Oral History of Childhood, Schooling, and Gender in San Martín de Trevellu, Spain

Personal recollections describe a harsh educational environment marked by abuse, ideological repression, and strict gender roles. The text data, coordinated by Xosé Afonso Álvarez Pérez, was harvested from the e-cienciaDatos Dataverse and last updated in May 2024. It captures memories of outdoor games and the high dropout rates from a specific school.

Use Cases

• Analyze themes of ideological repression and abuse in schooling based on descriptive text.
• Study historical gender role differentiation based on mentions of activities 'corresponding to each sex'.
• Research the evolution of children's play based on descriptions of 'games of the past' and outdoor activities.
• Examine narratives of school attrition and hardship from first-person accounts.

Strengths

• Provides first-person qualitative accounts of a specific historical educational experience.
• Captures multiple dimensions of childhood: schooling, play, and gender socialization.
• Data provenance is clear, sourced from a coordinated academic harvest of the Dataverse platform.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and structure require manual inspection after download.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the downloaded content.

Provenance

Source

e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Harvested from the Dataverse platform, likely involving the collection of oral history or interview transcripts.

Time Range

The recollections likely refer to the mid-20th century, but no explicit dates are provided.

Freshness

Last updated 2024-05-05 07:17:43; freshness should be verified.

Geography

San Martín de Trevellu / Trevejo, Spain.