During our primary education, we used to celebrate all kind of important events, such as: the books day, the Andalusian day, etc. But, we did not know the real meaning of doing that event. That’s why we should celebrate some events by explaining before the historical point of view. By this reason, every child will know the real significance of each event.
Celebrations were activities where almost everybody enjoyed and had good moments. The Peace’s day was important because we went to the courtyard with white clothes and doves of peace made by paper and colored by us. We sang some songs in order to demand the peace in the world. We also celebrated Carnivals but not all of us because in the religious schools this celebration was more limited. The Andalusia’s day was special because we usually ate the traditional breakfast “mollete” with oil and drew flags and sang the anthem. However, we can also talk about particular celebrations as our birthdays. Especially in the first years, we were looking forward to that day. We brought some sweets to our classmates and they sang to us the “Happy birthday” song.
As we said, people still do not know the true meaning of these days that are celebrated, teachers should explain before the day comes, the historical facts and meanings so that everybody get some cultural notions.
One of the objectives is to foment the education in values and the mediation. There are a lot of reasons to include the celebrations in the school. We want to emphasize some of them, children can learn if they know celebrations, however also it is so important to practice it for the relevant learning; These activities have a powerful attraction that increases the motivation in the student (Agúndez, 2014).
In the LOE there are some celebrations that schools have to carry out, for instance, the day of the peace, the book’s day, the day of the Constitution or the day of the autonomous community (Agúndez, 2014)
We emphasize that teacher has to take the advantage of the celebrations of the “world days” to impart certain transversal themes. No center should forget about this kind of celebrations because they can have a great influence in pupils and also will involve them in the current aspects of our society. (Bisquerra, 2012)
Resources:
- Agúndez, D. (2014). Las celebraciones pedagógicas. Revista Supervisión, 21(31).
http://www.usie.es/SUPERVISION21/2014_31/02_articulos/02_05_art_dag.pdf
- Bisquerra, R. (2012). Orientación, tutoría y educación emocional. Los días mundiales (pp. 139-141). Madrid: Editorial Sintesis.
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