“Grandmother gave us the guidelines of life” − proverbs from childhood.
Granbom-Herrnen Liisa
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2021042823782
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Proverbs are an important part ofraising, teaching and leaming. They occur also as parrs ofpedagogical speech in everyday life. The proverbs used by parents and grandparents are special even in one's adulthood. Passing from one generation to another, proverbs have been the speech ofthe family and the neighbourhood.
The main objective in my research has been to find out whether pedagogical discourse using proverbs is more like indoctrination, or a matter of genuine upbringing or whether it is merely a question of transmining tradition without any hidden purpose. To find oul proverbs in contexts they have been used, I have looked at memories of childhood. Trying to get in touch with ordinary people's everyday life and its routines I have used the folkloristic material from the Folklore Archives ofthe Finnish Literature Society in Helsinki. In the life-stories I found the listeners interpretation of the proverb used in his,/her childhood. Besides the nmatives, I have looked at the statutes concerning prenthood and especially children's lives and living standrds. The narrative material and the statutes together make it possible to consider the educational aspects ofeveryday life.
The slowness of the changes both in society and everyday life strengthen the effect of the proverbs used in
raising children. ln the material used in this research, the proverbs in pedagogical speech go back to the lgth
century in Finland, when Finland was an autonomous grand duchy of Russia.
Kokoelmat
- Rinnakkaistallenteet [19207]