

In Uganda oral tradition was the only means of communication for centuries and writing did not start until about 1832 and 1859. The teaching by the old people was in the evenings when they would sit in front of the fireplaces and tell their wonderful stories and anecdotes to the young people through storytelling.

Uganda is one of the countries where its inhabitants speak too much as is said elsewhere. Ceremonies in Uganda are dominated by speeches. At graduation parties it is normal for the great aunt's primary, secondary and university teachers to give speeches. It is normal for all your aunts, uncles, fathers and mothers to give a speech at your wedding ceremony because, our best wishes cards are oral.

Traditions in Uganda have always been linked to each of its indigenous tribes, but there is a story about the KOOGERE that has become the entertainment of the indigenous people and they do it accompanied by musical instruments especially one called the Enmanga. This oral tradition is a set of stories that are part of the collective memory and popular expression of the communities of the Basongora, Banyabindi and Batooro peoples; The story is built around the wisdom and exceptional achievements of a woman named Koogere who is believed to have ruled the Busongora chiefdom, during a great era of female rulers, in the legendary Bunyoro Kitara Empire around 1700AD. The series of stories brings out images of abundance and plenty as blessings for the hard work and magic and heroism of the women who gathered spiritual and human energies to build a very prosperous chiefdom.

History provides legitimacy and inspiration to contemporary community leaders, including men. The promulgation of this story conveys listening and storytelling skills as well as improved memory. It is also a vehicle for intergenerational transfer of community information, social philosophy and values. This oral tradition manifests itself in different ways, according to the promulgation of different specialists. These forms include narratives, poems, folk songs, instruments, proverbs, sayings and associated physical places and historical paths.

There are various ways of disseminating this great work as it is essentially informal and spontaneous on the part of the narrators, poets, elders, sages, folk dancers and instrumentalists, especially during night-time recreation around the fireplace and traditional social and religious ceremonies, now in the process of disappearing.

 

New Zealand

The New Zealand oral tradition begins with the Maori who were the first inhabitants of what is now called New Zealand composing, memorizing, and lamenting, love poems, war songs, and prayers.

We also developed a mythology to explain and record your own past and the legends of your tribal gods and heroes. As the settlement developed during the 19th century, Europeans collected many of these poems and stories and copied them in the Maori language. The most picturesque myths and legends, translated into English and published in collections with titles such as Maori Fairy Tales (1908; by Johannes Carl Andersen), were read to, or by, Pakeha (European) children, so that some, such as the legend of the lovers Hinemoa and Tutanekai or the exploits of the Maui god-man, who fished the North Island from the sea and tamed the sun, became known among the general population. Throughout the second half of the 19th century, the Maori people, disastrously affected by "minor" European diseases to which they have only weak resistance, would be in decline, and European scholars recorded the Maori legend as affected, believing that the Maori are extinct and their oral culture, highly figurative and frequent, of rare poetic beauty, more preservation. («New Zealand literature», 2020)

 

Jamaica

The Jamaican oral tradition tells us about all the concepts that its inhabitants have about learned concepts and experience about them, in this culture floral inheritance is very common and that they have diseases as a cure with plants and they also solve many problems.

The Jamaican Society is a combination of characteristics of people with different beliefs, cultures, phenotypes and other things that change to each person. Really a Jamaican is a people with different cultures in a human that have Chinese, European, African and Indian traditions   between others. According to Meckel B Beecheer (2010) “For over 200 years, Jamaican culture has been largely dependent on oral history and traditions to achieve continuity. With the improvement in literacy around the world, cultural identities are being formed through activities that are linked to literacy. Literacy has thus become an essential part of a person’s concept of his/ her culture and personhood” («Oral traditions: A view from Jamaica - Panorama - TakingITGlobal», 2010)

In the research process I find that the learning`s concept of the culture has been identified historically through written communication, most of the cultural knowledge that we have today and that has been told to other people has been shown through oral traditions such as poems, theater, musical performances, storytelling among others because these have not been transcribed into books that contain complete and correct information.

Jamaica is an English-speaking country, its official dialect, Patois, has many characteristics of a language, i.e. syntax, spelling etc. But there is yet to be a formal arrangement of the language. Patois is an important aspect of our Jamaican identity and is mostly passed from generation to generation through oral traditions («Oral traditions: A view from Jamaica - Panorama - TakingITGlobal», 2010) 

Conclusions about Unit 2

Being able to express an idea, a thought, a theory or a simple order will always need something as important as communication, regardless of the way it is always, there must be clear key concepts such as language, communication, language, culture and All this from the teaching perspective must be instilled and strengthened for a good development and student performance, facilitating in a better way to be able to exchange what we have to say. The knowledge of a language is really very difficult to separate it from the development of each one

There are many types of forms of communication such as oral communication, written communication among others that we must be very clear about the importance of each one, but today we are going to emphasize the importance of our traditions in oral language since this has been the main in the development of the human being thus influencing the development of communication skills such as speaking and listening in student.

Oral traditions have been in the world for many years before the written traditions and evidence of this are the songs, poems and many examples of recitations that show important aspects of life and culture of all countries because the written was created many years later, and yet despite the fact that many countries their communication is practically written their principles and cultural values have always been in the oral traditions so much that in many cultures relevant data have started to be lost because new generations have left aside that knowledge and those who really know and practice it are dying.

The importance of oral traditions makes the nuclei or societies that do so more relevant and considerate of the elders since they are the ones who have the knowledge and really value it, making respect for the elderly much greater since it is thought that they have the knowledge and therefore are the ones who spread it through others.

"Every time an Elder die, it is like a library has burned down."
-African Proverb