Curriculum of Elementary education:

In agreement with the plan of formation of the professorship of the Association, in 2002 EHBE and HUHEZI (Mondragón's University) agreed to realize a formative program for the Linguistic Management, which aims to create the first curricula for bertsolaritza. Finally, the two-year effort of the Association of friends of Bertsolaritza has given its fruits: The curriculum of elementary education. It has four principal axes:
......1.- Cultural patrimony
......2.- Personal and social capacities
......3.- Language
......4.- Music

Ni ere bertsolari :

it is a didactic offer that the EHBE gives to all the schools of the Basque Country. Destined to the primary education students and taking as a base the four points of the curriculum, it's a playful methodology and an general approach. This one is segmented in didactic sequences and complemented by diverse activities (bilbertsos, performances, parties...). In this moment it is developping at 131 schools.

Orality in education:

Being this one its main objective, the Association of Friends of bertsolaris decided to initiate an investigation in 1997. The professors Joserra Garzia and Lontxo Oihartzabal from the UPV-EHU and the bertsolari Andoni Egaña carried out arduous researches accompanied by many other collaborations. They looked for a method that was based on the development of communicative functions, a method centered so much in the oral language as in the written. As a result, a didactic proposal for Secondary Education was born. The work to do in the classroom starts off to think on the communicative effect that obtains a certain improvised bertso or any other type of text. The proposed method induces the students to express the intention or the circumstances that originate this effect, so afterwards they will try to use the same poetic, rhetorical, linguistic figures on the piece. After two experimentation years in four schools, the method is ready for the final closing, so that, as expected, it should be published in 2005.

For more information:

Association of Friends of Bertsolaritza
Transmission department
Telf.: 943 217798 / 945 010505
Email: transmisioa@bertsozale.com