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EDUCATIVE AND ENTERTAINING TENDECIES OF UKWUANI FOLKTALES
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Folktales have been shared in every society to educate, entertain and preserve culture. It plays an invaluable role along with other cultural norms in bringing people together and ensuring exchange and understanding between them. However ukwuani folktales have not garnered attention from oral literature scholars. This paper opens us up to the possibilities that Ukwuani folktales can be educative as well as edifying. The folktales selected for this research were obtained from an elder in the Ukwuani Community of Delta State, Nigeria. The researcher transcribed them for analysis. It has been said that the best form of learning is through informal means and folktale is a product of that, for this reason the Social Learning theory was adopted as the theoretical framework for this research. The findings of this paper reveals that ukwuani folktales serve a dual purpose -Didactism and Entertainment- to the betterment of its community.
Universitas Indonesia, Directorate of Research and Public Service
Title: EDUCATIVE AND ENTERTAINING TENDECIES OF UKWUANI FOLKTALES
Description:
Folktales have been shared in every society to educate, entertain and preserve culture.
It plays an invaluable role along with other cultural norms in bringing people together and ensuring exchange and understanding between them.
However ukwuani folktales have not garnered attention from oral literature scholars.
This paper opens us up to the possibilities that Ukwuani folktales can be educative as well as edifying.
The folktales selected for this research were obtained from an elder in the Ukwuani Community of Delta State, Nigeria.
The researcher transcribed them for analysis.
It has been said that the best form of learning is through informal means and folktale is a product of that, for this reason the Social Learning theory was adopted as the theoretical framework for this research.
The findings of this paper reveals that ukwuani folktales serve a dual purpose -Didactism and Entertainment- to the betterment of its community.
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