ESSAY

During decades entertainment has been something essential in our lives. RAE´s academy defines entertainment, as something that it lets us have a fun time. According to this, firstly, the essay tries to analyze the main contents of the interview in order to know more about the ways of entertainment. Secondly, explain the importance and influence of entertainment in education. And finally, evaluate the changes in the ways of entertainment around the History.

After the interview with my father, Constantino, I was interested in analyze the results because it was satisfying for me.

Firstly, he told me that children since they were younger spent the majority of the time playing in the park and in the street where they developed collectives games with kids of different ages and they shared their toys because children had not many.

Continuing with the interview, he told me some anecdotes, for example, he had his first bicycle with ten years old, and for him it was one of the best day of his life, moreover he spoke about a car´s toy that he had when he was four or five years old and he remembered so good since for him was special during his childhood. According to this, I consider that kids of that time valued more the toys than nowadays.

But, in the project I looked like essential to know the labor of parents in the ways of entertainment of their children. Then, he told me that fathers usually worked and mothers had to clean the house, do the cooking and take care the kids. As a consequence of this, parents only played with children during the weekend where they developed games, as ludo, domino or monopoly. Also, they played with them when they were to the village, in Easter and summer, and here moreover, they played with other children and they did different things than in the city; they played with the animals of the farm, they swam in the river and so on. In this time families usually went to the village because it was the cheapest place.

Secondly, in reference to education, both things are in relationship. Education influences in entertainment and entertainment in education. It is a two-way street. According to the interviewer he said me that children of this period of time had less homework that nowadays and they could spend more time playing in the street. Besides entertainment influences in education, it is an important part that schools tries to promote because it is necessary to the development of the child. Moreover, it is important to take account that the games in the streets and in the park, they contribute to the development of sports, then, sports were something relevant in the ways of lives of this time.

Thirdly, in reference to the evolution in the ways of entertainment, children nowadays understand entertainment as a different way; children have more toys than in the middle of sixties and early seventies. Moreover, they develop more individual than collective games, for the increase of technology development, and children spend less time playing in the street and in the parks than in a past since the street is more dangerous, and they have more homework, and in a consequence of this, less time to play and to practice whatever sport.

Finally, to conclude with the project, I would like point up that entertainment is an important aspect that everybody should take account. Especially we as future teachers because entertainment is necessary for the complete development of the students.