EBONYI JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE
EJLLS Publication
EJLLS| Title: | The Functions of Myths and Folktales on Child Moral training in this Era of Globalisation |
| Author(s): | Mercy Agha ONU |
| Abstract: | This research focuses on the functions of myths and folktales as important vehicles for child moral and value training in this era of globalisation. This paper tends to investigate the effects of globalization on the child’s moral and values; to ascertain the negative and positive effects it has on the training of an Igbo child.The theoretical framework adopted in this study is Structuralism (Binary Opposites) as propounded by Claude Levi-Strauss (1958). The study adopted ethnographic method methodology.The paper finds out that the rate of moral decadence in our society is becoming too high because parents have left their children in the hands of changing world and globalisation in pursuit of material wealth. The traditional ways of inculcating virtues to children have been abandoned. This paper therefore concludes that parents, teachers and society at large should make frantic efforts to bring back the traditional means of training children which is myths, folktales, and other forms of oral literature to bring back the moral of our children. |
| Keywords: | myths, folktales, child, moral, globalisation |
