Telling classic stories is great!
I'm sure all of us when we were little read some tales like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and the Seven Dwarfs, the Beauty and the Beast... Right?
But do you know how many implicit stereotypes there are in children's stories?
These tales tell stories in which there is always a boy who is brave, who is not afraid, who faces the wicked, and a girl, who is weak, who is afraid, who is beautiful, who seeks to get married, right? And then the hero defends her, saves her from danger or solve your problems... Finally, all the tales end with a wedding... seriously? For this is what we mean by the traditional children's stories that have been passed from generation to generation...
Some time ago, we read in the newspaper EL PAÍS a news story about a school in Cataluña (Spain), where teachers made a selection of tales and removed from their libraries all books that reproduced sexist stereotypes or patterns. You can read this news at the following link:
Do you think about this news? Is it really necessary to remove these books from the library? We think you can do two things:
1) Remove all books that convey sexist patterns, gender stereotypes, ... and use the new adaptations of these stories. Or current stories.
2) We can preserve the original versions to work critical reading and reflect on gender stereotypes and roles. We can do any of the following activities:
That is why today we are going to change this reality between all of us!
I'm sure all of us when we were little read some tales like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and the Seven Dwarfs, the Beauty and the Beast... Right?
But do you know how many implicit stereotypes there are in children's stories?
These tales tell stories in which there is always a boy who is brave, who is not afraid, who faces the wicked, and a girl, who is weak, who is afraid, who is beautiful, who seeks to get married, right? And then the hero defends her, saves her from danger or solve your problems... Finally, all the tales end with a wedding... seriously? For this is what we mean by the traditional children's stories that have been passed from generation to generation...
Some time ago, we read in the newspaper EL PAÍS a news story about a school in Cataluña (Spain), where teachers made a selection of tales and removed from their libraries all books that reproduced sexist stereotypes or patterns. You can read this news at the following link:
1) Remove all books that convey sexist patterns, gender stereotypes, ... and use the new adaptations of these stories. Or current stories.
2) We can preserve the original versions to work critical reading and reflect on gender stereotypes and roles. We can do any of the following activities:
a) Tell a story by swapping all men from women and vice versa.
b) Invent a different ending.
c) Reflect on the positive and negative values that each story conveys.
d) Move the story to the present day and reflect on what the new story would look like.
e)Etc.
For this, each group has created its own story or made an adaptation of the traditional tales that we all know and will exhibit in this post.
We presented our Digital StoryTelling to our classmates and professor. We start the expositions by reversing the order of the groups, starting first by group 9, 8, 7...
All groups followed roughly the same guidelines for presenting their stories...
- First, each group showed the activity they had proposed to do in class to work the vocabulary with the students before reading the story.
- Then they showed us the story they had created.
- Finally, they showed us the final activity to work the story.
After seeing all stories... we were able to see the different versions of the stories we had created among all of us, tales that include attention to diversity and have no stereotypes, because traditional versions of these stories are full of stereotypes and prejudices.
These are some of the stories that we liked the most because they were more original and worked on current and very interesting themes.
These are some of the stories that we liked the most because they were more original and worked on current and very interesting themes.
We had lot of fun together, because we met at the university and created our story, which talks about 4 mosketeers, every single one with a different problem. We all agree that the best and the funniest moment was when we recorded the audio. We had lot of laughts!!
If you want to see our story, here is the link:
https://www.storyjumper.com/book/index/72875235
We hope you liked our story.
See you soon!😉🙋
https://www.storyjumper.com/book/index/72875235
We hope you liked our story.
See you soon!😉🙋
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